Summary: Five more favorite reads from 2014, and our reading plans for 2015! It's our last episode of 2014! Thank you to all who've joined the Books on the Nightstand team for National Readathon Day (http://www.firstgiving.com/team/282218), which is a fundraiser for the National Book Foundation! Mark your calendars now to spend a 4 hour block of time reading on January 24th. If you'd like to make a donation to our team or raise funds yourself, you can do that here (http://www.firstgiving.com/team/282218). To find our more, visit the official National Readathon page (http://global.penguinrandomhouse.com/readathon/). We'll have much more about National Readathon Day in upcoming episodes, so stay tuned. (https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1402749432l/18339662.jpg) (https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1409595558l/18310201.jpg) (https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1384158366l/17165884.jpg) (https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1387701847l/18209268.jpg) (https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1395000218l/18379037.jpg) Many of you reached out to me to ask what book I left off of my Favorite Books of 2014 list. If you remember, I waited until the very last minute to commit to the final book. A few of you guessed, correctly, that the sixth book was We Were Liars (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16143347-we-were-liars?from_search=true) by E. Lockhart. This was one of my favorite novels of the year in any genre. There was also one other book that pained me to leave off, and that was The Painter (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18310201-the-painter?from_search=true) by Peter Heller. Michael would have added The Answer to the Riddle is Me: A memoir of amnesia (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17165884-the-answer-to-the-riddle-is-me?from_search=true), by David Stuart McLean. There were two other books that were favorite reads of 2014, but they were published in 2013, so they didn't make the list. So I'll add them here: Americanah (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15796700-americanah?from_search=true) by Chimimanda Adiche and The Cartographer of No Man's Land (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18379037-the-cartographer-of-no-man-s-land?from_search=true) by P.S. Duffy. (http://booksonthenightstand.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/audiobooks.jpg)Michael's Audiobook of the Year (02:24) (http://covers.audiobooks.com/images/covers/full/9780698182943.jpg) Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson, narrated by the author, is Michael’s pick for Audiobooks.com Audiobook of the Year. Special thanks to Audiobooks.com (http://www.audiobooks.com/freebook) for sponsoring this episode of Books on the Nightstand. Audiobooks.com allows you to listen to over 40,000 audiobooks, instantly, wherever you are, and the first one is free. Download or stream any book directly to your Apple or Android device. Sign up for a free 30-day trial and free audiobook download by going to www.audiobooks.com/freebook (http://www.audiobooks.com/freebook) Thank you so much to Audiobooks.com for sponsoring Books on the Nightstand this year! Our reading plans for 2015: Michael has made a reading resolution for 2015: he's going to try to read just one book at a time, with the exception of audiobooks. Since I failed spectacularly in my 2014 reading resolution (to read 10 books in translation), I'm not making one for 2015. I am going to try to track the books I read for the duration of 2015. Normally, I fall out of the habit by March. This makes it very difficult to choose a list of favorites for the year, since I tend to forget about all of the books I've read. Michael and I are both committed to reading Rebecca (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17899948-rebecca?from_search=true)by Daphne DuMaurier and Swann (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/368499.Swann?from_search=true) by Carol Shields. This grew out of a pact we made with Simon and Thomas of The Readers Podcast
