As far as I can remember, these are the books I read (or re-read) this calendar year. Most are new; some are older.
Particular gems published in 2014 are in bold.
- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
- Young Skins by Colin Barrett
- Before, During, After by Richard Bausch
- Arts & Entertainments by Christopher Beha
- The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis
- Train Shots by Vanessa Blakeslee
- Adventures in Immediate Unreality by Max Blecher
- A Brave Man Seven Stories Tall by Will Chancellor
- Man V Nature by Diane Cook
- Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires by Julio Cortazar
- Academy Street by Mary Costello
- Every Kiss a War by Leesa Cross-Smith
- Outline by Rachel Cusk
- Can’t and Won’t by Lydia Davis
- Wonderland by Stacey D’Erasmo
- The Family Cannon by Halina Duraj
- The Wilds by Julia Elliott
- Together We Can Bury It by Kathy Fish
- Dreaming Rodin by John Michael Flynn
- When Mystical Creatures Attack! by Kathleen Founds
- An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
- The Up-Down by Barry Gifford
- Never Mind Miss Fox by Olivia Glazebrook
- After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones
- Airships by Barry Hannah
- Ray by Barry Hannah
- The Big Seven by Jim Harrison
- The Spark and the Drive by Wayne Harrison
- The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman
- The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
- If It Is Your Life by James Kelman
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
- Sleeping with Gypsies by Ginny MacKenzie
- The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai
- I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You by Courtney Maum
- Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
- The City Under the Skin by Geoff Nicholson
- Granma Nineteen and the Soviet’s Secrets by Ondjaki
- Wouldn’t You Like to Know by Pamela Painter
- Twenty-Something by Tatiana Ryckman
- Skylight by Jose Saramago
- By the Book by Diane Schoemperlen
- Antigone by Sophocles
- All Days Are Night by Peter Stamm
- The Last Reader by David Toscana
- The Big Green Tent by Ludmila Ulitskaya
- The City Son by Samrat Upadhyay
- The Isle of Youth by Laura van den Berg
- The Least Cricket of Evening by Robert Vivian
- God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
- Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
- Mobile Library by David Whitehouse
- The Elusive Moth by Ingrid Winterbach
- The Wallcreeper by Nell Zink
Benjamin Woodard 