Notable Books List2007

Given by CODES: Notable Books Council

Other Names: ALA Notable Books for Adults, RUSA Notable Books List
26 Works 88,463 Books 3,440 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
WorkCategoryYear
Beautiful Dreamer: A Novel by Christopher Bigsby
Fiction2007
The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
Fiction2007
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Fiction2007
The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
Fiction2007
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
Fiction2007
The Attack by Yasmina Khadra
Fiction2007
The Girls by Lori Lansens
Fiction2007
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Fiction2007
The People's Act of Love by James Meek
Fiction2007
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Fiction2007
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
Fiction2007
Firmin by Sam Savage
Fiction2007
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
Nonfiction2007
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
Nonfiction2007
The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth by Tim Flannery
Nonfiction2007
There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children by Melissa Fay Greene
Nonfiction2007
Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China by Peter Hessler
Nonfiction2007
Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City by Jed Horne
Nonfiction2007
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism by Ross King
Nonfiction2007
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert
Nonfiction2007
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
Nonfiction2007
James Tiptree Jr: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips
Nonfiction2007
The Heartless Stone: A Journey through the World of Diamonds, Deceit, and Desire by Tom Zoellner
Nonfiction2007
Famous by Kathleen Flenniken
Poetry2007
Burning Wyclif by Thom Satterlee
Poetry2007
William Henry Harrison And Other Poems by David R. Slavitt
Poetry2007

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