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Louise Erdrich
Library Journal Erdrich's most recent novel (after the National Book Award winner The Round House) acquai...More |
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| 2016 (Poetry) |
| House of Lords and Commons |
Ishion Hutchinson
Library Journal Whiting Award winner Hutchinson here intensifies the promise of his debut, Far District, broa...More |
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| 2015 (Fiction) |
| The Sellout: A Novel |
Paul Beatty
Library Journal Dickens, CA, is so embarrassing yet so inconsequential that it has disappeared from the map. ...More |
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| 2015 (Autobiography) |
| Negroland: A Memoir |
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Margo Jefferson
Library Journal Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Jefferson relates her upbringing among America's black elit...More |
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| 2015 (Criticism) |
| The Argonauts |
Maggie Nelson
Publishers Weekly In a fast-shifting terrain of "homonormativity," Nelson, poet and author of numer...More |
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| 2014 (Fiction) |
| Lila |
Marilynne Robinson
Publishers Weekly This third of three novels set in the fictional plains town of Gilead, Iowa, is a masterpi...More |
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| 2013 (Fiction) |
| Americanah |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Library Journal Ifemelu, the Nigerian expat and Princeton lecturer at the heart of this latest novel by Oran...More |
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| 2013 (Poetry) |
| Metaphysical Dog: Poems |
Frank Bidart
Publishers Weekly "At seventy-two, the future is what I mourn," Bidart announces in this starkly i...More |
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| 2013 (Criticism) |
| Distant Reading |
Franco Moretti
Publishers Weekly In the 10 linked essays in this collection, Moretti (Signs Taken for Wonders)-a literary h...More |
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| 2012 (Autobiography) |
| Swimming Studies |
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Leanne Shapton
Kirkus A disjointed debut memoir about how competitive swimming shaped the personal and artistic sensibilitie...More |
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| 2011 (Autobiography) |
| The Memory Palace: A Memoir |
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Mira Bartok
Publishers Weekly This moving, compassionately candid memoir by artist and children's book author Bartok...More |
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| 2011 (Poetry) |
| Space, in Chains |
Laura Kasischke
Publishers Weekly Frightening in its confrontations with death-that of a father and, eventually, of everythi...More |
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| 2010 (Fiction) |
| A Visit from the Goon Squad |
Jennifer Egan
Book list *Starred Review* Egan is a writer of cunning subtlety, embedding within the risky endeavors of sedu...More |
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| 2010 (General Nonfiction) |
| The Warmth of Other Suns |
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Isabel Wilkerson
Publishers Weekly Ida Mae Brandon Gladney, a sharecropper's wife, left Mississippi for Milwaukee in 1937...More |
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| 2010 (Autobiography) |
| Half a Life |
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Darin Strauss
Book list Although the accident was what insurers call a no fault fatality, the moment Strauss' car str...More |
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| 2010 (Poetry) |
| One with Others |
CD Wright
Book list Wright revisits her native Arkansas, during the 1960s, to pay homage to V, a friend and mentor. We ...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Wolf Hall |
Hilary Mantel
Book list Mantel fictionalizes the life and times of Thomas Cromwell, crafty architect of Henry VIII's an...More |
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| 2009 (Biography) |
| Cheever: A life |
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Blake Bailey
Library Journal Bailey, author of a biography of Richard Yates (A Tragic Honesty) and editor of the Library ...More |
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| 2009 (Autobiography) |
| Somewhere Towards the End |
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Diana Athill
Publishers Weekly When it comes to facing old age, writes Athill, "there are no lessons to be learnt, n...More |
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| 2009 (Poetry) |
| Versed |
Rae Armantrout
Publishers Weekly In recent years, Armantrout's reputation has soared-she began in the '70s as an ob...More |
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| 2008 (General Nonfiction) |
| The Forever War |
Dexter Filkins
Book list Filkins, foreign correspondent for the New York Times, has covered the struggle against Islamic ext...More |
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| 2008 (Fiction) |
| 2666 |
Roberto Bolaño
Library Journal This sprawling, digressive, Jamesian "loose, baggy monster" reads like five indepe...More |
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| 2007 (Fiction) |
| The Inheritance of Loss |
Kiran Desai
Publishers Weekly This stunning second novel from Desai (Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard) is set in mid-1980...More |
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| 2006 (Fiction) |
| The March |
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E. L. Doctorow
Library Journal The author who made the historical novel a real literary event returns with the story of Gen...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, ...More |
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| 2005 (Nonfiction) |
| The Reformation: A History |
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Library Journal Does the world really need another general history of the Reformation? MacCulloch (history o...More |
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| 2004 (Fiction) |
| The Known World |
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Edward P. Jones
Library Journal This ambitious first novel by National Book Award nominee Jones (Lost in the City: Stories) ...More |
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| 2004 (Nonfiction) |
| Sons of Mississippi |
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Paul Hendrickson
Library Journal Hendrickson (The Living and the Dead) uses a photograph published in the July 1962 Life maga...More |
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| 2003 (Fiction) |
| Atonement |
Ian McEwan
Library Journal The major events of Booker Prize winner McEwan's new novel occur one day in the summer o...More |
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| 2003 (Nonfiction) |
| A Problem From Hell |
Samantha Power
Publishers Weekly Power, a former journalist for U.S. News and World Report and the Economist and now the ex...More |
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| 2003 (Biography) |
| Charles Darwin |
Janet Browne
Publishers Weekly When Browne published her first volume on the life of Darwin seven years ago (Charles Darw...More |
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| 2002 (Fiction) |
| Austerlitz |
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W. G. Sebald
School Library Journal Winner of the Berlin Literature and Literatur Nord prizes and the Los Angeles Times B...More |
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| 2002 (Nonfiction) |
| Double Fold |
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Nicholson Baker
Book list Is it the librarian's job to preserve books as intrinsically valuable objects in themselves, or...More |
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| 2001 (Fiction) |
| Being Dead |
Jim Crace
Book list In his latest novel, Crace (author of Quarantine, 1998) archly explores life and death and the effe...More |
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| 2001 (Nonfiction) |
| Newjack: Guarding Sing-Sing |
Ted Conover
Library Journal Having already documented the lives of illegal aliens (Coyotes) and hoboes (Rolling Nowhere),...More |
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| 2000 (Fiction) |
| Motherless Brooklyn |
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Jonathan Lethem
Book list Here's a detective story with a unique twist: the narrator-protagonist, Lionel Essrog, out to s...More |
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| 2000 (Nonfiction) |
| Time, Love, Memory |
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Jonathan Weiner
Book list Geneticist Seymour Benzer is little known outside his specialty, but Weiner lifts him from obscurit...More |
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| 2000 (Biography) |
| The Hairstons |
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Henry Wiencek
Library Journal This profile of the Hairstons, a large family of planters and slaves spreading from Virginia ...More |
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| 1999 (Fiction) |
| The Love of a Good Woman |
Alice Munro
Library Journal In the title story, set in the early spring of 1951, three young boys on a lark make a grim d...More |
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| 1999 (Biography) |
| A Beautiful MInd |
Sylvia Nasar
Book list The shadowy line between genius and madness is exemplified in the life of mathematician John Nash, ...More |
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| 1998 (Fiction) |
| The Blue Flower |
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Penelope Fitzgerald
Library Journal Fitzgerald never repeats herself, and her latest novel, named Book of the Year by 19 British ...More |
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| 1998 (Biography) |
| Ernie Pyles War |
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James Tobin
Book list Tobin pays homage to Ernie Pyle, America's most celebrated and beloved war correspondent. Livin...More |
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| 1997 (Fiction) |
| Women in their Beds |
Gina Berriault
Publishers Weekly Whether focusing on yuppies or drifters, social workers or Indian restaurateurs, heroin add...More |
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| 1997 (Nonfiction) |
| Bad Land |
Jonathan Raban
Library Journal Hunting Mister Heartbreak (LJ 4/15/91) told of British-born Raban's last journey through ...More |
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| 1997 (Biography) |
| Angelas Ashes |
Frank McCourt
School Library Journal YA?Despite impoverishing his family because of his alcoholism, McCourt's father pa...More |
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| 1996 (Fiction) |
| Mrs. Ted Bliss |
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Stanley Elkin
Library Journal After her husband's death, Dorothy Bliss stays on alone in The Towers, their Miami Beach ...More |
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| 1996 (Nonfiction) |
| A Civil Action |
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Jonathan Harr
Publishers Weekly This tale of a somewhat quixotic quest by an idealistic young lawyer concerns his efforts t...More |
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| 1996 (Biography) |
| Savage Art |
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Robert Polito
Publishers Weekly A series of Vintage reprints and Hollywood films like The Getaway and The Grifters have hel...More |
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| 1995 (Fiction) |
| The Stone Diaries |
Carol Shields
Publishers Weekly Canadian writer Shields's novels and short stories ( Swann ; The Republic of Love , etc...More |
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| 1995 (Nonfiction) |
| The Rape of Europa |
Lynn Nicholas
Publishers Weekly ``Never had works of art been so important to a political movement and never had they been ...More |
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| 1995 (Biography) |
| Shot in the Heart |
Mikal Gilmore
Publishers Weekly Executed by firing squad in Utah in 1977 after murdering two young Mormon men, Gary Gilmore...More |
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