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Favourite Books I've Read This Year

Posted on the 17 December 2014 by Cathy Leaves @cathyleaves

Non-Fiction: 
Ta-Nahisi Coates: The Case for Reparations.
Roxane Gay: Bad Feminist.
Margaret MacMillan: The War That Ended Peace. The Road to 1914.
Lawrence Wright: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11.
Ahmed Rashid: Descent into Chaos. The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia.
Shane Harris: The Watchers. The Rise of America's Surveillance State.
Thomas L. Friedman: From Beirut to Jerusalem.
Alexander Laban Hinton (ed.) - Annihilating Difference. The Anthropology of Genocide.
Reza Aslan: No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam.
Susan Sontag: Regarding the Pain of Others.
Amy Poehler: Yes Please.
Fiction: 

Donna Tartt: The Goldfinch.
Rachel Kushner: The Flamethrowers.
Kate Atkinson: Life After Life.
William Gibson: The Peripheral.
Teju Cole: Open City.
Richard Powers: Orfeo.
John Darnielle: Wolf in White Van.
Jennifer Egan: A Visit from the Goon Squad.
Margaret Atwood: The Year of the Flood.
Margaret Atwood: MaddAddam.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Americanah.
Megan Abbott: The Fever.
Tana French: The Secret Place.
Tana French: Broken Harbour.

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