Notable Books List1956

Given by CODES: Notable Books Council

Other Names: ALA Notable Books for Adults, RUSA Notable Books List
43 Works 17,469 Books 182 Reviews 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
My Lord, What a Morning: an Autobiography by Marian Anderson
1956
John Quincy Adams and the Union by Samuel Flagg Bemis
1956
Theatre in the East; a survey of Asian dance and drama by Faubion Bowers
1956
Helen Keller: Sketch for a Portrait by Van Wyck Brooks
1956
Through these men; some aspects of our passing history by John Mason Brown
1956
Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox, 1882-1940 by James MacGregor Burns
1956
This Hallowed Ground: The Story of the Union Side of the Civil War by Bruce Catton
1956
The Secret of the Hittites: The Discovery of an Ancient Empire by C. S. Ceram
1956
The Blessings of Liberty by Zechariah Chafee
1956
The Birth of Britain by Winston S. Churchill
1956
The New World by Winston S. Churchill
1956
Two worlds: an Edinburgh Jewish childhood by David Daiches
1956
Eisenhower: the inside story by Robert J. Donovan
1956
Bernard Shaw: His Life, Work and Friends by St. John Ervine
1956
The Age of Fighting Sail: The Story of the Naval War of 1812 by C. S. Forester
1956
Youth: the years from ten to sixteen by Arnold Gesell
1956
A Single Pebble by John Hersey
1956
Naught for your comfort by Trevor Huddleston
1956
The Nun's Story by Kathryn Hulme
1956
Richard the Third by Paul Murray Kendall
1956
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
1956
Engineering in History by Richard Shelton Kirby
1956
Behind the Mountains by Oliver La Farge
1956
Harry of Monmouth by A. M. Maughan
1956
Olympio: The Life of Victor Hugo by André Maurois
1956
New Lives for Old by Margaret Mead
1956
Arms and Men: A Study in American Military History by Walter Millis
1956
The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills
1956
Gallipoli by Alan Moorehead
1956
The earth we live on; the story of geological discovery by Ruth E. Moore
1956
Jawaharlal Nehru by Frank Moraes
1956
One foot in Eden by Edwin Muir
1956
The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor
1956
The Singing Wilderness by Sigurd F. Olson
1956
Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill
1956
The American Presidency by Clinton Rossiter
1956
The pitiful and the proud by Carl T. Rowan
1956
Portraits from Memory and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell
1956
The public arts by Gilbert Seldes
1956
Autumn Across America by Edwin Way Teale
1956
Three saints and a sinner: Julia Ward Howe, Louisa, Annie, Sam Ward by Louise Hall Tharp
1956
An Historian's Approach to Religion by Arnold Toynbee
1956
Segregation: The Inner Conflict in the South by Robert Penn Warren
1956

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