Jonathan Yardley’s favorite books
This is not a “best books of the year” list:
As longtime Washington Post book critic Jonathan Yardley retires this week, he lists some of the books he’s cherished most during his 33-year tenure with Book World. Some of the titles here he reviewed for The Post, and others he read for the first time over those years.
Yardley chooses his favorites of both fiction and nonfiction.
Sound Off: What book influenced you the most?
This also is not a best books of the year list:
The holiday season is when many books are given as gifts. We asked member of the Times-Union/Jacksonville.com Email Interactive Group which book, besides the Bible or other essential religious work, has had the most influence on them and why?
Our picks for the best books of 2014
From the book reviewers of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The best crime and thrillers of 2014
From the U. K.’s The Guardian:
Louise Welsh’s dystopian tale of plague in London and Tom Rob Smith’s Swedish family chiller are among the highlights in this year’s roundup
Best fiction of 2014
From The Boston Globe. There’s also a link to the newspaper’s complete list of the year’s “top picks for children, teens, and adults, for fans of fiction and nonfiction, lovers of sports and thrillers, devotees of poetry and all things New England.”
The Best Fiction for Christmas: Literary novels of 2014
John Boland on a dozen literary novels that made this year special
The best biographies of 2014
The Guardian strikes again.
