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By: Oct. 29, 2014
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J., Oct, 29, 2014 /PRNewswire/ Hudson Booksellers, a brand unit of travel retailer Hudson Group, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Dufry, AG of Basel, Switzerland, has announced its list of the Best Books published in 2014. Hudson operates 60 full-service bookstores and over 400 Hudson News newsstands in airports and transportation terminals throughout North America, and sells books online at www.HudsonBooksellers.com.

This year's eagerly awaited selection includes the 10 Best Fiction, 10 Best Nonfiction, 5 Best Young Readers, and 5 Best Business Interest books, selected through a nominated shortlist and voting process by a panel of Hudson's professional booksellers across the country. Books were selected for achievements ranging from literary style and innovation, entertainment value and readability, to timeliness and treatment of subjects and themes.

All the Light We Cannot See, a novelby Anthony Doerr, was chosen as Book of the Year. Sara Hinckley, VP of Book Buying, describes it as "a gorgeously written novel about beauty, love, courage and history."

Complimentary "Best Books" brochures will be available in Hudson stores from mid-November through the holiday book buying season. The brochures feature reviews and Bookseller Top 10 lists. Copies of most titles will be prominently displayed and discounted in all Hudson Booksellers and large Hudson News stores, starting November 18th. Hudson's Best of 2014 will also be featured and discounted on our website with special extras and exclusives. Click on the direct link: www.HudsonBooksellers.com/best-of-2014

The books are listed alphabetically by author:

Best Fiction: Stone Mattress Margaret Atwood; All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr; Under the Wide and Starry Sky Nancy Horan; Wolf in White Van John Darnielle, Bird Box Josh Malerman; The Bone Clocks David Mitchell, The Crane Wife Patrick Ness; Still Life with Bread Crumbs Anna Quindlen; The Paying Guests Sarah Waters; The Martian Andy Weir.

Best Nonfiction: The Human Age Diane Ackerman; New Life, No Instructions Gail Caldwell; Empires Crossroads Carrie Gibson; The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace Jeff Hobbs; Internal Medicine Terrence Holt; The Empathy Exams Leslie Jamison; What We See When We Read Peter Mendelsund; Yes Please Amy Poehler; Little Failure Gary Shteyngart; Deep Down Dark Hector Tobar.

Best Young Readers: Half Bad Sally Green; We Were Liars E. Lockhart; Heir of Fire Sarah Maas; Ordinary People Change the World (series) Brad Meltzer; The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender Leslye Walton.

Best Business Interest: How Not to Be Wrong Jordan Ellenberg; The Innovators Walter Isaacson; Flash Boys Michael Lewis; Capital in the 21 st Century Thomas Piketty; Dataclysm Christian Rudder.

Hudson Booksellers' 2014 Book of the Year:
All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr.

About Hudson Group:
Hudson Group, the largest duty-paid travel retailer in North America, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of international travel retailer Dufry AG (DUFN) of Basel, Switzerland. Hudson Group operates over 700 Hudson, Hudson News, Hudson Booksellers, cafes, specialty retail and duty free shops in 70 airports and transportation terminals in the United States and Canada. Dufry operates over 1,700 stores in more than 60 countries and 240 airports and transportation terminals around the world.

The Hudson Booksellers division is headquartered in Marietta, Georgia.

For more information, visit www.hudsonbooksellers.com, www.hudsongroup.com and www.dufry.com.

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