Best Books of 2014 Year-End Honors by Book Best Books of 2014 Honors by Book - Fiction Ranking (updated dec 6 2014) 01/19/2015: 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists for Fiction 12/04/2014: TIME Magazine Top 10 Fiction Books of 2014 12/04/2014: New York Times 10 Best Books of 2014 11/19/2014: Redeployment wins the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction 11/10/2014: Amazon Top 10 Literature & Fiction of 2014 10/06/2014: 2014 National Book Award Finalists for Fiction 10/14/2014: The Narrow Road to the Deep North wins the 2014 Man Booker Prize 09/09/2014: 2014 Man Booker Prize Shortlist Top 5 Fiction A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James 82 reviews (704p) October 2, 2014 Amazon Best Books of 2014: Top 100 Editors' Picks #28 Publisher's Weekly Best Books of 2014: Top 10 #6 New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2014 Library Journal Best Books 2014: The Top Ten TIME Magazine Top 10 Fiction Books #9 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Finalist Washington Post Best Books of 2014 (10) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page Euphoria by Lily King 334 reviews (256p) June 3, 2014 Amazon Best Books of 2014: Top 10 Literature & Fiction #10 Amazon Best Books of 2014: Top 100 Editors' Picks #16 Publisher's Weekly Best Books of 2014: Fiction (16) New York Times 10 Best Books of 2014 New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2014 TIME Magazine Top 10 Fiction Books #8 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Finalist Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 6830 reviews (544p) May 6, 2014 Amazon Best Books of 2014: Top 10 Literature & Fiction #2 Amazon Best Books of 2014: Top 100 Editors' Picks #2 New York Times 10 Best Books of 2014 New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2014 National Book Award Finalist Hudson Booksellers Best Books of 2014: Fiction (10) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page Redeployment by Phil Klay 486 reviews (304p) March 4, 2014 Amazon Best Books of 2014: Top 10 Literature & Fiction #3 Amazon Best Books of 2014: Top 100 Editors' Picks #5 New York Times 10 Best Books of 2014 New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2014 National Book Award Winner TIME Magazine Top 10 Fiction Books #4 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell 806 reviews (640p) September 2, 2014 Amazon Best Books of 2014: Top 10 Literature & Fiction #8 Amazon Best Books of 2014: Top 100 Editors' Picks #14 New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2014 Library Journal Best Books 2014: The Top Ten TIME Magazine Top 10 Fiction Books #2 Hudson Booksellers Best Books of 2014: Fiction (10) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page Other Notable Fiction On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee 184 reviews (368p) January 7, 2014 Amazon Best Books of 2014: Top 100 Editors' Picks #84 Publisher's Weekly Best Books of 2014: Fiction (16) National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Finalist Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine 148 reviews (320p) February 4, 2014 Amazon Best Books of 2014: Top 100 Editors' Picks #92 National Book Award Finalist National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Finalist Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page Bark: Stories by Lorrie Moore 139 reviews (208p) February 25, 2014 Publisher's Weekly Best Books of 2014: Top 10 #8 New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2014 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu 107 reviews (272p) March 4, 2014 Publisher's Weekly Best Books of 2014: Fiction (16) New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2014 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi 212 reviews (320p) March 6, 2014 Amazon Best Books of 2014: Top 100 Editors' Picks #86 Publisher's Weekly Best Books of 2014: Fiction (16) New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2014 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page Family Life by Akhil Sharma 123 reviews (224p) April 7, 2014 New York Times 10 Best Books of 2014 New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2014 Library Journal Best Books 2014: More of the Best (19) Economist Books of the Year: Fiction (8) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page Fourth Of July Creek by Smith Henderson 302 reviews (480p) May 27, 2014 New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2014 Washington Post Best Books of 2014 (10) Economist Books of the Year: Fiction (8) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami 619 reviews (400p) August 12, 2014 Amazon Best Books of 2014: Top 100 Editors' Picks #67 New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2014 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan 781 reviews (352p) August 12, 2014 Amazon Best Books of 2014: Top 100 Editors' Picks #93 New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2014 Man Booker Prize Winner Washington Post Best Books of 2014 (10) Economist Books of the Year: Fiction (8) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas 578 reviews (640p) August 19, 2014 Amazon Best Books of 2014: Top 100 Editors' Picks #32 Publisher's Weekly Best Books of 2014: Fiction (16) New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2014 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel 929 reviews (352p) September 9, 2014 Amazon Best Books of 2014: Top 10 Literature & Fiction #6 Amazon Best Books of 2014: Top 100 Editors' Picks #10 National Book Award Finalist TIME Magazine Top 10 Fiction Books #7 Washington Post Best Books of 2014 (10) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride 43 reviews (227p) September 9, 2014 Publisher's Weekly Best Books of 2014: Fiction (16) New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2014 Library Journal Best Books 2014: More of the Best (19) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page Stone Mattress: Nine Tales by Margaret Atwood 128 reviews (288p) September 16, 2014 Amazon Best Books of 2014: Top 100 Editors' Picks #56 Publisher's Weekly Best Books of 2014: Fiction (16) Hudson Booksellers Best Books of 2014: Fiction (10) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters 868 reviews (576p) September 16, 2014 Amazon Best Books of 2014: Top 10 Literature & Fiction #7 Amazon Best Books of 2014: Top 100 Editors' Picks #12 New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2014 Hudson Booksellers Best Books of 2014: Fiction (10) Washington Post Best Books of 2014 (10) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín 236 reviews (384p) October 7, 2014 Amazon Best Books of 2014: Top 100 Editors' Picks #34 New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2014 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page Lila by Marilynne Robinson 454 reviews (272p) October 7, 2014 Amazon Best Books of 2014: Top 100 Editors' Picks #87 Publisher's Weekly Best Books of 2014: Fiction (16) New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2014 National Book Award Finalist National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Finalist Economist Books of the Year: Fiction (8) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page The Book Of Strange New Things by Michel Faber 239 reviews (512p) October 28, 2014 New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2014 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page Let Me Be Frank With You: A Frank Bascombe Book by Richard Ford 150 reviews (256p) November 4, 2014 Amazon Best Books of 2014: Top 100 Editors' Picks #72 New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2014 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page The Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson 68 reviews (240p) November 4, 2014 Amazon Best Books of 2014: Top 10 Literature & Fiction #9 Amazon Best Books of 2014: Top 100 Editors' Picks #15 New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2014 TIME Magazine Top 10 Fiction Books #10 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page Don't understand the data above? 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