Book You “Pushed” The Most People To Read (And They Did) In 2014? The Night Circus by Erin Morganstern. Lockhart.) That one's definitely in a good way. Most surprising (in a good way or bad way) book you read in 2014? Anatomy of a Misfit by Andrea Portes (because I think it's cheating if I say We Were Liars by E. Unfortunately, the flat romance and unsteady details didn't do it for me because it felt too underdeveloped. I even featured it in a Waiting on Wednesday post.

Book You Were Excited About & Thought You Were Going To Love More But Didn’t? Playing for the Commandant by Suzy Zail. Best Book You Read In 2014? Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour although The Beginning of Everything by Robyn Schneider comes extremely close. Genre You Read The Most From: Definitely YA, probably contemporary as a sub-genre.ġ. Number Of Books You Read: 232 Number of Re-Reads: I honestly could not tell you. Although I am going to let myself be more fangirl-y than usual, so bear with me.I'm going to go through and add Goodreads links as I do my Best of 2014 post because many of them are overlaps, so sorry for the plain text!What do y'all think? Without further ado, here's how my reading year was in 2014. While normally I just focus on my Best of the Year post, I decided to jump in this year with some of the stats and discussion. Her dry wit totally makes up for the fact that she basically doesn't give any sort of answers whatsoever.The adorable Jamie over at The Perpetual Page Turner created a wonderful end-of-year book survey a few years ago and has graciously shared it with the rest of us. *And can I just mention for the millionth time that Maggie Stiefvater is friggin ridiculously hilarious? You should go read some of her answers to those questions. I would write the first two books differently now, and I don’t want the third book to not satisfy folks who loved the first two.' And I won’t lie: it’s a very weird thing to return to those characters now, one million published words and however many fictional characters later.

But I am just not going to put it out without being happy with it. Scholastic is very good about putting out only work that I’m happy with, so they’ve been kind enough to not send Queen Latifah to badger me, a la Stranger than Fiction. 'I actually wrote an entire third book, Requiem, last year, and sold it to Scholastic, but then I decided I was not happy with it and snatched it back from my editor. I just found this on Maggie's tumblr, via the 'Stiefvater Question Face' Q&A that she did, concerning Requiem:

Requiem by Maggie Stiefvater