Here are the 10 best books of 2014, selected by the editors of the New York Times Book Review:

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Fiction

All The Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr
Scribner

Amazon
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Dept. of Speculation

Jenny Offill
Alfred A. Knopf

Amazon
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Euphoria

Lily King
Atlantic Monthly Press

Amazon
$3.95

Family Life

Akhil Sharma
W. W. Norton & Company

Amazon
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Redeployment

Phil Klay
The Penguin Press

Amazon
$5.24

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Nonfiction

Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?

Roz Chast
Bloomsbury

Amazon
$10.45

On Immunity: An Inoculation

Eula Biss
Graywolf Press

Amazon
$9.94

Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life

Hermione Lee
Alfred A. Knopf

Amazon
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Elizabeth Kolbert
Henry Holt & Company

Amazon
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Thirteen Days In September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David

Lawrence Wright
Alfred A. Knopf

Amazon
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