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EW's 2014 Book Awards: And the Winners Are...

See our picks for Best YA; Best Spy Book(s); Best First Lines; and more standouts of past 12 months
By EW Staff Updated December 09, 2014 at 06:00 PM EST
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Best YA

BELZHAR Meg Wolitzer

Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer
The author of The Interestings made a winning entrée into YA with her captivating teen fantasy.

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Hottest (and Most Controversial) Book of the Year

Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham With her first book the Girls creator has reaped the same kinds of reactions she always gets:…

Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham
With her first book the Girls creator has reaped the same kinds of reactions she always gets: breathless praise, long-winded think pieces, and out-of-control Internet trolling.

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Most Unusual Best-Seller

The Hot Zone by Richard Preston Twenty years after it was first published, the real-life horror story about the Ebola virus rocketed back onto the…

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Twenty years after it was first published, the real-life horror story about the Ebola virus rocketed back onto the charts.

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Best Spy Book

The Good Spy by Kai Bird and A Spy Among Friends by Ben Macintyre (Tie) Espionage buffs had two great books to enjoy this year:…

The Good Spy by Kai Bird and A Spy Among Friends by Ben Macintyre (Tie)
Espionage buffs had two great books to enjoy this year: Bird's bio of CIA operative Robert Ames and Macintyre's Kim Philby exposé.

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Most Anxiously Awaited Sequel

Written in My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon Fans went crazy for the eighth installment in the Outlander series.

Written in My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon
Fans went crazy for the eighth installment in the Outlander series.

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Most Novel Premise for a Thriller

Season to Taste by Natalie Young A British housewife kills her irritating husband—and then proceeds to butcher and eat him. Filet of leg, anyone?

Season to Taste by Natalie Young
A British housewife kills her irritating husband—and then proceeds to butcher and eat him. Filet of leg, anyone?

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Best First Lines

Tinseltown by William J. Mann ''This is the story of a murder, of a single soft-nosed bullet that traveled upward through a man's rib cage,…

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''This is the story of a murder, of a single soft-nosed bullet that traveled upward through a man's rib cage, piercing his lung and lodging in his neck...''

Mind of Winter by Laura Kasischke
''She woke up late that morning, and knew: Something had followed them home from Russia.''

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