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2014 Midwinter Highlights Cognotes • Page 7
RUSA Reveals Award Winners for the Adult Reader
The 2014 Dartmouth Medal winner for most outstanding reference work is Mammals of Africa by Jonathan Kingdon and David Happold (Bloomsbury).
The committee also selected two honorable mentions: the International Encyclopedia of Ethics edited by Hugh LaFollette (Wiley-Blackwell) as well as The Encyclopedia of Caribbean Religions by Patrick Taylor, Frederick Case, Sean Meighoo, and Joyce Leung (University of Illinois Press).
The 2014 Sophie Brody Medal for achievement in Jewish literature was presented to Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation by Yossi Klein Halevi (HarperCollins).
The committee also selected two honor books: My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel by Ari Shavit (Spiegel & Grau); and The Worlds of Shalom Aleichem: The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of the Man Who Created Tevye by Jeremy Dauber (Schocken).
Listen List
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown, narrated by Edward Herrmann (Recorded Books/Penguin Audio); The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer, narrated by Sarah Woodward (NAXOS AudioBooks); Heartburn by Nora Ephron, narrated by Meryl Streep (Books on Tape/Random House Audio); Longbourn by Jo Baker, narrated by Emma Fielding (Books on Tape/Random House Audio); The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman, narrated by Neil Gaiman (Harper Audio); Oleander Girl by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, narrated by Sneha Mathan (Recorded Books/ Simon & Schuster Audio); River of Stars by Guy Gavriel Kay, narrated by Simon Vance (Recorded Books); The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert, narrated by Juliet Stevenson (Penguin Audio/Blackstone Audio); The Son by Philipp Meyer, narrated by Will Patton, Scott Shepherd, Kate Mulgrew, and Clifton Collins, Jr. (Harper Audio); Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell, narrated by Arthur Morey, Joy Osmanski, Kaleo Griffith, Jesse Bernstein, Mark Bramhall, Michael Bybee, Romy Rose-mont, and Robbie Daymond (Books on Tape); The Warden by Anthony Trol-lope, narrated by David Shaw-Parker (NAXOS AudioBooks); and World War Z by Max Brooks, narrated by a full cast (Books on Tape).
The Reading List
Adrenaline: Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews (Scribner); Fantasy: Vicious by V.E. Schwab (Tor Books); Historical Fiction: The Outcasts by Kathleen Kent (Little, Brown and Company); Horror: Last Days by Adam Nevill (St. Martin's Griffin); Mystery: Murder as a Fine Art by David Morrell (Mulhol-land Books); Romance: Any Duchess Will Do by Tessa Dare (Avon); Science Fiction: Love Minus Eighty by Will Mclntosh (Orbit Books); Women's Fiction: Me Before You by Jojo Moyes (St. Martin's Press).
Notable Books
Fiction: Americanah by Chimam-anda Ngozi Adichie (Knopf); Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (Reagan Arthur); Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat (Knopf); Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See by Juliann Garey (Random House); Enon by Paul Harding (Random House); The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards by Kristopher Jansma (Viking); The Dinner by Herman Koch (Hogarth); Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra (Hogarth); The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud (Knopf); Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (Viking); and The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (Little, Brown).
Nonfiction: Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson (Doubleday); Year Zero: A History of 1945 by Ian Baruma (Penguin); On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand Year History by Nicholas Basbanes (Knopf); To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care by Cris Beam (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt); The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown (Viking);
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink (Crown); The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code by Margalit Fox (Harper Collins); On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks by Simon Garfield (Gotham Books); Johnny Cash: The Life by Robert Hilburn (Little, Brown); The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking by Brendan
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