Notable Books List

Given by CODES: Notable Books Council

Other Names: ALA Notable Books for Adults, RUSA Notable Books List
2,832 Works / 2,834 Items 3,816,764 Books 95,038 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
WorkCategoryYear
Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Fiction2024
Hangman by Maya Binyam
Fiction2024
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
Fiction2024
Open Throat by Henry Hoke
Fiction2024
Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
Fiction2024
North Woods by Daniel Mason
Fiction2024
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Fiction2024
Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park
Fiction2024
In Memoriam by Alice Winn
Fiction2024
Y/N: A Novel by Esther Yi
Fiction2024
Dearborn by Ghassan Zeineddine
Fiction2024
The Talk by Darrin Bell
Nonfiction2024
The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle
Nonfiction2024
Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming by Ava Chin
Nonfiction2024
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
Nonfiction2024
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
Nonfiction2024
King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
Nonfiction2024
Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation by Camonghne Felix
Nonfiction2024
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder by David Grann
Nonfiction2024
How to Say Babylon: A Memoir by Safiya Sinclair
Nonfiction2024
Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino” by Héctor Tobar
Nonfiction2024
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo
Nonfiction2024
The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science by Kate Zernike
Nonfiction2024
Side Notes from the Archivist: Poems by Anastacia-Renee
Poetry2024
Promises of Gold by José Olivarez
Poetry2024
Trace Evidence by Charif Shanahan
Poetry2024
Seeking Fortune Elsewhere by Sindya Bhanoo
Fiction2023
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
Fiction2023
Trust by Hernan Diaz
Fiction2023
Stories from the Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Fofana
Fiction2023
The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
Fiction2023
The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories by Jamil Jan Kochai
Fiction2023
What We Fed to the Manticore by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri
Fiction2023
Vagabonds! by Eloghosa Osunde
Fiction2023
The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
Fiction2023
Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin
Fiction2023
The Furrows by Namwali Serpell
Fiction2023
Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me by Ada Calhoun
Nonfiction2023
The Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation by Scott Carney
Nonfiction2023
Bitch: A Revolutionary Guide to Sex, Evolution, and the Female Animal by Lucy Cooke
Nonfiction2023
Easy Beauty: A Memoir by Chloé Cooper Jones
Nonfiction2023
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland
Nonfiction2023
This Body I Wore: A Memoir by Diana Goetsch
Nonfiction2023
We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth by Dahr Jamail
Nonfiction2023
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Nonfiction2023
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels
Nonfiction2023
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa
Nonfiction2023
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
Nonfiction2023
Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen
Poetry2023
Alive at the End of the World by Saeed Jones
Poetry2023
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems by Warsan Shire
Poetry2023
The Rupture Tense: Poems by Jenny Xie
Poetry2023
The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine
Fiction2022
Gordo by Jaime Cortez
Fiction2022
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
Fiction2022
Matrix by Lauren Groff
Fiction2022
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Fiction2022
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Fiction2022
Painting Time by Maylis de Kerangal
Fiction2022
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
Fiction2022
Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
Fiction2022
The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade
Fiction2022
Afterparties: Stories by Anthony Veasna So
Fiction2022
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
Nonfiction2022
The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town by Brian Alexander
Nonfiction2022
Poet Warrior: A Memoir by Joy Harjo
Nonfiction2022
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn
Nonfiction2022
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
Nonfiction2022
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi
Nonfiction2022
English Pastoral: An Inheritance by James Rebanks
Nonfiction2022
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert
Nonfiction2022
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery across America by Clint Smith
Nonfiction2022
Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space by Stephen Walker
Nonfiction2022
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds by Scott Weidensaul
Nonfiction2022
Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems by Rita Dove
Poetry2022
Winter Recipes from the Collective: Poems by Louise Glück
Poetry2022
The Renunciations: Poems by Donika Kelly
Poetry2022
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
Fiction2021
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Fiction2021
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Fiction2021
The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories by Danielle Evans
Fiction2021
Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami
Fiction2021
Temporary by Hilary Leichter
Fiction2021
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
Fiction2021
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
Fiction2021
Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin
Fiction2021
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
Fiction2021
Run Me to Earth by Paul Yoon
Fiction2021
A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom by Brittany K. Barnett
Nonfiction2021
Carville's Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice by Pam Fessler
Nonfiction2021
Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Nonfiction2021
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
Nonfiction2021
Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine
Nonfiction2021
Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West by Lauren Redniss
Nonfiction2021
Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace by Carl Safina
Nonfiction2021
We Have Been Harmonised: Life in China's Surveillance State by Kai Strittmatter
Nonfiction2021
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir by Natasha Trethewey
Nonfiction2021
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Nonfiction2021
Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino
Nonfiction2021
Owed (Penguin Poets) by Joshua Bennett
Poetry2021
Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
Poetry2021
Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry by John Murillo
Poetry2021
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
Fiction2020
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Fiction2020
The Innocents by Michael Crummey
Fiction2020
Dominicana by Angie Cruz
Fiction2020
Everything Inside: Stories by Edwidge Danticat
Fiction2020
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Fiction2020
Sabrina & Corina: Stories by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Fiction2020
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
Fiction2020
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
Fiction2020
Lanny by Max Porter
Fiction2020
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Fiction2020
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Fiction2020
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Fiction2020
Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life by Louise Aronson
Nonfiction2020
The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom
Nonfiction2020
Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Nonfiction2020
A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century by Jason DeParle
Nonfiction2020
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
Nonfiction2020
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
Nonfiction2020
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
Nonfiction2020
Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss by Margaret Renkl
Nonfiction2020
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves by Frans de Waal
Nonfiction2020
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
Nonfiction2020
The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation by Brenda Wineapple
Nonfiction2020
I Know Your Kind: Poems by William Brewer
Poetry2020
The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded: Poems by Molly McCully Brown
Poetry2020
Waiting for Eden by Elliot Ackerman
Fiction2019
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Fiction2019
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Fiction2019
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Fiction2019
The Mars Room: A Novel by Rachel Kushner
Fiction2019
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Fiction2019
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
Fiction2019
There There by Tommy Orange
Fiction2019
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Fiction2019
The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea
Fiction2019
Don't Skip Out on Me by Willy Vlautin
Fiction2019
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing by Ben Austen
Nonfiction2019
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer
Nonfiction2019
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
Nonfiction2019
Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father by Stephen Fried
Nonfiction2019
Call Me American: A Memoir by Abdi Nor Iftin
Nonfiction2019
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson
Nonfiction2019
Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found by Gilbert King
Nonfiction2019
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
Nonfiction2019
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy
Nonfiction2019
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen
Nonfiction2019
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush
Nonfiction2019
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
Nonfiction2019
If They Come for Us: Poems by Fatimah Asghar
Poetry2019
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes
Poetry2019
The Carrying: Poems by Ada Limón
Poetry2019
Stay with Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
Fiction2018
Days without End by Sebastian Barry
Fiction2018
The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash
Fiction2018
American War by Omar El Akkad
Fiction2018
Here in Berlin by Cristina García
Fiction2018
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Fiction2018
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Fiction2018
Human Acts by Kang Han
Fiction2018
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Fiction2018
Solar Bones by Mike McCormack
Fiction2018
Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel by George Saunders
Fiction2018
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Fiction2018
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir by Sherman Alexie
Nonfiction2018
Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam by Mark Bowden
Nonfiction2018
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui
Nonfiction2018
Grant by Ron Chernow
Nonfiction2018
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone
Nonfiction2018
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris
Nonfiction2018
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
Nonfiction2018
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Nonfiction2018
Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character by Kay Redfield Jamison
Nonfiction2018
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
Nonfiction2018
Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital by David Oshinsky
Nonfiction2018
The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson
Nonfiction2018
I Know Your Kind: Poems by William Brewer
Poetry2018
The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded: Poems by Molly McCully Brown
Poetry2018
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Fiction2017
The Nix by Nathan Hill
Fiction2017
To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
Fiction2017
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
Fiction2017
The Unseen World by Liz Moore
Fiction2017
The Sport of Kings by C. E. Morgan
Fiction2017
Christodora by Tim Murphy
Fiction2017
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
Fiction2017
An Unrestored Woman by Shobha Rao
Fiction2017
I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
Fiction2017
Missile Paradise by Ron Tanner
Fiction2017
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Fiction2017
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others by Sarah Bakewell
Nonfiction2017
The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland by Dan Barry
Nonfiction2017
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott
Nonfiction2017
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Nonfiction2017
In the Darkroom by Susan Faludi
Nonfiction2017
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
Nonfiction2017
The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Nonfiction2017
Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick
Nonfiction2017
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips
Nonfiction2017
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
Nonfiction2017
Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams by Louisa Thomas
Nonfiction2017
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal
Nonfiction2017
The Rain in Portugal: Poems by Billy Collins
Poetry2017
Cannibal by Safiya Sinclair
Poetry2017
In the Country: Stories by Mia Alvar
Fiction2016
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
Fiction2016
Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
Fiction2016
Delicious Foods by James Hannaham
Fiction2016
Black River by S. M. Hulse
Fiction2016
Fortune Smiles: Stories by Adam Johnson
Fiction2016
The Prophets of Eternal Fjord by Kim Leine
Fiction2016
The Tsar of Love and Techno: Stories by Anthony Marra
Fiction2016
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Fiction2016
This Is the Life by Alex Shearer
Fiction2016
The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard
Fiction2016
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Fiction2016
The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission by Jim Bell
Nonfiction2016
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman
Nonfiction2016
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Nonfiction2016
The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle by Lillian Faderman
Nonfiction2016
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon
Nonfiction2016
The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World by Joel K. Bourne Jr
Nonfiction2016
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
Nonfiction2016
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
Nonfiction2016
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery
Nonfiction2016
M Train by Patti Smith
Nonfiction2016
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War by Susan Southard
Nonfiction2016
Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan
Nonfiction2016
Bastards of the Reagan Era by Reginald Dwayne Betts
Poetry2016
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems by Joy Harjo
Poetry2016
The Bone Clocks: A Novel by David Mitchell
Fiction2015
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides
Nonfiction2015
The most dangerous book: the battle for James Joyce's Ulysses by Kevin Birmingham
2015
Dark Invasion: 1915: Germany's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America by Howard Blum
2015
Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story by Rick Bragg
2015
The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld
2015
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
2015
The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution by Jonathan Eig
2015
The Blue Buick: New and Selected Poems by B. H. Fairchild
2015
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
2015
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald
2015
Tigerman by Nick Harkaway
2015
Gabriel: A Poem by Edward Hirsch
2015
Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris by Eric Jager
2015
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
2015
On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee
2015
The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore
2015
Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town by Beth Macy
2015
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
2015
The Children Act by Ian McEwan
2015
The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness
2015
Orfeo by Richard Powers
2015
Something Rich and Strange: Selected Stories by Ron Rash
2015
Pandora's DNA: Tracing the Breast Cancer Genes Through History, Science, and One Family Tree by Lizzie Stark
2015
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
2015
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
2015
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Fiction2014
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Fiction2014
Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat
Fiction2014
Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See by Juliann Garey
Fiction2014
Enon by Paul Harding
Fiction2014
The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards by Kristopher Jansma
Fiction2014
The Dinner by Herman Koch
Fiction2014
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
Fiction2014
The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
Fiction2014
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Fiction2014
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Fiction2014
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
Nonfiction2014
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson
2014
On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History by Nicholas A. Basbanes
2014
To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care by Cris Beam
2014
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
2014
Year Zero: A History of 1945 by Ian Buruma
2014
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code by Margalit Fox
2014
On the Map: Why the World Looks the Way it Does by Simon Garfield
2014
Johnny Cash: The Life by Robert Hilburn
2014
The Skies Belong to Us by Brendan I. Koerner
2014
The Ogre's Wife by Ron Koertge
2014
Hum (Ala Notable Books for Adults) by Jamaal May
2014
Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures by Virginia Morell
2014
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser
2014
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
2014
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
Fiction2013
Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
Fiction2013
A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
Fiction2013
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Fiction2013
Canada by Richard Ford
Fiction2013
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
Fiction2013
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
Fiction2013
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
Fiction2013
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
Fiction2013
The Headmaster's Wager by Vincent Lam
Fiction2013
One Last Thing Before I Go by Jonathan Tropper
Fiction2013
Battleborn by Claire Vaye Watkins
Fiction2013
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
Nonfiction2013
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Nonfiction2013
Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America by Tanner Colby
Nonfiction2013
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson
Nonfiction2013
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan
Nonfiction2013
Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story by Jim Holt
Nonfiction2013
Engines of Change: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars by Paul Ingrassia
Nonfiction2013
Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats by Kristen Iversen
Nonfiction2013
Leonardo and the Last Supper by Ross King
Nonfiction2013
Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem, and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy by Paul Thomas Murphy
Nonfiction2013
The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea by Callum Roberts
Nonfiction2013
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
Nonfiction2013
The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Poetry2013
Stag's Leap: Poems by Sharon Olds
Poetry2013
Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks
Fiction2012
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Fiction2012
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Fiction2012
Say Her Name by Francisco Goldman
Fiction2012
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
Fiction2012
Light Lifting by Alexander MacLeod
Fiction2012
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht
Fiction2012
The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
Fiction2012
The Tragedy of Arthur by Arthur Phillips
Fiction2012
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
Fiction2012
We the Animals by Justin Torres
Fiction2012
Selected Stories by William Trevor
Fiction2012
Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time by Mark Adams
Nonfiction2012
The Memory Palace by Mira Bartók
Nonfiction2012
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
Nonfiction2012
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
Nonfiction2012
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
Nonfiction2012
Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens by Christopher Hitchens
Nonfiction2012
Apollo's Angels : A History of Ballet by Jennifer Homans
Nonfiction2012
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Nonfiction2012
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
Nonfiction2012
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
Nonfiction2012
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Nonfiction2012
Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion by Janet Reitman
Nonfiction2012
Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability by Sheila Black
Poetry2012
Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud
Poetry2012
Nashville Chrome by Rick Bass
Fiction2011
Room by Emma Donoghue
Fiction2011
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Fiction2011
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
Fiction2011
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Fiction2011
Next by James Hynes
Fiction2011
The Surrendered by Chang-Rae Lee
Fiction2011
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
Fiction2011
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Fiction2011
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
Fiction2011
The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli
Fiction2011
The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall
Fiction2011
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
Nonfiction2011
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
Nonfiction2011
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund De Waal
Nonfiction2011
Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier
Nonfiction2011
The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness by Oren Harman
Nonfiction2011
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent
Nonfiction2011
Citizens of London : the Americans who stood with Britain in its darkest, finest hour by Lynne Olson
Nonfiction2011
The Last Stand : Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick
Nonfiction2011
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Nonfiction2011
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Nonfiction2011
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
Nonfiction2011
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
Nonfiction2011
Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty: Poems by Tony Hoagland
Poetry2011
Wait: Poems by C. K. Williams
Poetry2011
The Convalescent by Jessica Anthony
Fiction2010
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
Fiction2010
The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
Fiction2010
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2006
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2006
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2006
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2006
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2006
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2006
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2006
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2006
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2006
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2006
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2006
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2006
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2006
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2006
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2006
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2005
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2005
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2005
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2005
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2005
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2005
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2005
The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998 by Nikki Giovanni
2005
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2005
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