The ShortReads of 2014

On the ShortRead, we bring you bring you an extract from the latest book worthy of your attention every Wednesday. We're generous like that. Gritty dramas, murderous thrillers, sci-fi epics, non-fiction knowledge enhancers: the ink will still be wet and your book club won't have read it.

Below are all of the titles we shared with you in 2014. If you're looking for a new read, you'll find something worthy of your attention below. 

Anger is an energy by John Lydon

The MeatLIQUOR Chronicles by Yianni Papoutsis and Scott Collins

Peripheral by William Gibson

THE WORLD OF ICE AND FIRE BY GEORGE R. R. MARTIN

REVIVAL BY STEPHEN KING

No One Gets Out Alive by Adam Nevill

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

Extinction Game by Gary Gibson

Perfidia by James Ellroy

Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer

The Pointless Book by Alfie Deyes

A Possibility of Violence by D.A. Mishani

Personal by Lee Child

COLORLESS TSUKURU TAZAKI AND HIS YEARS OF PILGRIMAGE by HARUKI MURAKAMI

Fool's Assassin by Robin Hobb

Breakfast with the Borgias by DBC Pierre

The Final Silence by Stuart Neville

The Traitor's Heir by Anna Thayer

Cop Town by Karin Slaughter

Half a King by Joe Abercrombie

Heartman by M.P. Wright

Lobsters by Tom Ellen & Lucy Ivison

Want You Dead by Peter James

Caught Short by Anthony Horowitz

No Harm Can Come To A Good Man by James Smythe

The Murder Bag by Tony Parsons

The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins by Irvine Welsh

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

Natchez Burning by Greg Iles

Who is Tom Ditto by Danny Wallace

The Girl who saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson

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