Notable Books List2019

Given by CODES: Notable Books Council

Other Names: ALA Notable Books for Adults, RUSA Notable Books List
26 Works 40,866 Books 2,037 Reviews 4.1
"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
Waiting for Eden by Elliot Ackerman
Fiction2019
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Fiction2019
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Fiction2019
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Fiction2019
The Mars Room: A Novel by Rachel Kushner
Fiction2019
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Fiction2019
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
Fiction2019
There There by Tommy Orange
Fiction2019
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Fiction2019
The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea
Fiction2019
Don't Skip Out on Me by Willy Vlautin
Fiction2019
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing by Ben Austen
Nonfiction2019
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer
Nonfiction2019
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
Nonfiction2019
Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father by Stephen Fried
Nonfiction2019
Call Me American: A Memoir by Abdi Nor Iftin
Nonfiction2019
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson
Nonfiction2019
Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found by Gilbert King
Nonfiction2019
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
Nonfiction2019
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy
Nonfiction2019
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen
Nonfiction2019
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush
Nonfiction2019
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
Nonfiction2019
If They Come for Us: Poems by Fatimah Asghar
Poetry2019
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes
Poetry2019
The Carrying: Poems by Ada Limón
Poetry2019

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