The Best Books We Read in 2014

Our Top Picks:• Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
• Decoded, Jay Z
• King Lear, William Shakespeare

@AsterismAlex
• This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Topdog/Underdog, Suzan-Lori Parks
• Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves, James Nestor
• Crome Yellow, Aldous Huxley
• The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
• Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
• Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy, Johanne Wolfgang von Goethe
• Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh, ed. Irving and Jean Stone
• The Casual Vacancy, J. K. Rowling
• Brighton Beach Memoirs, Neil Simon

@Bradapalooza
• Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
• The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
• "The Figure in the Carpet," Henry James
• The Faerie Queene, Edmund Spenser
• Poetry, Language, Thought, Martin Heidegger
• The Letters of John Keats, 1814-1821, 2 vols, ed. Hyder E. Rollins

@BennySwans
• For Whom The Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
• In the Heart of the Beat: The Poetry of Rap, Alexs Pate
• Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
• Nature and Selected Essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson
• On Writing, Stephen King

@CourtneyPruitt
• Revolution, Russell Brand
• No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the US Surveillance State, Glenn Greenwald
• Real Powers, Colin Wright
• Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• The Gin Closet, Leslie Jamison

@Dyazz
• Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter
• House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
• A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
• De ontdekking van de hemel, Harry Mulisch

@Ezzo
• Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty, Dorothy Roberts
• Fight the Power: Rap, Race, and Reality, Chuck D
• Know What I Mean?: Reflections on Hip-Hop, Michael Eric Dyson
• SeinLanguage, Jerry Seinfeld
• Get Up!: Why Your Chair Is Killing You and What You Can Do about It, James A. Levine
• When Doctors Don't Listen, Leana Wen & Joshua Kosowsky
• Why We Can't Wait, Martin Luther King, Jr.

@FiliptheCreator:
• 1984, George Orwell
• Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
• The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
• Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

@hrambsy
• Broke Baroque, Tony Medina
• The Big Smoke, Adrian Matejka
• Decoded, Jay Z
• Seed to Harvest, Octavia Butler
• Book of Hours: Poems, Kevin Young

@JalfredPeacock
• The Ginger Man, JP Donleavy
• Seeing, Jose Saramago
• The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, Hilary Mantel
• This Changes Everything, Naomi Klein
• Measure for Measure, William Shakespeare
• Tintin and the Secret of Literature, Tom McCarthy

@Jeeho:
• Ulysses, James Joyce
• The Stranger, Albert Camus
• Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare
• The Tempest, William Shakespeare
• Coriolanus, William Shakespeare
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
• King Lear, William Shakespeare
• As You Like It, William Shakespeare
• Dubliners, James Joyce
• The World According to Garp, John Irving
• Henry IV, Part I, William Shakespeare
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare
• Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare
• Decoded, Jay Z
• The History, Herodotus
• The Odyssey, Homer
• History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides
• The Republic, Plato
• The Oresteia, Aeschylus
• The Aeneid, Virgil
• Annals, Tacitus
• Metamorphoses, Ovid
• Inferno, Dante

@Kim4true
• Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
• A Small Place, Jamaica Kincaid
• The Tiger’s Wife, Tea Obreht
• Beloved, Toni Morrison
• Praying Drunk, Kyle Minor
• Electricity & Other Dreams, stories by Micah Dean Hicks
• South, America, Rod Davis
• How to Escape from a Leper Colony, Tiphanie Yanique

@lordsdmnme:
• My Booky Wooky, Russell Brand
• Storm Front, Jim Butcher
• Unbreak My Heart, Toni Braxton
• T.A.Z, Hakim Bey
• The Getaway God, Richard Kadrey

@MetaWorldPeace:
• Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth — Gita Sereny
•Hitler: The Memoir of the Nazi Insider Who Turned Against the Fuhrer — Ernst Hanfstaengl
•The Young Hitler I Knew — August Kubizcek

@mistressofsisyphus:
• Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You, Alice Munro
• Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, Alice Munro
• The Overcoat, Gogol
• The Big Screen, David Thompson

@momilli
• We Are Not Ourselves, Matthew Thomas
• 10:04, Ben Lerner
• The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, Jeff Hobbs
• The Invisible Bridge, Rick Perlstein
• The Wallcreeper, Nell Zink
• Citizen, Claudia Rankine
• Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician, Sandeep Jauhar
• Being Mortal, Atul Gawande
• Remediation in Medical Education: A Mid-course Correction, ed. Kalet and Chou
• The Second Sex, Michael Robbins
• Robbins' Basic Pathology, "Baby Robbins"
• I Hate You Don't Leave Me, Jerold Kreisman and Hal Straus
• American Rhapsody, Joe Eszterhas

@Mr_Varnell:
• The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop, Don Charnas
• Michael Jordan: The Life, Roland Lazenby
• Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator, Ryan Holiday
• Jay-Z: Essays on Hip Hop's Philosopher King, ed. Julius Bailey
• Field Notes for 21st Century Literacies: A Guide to New Theories, Methods, and Practices for Open Peer Teaching and Learning, Various Authors

@nietzsche:
• The U.S.A. Is Lesterland, Lawrence Lessig
• Beware of Pity, Stefan Zweig
• 1Q84, Haruki Murakami
• Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice, Alexandra Natapoff
• Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

@OnlyEverArabella
• Beggars in Spain, Nancy Kress
• Anathem, Neal Stephenson
• Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare
• Ready Player One, Ernest Cline
• Homeland, Cory Doctorow

@Owenn_B
• Inferno, Dante Alighieri
• The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli
• 50th Law, 50 Cent/Robert Greene
• Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone, J.K Rowling
• The Handmaid's Tale, Margret Atwood
• Catcher In the Rye, J.D Salinger

@perfectrhyme:
• Sleepless Nights, Elizabeth Hardwick
• Words in Air, Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell
• Accepting the Disaster, Joshua Mehigan
• Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin (Nabokov trans.)
• Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel García Márquez

@QLilyLunaPotter331Q:
• Divergent, Veronica Roth
• The Fault In Our Stars, John Green
• The Giver, Lois Lowry
• Swindle, Gordon Korman
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling

@Quikstik
• Ms. Marvel, G. Wilow Wilson
• All-New Ghost Rider, Felipe Smith
• Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto
• Blue is the Warmest Color, Julie Maroh
• Poorcraft: The Funnybook Fundamentals of Living Well on Less, C. Spike Trotman

@steftim_
• The Hobbit (or There And Back Again), J. R. R. Tolkien
• A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle

@stephen_j_p
• The Zone of Interest, Martin Amis
• The Atlantic House, Regan Good
• American Smoke: Journeys to the End of the Light, Iain Sinclair
• Snow, Orhan Pamuk, Maureen Freely (trans.)

@twstauffer:
• Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Enrique’s Journey, Sonia Nazario
• 1984, George Orwell
• Spare Parts, Joshua Davis
• Mexican White Boy, Matt de la Pena

@Vesuvius:
• The First Fifteen Lives Of Harry August by Claire North
• The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
• Redshirts by John Scalzi
• Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
• Don't Panic by Neil Gaiman
• You Can Beat Your Brain by David McRaney

@wakkowarner214:
•Lord of the Flies, William Golding
•Legend, Marie Lu

@XenaWarriorPrincess:
•McGlue, Ottessa Moshfegh
•Real Country: Music and Language in Working Class Culture, Aaron Fox
•Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
•Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness, Chogyam Trungpa
•Summer of Hate, Chris Kraus
•Not That Kind of Girl, Lena Dunham

@BlankCanvas