It's book list time again!

Fantastic = the best of the best. The ones that I felt the urge to tell everyone about, multiple times, including strangers on the bus. The ones that I bought other people because I had to share. The ones that I really, really enjoyed.
Great = the best of the rest. Books that I would reread, or lodged themselves in my head so thoroughly that rereading might be redundant.
Good = books that I enjoyed, but since book-lovers can't afford everything these ones you could save your money on and find them in the library.
Okay = books are books and therefore wonderful, but I can't help feeling that these ones could have been better.
The Bottom of the Pile = well if you have nothing else to read


Fantastic

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente (1 in series)
The Giver by Lois Lowry (1 in series)
The Truth Is A Cave In The Black Mountains by Neil Gaiman
By Chance Or Providence by Becky Cloonan
The Lady Astronaut Of Mars by Mary Robinette Kowal
The Boy In The Smoke by Maureen Johnson (novella set after book 2 in series)
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
The Shock Of The Fall by Nathan Filer
The Girl with All the Gifts by M. R. Carey
Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente
Lips Touch Three Times by Laini Taylor
The Art of Neil Gaiman by Hayley Campbell (non-fiction)
The Art Of Asking by Amanda Palmer (non-fiction)


Great

The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
The Gospel of Loki by Joanne Harris
How To Build A Girl by Caitlin Moran
Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch (5 in series)
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air by Darragh McKeon
Visions by Kelley Armstrong (2 in Cainsville series)
Wild Justice by Kelley Armstrong (3 in Nadia Stafford trilogy)
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
The Name Of The Star by Maureen Johnson (1 in series)
The Madness Underneath by Maureen Johnson (2 in series)
Unmade by Sarah Rees Brennan (book 3 of trilogy)
The Poison Eaters and Other Stories by Holly Black
Slated by Teri Terry (1 in trilogy)
Fractured by Teri Terry (2 in trilogy)
Shattered by Teri Terry (3 in trilogy)
Runemarks by Joanne Harris (1 in series)
Battle Magic by Tamora Pierce
Raven Girl by Audrey Niffenegger
Through The Woods by Emily Carroll
Gifted by Kelley Armstrong (2 novellas in Otherworld series)
Otherworld Nights by Kelley Armstrong
Forbidden by Kelley Armstrong (novella in Otherworld series)
Brazen by Kelley Armstrong (novella in Otherworld series)
Four: A Divergent Story Collection by Veronica Roth
Hackney Child by Hope Daniels (non-fiction)


Good

Circus Unseen by Joanne Owen
Circus Girl by Nola Rae
Life Sentence by Kelley Armstrong
Hunting Kat by Kelley Armstrong
Fairytales and Nightmares by Melissa Marr
Earth Flight by Janet Edwards (3 in series)
Suite Scarlett by Maureen Johnson (1 in series)
The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey


Okay

The Maze Runner by James Dashner


And I have read a lot of graphic novels and comics this year. Especially good stuff: Pretty Deadly, The Fuse, Alex + Ada, The Wicked And The Devine, Night Post, Snowpiercer, Blue Is The Warmest Colour, Rat Queens, The Walking Dead, Saga, Lucifer, Lazarus, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Secret Avengers… I’ve read the first issue of Bitch Planet and I’m looking forward to more of that! I tried volume one of Fables, Casanova, and Y: The Last Man, but I’m not seeing the fuss. Marvel 1602, Hawkeye: Blind Spot, Peter Panzerfaust, The Mystery Society were okay.

Any recommendations from your 2014 year of reading?