Year-End Lists

The Washington Post: The Ten Best Books of 2014

[see also The 10 Best Books of 2023 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2023 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2023 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2022 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2022 • The 10 Best Books of 2022 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2021 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2021 • The 10 Best Books of 2021 • 10 Best Books of 2020 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2020 • Best Books of 2019 • 10 Best Books of 2018 • 100 Notable Books of 2018 • 10 Best Books of 2017 • The 10 Best Books of 2016 • 10 Best Books of 2015 • Top 10 Books of 2013 • The 10 Best Books of 2012]

• A Brief History of Seven Killings
  Marlon James
• Fourth of July Creek
  Smith Henderson
• The Narrow Road to the Deep North
  Richard Flanagan
• The Paying Guests
  Sarah Waters
• Station Eleven
  Emily St. John Mandel
• Being Mortal

  Medicine and What Matters in the End
  Atul Gawande
• Berlin

  Portrait of a City Through the Centuries
  Rory MacLean
• Empire of Sin

  A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans
  Gary Krist
• The Sixth Extinction

  An Unnatural History
  Elizabeth Kolbert
• Tennessee Williams

  Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
  John Lahr

Kirkus Prize: Nonfiction 2014, awarded by Kirkus Reviews

[see also Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2022 • Fiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2015 • Fiction 2015 • Fiction 2014]

Winner

• Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
  Roz Chast

Finalists

• Jonathan Swift

  His Life and His World
  Leo Damrosch
• The Sixth Extinction

  An Unnatural History
  Elizabeth Kolbert
• The Lagoon

  How Aristotle Invented Science
  Armand Marie Leroi
• Capital in the Twenty-First Century
  Thomas Piketty
• Just Mercy

  A Story of Justice and Redemption
  Bryan Stevenson

Kirkus Prize: Fiction 2014, awarded by Kirkus Reviews

[see also Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2022 • Fiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2015 • Fiction 2015 • Nonfiction 2014]

Winner

• Euphoria
  Lily King

Finalists

• The Blazing World
  Siri Hustvedt
• All Our Names
  Dinaw Mengestu
• Florence Gordon
  Brian Morton
• The Remedy for Love
  Bill Roorbach
• The Paying Guests
  Sarah Waters

The Booker Prize: Best Fiction of 2014

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

Winner

• The Narrow Road to the Deep North
  Richard Flanagan

Shortlist

• To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
  Joshua Ferris
• We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
  Karen Joy Fowler
• J
  Howard Jacobson
• The Lives of Others
  Neel Mukherjee
• How to Be Both
  Ali Smith

Longlist

• The Blazing World
  Siri Hustvedt
• The Wake
  Paul Kingsnorth
• Us
  David Nicholls
• The Dog
  Joseph O'Neill
• The Bone Clocks
  David Mitchell
• History of the Rain
  Niall Williams
• Orfeo
  Richard Powers

Women's Prize for Fiction: 2014

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

Winner

• A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
  Eimear McBride

Shortlist

• Americanah
  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Burial Rites
  Hannah Kent
• The Undertaking
  Audrey Magee
• The Goldfinch
  Donna Tartt
• The Lowland
  Jhumpa Lahiri

Longlist

• All the Birds, Singing
  Evie Wyld
• The Burgess Boys
  Elizabeth Strout
• Still Life with Bread Crumbs
  Anna Quindlen
• Almost English
  Charlotte Mendelson
• The Flamethrowers
  Rachel Kushner
• The Signature of All Things
  Elizabeth Gilbert
• Reasons She Goes to the Woods
  Deborah Kay Davies
• The Luminaries
  Eleanor Catton
• The Strangler Vine
  M.J. Carter
• The Bear
  Claire Cameron
• The Shadow of the Crescent Moon
  Fatima Bhutto
• The Dogs of Littlefield
  Suzanne Berne
• MaddAddam
  Margaret Atwood
• Eleven Days
  Lea Carpenter

Jane Ciabattari: The Top 10 Books of 2013 as published by BBC Culture

[see also 2016 • 2015 • 2014]

1. Americanah
   Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
3. The Book of My Lives
   Aleksandar Hemon
4. The Flamethrowers
   Rachel Kushner
5. The Woman Upstairs
   Claire Messud
6. The Son
   Philipp Meyer
7. Sparta
   Roxana Robinson
8. Tenth of December
   George Saunders
9. The Woman Who Lost Her Soul
   Bob Shacochis
10. Mary Coin
    Marisa Silver

The New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2013

[see also The 10 Best Books of 2023 • 100 Notable Books of 2023 • The 10 Best Books of 2022 • 100 Notable Books of 2022 • The 10 Best Books of 2021 • 100 Notable Books of 2021 • The 10 Best Books of 2020 • 100 Notable Books of 2020 • 100 Notable Books of 2019 • The 10 Best Books of 2019 • 10 Best Books of 2018 • 100 Notable Books of 2018 • 100 Notable Books of 2017 • 10 Best Books of 2017 • 10 Best Books of 2016 • 10 Best Books of 2015 • The 10 Best Books of 2014 • 100 Notable Books of 2012 • 10 Best Books of 2012 • 100 Notable Books of 2011 • Ten Best Books of 2011]

Fiction

• Americanah
  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Flamethrowers
  Rachel Kushner
• The Goldfinch
  Donna Tartt
• Life After Life
  Kate Atkinson
• Tenth of December
  George Saunders

Nonfiction

• After the Music Stopped

  The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead
  Alan S. Blinder
• Days of Fire

  Bush and Cheney in the White House
  Peter Baker
• Five Days at Memorial

  Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
  Sheri Fink
• The Sleepwalkers

  How Europe Went to War in 1914
  Christopher Clark
• Wave
  Sonali Deraniyagala

Publishers Weekly: Top 10 Books of 2013

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2012 • 2011]

• Sea of Hooks
  Lindsay Hill
• Going Clear

  Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
  Lawrence Wright
• Dirty Wars

  The World Is a Battlefield
  Jeremy Scahill
• Men We Reaped
  Jesmyn Ward
• The People in the Trees
  Hanya Yanagihara
• Lost Girls

  An Unsolved American Mystery
  Robert Kolker
• Miss Anne in Harlem

  The White Women of the Black Renaissance
  Carla Kaplan
• A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
  Anthony Marra
• The Silence and the Roar
  Nihad Sîris
• The Good Lord Bird
  James McBride

The Washington Post: Top 10 Books of 2013

[see also The 10 Best Books of 2023 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2023 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2023 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2022 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2022 • The 10 Best Books of 2022 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2021 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2021 • The 10 Best Books of 2021 • 10 Best Books of 2020 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2020 • Best Books of 2019 • 10 Best Books of 2018 • 100 Notable Books of 2018 • 10 Best Books of 2017 • The 10 Best Books of 2016 • 10 Best Books of 2015 • The Ten Best Books of 2014 • The 10 Best Books of 2012]

Nonfiction

• Book of Ages

  The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
  Jill Lepore
• Drink

  The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol
  Ann Dowsett Johnston
• Going Clear

  Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
  Lawrence Wright
• The Guns at Last Light

  The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945
  Rick Atkinson
• Thank You for Your Service
  David Finkel

Fiction

• A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
  Anthony Marra
• The Good Lord Bird
  James McBride
• How the Light Gets In
  Louise Penny
• The Son
  Philipp Meyer
• The Woman Upstairs
  Claire Messud

National Book Award: Fiction 2013

[see also Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Fiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2022 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2013]

Winner

• The Good Lord Bird
  James McBride

Finalists

• The Flamethrowers
  Rachel Kushner
• The Lowland
  Jhumpa Lahiri
• Bleeding Edge
  Thomas Pynchon
• Tenth of December
  George Saunders

Longlist

• Pacific
  Tom Drury
• The End of the Point
  Elizabeth Graver
• A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
  Anthony Marra
• Someone
  Alice McDermott
• Fools
  Joan Silber