Top Ten Novels 2014
The Bone Clocks is a novel by British writer David Mitchell. It was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2014, and called one of the best novels of 2014 by Stephen King. The novel won the 2015 World Fantasy Award. The novel is divided into six sections with five point-of-view first-person narrators.
All the Light We Cannot See is a novel written by American author Anthony Doerr, published by Scribner on May 6, 2014. It won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
Station Eleven is a 2014 science fiction novel by Emily St. John Mandel. It is Mandel's fourth novel. The novel takes place in the Great Lakes region after a fictional swine flu pandemic, known as the "Georgia Flu", has devastated the world, killing most of the population.
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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.
“A Brief History of Seven Killings” is based in part on the real-life story of the Shower Posse, who began their rise in early-'60s Kingston and spread to America, where, by the 1980s, they controlled much of the crack trade in New York and Miami — in the book, they form an alliance with Griselda Blanco of the Medellín cartel.
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. In the book, Kolbert chronicles previous mass extinction events, and compares them to the accelerated, widespread extinctions during our present time. She also describes ...
It was a notable year for short stories: Redeployment (Canongate), former US marine Phil Klay’s tales of conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, took a National book award in the States, while Colin Barrett won the Guardian first book award for Young Skins (Jonathan Cape), vignettes of smalltown yearning and frustration that breathed new life into the Irish short story.
The Secret Place is a 2014 novel by Tana French set in Ireland. The Washington Post named the book one of the five best thrillers of 2014. Amazon.com named it one of the best books of 2014 in the mystery, thriller and suspense category.
“Fourth of July Creek” is a Rorschach test of sorts. It may remind readers of many different writers, even though it’s such an original. Mr.
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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.
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.
March 19, 2014. Image . Credit Aude Van Ryn ... So yes, superficially, “All Our Names” is a book about an immigrant, but more profoundly it is a story about finding out who you are, about how much of you is formed by your family and your homeland, and what happens when those things go up in smoke. There is great sadness and much hard truth in this novel, as there is everywhere in Mengestu ...
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“Being Mortal” is a valuable contribution to the growing literature on aging, death and dying. It contains unsparing descriptions of bodily aging and the way it often takes us by surprise. Gawande is a gifted storyteller, and there are some stirring, even tear-inducing passages here. The writing can be evocative.
Reading down the first page of Toíbín's new novel, Nora Webster, I know that this novel is the real thing, rare and tremendous. But how do I know? The setting is Enniscorthy, in Ireland, in the late 1960s, and Nora Webster's husband, Maurice, has recently died.
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour is a novel by the American writer Joshua Ferris. The novel was shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize and won the 2014 Dylan Thomas Prize.
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“All My Puny Sorrows” is unsettling, because how can a novel about suicide not be? But its intelligence, its honesty and, above all, its compassion provide a kind of existential balm — a comfort not unlike the sort you might find by opening a bottle of wine and having a long conversation with (yes, really) a true friend.
No matter if the stories they’ve heard about the new country are exaggerated and acculturation is a frightening hurdle, it will — it must — be better than the present situation. In this spirit, the characters in Cristina Henríquez’s new novel, “The Book of Unknown Americans,” have come to the United States.
Revival is a novel by American writer Stephen King, published on November 11, 2014 by Scribner. This was King's second novel published during 2014, and his fourth since 2013.
A quotation from King Lear prefaces Matthew Thomas's long and ambitious first novel, and also gives the book its title: "We are not ourselves / When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind / To suffer with the body."
Much like the house that is the centerpiece of this story The Miniaturist is a magical, intricate marvel of perfection.
Lila crawls into Gilead from another world altogether, a realm of subsistence living where the speculations of theologians are as far away — and useless — as the stars. The novel opens in a fog of misery. Lila is just 4 or 5, sickly, dressed in rags, when a woman named Doll steals her from her violent home.
The Zone of Interest is the fourteenth novel by the English author Martin Amis, published in 2014. Set in Auschwitz, it tells the story of a Nazi officer who has become enamored with the camp commandant's wife.
So you've read Shteyngart's three antic, comic, unfailingly energetic and vaguely autobiographical novels. Do you really need to read the memoir? Actually, yes, you do, because Little Failure is terrific – the author's funniest, saddest and most honest work to date.
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An Untamed State is the debut novel of writer Roxane Gay, first published in 2014 by Grove Atlantic.
Book Reviews The Peripheral (2014) Lacks balance, yet still sings as a sci-fi thriller with a bitter commentary on America’s dissonant present.
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August is a novel by Claire North, a pseudonym of British author Catherine Webb, published in April 2014.
Simple looking, a mere four letters, the word in question appears in “Comma,” the book’s spare and horrifying second tale. Two little girls have clambered over a wall in order to spy on the residents of a mansion known simply as the Hathaways’ house.
Authority is a 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer. It is the second in a series of three books called the Southern Reach Trilogy. In an interview, VanderMeer stated that, "if Annihilation is an expedition into Area X, then Authority is an expedition into the Southern Reach, the agency sending in the expeditions." It was released in May 2014.
“Some Luck” is made up of 34 brief chapters, each marked at the start with a year, from 1920 to 1953, so the chapters line up like hash marks on a timeline or headstones in a graveyard. Many of the characters named in a family tree at the front of the book amble onstage, one after another.
The Temporary Gentleman is Sebastian Barry's third novel to mine the McNulty family history. This time the protaganist is Jack, brother to Eneas from The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty, and brother-in-law to Roseanne from The Secret Scripture, the woman who was "disappeared" into the local asylum by the creepy new zealot of a priest, Father Gaunt.
The title neatly reflects differing cultural perspectives: an imposing range of hills, known to Africans as The Happy Mountains, were baptised The Laughing Monsters by a disillusioned missionary. While Nobody Move was the equal of most crime fiction, The Laughing Monsters is inferior to the very best spy novels.
From an actor, writer, and director of the hit TV comedy The Office (US version): a story collection that was "workshopped" at comedy clubs and bookstores on both coasts. B.J. Novak's One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut collection that signals the arrival of a welcome new voice in Ame
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healy is a 2014 Harper Publication. I was provided a copy of this book by the publisher and Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review. For me this was a stunning novel, not only as a mystery but one that gives an unique insight into the mind of someone dealing with dementia and the effects it has on them and their family.
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.
With her second novel, The Inheritance of Loss (Atlantic Monthly), Kiran Desai has written a sprawling and delicate book, like an ancient landscape glittering in the rain. It focuses on one crumbling household in northern India, the Himalayas watching over the story like distant gods.
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.
Fiction: ‘On Such a Full Sea,’ by Chang-rae Lee By Ron Charles January 7, 2014 Email the author Follow @roncharles The most striking dystopian novels sound an alarm, focus our attention and even change the language.
Parents need to know that 2015 Caldecott Honor and Michael L. Printz Honor book This One Summer is a frank and engaging exploration of how friendships and family connections can change over the course of one season.
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Perfidia is a historical romance and crime fiction novel by American author James Ellroy. Published in 2014, it is the first novel in the second L.A. Quartet, referring to his four prior novels from the first L.A. Quartet. Perfidia was released September 9, 2014.
How to Be Both is not a multi-choice narrative, but the textual order depends on an element of chance. The book has two interconnected stories. There is a teenage girl called George whose mother has just died and who is left struggling to make sense of her death with her younger brother and her emotionally disconnected father.
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Arctic Summer is the fictional account of E.M. Forster’s life from around the time he became known for his early novels until A Passage to India was published, in the mid-twenties.
Jacqueline Woodson is the winner of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults, the recipient of three Newbery Honors for After Tupac & D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way, and a two-time Finalist for the National Book Award for Locomotion and Hush.
China Dolls is a 2014 novel by Lisa See. It depicts the largely forgotten world of Chinese American nightclubs and performers of the '30s and '40s. The book opens with a quotation attributed to It depicts the largely forgotten world of Chinese American nightclubs and performers of the '30s and '40s.
In the streetwise realism of 1980 and present-day Queens, New York, Scott Chesire's "High as the Horses' Bridles", echoes the gritty realism found in the best novels of Pete Hamill and Jimmy Breslin. But it is more, much more, than a very good New York City-centric novel bordering on greatness.