The top 50 fiction books for 2014
By Miriam Toews (McSweeney’s)
This sad and improbably witty novel is about two loving sisters: one who wants to live, the other who wants to die. Toews mines the frustration of caring for someone set on self-destruction, offering a nuanced look at the wrenching questions about the end of life. — Ron Charles
ALL OUR NAMES
Mengestu, who left his native Ethiopia as a child and now teaches at Georgetown, tells the mournful, mysterious story of an African man who comes to the Midwest on a student visa. He captures beautifully the conflicted emotions of someone who has survived the loss of his family, his country and his identity. — R.C.
ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE
By Anthony Doerr (Scribner)
At the center of this enthralling novel, a National Book Award finalist, are two children: a blind French girl who flees to the countryside when her father disappears from Nazi-occupied Paris and a whiz-kid German orphan whose science skills gain him entry into the Hitler Youth. — Amanda Vaill
MARGARET THATCHER
By Hilary Mantel (Henry Holt)
Click here to see the list in The Washington Post
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