Awards search:Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year

Beowulf: A new verse translation

by Beowulf Poet
Hardcover, 2000
Tags
poetry, epic poetry, translated, hb
Call number
829/.3 21

Beowulf: A Dual-Language Edition

by Beowulf Poet
Paperback, 1989
Tags
poetry, epic poetry, translated, mmpb
Call number
829.3

Beowulf: A new translation

by Maria Dahvana Headley
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
poetry, epic poetry, translated, hb
Call number
829.3

Rule 34

by Charles Stross
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
halting state, 02, science fiction, hb
Series
Halting State (2)
Call number
823/.92

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary lives in North Korea

by Barbara Demick
Paperback, 2010
Tags
nonfiction, history, oral history, north korea, tpb
Collection
Reviewed
Call number
306.095193/090511

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
nonfiction, biography, medicine, hb, ftpml
Call number
616.02774092

Tongues of Serpents

by Naomi Novik
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
temeraire, 06, science fiction, dragons, alternate history, hb, napoleonic wars
Collection
Reviewed
Series
Temeraire (6)
Call number
813/.6

A Visit from the Goon Squad

by Jennifer Egan
Paperback, 2011
Tags
fiction, contemporary fiction, tpb, pulitzer, pulitzer prize, culled
Collection
Previously Owned
Series
Goon Squad (1)
Call number
813.54

Five Odd Honors

by Jane Lindskold
Paperback, 2011
Tags
breaking the wall, 03, fantasy, china, mmpb
Series
Breaking the Wall (3)
Call number
813.54

The Quantum Thief

by Hannu Rajaniemi
Paperback, 2012
Tags
quantum thief, 01, science fiction, mmpb
Series
Jean le Flambeur (1)
Call number
823.92 22

Forget Sorrow: An ancestral tale

by Belle Yang
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
graphic novel, biography, china, hb
Call number
813/.54B

American Terroir: Savoring the flavors of our woods, waters, and fields

by Rowan Jacobsen
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
food, nonfiction, hb
Call number
641.013

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

by Charles Yu
Paperback, 2011
Tags
science fiction, mainstream novel in an sf setting, metafiction, tpb
Collection
Reviewed
Call number
813.6

The Bird of the River

by Kage Baker
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
anvil of the world, 02, fantasy, hb
Series
Anvil of the World (2)
Call number
813/.54

The Warmth of Other Suns: The epic story of America's great migration

by Isabel Wilkerson
Paperback, 2010
Tags
nonfiction, history, american history, african american history, oral history, great migration, african american, tpb
Call number
304.80973

Luka and the Fire of Life

by Salman Rushdie
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
haroun, 02, fantasy, hb
Series
Khalifa Brothers (2)
Call number
823.914

Quiet: The power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking

by Susan Cain
Ebook, 2012
Tags
unread, nonfiction, sociology, introverts, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
155.2/32

The Apocalypse Codex

by Charles Stross
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
laundry files, 04, science fiction, hb
Series
The Laundry (4)
Call number
823.92

Embassytown

by China Miéville
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
science fiction, language, hb
Call number
823.914

Neptune's Brood

by Charles Stross
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
saturn's children, 02, science fiction, hb
Series
Saturn's Children (2)
Call number
823.92

Snuff

by Terry Pratchett
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
fantasy, discworld, hb, city watch
Series
Discworld (39), Discworld: City Watch (8)
Call number
823/.914

Reamde

by Neal Stephenson
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
fiction, technothriller, hb, early reviewer
Collections
Reviewed, Previously Owned
Series
Dodge (1)
Call number
813/.54

1493: Uncovering the new world Columbus created

by Charles C. Mann
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
nonfiction, history, world history, columbian exchange, hb
Call number
909.4

The Killing Moon

by N. K. Jemisin
Paperback, 2012
Tags
dreamblood, 01, early reviewer, fantasy, tpb
Series
Dreamblood (1)
Call number
813/.6

Range of Ghosts

by Elizabeth Bear
Ebook, 2012
Tags
unread, ebook, fantasy
Collection
E-books
Series
The Eternal Sky (1)
Call number
813/.6

Are you my Mother? : A comic drama

by Alison Bechdel
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
graphic novel, memoir, hb
Call number
741.5/973B

Masters of the Planet: The search for our human origins

by Ian Tattersall
Paperback, 2013
Tags
nonfiction, anthropology, paleontology, human origins, early reviewer, tpb, needs review
Call number
599.938

Drift: The unmooring of American military power

by Rachel Maddow
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
nonfiction, history, american history, military, politics, hb
Call number
306.2/70973

The Hydrogen Sonata

by Iain M. Banks
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
the culture, 09, science fiction, hb, space opera
Series
The Culture (10)
Call number
823.914

The Violinist's Thumb: And other lost tales of love, war, and genius, as written by our genetic code

by Sam Kean
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
nonfiction, biology, genetics, hb
Call number
572.8

Marbles: Mania, depression, Michelangelo, and me: A graphic memoir

by Ellen Forney
Paperback, 2012
Tags
graphic novel, memoir, depression, arc, tpb
Collection
Jane's
Call number
741.5/973B

We Need New Names

by NoViolet Bulawayo
Paperback, 2014
Tags
fiction, zimbabwe, immigration, tpb
Call number
823/.92

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

by Neil Gaiman
Ebook, 2013
Tags
ebook, unread, fantasy
Collection
E-books
Call number
823/.914

The Golem and the Jinni

by Helene Wecker
Paperback, 2014
Tags
golem and djinn, 01, fantasy, golems, djinn, historical fantasy, tpb
Series
The Golem and the Jinni (1)
Call number
813.6

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the prison of belief

by Lawrence Wright
Paperback, 2013
Tags
religion, scientology, history, tpb, jane's
Collection
Jane's
Call number
299.936

The Martian

by Andy Weir
Paperback, 2014
Tags
science fiction, mars, near future, hard sf, tpb
Series
Mark Watney (1)
Call number
813.6

The Rhesus Chart

by Charles Stross
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
laundry files, 05, science fiction, hb
Series
The Laundry (5)
Call number
823/.92

The Telling Room: A tale of love, betrayal, revenge, and the world's greatest piece of cheese

by Michael Paterniti
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
cheesemaking, cheese, spain, hb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
637.3092B

On Paper: The everything of its two-thousand-year history

by Nicholas A. Basbanes
Paperback, 2014
Tags
nonfiction, history, microhistory, paper, sadly there is a kindle edition, tpb
Call number
676.09

Annihilation

by Jeff VanderMeer
Paperback, 2014
Tags
southern reach, 01, science fiction, weirdness, alien ecology, nebula winner, tpb
Series
The Southern Reach (1)
Call number
813.54

The Sixth Extinction: An unnatural history

by Elizabeth Kolbert
Paperback, 2014
Tags
early reviewer, ecology, extinction, mass extinction, arc, pulitzer, pulitzer prize
Call number
576.84

How We Got to Now: Six innovations that made the modern world

by Steven Johnson
Paperback, 2015
Tags
nonfiction, history, history of technology, tpb
Call number
338.064

Just Mercy: A story of justice and redemption

by Bryan Stevenson
Paperback, 2015
Tags
criminal justice, nonfiction, tpb
Call number
353.4

H is for Hawk

by Helen Macdonald
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
memoir, falconry, grief, hb
Call number
598.944

Rain: A natural and cultural history

by Cynthia Barnett
Paperback, 2014
Tags
early reviewer, weather, rain, arc, needs review, tpb
Call number
551.577

Dark Orbit

by Carolyn Gilman
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
science fiction, first contact, hb
Series
The Twenty Planets (5)
Call number
813/.6

Ancillary Mercy

by Ann Leckie
Paperback, 2015
Tags
radch, 03, science fiction, tpb
Series
Imperial Radch (3)
Call number
813.6

The Dark Forest

by Cixin Liu
Paperback, 2016
Tags
three-body problem, 02, science fiction, alien invasion, translated, tpb
Series
Remembrance of Earth's Past (2)
Call number
895.13

The Oregon Trail: A new American journey

by Rinker Buck
Paperback, 2016
Tags
travel, american history, oregon trail, tpb
Collection
Reviewed
Call number
978

Early Riser

by Jasper Fforde
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
science fiction, alternate reality, hibernation, hb
Call number
823.92
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