2014

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future is a 2014 book (release date September 16, 2014) by venture capitalist, PayPal co-founder, and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel along with Blake Masters. It is a condensed and updated version of a highly popular set of online notes taken by Masters for the CS183 class on startups taught by Thiel at Stanford University in Spring 2012.

You and Me Forever: Marriage In Light of Eternity is a 2015 New York Times bestselling Christian book written by Francis Chan and his wife Lisa Chan and published by Claire Love Publishing.

The Yellow Peril: Dr Fu Manchu & The Rise of Chinaphobia (2014) is a non-fiction book by British educationalist and writer, Sir Christopher Frayling.

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Gardner Dozois, the thirty-first volume in an ongoing series. It was first published in hardcover, trade paperback and ebook by St. Martin's Griffin in July 2014, with a book club edition co-issued with the Science Fiction Book Club issued in the same month. The first British edition was published in trade paperback by Robinson in November 2014, under the alternate title The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 27.

The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014 is a 2014 book by Carlotta Gall. In the book she argues that the United States and its allies have been focused on stopping the terrorist activities of al-Qaeda and its Taliban supporters in Afghanistan, but that focus should have instead have been on antagonistic forces in Pakistan. Her reasoning is that the Taliban exists and Osama bin Laden was able to survive for so long (and Mullah Omar continues to be a fugitive) because Pakistan's corrupt government and the people at the ISI, Pakistan's clandestine security service, provide aid to these terrorists.

The World of Ice & Fire is a companion book for George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series. Written by Martin, Elio M. García Jr. and Linda Antonsson, it was published by Bantam on October 28, 2014. The 336-page volume is a fully illustrated "history compendium" of Martin's fictional Westeros, featuring newly written material, family trees and extensive maps and artwork.

Wolf in White Van is the first novel by the American author and singer-songwriter John Darnielle. Wolf in White Van tells the story of Sean Phillips, a reclusive game designer whose face has been severely disfigured. One reviewer characterizes Sean as someone "steeped in video games, bad sci-fi movies, and Conan the Barbarian comic books". The plot, which is told non-chronologically, alternates between Sean's childhood, adolescence, and adulthood to describe the circumstances surrounding the incident that disfigured him. A fictional play-by-mail role-playing game called Trace Italian figures prominently in the novel.

The Wee Blue Book is a publication created to advance the "Yes" argument in the Scottish independence referendum of 2014. It was written by Stuart Campbell of the pro-independence website Wings Over Scotland.

We Were Liars is a 2014 young-adult novel by E. Lockhart. The novel itself has received critical acclaim and won the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Young Adult Fiction. It was also listed as an ALA Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults for 2015.

The Way Forward: Renewing the America Idea is a 2014 political book written by Paul Ryan, an American Republican Congressman from Wisconsin and 2012 vice presidential nominee.

Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion is a 2014 book by Sam Harris.

Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France is a 2014 book by Caroline Moorehead.

Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State is a non-fiction book by American consumer advocate Ralph Nader, published in 2014 by Nation Books. Nader argues that there are many issues which progressives, libertarians and conservatives can agree on, such as opposition to "free trade" agreements, too much Wall Street influence in Washington, opposition to "corporate welfare", preservation of civil liberties, opposition to foreign military entanglements, etc., and that by working together they can defeat entrenched interest groups and achieve their desired policy outcomes.

Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution is a 2014 book by British journalist, author and political activist Laurie Penny.

Unifying Hinduism: Philosophy and Identity in Indian Intellectual History is a book on Indian philosophy that describes the philosophical unification of Hinduism, which it places in the Middle Ages. Written by Andrew J. Nicholson, the book was published in the US in 2010 in hardcover, with a paperback edition appearing in 2014. An Indian hardcover edition was published by Permanent Black in 2011. The book won the 2011 award for Best First Book in the History of Religions from the American Academy of Religion, and has been reviewed in numerous professional journals.

The Underground Girls of Kabul: in Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan is a book that documents the bacha posh of Afghanistan. Bacha posh translates from Dari as "dressed up like a boy." It is a term used in Afghanistan and in this book to describe children who are born as girls but are dressed up, raised and treated as if they were boys.The girls will usually serve as a son for the family until she hits puberty. However, the book also delves deeper into those bacha posh that remain boys even after puberty. It is written by journalist and foreign correspondent Jenny Nordberg and was published on September 16 of 2014. It was later released on the 30th of September in the UK.

The Tyranny of Experts is a 2014 book by development economist William Easterly arguing that there are no silver bullets for promoting economic development and that the best hope is to support economic, political, and personal freedom worldwide. The book is similar to Easterly's earlier books on economic development, The Elusive Quest for Growth and The White Man's Burden.

A Tryst with Money is Samar Vijay's first book, published in 2014,. It discusses endeavors of money and our relationship with it.

True Love (Spanish: Amor Verdadero) is a book written by American entertainer Jennifer Lopez. A hardcover edition of the book was published in English and Spanish on November 4, 2014, by Celebra, a division of the Penguin Group. A portion of the proceeds from True Love will go to the Lopez Family Foundation, a nonprofit organization co-founded by Lopez that is dedicated to improving the health and well-being of women and children.

A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History is a 2014 book by retired New York Times science reporter Nicholas Wade. Wade argues that "human evolution has been recent, copious and regional" and that this has important implications for the social sciences. The book has been widely denounced by scientists.

Triumph and Demise: The broken promise of a Labor generation is a 2014 book which chronicles the rise and fall of the Australian Labor Party governments of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard (2007-2013) by Australian author and journalist Paul Kelly.

The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America is a book published in 2014 by two professors at Yale Law School, Jed Rubenfeld and Amy Chua, who is also the author of the international bestseller, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.

This House of Grief is a 2014 non-fiction work by Australian writer Helen Garner. Subtitled "The story of a murder trial", its subject matter is the conviction for murder of a man who accused of driving his car into a dam resulting in the deaths of his three children.

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate is Naomi Klein's fourth book; it was published in September 2014 by Simon & Schuster. In it Klein argues that the climate crisis cannot be addressed in the current era of neoliberal market fundamentalism, which encourages profligate consumption and has resulted in mega-mergers and trade agreements hostile to the health of the environment.

Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain is the third non-fiction book by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and New York Times journalist Stephen J. Dubner. The book was published on May 12, 2014 by William Morrow.

Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics is a non-fiction book written by Charles Krauthammer. It was Number 1 on the The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Sellers List for four weeks in January 2014.

These Are The Voyages: TOS, Season Two is a non-fiction reference book by Marc Cushman with Susan Osborn forward by Walter Koenig (Chekov) about the second season of Star Trek. The information revealed inside primarily comes from production documents that were donated by Gene Roddenberry and Robert H. Justman to the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

The Religion of the Future is a book by philosopher and politician Roberto Mangabeira Unger. In the book, he argues that humanity is in need of a religious revolution that dispenses with the concept of God and elements of the supernatural, a revolution that expands individual and collective human empowerment by fostering a condition he calls "deep freedom"—a life of creativity, risk, experiment, and meaningful personal connection—protected by structure-revising social and political structures of an empowered democracy hospitable to the context-breaking capacities inherent in human life.

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The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream is a non-fiction book by Dan Washburn, an American journalist who was based in Shanghai, China from 2002 to 2011. It was published by Oneworld Publications in 2014. In the book, Washburn uses the contradictory emergence of golf as a "metaphor for modern China." The Financial Times named The Forbidden Game one of the best books of 2014.

Merci pour ce moment ("Thank you for this moment") is a 2014 best-selling political memoir authored by Valérie Trierweiler, a French journalist and the former partner of French President François Hollande.

Terminal Bar: A Photographic Record of New York's Most Notorious Watering Hole is a 2014 photography book that is a collection of Sheldon Nadelman's photos taken during his ten years spent as a bartender at the Terminal Bar in New York City.

Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh is a book by John Lahr first published in 2014. It is a biography of Tennessee Williams.

Temsalet is a book published by the Network of Ethiopian Women's Associations featuring the stories and photographs of 64 accomplished Ethiopian women. Its publication on October 7, 2014 was accompanied by a week-long exhibition, "Faces of Temsalet", featuring photographs by Ethiopian photographer Aïda Muluneh, whose portraits of the women accompany each story in the book.

Svenska Folkbibeln (Swedish People's Bible) is a contemporary translation of the Bible in Swedish. It was published in 1998. In autumn 2014 a revised edition of the Psalms and the New Testament was published. The translation project aims to revise the entire Old Testament.

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014) is a book by Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom. It argues that if machine brains surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could replace humans as the dominant lifeform on Earth. Sufficiently intelligent machines could improve their own capabilities faster than human computer scientists. As the fate of gorillas now depends more on humans than on the actions of gorillas themselves, so will the fate of future humanity depend on the actions of the machine superintelligence. The outcome could be an existential catastrophe for humans.

Sri Lanka's Secrets: How the Rajapaksa Regime Gets Away with Murder is a 2014 book written by Australian writer, veteran journalist and activist Trevor Grant, examining the various forms of genocide perpetuated on Tamil people by the Sri Lankan government and the complicity of international establishments.

The Son Also Rises is a 2014 non-fiction book on the study of social mobility by the economist Gregory Clark. It is based on historical estimates of social mobility in various countries made by Clarke in collaboration with other researchers, though Clarke takes pains to point out from the start the controversial conclusions he draws are his alone.

The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man (ISBN 978-0-8041-7352-0) is a 2014 book by Luke Harding, published by Vintage Books.

The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America's Coldest Cases is a 2014 non-fiction work that was written by Deborah Halber. It was first published on 1 July 2014 through Simon & Schuster and details the phenomenon of citizens creating and using Internet resources to identify unidentified human remains.

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History is a 2014 nonfiction book written by Elizabeth Kolbert and published by Henry Holt & Company. The book demonstrates that the Earth is in the midst of a modern, man-made, sixth mass extinction. In the book, Kolbert chronicles previous mass extinction events, and compares them to the accelerated, widespread extinctions during our present time. She also describes specific species extinguished by humans, as well as the ecologies surrounding prehistoric and near-present extinction events. The author received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for the book in 2015.

The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time: A Proposal in Natural Philosophy is a non-fiction book by American theoretical physicist Lee Smolin and Brazilian philosopher Roberto Mangabeira Unger. The book was initially published by Cambridge University Press on December 8, 2014.

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace is a biography—by Jeff Hobbs—about a young African-American man who left the streets of Newark, New Jersey to attend Yale University, but fell back into the streets when he returned to Newark and was murdered.

The Shem Qadosh Version of Scripture (SQV) is a translation of the Bible, based on the World English Bible. The title "Shem Qadosh" is transliterated from the Hebrew phrase שם קדוש (Shem Qadosh, meaning "Holy Name"). It is a Sacred Name Bible rendering the name of God using the Hebrew characters יהוה (Yahweh), and that of Jesus in Hebrew as ישוע. It was created by a team of volunteers across the United States, with additional proofing and editing assistance by individuals in Poland and Taiwan. Footnotes and appendices were written by the General Editor, J. A. Brown.

The Secrets to App Success on Google Play is a guidebook published by Google for developers. The book, 81 pages in length, covers the key aspects of publishing apps and games on Google Play, and provides information regarding the Google Play Developer Console. The guide is in the format of a playbook and is divided into 8 chapters. According to the Empire State Tribune, the playbook is comprehensive and highly detailed as it tackles an assortment of topics such as the best practices and tools developers can use to maximize their target market, keep users glued to their products, and generate revenuee.

The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies is a 2014 book by Andrew McAfee which is a continuation of their book Race Against the Machine. They argue that the Second Machine Age involves the automation of a lot of cognitive tasks that make humans and software-driven machines substitutes, rather than complements. They contrast this with what they call the "First Machine Age", or Industrial Revolution, which helped make labor and machines complementary.

The Scottish Town in the Age of Enlightenment 1740-1820 is a book by the Scottish historians Bob Harris and Charles McKean, first published in August 2014 by Edinburgh University Press. The book won the Saltire Book of the Year award for 2014.

The Science of Interstellar is a non-fiction book by American theoretical physicist Kip Thorne with the foreword by Christopher Nolan. The book was initially published on November 7, 2014 by W. W. Norton & Company. This is his second full-size book for non-scientists after Black Holes and Time Warps, released in 1994. The Science of Interstellar is a follow-up text for the 2014 movie Interstellar, starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, and Jessica Chastain.

Rumours of Glory is a 2014 autobiography by Canadian musician Bruce Cockburn.

Rogues is a cross-genre anthology featuring 21 original short stories from various authors, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, and released on June 17, 2014.

Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914-1918 is an award-winning book on World War I by Alexander Watson.

Revolution is a book written by comedian, actor and political activist Russell Brand. It was published by Random House in 2014.

Reindeer’s Christmas Surprise is a book for children created for the Sydney department store David Jones’ animated Christmas Windows for 2014. The David Jones windows are part of a world-wide historic tradition of animated displays created by department stores at Christmas time. Traditionally the David Jones windows have often featured snowy European scenarios, but the 2014 windows are set in a distinctly Australian summer, featuring beach and rainforest scenes. The story, also published as a book, was written for the windows by Australian author Ursula Dubosarsky with illustrations by Sue De Gennaro.

Redrawing India: The Teach For India Story is a Non-fiction book written by Kovid Gupta and Shaheen Mistri.

Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More is a memoir by the American transgender activist Janet Mock. It was published on 1 February 2014 by Atria Books. The book has received praise from Melissa Harris-Perry, bell hooks, Laverne Cox, and Barbara Smith. It debuted in 19th position on The New York Times Best Seller list for Hardcover Nonfiction. The book's original title was Fish Food.

Rebbe is the best selling biography of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson authored by Joseph Telushkin and published in 2014.

The Price of Silence: The Duke Lacrosse Scandal, the Power of the Elite, and the Corruption of Our Great Universities is a nonfiction book about the Duke lacrosse case by William D. Cohan. It was published on April 8, 2014, by Scribner.

Praying Drunk is a collection of twelve short stories by Kyle Minor. The book was published in 2014 by Sarabande Books.

The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe is a 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner autobiography of Pope Pius XI about his relations with Benito Mussolini and rise of Fascism in Europe by David Kertzer. The book examined documentary evidence from the Vatican archives, arguing that Pope Pius XI played a significant role in supporting the rise of Fascism and Benito Mussolini in Italy, but not Nazi Germany.

The Pointless Book is a 2014 activity book by British vlogger, YouTuber and presenter Alfie Deyes.

Poems for the Hazara (ISBN 978-0983770824)(ISBN 978-0983770862) is a multilingual poetry anthology and a collaborative poem composed of the works of one hundred twenty five internationally recognized poets from sixty-eight countries. Poems in this book are in English, Spanish, Catalan, Japanese, Norwegian, Turkish, Hazaragi, Italian, Greek, German, Irish, Hebrew, Romanian, French, Armenian, Hungarian and Portuguese. All non-English poems have been translated into English. "Poems for the Hazara" includes the poetry anthology and a collaborative poem (Collaborative poetry) featuring contributions from 23 international poets. An open letter from 354 celebrated poets including Nobel, Pulitzer, continental and national literary prize winners as well as presidents of PEN clubs, and writers associations from 97 countries is included at the end. This letter is addressed to world leaders in support of the Hazara people. The executive editor is Hazara poet, journalist and human rights activist, Kamran Mir Hazar.

Please, Mister Postman is the second volume of memoirs by Alan Johnson, first published in 2014. The title is a reference to the Beatles' cover of the song of the same name, and to Johnson's past as a postman.

Playing It My Way is the autobiography of former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar. It was launched on 5 November 2014 in Mumbai. The book summarises Tendulkar's early days, his 24 years of international career and aspects of his life that have not been shared publicly.

Phoning Home is a collection of autobiographical essays by Jacob Appel, published in 2014 by the University of South Carolina. The collection won the New Haven Prize in 2014 and a finalist for the Housatonic Book Award in 2015.

Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love is a book by James Booth first published in 2014.

Percy Jackson's Greek Gods is a collection of short stories about Greek mythology as narrated by Percy Jackson. It was written by Rick Riordan and was released on August 19, 2014. It features Percy Jackson giving his own take of the Greek myths in a humorous way.

The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age is a 2014 book by Astra Taylor. Its central argument "challenges the notion that the Internet has brought us into an age of cultural democracy."

Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War is a 2014 non-fiction book by American journalist James Risen. The book examines what Risen calls the "homeland security industrial complex", the effects of the War on Terror and the resulting financial malfeasance during the American occupation of Iraq. Risen alleges that almost 12 billion dollars sent from the U.S. to Iraq "is either unaccounted for or has simply disappeared". The book also investigates the use of torture and the cooperative role of the American Psychological Association in the enhanced interrogation program, as well as the threat to the right to privacy posed by NSA warrantless surveillance.

Paws and Whiskers is a 2014 fundraising anthology for the Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, featuring some of the best children's stories about cats and dogs of all time, selected by multi-award-winning and best-selling children's author Jacqueline Wilson, with illustrations by Nick Sharratt. Published 13 February 2014 by Doubleday Children's, the book includes a new story by Wilson, Leonie's Pet Cat, as well as extracts from such classics as The Hundred and One Dalmatians, by Dodie Smith, and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll.

Outlaw Pete is a book by Bruce Springsteen and artwork by Frank Caruso and based on the song of the same name from Springsteen's album, Working on a Dream.

Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality (2014) is a nonfiction book by Swedish-American cosmologist Max Tegmark. Written in popular science format, the book interweaves what a New York Times reviewer called "an informative survey of exciting recent developments in astrophysics and quantum theory" with Tegmark's mathematical universe hypothesis, which posits that reality is a mathematical structure. This mathematical nature of the universe, Tegmark argues, has important consequences for the way researchers should approach many questions of physics.

The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload is a bestselling popular science book written by the McGill University neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin, PhD, and first published by Dutton Penguin in the U.S. and Canada in 2014. It is Levitin's 3rd consecutive best-seller, debuting at #2 on the New York Times Best Seller List, #1 on the Canadian best-seller lists, #1 on Amazon, and #5 on The London Times bestseller list.

The Open-Source Lab: How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce Research Costs by Joshua M. Pearce was published in 2014 by Elsevier (ISBN 9780124104624).

Open Data Now is a 2014 book on open data by Joel Gurin.

Only Planet is a book by Ed Gillespie about his flight free adventure around the world. Published in June 2014 by Wild Things Publishing his first book embraces environmentally sustainable, slow travel.

One Woman's War: Da (Mother) (Persian: دا، جنگ یک زن‎‎) is a memoir by Seyyedeh Zahra Hosseini detailing her experiences during the Iran–Iraq War as recorded by Seyedeh Azam Hosseini (no relation). The memoir was recorded through thousands of hours of conversation between Zahra Hosseini and Azam Hosseini, while parts of the book are autobiography by the narrator. The title, Da, means "mother" in Kurdish and Luri, and was meant to memorialize the role of Iranian mothers during the Iran–Iraq War.

One Life Is Not Enough an autobiography by K. Natwar Singh, former Minister of External Affairs and senior Indian National Congress politician. An account of his career as a politician and bureaucrat, the book tells about his experiences in Delhi’s political corridors and sets the record straight on several events, including the volcker controversy and Sonia Gandhi withdrawal as a prime minister candidate.

On Silbury Hill is a book by Adam Thorpe first published in 2014. The book was featured on BBC Radio's Book of the Week program during August 2014.

On Liberty is a book published in 2014 by the civil rights campaigner Shami Chakrabarti.

Octopus's Garden is a children's book written by Beatle drummer Ringo Starr. The book is named after and based on the Beatles' 1969 song of the same name from their album Abbey Road.

The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph is the third book by bestselling author Ryan Holiday and was published in 2014. It is loosely based on the Roman philosophy of stoicism.

Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned" is a 2014 memoir book written by Lena Dunham. The book is a collection of autobiographical essays, lists, and emails. Not That Kind of Girl was released in hardcover by Random House on September 30, 2014.

No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State is a 2014 non-fiction book by American investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald. It was first published on May 13, 2014 through Metropolitan Books and details Greenwald's role in the global surveillance disclosures as revealed by the former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. The documents from the Snowden archive cited in the book are freely available online.

National Security and Double Government is a 2014 book by Michael J. Glennon, professor of international law at Tufts University.

Napet Šou (Tense Show) is name of the book accompanied by homonymous fifth album by Serbian writer and hip-hop artist Marčelo. The album contains 19 tracks and it was made by a crew that counts over 50 people. Book-album was released on October 1, 2014 and it broke all records of publishing houses Laguna and Delfi SKC along with Marčelo's personal record in book and album signing.

My Heart Is a Drunken Compass is a 2014 memoir by Domingo Martinez. Martinez's motivation for writing this memoir was to use writing as a therapeutic outlet to cope with his feelings following accidents involving his brother and ex-fiancée.

Multiverse: Exploring Poul Anderson's Worlds is a gedenkschrift honoring science fiction and fantasy author Poul Anderson, in the form of an anthology of short stories and tributes edited by Greg Bear and Gardner Dozois. The book also includes cover art and interior illustrations by Bob Eggleton. It was first published in hardcover in May 2014 by Subterranean Press, with simultaneous paperback and ebook editions issued in June 2015 by Baen Books. All but one of the pieces are original to the anthology; the remaining one, Tad Williams's "Three Lilies and Three Leopards (And a Participation Ribbon in Science)", was originally published in the Winter 2012 issue of the ejournal Subterreanean Online.

More Than Two: A practical guide to ethical polyamory (ISBN 978-0-9913997-0-3 (paperback) / ISBN 978-0-9913997-2-7 (Kindle/ePub) is a non-fiction book about the ethics of consensual non-monogamous relationships, written by Franklin Veaux and Eve Rickert, and with a foreword by Janet Hardy, co-author of the book The Ethical Slut. The origins of the book can be traced back to a website by the same name, started by Veaux in 1997 as one of the first web resources about polyamory.

More Fool Me: A Memoir is the 2014 autobiography of Stephen Fry. The book is a continuation from the end of his 1997 publication, Moab Is My Washpot: An Autobiography, and the 2010 The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography. It contains an overview of these previous two volumes, and an account of Fry's later cocaine addiction. The book is Fry's tenth and his third volume of autobiography.

The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels is a 2014 book by American energy theorist Alex Epstein. The book argues that, although sometimes labeled as "immoral," the use of fossil fuels dramatically improves the overall progress of humanity, and improves life expectancy and income. The book was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller.

Modern English Version (MEV) is an English translation of the Bible begun in 2005 and completed in 2014. The work was edited by James F. Linzey, and is an update of the King James Version (KJV), re-translated from the Masoretic Text and the Textus Receptus. The ecumenical Committee on Bible Translation (Committee) is composed of 47 American and English scholars from the three major branches of Christendom: Orthodox, Protestant, and Roman Catholic.

The Mirage is a book written by Jamal Sanad Al-Suwaidi, Director of the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research in Abu Dhabi, UAE. This book, originally published in Arabic as "Al-Sarab" (Arabic: السراب‎), is a review of the history, origin, evolution, practices and objectives of political Islam in Arab and Muslim societies. It also explains the danger of related political religious groups. Its title is a metaphor about the misleading religious solutions proposed by Islamist groups, to contemporary social problems.

Men of Letters: The Post Office Heroes who Fought the Great War is a book by Duncan Barrett, co-author of The Sugar Girls and GI Brides and editor of The Reluctant Tommy. It was published by AA Publishing on 1 August 2014 and officially launched on 4 August to marked the hundredth anniversary of Britain's declaration of war.

Men Explain Things To Me is a 2014 book by Rebecca Solnit, published by Haymarket Books. The book is a collection of seven essays and "has become a touchstone of the feminist movement." The main essay in the book was cited in The New Republic as the piece that "launched the term mansplaining."

Meat Atlas (Der Fleischatlas) is an annual report, published by the Heinrich Böll Foundation and Friends of the Earth Europe, on the methods and impact of industrial animal agriculture. Consisting of 27 short essays by different authors, the report aims to inform consumers about the impact of meat consumption on global poverty, climate change, animal welfare, biodiversity, and the migration of workers.

Mama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love (ISBN 9780992351205) is Antonella Gambotto-Burke's first book about parenthood and sixth work. The foreword was written by French obstetrician and academic Michel Odent. Dealing with the issue of attachment on levels ranging from the cultural to maternal-infant, Mama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love features essays about Gambotto-Burke's experiences of motherhood and long-form interviews. Her interviewees include historian Stephanie Coontz, artist Michael Hague, anthropologist Sheila Kitzinger, psychologist Gabor Maté, Michel Odent, and others. Mama was launched by internationally bestselling parenting author and psychology professor Steve Biddulph, who described the book's insights as "really important". In an interview with the ABC, founder of the Read Clinic and widely-published psychologist Dr. John Irvine described Mama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love as being to motherhood what The Female Eunuch was to feminism.

Mahavira: The Hero of Nonviolence is an illustrated children’s story based upon the life of a teacher of the Jain faith.

The Lost Gospel: Decoding the Ancient Text that Reveals Jesus' Marriage to Mary the Magdalene is a book published by investigative journalist Simcha Jacobovici and New Testament scholar Barrie Wilson in 2014. It contends that the 6th century manuscript commonly referred to as "Joseph and Aseneth" is really a disguised history.

Lohoof (Arabic: لُهوف) is a book by Sayyed Ibn Tawus, a Shia jurist, theologian, and historian. It is kind of Maqtal al-Husayn (Arabic: مقتل الحسين), narrating the Battle of Karbala, the death of Husayn ibn Ali, and subsequent events.

The Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme (LIPP, "Lexicon of the Indo-European Particles and Pronominal Stems") is an etymological dictionary of the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) particles and pronouns, published in 2014. It consists of two volumes; number 1 containing an introduction, terminology, sound laws, adverbial endings, nominal suffixes, appendices, and indices, and number 2 containing the lexicon.

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KP: The Autobiography is the autobiography of England cricketer Kevin Pietersen, ghost written by Irish sports journalist David Walsh. It is scheduled to be released on 9 October 2014. The book will summarise incidents from Pietersen's early life in South Africa and his career with the England team, including his sacking from the England squad in February 2014.

Kingdom of The Soap Queen: The Story of Balaji Telefilms is a Non-fiction book written by Kovid Gupta.

The Killing of Tupac Shakur is a biographical and true-crime account by American journalist and author Cathy Scott of the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur. The book made news upon its September 1997 release, on the first anniversary of Shakur's death, because of an autopsy photo included in its pages. It was the first book to be released covering the rapper's death. The book was reprinted in the UK by Plexus Publishing and in Poland by Kagra. Coverage of the autopsy photo, taken of Shakur's body on a gurney in the coroner's examining room, catapulted the book onto the Los Angeles Times bestseller list. New editions of the book were released in 2002 and 2014.

Key Witness is a book that tells the story behind investigative reporting on Asian Agri Group’s tax evasion case conducted by former Tempo (Indonesian magazine) journalist, Metta Dharmasaputra. The book, which took more than six years to finish, also tells true story of manhunt for Vincent, the whistleblower in the case.

Is This Legal?: The Inside Story of The First UFC from the Man Who Created It is a 2014 non-fiction book on the creation of Ultimate Fighting Championship. It is co-authored by Art Davie, the founder of the UFC, and Sean Wheelock.

The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (2014) is a nonfiction book written by Walter Isaacson. The book details the history of the digital revolution through several pivotal innovators who created early computer breakthroughs and later larger systems like the Internet. The author also asserts that many innovators' successes throughout history happen often with the help of other contributors via teamwork. This book also delves into the topic of artificial intelligence, the founder being British computer science pioneer Alan Turing.

Indra's Net: Defending Hinduism's Philosophical Unity is a 2014 book by Rajiv Malhotra, an Indian-American author, philanthropist and public speaker, published by HarperCollins. The book is an appeal against the thesis of neo-Hinduism and a defense of Vivekananda's view of Yoga and Vedanta. The book argues for an unity, coherence, and continuity of the Yogic and Vedantic traditions of Hinduism and Hindu philosophy. It makes proposals for defending Hinduism from what the author considers to be unjust attacks from scholars, misguided public intellectuals, and hostile religious polemicists. Indra's Net has been reviewed in newspapers, video sharing sites, web fora, and other websites.

In The Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Doubleday), 2014, is a non-fiction book written by author and historian Hampton Sides. The book tells the true story of the arctic voyage of the USS Jeannette and the crew's struggle to survive after having to abandon their ship in the polar ice.

I Am Rosa Parks is a children's book written by Brad Meltzer in the "Ordinary People Change the World" series. It follows the adventures of a young Rosa Parks learning important lessons.

I Am Albert Einstein is a children's book written by Brad Meltzer in the "Ordinary People Change the World" series. It follows the adventures of a young Albert Einstein learning important lessons.

I Am Amelia Earhart is one of the first children's book written by Brad Meltzer in the "Ordinary People Change the World" series. It follows the adventures of a young Amelia Earhart learning important lessons.

I Am Abraham Lincoln is the first children's book written by Brad Meltzer in the "Ordinary People Change the World" series. It follows the adventures of a young Abraham Lincoln learning important lessons.

The Hunger is a book by Lincoln Townley is a memoir published by Simon and Schuster 22 May 2014. The book is about the life of writer and prolific figurative artist Lincoln Townley during his time in London's Soho during 2009 to 2012 where he ran strip clubs and organised private sex parties for City bankers spending his downtime painting very explicit oil paintings in his flat in Old Compton Street. Townley is a prolific contemporary figurative artist and reformed alcoholic living between Cheshire and London and is married to award winning actress Denise Welch and is stepdad to Matthew Healy the lead singer of the band The 1975.

Humble before the Void: A Western Astronomer, his Journey East, and a Remarkable Encounter Between Western Science and Tibetan Buddhism is a non-fiction book by astronomer Chris Impey that takes the reader on an intellectual journey with Buddhist monks as they learn cosmology. With a foreword by the Dalai Lama, the book describes the progress of the first cohort in the "Science for Monks" program, located in northern India. The book was published as a hardcover by Templeton Press in 2014.

Human Universe is a 2014 book by theoretical physicists Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen. The book aims to explore Human life as well as understand what it is, and is explained in a way that is accessible to a general reader. The book is based on a series with the same name Human Universe.

HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton is a 2014 book by two Washington-based reporters, Amie Parnes and Jonathan Allen about Hillary Rodham Clinton's tenure as United States Secretary of State and recovery from her loss in the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries. It was particularly noted by the media for saying that Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, compiled a "hit list" of individuals who were viewed as having had been unhelpful during her 2008 presidential campaign.

How Google Works is a book co-written by Google's Executive Chairman and ex-CEO Eric Schmidt and former SVP of Products Jonathan Rosenberg. The authors explain how technology has shifted the balance of power from companies to consumers and make the argument that the only way to succeed in this ever-changing landscape is to create superior products and attract a new breed of multifaceted employees, dubbed "smart creatives". The book is in English and was published on 23 September 2014 by Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group. The hardcover version is 304 pages in length. Covering various topics such as corporate culture, strategy, talent, decision-making, communication, innovation, and dealing with disruption, the authors illustrate management maxims with numerous insider anecdotes from Google’s history. It became a New York Times bestseller.

History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time is a non-fiction book written by Brad Meltzer. It contains a series of investigations into histories greatest conspiracies. Contained in at the introduction to each chapter is an envelope that holds facsimiles of relevant evidence: John Wilkes Booth’s alleged unsigned will, a map of the Vatican, Kennedy’s death certificate. It is a companion to the show Brad Meltzer's Decoded on History Channel. According to WorldCat, the book is in 896 libraries.

Hauptmann's Ladder: A Step-by-Step Analysis of the Lindbergh Kidnapping is an historical true crime book written by Richard T. Cahill Jr. It was published by Kent State University Press and officially released on March 1, 2014, the 82nd anniversary of the kidnapping.

Hard Choices is a memoir of former United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, published by Simon & Schuster in 2014, giving her account of her tenure in that position from 2009 to 2013. It also discusses some personal aspects of her life and career, including her feelings towards President Barack Obama following her 2008 presidential campaign loss to him. It is generally supportive of decisions made by the Obama administration.

Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search For The Secrets Of A Great Marriage is a New York Times and USA Today Best Selling book written by American author Fawn Weaver. Released on January 7, 2014, Happy Wives Club debuted on the New York Times Nonfiction Paperback list at #3 in the January 26 edition of the New York Times Best Sellers List. Happy Wives Club chronicles the author’s journey through 12 countries and 6 continents in search of the universal secret to a happy marriage.

Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America is the debut book by Linda Tirado. The book was released on 2 October 2014 and contains a foreword written by Barbara Ehrenreich.

Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch is a 2014 book about the News International phone hacking scandal by the British investigative journalist Nick Davies.

Gus & Me is a children's book written by The Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards. The book is subtitled "The Story of My Granddad and My First Guitar," and recounts the story of how a young Richards learned to play guitar from his grandfather, Theodore Augustus "Gus" Dupree. The book was illustrated by Richards' daughter, Theodora Richards, who was named after her grandfather. Gus & Me reached #2 on the The New York Times Best Seller list for children's books. It was written with Barnaby Harris and Bill Shapiro, and was published in 2014 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. It was packaged with a CD that featured Richards reading the story. In 2010, Little, Brown published Richards' bestselling biography, LIFE.

Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising is the second book by bestselling author Ryan Holiday. It explains how growth hacking is cheaper and more effective than traditional marketing, and provides case studies of companies like Twitter and Facebook to illustrate the efficacy of growth hacking techniques.

A Greater Tomorrow: My Journey Beyond the Veil is a book written Julie Rowe where she describes her near death experience. Rowe is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and has become a controversial figure in the religion.

The Glass Closet: Why Coming Out Is Good Business is a 2014 book by John Browne, the former Chairman of BP. It talks about being gay in the workplace. Browne argues that being out increases productivity.

Girl Trouble: Panic and Progress in the History of Young Women is a book about the media hysteria that accompanied the behavior of young women in the 20th-century, written by Carol Dyhouse and published by Fernwood Publishing in 2014. Upon publication the book was positively reviewed by critics.

The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind is a popular science book by futurist and physicist Michio Kaku. The book was initially published on February 25, 2014 by Doubleday.

The French Suicide (Le Suicide français) is a 2014 French non-fiction book by Éric Zemmour. It is a look into how France's political policies are destroying itself.

Freeway Rick Ross: The Untold Autobiography is a 2014 memoir by former drug kingpin Rick Ross, co-authored by American crime writer Cathy Scott, about the rise and fall of Ross, in the 1980s and '90s, to his 2009 release from prison. The book was released by Freeway Studios in June 2014.

Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie is a 2014 non-fiction book by Jon Ronson, which describes his time with musician/comedian Frank Sidebottom as a keyboardist in his band in the late 1980s, as well as the inception of the 2014 movie Frank, for which he co-wrote the script. It is a reprint of an article originally written for The Guardian newspaper.

Food Unwrapped is a 2014 book about the food industry by British writer Daniel Tapper. It is based on a BBC Channel 4 television series of the same name, and covers food science and food technology in mass-produced foods with the objective of "dispel food myths and reveal some truths about the food we buy". Subjects covered in the book include the relative merits of sea salt versus table salt; and the harm or lack of harm in artificial food colorings and flavorings.

Flight MH370: The Mystery is a 2014 book by American-born-British author Nigel Cawthorne concerning the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt is a non-fiction book by the American writer Michael Lewis, published by W. W. Norton & Company on March 31, 2014. The book focuses on the rise of high-frequency trading (HFT) in the US equity market. Lewis states that "The market is rigged" by HFT traders who front run orders placed by investors. The book remained on the first place of The New York Times Best Seller list for four consecutive weeks.

The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America is a 2014 non-fiction book by Naomi Murakawa. The book discusses U.S. incarceration rates, racial inequality in the U.S. prison system, and the role of liberal politicians (specifically Democrats) in contributing to inequalities there.

Feeding Everyone No Matter What: Managing Food Security After Global Catastrophe is a book written by David Denkenberger and Joshua M. Pearce and published by Elsevier under their Academic Press.

Fandemonium is a book by the Red Hot Chili Peppers and photographer David Mushegain and was released officially on November 18, 2014 (some fans were shipped their book a week earlier than the actual release date depending on how early they ordered the book). The book features photographs and interviews conducted by Mushegain with fans of all ages throughout the world during the band's 2011-13 I'm with You tour. Also included is a special introduction by the band's lead singer, Anthony Kiedis and comments by Flea, Chad Smith and Josh Klinghoffer on what it is like to be a dedicated fan to something.

Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines is a young-adult non-fiction book written by Paul Fleischman and published by Candlewick Press in September 2014. The book was published in Australia by Walker Books on January 1, 2015.

Eternal Fragrance (Persian: یکشنبه آخر‎‎, "Last Sunday") is a book written by Masoumeh Ramhormozi about the Iran–Iraq war (1980–88). Masoumeh, who was 14 at the time, was a social worker in a field hospital during the war. The English translation of The Last Sunday, titled Eternal Fragrance, was launched at the 66th Frankfurt Book Fair.

The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It is a non-fiction book published in 2014 by the British writer and political commentator Owen Jones. In it, Jones describes relationships between different groups which he believes form the British establishment. He explains the links between these groups and their purported common interest in promoting right-wing ideals, whilst often claiming to serve the public.

The Enemy Within: The Secret War Against the Miners is a book by British journalist and writer Seumas Milne, first published in 1994. Updated editions were released in 1995, 2004, and 2014.

Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People is a Pulitzer Prize-winning non-fiction history book about the Mandan people, a Native American tribe in North Dakota. It was written by historian Elizabeth A. Fenn and published in 2014 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

The Elements of Moral Philosophy, by James Rachels and Stuart Rachels, is a textbook regarding the field of ethics. It explains a number of moral theories and topics, including Cultural relativism, Subjectivism, Divine command theory, Ethical egoism, Social contract, Utilitarianism, Kantian ethics, and Deontology. The book uses multiple real-life examples to better explain the theories.

El Deafo is a book written and illustrated by Cece Bell. The book is a loose biographical account of Bell's childhood and living with her deafness. However, the characters in the book are all bunnies. Cece Bell, in an interview with the Horn Book Magazine, states "What are bunnies known for? Big ears; excellent hearing," rendering her choice of characters and their deafness ironic.

Echoes of the Underground is a book by Lee Harris, published in 2014 by Barncott Press. Echoes of the Underground: A Foot Soldiers Tale is a collection of ‘underground’ writings by Lee Harris, the majority of which were originally published in the ’alternative press’ of the 1960s and 1970s; International Times, Oz, Home Grown and ‘Other Scenes’. The collection includes writings on the Beat Generation, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, the 1960s theatre revolution, and the South African apartheid era (Lee was one of the few white members of the African National Congress and met Nelson Mandela).

‘Echo's Bones’ is a short story by Samuel Beckett. Originally written in 1933, the story was unpublished until 2014.

Driftwood is a novel written by Elizabeth Dutton. The plot centers on Clem Jasper, who goes on a California road trip after her father dies. Driftwood was published in November 2014.

Dragnet Nation: A quest for privacy, security, and freedom in a world of relentless surveillance is a 2014 book on Computer and network surveillance by Julia Angwin. The author said that she was motivated to write the book when she learned of data scraping.

The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap is a 2014 non-fiction book by journalist Matt Taibbi about income inequality in the United States and its impact on the American conception of justice and the legal system.

Discovering Scarfolk is a 2014 guide to all aspects of Scarfolk, a fictional northern English town trapped in the 1970s. Scarfolk was created by writer and designer Richard Littler. It was originally based on the website Scarfolk Council.

Dirty Politics, subtitled "How attack politics is poisoning New Zealand’s political environment", is a book by Nicky Hager published in August 2014.

Digital Doesn't Matter (And Other Advertising Heresies) is a book by Josh Sklar about the past, present, and future of the advertising industry with a focus on the effect digital is having on it. The book was released in paperback form by Heresy Press on July 7, 2014. According to the author, its title is meant to be ironic.

The Decline and Fall of Nokia is a company profile book detailing the collapse of the mobile phone company Nokia. The author is David J. Cord, an American expatriate living in Finland.

A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age is a 2014 book by Matt Richtel. It details the story of Reggie Shaw, a Mormon teenager who killed two scientists in Utah in 2006 while he was texting and driving. Richtel also reports scientific studies on human attention interspersed with the narrative.

Dark Invasion: 1915: Germany's secret war and the hunt for the first terrorist cell in America is a non-fiction book written by American author Howard Blum, published by Crown Publishing Group on February 11, 2014. The American edition was issued by Harper in 2014.

Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story is a 2014 biography by Robyn Doolittle concerning Toronto mayor Rob Ford and his 2013 scandal of a leaked video of him using drugs.

Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts (2014) is a book by Stanislas Dehaene. It summarizes research on the neuroscience of consciousness, particularly from recent decades.

Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia is a 2014 book about Wikipedia's community of contributors, by author Dariusz Jemielniak, who is a contributor himself.

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A Cielo Abierto is a collection of 91 articles by Ángel Romero Díaz, published between 2009 and 2011. The initial articles were published in the newspapers Odiel and El Periódico de Huelva, and later assembled into a book, published on April 23, 2014 by the editorial, Editorial Niebla.

The Chinese Way is a 2014 social psychology book by Min Ding and Jie Xu.

China's Super Consumers: What 1 Billion Customers Want and How to Sell It to Them is a 2014 nonfiction book by Savio S. Chan (陳少宏, Pinyin: Chén Shàohóng) and Michael A. Zakkour, published by John Wiley and Sons. The book discusses how U.S. businesses may market products to customers in mainland China. Chan is the president and CEO of the consulting company US China Partners Inc., and Zakkour is a principal at Tompkins International, serving in its China/APAC sector.

Chess with the Doomsday Machine (Shatranj ba Mashin-e Qiamat) (Persian: شطرنج با ماشین قیامت‎‎) is a novel about the Iran-Iraq war by Habib Ahmadzadeh. In 1980, a surprise attack on the Iranian city of Abadan marked the beginning of the Iran-Iraq war. Hundreds of thousands of people fled the badly damaged city but a small number of civilians chose to stay, living in a city under siege. The story focuses on the experiences of Moosa, a young Abadani soldier defending his hometown. He has been chosen to assist in destroying the enemy’s "Doomsday Machine", a sophisticated radar system.

Cat Selfies is a 2014 collection of selfies taken by cats, compiled by Charlie Ellis.

The Case of the Exploding Loo is a book written by Rachel Hamilton and published by Simon & Schuster on May 22, 2014. A sequel is planned for March 2015.

A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power is a 2014 book by former US president Jimmy Carter. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reviewed the book as "A tour de force of the global abuse and manipulation of women," and commended Carter's presentation of statistical data.

Byculla to Bangkok is the second non-fiction book on organised crime and terror in the modern-day Indian metropolitan city of Mumbai written by S. Hussain Zaidi. It was first published by Harper Collins in February 2014. The book is a sequel to Dongri to Dubai. Hussain completed the story that was left unfinished in his earlier book by including the story of the "local lads" of the infamous mobster Dawood Ibrahim. The book deals primarily with three of the mobsters of Mumbai: Chota Rajan, Arun Gawli and Ashwin Naik.

Borunsi (Persian: خاک‌های نرم کوشک‎‎) is a selection of memoirs written by the family and friends of Abd-al-Hussain Borunsi, the commander of the 18th Brigade of Javadolaemeh during the Iran–Iraq War. Written by Saeed A'kef, the book has been reprinted more than 200 times since its first edition in 2004, and is amongst the bestselling books in Iran.

Bold They Rise: The Space Shuttle Early Years (1972-1986) is a 2014 non-fiction book by David Hitt and Heather R. Smith. Bold They Rise tells the story of the space shuttle through the personal experiences of the astronauts, engineers, and scientists who made it happen—in space and on the ground, from the days of research and design through the heroic accomplishments of the program to the tragic last minutes of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

Bloomsbury and the Poets is a 2014 book by Nicholas Murray.

Bibliotheca is a four-volume version of the Bible to be published in 2016. It omits verse and chapter numbers in order to enhance the reading experience. It uses the American Standard Version translation with some modifications, but resembles the ESV Readers' Bible, published by Crossway just one month earlier, which does not have verse numbers but does have chapter numbers and is one volume.

The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six (ISBN 978-1-59780-503-2) is a horror fiction anthology edited by Ellen Datlow that was published on June 3, 2014. It is the sixth in The Best Horror of the Year series.

Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary is a prose translation of the early medieval epic poem Beowulf from Old English to modern English language. Translated by J. R. R. Tolkien from 1920 to 1926, it was edited by Tolkien's son Christopher and published posthumously in May 2014 by HarperCollins.

Bad Feminist: Essays is a 2014 collection of essays by cultural critic, novelist and professor Roxane Gay. Bad Feminist explores being a feminist while loving things that could seem to go against feminist ideology through essays that explore pop culture and Gay's personal experiences, covering topics as vast as the Sweet Valley High series, Django Unchained, and Gay's own upbringing as a Haitian-American.

Auteuring Nollywood: Critical Perspectives on The Figurine is a book released on 31 July 2014, detailing the scholarly analysis of events in the 2009 film The Figurine directed by Kunle Afolayan. The book is the first book in the history of Nigerian Cinema to be devoted to the work of a single Nigerian film director and it contains scholarly essays, which explores "the thematic focus and cinematic style employed in The Figurine". It also contains interviews with the cast and crew of the film and insights into the African and Nigerian film industry. Since its release, the book has been getting rave reviews from critics, educators and film scholars.

Australia: Boom to Bust is a 2014 book by economist Lindsay David. David was a student of the world's most prestigious business school International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland

The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help is a 2014 memoir by American musician Amanda Palmer with a foreword by Brené Brown. The book was first published on 11 November 2014 through Grand Central Publishing and covers Palmer's early days as a performer through to her musical career now. Palmer wrote the book over a four-month period during early 2014, after performing at the Sydney Festival.

Ant in a Glass Jar: Chechen Diaries 1994–2004 (Russian: "Муравей в стеклянной банке. Чеченские дневники 1994–2004" is a 2014 documentary book that is an author's diary about the years spent in Chechnya from 1994 until 2004. It was written by Polina Zherebtsova, while she was 9–19 years old.

The Almost Nearly Perfect People: The Truth About the Nordic Miracle is a 2014 non-fiction book by British journalist Michael Booth. In the book, Booth focuses on the five Nordic countries—Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Finland and Sweden—dedicating a section of the book to each one. He began writing the book after migrating from England to Denmark based on his perceptions of the Nordic region before and after moving; he wanted to present an alternative perspective to the extremely positive depiction of the region in other British media. The book received mixed reviews: some critics found it to be overly critical with poor humour, while others praised its tone and informativeness.

Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China is a non-fiction book by Evan Osnos, a staff writer at The New Yorker. It was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2014. It chronicles the lives of people that Osnos came to know while he was in China from 2005 to 2013. It was awarded the 2014 National Book Award in nonfiction and was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.

After the Wind: 1996 Everest Tragedy – One Survivor’s Story is a book by Lou Kasischke that details his experiences as a client on Rob Hall’s expedition during the 1996 Mount Everest tragedy. The accident killed eight climbers—including four from the Hall expedition—and remained the worst climbing accident on Everest until the 2014 Mount Everest avalanche. The book features 55 illustrations by Jane Cardinal and was published in 2014 by Good Hart Publishing.

Adventures in Stationery: A Journey Through Your Pencil Case is a non-fiction book by James Ward about stationery. It was published by British publisher Profile Books in 2014.

The Accidental Prime Minister: The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh is a 2014 memoir by Indian policy analyst Sanjaya Baru, who was Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's media advisor from May 2004 until August 2008. Published by Penguin India, the book alleges that Singh was not entirely in control of his cabinet—or even the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). Instead, significant power was wielded by the Congress party's president Sonia Gandhi, to whom Singh was completely "subservient". "There cannot be two centres of power", Baru remembers Singh explaining to him, "That creates confusion. I have to accept that the party president is the centre of power. The government is answerable to the party."

Published in 2014, The Accidental Admiral: A Sailor Takes Command at NATO is a memoir by U.S. Admiral James G. Stavridis. In this work he recounts his experiences as NATO's 16th Supreme Allied Commander Europe from June 2009 to May 2013 as well as his insights regarding leadership and the future of global security.

41: A Portrait of My Father is a 2014 book written by George W. Bush for his father George H. W. Bush. The book was released on November 11, 2014.

13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi is a 2014 non-fiction book by American author Mitchell Zuckoff, about the 2012 Benghazi attack by militants at the American diplomatic compound on September 11, 2012 in Benghazi, Libya.

10K, la década robada (Spanish: 10K, the stolen decade) is a 2014 Argentine book written by Jorge Lanata. The name makes reference to Kirchnerism, described by its supporters as "the earned decade"; the letter K is usually used as a symbol of the political movement.

Clifford the Big Red Dog is an eponymously titled American children's book series about a big red dog named Clifford. It was first published in 1963 and was written by Norman Bridwell (1928–2014). The series helped establish Scholastic Books as a premier publishing company, and Clifford himself is Scholastic's official mascot.

Neighbors is a 1980 novel by American author Thomas Berger. It is a satire of manners and suburbia, and a comment on emotional alienation with echoes of the works of Franz Kafka. Earl Keese’s character and situation begin realistically but become increasingly fantastic. Keese is an Everyman whose life is swiftly turned upside down and as he scrambles to reclaim his sense of normalcy and dignity, he comes to think that everyone, including his family, is against him.

Little Big Man, or Charging Bear, was an Oglala Lakota, or Oglala Sioux, who was a fearless and respected warrior who fought under and was rivals with, Crazy Horse ("His-Horse-Is-Spirited"). He opposed the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, and fought against efforts by the United States to take control of the ancestral Sioux lands in the Black Hills area of the Dakota Territory. He also fought at the Battle of Little Big Horn in the Montana Territory in 1876. Late in life, he decided to cooperate with the White conquerors, and may have been involved in the murder of his old ally and rival, Crazy Horse, at Fort Robinson in Nebraska in 1877.

July's People is a 1981 novel by the South African writer Nadine Gordimer. Gordimer wrote the book before the end of apartheid as her prediction of how it would end. The book was notably banned in South Africa after its publication.

Burger's Daughter is a political and historical novel by the South African Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Nadine Gordimer, first published in the United Kingdom in June 1979 by Jonathan Cape. The book was expected to be banned in South Africa, and a month after publication in London the import and sale of the book in South Africa was prohibited by the Publications Control Board. Three months later, the Publications Appeal Board overturned the banning and the restrictions were lifted.

The Conservationist is a 1974 novel by the South African writer Nadine Gordimer. The book was a joint winner of the Booker-McConnell Prize for fiction.

Never Cry Wolf is "a fictionalized account of the author’s actual experience observing wolves in subarctic Canada" by Farley Mowat, first published in 1963 by McClelland and Stewart. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1983. It has been credited for dramatically changing the public image of the wolf to a more positive one.

People of the Deer (published in 1952, revised in 1975) is Canadian author Farley Mowat's first book, and brought him literary recognition. The book is based upon a series of travels the author undertook in the Canadian barren lands, of Keewatin Region, west of Hudson Bay. The most important of these expeditions was in the winter of 1947–48. During his travels Mowat studied the lives of the Ihalmiut, a small population of Inuit people, whose existence depended heavily on the large population of caribou in the region. Besides descriptions of nature and life in the Arctic, Mowat's book tells the sad story of how a once prosperous and widely dispersed people slowly dwindled to the brink of extinction due to unscrupulous economic interest and lack of understanding.

No Great Mischief is a 1999 novel by Alistair MacLeod.

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish: Cien años de soledad) is a 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founds the town of Macondo, the metaphoric Colombia.

Shadow Country is a novel by Peter Matthiessen, published by Random House in 2008. Subtitled A New Rendering of the Watson Legend, it is a semi-fictional account of the life of Scottish-American Edgar "Bloody" Watson (1855-1910), a real Florida sugar cane plantation owner and alleged outlaw who was killed in the remote Ten Thousand Islands region of southwest Florida in 1910. It won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2008 and the William Dean Howells Medal in 2010.

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse is a book by Peter Matthiessen which chronicles "The story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's war on the American Indian Movement". It was first published in 1983. Leonard Peltier was convicted of murder in 1977 and sentenced to life in prison for the 1975 killing of two FBI agents, after a trial which the author alleges was based on widespread fraud and government misconduct. The book portrays the violent turmoil on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation during that time, including the 1973 'Wounded Knee Incident' and the following "reign of terror", and describes the 1975 'Pine Ridge Shoot–out' or 'Oglala Firefight' and the subsequent trials and their aftermath. Distribution of the book was interrupted for almost a decade while legal challenges against it were resolved.

The Snow Leopard is a 1978 book by Peter Matthiessen. It is an account of his two-month search for the snow leopard with naturalist George Schaller in the Dolpo region on the Tibetan Plateau in the Himalayas.

The Paris Review is a quarterly English language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. In its first five years, The Paris Review published works by Jack Kerouac, Philip Larkin, V. S. Naipaul, Philip Roth, Terry Southern, Adrienne Rich, Italo Calvino, Samuel Beckett, Nadine Gordimer, Jean Genet and Robert Bly.

King Charles III is a 2014 play in blank verse by Mike Bartlett. It made its world premiere at the Almeida Theatre, London, in April 2014 and centres on the accession and reign of King Charles III, the possible regnal name of the real Charles, Prince of Wales, and limiting the freedom of the press after the News International phone hacking scandal.

A Composer’s Guide to Game Music is a 2014 book written by Winifred Phillips, a video game composer with over 11 years experience creating music for such games as Assassin’s Creed Liberation, God of War and multiple games in the LittleBigPlanet franchise. Through the use of autobiographical anecdotes, scholarly discussion and practical advice, Phillips explores the creative and technical process of composing music for video games. The book was published by The MIT Press on February 14, 2014. The book has received many positive reviews and has won multiple awards.

Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat (2014) is a non-fiction book by Philip Lymbery and Isabel Oakeshott. It surveys the effects of industrial livestock production and industrial fish farming around the world. The book is the result of Lymbery's investigations for which he travelled the world over three years. Isabel Oakeshott is the political editor of The Sunday Times, Philip Lymbery is CEO of Compassion in World Farming. The book was published by Bloomsbury.

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (Japanese: 色彩を持たない多崎つくると、彼の巡礼の年, Hepburn: Shikisai o motanai Tazaki Tsukuru to, kare no junrei no toshi?) is the thirteenth novel by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. Published on 12 April 2013 in Japan, it sold one million copies in one month.

An Officer and a Spy is a 2013 historical fiction thriller by the English writer and journalist Robert Harris. It tells the true story of French officer Georges Picquart from 1896-1906, as he struggles to expose the truth about the doctored evidence that sent Alfred Dreyfus to Devil's Island.

The Goldfinch (2013) is the third novel by American author Donna Tartt, her first new book in 11 years. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2014 among other honors.

All the Birds, Singing is a 2013 novel by Australian author Evie Wyld. It won the 2014 Miles Franklin Award and the 2014 Encore Award.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North is Richard Flanagan's critically acclaimed and 2014 Man Booker Prize-winning sixth novel.

Tenth of December is a collection of short stories by American author George Saunders. It includes stories published in various magazines between 1995 and 2009. Tenth of December was published on January 8, 2013, by Random House. One of the stories, "Home," was a 2011 Bram Stoker Award finalist. The book was selected as one of the 10 Best Books of 2013 by the editors of the New York Times Book Review. The collection won the 2013 Story Prize for short-story collections and the inaugural (2014) Folio Prize.

H is for Hawk is a memoir by British author Helen Macdonald. It won the Samuel Johnson Prize and Costa Book of the Year award among other honours.

A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing is the debut novel of Eimear McBride. The book was first published in 2013 by Galley Beggar Press of Norwich, England, after being rejected by numerous other publishing companies. It has won several awards including the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize, the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.

Dusklands (1974) is the debut novel by J. M. Coetzee, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. The novel consists of two separate stories, "The Vietnam Project" and "The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee."

'On Translating Beowulf' is an essay by J. R. R. Tolkien which discusses the difficulties faced by anyone attempting to translate the Old English heroic-elegiac poem Beowulf into modern English. It was first published in 1940 as a preface contributed by Tolkien to a translation of Old English poetry; it was first published as an essay under its current name in the 1983 collection The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays.

Beowulf (/ˈbeɪ.ɵwʊlf/; in Old English ) is an Old English epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative lines. It is the oldest surviving long poem in Old English and is commonly cited as one of the most important works of Old English literature. It was written in England some time between the 8th and the early 11th century. The author was an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet, referred to by scholars as the "Beowulf poet".

Canada Reads is an annual "battle of the books" competition organized and broadcast by Canada's public broadcaster, the CBC. The program airs annually in two distinct editions, the English-language Canada Reads on CBC Radio One, and the French-language Le Combat des livres on Première Chaîne.

The Orenda is a historical novel by Canadian author Joseph Boyden. It was published by Hamish Hamilton in 2013.

Wallflowers is a collection of short stories by Eliza Robertson, published in 2014 by Bloomsbury. It has been nominated for The Story Prize.

Thunderstruck (2014) is a short story collection by American author Elizabeth McCracken. It won the Story Prize in 2014. The collection was also on the long list for the National Book Award.

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection (ISBN 978-1-250-06441-7) is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois that was published on July 7, 2015. It is the 32nd in The Year's Best Science Fiction series.

Stone Mattress is a short fiction collection by Margaret Atwood, published in 2014. Atwood describes the pieces in the collection as "tales" rather than short stories, as they draw from the mythical and fantastical aspects associated with fables and fairy tales, rather than from conventional literary realism.

Scouting for the Reaper (2014) is the first collection of short stories by American author Jacob M. Appel. It won the Hudson Prize in 2012 and was published by Black Lawrence Press. Writing Today named it the best debut collection of 2014.

Redeployment is a collection of short stories by American writer Phil Klay. His first published book, it won the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle's 2014 John Leonard Award given for a best first book in any genre.

Only the Animals is a 2014 book by Ceridwen Dovey (Hamish Hamilton, ISBN 978-1-926-42858-1). It is her second book after Blood Kin (2008). It is a collection of ten short stories about the souls of ten animals caught up in human conflicts over the last century and tell their stories of life and death.

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror is an anthology series published annually by Constable & Robinson since 1990. In addition to the short stories, each edition includes a retrospective essay by the editors. The first six anthologies were originally published under the name Best New Horror before the title was changed beginning with the seventh book.

Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories is an anthology of children's stories written and illustrated by Dr. Seuss, published posthumously by Random House in 2014.

Further Joy is a 2014 short story collection by American author John Brandon. The work, Brandon's first short story collection, was first published on 3 June 2014 through McSweeney's and is composed of eleven short stories.

Four: A Divergent Collection is a collection of five short stories from the Divergent trilogy, told from Tobias Eaton's (Four) perspective, and written by Veronica Roth. The first story of the collection, Free Four: Tobias Tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene, was released as an e-book on April 23, 2012. The second story, The Transfer, was released on September 3, 2013. The third story titled The Initiate, the fourth story The Son and the fifth and final story The Traitor were released on July 8, 2014. Simultaneously with the release of last three short stories, a collected edition of the five short stories titled Four: A Divergent Collection was released on July 8, 2014, which also features three exclusive scenes.

Einstein's Beach House (2014) is the second collection of short stories by American author Jacob M. Appel. It won the Pressgang Prize in 2012 and was published by Butler University. The book was short-listed for the New England Book Award in 2015.

The Collected Stories of Frank Herbert is the sixth, and first posthumous, anthology of short science fiction stories by American author Frank Herbert, released by Tor Books on November 18, 2014.

The Best Horror of the Year is a series of horror fiction anthologies edited by Ellen Datlow. The series is published by Night Shade Books.

Bark (2014) is a short story collection by American author Lorrie Moore. It was short-listed for the Story Prize in 2014. The collection was short listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and was among Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Books of 2014.

Zhorstoke nebo (Ukrainian: Жорстоке небо, i.e. "Cruel Sky") is the second techno-thriller and ninth novel by Ukrainian author Max Kidruk. It was published in August 2014.

Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? is a 2014 novel by Dave Eggers. The book's title is a quotation from the Bible (Zechariah 1:5).

The Young Elites is a fantasy novel by novelist Marie Lu released on 7 October 2014. It is the first novel in the planned trilogy. The second book is called The Rose Society and was released on October 13, 2015.

The Year of Billy Miller, a 2014 children's book written by Kevin Henkes, was a Newbery Honor book in 2014.

Yaana (ಯಾನ) is a novel written by novelist S.L. Bhyrappa, which has a story of two astronauts (a man and a woman) traveling in a spaceship to Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the earth which is around 4-6 light years away. The journey takes several decades. The novel focuses on scientific problems and human relationships when they are away from the earth. While generating oxygen and food on the spaceship the technical problems, the other issues are giving birth to children there and nurturing them.

Written in My Own Heart's Blood is the eighth book in the Outlander series of novels by Diana Gabaldon. Centered on time travelling 20th-century nurse-turned-doctor Claire Randall and her 18th-century Scottish Highland warrior husband Jamie Fraser, the books contain elements of historical fiction, romance, adventure and science fiction/fantasy.

World of Trouble is a 2014 American soft science fiction mystery novel by Ben H. Winters and published by Quirk Books. It is the third and last installment of the Last Policeman trilogy.

Words of Radiance (abbreviated as WOR by fans) is the second book of The Stormlight Archive epic fantasy series written by American author Brandon Sanderson. It was published by Tor Books and released on March 4, 2014. In 2015, it won the David Gemmell Legend Award for best novel. Upon first publication, Words of Radiance consisted of one prologue, 89 chapters, an epilogue and 14 interludes. The unabridged audiobook is read by narrator team Michael Kramer and Kate Reading. The release of the book was delayed due to Sanderson's commitment to writing the final book of The Wheel of Time.

The Wood of Suicides is a 2014 debut novel by Australian writer Laura Elizabeth Woollett. It centers on a 17-year-old girl's affair with her English teacher, after her father commits suicide.

With the People from the Bridge (Greek: Με τους ανθρώπους από τη γέφυρα) is the second book of the Poena Damni trilogy by Greek author Dimitris Lyacos.

Wildwood Imperium: The Wildwood Chronicles, Book Three is a 2014 children's fantasy novel by The Decemberists' singer-songwriter Colin Meloy, illustrated by his wife Carson Ellis. The novel, the second sequel to Wildwood: The Wildwood Chronicles, Book One, continues the tale of Prue McKeel and her adventures in the "Impassable Wilderness," a fantastical version of Portland, Oregon's Forest Park. The natural beauty and local color of the city figure prominently. It was released on February 4, 2014.

Why is This Night Different From All Other Nights? is the fourth and final book in Lemony Snicket's children's series All the Wrong Questions. The series features young apprentice Snicket, who is attempting to uncover the mystery behind a villain named Hangfire in Stain'd-by-the-Sea. The book was published on September 29, 2015 by Little, Brown and Company and features illustrations by Seth.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is a 2014 debut novel by David Shafer.

‘’'A Well-trained Stray'’' (Arabic: كلب بلدي مدرب‎ ‘'ʿKālb Bālādy Mudārab) is a novel by Egyptian author Muhammad Aladdin.

The Wee Fellas is a 2014 debut novel by Richard Maitland, a pen name for Ken Houston. It tells the story of a Bantam soldier who having been rejected from the regular Army in WW1 voluntarily swaps the snooker halls of Glasgow for the killing fields of France and Belgium.

The Wake is a 2014 novel by British author Paul Kingsnorth. Written in an "imaginary language", a kind of hybrid between Old English and Modern English, it tells of "buccmaster of holland", an Anglo-Saxon freeman forced to come to terms with the effects of the Norman Invasion of 1066, during which his wife and sons were killed. He begins a guerrilla war against the Norman invaders in the Lincolnshire Fens.

Venmurasu (Tamil: வெண்முரசு ) is a Tamil novel by writer Jeyamohan. A modern adaptation of the Indian classical epic Mahabharatha, it is Jeyamohan's most ambitious work to date, with a scope and scale that seeks to match the grandness of the epic itself. Jeyamohan started writing the work in January 2014 and has announced plans to write it every day over ten years. The overall volume is expected to cross 25,000 pages.

Gladiator: Vengeance is the fourth book in the Gladiator Series, by Simon Scarrow.

Us Conductors is a novel by Canadian writer Sean Michaels. Published in 2014 by Random House in Canada and Tin House in the United States, the novel was the winner of the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2014 Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. It was also a shortlisted nominee for the 2015 amazon.ca First Novel Award, Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction and CMLP Firecracker Award for Fiction.

Us is a 2014 novel by English author David Nicholls for whom it won the Specsavers "UK Author of the Year" award. It was also long-listed for the 2014 Man Booker Prize.

An Untamed State is the debut novel of writer Roxane Gay, first published in 2014 by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

The Unpredictable Consequences of Love is the 25th novel by British author Jill Mansell.

Ungifted is a 2012 children's novel by Gordon Korman. The story is told with chapters of alternating perspectives. It is recommended for grades 5-8.

Twist is the thirteenth novel by Swedish author Klas Östergren. It was published in 2014.

Tree Palace (2014) is a novel by Australian author Craig Sherborne. It was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award in 2015.

Top Secret is to be the first novel in the Clandestine Operations series by W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV.

To Rise Again at a Decent Hour is a novel by the American writer Joshua Ferris. The novel was shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize and won the 2014 Dylan Thomas Prize.

Tiddas is a novel by Anita Heiss published in 2014. The title Tiddas is an Aboriginal term for "women who are like sisters".

Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life is a memoir by Tom Robbins.

Three Weeks With Lady X is a historical romance written by Eloisa James and published in 2014. It was a New York Times Bestseller and was nominated for two Romantic Times awards.

A Thorn in the Bush is a thriller novel written by Frank Herbert and published posthumously in 2014.

The Target is a thriller novel written by David Baldacci. This is the third installment to feature Will Robie, a highly skilled U.S. Government assassin. The book was initially published on April 22, 2014 by Grand Central Publishing.

Sway is a 2014 young adult fiction book by American author Kat Spears and her debut novel. The work was first published on 16 September 2014 through St. Martin's Griffin and is a modern take on the story of Cyrano de Bergerac.

Support and Defend is a political thriller novel in the Tom Clancy universe by Mark Greaney published on July 22, 2014 by Putnam Adult.

The Supernatural Enhancements is a 2014 horror / mystery novel and the English language literary debut of Spanish cartoonist and author Edgar Cantero. The work was released on August 12, 2014 through Doubleday; the author also co-translated it to Spanish as El factor sobrenatural, published by Minotauro in May 2015. It is an epistolary novel, whose story is told via diary entries, recordings, notes, letters, and other personal effects that are arranged to appear as if they were collected and compiled at an undetermined point of time after the novel's events.

The Summer Job is a 2014 horror novel by Adam Cesare. The book was published on January 7, 2014 through Samhain Publishing and centers upon a young woman that takes a summer job that might cost her her life.

Storming the Black Ice is a 2014 political thriller written by Don Brown. The novel explores the international relationship in South America between the nations of Chile, Argentina, Great Britain, Venezuela, Russia, and the United States of America. The storyline features a naval war that erupts in the icy waters around Antarctica after British geologist make a massive oil discovery on the Antarctic Peninsula, and an alliance is formed between Britain and Chile to drill for the oil and pump it to processing stations in Chile.

Station Eleven is a 2014 science fiction novel by Emily St. John Mandel. It is Mandel's fourth novel. The novel takes place in the Great Lakes region after a fictional disease, the "Georgia Flu," has devastated the world, killing most of the population. It won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2015.

Space Patrol Chronicles – Missions of Daring, a two-book set of science fiction novels, written and color illustrated by American author, Warren Chaney, are both a prequel and sequel to Chaney’s earlier work, Space Patrol – the novel, all of which are based upon the early 1950s television program, Space Patrol (1950 TV series), which also included a parallel radio and comic book series. The novels open in a future world of the 35th century but soon afterwards, the reader is whisked backward to an earlier time following an interplanetary war where a newly appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Space Patrol, Buzz Corry, must lead an effort in a darker age, to combat an intergalactic enemy bent upon the destruction of the solar system. What transpires, directly impacts the future’s destiny in the 35th century.

Southern Reach is the name of Jeff VanderMeer's 2014 trilogy of novels, starting with Annihilation. It's also the name of the agency that is central to the series. Annihilation was released in February 2014 while Authority was released in May 2014. Acceptance was released in September 2014. In 2013, it was announced that Paramount Pictures bought the movie rights for the series, with the film adaptation of Annihilation proceeding with writer-director Alex Garland.

Song of the Shank is a novel by Jeffery Renard Allen, published by Graywolf Press in 2014. It is the author’s second novel. His first novel, Rails Under My Back, was published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux fourteen years earlier in 2000.

The Son (Norwegian: Sønnen, 2014) is a crime novel by Norwegian novelist, Jo Nesbø. It is the second stand-alone crime novel by Nesbø, following Headhunters (2008).

Some Luck is a 2014 novel by Jane Smiley. It is the first in a planned trilogy of novels about an Iowa family over the course of generations. It was longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award.

A Soldier's Friend is a 2014 children's novel written by Megan Rix and published by Puffin Books.

The Slow Regard of Silent Things is a fantasy novella and one of the companion tales in the The Kingkiller Chronicle series written by American author Patrick Rothfuss. It includes illustrations by Nate Taylor and was first published by DAW Books in the United States on October 28, 2014.

Slaves of Socorro is the fourth instalment in the Brotherband novel series by Australian author John Flanagan. It was released on 1 May 2014 in Australia, 2 May 2014 in New Zealand, and 15 July 2014 in the United States.

Skulduggery Pleasant: The Dying of the Light written by Derek Landy was released on 28 August 2014. It is the ninth and last book in the Skulduggery Pleasant series. It is about the the Darquesse vision that was foreseen Skulduggery Pleasant: Dark Days and set in motion during Last Stand Of Dead Men. Derek Landy completed the book on 21 May 2014. On Monday 16 June 2014 the front cover of the book was uploaded. A limited edition cover was also released. A Back Cover art was revealed on meow Tuesday 19 August 2014. It is a mix of past & present tense, the past telling of Skulduggery, Valkyrie, & Darquesse, and the present telling of Danny, a citizen of a town in America, and his adventures with the mysterious Mr Gaint & Jeremiah.

Skink - No Surrender is a young adult novel by Carl Hiaasen, published on September 23, 2014. It is described as Hiaasen's first young adult novel, after writing four novels for "young" readers. Like all of his novels, it is set in Hiaasen's native Florida.

Skin Game is a novel in The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher. It is the 15th novel in the series. It follows the protagonist, Harry Dresden as he teams up with former enemies to rob a vault belonging to Hades, lord of the Underworld.

SIMIAN is a graphic novel trilogy written and illustrated by Vikram Balagopal, with parts one and two published as a single book by HarperCollins Publishers India in May 2014. The book launch was held on May 13 in New Delhi at the India Habitat Centre.

Shoot to Kill is a novel written by Steve Cole, the first continuation entry in the Young Bond series. Cole took over from Charlie Higson who left the series in 2009 after his final instalment A Hard Man to Kill. Shoot to Kill features Ian Fleming's spy, James Bond in his teenage years, finding himself troubled in the outskirts of Los Angeles, having recently been expelled from Eton.

Silver Shadows is the fifth book in the Bloodlines series by Richelle Mead. It is the second in the series to be told from dual perspectives.

The Silkworm is a 2014 crime fiction novel written by J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. It is the second novel in the series featuring private investigator Cormoran Strike, and is a sequel to The Cuckoo's Calling (2013). It was followed by Career of Evil in 2015.

Side Effects May Vary is a 2014 young adult novel and the literary debut of Julie Murphy. The book was first published in hardback by Balzer + Bray on March 18, 2014 and a paperback edition was released the following year. An audiobook narration was performed by Cassandra Campbell and Kirby Heyborne. Side Effects May Vary focuses on a teenager that has been recently diagnosed with leukemia and has decided to take revenge on her enemies.

Si is a 2014 novel by Filipino writer Bob Ong published in 2014 by Visprint Inc. It is Ong's tenth book. This novel tackles the life and love of Victoria.

Si is a 2014 novel by Filipino writer Bob Ong published by Visprint Inc. It is Ong's tenth book. The novel, set in reverse chronological order, is told from the point of view of an unnamed narrator and his love affair with his wife, Victoria.

Shovel Ready is a science fiction novel by Adam Sternbergh (ISBN 978-0-385-34899-7). It is Sternbergh's first novel and was released on January 14, 2014 by the Crown Publishing Group.

Shouldn't You Be in School? is the third book in Lemony Snicket's children's series All the Wrong Questions. The series features young apprentice Snicket, who is attempting to uncover the mystery behind a villain named Hangfire in Stain'd-by-the-Sea. The book was published on September 30, 2014 by Little, Brown and Company and features illustrations by Seth.

Shark is the tenth novel by Will Self, published in 2014.

The Sex lives of Siamese Twins is the ninth novel from Irvine Welsh, best known for his first novel Trainspotting. It was published in May 2014.

Severed Souls is Terry Goodkind's 17th novel. It's the 14th in the Sword of Truth series and the third novel in Goodkind's new Richard and Kahlan series, which takes off right after the end of the original Sword of Truth series.

The Secret Place is a 2014 novel by Tana French set in Ireland. The Washington Post named the book one of the five best thrillers of 2014. Amazon.com named it one of the best books of 2014 in the mystery, thriller and suspense category.

Scorpion Mountain is the fifth instalment in the Brotherband novel series by Australian author John Flanagan. It was released on 2 December 2014 in the United States. There is an attempt on Princess Cassandra's life and King Duncan calls for the Heron Brotherband (who are serving as the duty ship to Araluen) to help track down the mysterious plotters thought to be the Scorpion Cult.

The School for Good and Evil is a New York Times Bestselling children's fantasy book trilogy by Soman Chainani. The first book, The School for Good and Evil, was first published on May 14, 2013 through HarperCollins. The series is set in a world where every four years two children are chosen to attend a prestigious school where fairy tale heroes and villains are made.

The Rogue Prince, or, a King’s Brother is a novella by George R. R. Martin, published in the 2014 anthology Rogues. It is set in the Westeros of Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, hundreds of years before the events of A Game of Thrones (1996) during the reign of King Viserys I Targaryen. The Rogue Prince serves as a prequel to Martin's 2013 novella The Princess and the Queen and focuses on the role played by the king’s brother, Prince Daemon Targaryen. Spanning the entire reign of Viserys I — from his grandfather Jaehaerys I Targaryen's death to his own — The Rogue Prince chronicles the evolving relationship between Viserys and Daemon as the king's plan for succession cements a rivalry within the family that plays out in The Princess and the Queen.

The Rhesus Chart (2014) is the fifth novel by Charles Stross in his "Laundry" series of Lovecraftian spy thrillers. The previous novels in the series were The Atrocity Archives (2004), The Jennifer Morgue (2006), The Fuller Memorandum (2010), and The Apocalypse Codex (2012). The novels follow the protagonist Bob Howard, an agent for the intelligence agency known as the Laundry.

The Revenge of Seven is a young adult science fiction novel by Pittacus Lore and the fifth book in the Lorien Legacies series. The book was published by HarperCollins on August 26, 2014.

Red Rising is a 2014 science fiction novel by American author Pierce Brown, the first of his forthcoming Red Rising trilogy. A sequel, Golden Son, was released in January 2015, and the third novel, Morning Star, is due in January 2016.

Recently, My Sister is Unusual (最近、妹のようすがちょっとおかしいんだが。, Saikin, Imōto no Yōsu ga Chotto Okashiin Da Ga. ?, lit. "Lately, My Little Sister's Been Acting A Bit Strange, But."), also known as ImoCho (妹ちょ。?), is a Japanese manga series by Mari Matsuzawa, serialized in Fujimi Shobo's Monthly Dragon Age since November 9, 2010. An anime television series premiered in Japan in January 2014. It was adapted into a light novel written by Kougetsu Mikazuki, which was published on January 18, 2014 under Fujimi Shobo's Fujimi Fantasia Bunko imprint. A live action film adaptation premiered on May 17, 2014.

Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu (Re：ゼロから始める異世界生活?, Re: Life in a Different World from Zero) is a Japanese light novel series, written by Tappei Nagatsuki and illustrated by Shinichirou Otsuka. Seven volumes have been published by Media Factory since January 25, 2014 under their MF Bunko J imprint. It has received three manga adaptations. An anime television series adaptation has been announced.

Raiders of the Nile is a novel by American author Steven Saylor, first published by Minotaur Books in 2014. It is the fourteenth book in his Roma Sub Rosa series of mystery stories set in the final decades of the Roman Republic, but the second chronologically. The main character is the Roman sleuth Gordianus the Finder.

The Queen of the Tearling is the debut novel by Erika Johansen. It is set in the 24th century, and is the first novel of a planned fantasy trilogy.

Quartet for the End of Time is a 2014 novel by Giller Prize–winning author Johanna Skibsrud. The novel takes its name and structure from Quatuor pour la fin du temps a piece of chamber music by the French composer Olivier Messiaen.

Private L.A. is the third book of the Jack Morgan series. The Goodreads website considers this the seventh book of the series, as four spin-off novels have been written about Private operations in other locations. This novel was written by James Patterson and Mark T. Sullivan. It appears more books in this series are to follow.

Prisoner 489 is a horror novella written by American author Joe R. Lansdale. It tells the story of prison workers who help staff a fictional island prison where only the worst of the worst are housed. Most are on death row scheduled to be executed in the electric chair. In the potter's field graveyard the headstones are only marked with numbers in the order in which they were put to death. So prisoner 489 is the four hundred and eighty ninth to be executed. The workers are only maintenance employees and have little contact with the inmates. They have only heard wild rumors about prisoner 489, some quite unbelievable. However, on the night of the execution things go very wrong and the men find themselves to be terrorized and have to fight for their very lives.

The Prince of Venice Beach is a teenage novel by Blake Nelson.

Prince Lestat is the eleventh novel in The Vampire Chronicles series by Anne Rice, published on October 28, 2014. Rice had originally stated the novel Blood Canticle was meant to conclude the series, but in March 2014 she had announced a forthcoming novel that would be a sequel to the first five books and the start of a new series. She also announced via her personal Facebook that she had begun writing a follow-up novel to Prince Lestat, tentatively titled Blood Paradise.

Preparation for the Next Life is a 2015 work of fiction by American author Atticus Lish. It won the 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

Personal is the nineteenth book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child. The novel was published on 28 August 2014 in the UK, New Zealand, Australia and Ireland, and on September 2, 2014 in the United States and Canada. The plot of the book revolves around Reacher's pursuit of a sniper who has attempted to assassinate the President of France.

The Peripheral is a 2014 science fiction mystery-thriller novel by William Gibson. The story is set in multiple futures.

Perfidia is a historical and crime fiction novel by American author James Ellroy. Published in 2014, it is the first novel in The Second L.A. Quartet, referring to his four prior novels from the first L.A. Quartet. Ellroy dedicated Perfidia "To LISA STAFFORD". The epigraph is "Envy thou not the oppressor, And choose none of his ways. -Proverbs 3:31". Ellroy also includes the definition of Fifth Column. Janson is the typeface for Perfidia.

The Pendragon Protocol is an urban fantasy thriller by Philip Purser-Hallard, published in 2014 by Snowbooks. It is the first volume in the projected Devices Trilogy.

The Paying Guests, is a 2014 novel by English author Sarah Waters. It was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and named 'Fiction Book of the Year' by The Sunday Times who said that "this novel magnificently confirms Sarah Waters' status as an unsurpassed fictional recorder of vanished eras and hidden lives."

The Patriots Novels was a five-novel series by best-selling survivalist novelist and former U.S. Army officer and blogger, James Wesley Rawles. It is being followed by his Counter-Caliphate Chronicles novel series.

A Patriot's Act is a 2014 legal suspense thriller by Kenneth G. Eade. The novel is a fictional legal thriller and courtroom drama about a naturalized United States citizen who finds himself thrown into Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp as a suspected terrorist. The novel is critically acclaimed.

Orfeo is a novel by American author Richard Powers.

On the Edge is a novel by British author Nigel Hinton and was first published in 2014. It follows the story of two boys whose mentally unstable father, who is an ex serviceman, takes them on holiday but suspicions arise.

Odd Thomas: You Are Destined to Be Together Forever (2014) is the second novella and eighth text included in the Odd Thomas series by American writer Dean Koontz.

October is a 2014 novel by Zoë Wicomb. Wicomb, who won a 2013 Windham–Campbell Literature Prize, is originally from Namaqualand, South Africa and is an emeritus professor at the University of Strathclyde.

Notes from Underground is a 2014 novel by the English writer Roger Scruton. It is set in Prague in the 1980s and follows a young Czech writer, Jan Reichl, who becomes involved with an underground intellectual scene. Jan ends up in the United States where he later, in the early 21th century, examines his experiences. The title references Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel with the same title. The book received the bronze prize in the "Suspense / Thriller" category at the 2015 Independent Publisher Book Awards.

Notes from the Internet Apocalypse is the first in a trilogy of books written by Cracked.com writer Wayne Gladstone entitled the The Internet Apocalypse Trilogy.

No One Gets Out Alive is a 2014 horror novel and the sixth book by British author Adam Nevill. It was published in the United Kingdom and United States on 23 October 2014 through Pan and focuses on a young woman who moves into a cheap apartment, only to find that she has put herself in danger by doing so.

Neverwas is the second novel in the Amber House Trilogy by American author Kelly Moore and her daughters Tucker Reed and Larkin Reed. The book follows narrator Sarah Parsons, who discovers she has altered the course of history through the use of a psychic ability that has been passed down through the women living at the family's ancestral estate outside of Annapolis, Maryland.

The Nameless One is a children's fantasy novel by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, first published in 2014. It is the eleventh volume of The Edge Chronicles and the first of the Cade Saga trilogy; it is the first main series book since The Immortals.

My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories is a 2014 anthology edited by Stephanie Perkins with twleve holiday stories contributed by Perkins, Holly Black, Ally Carter, Matt de la Peña, Gayle Forman, Jenny Han, David Levithan, Kelly Link, Myra McEntire, Rainbow Rowell, Laini Taylor, and Kiersten White. The book was published on October 14, 2014 through St. Martin's Press.

My Real Children is a 2014 alternate history novel by Jo Walton, published by Tor Books. It was released on May 20, 2014.

My Beautiful Enemy is a historical romance by Sherry Thomas set in imperial China. Thomas, in describing the novel said she "intended to be an English version of a Chinese wuxia novel, with a heroic female spin."

The Murdstone Trilogy is a novel by Mal Peet. It was Peet's final novel before his death in 2015, and it is his only novel targeting adult readers—the majority of the author's work was in children's literature.

Mr. Monk Is Open For Business is the eighteenth novel based on the television series Monk. It was published on June 3, 2014. Like the other novels, the story is narrated by Natalie Teeger, Monk's assistant. It is the third novel in the series to be written by Hy Conrad.

Mr. Monk Gets on Board is the seventeenth novel based on the television series Monk. It was published on January 7, 2014. Like the other novels, the story is narrated by Natalie Teeger, Monk's assistant. It is the second novel in the series to be written by Hy Conrad.

Mr. Mercedes is a novel by Stephen King. He calls it his first hard-boiled detective book. It was published on June 3, 2014. On June 10, 2014 the author described Mr. Mercedes on Twitter as the first volume of a projected trilogy, to be followed in the first half of 2015 by Finders Keepers, the first draft of which was finished around the time Mr. Mercedes was published, and End of Watch.

Mouseheart is the first book of children's adventure novel book by Lisa Fiedler and Illustrator Vivienne To of the Mouseheart series, the novel was published on May 20, 2014 by Margaret K. McElderry Books. The second novel is Hopper's Destiny (2015), and the final third novel is Return of the Forgotten.

Moriarty is a Sherlock Holmes novel written by author Anthony Horowitz, and was published on the 23 October 2014. It is the sequel to The House of Silk. The author has stated via Twitter that Moriarty will take place in 1891, after the events of Doyle's "The Final Problem", and that Sherlock Holmes will only appear at the end of the novel. Moreover, those detectives that Sherlock has worked with in previous cases, such as Athelney Jones and Lestrade, will be present. The novel follows Frederick Chase and Athelney Jones as they try to prevent a new criminal mastermind taking over the streets of London after Moriarty's demise.

The Moor's Account is a novel by Laila Lalami. It was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist in 2015.

The Miniaturist is the successful, internationally published debut novel of English actress and author Jessie Burton. The Miniaturist was first published in 2014. It took over four years to write, and was the subject of a publishing bidding war in April 2013 at the London Book Fair.

A Million Ways to Die in the West is a 2014 novel written by Seth MacFarlane. The novel is based on the MacFarlane's film of the same name, written by MacFarlane, Alec Sulkin, and Wellesley Wild.

Michael Vey: Hunt for Jade Dragon is the fourth book of the five book Michael Vey series, written by Richard Paul Evans. The first book in the series, Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25, was #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list.

Mentats of Dune is a 2014 science fiction novel by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, set in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. It is the second book in their Great Schools of Dune prequel trilogy, which itself is a sequel to their Legends of Dune trilogy. Set nearly a century after the events of 2004's Dune: The Battle of Corrin, the novel continues to chronicle the beginnings of the Bene Gesserit, Mentat and Suk Schools, as well as the Spacing Guild, all of whom are threatened by the independent anti-technology forces gaining power in the aftermath of the Butlerian Jihad. The Great Schools of Dune trilogy, first mentioned by Anderson in a 2010 blog post, chronicles the early years of these organizations, which figure prominently in the original Dune novels.

Memory of Water is the debut novel by Finnish author Emmi Itäranta, published in 2014 by HarperCollins. The Finnish version of the novel, which Itäranta wrote simultaneously along with the English one, was published in Finland in 2013 by the publishing house Teos. Set in a dystopian future where fresh water is scarce, it tells the story of Noria, a young tea master's apprentice, who must come to terms with a great secret and even greater responsibility that follows this knowledge.

Medicine Walk is a 2014 novel by Canadian First-Nations author Richard Wagamese. The novel relates the journey of 16-year-old Franklin Starlight and his dying, alcoholic father Eldon Starlight to find a burial site for Eldon at a place deep in the forest he remembers fondly from his youth.

Mean Business on North Ganson Street is a 2014 crime thriller novel written by S. Craig Zahler and published by Thomas Dunne Books. The plot concerns a detective named Jules Bettinger who relocates to Victory, Missouri, a collapsed rustbelt city, where he and his new partner investigate a double homicide in which two policemen were killed—an event that might be the beginning of a series of executions.

The Mahabharata Quest: The Alexander Secret is the second novel by Indian author Christopher C. Doyle and was released on 9 October 2014 by Westland Publishers. The story follows Vijay and his friends, as they embark on a quest to find about Alexander the Great's secret mission in India, while encountering bioterrorism. Following his first novel, The Mahabharata Secret, Doyle was signed for a three book series by Westland. The author researched further on the Mahabharata and was also intrigued by Alexander's invasion of India and his sudden retreat. He combined secrets from the epic and created the story, consulting Sanskrti scholars and science experts regarding the theories he put in the book. The Mahabharata Quest: The Alexander Secret was a commercial success, and received positive critical reviews, who praised the storytelling and the theme.

The Magician's Land is a fantasy novel by Lev Grossman, published in 2014 by Viking Adult, the second sequel to The Magicians. It continues the story of outcast magician Quentin Coldwater, interweaving it with the story of several of his friends who are questing to save the magical realm of Fillory.

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Love Letters to the Dead (2014) is the first novel by American author Ava Dellaira, published in 2014. This is a young adult novel told through a series of letters written to dead people by a 15-year-old girl named Laurel who is grieving the recent mysterious death of her sister May. The novel is set in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The Lotus and the Storm is a novel about war and its casualties by Lan Cao. Cao is professor of international law at the Chapman University School of Law. She left Vietnam in 1975.

The Long Mars is a science fiction novel by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter. In it, several characters from the previous books in this trilogy travel to Mars and find that it too has co-existing alternate worlds accessible to their technology. While many are lifeless and possess atmospheres as thin as those of Mars within our universe, others possess oceans, life forms and intelligent life.

Lone Wolf is the sixteenth and penultimate novel in the CHERUB series by Robert Muchamore, and the fourth book of the Aramov series. It was released on 1 August 2014.

Lock In is a science fiction police procedural novel by John Scalzi. The book was published by Tor Books in August 2014. The audiobook of the novel was released in two versions, one narrated by Wil Wheaton and one by Amber Benson.

The Lives of Others is Neel Mukherjee's second novel. It was published in 2014 by Chatto & Windus in the UK and W. W. Norton & Company in the US. The novel was shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize on 9 September 2014.

Liv till varje pris (lit. Life to Every Price) is a 2014 novel by Swedish author Kristina Sandberg. It won the August Prize in 2014.

Lila is a novel written by Marilynne Robinson that was published in 2014. Her fourth novel, it is the third installment of the Gilead trilogy. The novel focuses on the courtship and marriage of Lila and John Ames, as well as the backstory of Lila's transient past and her complex attachments. It won the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award.

Like a Mighty Army is the seventh book in the Safehold science fiction novel series by David Weber and published by Tor Books on February 18th, 2014. The title comes from the third stanza of the hymn "Onward, Christian Soldiers".

Life or Death (2014) is a crime novel by Australian author Michael Robotham. It won the 2015 Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award.

The Late Scholar is the fourth Lord Peter Wimsey detective novel to be written by Jill Paton Walsh. It was published by Hodder & Stoughton on December 5, 2013 in the UK, and on January 14, 2014 in North America.

The Last Enchantments is a novel by American author Charles Finch. It was published by St. Martin’s Press and released on January 28, 2014.

Lamentation is a historical mystery novel by British author C. J. Sansom. It is his eighth novel and the sixth entry in the Matthew Shardlake Series, following 2010's Heartstone. Set in the summer of 1546, King Henry VIII is dying while the Catholic and Protestant factions of his court are battling for power over his successor, Prince Edward. Matthew Shardlake is deep in work and still feeling the shock of the events of the previous year when Queen Catherine Parr, caught in the throes of the power struggle, again seeks his aid when a potentially controversial manuscript, Lamentation of a Sinner, is stolen from her chambers.

Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o! (この素晴らしい世界に祝福を!?, lit. "Give Blessings to This Wonderful World!") is a Japanese light novel series, written by Natsume Akatsuki and illustrated by Kurone Mishima. Kadokawa Shoten has published seven volumes since October 2013 under their Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko imprint. It has also received a spin-off light novel series titled Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Bakuen o! (この素晴らしい世界に爆焔を!?). A manga adaptation with art by Masahito Watari began serialization from September 9, 2014 in Fujimi Shobo's shōnen manga magazine Monthly Dragon Age. An anime television series adaptation by Studio Deen has been announced.

Kintu is a novel by Ugandan author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi. It was her doctoral novel, initially titled The Kintu Saga. It was shortlisted, and won the Kwani? Manuscript Project in 2013. It was published by Kwani trust in 2014 under the title, "Kintu".

The King's Curse is a 2014 historical novel by Philippa Gregory, part of her series The Cousins' War. It is the story of Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury and daughter of George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence and Isabel Neville.

King Dork Approximately is a 2014 Young Adult Novel by Frank Portman. It is a sequel to his 2006 debut novel King Dork.

Keeping Up with the Kalashnikovs is a 2014 novel by Irish journalist and author Paul Howard and serves as the fourteenth book in the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series.

Karachi, You're Killing Me! is a 2014 comedy crime-thriller novel by the Pakistani journalist-writer Saba Imtiaz. The author's debut novel was released in paperback by India's Random House on February 1, 2014. It is written about a 20-year-old reporter, Ayesha Khan, living in one of the world's most dangerous cities, Karachi, about her misadventures and finding a nice lover. The novel received mostly positive feedback from the reviewers. Imtiaz describes the novel as "Bridget Jones's Diary" meets "The Diary of a Social Butterfly." A Bollywood film adaptation is in development by producer Vikram Malhotra.

Kaharlyk (The name of a little town Kaharlyk next to Kiev) is a Ukrainian satirical dystopia novel by Oleg Shynkarenko, first published in hardcover by Sergy Pantyuk Publishing House in 2014. The novel depicts life in Ukraine a hundred years after the present time. Ukraine returned to the Middle Ages because of consequences of Russian occupation. The main character Olexandr Sahaidachny, whose mind was used for creation of Russian military satellites's supercomputers, is trying to get back his lost memory and wife. For this, he embarks on a mysterious city Kaharlyk, where time stopped after testing the newest Russian weapons.

Jackpot is a 2014 novel by Gordon Korman. that everyone in Cedarville is looking for. Griffin Bing, the main character, gets his friends in trouble and all they have a fight. They become friends with Victor Phoenix, who has recently moved to Cedarville, and start looking for the lottery ticket. Griffin starts looking himself. The book is a sequel to Hideout, and it is the sixth book in the Swindle series.

J is a 2014 novel by Howard Jacobson. It was shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize.

Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? (Japanese: ダンジョンに出会いを求めるのは間違っているだろうか, Hepburn: Danjon ni Deai o Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darō ka?), also known as DanMachi (ダンまち?) for short, and with English subtitle Familia Myth, is a Japanese light novel series, written by Fujino Ōmori and illustrated by Suzuhito Yasuda. SB Creative has published nine volumes since January 2013 under their GA Bunko imprint. It has received a spin-off light novel series and three manga adaptations. An anime television series adaptation by J.C.Staff aired from April 4 to June 27, 2015.

Into the Still Blue is a young adult science fiction novel by Veronica Rossi. It is the third installment of the Under the Never Sky trilogy and was published on January 28, 2014. The book is set in a futuristic world where humans are losing time to the Aether (intense lighting storms) that are quickly taking over the world. However, there is the Still Blue, a location that is believed to be free of Aether storms. Aria and Perry must find a way to get to the Still Blue, but first they have to get their friend Cinder back from their enemies Sable and Hess.

Into A Raging Blaze is a political thriller by Swedish author Andreas Norman, and is the first book of a proposed trilogy. The novel was translated into English by Ian Giles and published in 2014 by Quercus. It was nominated for the CWA International Dagger in 2015. The title refers to Ibn Arabi's poem 18 from The Translation of Desires.

Inga (2014) is an Indian English novel written by Poile Sengupta. The story of the novel revolves around the life and struggles of Rapa, a Tamil Brahmin woman.

The Infinite Sea is a young adult science fiction novel by Rick Yancey. It is the sequel to The 5th Wave.

In the Morning I'll be Gone is a 2014 novel by Irish/Australian novelist Adrian McKinty which won the 2014 Ned Kelly Award for Best Novel. It is the third in the author's Sean Duffy series, following The Cold Cold Ground and I Hear the Sirens in the Street.

In the Light of What We Know is the debut novel of Zia Haider Rahman. First published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, the novel was released in the spring of 2014 to international critical acclaim and earned its author the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Britain’s oldest literary prize. The novel is to be translated into several languages.

In the Blood is a psychological thriller by bestselling author Lisa Unger. It is a standalone novel, but takes place in The Hollows.

Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student is the 2014 novel by writer and pilot Richard Bach. The first Illusions book was published in 1977 and was an international best-seller, telling the story of a pilot who encounters a messiah who has absconded from the "job" of being a messiah. (Illusions was the author's followup to 1970's Jonathan Livingston Seagull.) The sequel is in author Richard Bach's voice, as his "imaginary" literary characters help him in his recovery from his real-life plane crash.

How to Be Both is a 2014 novel by Scottish author Ali Smith, first published by Hamish Hamilton. It was shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize and the 2015 Folio Prize It won the 2014 Goldsmiths Prize, the Novel Award in the 2014 Costa Book Awards and the 2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.

Homeroom Diaries is a realistic fiction novel by James Patterson aimed at teenagers. Published in the United States by Little, Brown and Company on July 22, 2014, the book follows high-schooler Margaret Clarke, who goes by the nickname Cuckoo. When the book begins, Cuckoo is living with a foster mother after her own mother abandoned her, an incident that caused Cuckoo to have a brief stay at a mental institution.

Hollow City is a sequel to 2011 novel Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children written by Ransom Riggs. It was released on January 14, 2014 by Quirk Books. The novel is set right after the first, and sees Jacob and his friends fleeing from Miss Peregrine's to the "peculiar capital of the world", London.

A History of the Future is the third installment in American author and social critic James Howard Kunstler's A World Made by Hand series. As Christmas Day approaches, a double murder challenges an improvised justice system, and a young man returns after a two-year journey with his own story to tell.

Hiding in Plain Sight is a 2014 novel by Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah. The novel follows the experience of Bella in the wake of a terrorist attack that kills her brother, Aar, a Kenyan UN worker in Mogadishu. After the death, Bella returns to Nairobi to help care for her brother's family. The ensuing conflict between Bella and her brother's widow becomes a central element of the novel. Hiding in Plain Sight is Farah's twelfth novel.

The Heist is the fourteenth in Daniel Silva's Gabriel Allon series. It was released in July 2014 and within two weeks was a New York Times bestseller. According to advance materials, the 17th chapter in the Gabriel Allon series will focus on the recovery of stolen art work.

Hawk is the fourteenth book in Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos series, set in the fantasy world of Dragaera. It was published in 2014. Following the trend of the series, it is named after one of the Great Houses, and the personality characteristics associated with that House are integral to its plot.

Havana Storm is a 2014 mystery novel written by international best-selling author Clive Cussler. The novel was Cussler's 23rd novel in his Dirk Pitt Adventure Series, and follows the adventures of Dirk Pitt, who appears in Cuba to investigate a toxic outbreak that could threaten the United States, but winds up becoming involved in a post-Castro battle for political control of Cuba.

Half Girlfriend is an Indian English coming of age, young adult romance novel by Indian author Chetan Bhagat. The novel, set in rural Bihar, New Delhi, Patna, and New York, is the story of a Bihari Boy in quest of winning over the girl he loves. This is Bhagat's sixth novel which was released on 1 October 2014 by Rupa Publications. The novel has also been published in Hindi and Gujarati versions as well. A Bollywood film adaptation is planned.

Half Bad is a 2014 young adult fantasy novel by debut author Sally Green. It is notable for its use of second person narrative as part of a wider first person narrative. On March 3, 2014, it set the Guinness World Record as the 'Most Translated Book by a Debut Author, Pre-publication', having sold in 45 languages prior to its UK publication by Penguin books.

The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy is a historical fiction novel written by Jacopo della Quercia. The plot follows President William Howard Taft, scientist and son of a former president Robert Todd Lincoln, Secret Service Chief John Wilkie, Captain (later Major) Archibald Butt and others as they slowly unravel a worldwide conspiracy over a decade in the making.

Gray Mountain is a legal fiction novel by John Grisham, published in hardcover on October 23, 2014. The book is set in Appalachia after the Great Recession and follows third-year associate Samantha Kofer after the Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, when she becomes a legal clinic intern in Virginia's coal mining country.

Grasshopper Jungle is a 2014 young adult novel written by American author Andrew A. Smith that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional, run-down, half-abandoned town of Ealing, Iowa. The story follows the life of two young high school boys who fight for their lives during an apocalypse.

The Good Luck of Right Now is a novel written by Matthew Quick.

Golden Boys (2014) is a novel by Australian author Sonya Hartnett. It has been shortlisted for the 2015 Miles Franklin Award.

The Golden Age (2014) is a novel by Australian author Joan London.

The Goblin Emperor is a 2014 fantasy novel written by the American author Sarah Monette under the pseudonym Katherine Addison. The novel received the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel and was nominated for the Nebula, Hugo and World Fantasy Awards. It was well received by critics, who noted the strength of the protagonist's characterization and, unusual for fantasy, the work's warm and understated tone.

The Girl with All the Gifts is a novel by M.R. Carey, published in June 2014 by Orbit Books, based on his Edgar Award winning short story, Iphigenia In Aulis. It deals with a dystopian future in which most of humanity is wiped out by a fungal infection.

Girl Online is the debut novel by English author and internet celebrity Zoe Sugg, released on 25 November 2014 through Penguin Books. The romance and drama novel is aimed at a young adult audience and focuses on a sixteen-year-old anonymous blogger and what happens when her blog goes viral. The novel is a New York Times Best Seller in the Young Adult category. The book was the fastest selling book of 2014 and it also broke the record for highest first week sales for a debut author since records began.

The Girl Next Door is a novel by British crime writer Ruth Rendell published in 2014. It was the last of her novels published in her lifetime.

The Girl in the Road is a 2014 science fiction novel by Monica Byrne. It tracks two stories in parallel: one of a primary protagonist, Meena, as she crosses a floating energy-harvesting bridge that spans the Arabian Sea from India to Djibouti some time in the 2060s, and another of the youth and young adulthood of Mariama, who travels several decades earlier from Western Africa to Ethiopia.

Funny Girl is a 2014 novel, by the British writer Nick Hornby.

Full Force and Effect is a political thriller novel in the Tom Clancy universe by Mark Greaney published on December 2, 2014 by Putnam Adult. It is the first Jack Ryan novel to be written and released after the death of Tom Clancy.

Friendswood is a 2014 novel by René Steinke. It is about an incident of dumping toxic waste in Friendswood, Texas. Riverhead Books is the publisher. The waste site featured in the book never was located in Friendswood and has never been under the jurisdiction of Friendswood.

Foxglove summer is the fifth novel in the Rivers of London series by English author Ben Aaronovitch, published 2014 by Gollancz.

For Today I Am a Boy is a novel written by Kim Fu, published in 2014 by Harper Collins. It follows the life of Peter Huang, a young transgender Chinese child, throughout Peter's childhood and adolescence in Fort Michel, Ontario, and adulthood and transformation in Montreal, Quebec. The novel is named after the Antony and the Johnsons' song of the same title.

For Such a Time is the 2014 debut novel by Kate Breslin.

Fool's Assassin is the first book in the epic fantasy trilogy Fitz and the Fool, written by American author Robin Hobb. It commences ten years after the events of Fool's Fate, a period covered by The Rain Wild Chronicles; it resumes the story of FitzChivalry Farseer when he is enjoying a well deserved retirement with his wife Molly.

The Fever is a novel by American writer Megan Abbott first published in 2014 by Little, Brown and Company. It is Abott's seventh novel.

The Farm (2014) is a psychological thriller novel by Tom Rob Smith. Set in London and Sweden, it is Smith's fourth published work and his first standalone novel.

The Falcon Throne is a 2014 novel written by Karen Miller. It is the first book in The Tarnished Crown series.

The Eye of the Sheep is a 2014 novel by Australian novelist Sofie Laguna which won the 2015 Miles Franklin Award.

The Eye of Heaven is a Fargo adventure novel. The two main characters of the Fargo novels are adventurers Sam Fargo and his wife, Remi. The Eye of Heaven is the sixth book of the Fargo series. The book's hardcover edition was first published September 2, 2014.

Exposure is the fourth novel in the Virals series of novels for young adults written by the American forensic anthropologist and crime writer, Kathy Reichs and her son Brendan Reichs, featuring Tory Brennan, great-niece of Temperance Brennan.

Exo is the fourth novel in the Jumper series by Steven Gould and the fifth in the Jumper universe. The first two novels—Jumper and Reflex—tell a connecting story of David and Millie, which is continued with their daughter, Cent, in Impulse and now Exo. The fifth novel in the Jumper universe, Jumper: Griffin's Story, is the back-story for a character from the 2008 movie Jumper and is not associated with the story or characters in the novels.

Everything I Never Told You: A Novel is a 2014 debut novel by Celeste Ng. Ng spent six years writing the novel, going through four different full drafts.

The Escape is a thriller novel written by American author David Baldacci. This is the third installment in the John Puller book series. The book was initially published on November 18, 2014 by Grand Central Publishing. In this novel Puller has to hunt down the most formidable and brilliant prey he has ever tracked: his own brother, Robert.

Engines of War is a BBC Books original novel written by George Mann and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the War Doctor.

Enemies at Home is a 2014 historical crime novel by British author Lindsey Davis. It is the second Flavia Albia novel, and begins in Rome in June AD 89. This sets it two months after the events of The Ides of April, the first novel featuring Falco's adopted daughter in her work as a detective in ancient Rome.

Endgame: The Calling is a science fiction young-adult novel written by James Frey and Nils Johnson-Shelton. It is the first novel in the Endgame trilogy. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 622 libraries

The Empty Throne is the eighth historical novel in The Saxon Stories series by Bernard Cornwell, first published in October 2014. It is set in 10th-century Mercia and Dyfed.

The Emperor's Riddles is a mystery thriller debut novel by Indian author Satyarth Nayak. The novel consists of a present day trail of cryptic riddles scattered across India that must be solved one by one to unveil an ancient Indian secret. This journey plays out in the context of an esoteric legend involving one of the most iconic Emperors of the history of India. The book was first released at the New Delhi World Book Fair in February 2014. It turned out to be a bestselling thriller with the media calling it "a hit with young readers".

Ella Morris is the tenth novel by John David Morley, a story of Europe, about the calamities which befell the continent last century. The book's focus is the Morris family: its matriarch Ella; her husband George, a British civil servant of Hungarian descent; her lover Claude de Marsay, a French student ten years her junior whom she meets in Paris; and Ella’s four children, all of whom must navigate a world still scarred by the legacy of the Second World War.

Edge of Eternity is a historical and family saga novel by Welsh-born author Ken Follett, published in 2014. It is the third book in the Century Trilogy, after Fall of Giants and Winter of the World.

Eden (2014) is a crime novel by Australian author Candice Fox. It won the Ned Kelly Award in 2015 for Best Novel.

Earth Awakens is a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston, and the third book of the First Formic Wars trilogy of novels in the Ender's Game series. It was released on June 10, 2014.

The Drop is a 2014 novel by Dennis Lehane. It was adapted from a feature film of the same name, released in September 2014, and the last film of James Gandolfini. The film was an adaptation of a 2009 short story by Lehane, "Animal Rescue".

The Doubt Factory is a novel by Paolo Bacigalupi, published on October 14, 2014 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. The novel chronicles the adventures of youths and young adults intent on exposing corporate malfeasance. The title describes the efforts of corporate public relations efforts to cast doubt on scientific findings in order to prolong the life of a product. The book has been characterized as didactic, "backed up with references to actual front groups, lawsuits, warning labels, and literature on the subject". In another review, Cory Doctorow praises the work as both a polemic and a novel.

Dorothy Must Die is a 2014 young adult book by Danielle Paige and her debut novel. The book, which was produced through Full Fathom Five, was released on April 1, 2014 through HarperCollins and was preceded by the novella No Place Like Oz. Dorothy Must Die is the first book in the Dorothy Must Die series and The CW is currently in negotiations to produce a television series based upon the series.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul is a children's novel written by Jeff Kinney and is the ninth book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. On April 28, 2014, Kinney announced the book's name, as well as its cover. The book was released on November 5, 2014 in the UK and an exclusive extract to the book was released on 19 July 2014.

December Park is a coming of age/bildungsroman suspense novel written by Ronald Malfi. It was published in 2014 by Medallion Press, with a limited hardcover collectors edition from Cemetery Dance Publications. The novel received the 2015 Beverly Hills Book Award for best suspense novel. Malfi has credited this book with being his most autobiographical to date, citing that the fictional town of Harting Farms and its titular neighborhood park are based on the Maryland suburb of Severna Park, where Malfi grew up.

The Days of Anna Madrigal (2014) is the ninth and final book in the Tales of the City series by American novelist Armistead Maupin.

A Damaged Mirror is a 2014 "novelized" memoir by Yael Shahar and Ovadya ben Malka. The book explores the moral dilemmas of a former member of the Birkenau Sonderkommando, Ovadya ben Malka. The book was reissued in 2015 with a new Foreword by Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo.

The Crossover is a 2014 children's book by American author Kwame Alexander and the winner of the 2015 Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award Honor. The book, which is told entirely through verse, was first published in the United States in hardback on March 18, 2014 through HMH Books for Young Readers. The story follows two African-American twin brothers that share a love for basketball but find themselves drifting apart as they head into their junior high school years.

The Crimson Campaign is the second book in The Powder Mage trilogy written by American author Brian McClellan. It was first published by Orbit Books on May 6, 2014 and is the sequel to Promise of Blood (2013). The third and last book, titled The Autumn Republic, was released on February 10, 2015.

Cress is the third novel in Marissa Meyer's The Lunar Chronicles, published by Macmillan Publishers through their subsidiary Feiwel & Friends. The story is loosely based on the fairy tale of "Rapunzel", similar to its predecessors Cinder and Scarlet which were loosely based on "Cinderella" and "Little Red Riding Hood" respectively.

Cormoran Strike is a Crime fiction books series written by British author J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The story chronicles the many cases of a private investigator named Cormoran Strike and his assistant Robin Ellacott.

The Copper Promise is a 2013 fantasy novella series by Jen Williams and her debut work. It was initially released between December 2013 and January 2014 as a set of four e-book novellas and has since been published in paperback format as a single volume through Headline (ISBN 978-1472211118).

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena is a novel written by Anthony Marra, published February 4, 2014 by Hogarth.

Coming Home is a 2014 science-fiction novel by Jack McDevitt. It is the seventh in the Alex Benedict series, and was released in November 2014.

City of the Sun is a novel by Juliana Maio, published by Greenleaf Book Group in March 2014. The novel, which blends historical fiction with spy fiction and romantic fiction, is set in Cairo in 1941 during the North Africa Campaign of World War II. Though a work of fiction, it centers around true historical events and "connects the root of much of today's turmoil in the Middle East with the Axis-Allied struggle from control of the Suez Canal, and the early history of the Muslim Brotherhood.

City of Heavenly Fire is a young adult fantasy romance novel, the sixth and final installment in The Mortal Instruments, and chronologically the ninth installment in The Shadowhunter Chronicles series by Cassandra Clare. It was released on May 27, 2014. The book once again follows the adventures of the teenage Shadowhunter, Clary Fray, and her allies in facing her brother Sebastian Morgenstern and his allies of Endarkened Shadowhunters. It also ties in with both The Infernal Devices and the upcoming The Dark Artifices series by having their main protagonists, Tessa Gray and Emma Carstairs, appear as supporting characters.

Christopher's Diary: Secrets of Foxworth is a 2014 American Gothic novel based on the writings of VC Andrews Dollanganger saga. It is a spin-off to the Dollanganger saga and records the events of the first book Flowers in the Attic from the perspective of Christopher Dollanganger in details that were never mentioned in the first book.

China Dolls is a 2014 novel by Lisa See. It depicts the largely forgotten world of Chinese American nightclubs and performers of the '30s and '40s. The book opens with a quotation attributed to Buddha: "Only three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." See organizes her narrative around these three elements – The Sun (October 1938 – August 1940; The Moon (August 1940 – September 1945); and The Truth (December 1945-June 1948). The novel briefly concludes with a reunion of many of the main characters in 1988.

The Children Act is a novel by the English writer Ian McEwan, published on 2 September 2014. The title is a reference to the Children Act 1989, a UK Act of Parliament. It has been compared to Charles Dickens' Bleak House, with its similar settings, and opening lines.

Chewing Gum is the debut novel of Libyan writer Mansour Bushnaf, first published in Arabic 2008 in Cairo. It was banned by Gaddafi regime in Libya. It was first published in English in 2014 by DARF Publishers with a translation by Mona Zaki.

The Celestial Hunt is a fiction novel written by debutant author Devikumar Ramalingam. The Celestial Hunt is a story blended with spirituality and philosophy based on Sangford’s mysterious book Providential Psyches. The novel is a product of a thoroughly researched book which takes readers into the immeasurable depths of the undiscovered; a quest for the unknown. The story has taken place in Hyderabad and Philippines respectively. There are references to population bottleneck theory and details of lemurian civilisation in the story.

The Causal Angel is the third science fiction novel by Hannu Rajaniemi featuring the protagonist Jean le Flambeur. It was published in July 2014 by Gollancz in the UK and by Tor in the US. The novel is the finale of a trilogy. The previous novels in the series are The Quantum Thief (2010) and The Fractal Prince (2012).

Captain Underpants and the Tyrannical Retaliation of the Turbo Toilet 2000 is a graphic novel by Dav Pilkey and the eleventh book in the Captain Underpants series. It was published on August 26, 2014, and features the second and final speaking appearance of the Turbo Toilet 2000, as well as the first appearances of George and Harold's, day-older duplicates born through time travel, Yesterday George and Yesterday Harold, as well as the four's new pets and Crackers and Sulu's offspring, Dawn, Orlando, and Tony, who are hybrids between a bionic hamster and a pterodactyl, and the term 'hamsterdactyl' is coined towards the end of the book to describe their species.

California is a novel by American author Edan Lepucki described as "post-apocalyptic dystopian fiction", in which characters Frida and Cal flee Los Angeles to live in the wilderness of post-apocalyptic California. The novel rose to prominence after Stephen Colbert urged his viewers to pre-order copies of the book from sellers other than Amazon.com – part of an ongoing dispute between the online bookseller and Colbert's own publisher, the Hachette Book Group. On 21 July 2014, Colbert announced that the novel would debut on the The New York Times Best Seller list at number 3.

The Burning Room is the 27th novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, and the seventeenth novel featuring Los Angeles Police Department detective Harry Bosch. The book was published by Little, Brown and Company on November 3rd, 2014.

The Burning Dark (originally titled Shadow's Call) is a 2014 sci-fi horror novel by Adam Christopher. The novel was published in the United States and the United Kingdom on March 25, 2014 through Tor Books and Titan Books, respectively. The Burning Dark is the first book in the Spider War trilogy but can also be read as a stand-alone novel.

The Brunist Day of Wrath is Robert Coover's tenth novel. It is a sequel to The Origin of the Brunists, which told the story of Giovanni Bruno, the lone survivor of a mine disaster that killed 97 of his co-workers, and the first several months of the apocalyptic cult that formed around him, ending in their disastrous scattering. The Brunist Day of Wrath is set five years later, as the cult returns to West Condon.

Brown Girl Dreaming is a 2014 adolescent novel told in verse by author Jacqueline Woodson. It discusses the author's childhood as an African-American growing up in the sixties and seventies in South Carolina and New York. It was awarded the Newbery Honor, the National Book Award for Young People's Literature and an NAACP Image Award for outstanding literary work-youth/teens.

A Brief History of Seven Killings is the third novel by Jamaican author Marlon James. It was published by Riverhead Books. The novel spans several decades and explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in Jamaica in 1976 and its aftermath through the crack wars in New York City in the 1980s and a changed Jamaica in the 1990s.

The Book of Unknown Americans is a 2014 novel by Cristina Henríquez published by Alfred A. Knopf.

The Book of Strange New Things is a 2014 science fiction novel by Dutch-born author Michel Faber. The work was first published in the United States on October 28, 2014 and concerns an English pastor who is sent to the planet of Oasis to teach its reclusive native inhabitants about Christianity. Michel Faber has stated that The Book of Strange New Things may be his last written work.

The Book of Life is a 2014 fantasy novel by American scholar Deborah Harkness, the third book in the All Souls trilogy. As the sequel to the 2012 bestseller, Shadows of Night, it follows the final steps in the story of Diana Bishop, a historian who comes from a long line of witches, and Matthew Clairmont, a long-lived vampire, as they unlock the secrets of an ancient manuscript.

The Bone Clocks is a novel by British writer David Mitchell. It was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2014, and called one of the best novels of 2014 by Stephen King. The novel won the 2015 World Fantasy Award.

Blue Labyrinth is a thriller novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. The book was released on November 11, 2014, by Grand Central Publishing. This is the fourteenth book in the Special Agent Pendergast series.

Blood Red (2014) is a fantasy novel written by Mercedes Lackey and part of her Elemental Masters series. It is based on the tale of Red Riding Hood. The story is set primarily in Germany and Romania. It does not mention the White Lodge of London or David Alderscroft in the story. It is also the first mention of a fifth elemental magic, spirit. Several new Elementals and gods are introduced as well, including the Lord of the Hunt, minotaurs, Zane, Iele, and Valva Bailor.

The Blood of Olympus is a young adult novel by Rick Riordan and is the fifth and final book in The Heroes of Olympus series. It was released on October 7, 2014. It quickly became a New York Times Bestseller. In it, the seven demigods of the prophecy—Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, Jason Grace, Leo Valdez, Piper McLean, Hazel Levesque, and Frank Zhang—go on their final adventure to defeat Gaea while Nico di Angelo, Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano, and Coach Gleeson Hedge attempt to bring the Athena Parthenos to Camp Half-Blood in order to prevent a war between the Roman and Greek demigods. The chapters are written from the perspectives of Jason, Piper, Leo, Reyna, and Nico, making it the first time in the series that someone other than one of the seven demigods of the prophecy is the viewpoint character. It is also the first time that Percy appears without being a viewpoint character.

The Broken Eye is a 2014 epic fantasy novel by New York Times Bestselling author Brent Weeks and the third book in his Lightbringer series following The Black Prism and The Blinding Knife. The novel is written in the third person perspective of several characters and builds the world of the Lightbringer further.

Black Ice is the fifth book written by Becca Fitzpatrick. It is told from Britt's point of view as Britt, her friend Korbie, Korbie's brother Calvin, and their friend Bear set off to go backpacking in the mountains for spring break. But all goes wrong when an unexpected snowstorm stops them from reaching the cabin.

Bird Box is a 2014 post-apocalyptic novel and the debut work of Josh Malerman, the lead singer of The High Strung. The book was first published in United Kingdom on 27 March 2014 through Harper Voyager and in the United States on 13 May 2014 through Ecco Press and follows a woman who must find a way to guide herself and her children to safety despite the potential threat from an unseen adversary. The story is partially told via flashbacks and takes place three different points in time.

Big Little Lies is a 2014 novel written by Liane Moriarty. The book was published in July 2014 by Penguin Publishing.

Between the Spark and the Burn is a young adult Gothic / horror novel written by April Genevieve Tucholke and published on August 14, 2014 by Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Books. It is a sequel to Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, which was published in 2013.

Beautiful You is a novel by Chuck Palahniuk, released in October 2014. It is set in New York City.

Battle for Bittora is writer and advertiser Anuja Chauhan's second novel after her debut novel, The Zoya Factor.

The Back of the Turtle is a novel by Thomas King. Published by Doubleday Canada in 2014, the novel won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 2014 Governor General's Awards.

Awful Auntie is a children's book written by David Walliams and illustrated by Tony Ross. It is the seventh book by Walliams, a television comedian best known as an actor on the show Little Britain, and as a judge on Britain's Got Talent.

Authority is a 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer. It is the second in a series of three books called the Southern Reach Trilogy. The book is said to focus on the Southern Reach agency. In an interview, VanderMeer states that, "if Annihilation is an expedition into Area X, then Authority is an expedition into the Southern Reach, the agency sending in the expeditions." It was released in May 2014.

Atlantia is a young adult novel authored by Allyson Braithwaite Condie. The novel is a Library of Congress Cataloging-In-Publication. The cover photo for the hardcover edition is by C&P. The story is told from the perspective of Rio, a girl from the underwater city, Atlantia. This novel is recommended for ages 12 and up (grades 7 and up), and is a New York Times bestseller.

The Ascendance Trilogy is a trio of juvenile fantasy novels by Jennifer A. Nielsen. The first book in the series, The False Prince, was first released on April 1, 2012 through Scholastic Press. The book sold well and its paperback reprint in 2013 placed False Prince on the New York Times Bestseller List in May 2013. The second book, The Runaway King, was released on March 1, 2013, and the last book, The Shadow Throne, was released on February 25, 2014. In the Ascendance Trilogy, an orphan named Sage is revealed to be Jaron, the missing Prince of Carthya. After Jaron ascends to the throne, he has to lead his nation through a destructive war.

Annihilation is a 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer. It is the first in a series of three books called the Southern Reach Trilogy. The book describes a team of four (a biologist, an anthropologist, a psychologist, and a surveyor) who set out into an area known as Area X. The area is abandoned and cut off from the rest of civilization. They are the 12th expedition. The other expeditions have been fraught with disappearances, suicides, aggressive cancers, and mental trauma. The novel won the 2014 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 2014 Shirley Jackson Award for best novel.

Ancillary Sword is a science fiction novel by the American writer Ann Leckie, published in October 2014. It is the second novel in Leckie's "Imperial Radch" space opera trilogy, which began with Ancillary Justice (2013). The novel was generally well received by critics, received the BSFA Award for Best Novel and the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and was nominated for the Nebula and Hugo awards.

Amnesia is a 2014 novel by Australian author Peter Carey.

All the Light We Cannot See is a novel written by American author Anthony Doerr, published by Scribner on May 6, 2014. It won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.

All That is Solid Melts into Air is the debut novel by the Irish writer Darragh McKeon. Using the Chernobyl disaster as a backdrop, the novel chronicles the collapse and ultimate end of the Soviet Union. McKeon was shortlisted for the Newcomer of the Year award at the 2014 Irish Book Awards.

All My Puny Sorrows is the sixth novel by Canadian writer Miriam Toews. The novel won the 2014 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize, the 2015 Folio Prize for Literature, and the 2015 Wellcome Book Prize. Toews has said that the novel draws heavily on the events leading up to the 2010 suicide of her sister, Marjorie.

After Darkness (2014) is a novel by Australian author Christine Piper. It won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award in 2014 and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award in 2015.

Adultery is a novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho. It is the sixteenth major book by Coelho, and touches on the theme of adultery. Adultery was written in Coelho's native language, Portuguese. The Portuguese edition was released on April 10th, 2014. The (American) English edition is published by Knopf and it is scheduled along with the Spanish edition to be published on August 19th, 2014.

Act of War is a 2014 USA Today and New York Times bestselling thriller spy novel by American author Brad Thor and the thirteenth book in the Scot Harvath series. It was preceded by Hidden Order and was followed by Code of Conduct.

Acceptance is a 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer. It is the last in a series of three books called the Southern Reach Trilogy. It was released in the US on September 2, 2014. On March 15, 2014, Buzzfeed gave an exclusive first look at the cover to Acceptance along with an interview with Jeff VanderMeer.

1636: Commander Cantrell in the West Indies is a novel in the 1632 series written by Eric Flint and Charles E. Gannon and published on June 3, 2014. The story follows the adventures of Eddie Cantrell a supporting character in 1633 and 1634: The Baltic War. Eddie is married to the daughter of the Danish King and is sent to America to set up a colony and to explore for oil in the Gulf of Mexico while defending against the Spanish and even pirates.

1636: Seas of Fortune is an anthology of short stories written by Iver Cooper and set in the 1632 series. The anthology was released in the United States on January 7, 2014. It is divided into two roughly equal novella-length parts, Stretching Out and Rising Sun. Each part ("braid") consists of several linked ("braided") short stories, seven in the case of Stretching Out and five in Rising Sun. The compilation was published in trade paperback in 2014 and in mass market paperback in 2015. The book received moderate reviews, with respectable sales. Stretching Out is set in northern South America and the Caribbean while Rising Sun is set in Japan, in the North Pacific, and on the west coast of North America.

10:04 is the second novel by the American writer Ben Lerner.

The 100 trilogy is a young adult science fiction trilogy by Kass Morgan. The first book in the series, The 100, was published on September 3, 2013 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Day 21, the second book, was released on September 25, 2014, and Homecoming was released on February 26, 2015 completing the trilogy. A boxed set of the trilogy will be released on January 5, 2016.

This One Summer is an award-winning graphic novel written by Mariko Tamaki and illustrated by Jillian Tamaki published by First Second in 2014. It is a coming of age story about two pre-teen friends, Rose and Windy, during a summer in Awago, a small beach town. Mariko Tamaki based the town of Awago on a place in Canada her family used to visit.

Teen Titans: Earth One is a graphic novel published by DC Comics that was released on November 19, 2014. A part of the Earth One line, the book was written by Jeff Lemire, penciled by Terry Dodson and inked by Rachel Dodson and Cam Smith.

Shackleton: Antarctic Odyssey is a graphic novel published in 2014 by First Second. Written and illustrated by Nick Bertozzi, the graphic novel focuses on Ernest Shackleton and his crew during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914. The book was published during the 100th year anniversary of the expedition

Seconds is a graphic novel by Bryan Lee O'Malley. Published on July 15, 2014 by Ballantine Books, the novel tells the story of Katie Clay, head chef at a prospering restaurant named Seconds, who obtains the ability to fix her past mistakes by writing them down in a notebook, eating a mushroom, and falling asleep. Abusing the power to make her life perfect, Katie ends up creating more problems for herself.

Priya's Shakti is a graphic novel by Ram Devineni, Lina Srivastava, and Dan Goldman.

The Love Bunglers is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Jaime Hernandez, published in 2014. The story focuses on the character Maggie, well known to long-time readers Hernandez's Locas stories, and two men with whom she has been involved with in the past: Ray Dominguez and Reno Banks.

Jonah Hex: Shadows West is a collection of graphic novels written by American author Joe R. Lansdale. The artwork was done by writer and illustrator Timothy Truman and artist Sam Glanzman. These works were published from 1993 to 1999 by DC Comics. These all surround the adventures of fictional bounty hunter Jonah Hex who was originally created by writer John Albano and artist Tony DeZuniga in 1977. All of the original story and artwork has been redone and reprinted in high quality graphics by Vertigo/DC Comics in 2014.

Bumperhead is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Gilbert Hernandez, published by Drawn and Quarterly in 2014.

Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Rift is a graphic novel in three parts written by Gene Yang and illustrated by Studio Gurihiru. It is a sequel to Avatar: The Last Airbender and a prequel to The Legend of Korra, both animated TV series created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. Part 1 was released on March 5, 2014, Part 2 was released on July 29, 2014, and Part 3 was released on November 18, 2014. It takes place after the events of the graphic novel Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Search. It is followed by the Smoke and Shadow trilogy.

All You Need Is Kill (Japanese: オール・ユー・ニード・イズ・キル, Hepburn: Ōru Yū Nīdo Izu Kiru?) is a Japanese military science fiction light novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka with illustrations by Yoshitoshi ABe. The novel was Sakurazaka's breakthrough science-fiction novel, earning wide praise from fellow novelists including Yasutaka Tsutsui and Chōhei Kanbayashi and was entered in contention for the Seiun Awards. The book was published in Japanese by Shueisha under their Super Dash Bunko imprint in December 2004, and was later released in English by Viz Media under their Haikasoru imprint. All You Need Is Kill follows a soldier named Keiji Kiriya, who, after dying in a battle with extraterrestrials, is caught in a time loop that makes him live the same day repeatedly, allowing Kiriya to improve his fighting skills.