Our 2014 Favorites

There are so many "best of" and "favorites of" 2014 lists out there, so we thought it'd be fun to see what library staff and library student workers call their favorites of 2014.

Here are our favorite books, movies, television shows, music, and more that we loved in 2014.

BOOKS

Library staff

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Ms. Marvel: Volume 1 by G. Willow Wilson
A Shiver of Light by Laurell K. Hamilton
The Darkest Whisper by Gena Showalter
The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better by Richard G. Wilkinson and Kate Picket
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
From Pompeii: The Afterlife of a Roman Town by Ingrid Rowland
The Girl in the Blue Beret by Bobbie Ann Mason

Library student workers

Noah Gordon by Der Medicus
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover
What I Thought was True by Huntley Fitzpatrick
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
Hard Choices by Hillary Clinton
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Divergent Series by Veronica Roth
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Gone Series by Michael Grant

MOVIES

There were a lot of movies that came up again and again, with students and with staff, so we decided to combine them. Here's a word cloud of the movies library staff and library student workers loved this year.

TELEVISION

Library staff

Library staff favorite TV shows include: Gotham, Homeland, The Walking Dead, Falling Skies, Criminal Minds, Sherlock, Bones, NCIC, Covert Affairs, The Roosevelts, and Downton Abbey.

Library student workers

Library student workers favorite TV shows include: Revenge, The Blacklist, New Girl, Brooklyn 99, Broadchurch, Hemlock Grove, Bones, Elementary, NCIS, Once Upon a Time, Project Runway, and Supernatural.

MUSIC

Library staff

Apparently library staff are "All About That Bass." That song by Meghan Trainor came up the most for staff members.

Other musical interests of the staff include: The Avett Brothers, Trampled by Turtles, Father John Misty, Kacey Musgraves, and "Everything is Awesome" from The Lego Movie.

Library student workers

The library student workers were really loving Sam Smith this year.

Other musical interests of our student workers include: James Vincent McMorrow, G-Eazy, Ed Sheeran, Imagine Dragons, Coldplay, Lorde, Taylor Swift, One Direction, and Pentatonix. Some songs highlighted include: "Am I Wrong" by Nico & Vinz, "Bang Bang" by Jessie J, Ariana Grande, and Nikki Minaj, "Take Me to Church" by Hozier, "All of Me" by John Legend, and "Rude" by Magic.

OTHER FAVORITES

Some library staff members listed some other favorites of 2014 including new staff at the library. There have been a lot of changes in the library, including the introduction of four new staff members and Emily Asch moving into the Library Director position.

Another staff member stated that the "introduction of shutting down interstate highways and malls as a form of protest with the "no justice, no profits" theme" is a favorite from 2014.

YOURS?

So, these are some of our favorites. What are some of yours?