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The Best Books I Read in 2014

I read 43 books this year, for a grand total of 12,695 pages. The longest was Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch, which weighs in at 771 pages. Here, listed alphabetically by author, are the 10 best: Atkinson, Kate. Life After Life Fergus, Jim. One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd French, Tana. Faithful Place […]

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Best Books 2014

There Are Way Too Many ‘Best Of 2014′ Lists If you despair over working your way through all these lists, just take a look at Hayley Munguia’s distillation: I set about compiling lists of the best books, movies and TV shows of 2014 in prominent national publications.1 My colleague Andrew Flowers helped me run the

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Best Books 2014

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

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Best Books 2014

The best biographies and memoirs of 2014  From the U. K.’s The Guardian: “ this year’s roundup of life writing.” The best poetry books of 2014 Also from the U. K.’s The Guardian Best Books 2014: Slate Staff Picks Slate’s columnists, editors, and bloggers pick their favorite books of the year. Our Favorite Books of

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Amazon.com: Best Books of 2014

2014 Best Books of the Year: The Top 100 in Print Format via Amazon.com: Best Books of 2014. Yes, the Best Books of 2014 lists are beginning already. The link here features Everything I Never Told You: A Novel by Celeste Ng as top book of the year. If you click around this page a

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