Books Read 2014

January

• The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro (2006)
• Hetty Dorval by Ethel Wilson (1947) 
• To Everything a Season: A Year in Alberta Ranch Country by Marilyn Halvorson (1991)
• Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler (1982) 
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (1961)
• The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend (1982) 
• Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow by Elizabeth Lesser (2004)
• "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor (1953) [short fiction]
• Swamp Angel by Ethel Wilson (1954) 
• The Book of Eve by Constance Beresford-Howe (1973) 
• "First Husband" by Antonya Nelson (2014) [New Yorker short fiction online]
• Snakes and Earrings by Hitomi Kanehara (2005) [originally published in Japanese as Hebi ni piasu, translated by David James Karashima] 
• A Place for Margaret by Bernice Thurman Hunter (1984) 
• Margaret in the Middle by Bernice Thurman Hunter (1986) 
• Margaret On Her Way by Bernice Thurman Hunter (1988)
• Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Explosion, 1917 by Laura M. MacDonald (2005)
• The Edwardian Lady: The Story of Edith Holden by Ina Taylor (1980) 
• Exit Lines by Joan Barfoot (2008)

February

• Génération Filles: Au-delà des limites par Melanie Stewart (1999) [French, originally published in English as Pushing the Limits, translated by Anne-Françoise Loiseau]
• Gourmet Rhapsody by Muriel Barbery (2000) [originally published in French as Une gourmandise, translated by Alison Anderson]
• Letters from a Lady Rancher by Monica Hopkins (1982)
• Bear by Marian Engel (1976)
• Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. Montgomery (1920) 
• Septimus Heap Book One: Magyk by Angie Sage (2005)
• "Sojourner" by Carson McCullers (1955)
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (2006)
• Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill (2006) 
• The Valley of Adventure by Enid Blyton (1947)
• Nellie McClung by Charlotte Gray (2008)

March

• Longbourn by Jo Baker (2013) 
• The Mennyms by Sylvia Waugh (1993)
• Saints of Big Harbour by Lynn Coady (2002)
• Dying to Be Me by Anita Moorjani (2012)
• Divergent by Veronica Roth (2011) 
• Insurgent by Veronica Roth (2012)

April

• Once, Only the Swallows Were Free: A Memoir by Gabrielle Gouch (2013)
• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920)
• Crow Lake by Mary Lawson (2002) 
• The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson (2006)
• The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling (2012)

May

• The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett (1998)
• Where's You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple (2012)
• Bride of New France by Suzanne Desrochers (2011)
• Stella Bain by Anita Shreve (2013)
• Light on Snow by Anita Shreve (2004)
• The Building of Jalna by Mazo de la Roche (1945)
• Strange Heaven by Lynn Coady (1998)
• Me Before You by Jojo Moyes (2012)

June

• The Antagonist by Lynn Coady (2011)
• Kit's Law by Donna Morrissey (1999)
• David Golder by Irene Nemirovsky (1929)
• Hellgoing by Lynn Coady (2013)

July

• Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga (1988)
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain (2012)
• My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki (1998)
• The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert (2001)

August

• The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls by Joan Jacobs Brumberg (1997)
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos (1925)
• The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall (2005)
• The Silent Rooms by Anne Hebert (1958)

September

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling (1997)
• The Giver by Lois Lowry (1993)
• February by Lisa Moore (2009)