Each Friday in the Festiva Magazine insert of The Monitor my book review column Top Shelf is published. Here are the columns from 2014.
- 12 Greats of the UK (retrospective on best novels from the United Kingdom)
- April 10, 2014: Midnight’s Children
- April 17, 2014: The Golden Notebook
- May 15, 2014: Lord of the Flies
- May 22, 2014: Nineteen Eighty-Four
- June 27, 2014: The Heart of the Matter
- July 4, 2014: Brave New World
- August 8, 2014: To the Lighthouse
- September 12, 2014: A Passage to India
- November 7, 2014: Ulysses
- December 19, 2014: The Secret Agent
- January 2, 2015: Great Expectations
- January 9, 2015: Wuthering Heights
- December 26, 2014: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki
- December 12, 2014: Monsters and Outcasts
- December 5, 2014: Blending Genres and Lives
- November 28, 2014: Mariachi Murder
- November 21, 2014: Lost in Translation?
- October 31, 2014: Fish at the Crux of Love and Death
- October 24, 2014: Vampire in Christmasland
- October 17, 2014: Eerie and Adventurous
- October 10, 2014: Goddess Wears Cowboy Boots
- October 3, 2014: Lobstermen and Jugglers
- September 25, 2014: A “Seale” of Quality
- September 19, 2014: Weird and Eerie Tales
- September 5, 2014: Tongue-in-cheek Terror
- August 29, 2014: Three Powerful Poets
- August 22, 2014: Say Anything But Your Prayers
- August 15, 2014: Back-to-School Books
- August 1, 2014: Summer Smorgasbord
- July 12, 2014: Translating the Latin-American Greats
- June 20, 2014: An Evolving Universe
- June 12, 2014: Mr. Mercedes
- June 5, 2014: Perpetual Motion
- May 29, 2014: The City & The City
- May 8, 2014: Faith and Adventure in Venezuela
- May 1, 2014: New Books by Texas Authors
- April 24, 2014: Maximilian and Carlota
- April 3, 2014: Anthologies of Women Poets
- March 27, 2014: New Valley Publications
- March 13, 2014: Bilingual Portrait of the Valley
- March 6, 2014: The Border between Ghostly and Sensual
- February 27, 2014: Redefining Eternity
- February 20, 2014: The Conquest through Native Eyes
- February 13, 2014: The Ritual Cycle of Mexican Myth
- February 6, 2014: Colours in the Steel
- January 30, 2014: The Parkinson Poems
- January 22, 2014: Popol Vuh
- January 16, 2014: The Stonemason
- January 9, 2014: A Feminist Answer to The Hobbit
- January 2, 2014: New Books by Immigrant Authors