Top 14 Books of 2014! (Part 1)

**Favorite Books of 2014**

If you're looking for some great reads from 2014, you've come to the right place. I'm excited to share with you my top picks for books that were published that year. From contemporary romance to dystopian fiction, there's something on this list for everyone.

**Four by Veronica Roth**

One of my favorite books from 2014 is Four by Veronica Roth. This series follows four characters before the events of Divergent, giving us a unique perspective into their lives and motivations. I loved seeing more of Four's character, getting to know him before he met Tris and understanding his actions better. If you're a fan of the Divergent series, this is a must-read. It's a great way to get even more insight into one of the main characters' minds.

**Island the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins**

Next up is Island the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins, which concludes Anna and the French Kiss trilogy. This book follows Isla and Josh, with Josh being one of the characters from Anna and the French Kiss. The story takes place in both New York and France, offering a charming and romantic tale that fans of Perkins will adore. While it's a bit angsty at times, it's still an enjoyable read.

**Prisoner of Night and Fog by Anne Blankman**

I absolutely adored Prisoner of Night and Fog by Anne Blankman, the next book in this trilogy series. This historical fiction novel tells the story of Hitler's niece, who is not biologically related to him but is close family friend, falling in love with a Jewish reporter while uncovering the secrets behind her uncle's regime. It offers a unique perspective on World War II and was just fascinating to read.

**Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson**

Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson is another great contemporary novel from 2014. This story follows a girl whose best friend goes missing for the summer, leaving her with a bucket list of things to complete in order to find her friend again. It's a heartwarming and thought-provoking read that explores themes of friendship, self-discovery, and independence.

**City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare**

Finally, I have to mention City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare, which concludes The Mortal Instruments series. While it may not be my favorite in the series, I still thoroughly enjoyed it. It's an action-packed read with plenty of twists and turns that keep you on the edge of your seat. However, some readers may find it a bit anticlimactic at times.

**I Have Some Issues with this Book**

While City of Heavenly Fire was still an enjoyable read, I did have some issues with it. The pacing could be improved in some areas, but overall, it's a great conclusion to the series. If you're a fan of fantasy and adventure, this is definitely worth checking out.

**I Have Read Most Recently - I Have in the Afterlife by Alexander Bracken**

My final favorite book from 2014 is I Have in the Afterlife by Alexander Bracken, which concludes The Darkest Minds trilogy. This series was incredibly well-written, and this book did not disappoint. It's an emotional rollercoaster that will keep you invested until the very end. If you're looking for a compelling read with a strong narrative, this is definitely worth checking out.

**Conclusion**

That's it for my favorite books from 2014! I hope you've enjoyed reading about these titles and are inspired to pick them up yourself. Do you have any favorite books from 2014 that you think should be on this list? Let me know in the comments below.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey everyone it's Haley and today I'm going to be doing the second video in my series that is the top 14 of 2014 so today's video is going to be the top 14 books that I have read this year that were published in 2014 so these are basically the actual top 14 of 2014 and I'm also going to be doing kind of a part two to this video which is going to be just the top 14 books that I read in 2014 excluding the ones that were published this year I hope that made sense so without further Ado let's get into it so the first book I wanted to talk about is Hol City by Ransom Riggs this is the second book in the Miss parag's Home for Peculiar Children series and I don't even know when this one came out but I know it came out this year it's a creepy kind of paranormal series um and what I really like about it is the fact that the author goes and he finds the these like old pictures just cuz he really likes finding them and then he kind of weaves them into the story which is just super unique it's really awesome and this book was so fantastic it reminded me why I loved Miss paragen because it was just so good the characters are so interesting it's just really a fantastic series you just need to jump into it and you will not regret it the next book is we were Liars by E lockart there are a lot of people who don't like this book but I really really loved it I The Twist at the end just blew me away I I kind of was spoiled for it but I still literally balled my eyes out I couldn't even handle it it's really it's kind of boring through the middle but if you get past that then you realize like it just makes it all worth it in the end it's such a good contemporary just go right into it you don't need to know anything it's it's awesome next is fire and flood by Victoria Scott this is the first book in a Trilogy I think it's going to be it's a dystopian Trilogy and it's basically a mix of The Hunger Games and po which is absolutely awesome I really enjoyed this book they just had a cover change for it um cuz the second book is coming out next year and I don't really like the new covers to be honest but what are you going to do um yeah this book was really fun it the only thing I didn't really like about it was there's some elements to it that are really disturbing but it's it's just it's really good other than that and if you've read this book you know what I'm talking about it's just really sad and I don't really like reading about that I don't know it's just I don't know the next book is the one by Kier Cass this was supposed to be the conclusion to the selection series but then Kass announced that she's releasing two more books so they are going to be coming out next year well the one is um not the one but like it's called the air but you know what I mean you knew what I meant but anyway so um this series is basically The Bachelorette but all these girls are trying to win the heart of a prince and it's super awesome it's not like a literary gem it's just really enjoyable and they're just cute and I just really enjoy them and I love the cover of this book I mentioned this in my top 14 covers of 2014 video which was the first of the series I'll link that down below but it's just so good it's so cute next is Ignite Me by tahara Mafi this is the conclusion to the Shatter Me trilogy and I marathoned this Trilogy this year and I just absolutely loved it this was my favorite book out of all of them it's just it was so good it's really an interesting concept and this book was really sad but it was also just so amazing I really just love this Trilogy next is Rebel Bell by Rachel Hawkins so this book was getting a lot of hype when it first came out came out around April and just everyone was reading it everyone loved it and it's really a great book it's basically about this girly girl kind of like Southern Belle who becomes a power in and kind of has to protect this guy that she really really hates it's just super fun it's really witty and I just really enjoyed it and it definitely makes me want to read more of Rachel Hawkins in the future there's also going to be the sequel to this book coming out next year so I'm really excited for that this next book is one of my all-time favorites and that is Dorothy Must Die by Danielle page I just loved this book I'm so excited for the next one it's just such an interesting concept basically this girl she gets taken away to Oz but it is not the Oz that everyone is familiar with this Oz has been completely like destroyed it's completely desolate and that is because Dorothy came back but she's now this like crazy tyrannical leader and it's this girl's duty to try and kill Dorothy it's absolutely crazy it's creepy but also super fun it's so interesting and just fantastic I definitely definitely recommend this next is what I thought was true by Huntley Fitzpatrick I just really enjoyed this book it's basically just kind of your wholesome typical contemporary but there are really awesome characters in here you get kind of a family aspect to it along with the romance aspect it was just really enjoyable and I would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a good new contemporary next is Four by Veronica Roth so this is a series of four stories um following four before kind of the events of Divergent there is one that is like just at the beginning of Divergent but all the rest are before that and I really enjoyed this it was really interesting to get to kind of see into the mind of four more so you do get his perspective in Allegient but I really like to be able to see him before Tris and how his life like more of how his life was before that so I really enjoyed this this and I really if you like the Divergent series I definitely would recommend picking this up because you really do get to see more into his character and kind of who he is and you get to understand more of his actions and everything next is Island the happily ever after by Stephanie Perkins the conclusion to the uh Anna and the French Kiss kind of companion novel Trilogy thing so this one follows Isla and Josh and Josh is one of characters from Anna and the French kiss and some of it takes place in New York some of it takes place in France it's really just a cutesy story just what you you would expect out of Stephanie Perkins this one is pretty angsty but it was still super enjoyable and I just love the writing love the characters that she creates I just I just love her she can do no wrong next is Prisoner of night and fog by Anne Blankman I just absolutely adored this book I thought it was so fantastic the next one in this Trilogy is coming out next year and I literally cannot wait it was so good so basically this series follows Hitler's niece but she's not like she's not biologically his niece but they're like really close family friends and she ends up falling in love with a Jewish reporter and kind of finding out what is wrong with her uncle and how his regime is like absolutely awful it's super interesting it's a very different perspective um of World War II historical fiction I really really enjoyed it next is Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson so this was one of the first books I read after kind of discovering book Tu um and I really really loved this one it's a contemporary about a girl whose best friend goes kind of missing for the summer she has no idea where she is but she has sent her this bucket list which is on the back of the book and she is trying to complete all these things on the bucket list so then she will be able to hopefully find her best friend it's a very interesting contemporary pretty different um it's not really so much about friendship as much as it is about the main character kind of finding herself and learning to be independent it's very very interesting super well written I just love Morgan mats and she is so so good I absolutely love it and this book just like um her other ones this one has like here need to find an example well there's a crappy example this one has like little um playlists in it because she goes running a lot and it's just so interesting I definitely recommend listening to the songs while you read the book because it just really adds to it it's just so good next is this hunk of a book that everyone has been waiting for forever and that is City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra CLA I read this book in September and I did really enjoy it I do have a few issues with it but that didn't really take away from the book too much I did really love it um it's not my favorite out of the whole series but it is pretty close I just thought it was a little bit antil climatic at times but other than that it was pretty action packed for the most part and you really got to see some new characters more into them rather than just kind of the typical Clary and Jace which I really enjoyed that um it's huge it it's literally massive but nonetheless it was a very good read and finally and the one I've read most recently I have in the afterlife by Alexander Bracken which is the conclusion to The Darkest Minds Trilogy I just absolutely loved this Trilogy this book was so good it was so sad but it was so happy it literally just takes your heart and it crushes it and it just Stomps on it and but it's so fantastic I definitely recommend this Trilogy this one was just as good as the first two oh it's so good so that was all for my favorite books that I have read that were published in 2014 let me know what some of your favorites that were published in 2014 are and yeah I'll see you tomorrow for the next video in this series byehey everyone it's Haley and today I'm going to be doing the second video in my series that is the top 14 of 2014 so today's video is going to be the top 14 books that I have read this year that were published in 2014 so these are basically the actual top 14 of 2014 and I'm also going to be doing kind of a part two to this video which is going to be just the top 14 books that I read in 2014 excluding the ones that were published this year I hope that made sense so without further Ado let's get into it so the first book I wanted to talk about is Hol City by Ransom Riggs this is the second book in the Miss parag's Home for Peculiar Children series and I don't even know when this one came out but I know it came out this year it's a creepy kind of paranormal series um and what I really like about it is the fact that the author goes and he finds the these like old pictures just cuz he really likes finding them and then he kind of weaves them into the story which is just super unique it's really awesome and this book was so fantastic it reminded me why I loved Miss paragen because it was just so good the characters are so interesting it's just really a fantastic series you just need to jump into it and you will not regret it the next book is we were Liars by E lockart there are a lot of people who don't like this book but I really really loved it I The Twist at the end just blew me away I I kind of was spoiled for it but I still literally balled my eyes out I couldn't even handle it it's really it's kind of boring through the middle but if you get past that then you realize like it just makes it all worth it in the end it's such a good contemporary just go right into it you don't need to know anything it's it's awesome next is fire and flood by Victoria Scott this is the first book in a Trilogy I think it's going to be it's a dystopian Trilogy and it's basically a mix of The Hunger Games and po which is absolutely awesome I really enjoyed this book they just had a cover change for it um cuz the second book is coming out next year and I don't really like the new covers to be honest but what are you going to do um yeah this book was really fun it the only thing I didn't really like about it was there's some elements to it that are really disturbing but it's it's just it's really good other than that and if you've read this book you know what I'm talking about it's just really sad and I don't really like reading about that I don't know it's just I don't know the next book is the one by Kier Cass this was supposed to be the conclusion to the selection series but then Kass announced that she's releasing two more books so they are going to be coming out next year well the one is um not the one but like it's called the air but you know what I mean you knew what I meant but anyway so um this series is basically The Bachelorette but all these girls are trying to win the heart of a prince and it's super awesome it's not like a literary gem it's just really enjoyable and they're just cute and I just really enjoy them and I love the cover of this book I mentioned this in my top 14 covers of 2014 video which was the first of the series I'll link that down below but it's just so good it's so cute next is Ignite Me by tahara Mafi this is the conclusion to the Shatter Me trilogy and I marathoned this Trilogy this year and I just absolutely loved it this was my favorite book out of all of them it's just it was so good it's really an interesting concept and this book was really sad but it was also just so amazing I really just love this Trilogy next is Rebel Bell by Rachel Hawkins so this book was getting a lot of hype when it first came out came out around April and just everyone was reading it everyone loved it and it's really a great book it's basically about this girly girl kind of like Southern Belle who becomes a power in and kind of has to protect this guy that she really really hates it's just super fun it's really witty and I just really enjoyed it and it definitely makes me want to read more of Rachel Hawkins in the future there's also going to be the sequel to this book coming out next year so I'm really excited for that this next book is one of my all-time favorites and that is Dorothy Must Die by Danielle page I just loved this book I'm so excited for the next one it's just such an interesting concept basically this girl she gets taken away to Oz but it is not the Oz that everyone is familiar with this Oz has been completely like destroyed it's completely desolate and that is because Dorothy came back but she's now this like crazy tyrannical leader and it's this girl's duty to try and kill Dorothy it's absolutely crazy it's creepy but also super fun it's so interesting and just fantastic I definitely definitely recommend this next is what I thought was true by Huntley Fitzpatrick I just really enjoyed this book it's basically just kind of your wholesome typical contemporary but there are really awesome characters in here you get kind of a family aspect to it along with the romance aspect it was just really enjoyable and I would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a good new contemporary next is Four by Veronica Roth so this is a series of four stories um following four before kind of the events of Divergent there is one that is like just at the beginning of Divergent but all the rest are before that and I really enjoyed this it was really interesting to get to kind of see into the mind of four more so you do get his perspective in Allegient but I really like to be able to see him before Tris and how his life like more of how his life was before that so I really enjoyed this this and I really if you like the Divergent series I definitely would recommend picking this up because you really do get to see more into his character and kind of who he is and you get to understand more of his actions and everything next is Island the happily ever after by Stephanie Perkins the conclusion to the uh Anna and the French Kiss kind of companion novel Trilogy thing so this one follows Isla and Josh and Josh is one of characters from Anna and the French kiss and some of it takes place in New York some of it takes place in France it's really just a cutesy story just what you you would expect out of Stephanie Perkins this one is pretty angsty but it was still super enjoyable and I just love the writing love the characters that she creates I just I just love her she can do no wrong next is Prisoner of night and fog by Anne Blankman I just absolutely adored this book I thought it was so fantastic the next one in this Trilogy is coming out next year and I literally cannot wait it was so good so basically this series follows Hitler's niece but she's not like she's not biologically his niece but they're like really close family friends and she ends up falling in love with a Jewish reporter and kind of finding out what is wrong with her uncle and how his regime is like absolutely awful it's super interesting it's a very different perspective um of World War II historical fiction I really really enjoyed it next is Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson so this was one of the first books I read after kind of discovering book Tu um and I really really loved this one it's a contemporary about a girl whose best friend goes kind of missing for the summer she has no idea where she is but she has sent her this bucket list which is on the back of the book and she is trying to complete all these things on the bucket list so then she will be able to hopefully find her best friend it's a very interesting contemporary pretty different um it's not really so much about friendship as much as it is about the main character kind of finding herself and learning to be independent it's very very interesting super well written I just love Morgan mats and she is so so good I absolutely love it and this book just like um her other ones this one has like here need to find an example well there's a crappy example this one has like little um playlists in it because she goes running a lot and it's just so interesting I definitely recommend listening to the songs while you read the book because it just really adds to it it's just so good next is this hunk of a book that everyone has been waiting for forever and that is City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra CLA I read this book in September and I did really enjoy it I do have a few issues with it but that didn't really take away from the book too much I did really love it um it's not my favorite out of the whole series but it is pretty close I just thought it was a little bit antil climatic at times but other than that it was pretty action packed for the most part and you really got to see some new characters more into them rather than just kind of the typical Clary and Jace which I really enjoyed that um it's huge it it's literally massive but nonetheless it was a very good read and finally and the one I've read most recently I have in the afterlife by Alexander Bracken which is the conclusion to The Darkest Minds Trilogy I just absolutely loved this Trilogy this book was so good it was so sad but it was so happy it literally just takes your heart and it crushes it and it just Stomps on it and but it's so fantastic I definitely recommend this Trilogy this one was just as good as the first two oh it's so good so that was all for my favorite books that I have read that were published in 2014 let me know what some of your favorites that were published in 2014 are and yeah I'll see you tomorrow for the next video in this series bye\n"