The best books of 2014: what are your favourites so far?

Readers' panel: Now that we're halfway into 2014, it seems a good moment to decide what the best new books of the last six months have been. Cast your vote below, and let the polling begin

"Listicles" tend to produce extreme reactions, but they're a useful way to look back and forward to organise our thoughts, as well as a nice summer distraction, and at the Books desk we've decided to embrace them. Readers have been keen to identify the best films and albums of the year (so far) over at our sister sites Film and Music, so we wanted to ask you to take a look back at the first half of the literary year.

What is the book published in the first six months of 2014 that you've enjoyed the most? Nominate it through the form below, justifying your choice of course. We're open to fiction and non-fiction.

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