The Books I Read in 2014 and the Top 10 Books of the First Half of the Decade

This year was a great literary year for me because my first book, The Breathing Advocate (http://www.amazon.com/Breathing-Advocate-Jarrett-McCall-ebook/dp/B00NP9IJT2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1412719081&sr=8-1&keywords=the+breathing+advocate), was published.  In 2015, my second book, a collection of short stories titled God Has Abandoned America, will be out.

These are my top 10 books for 2014:
1. The Circle--Dave Eggers
2. Big Tent--Mallory Factor and Elizabeth Factor
3. The Disaster Artist--Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell
4. Collusion--Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
5. The Marketing of Evil--David Kupelian
6. Midwinterblood--Marcus Sedgwick
7. Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?--Roz Chast
8. I Want to Show You More--Jamie Quatro
9. Monsters--Rich Cohen
10. Stonewalled--Sharyl Attkisson

My top 10 for the first half of the 2010s:
1. In Cold Blood--Truman Capote
2. Ragtime--E.L. Doctorow
3. The Circle--Dave Eggers
4. The Help--Kathryn Stockett
5. The Right Stuff--Tom Wolfe
6. Being There--Jerzy Kosinski
7. Atonement--Ian McEwan
8. Gone Girl--Gillian Flynn
9. The Orphan Master's Son--Adam Johnson
10. Mao II--Don DeLillo

These are the 79 books I read this year:
1. Vampires in the Lemon Grove--Karen Russell
2. A River Runs Through It and Other Stories--Norman Maclean
3. Your Best Life Now--Joel Osteen
4. The Hobbit--J.R.R. Tolkien
5. Players--Don DeLillo
6. Give Them Grace--Elyse M. Fitzpatrick and Jessica Thompson
7. 1984--George Orwell
8. Unbroken--Laura Hillenbrand
9. Orange Is the New Black--Piper Kerman
10. Midwinterblood--Marcus Sedgwick
11. Collusion--Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
12. Tropic of Cancer--Henry Miller
13. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves--Karen Joy Fowler
14. Monsters--Rich Cohen
15. Better than Fiction--Don George
16. The Testament of Mary--Colm Toibin
17. Good Tidings and Great Joy--Sarah Palin
18. The Circle--Dave Eggers
19. James Madison--Jeff Broadwater
20. Foreign Affairs--Alison Lurie
21. 419--Will Ferguson
22. Caught--Lisa Moore
23. Chocolates for Breakfast--Pamela Moore
24. I Want to Show You More--Jamie Quatro
25. The Facts on Islam--John Ankerberg, John Weldon, and Dillon Burroughs
26. Breakthrough--James O'Keefe
27. The Secret History--Donna Tartt
28. Bark--Lorrie Moore
29. The 9/11 Report--Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon
30. The Marketing of Evil--David Kupelian
31. The Disaster Artist--Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell
32. Not Cool--Greg Gutfeld
33. Eminent Hipsters--Donald Fagen
34. Sickened--Julie Gregory
35. Angry Little Men--Kevin Todd Porter
36. Blood Will Out--Walter Kirn
37. The Goldfinch--Donna Tartt
38. Daily Readings from Every Day a Friday--Joel Osteen
39. The Land of Steady Habits--Ted Thompson
40. The Son--Philipp Meyer
41. Terrorists & Novelists--Diane Johnson
42. Rules for Patriots--Steve Deace
43. Big Tent--Mallory Factor and Elizabeth Factor
44. Up, Up, & Away--Jonah Keri
45. America--Dinesh D'Souza
46. The Possibilities--Kaui Hart Hemmings
47. She Is Not Invisible--Marcus Sedgwick
48. In Paradise--Peter Matthiessen
49. Carrie--Stephen King
50. Assault and Flattery--Katie Pavlich
51. The Heist--Daniel Silva
52. Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?--Roz Chast
53. Confessions of a Spy--Pete Earley
54. Tenth of December--George Saunders
55. Euphoria--Lily King
56. The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair--Joel Dicker
57. Trickle Down Tyranny--Michael Savage
58. If I Stay--Gayle Forman
59. Everything I Never Told You--Celeste Ng
60. Drowntown: Book One--Robbie Morrison and Jim Murray
61. Revenge: The Secret Origin of Emily Thorne--Ted Sullivan
62. The Cult of Common Core--Brad McQueen
63. Can You Be Gay and Christian?--Michael L. Brown
64. The Other Side of the Wall--Marie Micheaux
65. Barbaric Mercies--Gaylord Brewer
66. Let Me Be Clear--Katie Kieffer
67. Making Gay Okay--Robert R. Reilly
68. The Dog--Joseph O'Neill
69. Orfeo--Richard Powers
70. The Blazing World--Siri Hustvedt
71. Wolf in White Van--John Darnielle
72. Miracles and Massacres--Glenn Beck
73. Martin Scorsese--Tom Shone
74. The Odyssey of Falling--Paige Crutcher
75. Distortion--Chelsen Vicari
76. Inherent Vice--Thomas Pynchon
77. American Cornball--Christopher Miller
78. Stonewalled--Sharyl Attkisson
79. 'If I Had a Son'--Jack Cashill