Bonus end-of-2014 post! Shocking, I know, but I realised I had actually read quite a few grown-uppy books this year worth noting. Gasp. Here we go.
The list
(in no particular order)
Paul Merton – Only When I Laugh
Marian Keyes – The Woman Who Stole My Life
Jojo Moyes – The One Plus One
Liz Nugent – Unravelling Oliver
Tana French – The Secret Place
Megan Abbott – The Fever
Jodi Picoult – Leaving Time
Robert Galbraith – The Silkworm
Caitlin Moran – How To Build A Girl
The breakdown
Fiction: 8
Non-fiction: 1
Dystopian/sci-fi: 0
Magical realism elements: 1
Contemporary/realistic: 4
Crime/mystery: 3.5
Historical: 0
Books with boarding schools: 1
Authors I’d read before: 7
Authors new to me: 2
Trends
– Lots of ladies (especially keeping in mind Galbraith is not-so-secretly JK Rowling.)
– Mysteries much more present in my grown-up reading than YA. Hmmm.
– No historical (I don’t count the 80s as historical, guys) here either.
– I think I am possibly slightly more likely to read YA in the year it’s published than adult fiction, but this is still a pretty decent bunch of favourites from the year.
– There have been some great feminist non-fiction books this year which I am still working my way through (Laurie Penny, Roxane Gay), but would probably be on this list if completed in time.
