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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The Zone Of Interest: A Novel by Martin Amis appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, book club ideas, for history lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Things I've Learned From Dying: A Book About Life by David R. Dow appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around biography & memoir, eye-opening reads, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Thirteen Days In September: Carter, Begin, And Sadat At Camp David by Lawrence Wright appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, book club ideas, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Those Who Leave And Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, seriously great writing, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Three Minutes In Poland: Discovering A Lost World In A 1938 Family Film by Glenn Kurtz appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, biography & memoir, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Through The Woods by Emily Carroll appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, the dark side, short stories, essays & poetry, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Thrown by Kerry Howley appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around biography & memoir, eye-opening reads, funny stuff, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Tigerman: A Novel by Nick Harkaway appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around seriously great writing, family matters, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, And Madness At The Dawn of Hollywood by William J. Mann appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around no biz like show biz, for history lovers, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
To Rise Again At A Decent Hour: A Novel by Joshua Ferris appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around funny stuff, seriously great writing, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
An investigation of industrial pollution, childhood cancer, and the difficult science of proving environmental harm.
Unexpected Stories by Octavia E. Butler appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around short stories, essays & poetry, sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Us Conductors: A Novel by Sean Michaels appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, for history lovers, love & romance, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Valour And Vanity by Mary Robinette Kowal appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around love & romance, for history lovers, sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Virgil Thomson: Music Chronicles 1940-1954 by Virgil Thomson and Tim Page (editor) appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, for art lovers, for music lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Viva Frida by Yuyi Morales and Tim O'Meara appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around biography & memoir, for art lovers, kids’ books, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Walt Before Skeezix by Frank King appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, for art lovers, for history lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around mysteries & thrillers, the dark side, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot by David Shafer appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around book club ideas, it’s all geek to me, mysteries & thrillers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
With My Dog-Eyes: A Novel by Hilda Hilst appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around seriously great writing, rather short, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Wolf In White Van: A Novel by John Darnielle appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, seriously great writing, the dark side, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Wonderland: A Novel by Stacey D'Erasmo appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around seriously great writing, for music lovers, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Words Will Break Cement: The Passion Of Pussy Riot by Masha Gessen appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around for art lovers, eye-opening reads, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
World Spice At Home: New Flavors For 75 Favorite Dishes by Amanda Bevill and Julie Kramis Hearne 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.
You Are (Not) Small by Anna Kang and Christopher Weyant 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.
Your Illustrated Guide To Becoming One With The Universe by Yumi Sakugawa appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, comics & graphic novels, science!, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
