2014 was a good year for reading. Here are the books, music, and movies I liked best in the year. As in previous years, it is an eclectic collection of titles, so there are choices for many tastes in reading, listening, and viewing.Recent Nonfiction
Touching the Wild: Living with the Mule Deer of Deadman Gulch by Joe Hutto
In a Rocket Made of Ice: Among the Children of Wat Opot by Gail Gutradt
Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble by Marilyn Johnson
A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction by Joel Greenberg
The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era by Craig Nelson
Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II by Vicki Constantine Croke
Field Notes from a Hidden City: An Urban Nature Diary by Esther Woolfson
Splitting an Order by Ted KooserIn a Rocket Made of Ice: Among the Children of Wat Opot by Gail Gutradt
Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble by Marilyn Johnson
A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction by Joel Greenberg
The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era by Craig Nelson
Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II by Vicki Constantine Croke
Field Notes from a Hidden City: An Urban Nature Diary by Esther Woolfson
Eye to Eye: Photographs by Vivian Maier
Recent Fiction
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel by Gabrielle Zevin
Bark: Stories by Lorrie Moore
Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher
Great Older Books
Songbird Journeys: Four Seasons in the Lives of Migratory Birds by Miyoko Chu
Children's Books
Elizabeth, Queen of the Seas by Lynne Cox
Look Up! Bird-Watching in Your Own Back Yard by Annette LeBlanc Cate
On the Wing by David Elliot
Yoko Finds Her Way by Rosemary Wells
Gus and Me: The Story of My Granddad and My First Guitar by Keith Richards
Audiobooks
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
This Land That I Love: Irving Berlin, Woody Guthrie, and the Story of Two American Anthems by John Shaw
My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead
The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story by Lily Koppel
Films
Tim's Vermeer
The Waiting Room
Music
Mark Dvorak at Friday at the Ford
Jim Green in Concert at the Library
American Hornpipe by Dana and Susan Robinson
Why Do Ducks Have Webby Toes? by Mim Eichman and Doug Lofstrom
Library Matters
The Public Library: A Photographic Essay by Robert Dawson
The Shape of the Reference Desk, A Panel Discussion
Libraries in the Ancient World by Lionel Casson
Public Library in the Marketplace: The Business of Digital Content
Filtering Out Internet Censorship: Advocacy, Professional Ethics, and the Law
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