2019 Notable Books for Adults

Description
Since 1944, the goal of the Notable Books Council has been to make available to the nation’s readers a list of 26 very good, very readable, and at times very important fiction, nonfiction, and poetry books for the adult reader. This is the 2019 list.
1
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
by David W. Blight
1,134 members
23 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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2
The Mars Room: A Novel
by Rachel Kushner
1,490 members
70 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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3
Educated: A Memoir
by Tara Westover
9,901 members
519 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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4
Warlight
by Michael Ondaatje
2,062 members
104 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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6
Washington Black
by Esi Edugyan
2,301 members
135 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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7
The House of Broken Angels
by Luis Alberto Urrea
792 members
50 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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8
There There
by Tommy Orange
4,330 members
194 reviews
4
2 Members
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9
An American Marriage
by Tayari Jones
3,979 members
257 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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10
Friday Black
by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
859 members
51 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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11
Heavy: An American Memoir
by Kiese Laymon
1,033 members
39 reviews
½ 4.5
2 Members
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12
The Great Believers
by Rebecca Makkai
1,996 members
110 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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13
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
by Beth Macy
1,067 members
59 reviews
4.1
Member
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14
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
by David Quammen
688 members
22 reviews
4
Member
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15
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
by Shane Bauer
539 members
16 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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16
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
by Terrance Hayes
298 members
6 reviews
4
Member
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17
If They Come for Us: Poems
by Fatimah Asghar
275 members
6 reviews
4.2
Member
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18
Don't Skip Out on Me
by Willy Vlautin
228 members
22 reviews
4.2
Member
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19
The Carrying: Poems
by Ada Limón
300 members
8 reviews
4.2
Member
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20
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
by Elizabeth Rush
229 members
4 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
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21
Call Me American: A Memoir
by Abdi Nor Iftin
195 members
6 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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22
Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found
by Gilbert King
184 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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23
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
by Ben Austen
136 members
5 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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24
The Overstory
by Richard Powers
5,422 members
247 reviews
4.1
Member
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25
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
by Kirk Wallace Johnson
1,060 members
52 reviews
4
Explanations
26
Waiting for Eden
by Elliot Ackerman
196 members
16 reviews
3.9
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