Pierce County Library shares best books for adults of 2014

Recommended books for giving and reading

Looking for last-minute holiday gift ideas? Stacking books to curl up with on rainy days and long winter nights?

Experts from Pierce County Library selected their top books for 2014:

Books for Adults

Best Nonfiction

Fire Shut Up In My Bones by Charles M. Blow

Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson’s Lost Pacific Empire by Peter Stark

Best Fiction

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Best Local Nonfiction

Delancey: A Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage by Molly Wizenberg

Best Local Fiction

A Sudden Light by Garth Stein