Lit Genius - The Best Books We Read in 2014 lyrics

Our Top Picks: • Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov • Decoded, Jay Z • King Lear, William Shakespeare @AsterismAlex • This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald • Topdog/Underdog, Suzan-Lori Parks • Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves, James Nestor • Crome Yellow, Aldous Huxley • The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde • Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf • Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy, Johanne Wolfgang von Goethe • Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh, ed. Irving and Jean Stone • The Casual Vacancy, J. K. Rowling • Brighton Beach Memoirs, Neil Simon @Bradapalooza • Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov • The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson • "The Figure in the Carpet," Henry James • The Faerie Queene, Edmund Spenser • Poetry, Language, Thought, Martin Heidegger • The Letters of John Keats, 1814-1821, 2 vols, ed. Hyder E. Rollins @BennySwans • For Whom The Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway • In the Heart of the Beat: The Poetry of Rap, Alexs Pate • Brave New World, Aldous Huxley • Nature and Selected Essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson • On Writing, Stephen King @CourtneyPruitt • Revolution, Russell Brand • No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the US Surveillance State, Glenn Greenwald • Real Powers, Colin Wright • Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez • The Gin Closet, Leslie Jamison @Dyazz • Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison • Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter • House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski • A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess • De ontdekking van de hemel, Harry Mulisch @Ezzo • k**ing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty, Dorothy Roberts • Fight the Power: Rap, Race, and Reality, Chuck D • Know What I Mean?: Reflections on Hip-Hop, Michael Eric Dyson • SeinLanguage, Jerry Seinfeld • Get Up!: Why Your Chair Is k**ing You and What You Can Do about It, James A. Levine • When Doctors Don't Listen, Leana Wen & Joshua Kosowsky • Why We Can't Wait, Martin Luther King, Jr. @FiliptheCreator: • 1984, George Orwell • Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov • The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky • Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov • Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky • Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy @hrambsy • Broke Baroque, Tony Medina • The Big Smoke, Adrian Matejka • Decoded, Jay Z • Seed to Harvest, Octavia Butler • Book of Hours: Poems, Kevin Young @JalfredPeaco*k • The Ginger Man, JP Donleavy • Seeing, Jose Saramago • The Assa**ination of Margaret Thatcher, Hilary Mantel • This Changes Everything, Naomi Klein • Measure for Measure, William Shakespeare • Tintin and the Secret of Literature, Tom McCarthy @Jeeho: • Ulysses, James Joyce • The Stranger, Albert Camus • Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare •The Tempest, William Shakespeare • Coriolan*s, William Shakespeare •The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain •King Lear, William Shakespeare • As You Like It, William Shakespeare •Dubliners, James Joyce •The World According to Garp, John Irving •Henry IV, Part I, William Shakespeare • A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare •Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare •Decoded, Jay Z •The History, Herodotus •The Odyssey, Homer •History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides • The Republic, Plato •The Oresteia, Aeschylus •The Aeneid, Virgil •Annals, Tacitus •Metamorphoses, Ovid •Inferno, Dante @Kim4true • Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston • A Small Place, Jamaica Kincaid • The Tiger's Wife, Tea Obreht • Beloved, Toni Morrison • Praying Drunk, Kyle Minor • Electricity & Other Dreams, stories by Micah Dean Hicks • South, America, Rod Davis • How to Escape from a Leper Colony, Tiphanie Yanique @lordsdmnme: • My Booky Wooky, Russell Brand • Storm Front, Jim Butcher • Unbreak My Heart, Toni Braxton • T.A.Z, Hakim Bey • The Getaway God, Richard Kadrey @MetaWorldPeace: • Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth — Gita Sereny •Hitler: The Memoir of the Nazi Insider Who Turned Against the Fuhrer — Ernst Hanfstaengl •The Young Hitler I Knew — August Kubizcek @mistressofsisyphus: • Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You, Alice Munro • Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, Alice Munro • The Overcoat, Gogol • The Big Screen, David Thompson @momilli • We Are Not Ourselves, Matthew Thomas • 10:04, Ben Lerner • The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, Jeff Hobbs • The Invisible Bridge, Rick Perlstein • The Wallcreeper, Nell Zink • Citizen, Claudia Rankine • Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician, Sandeep Jauhar • Being Mortal, Atul Gawande • Remediation in Medical Education: A Mid-course Correction, ed. Kalet and Chou • The Second Sex, Michael Robbins • Robbins' Basic Pathology, "Baby Robbins" • I Hate You Don't Leave Me, Jerold Kreisman and Hal Straus • American Rhapsody, Joe Eszterhas @Mr_Varnell: • The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop, Don Charnas • Michael Jordan: The Life, Roland Lazenby • Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator, Ryan Holiday • Jay-Z: Essays on Hip Hop's Philosopher King, ed. Julius Bailey • Field Notes for 21st Century Literacies: A Guide to New Theories, Methods, and Practices for Open Peer Teaching and Learning, Various Authors @nietzsche: • The U.S.A. Is Lesterland, Lawrence Lessig • Beware of Pity, Stefan Zweig • 1Q84, Haruki Murakami • Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice, Alexandra Natapoff • Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov @OnlyEverArabella • Beggars in Spain, Nancy Kress • Anathem, Neal Stephenson • Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare • Ready Player One, Ernest Cline • Homeland, Cory Doctorow @Owenn_B • Inferno, Dante Alighieri • The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli • 50th Law, 50 Cent/Robert Greene • Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone, J.K Rowling • The Handmaid's Tale, Margret Atwood • Catcher In the Rye, J.D Salinger @perfectrhyme: • Sleepless Nights, Elizabeth Hardwick • Words in Air, Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell • Accepting the Disaster, Joshua Mehigan • Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin (Nabokov trans.) • Chronicle of a d**h Foretold, Gabriel García Márquez @QLilyLunaPotter331Q: • Divergent, Veronica Roth • The Fault In Our Stars, John Green • The Giver, Lois Lowry • Swindle, Gordon Korman • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling @Quikstik • Ms. Marvel, G. Wilow Wilson • All-New Ghost Rider, Felipe Smith • Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto • Blue is the Warmest Color, Julie Maroh • Poorcraft: The Funnybook Fundamentals of Living Well on Less, C. Spike Trotman @steftim_ • The Hobbit (or There And Back Again), J. R. R. Tolkien • A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle @stephen_j_p • The Zone of Interest, Martin Amis • The Atlantic House, Regan Good • American Smoke: Journeys to the End of the Light, Iain Sinclair • Snow, Orhan Pamuk, Maureen Freely (trans.) @twstauffer: • Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • Enrique's Journey, Sonia Nazario • 1984, George Orwell • Spare Parts, Joshua Davis • Mexican White Boy, Matt de la Pena @Vesuvius: • The First Fifteen Lives Of Harry August by Claire North • The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter • Redshirts by John Scalzi • Zoo City by Lauren Beukes • Don't Panic by Neil Gaiman • You Can Beat Your Brain by David McRaney @wakkowarner214: •Lord of the Flies, William Golding •Legend, Marie Lu @XenaWarriorPrincess: •McGlue, Ottessa Moshfegh •Real Country: Music and Language in Working Cla** Culture, Aaron Fox •Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson •Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness, Chogyam Trungpa •Summer of Hate, Chris Kraus •Not That Kind of Girl, Lena Dunham @XerXes • Money, Martin Amis • The War Against Cliche, Martin Amis • Selected Writing on Art and Artists, Charles Baudelaire • The Complete Poems, John Keats • Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov • Mason and Dixon, Thomas Pynchon • Illuminations, Arthur Rimbaud @BlankCanvas