2014 is coming to a close, and with it, another year full of great books. We’ll be sharing our staff picks in another post, but I wanted to take a short break from shouting about how much I love our books to shout about how much other people love our books. Melville House is all over the best-of-year lists and gift guides, and it pleases us to no end to see our books and authors being recognized, and listed in such great company.

NPR’s Great Books of 2014 features no fewer than six Melville House books: Red or Dead by David Peace, Gottland by Mariusz Szczygiel, Bolaño by Monica Maristain, With My Dog-Eyes by Hilda Hilst, Definitely Maybe by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, and Nazis in the Metro by Didier Daeninckx. At NPR’s “On Point,” Janet Potter includes Red or Dead as one her Ten Best Books of 2014.

Flavorwire chooses five Melville House books for the Best Indie Fiction/Poetry of 2014: The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure by C.D. Rose, Wittgenstein Jr by Lars Iyer, GB84 by David Peace, Leavetaking by Peter Weiss, and Insel by Mina Loy; Leavetaking also shows up on their Best Novels of 2014 list.

Kirkus includes The Sea Inside by Philip Hoare in their Best Nonfiction of 2014. (And if you missed it, consider taking this opportunity to hear what John Waters has to say about this absolutely lovely book.)

Julian Barnes chooses Gottland as his Book of the Year for The Guardian; and Preeti Chhibber picks Red or Dead as her Book of the Year on Book Riot, even reminding us of this excellent tattoo it inspired.

Staying at BookRiot for another minute, Liberty Hardy puts five Melville House titles on her list, “A Great Big Guide To 2014’s Must-Read Books from Indie Presses”: The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure, A Highly Unlikely Scenario by Rachel Cantor, The Weirdness by Jeremy Bushnell, Red or Dead, and Ada’s Algorithm. (Of course she’s right when she writes that “Badass tech ladies rule.”)

Wittgenstein Jr has one of BuzzFeed’s Most Beautiful Book Covers of the year. Paste Magazine loved the cover of Resurrection by Wolf Haas, and named it one of their “30 Best Book Covers of 2014.”

Ada’s Algorithm: How Lord Byron’s Daughter Ada Lovelace Lanched the Digital Age by James Essinger is featured in Bitch Magazine’s Gift Guide for Science Nerds; and The Jane Austen Rules by Sinead Murphy is one of Bustle’s Gifts for Book Lovers.

Leavetaking makes Slate’s list of the Overlooked Books of 2014, while Guest of a Guest declares books from our Neversink Library to be elegant gifts for co-workers. Meanwhile,  The Guardian chooses “literary chin-stroker” The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure in their “best stocking-filler books of 2014.”

The Times Literary Supplement names With My Dog-Eyes as one of their Books of the Year, calling it “brilliantly bizarre.” Entropy Magazine also includes the Hilda Hilst novel in their Best Fiction of 2014, and Jeff Vandermeer, writing at Electric Literature, includes Hilst in his Favorite Fiction of 2014, calling it a “slim but potent text” that will “sear your brain.”

Rachel Cantor’s debut novel, A Highly Unlikely Scenario: Or, a Neetsa Pizza Employee’s Guide to Saving the World spent six months on The Millions’ bestseller list, and was finally retired to its rightful place – the Hall of Fame!

Also at The Millions, Emily St. John Mandel, who, it must be said, had a pretty good year herself, is a fan of Wittgenstein Jr, citing the novel in her Year in Reading. It’s hard to disagree when she writes that it is “an absolutely exquisite, elegant novel, with a cadence and rhythm all its own.”

And I would be totally remiss if I didn’t point out that Against Football: One Fan’s Reluctant Manifesto by Steve Almond, a potent, unapologetic, provocative look at the culture of football and everything that’s wrong with it, was a big part of the national conversation this year. A passionate look at a sport that just couldn’t stop making news, Against Football was a conversation starter, and a well deserved New York Times bestseller.

Thanks to everyone who’s read our books, talked about our books, written about our books, and recommended our books in the past year. We are eternally grateful for your support (and good taste!). Happy holidays, and see you in 2015!