Notable Books List1947

Given by CODES: Notable Books Council

Other Names: ALA Notable Books for Adults, RUSA Notable Books List
46 Works 10,896 Books 185 Reviews ½ 4.0
"Since 1944, the goal of the Notable Books Council has been to make available to the nation’s readers a list of 25 very good, very readable, and at times very important fiction, nonfiction, and show more poetry books for the adult reader." show less
Categories:
All, Fiction (211), Nonfiction (195), Poetry (39), No Category (2,389)
Years:
All, 2024 (26), 2023 (26), 2022 (25), 2021 (25), 2020 (26), 2019 (26), 2018 (26), 2017 (26), 2016 (26), 2015 (26), 2014 (26), 2013 (26), 2012 (26), 2011 (26), 2010 (26), 2009 (25), 2008 (25), 2007 (26), 2006 (25), 2005 (25), 2004 (28), 2003 (26), 2002 (26), 2001 (25), 2000 (26), 1999 (24), 1998 (26), 1997) (Book of the Year (1), 1997 (2), 1996 (3), 1995 (26), 1994 (26), 1993 (27), 1992 (26), 1991 (24), Fiction 1991 (1), 1990 (29), 1988 (27), 1987 (27), 1986 (37), 1985 (34), 1984 (43), 1983 (44), 1982 (42), 1981 (42), 1980 (33), 1979 (47), 1978 (49), 1977 (44), 1976 (50), 1975 (49), 1974 (30), 1973 (51), 1972 (44), 1971 (45), 1970 (29), 1969 (36), 1968 (44), 1967 (65), 1966 (59), 1965 (51), 1964 (53), 1963 (49), 1962 (56), 1961 (50), 1960 (45), 1959 (48), 1958 (47), 1957 (39), 1956 (43), 1955 (46), 1954 (34), 1953 (50), 1952 (52), 1951 (53), 1950 (41), 1949 (50), 1948 (50), 1947 (46), 1946 (50), 1945 (50)
Announced:
January 20: 2024 Recent
WorkYear
The Garretson Chronicle by Gerald Warner Brace
1947
The Times of Melville and Whitman by Van Wyck Brooks
1947
The Gallery by John Horne Burns
1947
The American past; a history of the United States from Concord to Hiroshima, 1775-1945 by Roger Butterfield
1947
Speaking Frankly by James F. Byrnes
1947
American memoir by Henry Seidel Canby
1947
Life and the dream by Mary Colum
1947
On Understanding Science by James B. Conant
1947
Behind the Silken Curtain: A Personal Account of Anglo-American Diplomacy in Palestine and the Middle East by Bartley C. Crum
1947
Forced labor in Soviet Russia by David J. Dallin
1947
The Steeper Cliff by David Davidson
1947
The United States and Russia by Vera Micheles Dean
1947
Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard DeVoto
1947
Gus the Great by Thomas W. Duncan
1947
Gandhi and Stalin: Two Signs at the World's Crossroads by Louis Fischer
1947
Steeple bush by Robert Frost
1947
Inside U.S.A by John Gunther
1947
The Big Sky by Jr. A. B. Guthrie
1947
Command Decision by William Wister Haines
1947
Gentleman's Agreement by Laura Z. Hobson
1947
William Allen White's America by Walter Johnson
1947
But Look, The Morn by MacKinlay Kantor
1947
Three Came Home by Agnes Newton Keith
1947
Danger from the East. An Intimate, Startling Report on Japan, Korea, and China Where Revolutionary Changes are Shaping a New World... by Richard E. Lauterbach
1947
A Free and Responsible Press: A General Report on Mass Communication: Newspapers, Radio, Motion Pictures, Magazines, and Books (Midway Reprint Series) by Robert D. Leigh
1947
Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi
1947
My Father's House by Meyer Levin
1947
Kingsblood Royal by Sinclair Lewis
1947
The James Family: A Group Biography, Together With Including Selections from the Writings of Henry James, Senior, William, Henry and Alice James by F. O. Matthiessen
1947
Back Home by Bill Mauldin
1947
This is Pearl! The United States and Japan--1941 by Walter Millis
1947
The Battle of the Atlantic : September 1939-May 1943 by Samuel Eliot Morison
1947
Golden multitudes; the story of best sellers in the United States by Frank Luther Mott
1947
Logbook for Grace: Whaling brig Daisy, 1912-1913 (Time reading program special edition) by Robert Cushman Murphy
1947
Ordeal of the Union, Vols. 1-2 by Allan Nevins
1947
Human Destiny by Pierre Lecomte du Noüy
1947
Linden on the Saugus Branch by Elliot Paul
1947
Lydia Bailey by Kenneth Roberts
1947
End of a Berlin diary by William L. Shirer
1947
Vain Shadow by Hartzell Spence
1947
Lust for Life by Irving Stone
1947
Richer by Asia by Edmond Taylor
1947
A Study of History, Vol. 1: Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by Arnold J. Toynbee
1947
The Quarry by Mildred Walker
1947
The Meaning of Treason by Rebecca West
1947
House Divided by Ben Ames Williams
1947

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