Books: Best of 2014 Lists Galore
(Thanks to WORD bookstore for this wonderful photo–and support all year.)
It’s been a ridiculously amazing year for the Southern Reach Trilogy, which included making the New York Times bestseller list and nonstop touring. Now, at year’s end, the trilogy has made over 35 year’s best lists. In addition, Annihilation is a nominee for the Folio Prize, was a finalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards, and is . I also made Waterstones Booksellers’ list of the authors of the year and the cover of the Area X omnibus from FSG was selected by the New York Times as one of the best book covers of 2014.
Perhaps the most exciting best-of list to make was Entertainment Weekly’s Top 10, along with Esquire’s holiday gift guide, Amazon’s top 100, Buzzfeed’s Top 24, NPR.org’s favorites, Gawker’s best reads, HuffPo’s best, Globe & Mail, and the Los Angeles Times’ 2014 recommended reading. But you’ll find a selection of those year’s best lists below—in case you’re looking to spend some post-holidays gift-card money on books. You’ll find some great stuff on these lists. (Perhaps the most perplexing to me: making Slate’s list of the most overlooked books. I’m grateful, but it seemed to me you could hardly walk a block through the book culture this year without tripping over the Southern Reach.)
My own year’s best lists can be found over at Electric Literature—fiction and nonfiction. I also contributed to Globe & Mail’s list and to FSG’s survey about unusual or daring books. In addition, I wrote about My Life in Indie Bookstores this year. (You can find the rest of my nonfiction for the year, give or take a couple, at this link and this Area X omnibus link. Also check out this flipbook of links and images and my essay on Weird fiction at the Atlantic and my opinion piece on lighthouses in the NYT.)
Barnes & Noble’s Best-of 2014 Guest Lists
Electric Literature’s Top 24 Books
Entertainment Weekly’s Top 10 Best Fiction
Fiction Advocate’s Top 10 Books of the Year
Gawker Review of Books—Best of 2014
The Globe & Mail 100: The Best Books of 2014
Library Journal’s Best SF/Fantasy of 2014
Los Angeles Times Holiday Fiction Guide
NPR.org’s Best Books of 2014
Scholastic Library Journal’s Best 2014 Adult Books for Teens
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Thanks also for the book lists here, I'm sort of addicted to them. I've been on an end of the world/dystopian kick lately (spurned by reading the SR Trilogy), and just completed "The Man in the High Castle" by PKD and the incredible "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline, and am currently reading "The Last Policeman" by Ben Winters. Can you recommend any others along this line? Thinking about reading Atwood's "MadAddam" series next...
Thank you so much for what you do, you really have no idea how excited I was to find a new voice in speculative fiction that really appeals to me. Keep up the great work!
Joe