Awards search:ALA Notable Books for Adults

Alias Grace: A Novel

by margaret-atwood
Paperback, 1997
Tags
Fiction
Status
Available

The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by Susan Orlean
Paperback, 2000
Tags
Fiction
Status
Available

White Teeth: A Novel

by Zadie Smith
Paperback, 2001
Tags
Fiction, Juneteenth, Black History, Malala Yousafzai, Malala's Book Club
Status
Available

The Pickup

by Nadine Gordimer
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
Fiction
Status
Available

American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood

by Marie Arana
Paperback, 2002
Status
Available

American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood

by Marie Arana
Hardcover, 2001
Status
Available

The Glass Castle: A Memoir

by Jeannette Walls
Paperback, 2006
Tags
Banned
Status
Available

James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon

by Julie Phillips
Hardcover, 2006
Tags
Biography, Sci-Fi
Status
Available

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

by Alison Bechdel
Paperback, 2007
Tags
Adult Graphic Novels, LGBTQ
Status
Available

Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations

by Georgina Howell
Paperback, 2008
Status
Available

The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story

by Diane Ackerman
Paperback, 2008
Tags
War
Status
Available

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

by Barbara Kingsolver
Paperback, 2008
Tags
Food
Status
Available

Olive Kitteridge

by Elizabeth Strout
Paperback, 2017
Series
Olive Kitteridge (1)
Status
Available

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

by Annette Gordon-Reed
Paperback, 2009
Tags
Race, Black History
Status
Available

The Year Of The Flood

by Margaret Atwood
Paperback, 2009
Series
MaddAddam Trilogy (2)
Status
Available

The Year of the Flood: A Novel

by Margaret Atwood
Hardcover, 2009
Series
MaddAddam Trilogy (2)
Status
Available

Practicing History: Selected Essays

by Barbara W. Tuchman
Paperback, 1982
Tags
Expert Gals
Status
Available

The Road from Coorain

by Jill Ker Conway
Paperback, 1990
Tags
Biography, Australia
Series
Jill Ker Conway Autobiography (1)
Status
Available

Margaret Bourke-White: A Biography

by Vicki Goldberg
Hardcover, 1986
Tags
Photography
Series
Radcliffe Biography Series (1987)
Status
Available

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood
Paperback, 1998
Tags
Fiction
Series
The Handmaid's Tale (1)
Status
Available

The Handmaid's Tale (Movie Tie-in)

by Margaret Atwood
Paperback, 2017
Series
The Handmaid's Tale (1)
Status
Available

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

by Laura Hillenbrand
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
Expert Gals, War
Status
Available

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

by Laura Hillenbrand
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
Expert Gals, War
Status
Available

Americanah

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Paperback, 2014
Status
Available

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry: A Novel

by Rachel Joyce
Hardcover, 2012
Series
Harold Fry (1)
Status
Available

MISSING - Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

by Susan Cain
Paperback, 2013
Tags
MISSING
Status
Checked out
Due Dec 23, 2021

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

by Susan Cain
Paperback, 2013
Status
Available

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

by Susan Cain
Paperback, 2013
Status
Available

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

by Susan Cain
Paperback, 2013
Status
Checked out
Due Dec 12, 2023

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

by Katherine Boo
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
Expert Gals
Status
Available

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
Biography, STEM, Medicine, Black History, Stem Cells, Race, Banned, Juneteenth, Gal's Guide Book Club
Status
Available

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot
Paperback, 2011
Tags
Biography, STEM, Medicine, Black History, Stem Cells, Race, Banned, Juneteenth, Gal's Guide Book Club
Status
Available

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot
Paperback, 2011
Tags
Biography, STEM, Medicine, Black History, Stem Cells, Race, Banned, Juneteenth, Gal's Guide Book Club
Status
Available

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot
Paperback, 2011
Tags
Biography, STEM, Medicine, Black History, Stem Cells, Race, Banned, Juneteenth, Gal's Guide Book Club
Status
Available

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

by Isabel Wilkerson
Paperback, 2011
Tags
Expert Gals, Black History, Juneteenth, Racism
Status
Available

Just kids

by Patti Smith
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
Music
Status
Available

The American Way of Death

by Jessica Mitford
Paperback, 1964
Tags
Expert Gals
Status
Available

Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom

by Brenda Maddox
Paperback, 2000
Status
Available

Mama Day

by Gloria Naylor
Paperback, 1989
Tags
Fiction
Status
Available

Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High

by Melba Pattillo Beals
Paperback, 1995
Tags
Race, Black History
Status
Available

No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II

by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Hardcover, 1994
Tags
Biography, First Ladies
Status
Available

In The Time Of The Butterflies

by Julia Alvarez
Paperback, 2010
Tags
Fiction, Gal's Guide Book Club
Status
Available

In The Time Of The Butterflies

by Julia Alvarez
Paperback, 2010
Tags
Fiction, Gal's Guide Book Club
Status
Available

Girl, interrupted

by Susanna Kaysen
Paper Book, 1994
Tags
Mental Health, Mental Illness, STEM, Medicine, Scary, Disability
Status
Available

Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley

by Charlotte Gordon
Paperback, 2016
Tags
Author, Scary
Status
Available

The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice

by Patricia Bell-Scott
Paperback, 2017
Tags
Multiple Gals, First Ladies, LGBTQ
Status
Available

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

by Margot Lee Shetterly
Paperback, 2016
Tags
Multiple Gals, NASA, STEM, Black History, Juneteenth, Math, Computers, Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Working Women
Status
Available

MISSING - Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

by Margot Lee Shetterly
Paperback, 2016
Tags
Multiple Gals, NASA, STEM, Black History, Juneteenth, Math, Computers, Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Working Women
Status
Checked out
Due Aug 25, 2023

Homegoing

by Yaa Gyasi
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
Fiction, Malala's Book Club
Status
Available

Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 1: 1884-1933

by Blanche Wiesen Cook
Paperback, 1993
Tags
Biography, First Ladies, LGBTQ, inspirational
Series
Eleanor Roosevelt (Volume 1)
Status
Available
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