Awards search:Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year

Coraline

by Neil Gaiman
Paperback, 2003
Tags
fantasy, portal fantasy, ya, tpb
Call number
823.914

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

My Life in France

by Julia Child
Paperback, 2007
Tags
jane's, memoir, france, cooking, julia child, tpb
Collection
Jane's
Call number
641.5092 B 22

Little Brother

by Cory Doctorow
Paperback, 2008
Tags
arc, science fiction, near future, ya, tpb
Series
Little Brother (1)
Call number
813.6 22

Half a Crown

by Jo Walton
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
small change, 03, alternate history, hb
Series
Small Change (3)
Call number
823.914

Netherland

by Joseph O'Neill
Paperback, 2009
Tags
fiction, new york city, plotless tedium, tpb
Collections
Reviewed, Previously Owned
Call number
823.914

Nation

by Terry Pratchett
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
fantasy, survival, coming of age, islands, hb
Call number
823.914

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

by J. K. Rowling
Paperback, 1999
Tags
harry potter, 01, ya, fantasy, tpb
Series
Harry Potter (1)
Call number
823.914

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

The City & the City

by China Miéville
Ebook, 2009
Tags
ebook, fantasy, new weird, unread
Collection
E-books
Call number
823/.914

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

by N. K. Jemisin
Paperback, 2010
Tags
inheritance trilogy, 01, fantasy, mmpb
Series
The Inheritance Trilogy (1)
Call number
813.6

Boneshaker

by Cherie Priest
Paperback, 2009
Tags
clockwork century, 01, science fiction, steampunk, zombies, tpb
Series
The Clockwork Century (1)
Call number
813.6

The Boy who Harnessed the Wind: Creating currents of electricity and hope

by William Kamkwamba
Paperback, 2010
Tags
autobiography, william kamkwamba, malawi, tpb
Call number
621.453092

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

Who Fears Death

by Nnedi Okorafor
Paperback, 2011
Tags
fantasy, africa, early reviewer no-show, tpb
Series
Who Fears Death (1)
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

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

Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1

by Mark Twain
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
unread, mark twain, autobiography, hb
Series
Autobiography of Mark Twain (1)
Call number
818.40924

Bossypants

by Tina Fey
Paperback, 2012
Tags
jane's, memoir, humor, tpb
Collection
Jane's
Call number
792.702/8092B

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

Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World

by Michael Lewis
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
unread, hb, financial bubbles
Call number
330.90511

The Killing Moon

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

After the Apocalypse: Stories

by Maureen F. McHugh
Ebook, 2011
Tags
collection, science fiction, short stories, ebook, unread
Collection
E-books
Call number
813/.54

Gran Cocina Latina: The food of Latin America

by Maricel E. Presilla
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
cookbook, latin american cookbook, hb
Call number
641.5972

Burma: Rivers of flavor

by Naomi Duguid
Ebook, 2012
Tags
cookbook, southeast asian cookbook, south asian cookbook, burmese cookbook, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
641.59591

Gulp: Adventures on the alimentary canal

by Mary Roach
Paperback, 2013
Tags
biology, anatomy, digestive system, tpb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
612.3

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

Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City

by Russell Shorto
Paperback, 2014
Tags
history, netherlands, amsterdam, tpb
Call number
949.2

Twenty-First Century Science Fiction

by David G. Hartwell
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
anthology, science fiction, short stories, hb
Call number
813

The Fifth Season

by N. K. Jemisin
Paperback, 2015
Tags
fifth season, 01, unread, fantasy, tpb, hugo winner
Series
The Broken Earth (1)
Call number
813/.6

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

The Underground Girls of Kabul: In search of a hidden resistance in Afghanistan

by Jenny Nordberg
Paperback, 2015
Tags
sociology, gender, afghanistan, bacha posh, cross-dressing, tpb
Call number
305.309581

Uprooted

by Naomi Novik
Paperback, 2016
Tags
fantasy, eastern europe, creepy forest, nebula winner, tpb
Call number
813/.6

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

The Obelisk Gate

by N. K. Jemisin
Paperback, 2016
Tags
fifth season, 02, unread, fantasy, tpb, hugo winner
Series
The Broken Earth (2)
Call number
813/.6

Homegoing

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

A Closed and Common Orbit

by Becky Chambers
Paperback, 2016
Tags
wayfarers, 02, science fiction, space opera, tpb
Series
Wayfarers (2)
Call number
813/.6

Hidden Figures: The American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race

by Margot Lee Shetterly
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
history, african american history, black women did that, space, space program, history of computing, women's history, wwii, early reviewer, hb, history of women in tech
Call number
510.92/520973

I Contain Multitudes: The microbes within us and a grander view of life

by Ed Yong
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
biology, bacteria, symbiosis, microbiome, hb
Call number
579/.17

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the elements of good cooking

by Samin Nosrat
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
food, cookbook, food science, flavor theory, hb
Call number
641.5

Circe : a novel

by Madeline Miller
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
ancient greece, odysseus, retelling, hb
Call number
813/.6

She has her mother's laugh : the powers, perversions, and potential of heredity

by Carl Zimmer
Ebook, 2018
Tags
nonfiction, biology, genetics, heredity, unread, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
576.5

How to be an Antiracist

by Ibram X. Kendi
Ebook, 2019
Tags
sociology, american culture, racism, anti-racism, unread
Call number
305.800973
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