Every year, I keep a list of the books I’ve read between January 1st and December 31st. Mostly it’s for my own reference, but I know some people enjoy talking about books so I post it every year, too. The list does not include magazines, short stories, or individual comic-book issues — and with my good friend Genevieve Valentine writing Catwoman, I read more individual comic-book issues this year than I normally do! — but it does include things like chapbooks and graphic novels/trade comic-book collections. So, without further ado, here is the list of books I read in 2014, in the order I read them:
| Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft | Joe Hill |
| League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century: 1910 | Alan Moore |
| League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century: 1969 | Alan Moore |
| League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century: 2009 | Alan Moore |
| 1966: Untitled Bruce Lee/Phil Dick Project | Robert N. Lee |
| Gotham Central: In the Line of Duty | Ed Brubaker & Greg Rucka |
| Locke & Key: Head Games | Joe Hill |
| Locke & Key: Crown of Shadows | Joe Hill |
| The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee | Sarah Silverman |
| Locke & Key: Keys to the Kingdom | Joe Hill |
| Locke & Key: Clockworks | Joe Hill |
| The Mocking Dead | Fred Van Lente |
| Lucifer: Devil in the Gateway | Mike Carey |
| Lucifer: Children and Monsters | Mike Carey |
| Lucifer: A Dalliance with the Damned | Mike Carey |
| Lucifer: The Divine Comedy | Mike Carey |
| Lucifer: Inferno | Mike Carey |
| Lucifer: Mansions of the Silence | Mike Carey |
| Lucifer: Exodus | Mike Carey |
| Lucifer: The Wolf Beneath the Tree | Mike Carey |
| Lucifer: Crux | Mike Carey |
| Lucifer: Morningstar | Mike Carey |
| Lucifer: Evensong | Mike Carey |
| Locke & Key: Alpha & Omega | Joe Hill |
| Marvels | Kurt Busiek |
| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Haddon |
| Beneath the Surface | Simon Strantzas |
| Goldenland Past Dark | Chandler Klang Smith |
| The Ruins | Scott Smith |
| Bullettime | Nick Mamatas |
| Chimera | David Wellington |
| Minotaur | David Wellington |
| Myrmidon | David Wellington |
| Outside the Dog Museum | Jonathan Carroll |
| Swallowing a Donkey’s Eye | Paul Tremblay |
| A Handbook of American Prayer | Lucius Shepard |
| Snowblind | Christopher Golden |
| Burning Girls | Veronica Schanoes |
| Quiet Bullets | Christopher Golden and Frank Cho |
| Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn |
| Torn | Lee Thomas |
| Crisis | Lee Thomas |
| The Light Is the Darkness | Laird Barron |
| The Troupe | Robert Jackson Bennett |
| The God Engines | John Scalzi |
| Horns | Joe Hill |
| The Witches of Echo Park | Amber Benson |
| Consumed | David Cronenberg |
| Dare Me | Megan Abbott |
| Dream Houses | Genevieve Valentine |
Normally, I aim to read 30 books a year, since that was my average for so long, but this year I managed to read 50. Of course, I read quite a few graphic novels at the start of the year and that always bumps the total up, since they don’t take as long to get through. I would be hard pressed to choose favorites this year — pretty much everything I read was strong — but Gone Girl and Dare Me were definite standouts.
One thing I notice in looking over this list is a dearth of short story collections. There’s only one: Strantzas’s Beneath the Surface. I guess this year had me more in the mood for novels than anything else. I hope to remedy this with more collections next year.
That’s it for 2014, folks! I hope you and yours have a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2015 filled with lots of great books!
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