Awards search:The New York Times Notable Books of the Year

The Overstory

by Richard Powers
Paper Book, 2019
Tags
Fiction, Ecophilosophy, Trees, Deep Ecology
Collection
Gifts

The lost city of Z: a tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon

by David Grann
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
South America, Amazonia, Exploration, P.H. Fawcett, Lost City of Z, Lost Civilizations
Collection
Gifts

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

by J. K. Rowling
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
Fiction, ZZZ
Collection
Gifts

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6)

by J. K. Rowling
Hardcover, 2005
Tags
Fiction, Children's Fiction, Harry Potter, Magical Fiction
Collection
Gifts

The Iliad of Homer

by Homer
Hardcover, 1943
Tags
Classics, Homer, Iliad, Trojan War, Illustrated
Collection
Gifts

Cleopatra: A Life

by Stacy Schiff
Paperback, 2011
Tags
Cleopatra, Pharaohs and Governance, Egypt, Egyptian History, Women in History, Biographies, Alexandria, Alexander the Great, Rome, Plutarch, Julius Caesar — 8 more, Mark Antony, Cicero, Isis, Octavian, Pompey, Ptolemies, Bibliographies, In Storage
Collections
Whealton, In Storage

Blake: A Biography

by Peter Ackroyd
Hardcover, 1996
Tags
Biographies, William Blake, Poetry
Collection
Gifts

The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War

by Graham Robb
Hardcover, 2007
Tags
History, France
Collection
Gifts

The Library Book

by Susan Orlean
Paperback, 2019
Tags
Libraries, Destruction of Libraries, History of Libraries, ZZZ
Collection
Gifts

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

by S. C. Gwynne
Paperback, 2011
Tags
North America, Comanches, Quanah Parker, Native Americans, Captivity, American West, Texas, Bibliography
Collection
Gifts

The library book

by Susan Orlean
Paper Book, 2018
Tags
Libraries, Destruction of Libraries, History of Libraries
Collection
Gifts

The Odyssey of Homer (Harper Colophon Book # CN 479)

by Richard Lattimore
Paperback, 1975
Tags
Classics, Homer, Odyssey
Collection
Gifts

The Odyssey of Homer

by Homer
Paperback, 1999
Tags
Classics, Homer, The Odyssey, ZZZ
Collection
Gifts

The case for God

by Karen Armstrong
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
Comparative and Western Religion, History of Religion, Atheism, Skepticism, Doctrines, Apologetics, Faith, Reason, Enlightenment, Science and Religion
Collection
Gifts

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6)

by J. K. Rowling
Paperback, 2005
Tags
Fiction, Children's Fiction, Harry Potter, Magical Fiction, ZZZ
Collection
Anna

Underland : a deep time journey

by Robert Macfarlane
Paper Book, 2019
Tags
Subterranean Mysteries, Paris Catacombs, Glaciers, Caves, Bronze Age, Nuclear Waste
Collection
Don

Portrait of a priestess : women and ritual in ancient Greece

by Joan Breton Connelly
Hardcover, 2007
Tags
Women in Graeco-Roman World, Graeco-Roman World, Graeco-Roman Religions, Greek Religions, Greek Cults, Priestesses, Women and Religion, Greek History, 146 BC-323 AD, Domestic Religion, Public Temple Observances — 18 more, Age and Roles, Prominent Priestesses, Costume, Sanctuary, Religious Implements, Hekate, Procession, Prayer, Libation, Sacrifice, Honors, Authority, Grave Monuments, Inscriptions, Index of Priestesses, Index of Monuments, Index, Illustrated
Collection
Gifts

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7)

by J. K. Rowling
Hardcover, 2007
Tags
Fiction, Children's Fiction, Harry Potter, Magical Fiction
Collection
Anna

The darkening age : the Christian destruction of the classical world

by Catherine Nixey
Paper Book, 2018
Tags
Pagans and Christians, Late Antiquity, Graeco-Roman World, Temples, Serapeum, Hypatia, Destruction, Library of Alexandria
Collection
Don

Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape

by Susan Brownmiller
Paperback, 1976
Tags
Women's Studies, Gender Studies, Rape, Social History, Psychology, Rape and War, Rape and Race, Rape and Power, Rape and Prison, Sexual Abuse, Women's Resistance
Collection
Gifts

Odyssey

by Homer
Paper Book, 2000
Tags
Classics, Homer, Mythology
Collection
Gifts

Belzoni : the giant archaeologists love to hate

by Ivor Noël Hume
Paper Book, 2011
Tags
Egyptology, Egypt, Archaeology, Archaeologists, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
Collection
Don

Cleopatra: a life

by Stacy Schiff
Paper Book, 2010
Tags
Cleopatra, Pharaohs and Governance, Egypt, Egyptian History, Women in History, Biographies, Alexandria, Alexander the Great, Rome, Plutarch, Julius Caesar — 7 more, Mark Antony, Cicero, Isis, Octavian, Pompey, Ptolemies, Bibliographies
Collection
Gifts

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

by Brian Stone, trans.
Paperback, 1979
Tags
Arthurian Material, Pentangle
Collection
Gifts

This republic of suffering : death and the American Civil War

by Drew Gilpin Faust
Paper Book, 2008
Tags
Death and Dying, Folklore, Funerary Rituals, American Civil War, Sanitary Commissions
Collection
Don

The Odyssey (Wordsworth Classics)

by Homer
Paperback, 2002
Tags
Classics, Homer, The Odyssey, T.E. Shaw, Lawrence of Arabia
Collection
Gifts

Portrait of a priestess : women and ritual in ancient Greece

by Joan Breton Connelly
Paper Book, 2007
Tags
Graeco-Roman Religions, Graeco-Roman World, Greek Religions, Greek Cults, Priestesses, Women in Graeco-Roman World, Women and Religion, Greek History, 146 BC-323 AD, Domestic Religion, Public Temple Observances — 18 more, Age and Roles, Prominent Priestesses, Costume, Sanctuary, Religious Implements, Hekate, Procession, Prayer, Libation, Sacrifice, Honors, Authority, Grave Monuments, Inscriptions, Index of Priestesses, Index of Monuments, Index, Illustrated
Collection
Don

The Odyssey of Homer. Translated by George Herbert Palmer

by HOMER
Paperback, 1962, 5TH PRINTING
Tags
Classics, Homer, The Odyssey
Collection
Anna

Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love between Women from the Renaissance to the Present

by Lillian Faderman
Paperback, 1981
Tags
LGBTQ+ Studies, Gender Studies, Lesbians, Women's Love and Friendship, Literary History
Collection
Gifts

The Odyssey

by Homer
Paperback, 1972
Tags
Classics, Homer, T.E. Shaw
Collection
Anna

The Iliad (Mentor Series)

by Homer
Paperback, 1950
Tags
Classics, Homer, Graeco-Roman
Collection
Anna

Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food

by Paul Greenberg
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
Environmentalism, Fisheries, Salmon
Collection
Gus

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

by James L. Rosenberg Translator
Paper Book, 1959
Tags
Arthurian Material, Chivalry
Collection
Glenn
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