ALA Notable Books for Adults

Given by American Library Association

2,757 Works 3,648,288 Books 90,987 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 (67), Non-fiction (1), Nonfction (1), Nonfiction (69), Poetry (6), No Category (2,613)
Years:
All, 2023 (2), 2022 (3), 2021 (21), 2020 (25), 2019 (26), 2018 (26), 2017 (26), 2016 (26), 2015 (25), Nonfiction 2015 (1), 2014 (26), 2013 (26), 2012 (25), 2011 (26), 2010 (27), 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)
WorkCategoryYear
The Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation by Scott Carney
2023
The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
2023
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Fiction2022
Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
Fiction2022
The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town by Brian Alexander
Nonfiction2022
Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami
Fiction2021
Temporary by Hilary Leichter
Fiction2021
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
Fiction2021
Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin
Fiction2021
Run Me to Earth by Paul Yoon
Fiction2021
A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom by Brittany K. Barnett
Non-fiction2021
Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino
Nonfction2021
Carville's Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice by Pam Fessler
Nonfiction2021
Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
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
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
2021
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
2021
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
2021
The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories by Danielle Evans
2021
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
2021
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
2021
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
Lanny by Max Porter
Fiction2020
Normal People by Sally Rooney
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
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
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
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
2020
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
2020
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
2020
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 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
The Carrying: Poems by Ada Limón
Poetry2019
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes
2019
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 by George Saunders
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
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
2018
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
Nonfiction2017
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
2017
The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland by Dan Barry
2017
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott
2017
The Rain in Portugal: Poems by Billy Collins
2017
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
2017
In the Darkroom by Susan Faludi
2017
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
2017
The Nix by Nathan Hill
2017
To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
2017
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
2017
The Unseen World by Liz Moore
2017
The Sport of Kings by C. E. Morgan
2017
The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
2017
Christodora by Tim Murphy
2017
Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick
2017
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips
2017
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
2017
An Unrestored Woman by Shobha Rao
2017
I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
2017
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
2017
Cannibal by Safiya Sinclair
2017
Missile Paradise by Ron Tanner
2017
Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams by Louisa Thomas
2017
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal
2017
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
2017
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 by David Mitchell
Fiction2015
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
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides
Nonfiction 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
The Dinner by Herman Koch
Fiction2014
The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
Fiction2014
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Fiction2014
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
Nonfiction2014
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2014
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson
2014
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
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
Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat
2014
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code by Margalit Fox
2014
Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See by Juliann Garey
2014
On the Map: Why the World Looks the Way it Does by Simon Garfield
2014
Enon by Paul Harding
2014
Johnny Cash: The Life by Robert Hilburn
2014
The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards by Kristopher Jansma
2014
The Skies Belong to Us by Brendan I. Koerner
2014
The Ogre's Wife by Ron Koertge
2014
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
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
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
2014
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan
Nonfiction2013
Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem, and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy by Paul Thomas Murphy
Nonfiction2013
The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
2013
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
2013
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
2013
Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America by Tanner Colby
2013
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
2013
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson
2013
Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
2013
A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
2013
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
2013
Canada by Richard Ford
2013
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
2013
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
2013
Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story by Jim Holt
2013
Engines of Change: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars by Paul Ingrassia
2013
Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats by Kristen Iversen
2013
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
2013
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
2013
Leonardo and the Last Supper by Ross King
2013
The Headmaster's Wager by Vincent Lam
2013
Stag's Leap: Poems by Sharon Olds
2013
The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea by Callum Roberts
2013
One Last Thing Before I Go by Jonathan Tropper
2013
Battleborn by Claire Vaye Watkins
2013
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
2013
Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time by Mark Adams
2012
Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks
2012
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
2012
The Memory Palace by Mira Bartók
2012
Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability by Sheila Black
2012
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
2012
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
2012
Say Her Name by Francisco Goldman
2012
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
2012
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
2012
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
2012
Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens by Christopher Hitchens
2012
Apollo's Angels : A History of Ballet by Jennifer Homans
2012
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
2012
Light Lifting by Alexander MacLeod
2012
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
2012
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
2012
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
2012
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht
2012
The Tragedy of Arthur by Arthur Phillips
2012
Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion by Janet Reitman
2012
Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud
2012
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
2012
We the Animals by Justin Torres
2012
Collected Stories by William Trevor
2012
Room by Emma Donoghue
Fiction2011
Nashville Chrome by Rick Bass
2011
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
2011
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
2011
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund De Waal
2011
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
2011
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
2011
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
2011
Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier
2011
The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness by Oren Harman
2011
Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty: Poems by Tony Hoagland
2011
Next by James Hynes
2011
The Surrendered by Chang-Rae Lee
2011
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
2011
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
2011
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
2011
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent
2011
Citizens of London : the Americans who stood with Britain in its darkest, finest hour by Lynne Olson
2011
The Last Stand : Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick
2011
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
2011
Just Kids by Patti Smith
2011
The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli
2011
The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall
2011
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
2011
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
2011
Wait: Poems by C. K. Williams
2011
Face by Sherman Alexie
2010
The Convalescent by Jessica Anthony
2010
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
2010
The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
2010
Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
2010
The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
2010
Columbine by Dave Cullen
2010
Spooner by Pete Dexter
2010
What Goes On: Selected and New Poems 1995-2009 by Stephen Dunn
2010
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
2010
The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
2010
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
2010
The Photographer: Into War-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders by Emmanuel Guibert
2010
Tinkers by Paul Harding
2010
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
2010
The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe
2010
The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
2010
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
2010
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
2010
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
2010
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman
2010
Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers
2010
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey D. Sachs
2010
Provenance: how a con man and a forger rewrote the history of modern art by Laney Salisbury
2010
Stitches: A Memoir by David Small
2010
The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War by Nicholas Thompson
2010
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
2010
The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine
2009
The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam
2009
Peace by Richard Bausch
2009
City of Thieves by David Benioff
2009
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century by Steve Coll
2009
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
2009
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library) by Drew Gilpin Faust
2009
The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
2009
Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen
2009
Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
2009
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
2009
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood by Mark Harris
2009
Special Orders: Poems by Edward Hirsch
2009
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz
2009
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
2009
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer
2009
Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories by Steven Millhauser
2009
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
2009
Resistance by Owen Sheers
2009
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
2009
The Ginseng Hunter: A Novel by Jeff Talarigo
2009
The Ghost Soldiers: Poems by James Tate
2009
American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work by Nick Taylor
2009
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt
2009
The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order by Joan Wickersham
2009
The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackermann
2008
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier
2008
Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart by Ian Ayres
2008
Away by Amy Bloom
2008
A New Hunger by Laure-Anne Bosselaar
2008
Five Skies by Ron Carlson
2008
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
2008
An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England by Brock Clarke
2008
Finn by Jon Clinch
2008
The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
2008
The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander
2008
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin
2008
How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman
2008
The Five-Forty-Five to Cannes by Tess Uriza Holthe
2008
Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations by Georgina Howell
2008
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
2008
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
2008
In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems, 1955–2007 by X. J. Kennedy
2008
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
2008
The Complete Stories by David Malouf
2008
Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline by Lisa Margonelli
2008
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
2008
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
2008
Cheating at Canasta: Stories by William Trevor
2008
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
2008
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
2007
Beautiful Dreamer: A Novel by Christopher Bigsby
2007
The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
2007
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
2007
The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
2007
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
2007
The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth by Tim Flannery
2007
Famous by Kathleen Flenniken
2007
There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children by Melissa Fay Greene
2007
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
2007
Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China by Peter Hessler
2007
Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City by Jed Horne
2007
The Attack by Yasmina Khadra
2007
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism by Ross King
2007
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert
2007
The Girls by Lori Lansens
2007
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
2007
The People's Act of Love by James Meek
2007
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
2007
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
2007
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
2007
James Tiptree Jr: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips
2007
Burning Wyclif by Thom Satterlee
2007
Firmin by Sam Savage
2007
William Henry Harrison And Other Poems by David R. Slavitt
2007
The Heartless Stone: A Journey through the World of Diamonds, Deceit, and Desire by Tom Zoellner
2007
American Sublime by Elizabeth Alexander
2006
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich
2006
Midnight at the Dragon Café by Judy Fong Bates
2006
Bound for Canaan: The Under-ground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America by Fergus M. Bordewich
2006
The Fly in the Cathedral: How a Group of Cambridge Scientists Won the International Race to Split the Atom by Brian Cathcart
2006
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared M. Diamond
2006
Streets in Their Own Ink: Poems by Stuart Dybek
2006
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A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary by Marta Hillers
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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
2006
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2006
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2006
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2006
The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life by Tom Reiss
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2006
The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea
2006
Shockwave : countdown to Hiroshima by Stephen Walker
2006
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
2006
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Authorized Edition) by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
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The Lemon Table by Julian Barnes
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Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
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I Sailed with Magellan by Stuart Dybek
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Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
2005
The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998 by Nikki Giovanni
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2005
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Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
2005
Civil Wars: A Battle for Gay Marriage by David Moats
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Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 by Nathaniel Philbrick
2005
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2005
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2005
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2005
Old School by Tobias Wolff
2005
The Kite Runner [and] A Thousand Splendid Suns {boxed set} by Khaled Hosseini
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Brick Lane by Monica Ali
2004
The Inquisitors' Manual by António Lobo Antunes
2004
Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston by Valerie Boyd
2004
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
2004
Alva & Irva: The Twins Who Saved a City by Edward Carey
2004
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2004
Triangle: The Fire that Changed America by David Von Drehle
2004
Alabanza: New and Selected Poems 1982-2002 by Martín Espada
2004
Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir by Lillian Faderman
2004
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
2004
Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad by Ann Hagedorn
2004
Flat Broke with Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform by Sharon Hays
2004
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
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The Known World by Edward P. Jones
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
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Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling by Ross King
2004
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
2004
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
2004
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
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Love by Toni Morrison
2004
Runaway by Alice Munro
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Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor
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Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer
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Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind by David Quammen
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2004
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The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
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The Complete Works of Isaac Babel by Isaac Babel
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Selected Essays of John Berger by John Berger
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Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry by Alan Dugan
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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
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The Painted Bed: Poems by Donald Hall
2003
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2003
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2003
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Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy by Diana Preston
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The Russian Debutante's Handbook by Gary Shteyngart
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God's Fool by Mark Slouka
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The Future of the Past: How the Information Age Threatens to Destroy Our Cultural Heritage by Alexander Stille
2003
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American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood by Marie Arana
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2002
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2002
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