The Best Books of 2014 – According to Amazon

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Coffee_on_BookstapleWe are just in the middle of November and the first list of
Best Books” appeared already – earlier and earlier every year…
Just in time for the Christmas Gift buying season, Amazon
announced their selections for the Best Books of 2014.
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This list includes the editors’ picks for the “Top 100 Books of the Year” as well as the “Top 20” lists in more than twenty categories, from Children’s & Teen books to Cookbooks to Celebrity Picks.

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Editors and Readers Choice
This time, the first year-end roundup comes from the editors at Amazon, who’ve chosen the top 100 books of 2014.  Amazon also asked some of the biggest names in books, fashion, film, food, music, and more – all of whom have recent books of their own – to tell us about the best three books they read this year.
They have done their homework (and saved all of us a lot of time). The team’s top 10 picks are ahead, with their thoughts on why each book was chosen. Print books and Kindle editions can be browsed separately, but the titles are similar on both lists.

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What’s Your Favorite?
Readers are encouraged to vote the “Best Books of 214” at Goodreads (belongs to Amazon). These “Choice Awards” are the only major book awards decided by readers. Their voting process ends on November 24, so they are in the final round right now.

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Don’t Miss these Lists
Amazon selected not only print and e-books, but also: 2014 Best Books of the Year: Audiobooks. Even more: from Arts and Photography to Sports and Outdoors, everything that is available (and sells best) on Amazon. Which makes it a bit easier to choose Christmas gifts.

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So, you might wonder:
Which one is the “Best Book of the Year” according to Amazon?  Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. It is a very moving story about a Chinese-American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio, which got less attention initially than other novels.
Celeste Ng grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Shaker Heights, Ohio, in a family of scientists.  Her fiction and essays have appeared in One Story, TriQuarterly, Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere, and she is a recipient of the Pushcart Prize.  Visit her website at http://celesteng.com

 

 

Number two in this prestigious list is All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel  about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.

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Number three: In the Kingdom of Ice is a white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and survival in the Gilded Age, a story about Arctic explorers, who found themselves marooned a thousand miles north of Siberia with only the barest supplies, starting a long march across the endless ice—a frozen hell in the most lonesome corner of the world.

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