So before someone yells at me “Enough with the lists!”, I took that list of Best Books of 2014 – A List of Lists and I made another list – the books that appear most frequently on all of those lists.
Trawl through all the lists or save time by simply adding the 2014 Commonly-Agreed-by-the-People-Who-Publish-Best-of-2014-Book-Lists-in-November top 22 books to your To-Be-Read stack.
Books that made three lists –
1. Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
2. Bark by Lorrie Moore
3. Euphoria by Lily King
4. We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas
5. To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris
6. Us by David Nicolls
7. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
8. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
9. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
Books that made four lists –
10. Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
11. The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
12. Family Life by Akhil Sharma
13. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
14. The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel
15. The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
Books that made five lists –
16. Nora Webster by Colm Toibin
17. The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
18. The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
19. Station Eleven by by Emily St. John Mandel
Books that made six or more lists –
20. The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
21. Lila by Marilynne Robinson
22. A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
I’ve only read two of these (actually, one I abandoned). I own another 11 of them and intend to finish the year focused on those 11 books. Maybe I should turn this into a reading challenge…?