14 x 7 in 14: brenpike's 2014 Category Challenge

Back for a third year of category challenges!

1. Debut Books
Matterhorn Karl Marlantes
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs
We The Animals Justin Torres
Revolution Baby Joanna Gruda
The Miniaturist Jessica Burton
The Last Banquet Jonathan Grimwood
We Are Not Ourselves Matthew Thomas

2. 2014 Prizewinners
Coretta Scott King Award
P.S. Be Eleven Rita Williams-Garcia
Caldecott Medal Winner
Locomotive Brian Floca
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Goldfinch Donna Tartt
Newbery Medal Winner
Flora & Ulysses:The Illuminated Adventures
Kate DiCamillo, K.G. Campbell
National Book Critics Circle Award for
Autobiography
Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti
Amy Wilentz
Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing Elmear McBride
Man Booker
The Narrow Road to the Deep North Richard
Flanagan
National Book Award
Redeployment Phil Klay
National Book Award
Brown Girl Dreaming Jacqueline Woodson

3. History
The Boys in the Boat Daniel James Brown
The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of
the Twentieth Century David Laskin
Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of
Jane Franklin Jill Lepore
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow
Fever, the Epidemic That Shaped Our History
Molly Caldwell Crosby
Servants:A Downstairs History of Britain from
the Nineteenth Century to Modern Times
Lucy Lethbridge
Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the
Crime That Changed America Kevin Cook
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible
Polar Voyage of the USS Jeanette Hampton
Sides
50 Children: An Ordinary American Couple's
Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of
Nazi Germany Steven Pressman

4. Biographies and Memoirs
Twelve Years a Slave Solomon Northup
Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of
a Cuban Boy Carlos Eire
Finding the Dragon Lady: The Mystery of
Vietnam's Madam Nhu Monique Brinson
Demery
It Runs in the Family Richard Manning
The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile and
Return Kenan Trebincevic and Susan Shapiro
One Hundred and Four Horses: A Memoir of
Farm and Family, Africa and Exile Mandy
Retzlaff
Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
Marion Meade
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah
Life Between the Keys The 5 Browns
The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family
Portrait Blake Bailey
A House in the Sky Amanda Lindhout
My Accidental Jihad Krista Bremer
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Roz Chast
Four Perfect Pebbles Lila Perl

5. RL Group Reads
More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Kansas
Women Gina Kaufmann
Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution
Nathaniel Philbrick
The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion
Fannie Flagg
The Storied Life of A.J.Fikry Gabrielle Zevin

6. LT Group or Shared Reads
The Long Way Home Louise Penny

7. Orange Prize Nominees and Winners
The Signature of All Things Elizabeth Gilbert
Eleven Days Lea Carpenter
Almost English Charlotte Mendelson
Burial Rites Hannah Kent
All the Birds, Singing Evie Wyld
The Undertaking Audrey Magee
The Flamethrowers Rachel Kushner

8. Man Booker
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves Karen
Joy Fowler
Orfeo Richard Powers
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour Joshua Ferris
History of the Rain Niall Williams
The Blazing World Siri Hustvedt

9. Madeline's Monthly TIOLI Challenge
The Dinner Herman Koch
What is the What Dave Eggers
Mao's Great Famine Frank Dikotter
Mink River Brian Doyle
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That
Can't Stop Talking Susan Cain
My Two Italies Joseph Luzzi

10. Reading Globally
The Grass is Singing Doris Lessing
The Childhood of Jesus J.M. Coetzee
The Plover Brian Doyle
Foreign Gods, Inc. Okey Ndibe
A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar Suzanne
Joinson
Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the
Lost City One Step at a Time Mark Adams

11. Books Recommended by LTrs
The Sound of Things Falling Juan Gabriel
Vasquez
How I Became Hettie Jones Hettie Jones
Longbourn Jo Baker
A Land Kinder Than Home Wiley Cash
All My Puny Sorrows Miriam Toews

12. Other Recommendations
Counting By Sevens Holly Goldberg Sloan
The Woman Upstairs Claire Messud
The Invention of Wings Sue Monk Kidd
Perfect Rachel Joyce
Kinder Than Solitude Yiyun Li
All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr
Blue: The History of a Color Michel
Pastoureau
The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert
Ames Kai Bird
Nora Webster Colm Toibin

13. Authors and their books
Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor
Brad Gooch
A Good Man Is Hard To Find Flannery
O'Connor
Dancing Fish and Ammonites:A Memoir
Penelope Lively

14. Miscellaneous
The Dynamics of Disaster Susan W. Keiffer
Apple Tree Yard Louise Doughty
The Hummingbird's Daughter Luis Alberto
Urrea
Fire in Beulah Rilla Askew
Summer House With Swimming Pool Herman
Koch
The Sun and Other Stars Brigid Pasulk
All Our Names Dinaw Mengestu
Life Class Pat Barker
Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys
Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser
The Stranger Albert Camus
Bastard Out of Carolina Dorothy Allison
City of Dust: Illness, Arrogance, and 9/11
Anthony DePalma
Charming Billy Alice McDermott
In Paradise Peter Matthiessen
An Unnecessary Woman Rabih Alameddine
Lucky Us Amy Bloom
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Taudeusz Borowski

Let's hear it for another great year of books! I'll definitely be checking in to see what you've read.

Welcome back!

Looking forward to seeing what you read.