Booklist released their Editors' Choice list for 2014, so please join me in a round of applause for the picks from HarperCollins:
John Quincy Adams by Fred Kaplan: an illuminating biography of one of the most overlooked presidents in American history—a leader of sweeping perspective whose progressive values helped shape the course of the nation.
Us by David Nicholls: a new novel from the author of One Day about one man’s efforts to salvage his marriage—and repair his troubled relationship with his teenaged son—during the course of a trip around Europe.
All I Love and Know by Judith Frank: a searing drama of a modern American family on the brink of dissolution, one that explores adoption, gay marriage, and love lost and found.
Lovers at the Chameleon Club by Francine Prose: A richly imagined and stunningly inventive literary masterpiece of love, art, and betrayal, set in Paris from the late 1920s into the dark years of World War II, that explores the genesis of evil, the unforeseen consequences of love, and the ultimate unreliability of storytelling itself.
The Story of the Jews by Simon Schama: a magnificently illustrated cultural history that details the story of the Jewish experience, tracing it across three millennia, from their beginnings as an ancient tribal people to the opening of the New World in 1492 to the modern day.
Congratulations everyone! Check out the entire list here.
-Amanda