Year archive
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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Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore: A Novel by Walter Mosley appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, let’s talk about sex, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories Of 33 Men Buried In A Chilean Mine, And The Miracle That Set Them Free by Héctor Tobar appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around eye-opening reads, nonfiction, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Definitely Maybe by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, translated by Antonina W. Bouis appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, tales from around the world, the dark side, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Delancey: A Man, A Woman, A Restaurant, A Marriage by Molly Wizenberg appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, biography & memoir, cookbooks & food, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill was selected for The New York Times Book Review’s 2014 Ten Best Books list in fiction. The catalog records the selection as bibliographic fact and links readers to the newspaper’s original annual list.
Do Not Sell At Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt For The World's Rarest 78rpm Records by Amanda Petrusich appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, eye-opening reads, it’s all geek to me, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Do Or Die: A Reluctant Heroes Novel by Suzanne Brockmann appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around love & romance, let’s talk about sex, mysteries & thrillers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism And Wrecked The Middle Class by Ian Haney López appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, nonfiction, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Draw! by Raúl Colón appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around for art lovers, kids’ books, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Duty: Memoirs Of A Secretary At War by Robert M. Gates appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around biography & memoir, nonfiction, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
El Deafo by Cece Bell appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, biography & memoir, comics & graphic novels, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Electric City: A Novel by Elizabeth Rosner appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around historical fiction, science!, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Emeralds Included: A Jana Bibi Adventure by Betsy Woodman appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around tales from around the world, staff picks, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around biography & memoir, for history lovers, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Euphoria by Lily King appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around seriously great writing, historical fiction, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Every Day Is For The Thief: Fiction by Teju Cole appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around eye-opening reads, tales from around the world, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Everything I Never Told You: A Novel by Celeste Ng appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, fiction, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
F: A Novel by Daniel Kehlmann, translated by Carol Janeway appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around book club ideas, seriously great writing, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Dreamlike poems follow an aging artist through childhood memories, solitude, creativity, and approaching death.
Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014 by Alice Munro appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around seriously great writing, short stories, essays & poetry, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Family Life by Akhil Sharma was selected for The New York Times Book Review’s 2014 Ten Best Books list in fiction. The catalog records the selection as bibliographic fact and links readers to the newspaper’s original annual list.
Famous Writers I Have Known: A Novel by James Magnuson appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around funny stuff, mysteries & thrillers, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Fatale Deluxe Edition, Vol. 1 by Ed Brubaker and Sean Philips appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, let’s talk about sex, mysteries & thrillers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Firebird by Misty Copeland and Christopher Myers appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, kids’ books, for art lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Flashlight by Lizi Boyd appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, the dark side, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A cynical comics fan befriends a squirrel transformed by an accident into an unlikely superhero.
Florence Gordon by Brian Morton appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around seriously great writing, book club ideas, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Foreign Gods, Inc. by Okey Ndibe appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, tales from around the world, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Found by Salina Yoon appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around family matters, kids’ books, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Fourth Of July Creek: A Novel by Smith Henderson appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, rather long, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Fresh From The Farm: A Year Of Recipes And Stories by Susie Middleton appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around cookbooks & food, biography & memoir, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Friendswood: A Novel by René Steinke appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around family matters, book club ideas, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Gaston by Kelly DiPucchio and Christian Robinson appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around family matters, funny stuff, love & romance, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Geek Sublime: The Beauty Of Code, The Code Of Beauty by Vikram Chandra appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around it’s all geek to me, science!, biography & memoir, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Girl In Reverse by Barbara Stuber appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around family matters, for history lovers, the dark side, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Gottland: Mostly True Stories From Half Of Czechoslovakia by Mariusz Szczygieł, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones 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.
Gray Mountain: A Novel by John Grisham appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, book club ideas, the states we’re in, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Half A World Away by Cynthia Kadohata appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, fiction, young adult, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Heap House: The Iremonger Trilogy: Book One by Edward Carey appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around family matters, sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, seriously great writing, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Here by Richard McGuire appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, for history lovers, for art lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Heroes Are My Weakness: A Novel by Susan Elizabeth Phillips appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around love & romance, family matters, let’s talk about sex, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Hijacking The Runway: How Celebrities Are Stealing The Spotlight From Fashion Designers by Teri Agins appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around eye-opening reads, staff picks, for art lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, And The Battlefield of AIDS by Martin Duberman 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.
Hooray For Hat! by Brian Won appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around funny stuff, kids’ books, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Horrorstör: A Novel by Grady Hendrix appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around the dark side, staff picks, funny stuff, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
How I Discovered Poetry by Marilyn Nelson appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, young adult, biography & memoir, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
How The World Was: A California Childhood by Emmanuel Guibert appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, biography & memoir, for history lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
How To Be A Victorian: A Dawn-To-Dusk Guide To Victorian Life by Ruth Goodman appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around for history lovers, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
