Best books of 2014, in my opinion.

I haven't reviewed all of these. Most I read before I began this endeavor. They're in no particular order, but here are my favourite books of 2014. Grown-up language warning. 

Actually, this is my number one. Maybe. I have even reviewed this too! I'm going to ignore the fact that Matt Damon has been cast as Mark Watney because I think I love Mark and he's not Matt Damon. Not at all. Mark is stuck on Mars, which isn't funny but his approach to it is. 

Such an overwhelmingly delightful nerdy, geeky book. It's brilliant and I don't even like computer games. A futuristic, 1980-themed good versus evil. Recently been picked up as a film, I could see Anton Yelchin as Wade Watts. An absolute must read.

I can't remember how I came across this trilogy. I think I saw Wool in my local library - that's certainly where I got the first one, then I had to buy the other two as the library didn't have them. Hey ho. Set slightly in the future, with a strong female protagonist and no love triangle to be seen, the Wool trilogy paints a bleak (ish) view of what may come.

A surprising Kindle find and a strong contender for a new Hunger Games/Divergent-esque YA trilogy. Again, set slightly in the future and a cross between the planned apocalypse featured in the Wool trilogy and The Walking Dead (or any other zombie apocalypse), the Born Trilogy offers another strong female lead. There's a love triangle and a wolf but don't let that put you off. Emma and her pals kick arse and the character development is beautiful. Grab them whilst they're cheap on Amazon. I wouldn't be surprised if these take off next year.

I was dead chuffed when I got this on early review from Net Galley. It's an unusual apocalypse story considering that in the apocalypse literature zombies have literally taken over. No zombies, no virus; just a big arse meteorite. Set in the UK, the story starts just before it's grab-your-ankles-and-kiss-your-arse-goodbye time which is nice as I like to know what happened and so often you don't get to have that in a apocalypse book.  The visual imagery that Walker creates of a carved up and broken landscape is strong and haunting. I kinda want it to be picked up as a film and I kinda don't because I know it'll get buggered up.