The New York Times have released the top 100 books of the year. The most notable aspect of this; is the true diverse range of authors and novels - a truly refreshing sight indeed. Here, here.
Here are my top six.
The Book of Strange new Things : Michel Faber
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| Faber is a master of the weird; in his defiantly unclassifiable novel, a pastor from Earth is picked to satisfy an alien planet’s mysterious yen for religious instruction. |
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage - Hakuri Murakami
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| A novel of a man’s traumatic entrance into adulthood and the shadowy passages he must then negotiate. |
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| In this novel, a tragedy tears away at a mixed-race family in 1970s Ohio. |
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| Personal favourite! A debut, read this: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/29/useless-prayers |
We Are Not Ourselves - Matthew Thomas
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| Thomas’s gorgeous family epic follows three Irish-American generations. |
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| King’s novel turns an episode in the life of Margaret Mead into a taut tale of competing egos and desires in a landscape of exotic menace. |
Overall, a brilliant list. For the full story: see here: 100 Notable Books of 2014
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