The Washington Post's ten best books of 2014

One title on the Washington Post's list of the ten best books of 2014:Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf)

In this genre-blurring dystopian novel, set in the near future, the Georgia Flu becomes airborne the night an actor named Arthur Leander dies during his performance as King Lear. Within months, most of the world’s population has been wiped out. The story presents Arthur’s life in