The Results: 2014 Top Non-M/T Authors

[Carol/Bonadie]

1 - Tie: (2 votes each)

Me Before You -- Jo Jo Moyes
Skin Game -- Jim Butcher
The Goldfinch -- Donna Tartte

Honorable Mention (1 vote each)

Black Diamonds -- Catherine Bailey
Broken Harbour -- Tana French.
Dark Wolf -- Christine Feehan
Edge of Eternity -- Ken Follett
Emma Marris's Rambunctious Garden.
Euphoria -- Lily King
Girl on a Wire -- Gwenda Bond
Grey Mountain -- John Grisham
Hannah Kent -- Burial Rites
Leaving Time -- Jodi Picoult
LOST LAKE -- Sarah Addison Allen
Midnight Crossroads -- Charlaine Harris
Natchez Burning -- Greg Iles
Night Broken -- Patricia Briggs
Ordinary Grace -- William Kent Krueger
Red Rising -- Pierce Brown
Remnant Population -- Elizabeth Moon
Revival -- Stephen King
Rhinoceros Summer -- Jamie Thornton
Shadow of Night -- Deborah Harkness.
Shotgun Lovesongs -- Nickolas Butler
Sons of Wichita -- Daniel Schulman
Strangers on the Beach -- Josh Bahigian
Suffragette Autumn Women's Spring -- Ian Porter
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats -- Han-Phillip Sendiker
The Care and Management of Lies -- Jacqueline Winspear
the clifton chronicles -- jeffrey archer
The Fool's Girl -- Celia Rees
THE HUSBAND'S SECRET -- Liane Moriarty
THE INVENTION OF WINGS -- Sue Monk Kidd
The King -- J R Ward
The Last Runaway -- Tracy Chevalier
The Poisonwood Bible -- Kingsolver, Barbara
The Purity of Vengeance -- Jussi Adler-Olsen.
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry -- Gabrielle Zevin
The Surgeon -- Tess Gerritsen
The Undead Pool -- Kim Harrison
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves -- Karen Joy Fowler
Wild Things -- Chloe Neill

[Ann]

I love the variety of what we all read in 2014 and liked enough to list as a top book. I have thought often of our January Group Read book The Goldfinch and am not surprised it made this list.

[Carol/Bonadie]

I was surprised to see people I consider M/T authors on this list, like Tana French, John Grisham, and Greg Iles. Guess some folks were thinking a more specific definition of M/T, which is fine.

[BarryP]

Genre is always a difficulty. Just browse the fiction and mystery sections in a B&N. They can't seem to tell the difference either.