Described as “a gorgeously written novel about beauty, love, courage and history”,All the Light We Cannot See 
Hudson Booksellers also named their 10 Best Fiction, 10 Best Nonfiction, 5 Best Young Readers, and 5 Best Business Interest books.
The books were selected from a nominated shortlist and voting process by a panel of Hudson’s professional booksellers across the country. Books were selected for achievements ranging from literary style and innovation, entertainment value and readability, to timeliness and treatment of subjects and themes.
The books are listed alphabetically by author:
Best Fiction: Stone Mattress – Margaret Atwood; All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr; Under the Wide and Starry Sky – Nancy Horan; Wolf in White Van – John Darnielle, Bird Box – Josh Malerman; The Bone Clocks – David Mitchell, The Crane Wife – Patrick Ness; Still Life with Bread Crumbs – Anna Quindlen; The Paying Guests – Sarah Waters; The Martian – Andy Weir.
Best Nonfiction: The Human Age – Diane Ackerman; New Life, No Instructions – Gail Caldwell; Empires Crossroads – Carrie Gibson; The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace – Jeff Hobbs; Internal Medicine – Terrence Holt; The Empathy Exams – Leslie Jamison; What We See When We Read – Peter Mendelsund; Yes Please – Amy Poehler; Little Failure – Gary Shteyngart; Deep Down Dark – Hector Tobar.
Best Young Readers: Half Bad – Sally Green; We Were Liars – E. Lockhart; Heir of Fire – Sarah Maas; Ordinary People Change the World (series) – Brad Meltzer; The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender – Leslye Walton.
Best Business Interest: How Not to Be Wrong – Jordan Ellenberg; The Innovators – Walter Isaacson; Flash Boys – Michael Lewis; Capital in the 21st Century – Thomas Piketty; Dataclysm – Christian Rudder.
Hudson Booksellers’ 2014 Book of the Year:
All the Light We Cannot See
Complimentary “Best Books” brochures will be available in Hudson stores from mid-November through the holiday book buying season.
The brochures feature reviews and Bookseller Top 10 lists. Copies of most titles will be prominently displayed and discounted in all Hudson Booksellers and large Hudson News stores, starting November 18th.
Hudson’s Best of 2014 will also be featured and discounted on its website with special extras and exclusives. Click on the direct link: www.HudsonBooksellers.com/best-of-2014
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about 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.
Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.
In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge.
Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).
