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2014: The Year In Books

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With another year coming to an end, it is time to take a look back at the 23 books I read over the past year, an increase of 5 from last year. Of those 23, 7 were non-fiction and, of the 16 novels, 8 were TV show tie-ins. Only 5 of the books came from the “to-read” drawer, and 8 were e-books.  I read a grand total of 9000 pages, the most in 1 year since 1992.

A majority of the books I read this year were by authors I’ve never read before. The 14 authors that I read for the first this year were:
Amy Poehler
James VanOsdol
John Passarella
Mary Karr
Thomas E. Sniegoski
William Lashner
Teresa Strasser
Adam Carolla
Bryan Bishop
John Green
Rob Thomas
Jennifer Graham
Brian Jay Jones
Gord Rollo

The ghost writer(s) for Richard Castle and David Mack were the only authors I read multiple times in 2014.

The six books that I read this year that were released this year were Richard Castle’s Wild Storm, Amy Poehler’s Yes Please, Greg Rucka’s Bravo, William Lashner’s The Barkeep, Adam Carolla’s President Me, and The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas and Jennifer Graham.

Finally, the breakdown by month.  Vacations in April and December certainly helped pad their totals a tad bit.
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Book 23 (of 52) – Wild Storm

Wild Storm - Richard Castle

Wild Storm – Richard Castle

In the second real-world Derrick Storm novel, terrorists have gotten hold of a powerful new weapon that allows them to bring airplanes down, killing hundreds.  After surviving one such attack, Derrick Storm is brought in by the CIA to find out who is behind the attacks and how they are doing it.  Storm needs to find a way to stop the terrorists without letting the weapon fall in to the arms of his government handler.

The ghost-writer for Richard Castle brings back his action hero for another go around in Wild Storm.  While not as directly tied to the show Castle as the Nikki Heat books, this spin-off series is still entertaining.  With the show closer to its end than its beginning, I wonder if these novels will continue once the series wraps up or if they are bound to come to an end sooner rather than later.