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title: "Start of the Best of the Year Lists"
description: "I love reading through best of the year Book lists to see what I missed. I tend to read a lot of books that are a few years old and not that many that are brand new. So rarely have..."
url: https://bookwi.se/start-best-year-lists/
date: 2014-12-04
modified: 2014-12-04
author: "Adam Shields"
categories: ["Off Site Reviews"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# Start of the Best of the Year Lists

I love reading through best of the year Book lists to see what I missed. I tend to read a lot of books that are a few years old and not that many that are brand new. So rarely have I read more than a handful of any of the best of the year lists. Instead I use them to add to my wish lists and pick them up in the future.

So far I have noticed four “˜Best of 2014′ lists. Let me know in the comments if you have come across others.

- [Goodreads Best Books of 2014](https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-books-2014) – this is a reader choice award list with over 3 million votes cast. It tends to be a bit of a popularity contest but still interesting. It also has a lot of different categories and includes the nominations not just the top books.
- [Huffington Post Books Best of 2014](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/02/best-books-2014_n_6248016.html?utm_hp_ref=books) – this is from the editors of the Huffington Post Books section. It includes [Lila](https://bookwi.se/lila), which is my book of the year
- [Bookriot.com’s Best of 2014](http://bookriot.com/2014/12/02/riot-round-best-books-2014/) – Bookriot is a very good Book oriented website. The contributors have a best of list and are asking [readers to contribute their best books of the year](http://bookriot.com/2014/12/03/best-books-2014/).
- [Amazon’s Editor’s 100 Best of 2014](http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=s9_al_bw_feat?ie=UTF8&docId=1002993971&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-3&pf_rd_r=1YK4PHNKD0F0QWSSWT2F&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1968762882&pf_rd_i=10207069011) – Amazon will have a best selling of 2014 later, but this is the editor’s choice list.  The book of the year is Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. I picked it up and am half way through it.  I understand the choice but I am having a hard time making it through. It is a very sad and tragic book.

From these lists, Bookwi.se has reviewed

- [Landline by Rainbow Rowell](https://bookwi.se/landline/)
- [Yes Please by Amy Poehler](https://bookwi.se/yes-please/)
- [Lila: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson](https://bookwi.se/lila-novel-marilynne-robinson/)
- [What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe](https://bookwi.se/what-if/)