Books of 2014 Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Twelve Years a Slave Solomon Northup Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly Anthony Bourdain The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I Edward Gibbon Lord of the Flies William Golding The Madisons: The Lives and Legacies of James and Dolley Madison Charles River Editors The Normans: From Raiders to Kings Lars Brownworth Lost Books of The Bible: The New Testament Apocrypha Charles River Editors The Most Misused Verses in the Bible: Surprising Ways God's Word Is Misunderstood Eric J. Bargerhuff The Mosquito Coast Paul Theroux Notes from Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky Dad Is Fat Jim Gaffigan The Persian Corridor And Aid To Russia T.H. Vail Motter George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution Brian Kilmeade One Summer: America, 1927 Bill Bryson Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America Annie Jacobsen Ball Four: Twentieth Anniversary Edition Jim Bouton Filibustering: A Political History of Obstruction in the House and Senate Gregory Koger Operation Family Secrets: How a Mobster's Son and the FBI Brought Down Chicago's Murderous Crime Family Frank Calabrese Jr. Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity Lawrence Lessig Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident Donnie Eichar Beautifully Unique Sparkleponies: On Myths, Morons, Free Speech, Football, and Assorted Absurdities Chris Kluwe American Sucker David Denby Sharp Objects Gillian Flynn Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls David Sedaris Holidays on Ice David Sedaris Selling to the Top: David Peoples' Executive Selling Skills David A. Peoples How To Win Friends and Influence People Dale Carnegie The Jungle Upton Sinclair Dark Places Gillian Flynn Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez Madison's Nightmare: How Executive Power Threatens American Democracy Peter M. Shane When You Are Engulfed in Flames David Sedaris The Pentrals (The Pentrals, #1) Crystal Mack Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies Ben Macintyre