Top 25: The Best Books I Discovered In 2014

[Rev. Rye]

Kudos on choosing the P and V translation of Brothers Karamazov (and not Crime and Punishment for some reason). Hopefully, you'll find their other translations.

Here are a few of the best books I discovered (and rediscovered) up this year (mostly bought at Half-Price Books in Hardcover):

Discovered:

• Boy by Roald Dahl
  
• The Collected Works of Malcolm Gladwell
  
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
  
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (tr. Edith Grossman)
  
• Death Comes For the Archbishop by Willa Cather
  
• That Is All by John Hodgman
  
• The 13 Clocks by James Thurber
  
• Amphigorey by Edward Gorey (standing in for the MANY Gorey books I've collected since I went to the Gorey retrospective at Loyola.)
  
• A Melville 4-in-one of Moby Dick, The Confidence Man, The Piazza Tales, and Billy Budd.
  
• The Men's Club by Leonard Michaels
  
• Permanent Midnight by Jerry Stahl
  
• The Brilliant Disaster by Jim Rasenberger
  
• The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
  
• The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance
  
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  
• Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
  
• Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert
  
• Forever by Pete Hamill
  

Rediscovered:

• If Chins Could Kill by Bruce Campbell
  
• Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskins
  
• The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
  
• Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
  
• Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
  
• Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
  
• Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  
• Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin (tr. Johnston)
  
• Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
  
• Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses by James Joyce
  
• The Abstinence Teacher and Little Children, both by Tom Perotta
  
• Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
  
• Oliver Twist and Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  
• Tea and Sympathy by Robert Anderson
  
• The Trial and Selected Stories by Franz Kafka
  
• Shibumi by Trevanian
  
• O Pioneers by Willa Cather