Books read in 2014

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As always, I check my to-read list for the year and take a careful look at all the books I've read during the year.

• A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution - Dennis Baron


• Books That Changed the World: The 50 Most Influential Books in Human History - Andrew Taylor


• The Burglar Caught by a Skeleton, and Other Singular Tales from the Victorian Press - Jeremy Clay


• Chrestomanci: Charmed Life - Diana Wynne Jones


• Chrestomanci: Conrad's Fate - Diana Wynne Jones


• Chrestomanci: The Lives of Christopher Chant - Diana Wynne Jones


• Chrestomanci: The Magicians of Caprona


• Chrestomanci: Mixed Magics - Diana Wynne Jones


• Chrestomanci: The Pinhoe Egg - Diana Wynne Jones


• Chrestomanci: Witch Week - Diana Wynne Jones - Diana Wynne Jones


• Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar Wilde - Franny Moyle


• Critical Companion to J.K. Rowling: A Literary Reference to Her Life and Work - Karley Adney and Holly Hassel


• Cult Movies in Sixty Seconds: The Best Films in the World in Less Than a Minute - Soren McCarthy


• Curtain: Poirot's Last Case - Agatha Christie


• Dear Fatty - Dawn French


• Death of a Hollow Man - Caroline Graham


• Diana Wynne Jones: Children's Literature and the Fantastic Tradition - Farah Mendlesohn


• Dirt for Art's Sake - Books on Trial from Madame Bovary to Lolita - Elisabeth Ladenson


• Divergent - Veronica Roth


• Divergent: Insurgent - Veronica Roth


• Divergent: Allegiant - Veronica Roth


• The Encyclopedia of Useless Information - William Hartston


• Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version - Philip Pullman


• A Fine Brush on Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen - Richard Jenkyns


• Genius: a mosaic of one hundred exemplary creative minds - Harold Bloom


• Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman


• Há Vida em Markl - Nuno Markl


• Hallowe'en Party - Agatha Christie


• The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales - Maria Tatar


• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - JK Rowling


• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - JK Rowling


• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - JK Rowling


• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling


• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - JK Rowling


• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - JK Rowling


• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling


• Harry Potter's Bookshelf: The Great Books Behind the Hogwarts Adventures - John Granger


• The Hound of Death - Agatha Christie


• Howl: Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones


• Howl: Castle in the Air - Diana Wynne Jones


• Howl: House of Many Ways - Diana Wynne Jones


• I am Malala: The girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban - Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb


• In Search of Stupidity: Over 20 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters - Merrill R.Chapman


• A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter - William Deresiewicz


• Lady Caroline Lamb: A Biography - Paul Douglass


• Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery - Eric Ives


• Made in America - Bill Bryson


• The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter: A Treasury of Myths, Legends and Fascinating Facts - David Colbert


• Magid: Deep Secret - Diana Wynne Jones


• Magid: The Merlin Conspiracy - Diana Wynne Jones


• Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The True Story of Australian Writer P.L. Travers, Creator of the Quintessentially English Nanny - Valerie Lawson


• Miopia e Astigmatismo - Nuno Markl


• Mixórdia de Temáticas (Série Miranda) - Ricardo Araújo Pereira


• Modern Scandals, 1904-2008 - Carl Bankston (ed.)


• O Mundo de Enid Blyton - Alice Vieira


• Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie


• The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie


• N or M? - Agatha Christie


• The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C.S. Lewis - Alan Jacobs


• Nefertiti: Egypt's Sun Queen - Joyce Tyldesley


• Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman


• Novíssimas Crónicas da Boca do Inferno - Ricardo Araújo Pereira


• O Novo, Incrível, Definitivo, Arrebatador, Estrondoso, Monumental e Titânico Livro d'O Homem Que Mordeu o Cão - Nuno Markl


• The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman


• Outlaw Marriages: The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples - Rodger Streitmatter


• Pop Goes the Weasel: The Secret Meanings of Nursery Rhymes - Albert Jack


• Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books You Haven't Touched Since High School - Kevin Smokler


• Problem at Pollensa Bay - Agatha Christie


• Pure - Julianna Baggott


• The QI Book of General Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong - John Lloyd and John Mitchinson


• The Riddles of Harry Potter: Secret Passages and Interpretive Quests - Shira Wolosky


• The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ - Sue Townsend


• Some Like It Wilder: The Life and Controversial Films of Billy Wilder - Gene Phillips


• Terry Jones' Barbarians: An Alternative Roman History - Terry Jones & Alan Ereira


• Terry Jones' Medieval Lives - Terry Jones & Alan Ereira


• They Call Me Naughty Lola: Personal Ads from the London Review of Books - David Rose (ed.)


• Sexually, I'm More of a Switzerland: More Personal Ads from the London Review of Books - David Rose (ed.)


• Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age - B. Jack Copeland


• The Western Canon: The Books and Schools of the Ages - Harold Bloom


• A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, 1599 - James Shapiro


• The Young Leonardo: Art and Life in Fifteenth-Century Florence - Larry J. Feinberg

Total: 81 books. Not bad. Not bad at all.