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

The Odyssey

by Homer
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
poetry, epic poetry, ancient greece, translated, hb
Series
Homer's Epic Cycle (2)
Call number
883.01

The Iliad

by Homer
Paperback, 1990
Tags
poetry, epic poetry, translated, mmpb, coverguess mismatch
Series
Homer's Epic Cycle (1)
Call number
883.01 22

Surpassing the Love of Men

by Lillian Faderman
Paperback, 1994
Tags
nonfiction, history, lgbtq, unread, jane's, tpb, coverguess unavailable
Collection
Jane's
Call number
306.7609219

The Wooden Sea

by Jonathan Carroll
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
fantasy, ftppl, hb
Series
Crane's View Trilogy (3)
Call number
813/.54 21

Tipping the Velvet

by Sarah Waters
Paperback, 1999
Tags
lgbtq, fiction, historical fiction, lambda winner, tpb
Call number
823/.914 21

Beyond the Veil of Stars

by Robert Reed
Paperback, 1995
Tags
veil of stars, 01, science fiction, mmpb, coverguess unavailable
Series
Veil of Stars (1)
Call number
813.54

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

by Michael Chabon
Paperback, 2008
Tags
fiction, alternate history, alaska, hugo winner, tpb
Call number
813.54

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

Uncommon Carriers

by John McPhee
Paperback, 2007
Tags
transportation, shipping, collection, essays, tpb
Call number
388.044

Special Topics in Calamity Physics

by Marisha Pessl
Paperback, 2007
Tags
fiction, fiction despite the title, tpb
Call number
813/.6

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

by J. K. Rowling
Hardcover, 2005
Tags
harry potter, 06, ya, fantasy, hb
Series
Harry Potter (6)
Call number
823.914

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 Ghost Map: The story of London's most terrifying epidemic--and how it changed science, cities, and the modern world

by Steven Johnson
Paperback, 2006
Tags
nonfiction, history, medicine, cholera, epidemiology, data visualization, maps, london, tpb
Call number
614.514

The Echo Maker

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

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

by J. K. Rowling
Hardcover, 2007
Tags
harry potter, 07, ya, fantasy, hb
Series
Harry Potter (7)
Call number
823.914

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

by Gawain Poet
Paperback, 1967
Tags
arthurian, epic poetry, poetry, translated, tpb
Call number
821.1

Netherland

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

Descartes' Bones: A skeletal history of the conflict between faith and reason

by Russell Shorto
Paperback, 2009
Tags
tpb, nonfiction, philosophy, descartes, enlightenment
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
194

Traffic: Why we drive the way we do (and what it says about us)

by Tom Vanderbilt
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
hb, sociology, traffic
Call number
629.28/3

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 Lacuna

by Barbara Kingsolver
Paperback, 2009
Tags
fiction, mexico, frida kahlo, art, tpb
Collection
Jane's
Call number
813/.6

Zeitoun

by Dave Eggers
Paperback, 2010
Tags
nonfiction, narrative nonfiction, tpb, new orleans, hurricane katrina, ftpml
Call number
305.892/7076335

Cold: Adventures in the world's frozen places

by Bill Streever
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
nonfiction, natural history, cold, arctic, antarctica, hb
Call number
910.911

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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

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

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 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

Are you my Mother? : A comic drama

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

Flagrant Conduct: The story of Lawrence v. Texas: How a bedroom arrest decriminalized gay Americans

by Dale Carpenter
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
unread, lgbtq, history, hb, signed copy
Call number
342.7308/7

Alif the Unseen

by G. Willow Wilson
Ebook, 2012
Tags
ebook, science fiction, fantasy, cyberpunk, djinn, middle east, coverguess unavailable
Collection
E-books
Call number
813/.54

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

Homegoing

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

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

The Glass Universe: How the ladies of the Harvard Observatory took the measure of the stars

by Dava Sobel
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
women's history, history of astronomy, harvard observatory, annie jump cannon, henrietta levitt, cecilia payne, hb, history of women in tech
Call number
522/.19744409252

Less

by Andrew Sean Greer
Paperback, 2018
Tags
fiction, contemporary fiction, lgbtq, gay, humor, pulitzer, pulitzer prize, tpb
Series
Arthur Less (1)
Call number
813.6

Spinning Silver

by Naomi Novik
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
fantasy, fairy tale retelling, hb
Call number
813/.6

Eat the Buddha: Life and death in a Tibetan town

by Barbara Demick
Paperback, 2020
Tags
china, tibet, history, nonfiction, tpb
Call number
951/.38

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

Exhalation

by Ted Chiang
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
science fiction, short stories, collection, hb
Call number
813/.6

The book of eels: Our enduring fascination with the most mysterious creature in the natural world

by Patrik Svensson
Paperback, 2020
Tags
natural history, translation, biology, eels, tpb
Call number
597.43

One Last Stop

by Casey McQuiston
Ebook, 2021
Tags
lgbtq, romance, sf adjacent, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
813/.6

The Death of Vivek Oji

by Akwaeke Emezi
Paperback, 2020
Tags
fiction, unread, tpb
Call number
823/.92

Caste: The origins of our discontents

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

The Secret to Superhuman Strength

by Alison Bechdel
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
lgbtq, graphic novel, memoir, hb
Call number
613.7

Secret City: The hidden history of gay Washington

by James Kirchick
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
history, american history, lgbtq, jane's, hb
Collection
Jane's
Call number
306.76/6097530904

Kingdom of Characters: The language revolution that made China modern

by Jing Tsu
Paperback, 2022
Tags
history, unread, china, chinese language, languages, chinese, tpb
Call number
495.11/1

An Immense World: How animal senses reveal the hidden realms around us

by Ed Yong
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
nonfiction, biology, animals, senses, animal behavior, nature, hb
Call number
591.5
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