| 2024 (Fiction) |
| Night Watch |
 |
|
Jayne Anne Phillips
Kirkus Set in West Virginia during and after the Civil War, Phillips’ book takes as given that slavery ...More |
|
|
| 2024 (Biography) |
| King: A Life |
 |
|
Jonathan Eig
Publishers Weekly Martin Luther King Jr. went beyond meek nonviolence into far-reaching radicalism, according...More |
|
| |
| 2023 (Fiction) |
| Demon Copperhead: |
Barbara Kingsolver
Publishers Weekly The family of West Texas born-and-raised Cassidy Drake, who’s 13 and reads as white, ...More |
|
 |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
| 2021 (Fiction) |
| The Night Watchman: |
Louise Erdrich
Library Journal In 1953, Chippewa Council member Thomas Wazhushk, night watchman at a factory near the Turtle...More |
|
 |
|
|
|
| |
| 2020 (Fiction) |
| The Nickel Boys |
 |
|
Colson Whitehead
Book list There were rumors about Nickel Academy, a Florida reform school, but survivors kept their traumas t...More |
|
|
| 2020 (Biography) |
| Sontag: Her Life and Work |
 |
|
Benjamin Moser
Publishers Weekly In this doorstopper biography, Moser (Why This: A Biography of Clarice Lispector), for whom...More |
|
| |
| 2019 |
| The Overstory |
Richard Powers
Library Journal Standing as silent witnesses to our interweaving genealogies, cyclical wars, and collapsing e...More |
|
 |
|
| 2019 |
| Amity and Prosperity |
Eliza Griswold
Library Journal Fracking, the extraction of natural gas from rocks up to one mile deep, made some residents o...More |
|
 |
|
| 2019 |
| The New Negro |
Jeffery C. Stewart
Publishers Weekly Stewart (Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen) offers a detailed, definitive biography of Alain...More |
|
 |
|
| |
| 2018 |
| Less |
 |
|
Andrew Sean Greer
Library Journal This hilarious and touching novel follows Arthur Less, a gay man, as he travels around the wo...More |
|
|
| 2016 |
| The Sympathizer |
 |
|
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Publishers Weekly This astonishing first novel has at its core a lively, wry first-person narrator called the...More |
|
| |
|
|
| 2014 |
| The Goldfinch: A Novel |
Donna Tartt
Publishers Weekly Donna Tartt's latest novel clocks in at an unwieldy 784 pages. The story begins with a...More |
|
 |
|
|
| |
|
|
| 2010 |
| Tinkers |
 |
|
Paul Harding
Book list *Starred Review* A tinker is a mender, and in Harding's spellbinding debut, he imagines the old...More |
|
| 2009 |
| Olive Kitteridge: |
 |
|
Elizabeth Strout
Library Journal In her third novel, New York Times best-selling author Strout (Abide with Me) tracks Olive K...More |
|
| |
|
|
| 2007 |
| The Road |
Cormac McCarthy
Publishers Weekly Violence, in McCarthy's postapocalyptic tour de force, has been visited worldwide in t...More |
|
 |
|
| 2006 |
| March |
Geraldine Brooks
Publishers Weekly Brooks's luminous second novel, after 2001's acclaimed Year of Wonders, imagines t...More |
|
 |
|
| |
| 2005 |
| Gilead: A Novel |
 |
|
Marilynne Robinson
Book list To find out what really happened to her purportedly dead sister, sharpshooting 13-year-old Georgie ...More |
|