My goal for 2014 was to read 35 books. I just barely managed to finish¹.

Seriously, I finished yesterday. I thought it was going to be easier to read a lot with a newborn. All they do is sleep, right? Oh man. The hilarity of that thought.

I was able to read a few books in the middle of the night when Jude (pictured) was brand new (April and May) while rocking him to sleep, but it wasn’t exactly what I wanted to be doing at 3 AM.

This list represents about 14,192 pages. Or, since I listen to a lot of audiobooks, only 6,011 pages plus 254 hours of audio. I listen to books at an average of 1.5x normal speed so the actual number of hours I spent listening to books is closer to 169.

Here’s the list, organized by date read. Here’s the same list on Goodreads.

January

Perilous Shield (The Lost Stars, #2), by Jack Campbell
The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness, by Dave Ramsey

I also re-read the following (and did not count them in the 35 books):

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5), by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6), by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7), by J.K. Rowling

February

Partials (The Partials Sequence, #1), by Dan Wells
The Jester (The Riyria Chronicles #2.5), by Michael J. Sullivan
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, by Eliezer Yudkowsky

Yes, I read (past tense) Harry Potter fan fiction. While I have basically no shame², I will say this: it’s well written and hilarious. It was also the longest thing I read all year³.

March

Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy, #2), by Robin Hobb
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2), by Brandon Sanderson

April

Fragments (Partials, #2), by Dan Wells

The picture on the right is Jude demonstrating his resolve to not let me read much for a while.

May

Ruins (Partials Sequence, #3), by Dan Wells

June

Throne of Jade (Temeraire, #2), by Naomi Novik
Earth Awakens (The First Formic War, #3), by Orson Scott Card

July

Vodnik, by Bryce Moore
Variant (Variant, #1), by Robison Wells

August

Assassin’s Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3), by Robin Hobb
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Discworld, #28), by Terry Pratchett

September

The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman

October

Unseen Academicals (Discworld, #37), by Terry Pratchett
Feedback (Variant, #2), by Robison Wells
The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern

The Night Circus is magical.

November

Blood Song (Raven’s Shadow, #1), by Anthony Ryan
The Crown Tower (The Riyria Chronicles #1), by Michael J. Sullivan
Calculating God, by Robert J. Sawyer
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration, by Ed Catmull
A Night of Blacker Darkness, by Dan Wells
The Cricket on the Hearth, by Charles Dickens

December

The Time Paradox (Artemis Fowl, #6), by Eoin Colfer
The Viscount and the Witch (Riyria Chronicles, #1.5), by Michael J. Sullivan
The Rose and the Thorn (The Riyria Chronicles, #2), by Michael J. Sullivan
Skin Deep (Legion, #2), by Brandon Sanderson
The Snow Queen, by Hans Christian Andersen
Visitors (Pathfinder, #3), by Orson Scott Card
The Power Of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential, by Leo Babauta
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, by Charles Petzold
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions, by Randall Munroe
Wonder by R.J. Palacio

For 2015 I’m once again shooting for 35 books.