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

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

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

by J. K. Rowling
Hardcover, 2005
Tags
English literature, fiction, fantasy, speculative fiction, witchcraft, juvenile literature
Collection
Your library
Series
Harry Potter (6)
Status
Available
Call number
823.914

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7)

by J. K. Rowling
Hardcover, 2007
Tags
English literature, fiction, fantasy, speculative fiction, witchcraft, juvenile literature
Collection
Your library
Series
Harry Potter (7)
Status
Available
Call number
823.914

- The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

by Alex Ross
Paperback, 2008
Tags
music, classical music, music history, history
Collection
Wishlist
Status
Available
Call number
780

The Pearl

by John Steinbeck
Paperback, 1994
Tags
Penguin 20th-century Classics, Penguin Classics, American literature, fiction, allegory, Mexico, poverty
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813.52

Atlas Shrugged

by Ayn Rand
Paperback, 1985
Tags
American literature, fiction, dystopia, speculative fiction, philosophy, epic, capitalism, objectivism
Collection
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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 Immigrant Experience: The Anguish of Becoming American

by Thomas C. Wheeler
Paperback, 1972
Tags
American history, history, immigrants
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
301.45

The Mountain Lion

by Jean Stafford
Paperback, 2010
Tags
NYRB Classics, American literature, fiction, American West, {e2}
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

- Muhammad

by Maxime Rodinson
Paperback, 2021
Tags
NYRB Classics, Islam, biography, {je}, non-NYRB
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
297.63

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

Specimen Days

by Walt Whitman
Paperback, 1961
Tags
Signet Classics, Signet Classics 1, American literature, fiction, poetry, autobiography
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
811.3

The Door

by Magda Szabo
Paperback, 2015
Tags
NYRB Classics, Hungarian literature, fiction
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
894.51133

Iza's Ballad

by Magda Szabó
Paperback, 2016
Tags
NYRB Classics, Hungarian literature, fiction, {je}
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
894.511332

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

- Making It

by Norman Podhoretz
Paperback, 2017
Tags
NYRB Classics, American literature, autobiography, literary criticism, intellectual history
Collection
Wishlist_SW
Status
Available
Call number
818.5

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

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

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

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

A Game of Hide and Seek

by Elizabeth Taylor
Paperback, 2012
Tags
English literature, fiction, NYRB Classics, {e2}
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.914

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

- Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

by Steven Pinker
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
philosophy, sociology, Enlightenment, humanism, history, science
Collection
Wishlist
Status
Available
Call number
303.44

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

- 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

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

Flight Behavior: A Novel

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

How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character

by Paul Tough
Paperback, 2013
Tags
child development, success
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
372.210973

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

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel

by Charles Yu
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
American literature, fiction, metafiction, time travel, fantasy, speculative fiction
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Breath: A Novel

by Tim Winton
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
Australian literature, fiction, coming of age, risk-taking
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
823.914

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 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

The Evolution of God

by Robert Wright
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
deity, evolution, Christianity, comparative religion, Judaism, evolutionary psychology
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
200.9

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

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

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

The Post-American World

by Fareed Zakaria
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
politics, globalization, world history, history, economics, foreign policy, international relations, China, India
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
303.49

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

by Michael Pollan
Paperback, 2007
Tags
health, agriculture, nutrition, ecology, culinary, food politics, gastronomy, sustainability, environment, hunting
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
394.12

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 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

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

The Fall

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

The Age of Reason (The Roads to Freedom 1)

by Jean-Paul Sartre
Paperback, 1973
Tags
French literature, fiction, existentialism, philosophy, French philosophy
Collection
Your library
Series
Roads to Freedom (1)
Status
Available
Call number
843.914

- CivilWarLand in Bad Decline

by George Saunders
Paperback, 1997
Tags
American literature, fiction, short stories, satire, dystopia, capitalism, science fiction
Collection
Wishlist
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

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

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 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 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
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