Good Books, 2014

Well, 2014 is almost over and people are making lists. Here goes: good books that I've read this year, including some that we read in my various book clubs. I've written blog posts here or at my food blog about quite a few of them, but it never hurts to make a list.

Fiction:

• Flight Behavior, Barbara Kingsolver
• A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki
• A Replacement Life, Boris Fishman
• Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Haruki Murakami
• The Family Mashber, Der Nister

Non-Fiction

• Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat, Bee Wilson
• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Elizabeth Kolbert
• Cumin, Camels, and Caravans: A Spice Odyssey, Gary Paul Nabhan
• Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food, Jeffrey M. Pilcher
• The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret world of Hershey and Mars, Joel Glenn Brenner
• My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel, Ari Shavit
• One Summer: America, 1927, Bill Bryson
• The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu, Dan Jurafsky
• Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, Thomas McNamee
• Breaking Bread in Galilee: A Culinary Journey into the Promised Land, Abbie Rosner
• Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live, Marlene Zuk