"Listicles" tend to produce extreme reactions, but they're a useful way to look back – and forward – to organise our thoughts, as well as a nice summer distraction, and at the Books desk we've decided to embrace them. Readers have been keen to identify the best films and albums of the year (so far) over at our sister sites Film and Music, so we wanted to ask you to take a look back at the first half of the literary year.
What is the book published in the first six months of 2014 that you've enjoyed the most? Nominate it through the form below, justifying your choice of course. We're open to fiction and non-fiction.
If you need a refresher as to what has been out in the last six months, check our review pages. Here are a few of the highlights, with links to Guardian reviewers' opinions – note that this list is based on UK publication dates.
January
On Such a Full Sea – Chang-rae Lee
The Road to Middlemarch: My Life with George Eliot – Rebecca Mead
February
Little Failure - Gary Shteyngart
The Ghost of the Marie Celeste - Valerie Martin
Kinder Than Solitude – Yiyun Li
March
Boyhood Island - Karl Ove Knausgaard
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - Karen Joy Fawler
April
The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden – Jonas Jonasson
May
Another Great Day at Sea – Geoff Dyer
The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins – Irvine Welsh
Lost for Words – Edward St Aubyn
June
The Silkworm – Robert Galbraith
Hard Choices – Hillary Clinton
