Christian Science Monitor Best Book

Given by The Christian Science Monitor

595 Works 1,301,572 Books 52,357 Reviews ½ 3.9
Categories:
All, Art (2), Biography (15), Ficion (1), Fiction (219), General Ficion (1), General Fiction (18), History (5), Memoir (7), Music (3), Mysteries/thrillers (5), Mystery (4), Non-fiction (2), Nonfiction (279), Nonfition (1), Sport (2), fiction (1), No Category (30)
Years:
All, 2019 (25), 2018 (28), 2017 (30), 2016 (30), 2015 (20), 2014 (20), 2013 (30), 2012 (25), 2011 (25), 2010 (39), 2009 (36), 2008 (47), 2007 (32), 2006 (56), 2005 (53), 2004 (71), 2001 (28)
WorkCategoryYear
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Fiction2019
Strangers and Cousins: A Novel by Leah Hager Cohen
Fiction2019
Akin by Emma Donoghue
Fiction2019
Out of Darkness, Shining Light by Petina Gappah
Fiction2019
The Parisian by Isabella Hammad
Fiction2019
Ayesha At Last by Uzma Jalaluddin
Fiction2019
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
Fiction2019
The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H. G. Parry
Fiction2019
Chances Are… by Richard Russo
Fiction2019
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
Fiction2019
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Fiction2019
The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts by Karen Armstrong
Nonfiction2019
A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century by Jason DeParle
Nonfiction2019
The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future by Jon Gertner
Nonfiction2019
Music: A Subversive History by Ted Gioia
Nonfiction2019
Young Castro: the making of a revolutionary by Jonathan M. Hansen
Nonfiction2019
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
Nonfiction2019
The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History by Nathalia Holt
Nonfiction2019
The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando by William J. Mann
Nonfiction2019
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer
Nonfiction2019
Busted in New York and Other Essays by Darryl Pinckney
Nonfiction2019
The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir by Samantha Power
Nonfiction2019
Battling Bella: The Protest Politics of Bella Abzug by Leandra Ruth Zarnow
Nonfiction2019
Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution by Helen Zia
Nonfiction2019
The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman
2019
Transcription by Kate Atkinson
Fiction2018
Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen by Sarah Bird
Fiction2018
Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C.S. Lewis by Patti Callahan
Fiction2018
The Cloister by James Carroll
Fiction2018
The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley
Fiction2018
Our Homesick Songs by Emma Hooper
Fiction2018
The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar
Fiction2018
Greeks Bearing Gifts by Philip Kerr
Fiction2018
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
Fiction2018
Circe by Madeline Miller
Fiction2018
Gateway to the Moon by Mary Morris
Fiction2018
All the Lives We Never Lived by Anuradha Roy
Fiction2018
Clock Dance by Anne Tyler
Fiction2018
No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria by Rania Abouzeid
Nonfiction2018
Fisherman's Blues: A West African Community at Sea by Anna Badkhen
Nonfiction2018
The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Table by Rick Bragg
Nonfiction2018
Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948 by Ramachandra Guha
Nonfiction2018
Reporter: A Memoir by Seymour M. Hersh
Nonfiction2018
Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown by Lauren Hilgers
Nonfiction2018
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston
Nonfiction2018
The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq by Dunya Mikhail
Nonfiction2018
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
Nonfiction2018
Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution by Todd S. Purdum
Nonfiction2018
Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist by Eli Saslow
Nonfiction2018
Reagan: An American Journey by Bob Spitz
Nonfiction2018
Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island by Earl Swift
Nonfiction2018
Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World by Miles J. Unger
Nonfiction2018
The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine F. Weiss
Nonfiction2018
Dark at the Crossing by Elliot Ackerman
Fiction2017
Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
Fiction2017
The Golden Legend by Nadeem Aslam
Fiction2017
The Leavers by Lisa Ko
Fiction2017
The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories by Penelope Lively
Fiction2017
Glass Houses by Louise Penny
Fiction2017
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
Fiction2017
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
Fiction2017
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Fiction2017
Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
Fiction2017
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
Fiction2017
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Fiction2017
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Fiction2017
Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam by Mark Bowden
Nonfiction2017
Grant by Ron Chernow
Nonfiction2017
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen
Nonfiction2017
The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao by Ian Johnson
Nonfiction2017
The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis by Patrick Kingsley
Nonfiction2017
Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship by Michelle Kuo
Nonfiction2017
Be Free or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero by Cate Lineberry
Nonfiction2017
I Was Told to Come Alone by Souad Mekhennet
Nonfiction2017
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn
Nonfiction2017
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy
Nonfiction2017
Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898-1940 by Jed Perl
Nonfiction2017
Lenin the Dictator: An Intimate Portrait by Victor Sebestyen
Nonfiction2017
Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War by Daniel J. Sharfstein
Nonfiction2017
The Gourmands' Way: Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy by Justin Spring
Nonfiction2017
Stanton: Lincoln’s War Secretary by Walter Stahr
Nonfiction2017
Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World's Oceans by James Stavridis
Nonfiction2017
Henry David Thoreau: A Life by Laura Dassow Walls
Nonfiction2017
The Kindness of Enemies by Leila Aboulela
Fiction2016
The Bones of Grace by Tahmima Anam
Fiction2016
The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
Fiction2016
Moonglow by Michael Chabon
Fiction2016
LaRose by Louise Erdrich
Fiction2016
The Trespasser by Tana French
Fiction2016
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Fiction2016
The Nix by Nathan Hill
Fiction2016
Napoleon's Last Island by Thomas Keneally
Fiction2016
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
Fiction2016
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
Fiction2016
Barkskins by Annie Proulx
Fiction2016
Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple
Fiction2016
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
Fiction2016
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
Fiction2016
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich
Nonfiction2016
America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History by Andrew Bacevich
Nonfiction2016
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott
Nonfiction2016
The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family by Gail Lumet Buckley
Nonfiction2016
Raoul Wallenberg: The Heroic Life and Mysterious Disappearance of the Man Who Saved Thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust by Ingrid Carlberg
Nonfiction2016
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Nonfiction2016
An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler by Peter Fritzsche
Nonfiction2016
The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings
Nonfiction2016
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies by Ross King
Nonfiction2016
Somme: Into the Breach by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
Nonfiction2016
The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition by Manisha Sinha
Nonfiction2016
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
Nonfiction2016
New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America by Wendy Warren
Nonfiction2016
Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall by Nina Willner
Nonfiction2016
Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America by Douglas R. Egerton
2016
Green on Blue: A Novel by Elliot Ackerman
Fiction2015
The Automobile Club of Egypt by Alaa al-Aswani
Fiction2015
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
Fiction2015
The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
Fiction2015
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
Fiction2015
Flood of Fire by Amitav Ghosh
Fiction2015
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
Fiction2015
Vanessa and Her Sister by Priya Parmar
Fiction2015
Honeydew by Edith Pearlman
Fiction2015
The Big Green Tent by Ludmila Ulitskaya
Fiction2015
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War by Lynsey Addario
Nonfiction2015
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia by Michael Booth
Nonfiction2015
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice by Bill Browder
Nonfiction2015
The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures by William deBuys
Nonfiction2015
Leaving Before the Rains Come by Alexandra Fuller
Nonfiction2015
All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West by David Gessner
Nonfiction2015
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America by Jill Leovy
Nonfiction2015
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Nonfiction2015
The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower by Michael Pillsbury
Nonfiction2015
Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor by James M. Scott
Nonfiction2015
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
Fiction2014
Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah
Fiction2014
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Fiction2014
The Magician's Land by Lev Grossman
Fiction2014
A Map of Betrayal by Ha Jin
Fiction2014
On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee
Fiction2014
All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu
Fiction2014
Florence Gordon by Brian Morton
Fiction2014
Lila by Marilynne Robinson
Fiction2014
Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín
Fiction2014
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
Non-fiction2014
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbott
Nonfiction2014
The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames by Kai Bird
Nonfiction2014
Unremarried Widow: A Memoir by Artis Henderson
Nonfiction2014
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson
Nonfiction2014
Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town by Beth Macy
Nonfiction2014
A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention by Matt Richtel
Nonfiction2014
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides
Nonfiction2014
Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph by Jan Swafford
Nonfiction2014
Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp by Lawrence Wright
Nonfiction2014
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Fiction2013
MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
Fiction2013
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
Fiction2013
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Fiction2013
Harvest by Jim Crace
Fiction2013
Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat
Fiction2013
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
Fiction2013
Sycamore Row by John Grisham
Fiction2013
How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid
Fiction2013
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
Fiction2013
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
Fiction2013
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
Fiction2013
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
fiction2013
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Fiction2013
The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Fiction2013
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson
Nonfiction2013
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
Nonfiction2013
Thank You for Your Service by David Finkel
Nonfiction2013
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
Nonfiction2013
Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven by John Eliot Gardiner
Nonfiction2013
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Nonfiction2013
The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind and Changed the History of Free Speech in America by Thomas Healy
Nonfiction2013
The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster by Jonathan M. Katz
Nonfiction2013
Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned The Tide in the Second World War by Paul Kennedy
Nonfiction2013
The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 by Margaret MacMillan
Nonfiction2013
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer
Nonfiction2013
The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese by Michael Paterniti
Nonfiction2013
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing by Anya Von Bremzen
Nonfiction2013
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
Nonfiction2013
For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet's Journey through a Chinese Prison by Liao Yiwu
Nonfiction2013
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Fiction2012
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Fiction2012
Canada by Richard Ford
Fiction2012
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
Fiction2012
Arcadia by Lauren Groff
Fiction2012
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Fiction2012
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
Fiction2012
In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner
Fiction2012
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Fiction2012
Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson
Fiction2012
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu
Nonfiction2012
Reagan and Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship by Richard Aldous
Nonfiction2012
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum
Nonfiction2012
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
Nonfiction2012
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Nonfiction2012
The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro
Nonfiction2012
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan
Nonfiction2012
The Distance Between Us: A Memoir by Reyna Grande
Nonfiction2012
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden
Nonfiction2012
Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King
Nonfiction2012
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall
Nonfiction2012
The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer by Anne-Marie O'Connor
Nonfiction2012
Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power by Seth Rosenfeld
Nonfiction2012
Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith
Nonfiction2012
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
Nonfiction2012
Once Upon a River by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Fiction2011
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Fiction2011
Nightwoods by Charles Frazier
Fiction2011
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
Fiction2011
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Fiction2011
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht
Fiction2011
The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
Fiction2011
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Fiction2011
Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories by Edith Pearlman
Fiction2011
Doc by Mary Doria Russell
Fiction2011
Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II by Michael Burleigh
Nonfiction2011
Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War by Annia Ciezadlo
Nonfiction2011
Grant's Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year by Charles Bracelen Flood
Nonfiction2011
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton
Nonfiction2011
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 by Adam Hochschild
Nonfiction2011
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz
Nonfiction2011
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Nonfiction2011
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
Nonfiction2011
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis
Nonfiction2011
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
Nonfiction2011
Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock by David Margolick
Nonfiction2011
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough
Nonfiction2011
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
Nonfiction2011
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean
Nonfiction2011
The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War by Ben Shepard
Nonfiction2011
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
Fiction2010
Room by Emma Donoghue
Fiction2010
Faithful Place by Tana French
Fiction2010
36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction by Rebecca Goldstein
Fiction2010
To the End of the Land by David Grossman
Fiction2010
Tinkers by Paul Harding
Fiction2010
Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste
Fiction2010
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
Fiction2010
Ruby's Spoon by Anna Lawrence Pietroni
Fiction2010
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
Fiction2010
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Fiction2010
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman
Nonfiction2010
At Home : a short history of private life by Bill Bryson
Nonfiction2010
Chocolate Wars: The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World's Greatest Chocolate Makers by Deborah Cadbury
Nonfiction2010
Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship by Gail Caldwell
Nonfiction2010
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
Nonfiction2010
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
Nonfiction2010
Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier
Nonfiction2010
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S. C. Gwynne
Nonfiction2010
Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip by Peter Hessler
Nonfiction2010
The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea by Philip Hoare
Nonfiction2010
The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood by Jane Leavy
Nonfiction2010
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
Nonfiction2010
Berlin at War. Life and Death in Hitler's Capital, 1939-45 by Roger Moorhouse
Nonfiction2010
Poetry in Person: Twenty-five Years of Conversation with America's Poets by Alexander Neubauer
Nonfiction2010
The Grace of Silence: A Memoir by Michele Norris
Nonfiction2010
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent
Nonfiction2010
Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed by Judy Pasternak
Nonfiction2010
I Want to Be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here on Earth by Brenda Peterson
Nonfiction2010
Let the Swords Encircle Me: Iran--A Journey Behind the Headlines by Scott Peterson
Nonfiction2010
Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of The Berlin Airlift-June 1948-May 1949 by Richard Reeves
Nonfiction2010
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
Nonfiction2010
Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb
Nonfiction2010
Mark Twain: Man in White: The Grand Adventure of His Final Years by Michael Shelden
Nonfiction2010
Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the International Hunt for His Assassin by Hampton Sides
Nonfiction2010
The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 by Evan Thomas
Nonfiction2010
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
Nonfiction2010
The Fiddler in the Subway: The Story of the World-Class Violinist Who Played for Handouts. . . And Other Virtuoso Performances by America's Foremost Feature Writer by Gene Weingarten
Nonfiction2010
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
Nonfiction2010
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Fiction2009
The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
Fiction2009
The Children's Book by A. S. Byatt
Fiction2009
Mathilda Savitch by Victor Lodato
Fiction2009
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Fiction2009
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Fiction2009
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
Fiction2009
Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
Fiction2009
Woodsburner by John Pipkin
Fiction2009
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Fiction2009
Love and Summer by William Trevor
Fiction2009
The Weight of Heaven by Thrity Umrigar
Fiction2009
Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey
Nonfiction2009
The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President by Taylor Branch
Nonfiction2009
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford
Nonfiction2009
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan
Nonfiction2009
The Third Reich at War by Richard J. Evans
Nonfiction2009
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
Nonfiction2009
The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
Nonfiction2009
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
Nonfiction2009
Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality by Barbara Bradley Hagerty
Nonfiction2009
The Somme: The Darkest Hour on the Western Front by Peter Hart
Nonfiction2009
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
Nonfiction2009
A. Lincoln: A Biography by Ronald C. White
Nonfiction2009
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba
Nonfiction2009
Lit: A Memoir by Mary Karr
Nonfiction2009
The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe
Nonfiction2009
Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
Nonfiction2009
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman
Nonfiction2009
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability by David Owen
Nonfiction2009
Provenance: how a con man and a forger rewrote the history of modern art by Laney Salisbury
Nonfiction2009
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit
Nonfiction2009
Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Found the Hidden Gospels by Janet Soskice
Nonfiction2009
Horse Soldiers by Doug Stanton
Nonfiction2009
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T. J. Stiles
Nonfiction2009
A World of Trouble by Patrick Tyler
Nonfiction2009
A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam
Fiction2008
When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
Fiction2008
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Fiction2008
The Black Tower by Louis Bayard
Fiction2008
America America by Ethan Canin
Fiction2008
A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré
Fiction2008
The Konkans by Tony D'Souza
Fiction2008
The Blue Star: A Novel by Tony Earley
Fiction2008
So Brave, Young and Handsome: A Novel by Leif Enger
Fiction2008
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
Fiction2008
The Likeness by Tana French
Fiction2008
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
Fiction2008
I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass
Fiction2008
Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner
Fiction2008
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane
Fiction2008
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
Fiction2008
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
Fiction2008
City of Refuge by Tom Piazza
Fiction2008
Exit Music by Ian Rankin
Fiction2008
Serena by Ron Rash
Fiction2008
Driftless by David Rhodes
Fiction2008
Home by Marilynne Robinson
Fiction2008
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Fiction2008
All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well by Tod Wodicka
Fiction2008
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
Fiction2008
The Numerati by Stephen Baker
Nonfiction2008
A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade by Christopher Benfey
Nonfiction2008
The Journal of Hélène Berr by Hélène Berr
Nonfiction2008
Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer by Shannon Brownlee
Nonfiction2008
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang
Nonfiction2008
The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America by Thurston Clarke
Nonfiction2008
The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century by Edward Dolnick
Nonfiction2008
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library) by Drew Gilpin Faust
Nonfiction2008
The Nuclear Jihadist: The True Story of the Man Who Sold the World's Most Dangerous Secrets...And How We Could Have Stopped Him by Douglas Frantz
Nonfiction2008
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman
Nonfiction2008
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Nonfiction2008
McMafia: Crime without Frontiers by Misha Glenny
Nonfiction2008
Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America by Jonathan Gould
Nonfiction2008
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America by David Hajdu
Nonfiction2008
John Lennon: The Life by Philip Norman
Nonfiction2008
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein
Nonfiction2008
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
Nonfiction2008
My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq by Ariel Sabar
Nonfiction2008
The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret by Seth Shulman
Nonfiction2008
Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon--and the Journey of a Generation by Sheila Weller
Nonfiction2008
White Heat by Brenda Wineapple
Nonfiction2008
The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria
Nonfiction2008
Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcón
Fiction2007
Heyday by Kurt Andersen
Fiction2007
Boomsday by Christopher Buckley
Fiction2007
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Fiction2007
Finn by Jon Clinch
Fiction2007
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Fiction2007
The Maytrees: A Novel by Annie Dillard
Fiction2007
Paula Spencer by Roddy Doyle
Fiction2007
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
Fiction2007
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
Fiction2007
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
Fiction2007
In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
Fiction2007
Zoli by Colum McCann
Fiction2007
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
Fiction2007
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Fiction2007
Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
Fiction2007
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Fiction2007
Petropolis by Anya Ulinich
Fiction2007
The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins
Fiction2007
American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion by Paul M. Barrett
Nonfiction2007
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Nonfiction2007
The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam (Vintage Departures) by Tom Bissell
Nonfiction2007
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
Nonfiction2007
The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor by William Langewiesche
Nonfiction2007
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston
Nonfiction2007
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross
Nonfiction2007
Gomorrah: A Personal Journey Into The Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System by Roberto Saviano
Nonfiction2007
Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire by Alex von Tunzelmann
Nonfiction2007
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
Nonfiction2007
The Kings of New York: A Year Among the Geeks, Oddballs, and Genuises Who Make Up America's Top HighSchool Chess Team by Michael Weinreb
Nonfiction2007
God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America by Hanna Rosin
Nonfition2007
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke
2007
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 by Taylor Branch
Biography2006
Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power by Richard Carwardine
Biography2006
The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History by Jonathan Franzen
Biography2006
Operation Yao Ming: The Chinese Sports Empire, American Big Business, and the Making of an NBA Superstar by Brook Larmer
Biography2006
Modigliani: A Life by Jeffrey Meyers
Biography2006
The Producer: John Hammond and the Soul of American Music by Dunstan Prial
Biography2006
Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee by Charles J. Shields
Biography2006
LBJ: Architect of American Ambition by Randall Woods
Biography2006
A Long, Long Way by Sebastian Barry
Fiction2006
Tilting at Windmills: A Novel of Cervantes and the Errant Knight by Julian Branston
Fiction2006
Pearl by Mary Gordon
Fiction2006
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
General Ficion2006
The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd
General Fiction2006
Cellophane by Marie Arana
General Fiction2006
Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
General Fiction2006
Talk Talk by T. C. Boyle
General Fiction2006
Leaving Home by Anita Brookner
General Fiction2006
Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey
General Fiction2006
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
General Fiction2006
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
General Fiction2006
Imperium by Robert Harris
General Fiction2006
Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury
General Fiction2006
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
General Fiction2006
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
General Fiction2006
Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund
General Fiction2006
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
General Fiction2006
The Last of Her Kind by Sigrid Nunez
General Fiction2006
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General Fiction2006
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General Fiction2006
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General Fiction2006
Let Me Finish by Roger Angell
Memoir2006
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir by Bill Bryson
Memoir2006
My Life in France by Julia Child
Memoir2006
Things I Didn't Know: A Memoir by Robert Hughes
Memoir2006
The Rainaldi Quartet by Paul Adam
Mysteries/thrillers2006
The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard
Mysteries/thrillers2006
The Mission Song by John le Carré
Mysteries/thrillers2006
The Summer Snow by Rebecca Pawel
Mysteries/thrillers2006
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson
Mysteries/thrillers2006
There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children by Melissa Fay Greene
Non-fiction2006
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
Nonfiction2006
Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford
Nonfiction2006
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
Nonfiction2006
Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York by Adam Gopnik
Nonfiction2006
Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China by Peter Hessler
Nonfiction2006
Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee
Nonfiction2006
The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood by Sy Montgomery
Nonfiction2006
Tigers in Red Weather: A Quest for the Last Wild Tigers by Ruth Padel
Nonfiction2006
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
Nonfiction2006
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks
Nonfiction2006
The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups by Ron Rosenbaum
Nonfiction2006
The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq by Rory Stewart
Nonfiction2006
The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 by Ron Suskind
Nonfiction2006
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan
Nonfiction2006
State of Denial by Bob Woodward
Nonfiction2006
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
Nonfiction2006
The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa by Michael Kimmelman
Art2005
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Art2005
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang
Biography2005
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Biography2005
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Biography2005
The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House by John F. Harris
Biography2005
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Biography2005
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Biography2005
Mark Twain: A Life by Ron Powers
Biography2005
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Fiction2005
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Fiction2005
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Fiction2005
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Fiction2005
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Fiction2005
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Fiction2005
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Fiction2005
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Fiction2005
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Fiction2005
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Fiction2005
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Fiction2005
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Fiction2005
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Fiction2005
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Fiction2005
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Fiction2005
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Fiction2005
Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
History2005
Sarah's Long Walk: How the Free Blacks of Boston and their Struggle for Equality Changed America by Stephen Kendrick
History2005
Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws That Changed America by Nick Kotz
History2005
1776 by David McCullough
History2005
The Fate of Africa by Martin Meredith
History2005
Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev by Robert Dessaix
Memoir2005
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Memoir2005
Two Lives by Vikram Seth
Memoir2005
Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix by Charles R. Cross
Music2005
Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads by Greil Marcus
Music2005
The Beatles: The Biography by Bob Spitz
Music2005
The Final Solution. A Story of Detection by Michael Chabon
Mystery2005
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
Mystery2005
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Mystery2005
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Mystery2005
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Nonfiction2005
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Nonfiction2005
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman
Nonfiction2005
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
Nonfiction2005
When Computers Were Human by David Alan Grier
Nonfiction2005
Marley & Me by John Grogan
Nonfiction2005
Miss Leavitt's Stars : The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe by George Johnson
Nonfiction2005
The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton by Jerome Karabel
Nonfiction2005
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Nonfiction2005
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Nonfiction2005
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Nonfiction2005
The Last Coach: A Life of Paul "Bear" Bryant by Allen Barra
Sport2005
Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager by Buzz Bissinger
Sport2005
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Ficion2004
Human Capital: A Novel by Stephen Amidon
Fiction2004
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Fiction2004
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