The quiz of you: what were you like in 2014? Take our tests (no cheating)

Were you productive, mindful, healthy – and did you win the internet?

Ebooks at night won’t help you sleep tight, US study finds

Alison Flood: Harvard researchers say light-emitting ebooks negatively affect our sleep and lead to next-day grogginess

The best psychology books of 2014

From moving accounts of how we deal with dying and suffering to two brilliant takes on Freud. By Lisa Appignanesi

An Aviary of Small Birds review – a beautiful, painful, pitch-perfect debut

The stillbirth of Karen McCarthy Woolf’s son is the powerful emotional core of this deft, unsentimental collection, writes Kate Kellaway

Chocolate kills, loser! When health-tracking gadgets go bad

In a world of wearable tech, will smartwatches have the last laugh? GP and the Bad Doctor graphic novelist Ian Williams looks into the future in this exclusive comic strip

Writing Top Five Regrets of the Dying has brought me to tears

Homa Khaleeli: When carer Bronnie Ware wrote a blog in 2009 listing the five things that most haunted her terminally ill patients, she had no idea it would become an internet sensation – and transform her life

Guardian first book award 2014 shortlist covers neurosurgery, China, rural Ireland and more

Judge Mary Beard acclaims ‘accomplished, clever, assured – and, of course, enjoyable’ cross-genre selection contending for £10,000 award

Andrew Motion: don’t hurry, be happy

The path to happiness is long and winding, says our former poet laureate, and it takes you through some very dark places

Being Mortal review – a surgeon’s view of how we should end our days

Doctor and New Yorker writer Atul Gawande argues that we should focus less on prolonging life and more on making it meaningful, writes Geraldine Bedell

In Your Prime: Older, Wiser, Happier by India Knight review – sharp, slanted and bracingly unbothered

All about me – yes, but these tips on ageing are also full of wit and style, writes Kathryn Hughes