Jane’s Journals Best Books – 2014

May I present my annual reading list!  You can find 2014 and 2013 lists at these links:

Most are Kindle versions, unless noted. My number one best book of the year is Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life (Richard Rohr). Runner up is All the Land to Hold Us (Rick Bass) Below are my favorites  for 2014, in various categories:

Fiction   All the Land to Hold Us, Rick Bass

Young Adult Fiction     Williwaw, Tom Bodett  (print)

 

Poetry    This Day: Collected and New Sabbath Poems, Wendell Berry

Memoir    The Man in the Empty Boat, Mark Salzman

 

Essays, Misc    Bedtime Stories: What Fairy Tales Can Tell Us About Aging, John Robinson

Nonfiction: Culture    Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches: The Riddles of Culture, Harris

 

Nonfiction: Outdoors, Adventure, Camping, Survival    The Practice of the Wild, Gary Snyder

Nonfiction: Environment    A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest, William deBuys

Birds, Birding     Good Birders Don’t Wear White, Various

History      Westerners: Candid and Historic Interviews, Mead

Spiritual Journey      Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, Richard Rohr

Professional Minister Reading      Sabbath as Resistance, Walter Brueggemann

Publishing     Copyright Law, Nolo Handbooks

Writing Skills     A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices

 

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