All the “best of 2014” lists are finished and so we are ready to note for the record our final aggregation of the very Best Books of 2014. Anthony Doerr’s novel remains at the top as the consensus “book of the year,” with works of fiction claiming 7 of the top 10 slots overall. Our final lists are quite similar to the last installment from December, though Lily King’s Euphoria rose on the fiction chart and Leslie Jamison’s essays moved up on our nonfiction chart. As in the past, our final lists also note the editors and agents who worked on […]
