2014 Book Award Winners

Theo Decker is thirteen when a bomb goes off in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His mother is killed. In the confusion a dying old man presses a...

Dorrigo Evans is an Australian surgeon and, later, a decorated national figure he does not believe in. In 1943 he is the senior officer in a...

Twelve stories from the Iraq war and its long American afterward, each in a different first person voice, and the range of the voices is the book's...

An unnamed Irish girl addresses her older brother across the whole of the book, and the first thing the reader must survive is the sentences:...

Lila is the third of Marilynne Robinson's novels set in the small Iowa town of Gilead, after Gilead (2004) and Home (2008), and it tells the story...

Rosemary Cooke, who tells this story, is twenty two and a student at the University of California, Davis, in 1996. When she was a talkative child...

Dan Fagin tells the story of Toms River, New Jersey, where the chemical company Ciba-Geigy and its predecessors dumped industrial waste for...

The Internal Enemy follows the enslaved population of Tidewater Virginia across six decades, from the years just before independence to the early...

Megan Marshall follows Margaret Fuller from a childhood shaped entirely by her father, who taught her Latin and the classics on a schedule usually...

Age of Ambition is Evan Osnos's portrait of China in the boom years, drawn from the eight years, 2005 to 2013, he spent in Beijing for the Chicago...

When Helen Macdonald's father, the photojournalist Alisdair Macdonald, died suddenly of a heart attack, his daughter, a Cambridge historian of...

Miodownik is a materials scientist at University College London, and this is a book about the ten substances in a photograph of himself sitting on...

3 Sections moves between Vijay Seshadri's birthplace in Bangalore and his adult life in New York, joining metaphysical inquiry to the ordinary...

Fire Songs burns from end to end: the book is threaded on a sequence of fire poems, among them Fire: a song for Mistress Askew, which opens the...

Breq is one body walking across an ice planet with a weapon and a grudge. She used to be the Justice of Toren, a troop carrier with a distributed...

Four women cross the border into Area X: a biologist, an anthropologist, a surveyor and a psychologist who leads them. They have no names, only...

Michael Gibson has come back to the family land in the southern Appalachians because nobody else would: his grandmother Sadie is dying by inches,...

Jevick is the son of a pepper merchant from the Tea Islands, where books are almost unknown. His father is violent and ambitious; the kindness in...

New Bremen, Minnesota, the summer of 1961: Frank Drum is thirteen, a Methodist minister's son with a knack for being where he should not, and the...

Flora Belle Buckman is a self described cynic who reads comic books instead of novels and keeps a running list of hard truths she has picked up...

A mother and her two children ride a steam powered train across the newly completed transcontinental railroad in the summer of 1869, traveling from...

Guy Roland has spent years working for a private detective agency in Paris run by a man named Hutte, chasing down other people's missing relatives...