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It seems like a top ten list in a year I only read 34 books is a bit ridiculous, so let me just share a few thoughts.

Favorite: Girls in White Dresses, Attachments, and Yes, Please

Runners Up: Cress, We Were Liars, Dreams of Gods & Monsters, This Side of Salvation, Leaving Everything Most Loved, and One Plus One

Least favorite: Madam Bovary or Hemingway’s Girl

Best Audio Narration: Dreams of Gods & Monsters

Completed Series: Daugther of Smoke and Bone (finished), The Selection (finished), Maisie Dobbs (caught up)

And the complete list of books read:

1. Parasite| Mira Grant | audio | 4 stars
2. Fun Home | Alison Bechdel  | print | 4 stars
3. The Dangerous Animals Club | Stephen Tobolowski |audio | 4 stars
4. The Circle | Dave Eggers | audio | 1 star
5. Cress | Marissa Meyer | audio | 4.5 stars
6. Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | audio | 1.5 stars
7. Independent Study | Joelle Charbonneau | print | 3 stars
8. Elegy for Eddie | Jaqueline Winspear | audio | 4 stars
9. One Summer: America, 1927 | Bill Bryson | audio | 2.5 stars
10. Attachments | Rainbow Rowell | print | 5 stars
11. The Raven Boys | Maggie Stiefvater | ebook | 3.5 stars
12. We Were Liars | E. Lockhart | ebook | 4.5 stars
13. Dreams of Gods & Monsters | Laini Taylor | audio | 4.5 stars
14. The One | Kiera Cass | audio | 4 stars
15. Siren’s Song | Heather McCollum | ebook | 3.5 stars
16. This Side of Salvation | Jeri Smith-Ready | print | 4.5 stars
17. Hemingway’s Girl | Erica Robuck | ebook | 1 star
18. The Golem and the Jinni | Helene Wecker | audio | 3.5 stars
19. Graduation Day | Joelle Charbonneau | ebook | 3.5 stars
20. Syndrome E | Franck Thilliez | ebook | 2 stars
21. Looking for Alaska | John Green | print | 4 stars
22. Panic | Lauren Oliver | ebook | 4 stars
23. The Story Hour | Thrity Umrigar | ebook | 4 stars
24. Leaving Everything Most Loved | Jacqueline Winspear | audio | 4.5 stars
25. Girls in White Dresses | Jennifer Close | print | 5 stars
26. Runaways – Vol. 1 | Brian K. Vaughan | print | 4 stars
27. How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky | Lydia Netzer | print | 4 stars
28. American Gods | Neil Gaiman | audio | 3 stars
29. One Plus One | Jojo Moyes | print | 4.5 stars
30. All Fall Down | Jennifer Weiner | print | 4 stars
31. A Briefer History of Time | Stephen Hawking | audio | 4 stars
32. Runaways Vol. 4: True Believers | Brian K. Vaughan | print | 3.5 stars
33. Anna Dressed in Blood | Kendare Blake | print | 2 stars
34. Yes, Please | Amy Poehler | audio | 5 stars

A Few Book Stats:

Aww,  2011-Michelle is so cute and naive. I gave up my stats last year. This is all you get now because TIME.

• Books Read: 34 (down from 62 in 2013 and 80 in 2012)
• Audio: 14
• Print: 12
• Ebooks: 8

• Female authors: 24
• Male authors: 10

How was your 2014 reading year?