Tuesday, December 31, 2013

2014 Literary Highlights


Novels
1. The Secret History of Las Vegas (Penguin Books, 2014) / Chris Abani
2. The Fever (Little, Brown, 2014) / Megan Abbott
3. The King (trans. from the Dutch by Nancy Forest-Flier) (Canongate Books, 2014) / Kader Abdolah
4. The Garden of Burning Sand (Quercus, 2014) / Corban Addison
5. An Unnecessary Woman (Grove Press/Atlantic Monthly Press, 2014) / Rabih Alameddine
6. The Tightrope Walkers (Penguin, 2014) / David Almond
7. Lost Lake (St Martin’s Press/Hodder & Stoughton, 2014) / Sarah Addison Allen
8. Song of the Shank (Graywolf Press, 2014) / Jeffery Renard Allen
9. The Moon Field (The Borough Press, 2014) / Judith Allnatt
10. The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Martin Amis

11. Suddenly, Love (trans. from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green) (Schocken Books, 2014) / Aharon Appelfeld
12. A Bit of Difference (Fourth Estate, 2014) / Sefi Atta
13. The Voyage (MacLehose Press, 2014) / Murray Bail
14. The Prince’s Boy (Bloomsbury Publishing/Bloomsbury USA, 2014) / Paul Bailey
15. Travelling Sprinkler (Serpent’s Tail, 2014) / Nicholson Baker
16. Mercy Snow (Grand Central Publishing, 2014) / Tiffany Baker
17. Silence Once Begun (Pantheon, 2014) / Jesse Ball
18. The Art of Floating (Berkley, 2014) / Kristin Bair O’Keeffe
19. In the Approaches (Fourth Estate, 2014) / Nicola Barker
20. From a Distance (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014) / Raffaella Barker

21. The Incarnations (Doubleday, 2014) / Susan Barker
22. Mr. Gwyn (trans. from the Italian by Ann Goldstein) (McSweeney’s, 2014) / Alessandro Baricco
23. The Temporary Gentleman (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Sebastian Barry
24. There Must Be Some Mistake (Little, Brown, 2014) / Frederick Barthelme
25. The Disappearance Boy (Bloomsbury Circus, 2014) / Neil Bartlett
26. The Facts of Life and Death (Bantam Press, 2014) / Belinda Bauer
27. Before, During, After (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Richard Bausch
28. Far As the Eye Can See (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014) / Robert Bausch
29. Roosevelt’s Beast (Henry Holt, 2014) / Louis Bayard
30. The Visitors (Little, Brown, 2014) / Sally Beauman

31. Darkling (Chatto & Windus, 2014) / Laura Beatty
32. Arts & Entertainments (Ecco, 2014) / Christopher Beha
33. Bliss House (Pegasus, 2014) / Laura Benedict
34. A Fairy Tale (trans. from the Danish by Charlotte Barslund) (Other Press, 2014) / Jonas T. Bengtsson
35. Tapestry of Fortunes (Random House, 2014) / Elizabeth Berg
36. Broken Monsters (HarperCollins/Mulholland Books, 2014) / Lauren Beukes
37. Bittersweet (Crown, 2014) / Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
38. The Betrayers (Viking/Little, Brown, 2014) / David Bezmozgis
39. Above the East China Sea (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Sarah Bird
40. Hidden Knowledge (Sceptre, 2014) / Bernadine Bishop

41. The Symmetry Teacher (trans. from the Russian by Polly Gannon) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Andrei Bitov
42. The Black-Eyed Blonde: A Philip Marlowe Novel (Mantle/Henry Holt, 2014) / Benjamin Black
43. Lucky Us (Random House, 2014) / Amy Bloom
44. The Lady in White (trans. from the French by Alison Anderson) (University of Nebraska Press, 2014) / Christian Bobin
45. Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands (Doubleday, 2014) / Chris Bohjalian
46. Beggar’s Feast (Penguin, 2014) / Randy Boyagoda
47. A History of Loneliness (Doubleday, 2014) / John Boyne
48. Touched (Hammer, 2014) / Joanna Briscoe
49. I Can’t Begin to Tell You (Michael Joseph, 2014) / Elizabeth Buchan
50. The Deepest Secret (Bantam, 2014) / Carla Buckley

51. Wayfaring Strangers (Simon & Schuster, 2014) / James Lee Burke
52. The Empire of Night (Mysterious Press, 2014) / Robert Olen Butler
53. Ghost Moon (Salt Publishing, 2014) / Ron Butlin
54. Confessions (trans. from the Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem) (Arcadia Books, 2014) / Jaume Cabré
55. The Stories We Tell (St Martin’s Press, 2014) / Patti Callahan Henry
56. The Last Lover (trans. from the Chinese by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen) (Yale University Press, 2014) / Can Xue
57. The Lotus and the Storm (Viking, 2014) / Lan Cao
58. A Price to Pay (trans. from the German by John Brownjohn) (Haus Publishing, 2014) / Alex Capus
59. Amnesia (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Peter Carey
60. Limonov (trans. from the French by John Lambert) (Allen Lane/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Emmanuel Carrère

61. The Man Who Walked Away (Bloomsbury USA, 2014) / Maud Casey
62. This Dark Road to Mercy (William Morrow, 2014) / Wiley Cash
63. The Dead Will Tell (Minotaur Books, 2014) / Linda Castillo
64. Outlaws (trans. from the Spanish by Anne McLean) (Bloomsbury Publishing) / Javier Cercas
65. Half a Lifelong Romance (trans. from the Chinese by Karen S. Kingsbury) (Penguin Classics, 2014) / Eileen Chang
66. The Closet of Savage Mementos (New Island Books, 2014) / Nuala Ní Chonchúir
67. Treat Us Like Dogs and We Will Become Wolves (Grove Press, 2014) / Carolyn Chute
68. The Happiest People in the World (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2014) / Brock Clarke
69. Prayers for the Stolen (Hogarth, 2014) / Jennifer Clement
70. Kingmaker: Winter Pilgrims (Century, 2014) / Toby Clements

71. Getting Colder (Virago, 2014) / Amanda Coe
72. No Book But the World (Clerkenwell Press/Riverhead Books, 2014) / Leah Hager Cohen
73. Every Day Is for the Thief (Faber & Faber/Random House, 2014) / Teju Cole
74. The Burning Room (Little Brown/Orion, 2014) / Michael Connelly
75. The Wolf in Winter (Hodder & Stoughton, 2014) / John Connolly
76. The Brunist Day of Wrath (Dzanc Books, 2014) / Robert Coover
77. The Empty Throne (HarperCollins, 2014) / Bernard Cornwell
78. Abroad (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Katie Crouch
79. Sweetland (Doubleday Canada, 2014) / Michael Crummey
80. The Snow Queen (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Michael Cunningham

81. Outline (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Rachel Cusk
82. The Penguin’s Song (trans. from the Arabic by Marilyn Booth) (City Lights Publishers, 2014) / Hassan Daoud
83. The Tell-Tale Heart (Sceptre, 2014) Jill Dawson
84. Wonderland (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014) / Stacey D’Erasmo
85. The Boston Girl (Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Anita Diamant
86. Gingerbread (The Borough Press, 2014) / Robert Dinsdale
87. Andrew’s Brain (Random House, 2014) / E.L. Doctorow
88. All the Light We Cannot See (Scribner/Fourth Estate, 2014) / Anthony Doerr
89. Frog Music (Picador/Little, Brown, 2014) / Emma Donoghue
90. The Boy Who Drew Monsters (Picador USA, 2014) / Keith Donohue

91. Two More Pints (Jonathan Cape, 2014) / Roddy Doyle
92. By Blood We Live (Canongate Books, 2014) / Glen Duncan
93. The Lie (Hutchinson, 2014) / Helen Dunmore
94. The Absent Therapist (CB Editions, 2014) / Will Eaves
95. 1914 (trans. from the French by Linda Coverdale) (New Press, 2014) / Jean Echenoz
96. Kamal Jann (trans. from the French by Ros Schwartz) (Seagull Books, 2014) / Dominique Eddé
97. The Train to Warsaw (Grove Press, 2014) / Gwen Edelman
98. Perfidia (Alfred A. Knopf/William Heinemann, 2014) / James Ellroy
99. Falling for Hugh (Doubleday Canada, 2014) / Marina Endicott
100. The High Divide (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2014) / Lin Enger

101. The End of Days (trans. from the German by Susan Bernofsky) (Portobello Books, 2014) / Jenny Erpenbeck
102. Crooked Heart (Doubleday, 2014) / Lissa Evans
103. The Book of Strange New Things (Canongate/Hogarth, 2014) / Michel Faber
104. The Barefoot Queen (Crown, 2014) / Idelfonso Falcones
105. Iron Gustav: A Berlin Family Chronicle (trans. from the German by Philip Owens) (Penguin Classics, 2014) / Hans Fallada
106. Willow Trees Don’t Weep (Heron Books, 2014) / Fadia Faqir
107. Hiding in Plain Sight (Riverhead Books, 2014) / Nuruddin Farah
108. The Good Children (Tinder Press, 2014) / Roopa Farooki
109. The Unwitting (Spiegel & Grau/Picador, 2014) / Ellen Feldman
110. Aren’t We Sisters? (Fig Tree/Penguin, 2014) / Patricia Ferguson

111. In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist (New York Review Books, 2014) / Ruchama King Feuerman
112. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (trans. from the Italian by Ann Goldstein) (Europa Editions) / Elena Ferrante
113. The Sermon on the Fall of Rome (trans. from the French by Geoffrey Strachan) (MacLehose Press, 2014) / Jérôme Ferrari
114. To Rise Again at a Decent Hour (Viking/Little Brown, 2014) / Joshua Ferris
115. The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Chatto & Windus/Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Richard Flanagan
116. John the Pupil (Fourth Estate, 2014) / David Flusfeder
117. Edge of Eternity (Pan Macmillan/Dutton, 2014) / Ken Follett
118. The Unknown Bridesmaid (Chatto & Windus/Europa Editions, 2014) / Margaret Forster
119. The Lost Sisterhood (Ballantine Books, 2014) / Anne Fortier
120. In the Wolf’s Mouth (Jonathan Cape, 2014) / Adam Foulds

121. West (trans. from the German by Anthea Bell) (Harvill Secker, 2014) / Julia Franck
122. A Life in Men (Algonquin Books, 2014) / Gina Frangello
123. Sisters of Treason (Michael Joseph/Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Elizabeth Fremantle
124. If Not For This (Red Hen Press, 2014) / Peter Fromm
125. The Italian Wife (Sphere, 2014) / Kate Furnivall
126. Midnight in Europe (Random House, 2014) / Alan Furst
127. The Silkworm: A Cormoran Strike Novel (Mulholland Books/Sphere, 2014) / Robert Galbraith
128. Arctic Summer (Atlantic Books/Europa Editions, 2014) / Damon Galgut
129. The Confabulist (Riverhead Books, 2014) / Steven Galloway
130. Vixen (The Borough Press, 2014) / Rosie Garland

131. The Hilltop (trans. from the Hebrew by Steven Cohen) (Scribner, 2014) / Assaf Gavron
132. An Untamed State (Black Cat/Grove Press, 2014) / Roxane Gay
133. Crooked River (William Morrow, 2014) / Valerie Geary
134. Virginia Woolf in Manhattan (Telegram Books, 2014) / Maggie Gee
135. Flood of Fire (John Murray, 2014) / Amitav Ghosh
136. The Peripheral (G.P. Putnam’s Sons/Viking, 2014) / William Gibson
137. & Sons (Fourth Estate/HarperCollins, 2014) / David Gilbert
138. The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay (Short Books, 2014) / Andrea Gillies
139. Hold the Dark (Liveright, 2014) / William Giraldi
140. And the Dark Sacred Night (Pantheon, 2014) / Julia Glass

141. Gangsterland (Counterpoint, 2014) / Tod Goldberg
142. The Fortune Hunter (Headline Review/St Martin’s Press, 2014) / Daisy Goodwin
143. All the Days and Nights (The Friday Project, 2014) / Niven Govinden
144. The Grand Duchess of Nowhere (Quercus, 2014) / Laurie Graham
145. Mount Terminus (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / David Grand
146. Upstairs at the Party (Virago, 2014) / Linda Grant
147. Long Man (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Amy Greene
148. The Way of All Fish (Scribner, 2014) / Martha Grimes
149. The Bird Skinner (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2014) / Alice Greenway
150. The Headmaster’s Wife (Thomas Dunne Books, 2014) / Thomas Christopher Greene

151. The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Andrew Sean Greer
152. Gray Mountain (Doubleday/Hodder & Stoughton, 2014) / John Grisham
153. Falling Out of Time (trans. from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / David Grossman
154. The Magician’s Land (Viking Adult, 2014) / Lev Grossman
155. Echo Boy (Bodley Head, 2014) / Matt Haigh
156. The Hunting School (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Sarah Hall
157. Every Single Minute (Fourth Estate, 2014) / Hugo Hamilton
158. Storm Still (trans. from the German by Martin Chalmers) (Seagull Books, 2014) / Peter Handke
159. The Telling Error (Hodder & Stoughton, 2014) / Sophie Hannah
160. The Monogram Murders: The New Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot Mystery (William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2014) / Sophie Hannah

161. You Should Have Known (Grand Central Publishing/Faber & Faber, 2014) / Jean Hanff Korelitz
162. The Girl Who Couldn’t Read (Blue Door, 2014) / John Harding
163. Tigerman (William Heinemann, 2014) / Nick Harkaway
164. Sylvia Garland’s Broken Heart (Halban Publishers, 2014) / Helen Harris
165. Golden Boys (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Books Australia, 2014) / Sonya Hartnett
166. The Gospel of Loki (Gollancz, 2014) / Joanne M. Harris
167. In Certain Circles (Text Publishing, 2014) / Elizabeth Harrower
168. Dear Thief (Jonathan Cape/Atavist Books, 2014) / Samantha Harvey
169. The Final Recollections of Charles Dickens (Counterpoint, 2014) / Thomas Hauser
170. The Possibilities (Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Kaui Hart Hemmings

171. Stillwater (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014) / Nicole Helget
172. The Painter (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Peter Heller
173. The Book of Unknown Americans (Alfred A. Knopf/Canongate, 2014) / Cristina Henríquez
174. The Snow Kimono (Text Publishing, 2014) / Mark Henshaw
175. The Emperor Waltz (Fourth Estate, 2014) / Philip Hensher
176. The Soul of Discretion (Chatto & Windus, 2014) / Susan Hill
177. What Was Promised (Bloomsbury Circus, 2014) / Tobias Hill
178. The Sunrise (Headline Review, 2014) / Victoria Hislop
179. Spilt Milk (Penguin Books, 2014) / Amanda Hodgkinson
180. The Museum of Extraordinary Things (Scribner/Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Alice Hoffman

181. Be Safe I Love You (Virago, 2014) / Cara Hoffman
182. A Pleasure and a Calling (Doubleday, 2014) / Phil Hogan
183. Under the Wide and Starry Sky (Ballantine Books, 2014) / Nancy Horan
184. Funny Girl (Viking, 2014) / Nick Hornby
185. Ludwig’s Room (trans. from the German by Tess Lewis) (Seagull Books, 2014) / Alois Hotschnig
186. Thirst (Chatto & Windus, 2014) / Kerry Hudson
187. Other Lives (trans. from the Arabic by Michelle Hartman) (Interlink World Fiction, 2014) / Iman Humaydon
188. Motherland (Counterpoint, 2014) / Maria Hummel
189. Off Course (Sarah Crichton Books, 2014) / Michelle Huneven
190. Neverhome (Little, Brown, 2014) / Laird Hunt

191. Everland (Fig Tree, 2014) / Rebecca Hunt
192. Black Dance (Black Cat/Grove Press, 2014) / Nancy Huston
193. The Blazing World (Sceptre/Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Siri Hustvedt
194. Stealth (trans. from the Arabic by Hosam Aboul-Ela) (New Directions, 2014) / Sonalah Ibrahim
195. Beirut, Beirut (trans. from the Arabic by Chip Rossetti) (Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing, 2014) / Sonallah Ibrahim
196. The Dead Lake (trans. from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield) (Peirene Press, Feb 2014) / Hamid Ismailov
197. Tell (HarperCollins Canada, 2014) / Frances Itani
198. Wittgenstein Jr (Melville House, 2014) / Lars Iyer
199. J. (Jonathan Cape/Hogarth, 2014) / Howard Jacobson
200. The Surfacing (Sandstone Press, 2014) / Cormac James

201. A Brief History of Seven Killings (Riverhead Books, 2014) / Marlon James
202. A Map of Betrayal (Pantheon, 2014) / Ha Jin
203. The Laughing Monsters (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Denis Johnson
204. Remember Me Like This (Random House, 2014) / Bret Anthony Johnston
205. The Dig (Granta, 2014) / Cynan Jones
206. Fallout (Chatto & Windus/Harper, 2014) / Sadie Jones
207. The Ghost in the Electric-Blue Suit (published in the U.K. as The Year of the Ladybird) (Doubleday, 2014) / Graham Joyce
208. The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy (Doubleday, 2014) / Rachel Joyce
209. Perfect (Random House, 2014) / Rachel Joyce
210. The Blessings (Grand Central Publishing, 2014) / Elise Juska

211. American Gothic (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014) / Ward Just
212. Twilight of the Eastern Gods (trans. from the French by David Bellos) (Canongate Books, 2014) / Ismail Kadare
213. The Pink Suit (Little, Brown/Virago, 2014) / Nicole Mary Kelby
214. F (trans. from the German by Carol Brown Janeway) (Pantheon/Quercus, 2014) / Daniel Kehlmann
215. All Decent Animals (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Oonya Kempadoo
216. The Last Illusion (Bloomsbury USA, 2014) / Porochista Khakpour
217. The Invention of Wings (Viking/Tinder Press, 2014) / Sue Monk Kidd
218. Euphoria (Atlantic Monthly Press/Picador, 2014) / Lily King
219. Revival (Scribner/Hodder & Stoughton, 2014) / Stephen King
220. Boyhood Island (trans. from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett) (published in the U.S. as My Struggle: Book Three) (Harvill Secker/Archipelago, 2014) / Karl Ove Knausgaard

221. Summerhouse with Swimming Pool (trans. from the Dutch by Sam Garrett) (Hogarth/Atlantic Books, 2014) / Herman Koch
222. Those Who Wish Me Dead (Little, Brown, 2014) / Michael Koryta
223. Windigo Island (Atria Books, 2014) / William Kent Krueger
224. The Last Word (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Hanif Kureishi
225. Mambo in Chinatown (Riverhead Books, 2014) / Jean Kwok
226. We Are the Birds of the Coming Storm (trans. from the French by David Ball & Nicole Ball) (Seagull Books, 2014) / Lola Lafon
227. The Eye of the Sheep (Allen & Unwin, 2014) / Sofie Laguna
228. The Moor’s Account (Pantheon, 2014) / Laila Lalami
229. Her (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2014) / Harriet Lane
230. A Circle of Wives (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2014) / Alice LaPlante

231. Diary of the Fall (trans. from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa) (Harvill Secker/Other Press, 2014) / Michel Laub
232. The Sea Garden (Harper/Orion, 2014) / Deborah Lawrenson
233. Road Ends (Chatto & Windus/The Dial Press, 2014) / Mary Lawson
234. I Pity the Poor Immigrant (Little, Brown, 2014) / Zachary Lazar
235. On Such a Full Sea (Riverhead Books/Little, Brown, 2014) / Chang-rae Lee
236. 10:04 (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Ben Lerner
237. Dissident Gardens (Jonathan Cape, 2014) / Jonathan Lethem
238. The Following Girls (Bloomsbury Circus, 2014) / Louise Levene
239. The Medici Boy (Astor + Blue Editions, 2014) / John L’Heureux
240. Kinder Than Solitude (Fourth Estate/Random House, 2014) / Yiyun Li

241. The Day of Atonement (Random House, 2014) / David Liss
242. The Golden Age (Vintage Australia/Random House Australia, 2014) / Joan London
243. First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen (Viking, 2014) / Charlie Lovett
244. The True & Splendid History of the Harristown Sisters (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014) / Michelle Lovric
245. The Black Snow (Quercus, 2014) / Paul Lynch
246. Adult Onset (Knopf Canada, 2014) / Ann-Marie MacDonald
247. The Figures of Beauty (Harper, 2014) / David Macfarlane
248. In Search of Solace (Sceptre, 2014) / Emily Mackie
249. Famous Writers I Have Known (W.W. Norton, 2014) / James Magnuson
250. In Paradise (Riverhead Books, 2014) / Peter Matthiessen

251. The Days of Anna Madrigal (Harper, 2014) / Armistead Maupin
252. The Ghost of the Mary Celeste (Nan A. Talese/Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2014) / Valerie Martin
253. Bittersweet (Head of Zeus/Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Colleen McCullough
254. The Skeleton Road (Little, Brown, 2014) / Val McDermid
255. The Children Act (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday/Jonathan Cape, 2014) / Ian McEwan
256. The Dead Ground (Headline, 2014) / Claire McGowan
257. Hidden (New Harvest, 2014) / Catherine McKenzie
258. All That is Solid Melts into Air (Viking, 2014) / Darragh McKeon
259. The Winter People (Doubleday, 2014) / Jennifer McMahon
260. The Last Kind Words Saloon (Liveright, 2014) / Larry McMurtry

261. Blue Is the Night (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Eoin McNamee
262. All Our Names (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Dinaw Mengestu
263. Accidents of Marriage (Atria Books, 2014) / Randy Susan Meyers
264. The Arsonist (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Sue Miller
265. Mermaids in Paradise (W.W. Norton, 2014) / Lydia Millet
266. The Bone Clocks (Sceptre/Random House, 2014) / David Mitchell
267. He Wants (Salt Publishing, 2014) / Alison Moore
268. Little Lies (published in the U.S. as Big Little Lies) (Penguin/Putnam, 2014) / Liane Moriarty
269. The Forgers (Mysterious Press, 2014) / Bradford Morrow
270. Florence Gordon (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014) / Brian Morton

271. Bodies of Light (Granta Books, 2014) / Sarah Moss
272. The Taxidermist’s Daughter (Orion, 2014) / Kate Mosse
273. The New World (Jonathan Cape, 2014) / Andrew Motion
274. The Dismal Science (Tin House Books, 2014) / Peter Mountford
275. The Lives of Others (Chatto & Windus, 2014) / Neel Mukherjee
276. A Million Windows (Giramondo, 2014) / Gerald Murnane
277. Sugar Hall (Seren, 2014) / Tiffany Murray
278. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage (trans. from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel) (Alfred A. Knopf/Harvill Secker, 2014) / Haruki Murakami
279. Last Winter, We Parted (trans. from the Japanese by Allison Markin Powell) (Soho Press, 2014) / Fuminori Nakamura
280. Foreign Gods, Inc. (Soho Press, 2014) / Okey Ndibe

281. The Fires of Autumn (trans. from the French by Sandra Smith) (Chatto & Windus, 2014) / Irène Némirovsky
282. Talking to Ourselves (trans. from the Spanish by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia) (Pushkin Press/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Andrés Neuman
283. The House of Small Shadows (St Martin’s Press, 2014) / Adam Nevill
284. An English Ghost Story (Titan Books, 2014) / Kim Newman
285. Pioneer Girl (Viking, 2014) / Bich Minh Nguyen
286. Us (Hodder & Stoughton/Harper, 2014) / David Nicholls
287. Winter (Fourth Estate, 2014) / Christopher Nicholson
288. Reckless (Quercus, 2014) / William Nicholson
289. American Blonde (Plume, 2014) / Jennifer Niven
290. Next Life Might Be Kinder (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014) / Howard Norman

291. Carthage (Ecco, 2014) / Joyce Carol Oates
292. The Thrill of It All (Harvill Secker, 2014) / Joseph O’Connor
293. Dept. of Speculation (Alfred A. Knopf/Granta Books, 2014) / Jenny Offill
294. The Illuminations (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Andrew O’Hagan
295. The Age of Magic (Head of Zeus, 2014) / Ben Okri
296. I Always Loved You (Viking, 2014) / Robin Oliveira
297. The Girl Who Was Saturday Night (HarperCollins Canada/Quercus/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Heather O’Neill
298. The Dog (Pantheon, 2014) / Joseph O’Neill
299. And the Hills Opened Up (Burnt Bridge, 2014) / David Oppegaard
300. The Blue Room (trans. from the Norwegian by Deborah Dawkin) (Peirene Press, 2014) / Hanne Ørstavik

301. The Ballad of a Small Player (Hogarth, 2014) / Lawrence Osborne
302. Boy, Snow, Bird (Picador/Riverhead Books, 2014) / Helen Oyeyemi
303. The Poets’ Wives (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014) / David Park
304. All I Have in This World (Algonquin Books, 2014) / Michael Parker
305. Painting Death (Harvill Secker, 2014) / Tim Parks
306. Vanessa and Her Sister (Ballantine Books/Random House, 2014) / Priya Parmar
307. When the Night Comes (Hatchette Australia/John Murray Publishers, 2014) / Favel Parrett
308. The Long Way Home (Minotaur Books/Sphere, 2014) / Louise Penny
309. The Siege (trans. from the Spanish by Frank Wynne) (Random House, 2014) / Arturo Pérez-Reverte
310. Free Falling As If In a Dream: The Story of  Crime (trans. from the Swedish by Paul Norlen) (Pantheon, 2014) / Leif G.W. Persson

311. I Refuse (trans. from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett) (Harvill Secker, 2014) / Per Petterson
312. The Table of Less Valued Knights (Jonathan Cape, 2014) / Marie Phillips
313. The Sheltering (University of South Carolina Press, 2014) / Mark Powell
314. In Love and War (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Alex Preston
315. Quiet Dell (Jonathan Cape, 2014) / Jayne Anne Phillips
316. Leaving Time (Ballantine Books, 2014) / Jodi Picoult
317. Orfeo (W.W. Norton, 2014) / Richard Powers
318. Palmerino (Bellevue Literary Press, 2014) / Melissa Pritchard
319. Lovers at the Chameleon Club: Paris, 1932 (Harper, 2014) / Francine Prose
320. Landing Gear (Touchstone Books, 2014) / Kate Pullinger

321. Still Life with Bread Crumbs (Random House, 2014) / Anna Quindlen
322. Bellweather Rhapsody (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014) / Kate Racculia
323. The Rise and Fall of Great Powers (Sceptre/The Dial Press, 2014) / Tom Rachman
324. A Curse on Dostoevsky (trans. from the French by Polly McLean) (Other Press, 2014) / Atiq Rahimi
325. Saints of the Shadow Bible (Little, Brown, 2014) / Ian Rankin
326. Evergreen (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Rebecca Rasmussen
327. The Girl Next Door (Hutchinson/Scribner, 2014) / Ruth Rendell
328. Happy Are the Happy (trans. from the French by Sarah Ardizzone) (Harvill Secker, 2014) / Yasmina Reza
329. Crimes Against My Brother (Doubleday Canada, 2014) David Adams Richards
330. Golden State (Bantam, 2014) / Michelle Richmond

331. The Paris Winter (St Martin’s Press, 2014) / Imogen Robertson
332. Lila (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Virago/Little, Brown, 2014) / Marilynne Robinson
333. Jawbone Lake (William Heinemann, 20140 / Ray Robinson
334. House of Ashes (Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Monique Roffey
335. The Remedy for Love (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2014) / Bill Roorbach
336. Severina (trans. from the Spanish by Chris Andrews) (Yale University Press, 2014) / Rodrigo Rey Rosa
337. The Other Story (St Martin’s Press, 2014) / Tatiana de Rosnay
338. Electric City (Counterpoint, 2014) / Elizabeth Rosner
339. Mercy of a Rude Stream: The Complete Novels (Liveright, 2014) / Henry Roth
340. The Thing About December (Doubleday Ireland/Lilliput Press/Steerforth, 2014) / Donal Ryan

341. Peace and Conflict (Corsair, 2014) / Irene Sabatini
342. Dominion (Mulholland Books/Little, Brown, 2014) / C.J. Sansom
343. Skylight (trans. from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa) (Harvill Secker/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014) / José Saramago
344. Shirley (Blue Rider Press, 2014) / Susan Scarf Merrell
345. The Swan Gondola (Riverhead Books, 2014) / Timothy Schaffert
346. The Dark Meadow (trans. from the German by Anthea Bell) (Quercus, 2014) / Andrea Maria Schenkel
347. De Potter’s Grand Tour (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Joanna Scott
348. Nowhere People (trans. from the Brazilian Portuguese by Daniel Hahn) (And Other Stories, 2014) / Paulo Scott
349. China Dolls (Random House, 2014) / Lisa See
350. The Walk Home (Virago, 2014) / Rachel Seiffert

351. Shark (Grove Press/Atlantic Monthly Press, 2014 / Will Self
352. The Hungry Ghosts (Telegram Books, 2014) / Shyam Selvadurai
353. The Architect’s Apprentice (Viking, 2014) / Elif Shafak
354. A God in Every Stone (Bloomsbury Publishing/Atavist Books, 2014) / Kamila Shamsie
355. In the Red (Little, Brown, 2014) / Elena Mauli Shapiro
356. Family Life (W.W. Norton/Faber & Faber, 2014) / Akhil Sharma
357. Tree Palace (Text Publishing, 2014) / Craig Sherborne
358. I’ll Be Right There (trans. from the Korean by Sora Kim-Russell) (Other Press, 2014) / Kyung-Sook Shin
359. Astonish Me (Alfred A. Knopf/Blue Door, 2014) / Maggie Shipstead
360. The Light and the Dark (trans. from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield) (Quercus, 2014) / Mikhail Shishkin

361. The Lives of Stella Bain (Little, Brown, 2014) / Anita Shreve
362. The End of the Book (Louisiana State University Press, 2014) / Porter Shreve
363. Dear Committee Members (Doubleday, 2014) / Julie Schumacher
364. The Last Days of My Mother (trans. from the Icelandic by Helga Soffía Einarsdóttir) (Open Letter, 2014) / Sölvi Björn Sigurdsson
365. Nest (Hatchette, 2014) / Inga Simpson
366. The Casebook (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Mona Simpson
367. Quartet for the End of Time (William Heinemann/Hamish Hamilton Canada, 2014) / Johanna Skibsrud
368. The Mirror (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Richard Skinner
369. Some Luck (Alfred A. Knopf/Mantle, 2014) / Jane Smiley
370. How to Be Both (Hamish Hamilton, 2014) / Ali Smith

371. A Star for Mrs. Blake (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / April Smith
372. The Farm (Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Tom Rob Smith
373. Starting Over (Liveright, 2014) / Elizabeth Spencer
374. The Ten Thousand Things (Gerald Duckworth/Duckworth Overlook, 2014) / John Spurling
375. Wonderkid (Overlook, 2014) / Wesley Stace
376. Empress of the Night: A Novel of Catherine the Great (Bantam/Doubleday Canada, 2014) / Eva Stachniak
377. All Days Are Nights (trans. from the German by Michael Hofmann) (Other Press, 2014) / Peter Stamm
378. Lost for Words (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Picador, 2014) / Edward St Aubyn
379. Station Eleven (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Emily St John Mandel
380. A Sudden Light (Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Garth Stein

381. Sister Golden Hair (Tin House Press, 2014) / Darcey Steinke
382. Friendswood (Riverhead Books, 2014) / Rene Steinke
383. The Cairo Affair (Minotaur Books, 2014) / Olen Steinhauer
384. Cold Storage Alaska (Soho Crime, 2014) / John Straley
385. The Vacationers (Riverhead Books, 2014) / Emma Straub
386. Iza’s Ballad (trans. from the Hungarian by George Szirtes) (Harvill Secker, Aug 2014) / Magda Szabó
387. The Scent of Death (HarperCollins, 2014) / Andrew Taylor
388. Strange Bodies (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Marcel Theroux
389. The Opening Sky (McClelland & Stewart, 2014) / Joan Thomas
390. The Illusionists (HarperCollins/The Overlook Press, 2014) / Rosie Thomas

391. Secrecy (Other Press, 2014) / Rupert Thomson
392. Mãn (trans. from the French by Sheila Fischman) (Random House Canada, 2014) / Kim Thúy
393. All My Puny Sorrows (Faber & Faber/McSweeney’s, 2014) / Miriam Toews
394. Nora Webster (Viking/Scribner, 2014) / Colm Tóibín
395. Anna Karenina (a new trans. from the Russian by Rosamund Bartlett) (Oxford University Press, 2014) / Leo Tolstoy
396. The Tongues of Men or Angels (Corsair, 2014) / Jonathan Trigell
397. Balancing Act (Doubleday, 2014) / Joanna Trollope
398. The Cold Song (trans. from the Norwegian by Barbara J. Haveland) (Other Press, 2014) / Linn Ullmann
399. The Story Hour (Harper, 2014) / Thrity Umrigar
400. The City Son (Soho Press, 2014) / Samrat Upadhyay

401. The Girls at the Kingfisher Club (Atria Books, 2014) / Genevieve Valentine
402. The Secret of Raven Point (Scribner, 2014) / Jennifer Vanderbes
403. The Scent of Pine (Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Lara Vapnyar
404. Quesadillas (trans. from the Spanish by Rosalind Harvey) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Juan Pablo Villalobos
405. The Ever After of Ashwin Rao (Random House Canada, 2014) / Padma Viswanathan
406. The Crooked Maid (Bloomsbury Circus, 2014) / Dan Vyleta
407. The Book of Gold Leaves (Penguin, 2014) / Mirza Waheed
408. Sometimes the Wolf (William Morrow, 2014) / Urban Waite
409. Love and Treasure (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Ayelet Waldman
410. The Lemon Grove (Tinder Press, 2014) / Helen Walsh

411. The Moon Sisters (Crown, 2014) / Therese Walsh
412. A Southern Girl (University of South Carolina Press, 2014) / John Warley
413. Their Lips Talk of Mischief (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Alan Warner
414. The Paying Guests (Virago/Riverhead Books, 2014) / Sarah Waters
415. Romany and Tom (Bloomsbury Circus, 2014) / Ben Watts
416. The Marriage Game: A Novel of Elizabeth I (Hutchinson, 2014) / Alison Weir
417. The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins (Jonathan Cape, 2014) / Irvine Welsh
418. A Lovely Way to Burn (John Murray, 2014) / Louise Welsh
419. Before We Met (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014) / Lucie Whitehouse
420. The Storms of War (Orion, 2014) / Kate Williams

421. History of the Rain (Bloomsbury Publishing/Bloomsbury USA, 2014) / Niall Williams
422. Into the Trees (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Robert Williams
423. The Care and Management of Lies (Harper/Allison & Busby, 2014) / Jacqueline Winspear
424. Eyrie (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Picador, 2014) / Tim Winton
425. Belzar (Dutton Juvenile, 2014) / Meg Wolitzer
426. Mrs. Hemingway (Picador, 2014) / Naomi Wood
427. Vanishing (Picador, 2014) / Gerard Woodward
428. The Unexpected Waltz (Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Kim Wright
429. All the Birds, Singing (Pantheon, 2014) / Evie Wyld
430. The Heroes’ Welcome (The Borough Press, 2014) / Louisa Young

431. The Lobster Kings (W.W. Norton, 2014) / Alexi Zentner
432. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2014) / Gabrielle Zevin
433. Clara’s Daughter (Salt Publishing, 2014) / Meike Ziervogel
434. The Night Watchman (Corsair, 2014) / Richard Zimler

First Novels
1. The Secret Sky (Philomel Books, 2014) / Atia Abawi
2. Panic in a Suitcase (Riverhead Books, 2014) / Yelena Akhtiorskaya
3. Kilmoon: A County Clare Mystery (Muskrat Press, 2014) / Lisa Alber
4. The Ruby Slippers (Corsair, 2014) / Keir Alexander
5. A Man Called Ove (trans. from the Swedish by Henning Koch) (Atria, 2014) / Fredrik Backman
6. Waiting for the Man (ECW Press, 2014) / Arjun Basu
7. Queen Sugar (Pamela Dorman Books, 2014) / Natalie Baszile
8. Frances and Bernard (Mariner Books, 2014) / Carlene Bauer
9. Radiance of Tomorrow (Sarah Crichton Books, 2014) / Ismael Beah
10. Under the Tripoli Sky (trans. from the French by Adriana Hunter) (Peirene Press, 2014) / Kamal Ben Hameda

11. Steal the North (Viking Adult, 2014) / Heather Brittain Bergstrom
12. The Strays (Affirm Press, 2014) / Emily Bitto
13. Life Drawing (Picador/Random House, 2014) / Robin Black
14. Ashes in the Wind (Head of Zeus, 2014) / Christopher Bland
15. Ridley Road (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2014) / Jo Bloom
16. Ruby (Hogarth, 2014) / Cynthia Bond
17. Dry Bones in the Valley (W.W. Norton, 2015) / Tom Bouman
18. A Song for Issy Bradley (Hutchinson, 2014) / Carys Bray
19. Painted Horses (Grove Press, 2014) / Malcolm Brooks
20. My Biggest Lie (Canongate Books, 2014) / Luke Brown

21. The Good Italian (Hodder & Stoughton, 2014) / Stephen Burke
22. The Miniaturist (Ecco/Picador, 2014) / Jessie Burton
23. Shotgun Lovesongs (Thomas Dunne Books/Picador, 2014) / Nickolas Butler
24. Bonita Avenue (trans. from the Dutch by Jonathan Reeder) (Pushkin Press, 2014) / Peter Buwalda
25. The Girl in the Road (Crown/Blackfriars, 2014) / Monica Byrne
26. Further Out Than You Thought (William Morrow, 2014) / Michaela Carter
27. The Strangler Vine (Fig Tree, 2014) / M.J. Carter
28. Three Souls (HarperCollins, 2014) / Janie Chang
29. Soy Sauce for Beginners (New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014) / Kirstin Chen
30. High as the Horses’ Bridles (Henry Holt, 2014) / Scott Cheshire

31. Prayers for the Stolen (Hogarth, 2014) / Jennifer Clement
32. The Untold (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, 2014) / Courtney Collins
33. Byron Easy (Pegasus, 2014) / Jude Cook
34. What I Had Before I Had You (Harper, 2014) / Sarah Cornwell
35. Academy Street (Canongate, 2014) / Mary Costello
36. Season of the Dragonflies (William Morrow, 2014) / Sarah Creech
37. The Living (Atlantic Books, 2014) / Léan Cullinan
38. Invisible City (Minotaur Books, 2014) / Julia Dahl
39. Wolf in White Van (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / John Darnielle
40. Viviane (trans. from the French by Linda Coverdale) (The New Press, 2014) / Julia Deck

41. Kicking the Sky (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2014) / Anthony De Sa
42. The Enchanted (Harper/Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2014) / Rene Denfeld
43. The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair (trans. from the French by Sam Taylor) (MacLehose Press, 2014) / Joël Dicker
44. Viper Wine (Jonathan Cape, 2014) / Hermione Eyre
45. The Book of Jonah (Henry Holt, 2014) / Joshua Max Feldman
46. The Angel of Losses (Ecco, 2014) / Stephanie Feldman
47. The Spring of Kasper Meier (Little, Brown, 2014) / Ben Ferguson
48. Cutting Teeth (St Martin’s Press, 2014) / Julia Fierro
49. A Replacement Life (Harper/Pushkin Press, 2014) / Boris Fishman
50. We Used to Be Kings (Jonathan Cape, 2014) / Stewart Foster

51. ’Til the Well Runs Dry (Henry Holt, 2014) / Lauren Francis-Sharma
52. Randall (Galley Beggar Press, 2014) / Jonathan Gibbs
53. The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street (Grand Central Publishing, 2014) / Susan Jane Gilman
54. Terms & Conditions (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014) / Robert Glancy
55. The Steady Running of the Hour (Dimon & Schuster, 2014) / Justin Go
56. In the Beginning Was the Sea (trans. from the Spanish by Frank Wynne) (Pushkin Press, 2014) / Tomás González
57. Sons and Fathers (Linda Leith Publishing, 2014) / Daniel Goodwin
58. Friendship (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Emily Gould
59. The Goddess of Small Victories (trans. from the French by Willard Wood) (Other Press, 2014) / Yannick Grannec
60. Sedition (Virago/Henry Holt, 2014) / Katharine Grant

61. All Russians Love Birch Trees (trans. from the Russian by Eva Bacon) (Other Press, 2014) / Olga Grjasnowa
62. The Taste of Apple Seeds (trans. from the German by Jamie Bulloch) (William Morrow, 2014) / Katharina Hagena
63. Ishmael’s Oranges (Oneworld Publications, 2014) / Claire Hajaj
64. The Hollow Ground (Thomas Dunne Books, 2014) / Natalie S. Harnett
65. The Marrying of Chani Kaufman (Black Cat/Grove Press, 2014) / Eve Harris
66. The Banks of Certain Rivers (Lake Union Publishing, 2014) / Jon Harrison
67. The Bishop’s Wife (Soho Crime, 2014) / Mette Ivie Harrison
68. The Bully of Order (Harper Press, 2014) / Brian Hart
69. The Pearl That Broke Its Shell (William Morrow, 2014) / Nadia Hashimi
70. The Amber Fury (Corvus, 2014) / Natalie Haynes

71. Love, Love Me Do (Piatkus, 2014) / Mark Haysom
72. Elizabeth Is Missing (Penguin Viking/Harper, 2014) / Emma Healey
73. Fourth of July Creek (Ecco, 2014) / Smith Henderson
74. The Dynamite Room (Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Jason Hewitt
75. A Burnable Book (William Morrow, 2014) / Bruce Holsinger
76. Wake (Doubleday/Random House, 2014) / Anna Hope
77. Flying Shoes (Bloomsbury USA/Bloomsbury Circus, 2014) / Lisa Howorth
78. Fire in the Unnameable Country (Hamish Hamilton Canada, 2014) / Ghalib Islam
79. Girl on the Golden Coin: A Novel of Frances Stuart (Thomas Dunne Books/St Martin’s Press, 2014) / Marci Jefferson
80. The Gypsy Goddess (Atlantic Books, 2014) / Meena Kandasamy

81. A Bad Character (Jonathan Cape, 2014) / Deepti Kapoor
82. The Natural Order of Things (Vintage, 2014) / Kevin P. Keating
83. Of Sea and Cloud (Tyrus Books, 2014) / Jon Keller
84. The Book of You (Harper, 2014) / Claire Kendal
85. The Gospel of Winter (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2014) / Brendan Kiely
86. The Wake (Unbound, 2014) / Paul Kingsnorth
87. Nobody Is Ever Missing (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Catherine Lacey
88. What Ends (Oneworld Publications, 2014) / Andrew Ladd
89. The Mysterious Affair at Castaway House (Penguin, 2014) / Stephanie Lam
90. Rainey Royal (Soho Press, 2014) / Dylan Landis

91. Black Lake (Little, Brown, 2014) / Johanna Lane
92. The Home Place (William Morrow, 2014) / Carrie La Seur
93. California (Little, Brown, 2014) / Edan Lepucki
94. Hyde (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014) / Daniel Levine
95. Preparation for the Next Life (Tyrant Books, 2014) / Atticus Lish
96. Dear Daughter (Viking Adult/Harvill Secker, 2014) Elizabeth Little
97. Cementville (Counterpoint, 2014) / Paulette Livers
98. The Feathers (Piscataqua Press, 2014) / Cynthia Lott
99. Faces in the Crowd (Coffee House Press, 2014) / Valeria Luiselli
100. The Year She Left Us (Harper, 2014) / Kathryn Ma

101. The Undertaking (Atlantic Books/Grove Press, 2014) / Audrey Magee
102. Three Bargains (W.W. Norton, 2014) / Tania Malik
103. The Invention of Exile (The Penguin Press, 2014) / Vanessa Manko
104. Elemental (Livingston Press/University of West Alabama, 2014) / Tara Mantel
105. Belle Cora (Doubleday, 2014) / Phillip Margulies
106. The Visitors (Hodder & Stoughton, 2014) / Rebecca Mascull
107. I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You (Touchstone, 2014) / Courtney Maum
108. We Are Called to Rise (Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Laura McBride
109. The Lost Child (Text Publishing, 2014) / Suzanne McCourt
110. The Night Guest (Sceptre, 2014) / Fiona McFarlane

111. The Weight of Blood (Spiegel & Grau, 2014) / Laura McHugh
112. The Last Days of California (Liveright, 2014) / Mary Miller
113. Young Gods (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Granta, 2014) / Katherine Faw Morris
114. Island of a Thousand Mirrors (St Martin’s Press, 2014) / Nayomi Munaweera
115. Revolutionary (Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Alex Myers
116. Land of No Rain (trans. from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright) (Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing, 2014) / Amjad Nasser
117. The Madness of July (Head of Zeus, 2014) / James Naughtie
118. Everything I Never Told You (The Penguin Press/Blackfriars, 2014) / Celeste Ng
119. Pioneer Girl (Viking Adult, 2014) / Nguyen Bich Minh
120. Good Kings, Bad Kings (Oneworld Publications, 2014) / Susan Nussbaum

121. The Visitors (Viking, 2014) / Patrick O’Keeffe
122. Marshlands (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Matthew Olshan
123. The Quick (Random House, 2014) / Lauren Owen
124. Dust (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
125. The Bees (Fourth Estate, 2014) / Laline Paull
126. Land Where I Flee (Quercus, 2014) / Prajwal Parajuly
127. The Antiquarian (trans. from the Spanish by Joseph Mulligan) (Black Cat/Grove Press, 2014) / Gustavo Faverón Patriau
128. After Me Comes the Flood (Serpent’s Tail, 2014) / Sarah Perry
129. Breakfast with the Borgias (Hammer Books, 2014) / DBC Pierre
130. Eat My Heart Out (Serpent’s Tail, 2014) / Zoe Pilger

131. After Darkness (Allen & Unwin, 2014) / Christine Piper
132. Lay It On My Heart (Mariner Books, 2014) / Angela Pneuman
133. September (Salt Publishing, 2014) / Christopher Prendergast
134. In the Light of What We Know (Picador/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Zia Haider Rahman
135. The Memory Garden (Landmark/Sourcebooks, 2014) / Mary Rickert
136. Last Night at the Blue Angel (William Morrow, 2014) / Rebecca Rotert
137. Your Face in Mine (Riverhead Books, 2014) / Jess Row
138. The Transcriptionist (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2014) / Amy Rowland
139. The Spinning Heart (Steerforth, 2014) / Donal Ryan
140. The Kept (Harper/Hutchinson, 2014) / James Scott

141. The Anatomy Lesson (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2014) / Nina Siegal
142. The Story of Land and Sea (Harper, 2014) / Katy Simpson Smith
143. Home Leave (Grand Central Publishing, 2014) / Brittani Sonnenberg
144. Mating for Life (Washington Square Press, 2014) / Marissa Stapley
145. Man at the Helm (Viking, 2014) / Nina Stibbe
146. The Girl With a Clock for a Heart (William Morrow, 2014) / Peter Swanson
147. The Scatter Here Is Too Great (Jonathan Cape/Harper, 2014) / Bilal Tanweer
148. The Ghost Apple (Bloomsbury USA, 2014) / Aaron Thier
149. We Are Not Ourselves (Simon & Schuster/Fourth Estate, 2014) / Matthew Thomas
150. The Land of Steady Habits (Little, Brown, 2014) / Ted Thompson

151. The Girls from Corona del Mar (Alfred A. Knopf/Hutchinson, 2014) / Rufi Thorpe
152. Love Me Back (Doubleday, 2014) / Merritt Tierce
153. Saint Monkey (W.W. Norton, 2014) / Jacinda Townsend
154. The Lodger (Thomas Dunne Books, 2014) / Louisa Treger
155. Drifting (Akashic Books, 2014) / Katia D. Ulysse
156. The Visionist (Little, Brown/Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Rachel Urquhart
157. Completion (William Heinemann, 2014) / Tim Walker
158. The Diary of Mary Travers (Somerville Press, 2014) / Eibhear Walshe
159. Mrs Sinclair’s Suitcase (Hodder & Stoughton, 2014) / Louise Walters
160. The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle (Two Road, 2014) / Kirsty Wark

161. After Before (Legend Press, 2014) / Jemma Wayne
162. Point of Direction (Ig Publishing, 2014) / Rachel Weaver
163. The Great Glass Sea (Grove Press, 2014) / Josh Weil
164. Boxer Handsome (Chatto & Windus, 2014) / Anna Whitwham
165. The Roving Party (Soho Press, 2014) / Rohan Wilson
166. The Life of a Banana (Legend Press, 2014) / P.P. Wong
167. Chop Chop (Viking, 2014) / Simon Wroe
168. Land of Love and Drowning (Riverhead Books, 2014) / Tiphanie Yanique
169. Time of the Locust (Atria Books, 2014) / Morowa Yejidé

Stories
1. The Palace of Illusions (Soft Skull Press, 2014) / Kim Addonizio
2. Baboon (trans. from the Danish by Denise Newman) (Two Lines Press, 2014) / Naja Marie Aidt
3. Fullblood Arabian (trans. from the Arabic by C.J. Collins) (New Directions, 2014) / Osama Alomar
4. The UnAmericans (W.W. Norton/Fourth Estate, 2014) / Molly Antopol
5. The Emerald Light in the Air (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Granta Books, 2014) / Donald Antrim
6. Saltwater (Liberties Press, 2014) / Lane Ashfeldt
7. Stone Mattress: Nine Tales (Nan A. Talese/Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014) / Margaret Atwood
8. No Man’s Land: Writings from a World at War (Serpent’s Tail, 2014) / Pete Ayrton (ed.)
9. Young Skins (Jonathan Cape, 2014) / Colin Barrett
10. The Promise (University of Queensland Press, 2014) / Tony Birch

11. The Corpse Exhibition and Other Stories of Iraq (trans. from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright) (Penguin Books, 2014) / Hassan Blasim
12. Inside Madeleine (Soho Press, 2014) / Paula Bomer
13. Further Joy (McSweeney’s, 2014) / John Brandon
14. Forgiving the Angel: Four Stories for Franz Kafka (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Jay Cantor
15. Through the Woods (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Emily Carroll
16. Little Reef and Other Stories (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014) / Michael Carroll
17. Foreign Soil (Hatchette Australia, 2014) / Maxine Beneba Clarke
18. We Were Flying to Chicago (Black Balloon Publishing, 2014) / Kevin Clouther
19. Man V. Nature (Harper, 2014) / Diane Cook
20. Waiting for the Bullet (Doire Press, 2014) / Madeleine D’Arcy

21. The Redemption of Galen Pike (Salt Publishing, 2014) / Carys Davies
22. Can’t and Won’t (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Lydia Davis
23. Only the Animals (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Australia, 2014) / Ceridwen Dovey
24. Everything is Moving, Everything is Joined: The Selected Stories of Stella Duffy (Salt Publishing, 2014) / Stella Duffy
25. So Much a Part of You (Little, Brown, 2014) / Polly Dugan
26. Ecstatic Cahoots: Fifty Short Stories (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Stuart Dybek
27. Paper Lantern: Love Stories (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Stuart Dybek
28. Mr. Tall (Little, Brown, 2014) / Tony Earley
29. The Best American Short Stories 2014 (Mariner Books, 2014) / Heidi Pilor & Jennifer Egan (ends.)
30. The Wilds (Tin House Books, 2014) / Julia Elliott

31. Chase Us (New Harvest, 2014) / Sean Ennis
32. Inappropriate Behavior (Milkweed Editions, 2014) / Murray Farish
33. Let Me Be Frank With You: A Frank Bascombe Book (Ecco/Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014) / Richard Ford
34. The Dunning Man (Lavender Ink, 2014) / Kevin Fortuna
35. The Seven Stages of Anger and Other Stories (Press 53, 2014) / Wendy J. Fox
36. Things Look Different in the Light (trans. from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa) (Pushkin Press, 2014) / Medardo Fraile
37. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2014 (Anchor, 2014) / Laura Furman (ed.)
38. American Innovations (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Rivka Galchen
39. The Stories of Jane Gardam (Little, Brown/Europa Editions, 2014) / Jane Gardam
40. Acts of God (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2014) / Ellen Gilchrist

41. Tell Me One Thing (Nan A. Talese, 2014) / Deena Goldstone
42. White Tiger on Snow Mountain (New Harvest, 2014) / David Gordon
43. The Liar’s Wife: Four Novellas (Pantheon, 2014) / Mary Gordon
44. Noontide Toll (Granta Books, 2014) / Romesh Gunesekera
45. Infidelities (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Kirsty Gunn
46. Problems with People (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / David Guterson
47. Elegy on Kinderklavier (Sarabande Books, 2014) / Arna Bontemps Hemenway
48. The Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories (trans. from the Swedish by Thomas Teal & Silvester Mazzarella) (NYRB Classics, 2014) / Tove Jansson
49. All the Rage (Jonathan Cape/New Harvest, 2014) / A.L. Kennedy
50. Redeployment (The Penguin Press/Canongate Books, 2014) / Phil Klay

51. The Frangipani Hotel (Spiegel & Grau, 2014) / Violet Kupersmith
52. How does a single blade of grass thank the sun? (Nightwood Editions, 2014) / Doretta Lau
53. Six Stories and An Essay (Tinder Press, 2014) / Andrea Levy
54. Black Vodka: Ten Stories (Bloomsbury USA, 2014) / Deborah Levy
55. Doll House (Dock Street Press, 2014) / Sara Lippmann
56. Life-Like (Seagull Books, 2014) / Toby Litt
57. The Dog (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Jack Livings
58. Let Me See It (Triquarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2014) / James Magruder
59. The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (Fourth Estate/Henry Holt, 2014) / Hilary Mantel
60. The Other Language (Pantheon, 2014) / Francesca Marciano

61. Leaving the Sea (Alfred A. Knopf/Granta Books, 2014) / Ben Marcus
62. Thunderstruck and Other Stories (The Dial Press, 2014) / Elizabeth McCracken
63. Collected Stories (Faber & Faber, 2014) / John McGahern
64. Snow in May (Henry Holt, 2014) / Kseniya Melnik
65. Praying Drunk (Sarabande Books, 2014) / Kyle Minor
66. Bark (Alfred A. Knopf/Faber & Faber, 2014) / Lorrie Moore
67. Frog (Hamish Hamilton, 2014) / Mo Yan
68. Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas (trans. from the French by Mark Polizzotti) (Yale University Press, 2014) / Patrick Modiano
69. Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014 (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Alice Munro
70. Funny Once (Bloomsbury USA/Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014) / Antonya Nelson

71. One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / B.J. Novak
72. Lovely, Dark, Deep (Ecco Press, 2014) / Joyce Carol Oates
73. Night: Collected Stories (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Edna O’Brien
74. New York 1, Tel Aviv 0 (FSG Originals, 2014) / Shelly Oria
75. Egg Heaven (Shade Mountain Press, 2014) / Robin Parks
76. The Heaven of Animals (Simon & Schuster, 2014) / David James Poissant
77. The Walls of Delhi (trans. from the Hindi by Jason Grunebaum) (Seven Stories Press, 2014) / Uday Prakash
78. What A Life!: Selected Short Stories (Turnpike Books, 2014) / J.B. Priestley
79. Something Rich and Strange: Selected Stories (Ecco, 2014) / Ron Rash
80. Spoiled Brats (Serpent’s Tail, 2014) / Simon Rich

81. Wallflowers (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014) / Eliza Robertson
82. The Best British Short Stories 2014 (Salt Publishing, 2014) / Nicholas Royle (ed.)
83. Belated and Other Stories (Kimblewood Press, 2014) / Elisabeth Russell Taylor
84. Animals in Motion (Roundabout Press, 2014) / David Ryan
85. Many Roads Through Paradise: An Anthology of Sri Lankan Literature (Penguin India, 2014) / Shyam Selvadurai (ed.)
86. Death & Texas (Halban Publishers, 2014) / Clive Sinclair
87. Between Wrecks (Dzanc Books, 2014) / George Singleton
88. Starting Over (Liveright, 2014) / Elizabeth Spencer
89. England and Other Stories (Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Graham Swift
90. Things to Make and Break (CB Editions, 2014) / May-Lan Tan

91. Flings (Harper, 2014) / Justin Taylor
92. The American Lover (Random House, 2014) / Rose Tremain
93. The Tao of Humiliation (BOA Editions, 2014) / Lee Upton
94. Last Stories and Other Stories (Viking, 2014) / William T. Vollmann
95. What’s Important Is Feeling (Harper Perennial, 2014) / Adam Wilson
96. Boy in the Twilight: Stories of the Hidden China (trans. from the Chinese by Allan H. Barr) (Pantheon, 2014) / Yu Hua

Poetry
1. Ask the Moon: New and Collected Poems, 1948-2014 (Hutchinson, 2014) / Dannie Abse
2. The Last Days of Troy (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Simon Armitage
3. Paper Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989-2014 (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Simon Armitage
4. The Land of Gold (Enitharmon Press, 2014) / Sebastian Barker
5. Slant Six (Copper Canyon Press, 2014) / Erin Belieu
6. Bright Travellers (Jonathan Cape, 2014) / Fiona Benson
7. Black Country (Chatto & Windus, 2014) / Liz Berry
8. The Heart Is Strange: New Selected Poems (ed. Daniel Swift) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / John Berryman
9. 77 Dream Songs (ed. Daniel Swift) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / John Berryman
10. Poems of the American South (Everyman’s Library, 2014) / David Biespiel (ed.)

11. A Poet’s Dublin (Carcanet Press, 2014) / Eavan Boland
12. A Woman Without a Country (Carcanet Press/W.W. Norton, 2014) / Eavan Boland
13. The Whole & Rain-domed Universe (Picador, 2014) / Collette Bryce
14. All One Breath (Jonathan Cape, 2014) / John Burnside
15. Moontide (Bloodaxe Books, 2014) / Niall Campbell
16. Bicentennial (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Dan Chiasson
17. The Holding Centre: Selected Poems 1974-2004 (Bloodaxe Books/Wake Forest University Press, 2014) / Harry Clifton
18. The Invention of Influence (New Directions, 2014) / Peter Cole
19. Elder (Bloodaxe Books, 2014) / David Constantine
20. Testament (Jonathan Cape, 2014) / Robert Crawford

21. Body and Soul (New Island Books, 2014) / Anthony Cronin
22. The Poem She Didn’t Write and Other Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2014) / Olena Kalytiak Davis
23. Tombo (McSweeneys, 2014) / W.S. Di Piero
24. My Family and Other Superheroes (Seren, 2014) / Jonathan Edwards
25. The Blue Buick: New and Selected Poems (W.W. Norton, 2014) / B.H. Fairchild
26. Selected Poems (Picador, 2014) / Paul Farley
27. Blood Lyrics (Graywolf Press, 2014) / Katie Ford
28. Selected Poems (Coffee House Press, 2014) / Mark Ford
29. Faithful and Virtuous Night (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Carcanet Press, 2014) / Louise Glück
30. Songs for Ophelia (Papaveria Press, 2014) / Theodora Goss

31. Eruv (Yale University Press, 2014) / Eryn Green
32. A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Lavinia Greenlaw
33. Habitation: Collected Poems (Lost Horse Press/University of Washington Press, 2014) / Sam Hamill
34. Corridor (Graywolf Press, 2014) / Saskia Hamilton
35. Fire Songs (Faber & Faber, 2014) / David Harsent
36. If the Tabloids Are True What Are You? (Graywolf Press, 2014) / Matthea Harvey
37. The Orchid Boat (Enitharmon Press, 2014) / Lee Harwood
38. New Selected Poems, 1988-2013 (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Seamus Heaney
39. Dangerous Goods (Milkweed Editions, 2014) / Sean Hill
40. Gabriel: A Poem (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Edward Hirsch

41. Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them (Simon & Schuster UK, 2014) / Anthony & Ben Holden (eds.)
42. The Tulip-Flame (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2014) / Chloe Honum
43. Second Childhood (Graywolf Press, 2014) / Fanny Howe
44. Prelude to Bruise (Coffee House Press, 2014) / Saeed Jones
45. Sack (Picador, 2014) / John Kinsella
46. Splitting an Order (Copper Canyon Press, 2014) / Ted Kooser
47. And Short the Season (W.W. Norton, 2014) / Maxine Kumin
48. The Collected Poems of James Laughlin (ed. Peter Glassgold) (New Directions, 2014) / James Laughlin
49. Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals (Penguin, 2014) / Patricia Lockwood
50. The Stairwell (Jonathan Cape/Wake Forest University Press, 2014) / Michael Longley

51. Carnival Masks (The Gallery Press, 2014) / Seán Lysaght
52. Earth Hour (University of Queensland Press, 2014) / David Malouf
53. Terror (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Toby Martinez de las Rivas
54. To Keep Time (Omnidawn, 2014) / Joseph Massey
55. The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Glyn Maxwell (ed.)
56. An Aviary of Small Birds (Carcanet Press, 2014) / Karen McCarthy Woolf
57. Plundered Hearts: New and Selected Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / J.D. McClatchy
58. This Blue (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Maureen N. McLane
59. Accepting the Disaster (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Joshua Mehigan
60. Collected Poems: 1969-2014 (Penguin Books India, 2014) / Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

61. The Moon Before Morning (Copper Canyon Press/Bloodaxe Books, 2014) / W.S. Merwin
62. The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion (Carcanet Press, 2014) / Kei Miller
63. Where the Wind Sleeps: New & Selected Poems (Salmon Publishing, 2014) / Noel Monahan
64. One Thousand Things Worth Knowing (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Paul Muldoon
65. Blue Sonoma (Brick Books, 2014) / Jane Munro
66. New Selected Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Les Murray
67. Blue Horses (The Penguin Press, 2014) / Mary Oliver
68. Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth (Chatto & Windus, 2014) / Ruth Padel
69. Digest (Four Way, 2014) / Gregory Pardlo
70. New Selected Poems (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Tom Paulin

71. Gunpowder Valentine: New and Selected Poems (Dedalus Press, 2014) / Paul Perry
72. Fauverie (Seren, 2014) / Pascale Petit
73. Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting (Little, Brown/Sceptre, 2014) / Kevin Powers
74. Churches (Four Way, 2014) / Kevin Prufer
75. Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press, 2014) / Claudia Rankine
76. Grun-tu-molani (Bloodaxe Books, 2014) / Vidyan Ravinthiran
77. The Road to Emmaus (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Spencer Reece
78. Sailing the Forest: Selected Poems (Picador, 2014) / Robin Robertson
79. Reel to Reel (The University of Chicago Press, 2014) / Alan Shapiro
80. Playing House (Seren, 2014) / Katherine Stansfield

81. Collected Poems (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House, 2014) / Mark Strand
82. When God Is a Traveller (Bloodaxe Books, 2014) / Arundhathi Subramaniam
83. Compass Rose (Copper Canyon Press, 2014) / Arthur Sze
84. The Hundred Lives (Quattro Books, 2014) / Russell Thornton
85. Bedouin of the London Evening: Collected Poems (ed. Neil Astley) (Bloodaxe, 2014) / Rosemary Tonks
86. Liffey Swim (Dedalus Press, 2014) / Jessica Traynor
87. Moscow in the Plague Year: Poems (trans. from the Russian by Christopher Whyte) (Archipelago, 2014) / Marina Tsvetaeva
88. The Tame Magpie (Hanging Loose Press, 2014) / Paul Violi
89. I Knew the Bride (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Hugo Williams
90. The Other Mountain (Carcanet Press, 2014) / Rowan Williams

91. Once in the West (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Christian Wiman
92. Caribou (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Charles Wright
93. Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500-2001 (W.W. Norton, 2014) / Carolyn Forché & Duncan Wu (eds.)
94. The Earth Avails (Graywolf Press, 2014) / Mark Wunderlich
95. Abide (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014) / Jake Adam York
96. The Pedestrians (Wave Books, 2014) / Rachel Zucker

Nonfiction
1. The House of Twenty Thousand Books (Halban Publishers, 2014) / Sasha Abramsky
2. The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us (W.W. Norton, 2014) / Diane Ackerman
3. Charlie Chaplin (Chatto & Windus, 2014) / Peter Ackroyd
4. Civil War: The History of England: Volume III (Macmillan, 2014) / Peter Ackroyd
5. Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Atlantic Books, 2014) / Scott Anderson
6. Badluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West (Atria Books, 2014) / Bryce Andrews
7. The History Manifesto (Cambridge University Press, 2014) / Jo Guldi and David Armitage
8. Walking Home: A Poet’s Journey (W.W. Norton, 2014) / Simon Armitage
9. Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence (Bodley Head/Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Karen Armstrong
10. The Moor: Lives, Landscape, Literature (Faber & Faber, 2014) / William Atkins

11. The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and its Citrus Fruit (Particular Books, 2014) / Helena Attlee
12. Pericles of Athens (trans. from the French by Janet Lloyd) (Princeton University Press, 2014) / Vincent Azoulay
13. The Virtues of the Table: How to Eat and Think (Granta, 2014) / Julian Baggini
14. The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait (W.W. Norton, 2014) / Blake Bailey
15. The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning (Viking Adult, 2014) / Julene Bair
16. A Curious Career (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014) / Lynn Barber
17. The Double Life of Paul de Man (Liveright, 2014) / Evelyn Barish
18. The Barbarians: An Essay on the Mutation of Culture (trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli) (Rizzoli, 2014) / Alessandro Baricco
19. Paris at the End of the World: The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918 (Harper Perennial, 2014) / John Baxter
20. Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up (University of California Press, 2014) / Mary Beard

21. Empire of Cotton: A Global History (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Sven Beckert
22. Updike (Harper, 2014) / Adam Begley
23. J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist (New Harvest, 2014) / Thomas Beller
24. The Valley: A Hundred Years in the Life of a Family (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014) / Richard Benson
25. Hans Christian Andersen: European Witness (Yale University Press, 2014) / Paul Binding
26. On Immunity: An Inoculation (Graywolf Press, 2014) / Eula Biss
27. The Prince of Los Cocuyos (Ecco, 2014) / Richard Blanco
28. Fire Shut Up in My Bones: A Memoir (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014) / Charles M. Blow
29. Epilogue: A Memoir (Liveright, 2014) / Will Boast
30. Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love (Bloomsbury Publishing/Bloomsbury Press, 2014) / James Booth

31. Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII’s Most Faithful Servant (Hodder & Stoughton, 2014) / Tracy Borman
32. Italian Venice: A History (Yale University Press, 2014) / R.J.B. Bosworth
33. The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers (Oxford University Press, 2014) / Joanna Bourke
34. Wounding the World: How Military Violence and War-Play Invade Our Lives (Virago, 2014) / Joanna Bourke
35. Dying for Ideas: The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers (Bloomsbury, 2014) / Costica Bradatan
36. Moral Imagination: Essays (Princeton University Press, 2014) / David Bromwich
37. The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence (Harvard University Press, 2014) / David Bromwich
38. The Embrace of Unreason: France, 1914-1940 (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Frederick Brown
39. The Dream of the Great American Novel (The Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2014) / Lawrence Buell
40. An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Nick Bunker

41. I Put a Spell On You (Jonathan Cape, 2014) / John Burnside
42. Theater of Cruelty: Art, Film, and the Shadows of War (New York Review Books, 2014) / Ian Buruma
43. The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War (Chatto & Windus/Grove Press, 2014) / Tim Butcher
44. New Life, No Instructions: A Memoir (Random House, 2014) / Gail Caldwell
45. Collection of Sand: Essays (trans. from the Italian by Martin McLaughlin) (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014) / Italo Calvino
46. The Bookshop Book (Constable, 2014) / Jen Campbell
47. Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life (Jonathan Cape, 2014) / John Campbell
48. The Unexpected Professor: An Oxford Life in Books (Faber & Faber, 2014) / John Carey
49. Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon (Princeton University Press, 20-14) / Barbara Cassin
50. Joan of Arc: A History (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Helen Castor

51. The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words (ed. Barry Day) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Raymond Chandler
52. E.E. Cummings: A Life (Pantheon, 2014) / Susan Cheever
53. God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England (Bodley Head, 2014) / Jessie Childs
54. Eating Wildly: Foraging for Life, Love and the Perfect Meal (Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Ava Chin
55. Ultrasonic: Essays (Lavender Ink, 2014) / Steven Church
56. Down to the Sea in Ships: Of Ageless Oceans and Modern Men (Chatto & Windus, 2014) / Horatio Clare
57. Claxton: Field Notes from a Small Planet (Jonathan Cape, 2014) / Mark Cocker
58. Life, Love and the Archers: Recollections, Reviews and Other Prose (Two Roads, 2014) / Wendy Cope
59. The Iceberg: A Memoir (Atlantic Books, 2014) / Marion Coutts
60. A Farm Dies Once a Year: A Memoir (Henry Holt, 2014) / Arlo Crawford

61. Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed: Conversations with Paul Cronin (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Paul Cronin
62. Words in Time and Place: Exploring Language Through the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 2014) / David Crystal
63. Loitering: New & Collected Essays (Tin House Books, 2014) / Charles D’Ambrosio
64. The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Meghan Daum
65. Reading Style: A Life in Sentences (Columbia University Press, 2014) / Jenny Davidson
66. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / David Brion Davis
67. Capital: A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi (Canongate Books, 2014) / Rana Dasgupta
68. The Bhagavad Gita: A Biography (Princeton University Press, 2014) / Richard H. Davis
69. Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life (Free Press, 2014) / William Deresiewicz
70. Dublin: The Making of a Capital City (Profile Books, 2014) / David Dickson

71. Alex Miller: The Ruin of Time (Sydney University Press, 2014) / Robert Dixon
72. The Sea-God’s Herb: Essays & Criticism, 1975-2014 (Dzanc Books, 2014) / John Domini
73. On Hinduism (Oxford University Press, 2014) / Wendy Doniger
74. Metaphor (Harvard University Press, 2014) / Denis Donoghue
75. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory (W.W. Norton, 2014) / Caitlin Doughty
76. Eugene O’Neill: A Life in Four Acts (Yale University Press, 2014) / Robert M. Dowling
77. Isabella: The Warrior Queen (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2014) / Kirstin Downey
78. Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert (The University of Chicago Press, 2014) / John Drury
79. Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned” (Random House, 2014) / Lena Dunham
80. Italoamericana: The Literature of the Great Migration, 1880-1943 (Fordham University Press, 2014) / Francesco Durante (ed.)

81. Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters: An Eccentric Englishwoman and Her Lost Kingdom (Picador USA, 2014) / Philip Eade
82. Culture and the Death of God (Yale University Press, 2014) / Terry Eagleton
83. Visitants (Hamish Hamilton, 2014) / Dave Egger
84. Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever’s Search for the Truth About Everything (Twelve, 2014) / Barbara Ehrenreich
85. The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014) / David Eimer
86. Engel’s England: Thirty-nine Counties, One Capital and One Man (Profile Books, 2014) / Matthew Engel
87. After the Titanic: A Life of Derek Mahon (Gill & Macmillan, 2014) / Stephen Enniss
88. While the Gods Were Sleeping: A Journey Through Love and Rebellion in Nepal (Seal Press, 2014) / Elizabeth Enslin
89. How to be a Heroine: Or, What I’ve Learned from Reading Too Much (Chatto & Windus, 2014) / Samantha Ellis
90. A Literary Education and Other Essays (Axios Press, 2014) / Joseph Epstein

91. The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos (New York Review Books, 2014) / Patrick Leigh Fermor
92. Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A History (Metropolitan Books, 2014) / Orlando Figes
93. Chasing Lost Time: The Life of C.K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy and Translator (Chatto & Windus, 2014) / Jean Findlay
94. Insurrections of the Mind: 100 Years of Politics and Culture in America (Harper, 2014) / Franklin Foer (ed.)
95. My Life in Houses (Chatto & Windus, 2014) / Margaret Forster
96. Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923 (Allen Lane/W.W. Norton, 2014) / R.F. Foster
97. Surrendering Oz: A Life in Essays (Etruscan Press, 2014) / Bonnie Friedman
98. This House of Grief (Text Publishing, 2014) / Helen Garner
99. Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans (Oxford University Press, 2014) / Malcolm Gaskill
100. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Metropolitan Books, 2014) / Atul Gawande

101. Bad Feminist (Harper Perennial, 2014) / Roxane Gay
102. The Extraordinary Life of Rebecca West (Counterpoint, 2014) / Lorna Gibb
103. The Hard Way on Purpose: Essays and Dispatches from the Rust Belt (Scribner, 2014) / David Giffels
104. The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity (W.W. Norton, 2014) / Sandra M. Gilbert
105. Coming Ashore: A Memoir (ECW Press, 2014) / Catherine Gildiner
106. Family Politics: Domestic Life, Devastation and Survival, 1900-1950 (Yale University Press, 2014) / Paul Ginsborg
107. The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle (Grove Press, 2014) / Francisco Goldman
108. Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2014) / Adrian Goldsworthy
109. Divided Lives: Dreams of a Mother and Daughter (Virago, 2014) / Lyndall Gordon
110. The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World (Metropolitan Books/Oneworld Publications, 2014) / Greg Grandin

111. Odd Job Man: Some Confessions of a Slang Lexicographer (Jonathan Cape, 2014) / Jonathon Green
112. Language!: 500 Years of the Vulgar Tongue (Atlantic Books, 2014) / Jonathon Green
113. Palace of Books (trans. from the French by Alice Kaplan) (The University of Chicago Press, 2014) / Roger Grenier
114. You Hide That You Hate Me and I Hide That I Know (Allen Lane, 2014) / Philip Gourevitch
115. Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey Into the Heart of Russia (W.W. Norton, 2014) / David Greene
116. Gandhi Before India (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Ramachandra Guha
117. Henry VIII: The Quest for Fame (Allen Lane, 2014) / John Guy
118. Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered (Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Dianne Hales
119. Essays After Eighty (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014) / Donald Hall
120. The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History (Thames & Hudson, 2014) / James Hall

121. Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York and London (Hamish Hamilton, 2014) / Mohsin Hamid
122. The Last Trojan Hero: A Cultural History of Virgil’s Aeneid (I.B. Tauris, 2014) / Philip Hardie
123. Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz (Windmill Books, 2014) / Thomas Harding
124. It’s Been Said Before: A Guide to the Use and Abuse of Clichés (Oxford University Press USA, 2014) / Orin Hargraves
125. The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection (Current/Penguin USA, 2014) / Michael Harris
126. Ham: Slices of a Life: Essays and Stories (Gallery Books, 2014) / Sam Harris
127. Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured (Doubleday, 2014) / Kathryn Harrison
128. Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age (The University of Chicago Press, 2014) / Robert Pogue Harrison
129. Watching Them Be: Star Presence on the Screen from Garbo to Balthazar (Faber & Faber, 2014) / James Harvey
130. A People’s History of the French Revolution (Verso Books, 2014) / Eric Hazan

131. The Homing Instinct: The Story and Science of Migration (William Collins, 2014) / Bernd Heinrich
132. Roald Dahl and Philosophy: A Little Nonsense Now and Then (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014) / Jacob M. Held (ed.)
133. A Poet’s Glossary (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014) / Edward Hirsch
134. Twenty Poems That Could Save America and Other Essays (Graywolf Press, 2014) / Tony Hoagland
135. The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld (Graywolf Press, 2014) / Justin Hocking
136. Where Have You Been?: Selected Essays (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Michael Hofmann
137. Eleanor Marx: A Life (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014) / Rachel Holmes
138. Hidden Possibilities: Essays in Honor of Muriel Spark (University of Notre Dame, 2014) / Robert E. Hosmer Jr
139. A Voice Still Heard: Selected Essays of Irving Howe (ed. Nina Howe) (Yale University Press, 2014) / Irving Howe
140. Kolyma Diaries: A Journey into Russia’s Haunted Hinterland (Portobello Books, 2014) / Jacek Hugo-Bader

141. Ten Cities that Made an Empire (Allen Lane, 2014) / Tristram Hunt
142. Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre (Princeton University Press, 2014) / Jonathan Israel
143. Poetry Notebook: 2006-2014 (Picador, 2014) / Clive James
144. The Empathy Exams: Essays (Graywolf Press, 2014) / Leslie Jamieson
145. Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life (The Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2014) / Howard Eiland & Michael W. Jennings
146. Flyover Lives: A Memoir (Viking Adult, 2014) / Diane Johnson
147. The Hollow Crown: The War of the Roses and the Rise of the Tudors (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Dan Jones
148. A History of Silence: A Family Memoir (John Murray, 2014) / Lloyd Jones
149. In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying (Patrick Crean Books, 2014) / Eve Joseph
150. A Tremendous Thing: Friendship from the Iliad to the Internet (Cornell University Press, 2014) / Gregory Jusdanis

151. Give War and Peace a Chance: Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times (Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Andrew D. Kaufman
152. Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Pretty (Random House, 2014) / Diane Keaton
153. Midnight’s Descendants: South Asia from Partition to the Present Day (William Collins, 2014) / John Keay
154. The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories (Scriber/Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Marina Keegan
155. Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul (W.W. Norton, 2014) / Charles King
156. Arabs and the Art of Storytelling: A Strange Familiarity (trans. from the Arabic by Eric Sellin and Mbarek Sryfi) / Abdelfattah Kilito
157. Rocket and Lightship: Essays on Literature and Ideas (W.W. Norton, 2014) / Adam Kirsch
158. Life After Faith: The Case for Secular Humanism (Yale University Press, 2014) / Philip Kitcher
159. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate (Simon & Schuster/Allen Lane, 2014) / Naomi Klein
160. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Bloomsbury Publishing/Henry Holt, 2014) / Elizabeth Kolbert

161. Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 (The Penguin Press, 2014) / Stephen Kotkin
162. Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans (Crown Publishing, 2014) / Gary Krist
163. “Literchoor Is My Beat”: A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Ian S. MacNiven
164. Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death: Reflections on Memory and Imagination (trans. from the Hebrew by Ralph Mandel) (Allen Lane/Penguin, 2014) / Otto Dov Kulka
165. Modernity Britain: Book Two: A Shake of the Dice, 1959-62 (published as Modernity Britain: 1957-1962 in the U.K.) (Bloomsbury Publishing/Bloomsbury USA, 2014) / David Kynaston
166. Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh (Bloomsbury Circus/W.W. Norton, 2014) / John Lahr
167. Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found (Granta/Liveright, 2014) / Frances Larson
168. The Collected Poems of James Laughlin (ed. Peter Glassgold) (New Directions, 2014) / James Laughlin
169. Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Hermione Lee
170. The Object Parade (Counterpoint, 2014) / Dinah Lenney

171. The Secret History of Wonder Woman (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Jill Lepore
172. Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Wendy Lesser
173. Huck Finn’s America: Mark Twain and the Era That Shaped His Masterpiece (Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Andrew Levy
174. Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field (Doubleday, 2014) / John Lewis-Stempel
175. The Critic in the Modern World: Public Criticism from Samuel Johnson to James Wood (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014) / James Ley
176. Common People: The History of an English Family (Fig Tree, 2014) / Alison Light
177. The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew (Pantheon, 2014) / Alan Lightman
178. The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited (Oxford University Press USA, 2014) / Louisa Lim
179. Dancing Fish and Ammonites: A Memoir (Viking Adult, 2014) / Penelope Lively
180. Lives in Writing (Harvill Secker, 2014) / David Lodge

181. The Language of Houses: How Buildings Speak to Us (Delphinium, 2014) / Alison Lurie
182. My Two Italies (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Joseph Luzzi
183. Loving Literature: A Cultural History (The University of Chicago Press, 2014) / Deidre Shauna Lynch
184. Dreams of the Good Life: The life of Flora Thompson and the Creation of Lark Rise to Candleford (Allen Lane, 2014) / Richard Mabey
185. H is for Hawk (Jonathan Cape, 2014) / Helen Macdonald
186. Germany: Memories of a Nation (Allen Lane, 2014) / Neil MacGregor
187. In America: Travels with John Steinbeck (trans. from the Dutch by Liz Waters) (Harvill Secker, 2014) / Geert Mak
188. Berlin: Imagine a City (Weidenfeld & Nicolson/St Martin’s Press, 2014) / Rory MacLean
189. The Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics (Atlantic Books/Melville House, 2014) / Kenan Malik
190. Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood (Allen Lane/The Penguin Press, 2014) / Justin Marozzi

191. Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place (Granta, 2014) / Philip Marsden
192. Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir (Crown, 2014) / Frances Mayes
193. Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime (Profile Books, 2014) / Val McDermid
194. Other People’s Countries: A Journey into Memory (Jonathan Cape, 2014) / Patrick McGuinness
195. My Life in Middlemarch (published in the U.K. as The Road to Middlemarch: My Life with George Eliot) (Crown/Granta, 2014) / Rebecca Mead
196. An Encyclopaedia of Myself (Fourth Estate, 2014) / Jonathan Meades
197. Private Island (Verso, 2014) / James Meek
198. The Removers: A Memoir (Scribner, 2014) / Andrew Meredith
199. Call Me Burroughs: A Life (published in the U.K. as William Burroughs: A Life) (Grand Central Publishing/Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2014) / Barry Miles
200. The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life (Fourth Estate, 2014) / Andy Miller

201. A Strange Kind of Paradise: India Through Foreign Eyes (Jonathan Cape, 2014) / Sam Miller
202. The Mockingbird Next Door: Life With Harper Lee (The Penguin Press, 2014) / Marja Mills
203. The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka’s Civil War (Verso Books, 2014) / Rohini Mohan
204. The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of the World’s Greatest Invention (Allen Lane/The Penguin Press, 2014) / Alexander Monro
205. Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume II: The Epic Years 1921-1939: A Portrait of the Man & His Work (Oxford University Press, 2014) / A. David Moody
206. Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France (Chatto & Windus, 2014) / Caroline Moorehead
207. The Devils’ Alliance: Hitler’s Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941 (Basic Books, 2014) / Roger Moorhouse
208. Ciao, Carpaccio! (Pallas Athene, 2014) / Jan Morris
209. Stranger in My Own Country: A Jewish Family in Modern Germany (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Yascha Mounk
210. The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books (Viking, 2014) / Azar Nafisi

211. Pilgrimage to Iona: Discovering the Ancient Secrets of the Sacred Isle (Watkins Publishing, 2014) / Claire Nahmad
212. Why Grow Up?: Philosophy in Transit (Penguin, 2014) / Susan Neiman
213. The Galápagos: A Natural History (Profile Books, 2014) / Henry Nicholls
214. Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do (Little, Brown, 2014) / Wallace J. Nichols
215. The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters (published as Why Homer Matters in the U.S.) (William Collins/Henry Holt, 2014) / Adam Nicolson
216. Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition (W.W. Norton, 2014) / David Nirenberg
217. Shirley Hazzard: New Critical Essays (Sydney University Press, 2014) / Brigitta Olubas
218. Seeing Things As They Are: Selected Journalism and Other Writings (Harvill Secker, 2014) / George Orwell
219. Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Bodley Head, 2014) / Evan Osnos
220. The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (trans. from the German by Patrick Camiller) (Princeton University Press, 2014) / Jürgen Osterhammel


221. Where I’m Reading From: The Changing World of Books (Harvill Secker, 2014) / Tim Parks
222. Limber: Essays (Sarabande Books, 2014) / Angela Pelster
223. The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself (Yale University Press, 2014) / Andrew Pettegree
224. Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst (Yale University Press, 2014) / Adam Phillips
225. The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination (Graywolf Press, 2014) / Carl Phillips
226. Between Gods: A Memoir (Doubleday Canada, 2014) / Alison Pick
227. Capital in the Twenty-First Century (trans. from the French by Arthur Goldhammer) (Harvard University Press, 2014) / Thomas Piketty
228. The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (Allen Lane/Viking Adult, 2014) / Steven Pinker
229. Indonesia Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation (Granta/W.W. Norton, 2014) / Elizabeth Pisani
230. The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World (Other Press, 2014) / George Prochnik

231. American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street (Princeton University Press, 2014) / Paula Rabinowitz
232. My Salinger Year (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Joanna Rakoff
233. The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra (St Martin’s Press, 2014) / Helen Rappaport
234. The Ron Rash Reader (ed. Randall Wilhelm) (The University of South Carolina Press, 2014) / Ron Rash
235. A Terrible Beauty: The Wilderness of American Literature (Regent Press, 2014) / Jonah Raskin
236. Everything is Wonderful: Memories of a Collective Farm in Estonia (Grove Press/Atlantic Monthly Press, 2014) / Sigrid Rausing
237. Napoleon the Great (Allen Lane/Viking Adult, 2014) / Andrew Roberts
238. Women in Dark Times (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014) / Jacqueline Rose
239. A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz (Granta Books, 2014) / Göran Rosenberg
240. From Pompeii: The Afterlife of a Roman Town (The Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2014) / Ingrid D. Rowland

241. Capitalism: A Ghost Story (Verso Books, 2014) / Arundhati Roy
242. Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East (Simon & Schuster/Basic Books, 2014) / Gerard Russell
243. Mecca: The Sacred City (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014) / Ziauddin Sardar
244. Young Lawrence: A Portrait of the Legend as a Young Man (published in the U.S. as The Young T.E. Lawrence in 2015) (John Murray, 2014) / Anthony Sattin
245. Julian Hawthorne: The Life of a Prodigal Son (University of Illinois Press, 2014) / Gary Scharnhorst
246. Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation (Perigee, 2014) / Ammon Shea
247. In Search of Landfall: The Odyssey of an Indefatigable Adventurer (Ultima Thule Press, 2014) / Patrick Richardson
248. The Novel: A Biography (The Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2014) / Michael Schmidt
249. Berlin Now: The City After the Wall (trans. from the German by Sophie Schlondorff) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Peter Schneider
250. Susan Sontag: A Biography (trans. from the German by David Dollenmayer) (Northwestern University Press, 2014) / Daniel Schreiber

251. Turkish Awakening: A Personal Discovery of Modern Turkey (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Alev Scott
252. The Soul of the World (Princeton University Press, 2014) / Roger Scruton
253. A Place in the Country (trans. from the German by Jo Catling) (Random House, 2014) / W.G. Sebald
254. My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel (Scribe, 2014) / Ari Shavit
255. You Feel So Mortal: Essays on the Body (The University of Chicago Press, 2014) / Peggy Shinner
256. Scorsese: A Retrospective (Thames & Hudson, 2014) / Tom Shone
257. Little Failure: A Memoir (Random House, 2014) / Gary Shteyngart
258. Lady in the Dark: Iris Barry and the Art of Film (Columbia University Press, 2014) / Robert Sitton
259. Revertigo: An Off-Kilter Memoir (University of Wisconsin, 2014) / Floyd Skoot
260. Take This Man: A Memoir (Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Brando Skyhorse

261. Men Explain Things to me and Other Essays (Haymarket Books/Granta Books, 2014) / Rebecca Solnit
262. Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness (Trinity University Press, 2014) / Rebecca Solnit
263. Stephen Crane: A Life of Fire (Harvard University Press, 2014) / Paul Sorrentino
264. Cairo: Memoir of a City Transformed (Pantheon, 2014) / Ahdaf Soueif
265. The Informed Air: Essays (published in the U.K. as The Golden Fleece: Essays) (New Directions/Carcanet Press, 2014) / Muriel Spark
266. The Expedition to the Baobab Tree (trans. from the Afrikaans by J.M. Coetzee) (Archipelago, 2014) / Wilma Stockenström
267. Chaucer’s Tale: 1386 and the Road to Canterbury (Viking, 2014) / Paul Strohm
268. This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War (Penguin Books India, 2014) / Samanth Subramanian
269. The Best American Essays 2014 (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014) / John Jeremiah Sullivan (ed.)
270. Stringer: A Reporter’s Journey in the Congo (Atlantic Books, 2014) / Anjan Sundaram

271. Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014) / Jan Swafford
272. The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap (Spiegel & Grau, 2014) / Matt Taibbi
273. World Without End: The Global Empire of Philip II (Allen Lane, 2014) / Hugh Thomas
274. On Silbury Hill (Little Toller Books, 2014) / Adam Thorpe
275. What Would Lynne Tillman Do? (Red Lemonade, 2014) / Lynne Tillman
276. The English and Their History (Allen Lane, 2014) / Robert Tombs
277. Jealousy (Yale University Press, 2014) / Peter Toohey
278. The Living Goddess: A Journey Into the Heart of Kathmandu (Penguin Books India, 2014) / Isabella Tree
279. In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon’s Wars, 1793-1815 (Faber & Faber, 2014) / Jenny Uglow
280. Michelangelo: A Life in Six Masterpieces (Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Miles J. Unger

281. Congo: The Epic History of a People (Ecco, 2014) / David Van Reybrouck
282. Cathedral of the Wild: An African Journey Home (Random House, 2014) / Boyd Varty
283. And Home Was Kariakoo: A Memoir of East Africa (Doubleday Canada, 2014) / M.G. Vassanji
284. A Delicate Wildness: The Life and Loves of David Thomson, 1914-1988 (The Lilliput Press, 2014) / Julian Vignoles
285. Cowardice: A Brief History (Princeton University Press, 2014) / Chris Walsh
286. Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale (Oxford University Press, 2014) / Marina Warner
287. Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / John Waters
288. Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914-1918 (Allen Lane, 2014) / Alexander Watson
289. The Bush: Travels in the Heart of Australia (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Books Australia, 2014) / Don Watson
290. The Age of Nothing: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God (published in the U.S. as The Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God) (Weidenfeld & Nicolson/Simon & Schuster, 2014) / Peter Watson

291. Romany and Tom: A Memoir (Bloomsbury Circus/Bloomsbury USA, 2014) / Ben Watt
292. Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words: The Authorised Biography (Sort Of Books, 2014) / Boel Westin
293. Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris (Bloomsbury USA/Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014) / Edmund White
294. Hidden City: Adventures and Explorations in Dublin (Penguin Ireland, 2014) / Karl Whitney
295. Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind (Riverhead, 2014) / Sarah Wildman
296. The Nile: Downriver Through Egypt’s Past and Present (Bloomsbury Publishing/Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) / Toby Wilkinson
297. Essays and Reviews, 1959-2002 (Princeton University Press, 2014) / Bernard Williams
298. More Curious (McSweeney’s, 2014) / Sean Wilsey
299. Victoria: A Life (Atlantic Books, 2014) / A.N. Wilson
300. The Meaning of Human Existence (Liveright, 2014) / Edward O. Wilson

301. Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) / Simon Winder
302. Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage (House of Anansi Press, 2014) / Kathleen Winter
303. A Broken World: Letters, Diaries and Memories of the Great War (Hutchinson, 2014) / Sebastian Faulks & Hope Wolf (eds.)
304. David: The Divided Heart (Yale University Press, 2014) / David Wolpe
305. The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock (Pegasus, 2014) / Lucy Worsley