Top 10 Books of 2014

It may be too early to say which books were the best in 2014, but not for Amazon. Its editorial team has read around a quarter of a million pages in order to make its list of the Top 100 Books of 2014. Surprisingly, the debut novel “Everything I Never Told You” tops the list this year.

The online retailer announced its selection of the Best Books of 2014, which includes the Top 100 Books of the Year, as well as Top 20 lists in more than 20 categories. For the children’s picture books, editors picked “The Pigeon Needs a Bath!” by Mo Willems No.1, while “The Fourteenth Goldfish” by Jennifer L. Holm was chosen best in the middle grade (ages 9-12) category. And Emily Lockhart’s “We Were Liars” was selected the best title of the year for the teen and young adult category. “The Slanted Door: Modern Vietnamese Food” is the top cookbook of 2014, while “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing” is the best book in the home improvement and design category.

Amazon editors’ pick for biographies and memoirs is “The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace” by Jeff Hobbs. Rachel Sussman’s “The Oldest Living Things in the World” is the top title of 2014 in the arts and photography category. Along with the titles, selected by the editorial team, Amazon also had several celebrities choose their favourites for the year. Brooke Shields said her top read was Abraham Verghese’s “Cutting for Stone”, Mark Bittman ranked “The Pale King” by David Foster Wallace as his personal No.1, while Martin Short picked “We were Liars”.

Here are the Top 10 Books of 2014:

“Everything In Never Told You” by Celeste Ng
“All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr
“In the Kingdom of Ice: The grand and terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette” by Hampton Sides
“The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Lwft Newark for the Ivy League” by Jeff Hobbs
“Redeployment” by Phil Klay
“Revival” by Stephen King
“Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller’s Tragic Quest for Primitive Art” by Carl Hoffman
“The Book of Unknown Americans” by Cristina Henríquez
“Big Little Lies” by Liane Moriarty
“Station Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandel

There are 17 debut authors in the Top 100 this year, two of whom are in the Top 10, including the No.1 title for 2014, which tells the story of a teenage girl in a mixed-race family in the 1970s Midwest. If you are still looking for a good read, you can visit Amazon and check their entire list of the top 100, or choose something from the Editors’ Holiday Gift Picks selection, which includes some of the best and most popular titles in fiction and non-fiction. They are also available for purchase in printed or in Kindle edition.