Made it! Hooray!
1. The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
2. 1491, Charles Mann
3. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer
4. Practical Demon-Keeping, Christopher Moore
5. The Simulacrum, Philip K Dick
6. In a Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson
7. Guards, Guards! Terry Prachett
8. Orange is the New Black, Piper Kerman
9. The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
10. Catherine the Great, Robert K. Massie
11. Fall of Giants, Ken Follett
12. Gentlemen of the Road, Michael Chabon
13. Longbourn, Jo Baker
14. Consider the Lobster, David Foster Wallace
15. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami
16. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
17. The Vacationers, Emma Straub
18. 12 Years a Slave, Solomon Northup
19. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, Reza Aslan
20. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
21. Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand
22. Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
23. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
24. Doctor Sleep, Stephen King
24. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, Susan Cain
25. The Martian, Andy Weir
26. Winter of the World, Ken Follett
27. The Night Gardener, Jonathan Auxier
28. Edge of Eternity, Ken Follett
29. Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood
30. Under the Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer
31. Eleanor & Park, Rainbow Rowell
32. Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
33. Foundation, Isaac Asimov
34. Foundation and Empire, Isaac Asimov
35. The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood
36. MaddAddam, Margaret Atwood
37. Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
38. The Secret History of Wonder Woman, Jill Lepore
39. Death Comes to Pemberley, P.D. James
40. Outlander, Diana Gabaldon
41. Lock In, John Scalzi
42. And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
43. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, John Boyne
44. The Slow Regard of Silent Things, Patrick Rothfuss
45. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, Niall Ferguson
46. Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-eight Nights, Salman Rushdie
47. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs
48. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
49. Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
50. Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny Lawson
Some thoughts / data looking back at the list:
15 nonfiction (4 memoir, 2 biography, 7 history, 1 essays, 1 psychology), 35 fiction (2 full series -- the Century trilogy and the MaddAddam trilogy, plus parts of the Foundation series and Kingkiller chronicle).
2 unintentional themes: 8 books were either explicitly about WWII or used WWII as a plot point in one way or another. 2 books related to Pride and Prejudice, one of which I didn't realize was related until I started it (Death Comes to Pemberley).
Longest book was 1Q84, clocking in at 1184 pages, followed by Edge of Eternity at 1120 pages. (Roughly -- I read both on a kindle so I'm just going off of what Amazon says the paperback length is.) In all, about 11 books longer than 500 pages.
4 books were engrossing enough (and short enough) that I read them in a day.
45 unique authors, 30 of whom were new to me this year.
Favorite overall was probably American Gods. Bel Canto and Gentlemen of the Road were the only ones I really didn't like. Both very well written, but they just didn't hold my attention.