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| 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 sedu...More |
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| 2011 (Biography)) |
| Washington: A Life |
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Ron Chernow
Library Journal In this cradle-to-grave biography of the Founding Father, notable biographer Chernow (Titan:...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...More |
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| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Olive Kitteridge |
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Elizabeth Strout.
Library Journal In her third novel, New York Times best-selling author Strout (Abide with Me) tracks Olive K...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 t...More |
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| 2007 (Nonfiction) |
| The looming tower |
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Lawrence Wright
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| 2006 (Fiction) |
| March |
Geraldine Brooks
Publishers Weekly Brooks's luminous second novel, after 2001's acclaimed Year of Wonders, imagines t...More |
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| 2005 (Fiction) |
| Gilead |
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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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| 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...More |
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| 2003 (Fiction) |
| Middlesex |
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Jeffrey Eugenides
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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 ex...More |
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| 2003 (Biography) |
| Master of the Senate |
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Robert A. Caro
Choice This third volume of a projected four-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson examines his two Senate terms...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 recov...More |
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| 2002 (Nonfiction) |
| Carry Me Home |
Diane McWhorter
Book list In this groundbreaking book, McWhorter, a journalist and regular contributor to the New York Times ...More |
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| 2002 (Biography) |
| John Adams |
David McCullough
Book list John Adams and George H. W. Bush share a unique place in American history: both were presidents the...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 novella...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 illustr...More |
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| 1999 (Biography) |
| Lindbergh |
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A. Scott Berg
Library Journal Berg, whose biographies of Max Perkins and Sam Goldwyn are central texts in their fields, res...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. S...More |
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| 1998 (Nonfiction) |
| Guns, Germs and Steel |
Jared Diamond
Publishers Weekly In a boldly ambitious analysis of history's broad patterns, evolutionary biologist Diam...More |
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| 1998 (Biography) |
| Personal History |
Katharine Graham
Publishers Weekly In 1963, Graham took over as publisher of the Washington Post as a classic grieving widow. ...More |
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| 1997 (Fiction) |
| Martin Dressler |
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Steven Millhauser
Publishers Weekly Literature's romance with the building-as-metaphor earns new energy through Millhauser&...More |
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| 1997 (Nonfiction) |
| Ashes to Ashes |
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Richard Kluger
Book list The debate over smoking has become, quite literally, one about life and death. These books by Glant...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 pa...More |
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| 1996 (Fiction) |
| Independence Day |
Richard Ford
Publishers Weekly In this sequel to The Sportswriter, Ford follows his middle-aged American everyman, Frank B...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 turn...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 p...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...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 modifi...More |
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| 1995 (Biography) |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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Joan D. Hedrick
Choice Although Uncle Tom's Cabin, the most popular novel in America during the 19th century, continues t...More |
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