100 Best Books of 2014

Amazon has released their 100 Best of Books of 2014.

As an avid reader, I love Best of Books List. I always come across books I have never heard of before, but after reading an excerpt, description and reviews, become determined to read. This is a great resource if you are looking for a future book club book or one for yourself.

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1. Everything I Never Told You: A Novel by Celeste Ng
2. All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel by Anthony Doerr
3. In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides
4. The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League by Jeff Hobbs
5. Redeployment by Phil Klay
6. Revival: A Novel by Stephen King
7. Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller’s Tragic Quest for Primitive Art by Carl Hoffman
8. The Book of Unknown Americans: A novel by Cristina Henríquez
9. Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
10. Station Eleven: A novel by Emily St. John Mandel
11. Updike by Adam Begley
12. The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
13. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
14. The Bone Clocks: A Novel by David Mitchell
15. The Laughing Monsters: A Novel by Denis Johnson
16. Euphoria by Lily King
17. The Painter: A novel by Peter Heller
18. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
19. We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
20. A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention by Matt Richtel
21. The Invention of Wings: A Novel by Sue Monk Kidd
22. I’ll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist by Betty Halbreich
23. Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay
24. Painted Horses by Malcolm Brooks
25. War of the Whales: A True Story by J. Horwitz
26. Leaving Time: A Novel by Jodi Picoult
27. No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald
28. A Brief History of Seven Killings: A Novel by Marlon James
29. Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta
30. The Oldest Living Things in the World by Rachel Sussman
31. Hollow City (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children) by Ransom Riggs
32. We Are Not Ourselves: A Novel by Matthew Thomas
33. Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
34. Nora Webster: A Novel by Colm Toibin
35. In Paradise: A Novel by Peter Matthiessen
36. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson
37. Fives and Twenty-Fives by Michael Pitre
38. Red Rising by Pierce Brown
39. The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny
40. Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
41. Lucky Us: A Novel by Amy Bloom
42. Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned” by Lena Dunham
43. Casebook: A novel by Mona Simpson
44. A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre
45. The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad) by Tana French
46. Bad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld by Jake Halpern
47. Prince Lestat: The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice
48. Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson’s Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival by Peter Stark
49. Why We Lost: A General’s Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars by Daniel Bolger
50. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter A. Thiel
51. The Magician’s Land: A Novel (Magicians Trilogy) by Lev Grossman
52. The Invisible Front: Love and Loss in an Era of Endless War by Yochi Dreazen
53. Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One’s Looking) by Christian Rudder
54. To Rise Again at a Decent Hour: A Novel by Joshua Ferris
55. Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts
56. Stone Mattress: Nine Tales by Margaret Atwood
57. The Remedy for Love: A Novel by Bill Roorbach
58. Unreal City: Las Vegas, Black Mesa, and the Fate of the West by Judith Nies
59. All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid by Matt Bai
60. Cosby: His Life and Times by Mark Whitaker
61. The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: Stories by Hilary Mantel
62. Landline by Rainbow Rowell
63. The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book by Peter Finn
64. Us: A Novel by David Nicholls
65. Yes Please by Amy Poehler
66. Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life by Tom Robbins
67. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage: A novel by Haruki Murakami
68. One Million Steps: A Marine Platoon at War by Bing West
69. Badluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West by Bryce Andrews
70. Can’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir by Roz Chast
71. The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison
72. Let Me Be Frank With You: A Frank Bascombe Book by Richard Ford
73. The Martian: A Novel by Andy Weir
74. Natchez Burning: A Novel (Penn Cage) by Greg Iles
75. White Tiger on Snow Mountain: Stories by David Gordon
76. Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness by Neil Swidey
77. Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade by Walter Kirn
78. The Fracking King: A Novel by James Browning
79. Liberty’s Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty by Elizabeth Mitchell
80. The Forgers by Bradford Morrow
81. The Zone of Interest: A novel by Martin Amis
82. Seconds: A Graphic Novel by Bryan Lee O’Malley
83. Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble by Marilyn Johnson
84. On Such a Full Sea: A Novel by Chang-Rae Lee
85. Annihilation: A Novel (The Southern Reach Trilogy) by Jeff VanderMeer
86. Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel by Helen Oyeyemi
87. Lila: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
88. Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island by Will Harlan
89. Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line by Michael Gibney
90. Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer
91. The Heroes of Olympus Book Five: The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan
92. An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
93. The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A novel by Richard Flanagan
94. My Struggle: Book One by Karl Ove Knausgård
95. Secrecy by Rupert Thomson
96. The Fever: A Novel by Megan E. Abbott
97. The Farm by Tom Rob Smith
98. Caught by Lisa Moore
99. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbott
100. Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes by Svante Pääbo

How many of the 100 Best Books of 2014 have you read? And how many are still on your list to read this year?