Amazon's 2014 Best Books of the Year: The Top 100 in Print Format

1.
All the Light We Cannot See
All the Light We Cannot See 4.31 avg rating — 1,904,356 ratings
2.
The Martian
The Martian
by: Andy Weir
4.42 avg rating — 1,238,593 ratings
3.
The Invention of Wings
The Invention of Wings 4.26 avg rating — 328,038 ratings
4.
Station Eleven
Station Eleven 4.07 avg rating — 590,192 ratings
5.
Big Little Lies
Big Little Lies 4.31 avg rating — 1,089,170 ratings
6.
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End 4.49 avg rating — 210,871 ratings
7.
Everything I Never Told You
Everything I Never Told You 3.84 avg rating — 598,184 ratings
8.
We Were Liars
We Were Liars 3.66 avg rating — 1,303,773 ratings
9.
Landline
Landline 3.54 avg rating — 170,772 ratings
10.
Revival
Revival 3.81 avg rating — 137,055 ratings
11.
Lila (Gilead, #3)
Lila (Gilead, #3) 3.95 avg rating — 35,151 ratings
12.
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League 4.14 avg rating — 28,255 ratings
13.
Us
Us 3.73 avg rating — 65,095 ratings
14.
The Painter
The Painter 3.83 avg rating — 16,592 ratings
15.
The Paying Guests
The Paying Guests 3.45 avg rating — 82,658 ratings
16.
The Bone Clocks
The Bone Clocks 3.84 avg rating — 99,252 ratings
17.
Euphoria
Euphoria
by: Lily King
3.86 avg rating — 97,928 ratings
18.
Nora Webster
Nora Webster 3.62 avg rating — 22,989 ratings
19.
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
by: Roz Chast
4.16 avg rating — 31,594 ratings
20.
Boy, Snow, Bird
Boy, Snow, Bird 3.34 avg rating — 30,810 ratings
21.
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions 4.14 avg rating — 191,193 ratings
22.
The Book of Unknown Americans
The Book of Unknown Americans 3.89 avg rating — 45,524 ratings
23.
Leaving Time
Leaving Time really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 198,151 ratings
24.
We Are Not Ourselves
We Are Not Ourselves 3.73 avg rating — 30,045 ratings
25.
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal 4.19 avg rating — 28,139 ratings
26.
Yes Please
Yes Please 3.85 avg rating — 548,514 ratings
27.
My Struggle, Book 1
My Struggle, Book 1 4.10 avg rating — 48,185 ratings
28.
Redeployment
Redeployment
by: Phil Klay
3.96 avg rating — 24,885 ratings
29.
The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)
The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10) 4.07 avg rating — 77,360 ratings
30.
Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)
Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)
by: Greg Iles
4.17 avg rating — 40,929 ratings
31.
Bad Feminist
Bad Feminist 3.92 avg rating — 117,711 ratings
32.
Flash Boys
Flash Boys 4.14 avg rating — 88,876 ratings
33.
Hollow City (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, #2)
Hollow City (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, #2) 4.07 avg rating — 249,650 ratings
34.
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage 3.87 avg rating — 197,454 ratings
35.
Lucky Us
Lucky Us
by: Amy Bloom
3.22 avg rating — 17,902 ratings
36.
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1) 4.27 avg rating — 656,760 ratings
37.
The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus, #5)
The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus, #5) 4.43 avg rating — 378,062 ratings
38.
Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned" 3.29 avg rating — 134,381 ratings
39.
Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
Stone Mattress: Nine Tales 3.89 avg rating — 26,319 ratings
40.
An Unnecessary Woman
An Unnecessary Woman 3.82 avg rating — 13,758 ratings
41.
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution 4.12 avg rating — 39,118 ratings
42.
Capital in the Twenty First Century
Capital in the Twenty First Century 4.06 avg rating — 33,857 ratings
43.
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
The Narrow Road to the Deep North 4.03 avg rating — 60,921 ratings
44.
The Secret Place
The Secret Place 3.85 avg rating — 92,290 ratings
45.
The Empathy Exams
The Empathy Exams 3.67 avg rating — 15,588 ratings
46.
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 281,844 ratings
47.
Let Me Be Frank With You
Let Me Be Frank With You 3.65 avg rating — 5,493 ratings
48.
Fives and Twenty-Fives
Fives and Twenty-Fives 4.06 avg rating — 2,320 ratings
49.
Why We Lost: A General's Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
Why We Lost: A General's Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars 3.71 avg rating — 590 ratings
50.
In Paradise
In Paradise 3.39 avg rating — 2,782 ratings
51.
Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking)
Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking) 3.73 avg rating — 12,377 ratings
52.
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour 3.08 avg rating — 15,490 ratings
53.
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette 4.29 avg rating — 24,753 ratings
54.
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State 4.07 avg rating — 14,930 ratings
55.
Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art
Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art 3.66 avg rating — 5,382 ratings
56.
The Fever
The Fever 3.10 avg rating — 26,468 ratings
57.
Bad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld
Bad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld 3.81 avg rating — 1,080 ratings
58.
Prince Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #11)
Prince Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #11)
by: Anne Rice
3.85 avg rating — 24,484 ratings
59.
A Brief History of Seven Killings
A Brief History of Seven Killings 3.89 avg rating — 37,300 ratings
60.
The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book
The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book 3.74 avg rating — 1,472 ratings
61.
The Magician's Land (The Magicians, #3)
The Magician's Land (The Magicians, #3) 4.14 avg rating — 80,883 ratings
62.
The Remedy for Love
The Remedy for Love 3.26 avg rating — 2,048 ratings
63.
On Such a Full Sea
On Such a Full Sea 3.49 avg rating — 11,747 ratings
63.
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War 3.76 avg rating — 16,840 ratings
65.
The Farm
The Farm 3.56 avg rating — 26,120 ratings
66.
Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness
Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness 4.04 avg rating — 2,449 ratings
67.
Updike
Updike 4.09 avg rating — 629 ratings
68.
War of the Whales: A True Story
War of the Whales: A True Story 4.06 avg rating — 1,654 ratings
69.
Those Who Wish Me Dead
Those Who Wish Me Dead 4.01 avg rating — 15,291 ratings
70.
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future 4.15 avg rating — 381,630 ratings
71.
The Oldest Living Things in the World
The Oldest Living Things in the World 4.23 avg rating — 516 ratings
72.
The Invisible Front: Love and Loss in an Era of Endless War
The Invisible Front: Love and Loss in an Era of Endless War 4.13 avg rating — 342 ratings
73.
Painted Horses
Painted Horses 3.50 avg rating — 2,390 ratings
74.
All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid
All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid
by: Matt Bai
4.01 avg rating — 1,416 ratings
75.
Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life
Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life 3.91 avg rating — 7,248 ratings
76.
White Tiger on Snow Mountain
White Tiger on Snow Mountain 3.45 avg rating — 221 ratings
77.
The Zone of Interest
The Zone of Interest 3.69 avg rating — 10,058 ratings
78.
Napoleon: A Life
Napoleon: A Life 4.24 avg rating — 27,066 ratings
79.
Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble
Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble 3.64 avg rating — 2,114 ratings
80.
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher 3.44 avg rating — 11,189 ratings
80.
Belzhar
Belzhar 3.48 avg rating — 15,291 ratings
82.
The Laughing Monsters
The Laughing Monsters 3.18 avg rating — 4,182 ratings
83.
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes 4.08 avg rating — 3,369 ratings
84.
I'll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist
I'll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist 3.63 avg rating — 4,137 ratings
85.
Caught
Caught 3.43 avg rating — 2,112 ratings
86.
A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention
A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention 3.79 avg rating — 3,451 ratings
87.
Casebook
Casebook 3.31 avg rating — 2,362 ratings
88.
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival 4.09 avg rating — 12,326 ratings
89.
Unreal City: Las Vegas, Black Mesa, and the Fate of the West
Unreal City: Las Vegas, Black Mesa, and the Fate of the West 3.51 avg rating — 181 ratings
90.
Cosby: His Life and Times
Cosby: His Life and Times 3.58 avg rating — 305 ratings
91.
One Million Steps: A Marine Platoon at War
One Million Steps: A Marine Platoon at War
by: Bing West
4.24 avg rating — 1,015 ratings
92.
Badluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West
Badluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West 3.94 avg rating — 971 ratings
93.
Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade
Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade 3.25 avg rating — 4,810 ratings
94.
The Fracking King
The Fracking King 2.67 avg rating — 1,921 ratings
95.
Liberty's Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty
Liberty's Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty 3.54 avg rating — 497 ratings
96.
The Forgers
The Forgers 3.19 avg rating — 2,111 ratings
97.
Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island
Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island 4.36 avg rating — 3,101 ratings
98.
Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line
Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line 3.63 avg rating — 7,747 ratings
99.
Secrecy
Secrecy 3.31 avg rating — 1,083 ratings