My Long List: Best Books of 2014

Well, I know tons of "Best Books of 2014" lists have already been circulating but I have been trying to squeeze in a few more reads these last few days that I thought had big potential. The 2014 releases I didn't get to will now go into the master TBR and I will try to return to them in the upcoming year. I haven't narrowed my top picks down yet but here is my long list of the best 2014 releases with links to my reviews (in no particular order):

Non-fiction:

• What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know by Joan C. Williams and Rachel Dempsey
• The Secret Life of Sleep: by Kat Duff
• Reading Style: A Life in Sentences by Jenny Davidson
• Co-Parenting with a Toxic Ex: What to Do When Your Ex-Spouse Tries to Turn the Kids Against You by Amy J. L. Baker
• Marketing the Moon: The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program by David Meerman Scott
• American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning by Kate Sweeney
• Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

Short Stories:

• Stone Mattress: Nine Tales by Margaret Atwood 

Fiction:

• A Sudden Light by Garth Stein
• Five Days Left by Julie Lawson Timmer
• The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell
• The Deepest Secret by Carla Buckley
• Mating for Life by Marissa Stapley
• Everybody's Baby: A Novella by Lydia Netzer
• The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
• Delicious! by Ruth Reichl
• Mermaids in Paradise by Lydia Millet

Fantasy Fiction:

• The Winter Boy by Sally Wiener Grotta
• While Beauty Slept by Elizabeth Blackwell

Dystopian:

• On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee
• The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

Children's:

• Matzo Frogs by Sally Rosenthal

Historical Fiction:

• Henna House by Nomi Eve
• 2 A.M. at the Cat's Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino
• The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street by Susan Jane Gilman
• The Fortune Hunter by Daisy Goodwin
• The Lost Sisterhood by Anne Fortier
• Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan
• Sinful Folk by Ned Hayes
• The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
• The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress by Ariel Lawhon 

Memoir:

• Paris Letters by Janice Macleod
• Love Life by Rob Lowe
• What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding by Kristin Newman
• My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff
• Delancey by Molly Wizenberg

Thriller:

• The String Diaries by Stephen Lloyd Jones
• Until You're Mine by Samantha Hayes
• The Weight of Blood by Laura McHugh

Cookbooks / Food Trends:

• The New Low-Carb Diet Cookbook by Laura Lamont
• The Put 'Em Up! Preserving Answer Book: 399 Solutions to All Your Questions: Canning, Freezing, Drying, Fermenting, Making Infusions by Sherri Brooks Vinton
• The Tastemakers: Why We're Crazy for Cupcakes but Fed Up with Fondue by David Sax
• Slices of Life: A Food Writer Cooks Through Many a Conundrum by Leah Eskin
• My Paris Kitchen: Recipes and Stories by David Lebovitz
• Gluten-Free, Hassle Free: A Simple, Sane, Dietician-Approved Program for Eating Your Way Back to Health by Marlisa Brown

Magic Realism:

• The Glass Kitchen: A Novel of Sisters by Linda Francis Lee

I'll be making my choices for the best book in each category and posting within the next few days!