Books turning ten in 2024

On reflection, 2014 was a terrific year for literature. Apart from memorable debuts and soon-to-be celebrated favourites, it was also the most recent time the Booker Prize has been won by an Australian (Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North) as well as being the peak of the YA boom that swept the pop culture landscape. Below you'll find a selection of great books, many of which are still absolute favourites of our booksellers in 2024, that were first published in 2014.

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A Brief History of Seven Killings

Marlon James

Set against the backdrop of 1970s reggae culture, disco, sex and excess comes this remarkable re-imagining of the attempted assassination of Bob Marley.

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H is for Hawk: A BBC2 Between the Covers pick

Helen Macdonald

H is for Hawk is an unflinchingly honest account of Macdonald’s struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk’s taming and her own untaming.

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Solitaire

Alice Oseman

In case you’re wondering, this is not a love story.

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Men Explain Things to Me: And Other Essays

Rebecca Solnit

A collection of essays on feminism, from one of the most important and original public intellectuals writing today.

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Britt-Marie Was Here

Fredrik Backman

Britt-Marie was Here is a funny, poignant and uplifting tale of love, community, and second chances.

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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet: Wayfarers 1

Becky Chambers

the most hopeful, charming and cosy novel to curl up with.

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The Miniaturist

Jessie Burton

There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed …

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Mr Mercedes

Stephen King

Described as ‘the best thriller of the year’ Sunday Express, the No. 1 bestseller introduces retired cop Bill Hodges in a race against time to apprehend a killer.

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The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel van der Kolk

A world expert presents a sympathetic exploration of the causes of trauma and the new treatments making it possible for sufferers to reclaim their lives.

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All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

A blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.

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The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Gabrielle Zevin

Gabrielle Zevin's enchanting novel is a love letter to the world of books - an irresistible affirmation of why we read, and why we love.

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Bad Feminist

Roxane Gay

A sharp, funny and sincere look at the ways in which the culture we consume becomes who we are.

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We Were Liars

E. Lockhart

The story of one family, one summer, and one act that may never be forgiven.

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The Children Act

Ian McEwan

Fiona Maye, a leading High Court judge, renowned for her fierce intelligence and sensitivity is called on to try an urgent case. For religious reasons, a seventeen-year-old boy is refusing…

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Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals

Patricia Lockwood

This book shows one of our most original poets at her virtuosic best.

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Bark

Lorrie Moore

A new collection by one of America’s most beloved and admired short story writers; her first in fifteen years, since Birds of America.

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Boyhood Island: My Struggle Book 3

Karl Ove Knausgaard

Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread.

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The Promise

Tony Birch

Across twelve blistering stories, The Promise delivers a sensitive and often humorous take on the lives of those who have loved, lost and wandered.

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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Haruki Murakami

This is a mesmerising mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and 1Q84.

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The Eye of the Sheep

Sofie Laguna

Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2015.

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How to be Both

Ali Smith

Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real.

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Only the Animals

Ceridwen Dovey

Exquisitely written, playful and poignant, Only the Animals is a remarkable literary achievement by the award-winning Ceridwen Dovey, one of our brightest young writers.

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The Strays

Emily Bitto

This is a story of the impact of loss, devotion and obsession, and the demise of one family.

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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

Naomi Klein

This Changes Everything is a must-read on our future, one of the defining and most hopeful books of this era.

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The Story of the Lost Child

Elena Ferrante

The Story of the Lost Child is the concluding volume in the dazzling saga of two women- the brilliant, bookish Elena, and the fiery, uncontainable Lila.

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Laurinda

Alice Pung

Alice Pung tells an involving, original story that captures the drama and pain of school life today, as well as revealing much about the choices of young women.

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Foreign Soil

Maxine Beneba Clarke

In this collection of award-winning stories, Melbourne writer Maxine Beneba Clarke has given a voice to the disenfranchised, the lost, the downtrodden and the mistreated.

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This House Of Grief

Helen Garner

A gripping psychological portrait and a moving exploration of the human condition.

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The Rosie Effect

Graeme Simsion

Until a year ago, forty-one-year-old geneticist Don Tillman had never had a second date. Until he met Rosie, ‘the world’s most incompatible woman’.

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The Bone Clocks

David Mitchell

The dazzling new novel from the bestselling author of Cloud Atlas.

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Big Little Lies

Liane Moriarty

Liane Moriarty’s latest New York Times no.1 bestseller following The Husband’s Secret.

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Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel

What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty.

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