Recently, Amazon.com announced its selections for the Best Books of 2014, with Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng making the top of the list.
The annual feature includes the editors' picks for the Top 100 Books of the Year "as well as Top 20 lists in over two dozen categories, from Children’s & Teen to Cookbooks to Celebrity Picks," said a press release from Amazon.
"The top pick, Everything I Never Told You, is kind of a ‘sleeper’ in that it got less attention initially than other novels, but Ng’s debut is a sad and moving story that we all fell in love with from the first line,” said Sara Nelson, Editorial Director of Books and Kindle at Amazon.com. “Deeply felt and searingly emotional, Everything I Never Told You is the kind of novel that people say doesn’t get published any more. We’re so happy it did.”
According to the November release, "the top picks in the Children’s categories are The Pigeon Needs a Bath! [Picture Books], The Fourteenth Goldfish [Middle Grade – ages 9-12] and We Were Liars [Teen and Young Adult]."
"Topping the list in Lifestyle categories are The Slanted Door: Modern Vietnamese Food [Cookbooks] and The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing [Home Improvement & Design]," said the release. "Celebrity top picks include David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King, chosen by Mark Bittman, Abraham Verghese’s Cutting for Stone, selected by Brooke Shields, and We Were Liars, which is one of Martin Short’s favorites."
“This is a brilliant new novel by E. Lockhart,” said Martin Short, author of the new book I Must Say: My Life As a Humble Comedy Legend. “I’ve always adored a good generational drama and this is deeply fascinating reading and soaked in suspense. And the ending is utterly spooky.”
The release provided a list of Amazon's Top 10 Editors' Pick of the Year:
Article by Kassondra Granata, Education World Contributor