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On The Daily Circuit, we looked back at the best books of 2014. Listeners — plus guests Ron Charles and Rebecca Joines Schinsky — shared their favorites

• "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr 


• "Book of Strange New Things" by Michel Faber


• "The Commandant of Lubizec" by Patrick Hicks


• "Fourth of July Creek" by Smith Henderson


• "Land of Love and Drowning" by Tiphanie Yanique


• "Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932" by Francine Prose (Listen to Prose on 


• "The Narrow Road to the Deep North" by Richard Flanagan 


• "The Orenda" Joseph Boyden (Listen to Boyden on 


• "The Paying Guests" by Sarah Waters 


• "Station Eleven" by Emily St. John Mandel


• "To Rise Again at a Decent Hour" by Joshua Ferris 


• "Wolf in White Van" by John Darnielle

• "Christmas Beyond the Box" by Joshua Langston 


• "Prison Noir" edited by Joyce Carol Oates


• "Something Rich and Strange" by Ron Rash (Listen to Rash on 

• "The Empathy Exams" by Leslie Jamison


• "Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy" by Karen Abbott (Listen to Abbott on 

• "A Brief History of Seven Killings" by Marlon James 


James is a professor at Macalester College in St. Paul. His novel "Seven Killings" was called "epic in every sense of that word," by The New York Times. (Listen to James on 

• "Fly a Little Higher" by Laura Sobiech 


The story of Minnesota teen Zach Sobiech and his battle with cancer reached millions when his song "Clouds" hit number one on iTunes. In "Higher," Zach's mother reflects on how her son touched millions with his music. (Listen to Laura Sobiech on 


Power lives in St. Paul and is a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Her first novel, "Grass Dancer," won the PEN/Hemingway award for best new fiction.
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