World Book Night 2014 will be on October 23 in both the UK and USA. Half a million copies will be given away for free in the USA. The 35 World Book Night U.S. titles for 2014 are:
- The Zookeeper's Wife, Diane Ackerman (W.W. Norton)
- Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain (Ecco)
- The Weird Sisters, Eleanor Brown (Berkley)
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky (Simon & Schuster)
- After the Funeral, Agatha Christie (William Morrow Paperbacks)
- The Ruins of Gorlan: Ranger's Apprentice Book 1, John Flanagan (Puffin Books)
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford (Ballantine Books)
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet in Large Print (Thorndike/Gale; Cengage Learning)
- The Lighthouse Road, Peter Geye (Unbridled Books)
- The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay Books)
- Wait Till Next Year, Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster)
- Catch-22, Joseph Heller (Simon & Schuster)
- The Dog Stars, Peter Heller (Vintage)
- Hoot, Carl Hiaasen (Knopf)
- Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon, Garrison Keillor (Penguin Books)
- Same Difference, Derek Kirk Kim (First Second Books)
- Enchanted, Alethea Kontis (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- Miss Darcy Falls in Love, Sharon Lathan (Sourcebooks)
- Bobcat and Other Stories, Rebecca Lee (Algonquin Books)
- Young Men and Fire, Norman Maclean (University of Chicago Press)
- Tales of the City, Armistead Maupin (HarperPerennial)
- Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan (New American Library)
- Sunrise Over Fallujah, Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic)
- Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson (HarperTrophy)
- The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan (Random House)
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs (Quirk Books)
- When I Was Puerto Rican, Esmeralda Santiago (Da Capo)
- Cuando Era Puertorriqueña, Esmeralda Santiago (Vintage Español)
- Where'd You Go, Bernadette, Maria Semple (Back Bay Books)
- Where'd You Go, Bernadette in Large Print (Thorndike/Gale; Cengage Learning)
- Wild, Cheryl Strayed (Vintage)
- Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow (Grand Central Publishing)
- Code Name Verity, Elizabeth Wein (Disney Hyperion)
- This Boy's Life, Tobias Wolff (Grove Atlantic)
- 100 Best-Loved Poems, Philip Smith, ed. (Dover)