Summary: Ann and Michael each pick their Top 5 Favorite Books of 2014! (http://booksonthenightstand.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/audiobooks.jpg)Ann's Audiobook of the Year (02:24) (http://covers.audiobooks.com/images/covers/full/9780062331878.jpg)The Miniaturist by Jesse Burton, narrated by Davina Porter, is Ann's pick for Audiobooks.com Audiobook of the Year. (You'll get my Audiobook of the Year next week) Special thanks to Audiobooks.com (http://www.audiobooks.com/freebook) for sponsoring this episode of Books on the Nightstand. Audiobooks.com allows you to listen to over 40,000 audiobooks, instantly, wherever you are, and the first one is free. Download or stream any book directly to your Apple or Android device. Sign up for a free 30-day trial and free audiobook download by going to www.audiobooks.com/freebook (http://www.audiobooks.com/freebook) Our Favorite Books of 2014 (05:31) As always, it was incredibly tough to pick our favorite books of the year, but we managed to do it. We loved so many books this year, but here are our Top 5 each, in no particular order: Ann's Top Five Books of 2014 * Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel * The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami * The Children Act by Ian McEwan * Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1413655729l/18465852.jpg) (https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1409603194l/20342617.jpg) Michael's Top Five Books of 2014 * The Martian by Andy Weir * The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber * Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast * We are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas * Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson - the most important book I've ever read.
