[Originally posted on Facebook]

I got back into reading fiction in 2014. Here’s what I read last year (as best I can remember):

★★★★★

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon [thanks Danielle]
• Blindness - Jose Saramago [thanks mom & dad]
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver [thanks Danielle]

★★★★½

• The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
• Hard to Be a God - Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (new Olena Bormashenko translation)
• The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
• Definitely Maybe - Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (new unexpurgated edition)
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
• American Pastoral - Philip Roth [thanks mom & dad]
• Colorblind - Tim Wise [thanks Mel]
• Cain - Jose Saramago [thanks mom & dad]
• The Magician’s Land - Lev Grossman
• “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” - Leo Tolstoy
• Goodbye, Columbus - Philip Roth
• The Search for Heinrich Schlögel - Martha Baillie [thanks Elise]

★★★★

• Omon Ra - Victor Pelevin
• Einstein’s Dreams - Alan Lightman [thanks Natasha]
• A Dance With Dragons - George R R Martin
• Travesties - Tom Stoppard
• Grendel - John Gardner
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman [thanks Danielle]
• Bro - Vladimir Sorokin [thanks mom & dad]
• Dubliners - James Joyce

★★★½

• Absurdistan - Gary Shteyngart
• The Box Man - Kobo Abe
• Is That a Fish in Your Ear? - David Bellos
• Ice - Vladimir Sorokin
• Seeing - Jose Saramago

★★★

• In the Beginning … Was the Command Line - Neal Stephenson
• 23,000 - Vladimir Sorokin