Notable Books List1954

Given by CODES: Notable Books Council

Other Names: ALA Notable Books for Adults, RUSA Notable Books List
34 Works 9,948 Books 151 Reviews ½ 4.0
"Since 1944, the goal of the Notable Books Council has been to make available to the nation’s readers a list of 25 very good, very readable, and at times very important fiction, nonfiction, and show more poetry books for the adult reader." show less
Categories:
All, Fiction (211), Nonfiction (195), Poetry (39), No Category (2,389)
Years:
All, 2024 (26), 2023 (26), 2022 (25), 2021 (25), 2020 (26), 2019 (26), 2018 (26), 2017 (26), 2016 (26), 2015 (26), 2014 (26), 2013 (26), 2012 (26), 2011 (26), 2010 (26), 2009 (25), 2008 (25), 2007 (26), 2006 (25), 2005 (25), 2004 (28), 2003 (26), 2002 (26), 2001 (25), 2000 (26), 1999 (24), 1998 (26), 1997) (Book of the Year (1), 1997 (2), 1996 (3), 1995 (26), 1994 (26), 1993 (27), 1992 (26), 1991 (24), Fiction 1991 (1), 1990 (29), 1988 (27), 1987 (27), 1986 (37), 1985 (34), 1984 (43), 1983 (44), 1982 (42), 1981 (42), 1980 (33), 1979 (47), 1978 (49), 1977 (44), 1976 (50), 1975 (49), 1974 (30), 1973 (51), 1972 (44), 1971 (45), 1970 (29), 1969 (36), 1968 (44), 1967 (65), 1966 (59), 1965 (51), 1964 (53), 1963 (49), 1962 (56), 1961 (50), 1960 (45), 1959 (48), 1958 (47), 1957 (39), 1956 (43), 1955 (46), 1954 (34), 1953 (50), 1952 (52), 1951 (53), 1950 (41), 1949 (50), 1948 (50), 1947 (46), 1946 (50), 1945 (50)
Announced:
January 20: 2024 Recent
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Tell Freedom: Memories of Africa by Peter Abrahams
1954
The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow
1954
God's country and mine; a declaration of love spiced with a few harsh words by Jacques Barzun
1954
The View from Pompey's Head by Hamilton Basso
1954
Ambassador's report by Chester Bowles
1954
Scenes and portraits : memories of childhood and youth by Van Wyck Brooks
1954
My Several Worlds by Pearl S. Buck
1954
The Old Country Store by Gerald Carson
1954
Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent by Henry Steele Commager
1954
The Story of Man: From the First Human to Primitive Culture and Beyond by Carleton S. Coon
1954
But We Were Born Free: by Elmer Holmes Davis
1954
Away All Boats by Kenneth Dodson
1954
Journey to the Far Amazon, An Expedition Into Unknown Territory by Alain Gheerbrant
1954
The fall of a titan by Igor Gouzenko
1954
The Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill by Hermann Hagedorn
1954
Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
1954
Man's Unconquerable Mind by Gilbert Highet
1954
Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History. Vol. 1, Indians and Spain. Vol. 2, Mexico and the United States. 2 vols. in one by Paul Horgan
1954
Back of history; the story of our own origins by W. W. Howells
1954
The Ascent of Everest by John Hunt
1954
Through Malan's Africa by Robert St. John
1954
The measure of man: on freedom, human values, survival, and the modern temper by Joseph Wood Krutch
1954
The manner is ordinary by John La Farge
1954
In the Cause of Peace: Seven Years with the United Nations by Trygve Lie
1954
Song of the Sky: An Exploration of the Ocean of Air by Guy Murchie
1954
Of Whales and Men by R.B. Robertson
1954
The Journey by Lillian Smith
1954
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West by Wallace Stegner
1954
The test of freedom by norman mattoon thomas
1954
Faith and freedom by Barbara Ward
1954
The Second Tree from the Corner by E. B. White
1954
Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead by Alfred North Whitehead
1954
The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade by Cecil Woodham-Smith
1954
A Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf
1954

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