Awards search:National Book Critics Circle 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

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

The Professor and the Madman: A tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary

by Simon Winchester
Paperback, 2005
Tags
nonfiction, history, biography, dictionaries, oed, tpb, ftpml
Call number
423.092

A Thousand Acres

by Jane Smiley
Paperback, 2003
Tags
fiction, ftppl, tpb
Call number
813/.54 20

Moo

by Jane Smiley
Paperback, 1998
Tags
fiction, college, humor, satire, mmpb
Call number
813.54

The Joy Luck Club

by Amy Tan
Paperback, 1990
Tags
fiction, family saga, chinese, chinese american, mmpb
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 Gold Bug Variations

by Richard Powers
Hardcover, 1991
Tags
fiction, ftppl, hb, coverguess unavailable
Call number
813.54

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

by Michael Chabon
Paperback, 2001
Tags
fiction, golems, comic books, superheroes, wwii, pulitzer, pulitzer prize, tpb
Call number
813.54

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro
Paperback, 2006
Tags
fiction, science fiction, dystopia, clones, these tags contain spoilers, tpb
Call number
823

How the Mind Works

by Steven Pinker
Paperback, 1999
Tags
nonfiction, cognitive science, tpb
Call number
153 21

The Dream of a Common Language: Poems, 1974-1977

by Adrienne Rich
Paperback, 1993
Tags
poetry, collection, tpb
Call number
811/.5/4

And the Band Played On: Politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic

by Randy Shilts
Paperback, 1988
Tags
history, lgbtq, aids, us history, tpb, ftpml
Call number
362.1/969792/00973

Khrushchev: The Man and His Era

by William Taubman
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
nonfiction, biography, couldn't finish, hb, culled
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
947.085/2/092 B 21

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

Ragtime

by E. L. Doctorow
Paperback, 2007
Tags
fiction, historical fiction, tpb
Call number
813.54

Riddley Walker

by Russell Hoban
Paperback, 1982
Tags
science fiction, dialect, tpb
Call number
813.54

The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the evolution of human intelligence

by Carl Sagan
Hardcover, 1977
Tags
nonfiction, jane's, unread, hb, coverguess mismatch
Collection
Jane's
Call number
153

Cadillac Desert: The American West and its disappearing water

by Marc Reisner
Paperback, 1993
Tags
nonfiction, ecology, water, water politics, desertification, tpb, coverguess mismatch
Call number
333.91/00978

Coming into the Country

by John McPhee
Paperback, 1985
Tags
nonfiction, alaska, ftppl, mmpb, coverguess unavailable
Call number
917.98/04/50924

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A natural history of four meals

by Michael Pollan
Paperback, 2007
Tags
nonfiction, food, sustainability, tpb, jane's
Collection
Jane's
Call number
394.12

Fun Home: A family tragicomic

by Alison Bechdel
Hardcover, 2006
Tags
lgbtq, graphic novel, memoir, signed copy, hb
Call number
741.5/973 22

Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

by Art Spiegelman
Paperback, 1991
Tags
graphic novel, history, biography, wwii, holocaust, tpb
Series
Maus (2), Maus: A Survivor's Tale (2)
Call number
741.5/973 21

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science

by Richard Holmes
Paperback, 2010
Tags
history, history of science, biography, tpb
Call number
509.4109033

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 Possessed: Adventures with Russian books and the people who read them

by Elif Batuman
Paperback, 2010
Tags
memoir, essays, literature, literary criticism, tpb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
891.709

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

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

The Information: A history, a theory, a flood

by James Gleick
Paperback, 2012
Tags
nonfiction, history, information, information theory, popular-level, tpb
Call number
020.9

Is That a Fish in your Ear? : The amazing adventure of translation

by David Bellos
Paperback, 2012
Tags
translation, linguistics, tpb, coverguess mismatch
Call number
418.02

Americanah

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Paperback, 2013
Tags
fiction, contemporary fiction, nigeria, tpb, coverguess mismatch
Call number
823.92

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 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

H is for Hawk

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

Between the World and Me

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

SPQR: A history of ancient Rome

by Mary Beard
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
history, ancient history, ancient rome, hb
Call number
937

Homegoing

by Yaa Gyasi
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
fiction, family saga, africa, ghana, african american, hb
Call number
813/.6

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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