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Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction of 2014

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Rank Title Author Added

1

by Robert Galbraith

5,750 members

342 reviews

3.9

3 Members: girlscan2, KimarieBee, kara.shamy

2

All the Light We Cannot See

by Anthony Doerr

17,207 members

835 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: rozymary, kara.shamy

3

Big Little Lies

by Liane Moriarty

6,841 members

386 reviews

4.1

2 Members: girlscan2, KimarieBee

4

The Bone Clocks

by David Mitchell

4,794 members

283 reviews

3.8

2 Members: girlscan2, kara.shamy

5

The Magician's Land

by Lev Grossman

2,556 members

106 reviews

4.1

2 Members: kara.shamy, tricolourfree

6

1,578 members

83 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

7

All My Puny Sorrows

by Miriam Toews

1,231 members

62 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

8

A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing

by Eimear McBride

1,010 members

58 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: rozymary, kara.shamy

9

Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932: A Novel

by Francine Prose

509 members

22 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: rozymary, kara.shamy

10

by Emily St. John Mandel

10,777 members

749 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

11

by Stephen King

5,958 members

332 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

12

The Miniaturist

by Jessie Burton

3,724 members

217 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

13

The Paying Guests

by Sarah Waters

3,101 members

194 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

14

The Children Act

2,833 members

177 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

15

The Secret Place

2,607 members

169 reviews

3.8

Member: girlscan2

16

2,507 members

151 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

17

by Marilynne Robinson

2,398 members

111 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

18

The Long Way Home

by Louise Penny

2,058 members

126 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

19

Boy, Snow, Bird

by Helen Oyeyemi

1,741 members

109 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: rozymary

20

1,516 members

46 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

21

1,419 members

71 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

22

An Unnecessary Woman

by Rabih Alameddine

1,183 members

84 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

23

by C. J. Sansom

1,026 members

54 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

24

by Megan Abbott

994 members

107 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: kara.shamy

25

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: Stories

by Hilary Mantel

960 members

71 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

26

An Untamed State

938 members

48 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

27

The Moor's Account

by Laila Lalami

881 members

54 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

28

The Blazing World

by Siri Hustvedt

876 members

32 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

29

The Word Exchange

by Alena Graedon

653 members

75 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: rozymary

30

The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing

609 members

91 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

31

Children of the Revolution

by Peter Robinson

606 members

38 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: girlscan2

32

by Nick Harkaway

525 members

35 reviews

4

Member: tricolourfree

33

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

by David Shafer

415 members

28 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: kara.shamy

34

Florence Gordon

by Brian Morton

288 members

31 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

35

The Bones Beneath

by Mark Billingham

240 members

10 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

36

Accidents of Marriage

by Randy Susan Meyers

220 members

25 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

37

by Adam Brookes

211 members

38 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

38

The Remedy for Love: A Novel

by Bill Roorbach

203 members

64 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: kara.shamy

39

American Innovations: Stories

by Rivka Galchen

176 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: rozymary

40

All I Love and Know: A Novel

by Judith Frank

175 members

20 reviews

3.8

Member: rozymary

41

Song of the Shank: A Novel

by Jeffery Renard Allen

115 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: rozymary

42

68 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: rozymary

43

16,935 members

1,197 reviews

½ 4.3

44

by Jeff VanderMeer

5,949 members

345 reviews

½ 3.7

45

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

by Haruki Murakami

4,344 members

207 reviews

3.8

46

by Josh Malerman

3,053 members

246 reviews

3.8

47

2,861 members

194 reviews

3.9

48

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

by Elena Ferrante

2,728 members

90 reviews

4.2

49

by Colm Tóibín

1,427 members

72 reviews

3.9

50

Broken Monsters

by Lauren Beukes

1,322 members

103 reviews

½ 3.7

51

Wolf in White Van

by John Darnielle

1,306 members

80 reviews

½ 3.7

52

My Struggle: Book 3

by Karl Ove Knausgård

915 members

28 reviews

4

53

The Rhesus Chart

by Charles Stross

816 members

37 reviews

3.9

54

Romancing the Duke

721 members

46 reviews

3.8

55

Those Who Wish Me Dead

by Michael Koryta

652 members

51 reviews

3.9

56

The Rise & Fall of Great Powers

648 members

66 reviews

½ 3.6

57

by Akhil Sharma

534 members

26 reviews

½ 3.4

58

by Chelsea Cain

517 members

59 reviews

3.8

59

The Hunting Gun

by Yasushi Inoue

503 members

21 reviews

3.8

60

In the light of what we know

by Zia Haider Rahman

491 members

15 reviews

3.9

61

Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover

by Sarah MacLean

488 members

31 reviews

3.9

62

Heroes Are My Weakness

by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

480 members

34 reviews

½ 3.7

63

453 members

23 reviews

½ 3.6

64

by Dinaw Mengestu

452 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

65

by Christos Tsiolkas

434 members

44 reviews

½ 3.7

66

Shield of Winter

by Nalini Singh

431 members

35 reviews

4.2

67

The Killer Next Door

by Alex Marwood

423 members

36 reviews

½ 3.6

68

Three Weeks with Lady X

by Eloisa James

406 members

20 reviews

3.9

69

by Daryl Gregory

390 members

27 reviews

½ 3.7

70

Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014

359 members

5 reviews

4

71

Valour and Vanity

by Mary Robinette Kowal

355 members

35 reviews

4

72

333 members

23 reviews

3.8

73

by Suzanne Brockmann

311 members

65 reviews

3.8

74

by Kristan Higgins

282 members

20 reviews

4

75

Thunderstruck and Other Stories

by Elizabeth McCracken

271 members

14 reviews

½ 4.3

76

Crown of Renewal

by Elizabeth Moon

269 members

16 reviews

4.1

77

Mermaids in Paradise

by Lydia Millet

269 members

16 reviews

2.9

78

by Linn Ullmann

259 members

19 reviews

½ 3.4

79

A Map of Betrayal

241 members

24 reviews

½ 3.4

80

Steles of the Sky

by Elizabeth Bear

238 members

9 reviews

4.2

81

Kill My Mother: A Graphic Novel

by Jules Feiffer

232 members

14 reviews

½ 3.3

82

Broadchurch - novel

216 members

14 reviews

3.9

83

The Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories (NYRB Classics)

by Tove Jansson

186 members

4 reviews

4.2

84

The Last Illusion

by Porochista Khakpour

181 members

4 reviews

½ 3.3

85

by Julia Elliott

177 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

86

The Stories of Jane Gardam

144 members

2 reviews

4.2

87

by Will Mcintosh

143 members

12 reviews

½ 3.4

88

The Other Language

by Francesca Marciano

115 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

89

by Simon Morden

110 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

90

The Secret Life of William Shakespeare

107 members

6 reviews

3.9

91

Mr. Bones: Twenty Stories

by Paul Theroux

104 members

4 reviews

3.8

92

Hiding in Plain Sight

by Nuruddin Farah

94 members

4 reviews

½ 3.4

93

The Invention of Exile

by Vanessa Manko

87 members

3 reviews

½ 3.4

94

by Elizabeth Crook

84 members

13 reviews

3.8

95

A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall: A Novel

by Will Chancellor

77 members

11 reviews

3.2

96

Waiting for the Electricity: A Novel

by Christina Nichol

43 members

1 review

½ 4.5

97

The Author and Me (French Literature Series)

by Éric Chevillard

41 members

1 review

½ 3.7

98

The Hour of Lead

by Bruce Holbert

41 members

1 review

3

99

Reckless Disregard

by Robert Rotstein

16 members

½ 3.3

100

The Tao of Humiliation (American Readers Series)

13 members

½ 2.5

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