SELECTION BY MARTIN PARR
Photographer/curator in Bristol

Stephen Gill - Coexistence
By Nobody Books, London

Gill is on top form here while he explores pond life in Luxembourg. He not only explores what is in the pond, but then takes buckets of pond water, dips an assortment of cameras into these and takes portraits of local people who live nearby. He then takes the prints of these portraits and dips them into his pond and waits for the partial disintegration of the image. It sounds mad, but it works very well.

Michael Schmidt - Lebensmittel
By Snoeck, Cologne

A great new work from Schmidt exploring all aspects of food production in Germany. He shoots an unsavoury mix of close-ups, colour and black-and-white, and throws this all into the pot to produce a most compelling book.

Billy Monk - Nightclub Photographs
By Dewi Lewis, Stockport

A great book about this recently rediscovered South African nightclub photographer who was murdered on his way to see his own exhibition in 1979.

Cristina De Middel - The Afronauts
By Sala Kursala, Cadiz

A wonderful first-time book from this Spanish photographer, who explores the notion of Zambia sending someone into space after achieving independence from Britain in 1963.

The Afronauts by Cristina De Middel

David Galjaard - Concresco
Self-published, Den Haag

Albania is covered in bunkers, a legacy of its paranoia during the Cold War. This book explores the many remaining bunkers and how they scar the contemporary landscape.

Pietro Mattioli - Two Thousand Light Years from Home
By Kodoji Press, Baden

A very stylish contribution to the recent trend of shooting images at night, the full flash giving the urban landscape a fresh and surreal look - another stylish design from Winfried Heininger.

Peter Marlow - The English Cathedral
By Merrell, London

Marlow toured all the British cathedrals and shot the interiors, using daylight to create this new typology. The detail of the images give this traditional pictorial subject matter a welcome new twist.

The English Cathedral by Peter Marlow

Daniel Naudé - Animal Farm
By Prestel, Munich

A collection of photographs of animals in South Africa. The main subjects are feral dogs, standing proud with their beaten-up hungry bodies, but full of dignity. Cows, horses and sheep also appear, but you'll never forget the dogs.

Anne Sophie Merryman - Mrs Merryman's Collection
By Mack, London

Michael Mack has had a good year, building on his catalogue of elegant photobooks. This extraordinary collection of the weirdest, most intriguing, collection of cards was supposedly gathered by Mrs Merrymen and presented by her granddaughters. However, the book does deliver a final cunning twist, which is - quite literally - sewn into the final pages.

Mrs Merryman's Collection by Anne Sophie Merryman

Luciano Rigolini - Surrogates
By Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne

Sam Stourdzé, the new director of the Musée de l'Elysée, has emerged as an excellent champion of vernacular photography. In a very crowded field, it will be hard to beat this wonderful collection of car parts, found for sale on eBay by Rigolini. A great production just gives the book the final boost.

SELECTION BY GERRY BADGER
Critic, London

Paul Graham - The Present
By Mack, London

John Gossage - She Called Me By Name
By Loosestrife Editions, Washington

Michele Buda - Tricks and Falls
By Danilo Montanari Editore

Takuma Hakahira - Paris
By Osiris, Tokyo

Sophie Calle - Rachel, Monique....
By Editions Xavier Barral, Paris

Lise Sarfati - She
By Twin Palms, Sante Fe

Annett Gröschner and Arwed Messmer - Berlin, Fruchtstrasse on March 27, 1952
By Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern

Arianna Arcara and Luca Santese - Found Photos in Detroit
By Cesura Publish, Pianello Val Tidone

Cristina De Middel - The Afronauts
By Sala Kursala, Cadiz

She by Lise Sarfati

SELECTION BY COLIN PANTALL
Writer, Bath

David Alan Harvey - (based on a true story)
By Burn Books, New York

Ben Krewinkel - A Possible Life. Conversations with Gualbert
By f0.23, Haarlem

Billy Monk - Nightclub Photographs
By Dewi Lewis, Stockport

Claudine Doury - Sasha
By Le Caillou Bleu, Brussels

Mischka Henner - Less Américains
Self-published, Manchester

Paul Graham - The Present
By Mack, London

Edited by Frits Gierstberg and Rik Suermondt - The Dutch Photobook: A Thematic Selection from 1945 Onwards
By Aperture, New York

Rania Matar - A Girl and Her Room
By Umbrage Editions, New York

Marc Asnin - Uncle Charlie
By Brooklyn Editions, New York

Tony Fouhse - Live Through This
By Straylight Press, Ottawa

Touch by Peter Dekens

SELECTION BY BRUNO CESCHEL
Self Publish be Happy, London

Cristina De Middel - The Afronauts
By Sala Kursala, Cadiz

Stuart Bailes, Bea Fremderman, Ingo Mittelstaedt, Athena Torri - Hired Hand
By Vandret, Copenhagen

Sacha Maric - Good Mother and Father
Self-published, Copenhagen

Torbjørn Rødland - Vanilla Partner
By Mack, London

Nick Haymes - Gabe
By Damiani, Bologna

Paul Kooiker - Heaven
By Van Zoetendaal, Amsterdam

Peter Puklus = Handbook to the Stars
Self-published, Budapest

Christopher Gianunzio and Jenny Tondera - Speaking of Names
Self-published, Philadelphia

Peter Dekens - Touch
By The Eriskay Connection, Breda

Maya Rochat - Vote for me!
By Hard Copy, Geneva

Skogen by Robert Adams

SELECTION BY MARK PEARSON
Zen Foto Gallery, Tokyo

Takuma Nakahira - Circulation: Date, Place, Events
By Osiris, Tokyo

Kazuo Kitai - Somehow Familiar Places
By Tosei-sha/Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography

Noritoshi Hirakawa - Beyond the Sunbeam Through the Trees - Works 1998-2012
By BSS Bijutsu, Tokyo

Risaku Suzuki - Torii
By Super Labo, Kamakura

Michiko Kon - Impact
By Match and Company, Tokyo

Michio Yamauchi - Tokyo 2009-2010
By Sokyusha, Tokyo

Koji Onaka - Matatabi
By Super Labo, Kamakura

Gashō Yamamura - The Children of Washington Heights
By Yagisha, Japan

Saori Ninomiya - Requiem
By Zen Foto Gallery, Tokyo

Seung-Woo Yang - The Best Days
By Zen Foto Gallery, Tokyo

Let's Sit Down Before We Go by Bertien van Manen

SELECTION BY JEFFREY LADD
Writer, publisher, New York

Bertien van Manen - Let's Sit Down Before We Go
By Mack, London

Alec Soth - Looking for Love
By Kominek Books, Berlin

Martin Soto Climent - The Equation of Desire
By Mousse Publishing, Milan

William Eggleston - Los Alamos Revisited
By Steidl, Göttingen

Nicole Delmes & Susanne Zander - Margret: Chronik einer Affäre, Mai 1968 bis Dezember 1970
By Walther König, Cologne

John Gossage - The Actor
By Loosestrife Editions, Washington

Michael Schmidt - Lebensmittel
By Snoeck, Cologne

Gerry Johansson - Deutschland
By Mack, London

Scheltens & Abbenes - Le Style
By Offprint projects, Paris

Wilhelm Schürmann - Road Map to Happiness: Portrait of a Street 
By Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern

SELECTION BY SEBASTIAN HAU
Le Bal Books, Paris

Don Hudson - From The Archive
By Editions FP&CF, Paris

Ron Jude - Lick Creek Line
By Mack, London

Catherine Opie - Empty and Full
By Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern

Michael Schmidt - Lebensmittel
By Snoeck, Cologne

Marie Quéau - This is for Fight/This is for Fun
Self-published, Strasbourg

Nakahira Takuma - Circulation: Date, Place, Events
By Osiris, Tokyo

Robert Adams - Skogen
By Yale

Nikolai Mihov - Forget Your Past
By Janet 45, Plovdiv

Justin James Reed - 2013
By Horses Think, New York

Luigi Ghirri - Project Prints
By Ringier

Good Mother and Father by Sacha Maric

Lick Creek Line by Ron Jude