[Synamon]

My favourite reads this year were:
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway (harrowing drama set during the siege of Sarajevo)
The Emperor of All Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri Siddhartha Mukherjee (fascinating non-fiction about the history of cancer and its treatment)
I Hear Sirens in the Street and In the Morning I'll Be Gone (the second and third books in Adrian Mckinty's Sean Duffy police series set in Northern Ireland during the "Troubles") [the first book, The Cold, Cold Ground was one of my favourites in 2013]

Honourable mention to three other mystery series that I read this year:
Deborah Crombie's Kincaid and James Scotland Yard series
Elly Griffith's Ruth Galloway forensic archaeologist series
Jussi Adler-Olsen's Department Q series