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*Best Nonfiction

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2014
On Immunity - Eula Biss Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? - Roz Chast The Unspeakable - Meghan Daum The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation - David Brion Davis Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - Caitlin Doughty Not That Kind of Girl - Lena Dunham Duty - Robert M Gates Being Mortal - Atul Gawande Bad Feminist - Roxane Gay The True American - Anand Giridharadas Faithful and Virtuous Night - Louise Glück Plato at the Googleplex - Rebecca Goldstein The Empire of Necessity - Greg Grandin No Place to Hide - Glenn Greenwald The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace - Jeff Hobbs Savage Harvest - Carl Hoffman War of the Whales - Joshua Horwitz Thrown - Kerry Howley The Innovators - Walter Isaacson The Empathy Exams - Leslie Jamison Lives in Ruins - Marilyn Johnson Blood Will Out - Walter Kirn The Sixth Extinction - Elizabeth Kolbert Tennessee Williams - John Lahr Penelope Fitzgerald - Hermione Lee The Secret History of Wonder Woman - Jill Lepore Flash Boys - Michael Lewis A Spy Among Friends - Ben Macintyre Factory Man - Beth Macy Man Alive - Thomas Page McBee What If? - Randall Munroe Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China - Evan Osnos Plenty More - Yotam Ottolenghi The Invisible Bridge - Rick Perlstein Capital in the Twenty-First Century - Thomas Piketty Citizen - Claudia Rankine Little Failure - Gary Shteyngart In the Kingdom of Ice - Hampton Sides Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson The Divide - Matt Taibbi The Big Fat Surprise - Nina Teicholz Soldier Girls - Helen Thorpe Deep Down Dark - Hector Tobar Thirteen Days in September - Lawrence Wright

* Best Fiction

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2014
The Fever - Megan Abbott Panic in a Suitcase - Yelena Akhtiorskaya An Unnecessary Woman - Rabih Alameddine Song of the Shank - Jeffery Renard Allen The Zone of Interest - Martin Amis Stone Mattress - Margaret Atwood Lucky Us - Amy Bloom One Kick - Chelsea Cain Wolf in White Van - John Darnielle How To Be Happy - Eleanor Davis All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr Frog Music - Emma Donoghue Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay - Elena Ferrante To Rise Again at a Decent Hour - Joshua Ferris The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan Let Me Be Frank With You - Richard Ford The Secret Place - Tana French The Silkworm - Robert Galbraith An Untamed State - Roxane Gay The Peripheral - William Gibson The Magician's Land - Lev Grossman Tigerman - Nick Harkaway Fourth of July Creek - Smith Henderson The Book of Unknown Americans - Cristina Henríquez The Blazing World - Siri Hustvedt J - Howard Jacobson A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James The Laughing Monsters - Denis Johnson Euphoria - Lily King Redeployment - Phil Klay My Struggle: Book Three - Karl Ove Knausgaard The Moor's Account - Laila Lalami On Such a Full Sea - Chang-rae Lee 10:04: A Novel - Ben Lerner Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover - Sarah MacLean Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher - Hilary Mantel A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing - Eimear McBride Thunderstruck & Other Stories - Elizabeth McCracken The Children Act - Ian McEwan All Our Names - Dinaw Mengestu The Bone Clocks - David Mitchell Bark - Lorrie Moore Big Little Lies - Liane Moriarty The Forgers - Bradford Morrow Florence Gordon - Brian Morton Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage - Haruki Murakami Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng Us - David Nicholls Dept. of Speculation - Jenny Offill The Dog - Joseph O'Neill Boy, Snow, Bird - Helen Oyeyemi The Bees - Laline Paull The Long Way Home - Louise Penny Heroes Are My Weakness - Susan Elizabeth Phillips Orfeo - Richard Powers Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 - Francine Prose Lila - Marilynne Robinson Landline - Rainbow Rowell Whiskey Tango Foxtrot - David Shafer Family Life - Akhil Sharma Some Luck - Jane Smiley How to be both - Ali Smith We Are Not Ourselves - Matthew Thomas Nora Webster - Colm Toibin Area X - Jeff VanderMeer The Paying Guests - Sarah Waters The Martian - Andy Weir

*Best Nonfiction

2013
Lawrence in Arabia - Scott Anderson Zealot - Reza Aslan Days of Fire - Peter Baker Provence, 1970 - Luke Barr The Blood Telegram - Gary J. Bass Metaphysical Dog - Frank Bidart After the Music Stopped - Alan S. Blinder The Boys in the Boat - Daniel James Brown One Summer - Bill Bryson Year Zero - Ian Buruma Johnny Carson - Henry Bushkin Empty Mansions - Bill Dedman Wave - Sonali Deraniyagala Facing the Wave - Gretel Ehrlich Revolutionary Summer - Joseph J. Ellis The Sports Gene - David Epstein Five Days at Memorial - Sheri Fink Thank You for Your Service - David Finkel The Searchers - Glenn Frankel The Bully Pulpit - Doris Kearns Goodwin The Good Nurse - Charles Graeber After Visiting Friends - Michael Hainey The World's Strongest Librarian - Josh Hanagarne Catastrophe 1914 - Max Hastings Johnny Cash - Robert Hilburn Falling Upwards - Richard Holmes The Alchemists - Neil Irwin The Wolf and the Watchman - Scott C. Johnson Miss Anne in Harlem - Carla Kaplan The Skies Belong to Us - Brendan I. Koerner Lost Girls - Robert Kolker This Town - Mark Leibovich Book of Ages - Jill Lepore March, Book One - Nate Lewis, John ; Aydin, Andre ; Powell Margaret Fuller - Megan Marshall The Big Smoke - Adrian Matejka The Cooked Seed - Anchee Min Freedom National - James Oakes Country Girl - Edna O'Brien Bunker Hill - Nathaniel Philbrick The Great War - Joe Sacco Command and Control - Eric Schlosser My Brother's Book - Maurice Sendak My Promised Land - Ari Shavit My Beloved World - Sonia Sotomayor Incarnadine - Mary Szybist The Internal Enemy - Alan Taylor The Last Train to Zona Verde - Paul Theroux Men We Reaped - Jesmyn Ward Fosse - Sam Wasson Ebony and Ivy - Craig Steven Wilder My Bright Abyss - Christian Wiman Ecstatic Nation - Brenda Wineapple Frozen in Time - Mitchell Zuckoff

* Best Fiction

2013
Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Life After Life - Kate Atkinson MaddAddam - Margaret Atwood Longbourn - Jo Baker We Need New Names - NoViolet Bulawayo The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton Harvest - Jim Crace Claire of the Sea Light - Edwidge Danticat Dirty Love - Andre Dubus III The Circle - Dave Eggers Schroder - Amity Gaige The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman The Signature of All Things - Elizabeth Gilbert The End of the Point - Elizabeth Graver NOS4A2 - Joe Hill And the Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini Doctor Sleep - Stephen King The Flamethrowers - Rachel Kushner The Lowland - Jhumpa Lahiri Submergence - J. M. Ledgard A Constellation of Vital Phenomena - Anthony Marra The Good Lord Bird - James McBride TransAtlantic - Colum Mccann Someone - Alice McDermott The Woman Upstairs - Claire Messud The Son - Philipp Meyer Want Not - Jonathan Miles The Property - Rutu Modan The Accursed - Joyce Carol Oates A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki How the Light Gets In - Louise Penny Night Film - Marisha Pessl Bleeding Edge - Thomas Pynchon The Cuckoo's Calling - J. K. Rowling Vampires in the Lemon Grove - Karen Russell Tenth of December - George Saunders The Woman Who Lost Her Soul - Bob Shacochis Fools - Joan Silber The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt The Sound of Things Falling - Juan Gabriel Vasquez The Golem and the Jinni - Helene Wecker The Daylight Gate - Jeanette Winterson The Interestings - Meg Wolitzer The Maid's Version - Daniel Woodrell


* Featured titles adapted from various "best book" lists compiled by EarlyWord.com.

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