Awards search:National Book Award

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker
Paperback, 1982
Tags
fiction, contemporary fiction, mmpb, can't find our copy, coverguess mismatch
Series
The Color Purple Collection (1)
Call number
813/.54 19

Catch-22

by Joseph Heller
Paperback, 1970
Tags
fiction, satire, wwii, mmpb, coverguess unavailable
Series
Catch-22 (1)
Call number
813.54

Arctic Dreams: Imagination and desire in a northern landscape

by Barry Lopez
Paperback, 1996
Tags
nonfiction, arctic, polar regions, history, ecology, natural history, tpb
Call number
508.98

Beloved

by Toni Morrison
Paperback, 1998
Tags
fiction, ghosts, slavery, tpb, can't find our copy, coverguess mismatch
Call number
813.54

East of Eden

by John Steinbeck
Paperback, 1992
Tags
fiction, family saga, tpb
Call number
813/.52

The Feast of Love

by Charles Baxter
Paperback, 2000
Tags
fiction, contemporary fiction, tpb
Call number
813/.54 21

To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee
Paperback, 1982
Tags
fiction, jane's, pulitzer prize, mmpb, coverguess mismatch
Collection
Jane's
Series
To Kill a Mockingbird (1)
Call number
813.54

Chaos: Making a new science

by James Gleick
Paperback, 1987
Tags
nonfiction, math, popular-level, fractals, chaos, tpb
Call number
003.19

A Swiftly Tilting Planet

by Madeleine L'Engle
Paperback, 1999
Tags
time quartet, 03, fantasy, time travel, children's, mmpb
Series
The Time Quintet (4)
Call number
813

The Joy Luck Club

by Amy Tan
Paperback, 1990
Tags
fiction, family saga, chinese, chinese american, mmpb
Call number
813.54

Bastard Out of Carolina

by Dorothy Allison
Ebook, 2005
Tags
fiction, american south, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
813.54

Godel, Escher, Bach: An eternal golden braid

by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Paperback, 1980
Tags
nonfiction, cognitive science, tpb
Call number
510.1 21

The Devil in the White City: Murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America

by Erik Larson
Paperback, 2003
Tags
unread, narrative nonfiction, tpb
Call number
364.15230977311

Working: People talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do

by Studs Terkel
Paperback, 1975
Tags
nonfiction, us history, oral history, work, labor, ftpml, mmpb, coverguess mismatch
Call number
331.20973

Cosmos

by Carl Sagan
Hardcover, 1980
Tags
nonfiction, astronomy, popular-level, hb
Call number
520

The Mismeasure of Man

by Stephen Jay Gould
Paperback, 1981
Tags
nonfiction, sociology, psychology, history of science, tpb, coverguess unavailable
Call number
153.93 19

The Book of the Dun Cow

by Walter Wangerin
Paperback, 1979
Tags
fantasy, no human characters, mmpb, coverguess unavailable
Series
Book of the Dun Cow (1)
Call number
813.54

Cosmicomics

by Italo Calvino
Paperback, 1968
Tags
science fiction, collection, translated, short stories, tpb, coverguess mismatch
Call number
853.914

In the Heart of the Sea: The tragedy of the whaleship Essex

by Nathaniel Philbrick
Paperback, 2001
Tags
nonfiction, history, whaling, disasters, moby dick, tpb
Call number
910.916

Broca's Brain: Reflections on the romance of science

by Carl Sagan
Paperback, 1986
Tags
nonfiction, science, mmpb
Call number
128.2

Engine Summer

by John Crowley
Paperback, 1980
Tags
science fiction, post-apocalyptic, mmpb, coverguess unavailable
Call number
813.54

The Fire Next Time

by James Baldwin
Paperback, 1993
Tags
essays, race, racism, african american, tpb
Call number
305.896/073

Complications: A surgeon's notes on an imperfect science

by Atul Gawande
Paperback, 2002
Tags
nonfiction, medicine, surgery, memoir, tpb
Call number
617.092B

All the President's Men

by Carl Bernstein
Paperback, 1976
Tags
nonfiction, history, us history, politics, watergate, collaboration, mmpb, coverguess unavailable
Call number
364.1/32/0973 19

The Mapmakers

by John Noble Wilford
Paperback, 2000
Tags
cartography, history, tpb
Call number
912.09

The Farthest Shore

by Ursula K. Le Guin
Paperback, 1975
Tags
earthsea, 03, fantasy, mmpb, coverguess unavailable
Series
The Earthsea Cycle (3)
Call number
813.54 20

Genius

by James Gleick
Paperback, 1992
Tags
nonfiction, biography, feynman, tpb
Call number
530.092 B 20

The Red Magician

by Lisa Goldstein
Paperback, 1982
Tags
fantasy, historical fantasy, wwii, mmpb, coverguess unavailable
Call number
813.54

The Persistence Of Vision

by John Varley
Paperback, 1984
Tags
science fiction, collection, short stories, mmpb, coverguess unavailable
Series
Eight Worlds (3)
Call number
813.54

The Panda's Thumb

by Stephen Jay Gould
Paperback, 1980
Tags
nonfiction, biology, essays, ftppl, tpb, natural history, can't find our copy, coverguess unavailable
Series
Reflections in Natural History (2)
Call number
575.0162

Dreamsnake

by Vonda N. McIntyre
Paperback, 1994
Tags
science fiction, hugo winner, nebula winner, mmpb
Call number
813.54

The Harmless People

by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Paperback, 1989
Tags
anthropology, africa, kalahari, desert, !Kung, tpb
Call number
968.83/004961

Slaughterhouse-five

by Kurt Vonnegut
Paperback, 1991
Tags
science fiction, wwii, mmpb, ftppl, coverguess unavailable
Call number
813.54

The Worst Hard Time: The untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl

by Timothy Egan
Paperback, 2006
Tags
history, us history, american history, dust bowl, nonfiction, tpb
Call number
978/.032

The Echo Maker

by Richard Powers
Paperback, 2006
Tags
fiction, capgras syndrome, neurological weirdness, tpb
Call number
813/.54

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the meanings of life

by Daniel C. Dennett
Paperback, 1995
Tags
nonfiction, unread, evolution, philosophy, tpb
Call number
146.7

Fire to Fire: New and selected poems

by Mark Doty
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
jane's, poetry, hb
Collection
Jane's
Call number
811.54

Shadow Country: A new rendering of the Watson legend

by Peter Matthiessen
Paperback, 2008
Tags
unread, couldn't finish, fiction, florida, everglades, tpb
Collection
Previously Owned
Series
Watson Trilogy (4)
Call number
813.54

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

Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, a tale of love & fallout

by Lauren Redniss
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
graphic novel, biography, marie curie, hb
Collection
Jane's
Call number
540.922

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

Rain: A natural and cultural history

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

Nimona

by ND Stevenson
Paper Book, 2015
Tags
graphic novel, ya, fantasy, science fiction, ebook
Collections
Recently Read, E-books
Call number
741.5

The Soul of an Octopus: A surprising exploration into the wonder of consciousness

by Sy Montgomery
Ebook, 2015
Tags
natural history, cephalopods, octopuses, invertebrates, animal intelligence, biology, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
594.56

Between the World and Me

by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
memoir, hb, african american
Call number
305.800973

March: Book 3

by John Lewis
Paperback, 2016
Tags
graphic novel, american history, civil rights movement, african american history, tpb
Series
March (3)
Call number
973.92092

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

by Malinda Lo
Ebook, 2021
Tags
historical fiction, san francisco, ya, lgbtq, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
813.6

When Stars Are Scattered

by Victoria Jamieson
Paperback, 2020
Tags
graphic novel, memoir, ya, somalia, refugees
Call number
305.9

Caste: The origins of our discontents

by Isabel Wilkerson
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
history, american history, hb, unread
Call number
305.5/122
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