New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2014 (fiction and nonfiction)

1.
A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing
A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing 3.48 avg rating — 13,673 ratings
2.
All the Light We Cannot See
All the Light We Cannot See 4.31 avg rating — 1,904,583 ratings
2.
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher 3.44 avg rating — 11,189 ratings
4.
Dept. of Speculation
Dept. of Speculation 3.76 avg rating — 58,093 ratings
5.
Family Life
Family Life 3.53 avg rating — 9,860 ratings
6.
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
The Narrow Road to the Deep North 4.03 avg rating — 60,927 ratings
7.
10:04
10:04 3.77 avg rating — 15,282 ratings
8.
Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty
Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty 3.27 avg rating — 1,005 ratings
9.
All Our Names
All Our Names 3.61 avg rating — 4,890 ratings
10.
All the Birds, Singing
All the Birds, Singing
by: Evie Wyld
3.61 avg rating — 14,530 ratings
11.
American Innovations
American Innovations 3.59 avg rating — 1,238 ratings
12.
The Ballad of a Small Player
The Ballad of a Small Player 3.49 avg rating — 1,369 ratings
13.
Bark
Bark 3.60 avg rating — 8,977 ratings
14.
The Blazing World
The Blazing World 3.71 avg rating — 8,677 ratings
15.
The Bone Clocks
The Bone Clocks 3.84 avg rating — 99,254 ratings
16.
The Book of Strange New Things
The Book of Strange New Things 3.66 avg rating — 32,570 ratings
17.
The Book of Unknown Americans
The Book of Unknown Americans 3.89 avg rating — 45,527 ratings
18.
Boy, Snow, Bird
Boy, Snow, Bird 3.34 avg rating — 30,809 ratings
19.
A Brief History of Seven Killings
A Brief History of Seven Killings 3.89 avg rating — 37,302 ratings
20.
Can't and Won't
Can't and Won't 3.58 avg rating — 5,283 ratings
21.
The Cold Song
The Cold Song 3.41 avg rating — 2,579 ratings
22.
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage 3.87 avg rating — 197,473 ratings
23.
The Dog
The Dog 3.16 avg rating — 2,351 ratings
24.
Euphoria
Euphoria
by: Lily King
3.86 avg rating — 97,936 ratings
25.
Everything I Never Told You
Everything I Never Told You 3.83 avg rating — 598,256 ratings
26.
F
F 3.68 avg rating — 3,343 ratings
27.
Faithful and Virtuous Night
Faithful and Virtuous Night 3.94 avg rating — 5,853 ratings
28.
Fourth of July Creek
Fourth of July Creek 3.81 avg rating — 15,254 ratings
29.
I Pity the Poor Immigrant
I Pity the Poor Immigrant 3.18 avg rating — 244 ratings
30.
The Laughing Monsters
The Laughing Monsters 3.18 avg rating — 4,182 ratings
31.
Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel: A Graphic Novel
Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel: A Graphic Novel 3.79 avg rating — 1,164 ratings
32.
Let Me Be Frank With You
Let Me Be Frank With You 3.65 avg rating — 5,493 ratings
33.
Lila (Gilead, #3)
Lila (Gilead, #3) 3.95 avg rating — 35,152 ratings
34.
Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932
Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 3.62 avg rating — 5,170 ratings
35.
The Magician's Land (The Magicians, #3)
The Magician's Land (The Magicians, #3) 4.14 avg rating — 80,890 ratings
36.
The Moor's Account
The Moor's Account 4.04 avg rating — 12,548 ratings
37.
Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals
Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals 3.78 avg rating — 2,757 ratings
38.
Min kamp 3 (Min kamp, #3)
Min kamp 3 (Min kamp, #3) 4.19 avg rating — 15,134 ratings
39.
Nora Webster
Nora Webster 3.62 avg rating — 22,990 ratings
40.
Panic in a Suitcase
Panic in a Suitcase 2.76 avg rating — 1,172 ratings
41.
The Paying Guests
The Paying Guests 3.45 avg rating — 82,661 ratings
42.
The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013
The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 4.24 avg rating — 307 ratings
43.
Redeployment
Redeployment
by: Phil Klay
3.96 avg rating — 24,885 ratings
44.
Remember Me Like This
Remember Me Like This 3.64 avg rating — 8,794 ratings
45.
A Replacement Life
A Replacement Life 3.46 avg rating — 1,439 ratings
46.
Song of the Shank
Song of the Shank 3.07 avg rating — 269 ratings
47.
Thirty Girls
Thirty Girls 3.36 avg rating — 2,535 ratings
48.
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (Neapolitan Novels, #3)
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (Neapolitan Novels, #3) 4.36 avg rating — 183,641 ratings
49.
The Wallcreeper
The Wallcreeper
by: Nell Zink
3.29 avg rating — 4,403 ratings
50.
We Are Not Ourselves
We Are Not Ourselves 3.73 avg rating — 30,046 ratings
51.
When Mystical Creatures Attack!
When Mystical Creatures Attack! 3.99 avg rating — 608 ratings
52.
American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell
American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell 3.72 avg rating — 600 ratings
53.
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End 4.49 avg rating — 210,891 ratings
54.
Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works
Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works 3.75 avg rating — 1,228 ratings
55.
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
by: Roz Chast
4.16 avg rating — 31,597 ratings
56.
China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa
China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa 3.83 avg rating — 1,867 ratings
57.
Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace
Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace 3.45 avg rating — 1,143 ratings
58.
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free 3.92 avg rating — 11,838 ratings
59.
Demon Camp: A Soldier's Exorcism
Demon Camp: A Soldier's Exorcism 3.42 avg rating — 581 ratings
60.
Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War 3.92 avg rating — 7,689 ratings
61.
Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero
Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero 4.13 avg rating — 1,617 ratings
62.
Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer
Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer 4.02 avg rating — 497 ratings
63.
Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II
Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II 4.27 avg rating — 11,421 ratings
64.
Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief
Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief 3.55 avg rating — 1,365 ratings
65.
The Empathy Exams
The Empathy Exams 3.67 avg rating — 15,588 ratings
66.
Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town
Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town
by: Beth Macy
3.86 avg rating — 2,918 ratings
67.
The Fame Lunches: On Sadness, Writing, the Promise of Fame, and Other Imperfections
The Fame Lunches: On Sadness, Writing, the Promise of Fame, and Other Imperfections 3.26 avg rating — 164 ratings
68.
Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Fire Shut Up in My Bones 4.01 avg rating — 4,779 ratings
69.
Forcing the Spring: Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality
Forcing the Spring: Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality
by: Jo Becker
4.03 avg rating — 328 ratings
70.
Gandhi Before India
Gandhi Before India 4.22 avg rating — 1,466 ratings
71.
Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War
Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War 3.80 avg rating — 832 ratings
72.
The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us
The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us 3.68 avg rating — 1,417 ratings
73.
The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan 4.24 avg rating — 3,322 ratings
74.
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
75.
The Invisible History of the Human Race: How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures
The Invisible History of the Human Race: How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures 3.81 avg rating — 1,640 ratings
76.
Just Mercy
Just Mercy 4.63 avg rating — 254,492 ratings
77.
Limonov
Limonov 4.12 avg rating — 14,799 ratings
78.
Little Failure
Little Failure 3.66 avg rating — 7,702 ratings
79.
The Madwoman in the Volvo: My Year of Raging Hormones
The Madwoman in the Volvo: My Year of Raging Hormones 3.29 avg rating — 2,082 ratings
80.
Napoleon: A Life
Napoleon: A Life 4.24 avg rating — 27,068 ratings
81.
No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes 4.47 avg rating — 4,014 ratings
82.
Not I: Memoirs of a German Childhood
Not I: Memoirs of a German Childhood 3.88 avg rating — 630 ratings
83.
On Immunity: An Inoculation
On Immunity: An Inoculation
by: Eula Biss
3.94 avg rating — 11,713 ratings
84.
On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City
On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City 3.82 avg rating — 3,343 ratings
85.
100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater
100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater 4.04 avg rating — 1,846 ratings
86.
The Parthenon Enigma
The Parthenon Enigma 4.09 avg rating — 399 ratings
87.
Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War
Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War 4.09 avg rating — 1,103 ratings
88.
Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life
Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life 4.04 avg rating — 479 ratings
89.
Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights
Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights 4.28 avg rating — 2,091 ratings
90.
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
91.
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History 4.15 avg rating — 77,281 ratings
92.
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal 4.19 avg rating — 28,142 ratings
93.
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World 4.11 avg rating — 20,495 ratings
94.
The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession 4.05 avg rating — 3,313 ratings
95.
Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David
Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David 4.19 avg rating — 3,195 ratings
96.
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate 4.16 avg rating — 27,262 ratings
97.
Thrown
Thrown 3.76 avg rating — 693 ratings
98.
The Trip to Echo Spring
The Trip to Echo Spring 3.75 avg rating — 3,553 ratings
99.
The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas
The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas 3.83 avg rating — 1,534 ratings
100.
World Order
World Order 4.05 avg rating — 13,505 ratings