 | ALA Notable Books List |
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 poetry books for the adult reader. A link to the American Library Association's Notable Books page is given below.
ALA Notable Books, lists since 1944
The following list is the current list.
Fiction
Bates,
Judy Fong, Midnight at the Dragon Café
(F BAT)
Foer,
Jonathan Safran, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
(F FOE)
Gaitskill,
Mary, Veronica
(F GAI)
Ghosh,
Amitav, Hungry Tide
(F GHO)
Ishiguro,
Kazuo, Never Let Me Go
(F ISH)
Iweala,
Uzodinma, Beasts of No Nation
(F IWE)
McCarthy,
Cormac, No Country for Old Men
(F MCC)
McEwan,
Ian, Saturday
(F MCE)
Murakami,
Haruki, translator: Philip Gabriel, Kafka on the Shore
(F MUR)
Robinson,
Marilynne, Gilead
(F ROB)
Urrea,
Luis Alberto, The Hummingbird's Daughter
(F URR)
Nonfiction
Alexievich,
Svetlana, translator: Keith Gessen, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History
of a Nuclear Disaster
(NF 363.179 ALE)
Anonymous,
translator: Philip Boehm, A Woman in Berlin: Eight
Weeks in the Conquered City
(NF Biography)
Bordewich,
Fergus, Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul
of America
(NF 793.7115 BOR)
Cathcart,
Brian, The Fly in the Cathedral
(NF 539.762 CAT)
Diamond,
Jared, Collapse: How
Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
(NF 304.28 DIA)
Eichenwald,
Kurt, Conspiracy of Fools: A
True Story
(NF 333.79 EIC)
Lepore,
Jill, New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century
Manhattan
(NF 974.7102 LEP)
Moorehead,
Caroline, Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees
(NF 305.9 MOO)
Packer,
George, The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
(NF 956.70443 PAC)
Reiss,
Tom, The Orientalist: Solving
the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
(NF 833.912 REI)
Reynolds,
David S., John Brown, Abolitionist: The
Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
(NF Biography)
Walker,
Steven, Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima
(NF 940.5425 WAL)
Walls,
Jeannette, The Glass Castle
(NF 362.82 WAL)
Poetry
Alexander,
Elizabeth, American Sublime
(NF 811.54 ALE)
Dybek,
Stuart, Streets in Their Own Ink
(NF 811.54 DYB)
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