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Books selected by independent literary juries and editorial teams in 2014, gathered into one transparent, source-linked reading list. The chronology uses the award year for prizes and list year for editorial recommendations.
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10:04: A Novel by Ben Lerner appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around seriously great writing, fiction, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
100 Sideways Miles by Andrew Smith appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around funny stuff, love & romance, it’s all geek to me, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
2 A.M. At The Cat's Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around book club ideas, seriously great writing, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Bollywood Affair by Sonali Dev appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around love & romance, family matters, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A young Irish woman addresses the brother whose brain tumor shapes their family. Fragmented language follows her through religious pressure, violence, defiance, and grief.
A Long Way Home: A Memoir by Saroo Brierley appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, biography & memoir, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Painter's Progress: A Portrait Of Lucian Freud by David Dawson appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around biography & memoir, eye-opening reads, for art lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Snicker Of Magic by Natalie Lloyd appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around funny stuff, family matters, sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Afterparty by Daryl Gregory appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, science!, mysteries & thrillers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Portraits of Chinese citizens explore ambition, belief, censorship, and rapid economic transformation.
Ah-Ha To Zig-Zag: 31 Objects From Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum by Maira Kalman appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around eye-opening reads, kids’ books, funny stuff, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around love & romance, tales from around the world, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
All The Light We Cannot See: A Novel by Anthony Doerr appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around book club ideas, staff picks, for history lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
All The Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid by Matt Bai appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, eye-opening reads, for history lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, fiction, historical fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around seriously great writing, family matters, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Ancient Oceans Of Central Kentucky by David Connerley Nahm appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around rather short, the dark side, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Breq is the sole surviving human body of a troop carrier whose artificial intelligence once occupied a ship and thousands of ancillary soldiers. Her search for revenge exposes a civil conflict within the ruler of the vast Radch empire.
Ancillary Sword by Anne Leckie appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, seriously great writing, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Four unnamed women enter Area X, an isolated coastal region transformed by an unexplained ecological event. The biologist narrates their deteriorating expedition as she studies uncanny organisms and confronts secrets about her husband and the agency that sent them.
Another Man's War: The Story Of A Burma Boy In Britain's Forgotten Army by Barnaby Phillips appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around biography & memoir, book club ideas, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Apples Of Uncommon Character: Heirlooms, Modern Classics, And Little-Known Wonders by Rowan Jacobsen appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, cookbooks & food, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy: Annihilation; Authority; Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around the dark side, sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, rather long, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Aviary Wonders Inc. Spring Catalog And Instruction Manual by Kate Samworth appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, kids’ books, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around biography & memoir, eye-opening reads, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Baking Chez Moi: Recipes From My Paris Home To Your Home Anywhere by Dorie Greenspan appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around cookbooks & food, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Bark: Stories by Lorrie Moore appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around short stories, essays & poetry, family matters, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Beethoven: Anguish And Triumph by Jan Swafford appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, rather long, biography & memoir, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Being Mortal: Medicine And What Matters In The End by Atul Gawande appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around science!, family matters, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, young adult, love & romance, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Bitter Eden: A Novel by Tatamkhulu Afrika appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, historical fiction, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Blood Will Out: The True Story Of A Murder, A Mystery, And A Masquerade by Walter Kirn appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, biography & memoir, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Bolaño, A Biography In Conversations by Monica Maristain appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around biography & memoir, tales from around the world, nonfiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel by Helen Oyeyemi appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, book club ideas, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Bright Shards Of Someplace Else by Monica McFawn appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around short stories, essays & poetry, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around mysteries & thrillers, the dark side, let’s talk about sex, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard On You? A Memoir by George Clinton appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, biography & memoir, for music lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A verse memoir recalls Woodson's childhood in South Carolina and New York during the civil-rights era.
California: A Novel by Edan Lepucki appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, family matters, sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Can't And Won't: Stories by Lydia Davis appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, short stories, essays & poetry, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir by Roz Chast appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around book club ideas, seriously great writing, comics & graphic novels, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Caribbean Potluck: Modern Recipes From Our Family Kitchen by Suzanne Rousseau and Michelle Rousseau appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around cookbooks & food, tales from around the world, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Check The Technique: More Liner Notes For Hip-Hop Junkies by Brian Coleman appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, rather long, for music lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around short stories, essays & poetry, book club ideas, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, And The Battle That Defined A Generation by Blake J. Harris appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around for history lovers, it’s all geek to me, rather long, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Cooking Light Global Kitchen: The World's Most Delicious Food Made Easy by David Joachim appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around cookbooks & food, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking) by Christian Rudder appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, it’s all geek to me, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Dear Committee Members: A Novel by Julie Schumacher appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around funny stuff, fiction, rather short, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
