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Top Ten Fiction Books 2014

All the Light ​We Cannot See​
All the Light ​We Cannot See​

All the Light We Cannot See has ... it was chosen by Goodreads members as the best historical fiction of 2014, ... For Love of a Book: All the Light We Cannot See

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The Bone ​Clocks​
The Bone ​Clocks​

The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell Random House. Mitchell’s latest mind-bendingly ambitious novel begins with the story of one Holly Sykes, an English teenager with a brief history of hearing sinister voices.

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Station ​Eleven​
Station ​Eleven​

Mulholland Books Some of the best prose writing published this year can be found in what is, in essence, a technothriller: in Whiskey Tango Foxtrot an aid worker in Myanmar (Shafer remarks that it “sounded like a name cats would give their country”) glimpses something she shouldn’t, deep in the jungle, and right away her life starts going off the rails.

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The Paying ​Guests​
The Paying ​Guests​

Book World critics pick the best reads of 2014 in fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels and audio books. Caption The best reads in fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels and audio books.

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Redeployment​
Redeployment​

Redeployment is a collection of short stories by American writer Phil Klay. His first published book, it won the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle's 2014 John Leonard Award given for a best first book in any genre.

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A Brief History ​of Seven Killings​
A Brief History ​of Seven Killings​

Marlon James’ novel A Brief History of Seven Killings is a fictionalized retelling of the attempt on Marley’s life and its aftermath. James is the author of two previous novels and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

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The Sixth ​Extinction: An Unnatural History​
The Sixth ​Extinction: An Unnatural History​

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History is a 2014 non-fiction book written by Elizabeth Kolbert and published by Henry Holt & Company.. The book argues that the Earth is in the midst of a modern, man-made, sixth extinction.

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Being Mortal: ​Medicine and What Matters in the End​
Being Mortal: ​Medicine and What Matters in the End​

Metropolitan Books: ISBN: 0805095152: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End is a non-fiction book by American surgeon Atul Gawande. The book addresses hospice care and the current state of care in regard to age-related frailty, serious illness and impending death. Gawande's reflections are interspersed with personal stories. Synopsis. In the beginning of the book Gawande explores ...

To Rise Again ​at a Decent Hour​
To Rise Again ​at a Decent Hour​

Book World: ‘To Rise Again at a Decent Hour,’ by Joshua Ferris By Ron Charles May 13, 2014 Email the author Follow @roncharles Joshua Ferris’s new novel is about a dentist, and like a good dentist, Ferris welcomes us in with a few jokes and some distracting chitchat.

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The Children ​Act​
The Children ​Act​

In The Children Act the couple is much older and has been married for decades - Fiona is a 59 year old court judge, and is married to Jack, a 60 year old professor of ancient history.

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The Secret ​Place​
The Secret ​Place​

“Every year there is one nonfiction book that makes me shake up my steady diet of fiction. In 2014, ... The Secret Place ... //apps.npr.org/best-books-2014/ Copy.

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Elizabeth is ​Missing​
Elizabeth is ​Missing​

• Andrea Gillies' The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay is published by Short Books. To order Elizabeth Is Missing for £10.39 with free UK p&p call Guardian book service on 0330 333 6846 or go to guardianbookshop.co.uk.

Everything I ​Never Told You​
Everything I ​Never Told You​

Best picture book of the year, according to Amazon.com, was Mo Willems’s The Pigeon Needs a Bath! We Were Liars by E Lockhart, a mystery about four friends that was shortlisted for the Guardian children’s fiction prize, tops the retailer’s best teen reads list, and Amy Poehler’s Yes Please is Amazon.com’s humour book of the year.

The Book of ​Unknown Americans​
The Book of ​Unknown Americans​

THE BOOK OF UNKNOWN AMERICANS is, without a doubt, an ideal book club selection. In fact, I would definitely consider this novel the next time it's my turn to pick. There is a reading guide available with seventeen (!) fantastic questions. Some of the themes you might choose to discuss include prejudices, bullying, second chances, love, friendships, fears, family, hopes and dreams.

Authority​
Authority​

Here are the 22 best science fiction and fantasy books of 2014. This was a crazy good year for books. There was mind-expanding science fiction —including William Gibson's return to the future! — along with thrilling fantasy, and a number of brilliant category-defying books.

The Book of ​Strange New Things​
The Book of ​Strange New Things​

Faber’s sincerity keeps The Book of Strange New Things honest, and his talent steers him away from cliché.” —The New Republic “A wonderful adventure story, a quasi-science fiction tale and a probing examination of a marriage. . . . A truly strange and wonderful novel. . . . Please read Michel Faber’s The Book of Strange New Things.

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Gray ​Mountain​
Gray ​Mountain​

John Grisham’s GRAY MOUNTAIN, a suspenseful and powerful legal thriller of a young city girl, heading south; lands in rural Virginia, in the middle of Big Coal evil corruption, and a community left defenseless under their control.

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Annihilation​
Annihilation​

Annihilation is a 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer. It is the first in a series of three books called the Southern Reach Trilogy. The book describes a team of four women (a biologist, an anthropologist, a psychologist, and a surveyor) who set out into an area known as Area X.

All My Puny ​Sorrows​
All My Puny ​Sorrows​

All My Puny Sorrows tells the story of two Mennonite sisters in Canada who seemingly could not be more different. Elfrieda is the success, elegantly beautiful and a world-acclaimed pianist, who seems to have it all: money, fame, career and a devoted husband.

We Were ​Liars​
We Were ​Liars​

We Were Liars is a 2014 young-adult novel by E. Lockhart. The novel has received critical acclaim and won the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Young Adult Fiction. It was also listed as an ALA Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults for 2015.

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The ​Miniaturist​
The ​Miniaturist​

The Miniaturist is set in much the same world as Tracy Chevalier’s best-selling Girl With a Pearl Earring, a story placed two decades earlier in another 17th-century Dutch city, Delft. But Johannes Brandt, the man at the center of The Miniaturist, is even more of a mystery than the Johannes Vermeer of Chevalier’s story.

The Zone of ​Interest​
The Zone of ​Interest​

The Zone of Interest has 3,114 ratings and 506 reviews. William1 said: Comments on my first reading of The Zone of Interest. That a book merits rereading...

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Red Rising​
Red Rising​

Red Rising is a 2014 science fiction novel by American author Pierce Brown, and the first book and eponym of a trilogy. The novel, set on a future planet Mars, follows lowborn miner Darrow as he infiltrates the ranks of the elite Golds.

An Untamed ​State​
An Untamed ​State​

Winner of this year's National Book Award for Fiction, Redeployment tells the stories of various Americans either fighting in the Iraq War or dealing with the strangeness of being back home.

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Big Little Lies​
Big Little Lies​

Big Little Lies is a 2014 novel written by Liane Moriarty. It was published in July 2014 by Penguin Publishing. The novel made the New York Times Best Seller list.

Revival​
Revival​

Book World critics pick the best reads of 2014 in fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels and audio books. Caption The best reads in fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels and audio books.

Orfeo​
Orfeo​

The best reads in fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels and audio books. The 5 best books of 2014: Fiction Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post ALL MY PUNY SORROWS By Miriam Toews (McSweeney’s) This sad and improbably witty novel is about two loving sisters: one who wants to live, the other who ...

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The Invention ​of Wings​
The Invention ​of Wings​

Sue Monk Kidd's new novel, The Invention of Wings, is a fictionalized account of the abolitionist sisters Sarah and Angelina Grimké, and the slave Hetty, given to Sarah on her 11th birthday.

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The ​Peripheral​
The ​Peripheral​

Reddit gives you the best of the internet in one place. ... Best Science Fiction Books 2014 - Goodreads ... I didn't see The Peripheral on that list.

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The Silkworm​
The Silkworm​

Wow, JK Rowling can go dark. Like really, seriously dark. The Silkworm, is Rowling’s follow-up to Cuckoo’s Calling, continuing the story of Cormoran Strike and his now permanent assistant Robin.

What If?: ​Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions​
What If?: ​Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions​

Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions would eventually be released in September that year. The What If? book contains a selection of questions and answers from the original blog, as well as nineteen new ones.

Mr. Mercedes​
Mr. Mercedes​

Mr. Mercedes is a crime novel by American writer Stephen King. It is his 62nd novel and the 44th published under his own name. He calls it his first hard-boiled detective book. It was published on June 3, 2014.

Edge of ​Eternity​
Edge of ​Eternity​

Edge of Eternity is a historical and family saga novel by Welsh-born author Ken Follett, published in 2014. It is the third book in the Century Trilogy, after Fall of Giants and Winter of the World.

The ​Temporary Gentleman​
The ​Temporary Gentleman​

Barry returns to the topic of war with A Temporary Gentleman. Jack McNulty, the narrator, may not be a blood relative of Willie Dunne, but he is forged of the same steel. The title of this, Barry's eighth novel, is a pejorative term used to refer to someone who may be considered, through rank for example, a "gentleman" for the duration of a war.

Arctic ​Summer​
Arctic ​Summer​

In Arctic Summer Damon Galgut fictionalises the events and experiences that produced EM Forster's great novel A Passage to India. The book was 14 years in the making, and we follow Forster through India, Egypt and England throughout that time.

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How to Be ​Both​
How to Be ​Both​

Book Review: 'How To Be Both,' By Ali Smith Ali Smith's new How To Be Both combines inventive structural trickery and warm, sardonic writing in in parallel tales of a bereaved modern teenager and an Italian renaissance fresco painter.

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Preparation ​for the Next Life​
Preparation ​for the Next Life​

Nov. 12, 2014 Atticus Lish’s first novel, “Preparation for the Next Life,” is unlike any American fiction I’ve read recently in its intricate comprehension of, and deep feeling for, life at the margins.

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On Immunity: ​An Inoculation​
On Immunity: ​An Inoculation​

But based on On Immunity: An Inoculation, she’s clearly done copious amounts of research. The book is a personal, impressionistic, fascinating look at the history of immunity, from those 18th century English milkmaids with cowpox who miraculously found themselves immune to smallpox to the crazy (and dangerous) theories of celebrities like Jenny McCarthy.

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Hollow City​
Hollow City​

Hollow city. [Ransom Riggs] ... Paranormal fiction Fiction Juvenile works ... Hollow city. Philadelphia : Quirk Books, [2014] (OCoLC)867144069:

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The ​Vacationers​
The ​Vacationers​

Book World critics pick the best reads of 2014 in fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels and audio books. Caption The best reads in fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels and audio books.

City of ​Heavenly Fire​
City of ​Heavenly Fire​

City of Heavenly Fire is a Shadowhunters novel.Darkness has descended on the Shadowhunter world. Chaos and destruction overwhelm the Nephilim as Clary, Jace, Simon, and their friends band together to fight the greatest evil they have ever faced: Clary’s own brother.

Half a King​
Half a King​

Half a King is the kind of book that creeps up on you gradually, painting a picture of kingdoms and slavery and backstabbing until you think this is basically another fantasy set in the comfort zone of the genre, and then it hits you hard when you least expect it.

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The Blood of ​Olympus​
The Blood of ​Olympus​

The Blood of Olympus (Heroes of Olympus, book 5) ... Turtleback Books ... [The Blood of Olympus: Heroes of Olympus] (By: Rick Riordan) [published: October, 2014]

Hope to Die​
Hope to Die​

Little, Brown, Nov 24, 2014 - Fiction - 400 pages. 4 Reviews Detective Alex Cross is being stalked by a psychotic genius, forced to play the deadliest game of his career. ...

Bark​
Bark​

Best books of 2014: Top 10 books of the year, graphic novels and audio books View Photos Book World critics pick the best reads of 2014 in fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels and audio books.

Landline​
Landline​

Rainbow Rowell (Goodreads Author) Georgie McCool knows her marriage is in trouble; it has been in trouble for a long time. She still loves her husband, Neal, and Neal still loves her, deeply — but that almost seems beside the point now.

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Personal​
Personal​

T he most interesting titles of 2014 weren’t necessarily the most prominently reviewed or most celebrated. Except, of course, for Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Chatto & Windus £16.99), a profound and affecting masterpiece about a Japanese POW camp on the Burma death railway, which richly deserved its Booker win.

Funny Girl​
Funny Girl​

B.J. Novak establishes himself as a legitimately funny, new voice in American fiction with One More Thing. This is the story of a boy who wins a $100,000 prize in a cereal box and how his newfound fortune begins to unravel his family.

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Four: A ​Divergent Collection​
Four: A ​Divergent Collection​

Complete your Divergent library with Four! Fans of the Divergent trilogy by #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth will be thrilled by Four: A Divergent Collection, a companion volume that includes four pre-Divergent stories plus three additional scenes from Divergent, all told from Tobias's point of view. This collection also makes a great pick for fans of the blockbuster movies who want to delve deeper into the character played by Theo James.

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A ​Strangeness in My Mind​
A ​Strangeness in My Mind​

A Strangeness in My Mind (Turkish: Kafamda Bir Tuhaflık) is a 2014 novel by Orhan Pamuk. It is the author's ninth novel. Knopf Doubleday published the English translation by Ekin Oklap in the U.S., while Faber & Faber published the English version in the UK.

History of the ​Rain​
History of the ​Rain​

8 new suspenseful historical fiction books to read in 2014. Novels from the 12th century to the 20th.

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