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

Half of a Yellow Sun

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Paperback, 2007
Tags
African literature, fiction, Nigerian literature, historical fiction
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.92

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

by Anonymous
Paperback, 1959
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 1, English literature, fiction, folklore, epic, Arthurian, poetry, Middle Ages
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
821.1

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

by Dan Ariely
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
decision making, psychology, economics, behavioral economics
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
153.83

The Year of the Flood

by Margaret Atwood
Paperback, 2009
Tags
Canadian literature, fiction, dystopia, speculative fiction, post-apocalyptic, science fiction, genetic engineering, trilogy
Collection
Your library
Series
MaddAddam Trilogy (2)
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

- Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son

by James Baldwin
Paperback, 1991
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin 20th-century Classics, American history, history, racism, African-American, memoir, essays
Collection
Wishlist
Status
Available
Call number
305.896073

A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books

by Alex Beam
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
books, American culture, intellectuals, Britannica, Great Books
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
973.91

Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama

by Alison Bechdel
Paperback, 2013
Tags
graphic novel, psychoanalysis, memoir, American literature, fiction, LGBT
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
741.5

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

by Alison Bechdel
Paperback, 2007
Tags
graphic novel, coming of age, memoir, American literature, fiction, humor, LGBT
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
741.5973

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

by Katherine Boo
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
India, poverty, journalism
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
305.5/690954792

The Gallery

by John Horne Burns
Paperback, 2004
Tags
American literature, fiction, Italy, LGBT, World War II, history, NYRB Classics, {e2}
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

The Fall

by Albert Camus
Paperback, 1963
Tags
French literature, fiction, existentialism, absurdism, philosophy
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
843.914

The Dixie Frontier: A Social History of the Southern Frontier from the First Transmontane Beginnings to the Civil War

by Everett Newton Dick
Paperback, 1964
Tags
American history, history, social history, American South, frontier & pioneer
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
976.04

Last Tales

by Isak Dinesen
Paperback, 1990
Tags
Penguin 20th-century Classics, Penguin Classics, short stories, Scandinavian literature, fiction, Danish literature
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
839.81372

Justine (Alexandria Quartet 1)

by Lawrence Durrell
Paperback, 1961
Tags
English literature, fiction, tetralogy
Collection
Your library
Series
Alexandria Quartet (1)
Status
Available
Call number
823.912

The Blue Star: A Novel

by Tony Earley
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
American literature, fiction, juvenile literature, historical fiction, World War II, history, coming of age
Collection
Your library
Series
Jim Glass (2)
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Freedom of Will

by Jonathan Edwards
Paperback, 1969
Tags
philosophy, ethics, essays, Library of Liberal Arts, freedom, theology, Puritan
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
234.9

The Town: A Novel of the Snopes Family

by William Faulkner
Paperback, 1957
Tags
American literature, fiction, American South, modernism, trilogy
Collection
Your library
Series
The Snopes Trilogy (2)
Status
Available
Call number
813.52

Requiem for a Nun

by William Faulkner
Paperback, 1975
Tags
American literature, fiction, American South
Collection
Your library
Series
Temple Drake (2)
Status
Available
Call number
813.52

A Sort of Life

by Graham Greene
Paperback, 1993
Tags
Penguin 20th-century Classics, Penguin Classics, English literature, autobiography
Collection
Your library
Series
Greene Autobiography (1)
Status
Available
Call number
828.9

A Sorrow Beyond Dreams

by Peter Handke
Paperback, 2002
Tags
German literature, fiction, Austrian literature, NYRB Classics, suicide
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
833.914

The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

by Elizabeth Hardwick
Paperback, 2017
Tags
NYRB Classics, American literature, literary criticism, essays, {je}
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
814.52

The Iliad

by Homer
Hardcover, 1942
Tags
Greek literature, fiction, epic, Classics Club
Collection
Your library
Series
Homer's Epic Cycle (1)
Status
Available
Call number
883.01

The Odyssey

by Homer
Hardcover, 1944
Tags
Greek literature, fiction, epic, Classics Club
Collection
Your library
Series
Homer's Epic Cycle (2)
Status
Available
Call number
883.01

Iliad

by Homer
Paperback, 1957
Tags
Greek literature, fiction, epic, poetry, mythology
Collection
Your library
Series
Homer's Epic Cycle (1)
Status
Available
Call number
883.01

The Odyssey

by Homer
Paperback, 1967
Tags
Greek literature, fiction, epic, poetry, adventure, mythology
Collection
Your library
Series
Homer's Epic Cycle (2)
Status
Available
Call number
883.01

The Odyssey

by Homer
Paperback, 1937
Tags
Greek literature, fiction, adventure, epic, mythology, Mentor book
Collection
Your library
Series
Homer's Epic Cycle (2)
Status
Available
Call number
883.01

The Odyssey

by Homer
Paperback, 1963
Tags
Greek literature, fiction, adventure, epic, mythology, Anchor books
Collection
Your library
Series
Homer's Epic Cycle (2)
Status
Available
Call number
883.01

The Iliad of Homer

by Homer
Paperback, 1960
Tags
Greek literature, fiction, epic, poetry, mythology
Collection
Your library
Series
Homer's Epic Cycle (1)
Status
Available
Call number
883.01

The Odyssey

by Homer
Paperback, 1981
Tags
Oxford World's Classics, Oxford WC 3, Greek literature, fiction, adventure, epic, mythology
Collection
Your library
Series
Homer's Epic Cycle (2)
Status
Available
Call number
883.01

The Iliad: The Story of Achilles

by Homer
Paperback, 1962
Tags
Greek literature, fiction, epic, poetry, mythology, Mentor book
Collection
Your library
Series
Homer's Epic Cycle (1)
Status
Available
Call number
883.01

The Iliad: A New Prose Translation

by Homer
Paperback, 1987
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 2, Greek literature, fiction, epic, poetry, mythology
Collection
Your library
Series
Homer's Epic Cycle (1)
Status
Available
Call number
883.01

The Odyssey

by Homer
Paperback, 1981
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 1, Greek literature, fiction, adventure, epic, mythology
Collection
Your library
Series
Homer's Epic Cycle (2)
Status
Available
Call number
808

The Iliad

by Homer
Paperback, 1981
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 1, Greek literature, fiction, epic, poetry, mythology
Collection
Your library
Series
Homer's Epic Cycle (1)
Status
Available
Call number
883.01

The Iliad of Homer

by Homer
Paperback, 1996
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 2, Greek literature, epic, poetry, mythology
Collection
Your library
Series
Homer's Epic Cycle (1)
Status
Available
Call number
883.01

- White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

by Nancy Isenberg
Paperback, 2017
Tags
American history, history, social history, sociology, social class
Collection
Wishlist
Status
Available
Call number
305.5

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

by Harriet Jacobs
Paperback, 2000
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin black 2, African-American, American history, history, women, slavery, slave narrative, memoir
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
305.567092

Flight Behavior: A Novel

by Barbara Kingsolver
Paperback, 2013
Tags
American literature, fiction
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Barabbas

by Par Lagerkvist
Paperback, 1951
Tags
Scandinavian literature, fiction, Swedish literature
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
839.7372

Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers

by Joseph P. Lash
Hardcover, 1971
Tags
American history, history, biography, International Collectors Library
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
973.917

Kingsblood Royal

by Sinclair Lewis
Paperback, 2001
Tags
Modern Library Classics, American literature, fiction
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813.52

The Inhabited World

by David Long
Hardcover, 2006
Tags
American literature, fiction, horror, speculative fiction, depression, mental illness, suicide, ghost, death
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

The Towers of Trebizond

by Rose MacAulay
Paperback, 2003
Tags
English literature, fiction, coming of age, Turkey, NYRB Classics, travel writing
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.912

Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory

by Ben Macintyre
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
World War II, history, espionage, military history, Britain
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
940.548641

The Fight

by Norman Mailer
Paperback, 1991
Tags
Penguin 20th-century Classics, Penguin Classics, sports, journalism, {check this}
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
796.83

The Holy Sinner

by Thomas Mann
Paperback, 1969
Tags
Penguin Classics, Penguin Modern Classics, German literature, fiction
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
833.91

Life of Pi

by Yann Martel
Paperback, 2003
Tags
Canadian literature, fiction, magical realism, speculative fiction, survival, shipwreck, adventure, animal story, fantasy, allegory, fable
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Let the Great World Spin: A Novel

by Colum McCann
Paperback, 2009
Tags
American literature, fiction, historical fiction
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.914

The Society of Mind

by Marvin Minsky
Paperback, 1988
Tags
artificial intelligence, psychology, cognitive science, computers, consciousness, philosophy of mind, mind, brain
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
153

Black Swan Green: A Novel

by David Mitchell
Paperback, 2007
Tags
English literature, fiction, coming of age
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.92

The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

by Leonard Mlodinow
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
probability, mathematics, decision making, statistics, randomness
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
519.2
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