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48 Works 158,479 Books 7,366 Reviews ½ 4.0
Categories:
All, Fiction (13), Nonfiction (15), No Category (20)
Years:
All, 2023 (1), 2021 (1), 2020 (1), 2017 (1), 2016 (24), 2014 (2), 2013 (2), 2012 (1), 2011 (7), 2004 (1), 1994 (2), 1993 (1), 1991 (1), 1975 (1), 1963 (1)
WorkCategoryYear
The Furrows by Namwali Serpell
2023
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
2021
The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom
Nonfiction2020
Quicksand Pond by Janet Taylor Lisle
2017
In the Country: Stories by Mia Alvar
Fiction2016
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
Fiction2016
Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
Fiction2016
Delicious Foods by James Hannaham
Fiction2016
Black River by S. M. Hulse
Fiction2016
Fortune Smiles: Stories by Adam Johnson
Fiction2016
The Prophets of Eternal Fjord by Kim Leine
Fiction2016
The Tsar of Love and Techno: Stories by Anthony Marra
Fiction2016
This Is the Life by Alex Shearer
Fiction2016
The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard
Fiction2016
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Fiction2016
The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission by Jim Bell
Nonfiction2016
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman
Nonfiction2016
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Nonfiction2016
The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle by Lillian Faderman
Nonfiction2016
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon
Nonfiction2016
The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World by Joel K. Bourne Jr
Nonfiction2016
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
Nonfiction2016
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
Nonfiction2016
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery
Nonfiction2016
M Train by Patti Smith
Nonfiction2016
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War by Susan Southard
Nonfiction2016
Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan
Nonfiction2016
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
2016
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Fiction2014
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Fiction2014
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan
Nonfiction2013
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
2013
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht
2012
Room by Emma Donoghue
2011
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
2011
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
2011
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
2011
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
2011
Just Kids by Patti Smith
2011
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
2011
The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
2004
The Seeing Stone - Arthur Trilogy, Book One by Kevin Crossley-Holland
2000
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Nonfiction1994
Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai
1994
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
1993
Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
1991
Looking for Mr. Goodbar by Judith Rossner
1975
The American Way of Death Revisited by Jessica Mitford
1963
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