| 2011 (Fiction) |
| A Visit From The Goon Squad |
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Jennifer Egan
Book list *Starred Review* Egan is a writer of cunning subtlety, embedding within the risky endeavors of seductively complicated characters a curious ...More |
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| 2011 (Biography)) |
| Washington: A Life |
Ron Chernow
Library Journal In this cradle-to-grave biography of the Founding Father, notable biographer Chernow (Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller) thoro ...More |
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| 2010 (Fiction) |
| Tinkers |
Paul Harding
Book list *Starred Review* A tinker is a mender, and in Harding's spellbinding debut, he imagines the old, mendable horse-and-carriage world. The ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Olive Kitteridge |
Elizabeth Strout.
Library Journal In her third novel, New York Times best-selling author Strout (Abide with Me) tracks Olive Kitteridge's adult life through 13 l ...More |
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| 2007 (Fiction) |
| The road |
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Cormac McCarthy
Publishers Weekly Violence, in McCarthy's postapocalyptic tour de force, has been visited worldwide in the form of a "long shear of light a ...More |
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| 2007 (Nonfiction) |
| The looming tower |
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Lawrence Wright
Book list Wright, a talented New Yorker0 staff writer with a diverse portfolio and a long-standing personal interest in the Middle East, was on the ...More |
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| 2007 (Biography) |
| The most famous man in America |
Debby Applegate
Library Journal The 2007 Pulitzer Prize jumps the gun on book award announcements, selecting the spring rather than the fall to declare its winners ...More |
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| 2006 (Fiction) |
| March |
Geraldine Brooks
Publishers Weekly Brooks's luminous second novel, after 2001's acclaimed Year of Wonders, imagines the Civil War experiences of Mr. March, ...More |
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| 2005 (Fiction) |
| Gilead |
Marilynne Robinson
Library Journal As his life winds down, Rev. John Ames relates the story of his own father and grandfather, both preachers but one a pacifist and o ...More |
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| 2005 (Biography) |
| de Kooning: An American Master |
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Mark Stevens
Publishers Weekly This sweeping biography, 10 years in the making, chronicles in fastidious detail de Kooning's rise from his humble beginnings ...More |
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| 2004 (Nonfiction) |
| Gulag: A History |
Anne Applebaum
Book list We have massive amounts of data about the Nazi concentration and death camps, ranging from memoirs of survivors to incredibly detailed re ...More |
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| 2004 (Biography) |
| Khrushchev: The Man and His Era |
William Taubman
Publishers Weekly Amherst College political science professor Taubman's thorough and nuanced account is the first full-length American biography ...More |
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| 2003 (Fiction) |
| Middlesex |
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Jeffrey Eugenides
School Library Journal Adult/High School-From the opening paragraph, in which the narrator explains that he was "born twice," first as a b ...More |
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| 2003 (Nonfiction) |
| A Problem From Hell |
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Samantha Power
Publishers Weekly Power, a former journalist for U.S. News and World Report and the Economist and now the executive director of Harvard's Carr ...More |
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| 2003 (Biography) |
| Master of the Senate |
Robert A. Caro
Choice This third volume of a projected four-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson examines his two Senate terms. Whereas the first two volumes (The Pa ...More |
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| 2002 (Fiction) |
| Empire Falls |
Richard Russo
Library Journal "Elijah Whiting...had not succeeded in killing his wife with a shovel, nor had he recovered from the disappointment." Thes ...More |
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| 2002 (Nonfiction) |
| Carry Me Home |
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Diane McWhorter
Book list In this groundbreaking book, McWhorter, a journalist and regular contributor to the New York Times and USA Today, tells the story of her ho ...More |
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| 2002 (Biography) |
| John Adams |
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David McCullough
Book list John Adams and George H. W. Bush share a unique place in American history: both were presidents themselves, and both fathered presidents. M ...More |
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| 2000 (Biography) |
| Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) |
Stacy Schiff
Publishers Weekly V?ra Nabokov was not only devoted to her husband's literary career; she was crucial to it. Schiff (Saint-Exup?ry) contends that ...More |
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| 1999 (Fiction) |
| The Hours |
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Michael Cunningham
Publishers Weekly At first blush, the structural and thematic conceits of this novel?three interwoven novellas in varying degrees connected to Virgin ...More |
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| 1999 (Nonfiction) |
| Annals of the Former World |
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John McPhee
Choice Well-known writer McPhee's book has impressive depth in its understanding, explaining, and illustrating of the geological evolution of a c ...More |
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| 1999 (Biography) |
| Lindbergh |
A. Scott Berg
Library Journal Berg, whose biographies of Max Perkins and Sam Goldwyn are central texts in their fields, restores some luster to complicated aviator ...More |
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| 1998 (Fiction) |
| American Pastoral |
Philip Roth
Library Journal It's the Sixties, and hard-working, prosperous Seymour Levov has done everything right. So why has his daughter become a terroris ...More |
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| 1998 (Nonfiction) |
| Guns, Germs and Steel |
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Jared Diamond
Publishers Weekly In a boldly ambitious analysis of history's broad patterns, evolutionary biologist Diamond (The Third Chimpanzee) identifies fo ...More |
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| 1998 (Biography) |
| Personal History |
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Katharine Graham
Publishers Weekly In 1963, Graham took over as publisher of the Washington Post as a classic grieving widow. Her husband, Phil, had shot himself at t ...More |
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| 1997 (Fiction) |
| Martin Dressler |
Steven Millhauser
Publishers Weekly Literature's romance with the building-as-metaphor earns new energy through Millhauser's latest novel (after Little Kingdom ...More |
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| 1997 (Nonfiction) |
| Ashes to Ashes |
Richard Kluger
Book list The debate over smoking has become, quite literally, one about life and death. These books by Glantz and his coauthors and by Kluger will b ...More |
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| 1997 (Biography) |
| Angela's Ashes |
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Frank McCourt
School Library Journal YA?Despite impoverishing his family because of his alcoholism, McCourt's father passed on to his son a gift for superb sto ...More |
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| 1996 (Fiction) |
| Independence Day |
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Richard Ford
Publishers Weekly In this sequel to The Sportswriter, Ford follows his middle-aged American everyman, Frank Bascombe, through the transformative even ...More |
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| 1996 (Nonfiction) |
| The Haunted Land |
Tina Rosenberg
Choice Freelance journalist and scholar Rosenberg, presently a fellow at the World Policy Institute, has turned her superior talents to a profound qu ...More |
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| 1996 (Biography) |
| God: A Biography |
Jack Miles
Library Journal Despite its provocative title, this is a serious attempt to come to an understanding of the portrayal of God in the Tanakh, i.e., the ...More |
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| 1995 (Fiction) |
| The Stone Diaries |
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Carol Shields
Publishers Weekly Canadian writer Shields's novels and short stories ( Swann ; The Republic of Love , etc.) are intensely imagined, humanely gene ...More |
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| 1995 (Nonfiction) |
| The Beak of the Finch |
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Jonathan Weiner
Library Journal This is an account of Peter and Rosemary Grant's research on the microevolutionary modifications that occur in finch beaks as the ...More |
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| 1995 (Biography) |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Joan D. Hedrick
Choice Although Uncle Tom's Cabin, the most popular novel in America during the 19th century, continues to be read, studied, and discussed, the l ...More |
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