Looking over my list of books read in 2014 at Goodreads, and those that I rated at four stars (I almost never give a book five stars) I decided to select six fiction and six non-fiction based on reflection.

Fiction:

Silent House by Orhan Pamuk

The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder. I had actually never read this. Don't know how that happened.

The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa

Fools Crow by James Welch

Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul

Non-Fiction

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow by Richard Wormser

Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel; New, Complete, Uncensored Version by A. Anatoli Kuznetsov. This was a second read, now the uncensored version.

A Time of Gifts (Trilogy #1) by Patrick Leigh Fermor

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X, Alex Haley. Had read this before years ago.

Climate of Fear: The Quest for Dignity in a Dehumanized World
by Wole Soyinka

Under Fire: the story of a squad by Henri Barbusse

I should note that I am currently reading A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Karen Armstrong. I am really liking this and it may bump one of these non-fiction books off by the end of the year.