2014 was a great year of literature, with some big name releases and great movie adaptations. These are the best selling Kindle books of 2014, from Amazon.com. As a fan of books, you’ll recognize many of the names on this list

Kindle Books: 10 Best Selling Kindle eBooks of 2014

1. The Fault in Our Stars – John Green

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(As featured in 10 Most Heartbreaking Must Read Books Ever Written)

The Fault in Our Stars is the story of two 16-year-olds who meet at a cancer support group. Hazel Lancaster, the narrator, is afflicted with terminal thyroid cancer which has ravaged her lungs enough to necessitate the use of an oxygen tank wherever she goes. It is during a support meeting that she meets Augustus Waters, whose leg was claimed by a bone tumor and who soon becomes the object of her affection.

2. Gone Girl: A Novel – Gillian Flynn

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(As featured in 7 Books With The Best Plot Twists And Surprise Endings Ever Written)

Amy and Nick are married for five years, but there is not much harmony left. All of a sudden, Amy is missing. And from there, a more and more surprising and devious plot develops, cleverly and elegantly put together by a very talented writer.

3. Divergent – Veronica Roth

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In Divergent we are introduced to Beatrice Prior, who lives in a future dystopian Chicago. Their society is divided up into a series of five different factions that nurture a particular virtue in its members. There are the Candor (the honest), the Abnegation (the selfless), the Amity (the peaceful), the Dauntless (the brave), and the Erudite (the intelligent). At sixteen years old, on a chosen day, all citizens must choose which faction that they will devote the rest of their lives to.

4. The Goldfinch: A Novel – Donna Tartt

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(As featured in 5 of the Most Popular Pulitzer Prize Winning Books of All Time)

Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don’t know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his longing for his mother, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art.

5. The Husband’s Secret – Liane Moriarty

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“For my wife, Cecilia Fitzpatrick
To be opened only in the event of my death”

She found the envelope amongst a stack of old tax records and imagined it contained a sentimental message, given it was dated just a few days after the birth of their first child, fifteen years ago. Cecilia has no idea that the letter will blow her world apart.

6. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption – Laura Hillenbrand

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(As featured in 8 Non-Fiction Books That Will Blow Your Mind)

The story is that of Louie Zamperini – a track and field star of the 1930’s, who participated in the Berlin Olympics, was part of the US air force in WWII, was shot down over the ocean, was adrift in the Pacific for over a month, was held as a POW by the Japanese forces and finally made it back to his life and has had the courage to live it to its fullest.

7. If I Stay – Gayle Forman

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If I Stay is a bittersweet memory of a family and their loved ones. It’s told through the eyes of Mia, who watches herself being treated in the hospital as her loved ones surround her. And she has to make the toughest choice of all..

8. Orphan Train: A Novel – Christina Baker Klin

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On the coast of Maine lives a wealthy ninety-one year old woman named Vivian Daly. In her attic are trunks that reveal the secrets of her turbulent past.

It is the year 2011, and nearby in the same town of Spruce Harbor, lives a seventeen-year-old girl named Molly Ayer who has bounced from foster home to foster home, and is now in a situation involving petty theft that will require some kind of community service. When these two meet, there could surely be no similarities between them.

9. Big Little Lies – Liane Moriarty

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Big Little Lies focuses on the conflicts, secrets, and betrayals that poison relationships between husbands and wives, parents and children, and friends and neighbors. The novel is set in Australia and centers around a tragedy that occurred during a trivia night in the local elementary school.

10. All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel – Anthony Doerr

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Set in World War II France and Germany, All the Light We Cannot See is a long and rich book. It’s largely populated by a range of imperfect characters, some who try to transcend that imperfection, others who cannot see it.