{"id":2319,"date":"2014-11-12T00:27:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T04:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/?p=2319"},"modified":"2014-11-12T00:30:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T04:30:08","slug":"best-books-of-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/best-books-of-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Books of 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

1\u00a0<\/strong>Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng<\/p>\n

2\u00a0<\/strong>All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr<\/p>\n

3\u00a0<\/strong>In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides<\/p>\n

4\u00a0<\/strong>The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League by Jeff Hobbs<\/p>\n

5\u00a0<\/strong>Redeployment by Phil Klay<\/p>\n

6\u00a0<\/strong>Revival by Stephen King<\/p>\n

7\u00a0<\/strong>Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller\u2019s Tragic Quest for Primitive Art by Carl Hoffman<\/p>\n

8\u00a0<\/strong>The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henr\u00edquez<\/p>\n

9\u00a0<\/strong>Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty<\/p>\n

10\u00a0<\/strong>Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel<\/p>\n

11\u00a0<\/strong>Updike by Adam Begley<\/p>\n

12\u00a0<\/strong>The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters<\/p>\n

13\u00a0<\/strong>Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande<\/p>\n

14\u00a0<\/strong>The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell<\/p>\n

15\u00a0<\/strong>The Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson<\/p>\n

16\u00a0<\/strong>Euphoria by Lily King<\/p>\n

17\u00a0<\/strong>The Painter by Peter Heller<\/p>\n

18\u00a0<\/strong>What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe<\/p>\n

19\u00a0<\/strong>We Were Liars by E Lockhart<\/p>\n

20\u00a0<\/strong>A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention by Matt Richtel<\/p>\n

21\u00a0<\/strong>The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd<\/p>\n

22\u00a0<\/strong>I\u2019ll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist by Betty Halbreich<\/p>\n

23\u00a0<\/strong>Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay<\/p>\n

24\u00a0<\/strong>Painted Horses by Malcolm Brooks<\/p>\n

25\u00a0<\/strong>War of the Whales: A True Story by J Horwitz<\/p>\n

26\u00a0<\/strong>Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult<\/p>\n

27\u00a0<\/strong>No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the US Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald<\/p>\n

28\u00a0<\/strong>A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James<\/p>\n

29\u00a0<\/strong>Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta<\/p>\n

30\u00a0<\/strong>The Oldest Living Things in the World by Rachel Sussman<\/p>\n

31\u00a0<\/strong>Hollow City (Miss Peregrine\u2019s Peculiar Children) by Ransom Riggs<\/p>\n

32\u00a0<\/strong>We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas<\/p>\n

33\u00a0<\/strong>Flash Boys by Michael Lewis<\/p>\n

34\u00a0<\/strong>Nora Webster by Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn<\/p>\n

35\u00a0<\/strong>In Paradise by Peter Matthiessen<\/p>\n

36\u00a0<\/strong>The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson<\/p>\n

37\u00a0<\/strong>Fives and Twenty-Fives by Michael Pitre<\/p>\n

38\u00a0<\/strong>Red Rising by Pierce Brown<\/p>\n

39\u00a0<\/strong>The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny<\/p>\n

40\u00a0<\/strong>Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty<\/p>\n

41\u00a0<\/strong>Lucky Us by Amy Bloom<\/p>\n

42\u00a0<\/strong>Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She\u2019s \u2018Learned\u2019 by Lena Dunham<\/p>\n

43\u00a0<\/strong>Casebook by Mona Simpson<\/p>\n

44\u00a0<\/strong>A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre<\/p>\n

45\u00a0<\/strong>The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad) by Tana French<\/p>\n

46\u00a0<\/strong>Bad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld by Jake Halpern<\/p>\n

47\u00a0<\/strong>Prince Lestat: The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice<\/p>\n

48\u00a0<\/strong>Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson\u2019s Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival by Peter Stark<\/p>\n

49\u00a0<\/strong>Why We Lost: A General\u2019s Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars by Daniel P Bolger<\/p>\n

50\u00a0<\/strong>Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel with Blake Masters<\/p>\n

51\u00a0<\/strong>The Magician\u2019s Land: A Novel (Magicians Trilogy) by Lev Grossman<\/p>\n

52\u00a0<\/strong>The Invisible Front: Love and Loss in an Era of Endless War by Yochi Dreazen<\/p>\n

53\u00a0<\/strong>Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One\u2019s Looking) by Christian Rudder<\/p>\n

54\u00a0<\/strong>To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris<\/p>\n

55\u00a0<\/strong>Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts<\/p>\n

56\u00a0<\/strong>Stone Mattress: Nine Tales by Margaret Atwood<\/p>\n

57\u00a0<\/strong>The Remedy for Love by Bill Roorbach<\/p>\n

58\u00a0<\/strong>Unreal City: Las Vegas, Black Mesa, and the Fate of the West by Judith Nies<\/p>\n

59\u00a0<\/strong>All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid by Matt Bai<\/p>\n

60\u00a0<\/strong>Cosby: His Life and Times by Mark Whitaker<\/p>\n

61\u00a0<\/strong>The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: Stories by Hilary Mantel<\/p>\n

62\u00a0<\/strong>Landline by Rainbow Rowell<\/p>\n

63\u00a0<\/strong>The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book by Peter Finn<\/p>\n

64\u00a0<\/strong>Us by David Nicholls<\/p>\n

65\u00a0<\/strong>Yes Please by Amy Poehler<\/p>\n

66\u00a0<\/strong>Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life by Tom Robbins<\/p>\n

67\u00a0<\/strong>Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami<\/p>\n

68\u00a0<\/strong>One Million Steps: A Marine Platoon at War by Bing West<\/p>\n

69\u00a0<\/strong>Badluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West by Bryce Andrews<\/p>\n

70\u00a0<\/strong>Can\u2019t We Talk about Something More Pleasant? A Memoir by Roz Chast<\/p>\n

71\u00a0<\/strong>The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison<\/p>\n

72\u00a0<\/strong>Let Me Be Frank With You: A Frank Bascombe Book by Richard Ford<\/p>\n

73\u00a0<\/strong>The Martian by Andy Weir<\/p>\n

74\u00a0<\/strong>Natchez Burning (Penn Cage) by Greg Iles<\/p>\n

75\u00a0<\/strong>White Tiger on Snow Mountain: Stories by David Gordon<\/p>\n

76\u00a0<\/strong>Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness by Neil Swidey<\/p>\n

77\u00a0<\/strong>Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade by Walter Kirn<\/p>\n

78\u00a0<\/strong>The Fracking King by James Browning<\/p>\n

79\u00a0<\/strong>Liberty\u2019s Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty by Elizabeth Mitchell<\/p>\n

80\u00a0<\/strong>The Forgers by Bradford Morrow<\/p>\n

81\u00a0<\/strong>The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis<\/p>\n

82\u00a0<\/strong>Seconds: A Graphic Novel by Bryan Lee O\u2019Malley<\/p>\n

83\u00a0<\/strong>Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble by Marilyn Johnson<\/p>\n

84\u00a0<\/strong>On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee<\/p>\n

85\u00a0<\/strong>Annihilation (The Southern Reach Trilogy) by Jeff VanderMeer<\/p>\n

86\u00a0<\/strong>Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi<\/p>\n

87\u00a0<\/strong>Lila by Marilynne Robinson<\/p>\n

88\u00a0<\/strong>Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island by Will Harlan<\/p>\n

89\u00a0<\/strong>Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line by Michael Gibney<\/p>\n

90\u00a0<\/strong>Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer<\/p>\n

91\u00a0<\/strong>The Heroes of Olympus, Book Five: The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan<\/p>\n

92\u00a0<\/strong>An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine<\/p>\n

93\u00a0<\/strong>The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan<\/p>\n

94\u00a0<\/strong>My Struggle: Book One by Karl Ove Knausg\u00e5rd<\/p>\n

95\u00a0<\/strong>Secrecy by Rupert Thomson<\/p>\n

96\u00a0<\/strong>The Fever by Megan E Abbott<\/p>\n

97\u00a0<\/strong>The Farm by Tom Rob Smith<\/p>\n

98\u00a0<\/strong>Caught by Lisa Moore<\/p>\n

99\u00a0<\/strong>Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbott<\/p>\n

100\u00a0<\/strong>Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes by Svante P\u00e4\u00e4bo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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