Booklist Editor's Choice: Adult Books2013

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65 Works 98,206 Books 5,350 Reviews ½ 3.9
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All, Arts and Literature (89), Best of the Year Title (1), Biography (204), Biography & Memoir (8), Booklist Editor's Choice (2), Business (1), Fiction (554), Genre Fiction (19), Geography & Travel (4), Graphic Novels for Adults (1), Health & Medicine (11), Health and Medicine (2), History (139), History & Travel (10), Illus: Fred Marcellino (1), Memoir (2), Nonfiction (1), Philosophy (1), Philosophy and Psychology (1), Poetry (41), Reference Sources (2), Religion (5), Science (63), Science & Technology (15), Social Sciences (169), Technology (1), Top of the List (7), Travel (2), No Category (267)
Years:
All, 2023 (61), 2022 (62), 2021 (66), 2020 (65), 2019 (68), 2018 (58), 2017 (65), 2016 (60), 2015 (67), 2014 (63), 2013 (65), 2012 (58), 2011 (65), 2010 (66), 2009 (58), 2008 (66), 2007 (66), 2006 (67), 2005 (66), 2004 (61), 2003 (62), 2002 (68), 2001 (62), 2000 (69), 1999 (66), 1993 (1), 1990 (1), 1990 ed. (1)
WorkCategoryYear
In the Body of the World: A Memoir by Eve Ensler
Arts and Literature2013
Beethoven: The Man Revealed by John Suchet
Arts and Literature2013
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson
Biography2013
Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana
Biography2013
Jim Henson: The Biography by Brian Jay Jones
Biography2013
Jack London: An American Life by Earle Labor
Biography2013
Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore
Biography2013
The Heir Apparent: A Life of Edward VII, the Playboy Prince by Jane Ridley
Biography2013
Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography by Richard Rodriguez
Biography2013
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Fiction2013
Maya's Notebook by Isabel Allende
Fiction2013
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Fiction2013
Archangel: Fiction by Andrea Barrett
Fiction2013
All the Land to Hold Us: A Novel by Rick Bass
Fiction2013
T C Boyle Stories II by T.C. Boyle
Fiction2013
The Childhood of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
Fiction2013
The Circle by Dave Eggers
Fiction2013
The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan
Fiction2013
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
Fiction2013
A Guide for the Perplexed by Dara Horn
Fiction2013
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
Fiction2013
Snapper by Brian Kimberling
Fiction2013
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
Fiction2013
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
Fiction2013
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
Fiction2013
All the Dead Yale Men: A Novel by Craig Nova
Fiction2013
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Fiction2013
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
Fiction2013
Monument Road by Charlie Quimby
Fiction2013
The Way of the Dog by Sam Savage
Fiction2013
The Woman Who Lost Her Soul by Bob Shacochis
Fiction2013
Fools: Stories by Joan Silber
Fiction2013
At Break of Day by Elizabeth Speller
Fiction2013
Death of the Black-Haired Girl by Robert Stone
Fiction2013
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Fiction2013
Golden Boy by Abigail Tarttelin
Fiction2013
Merivel: A Man of His Time by Rose Tremain
Fiction2013
The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Fiction2013
Catching Cancer: The Quest for its Viral and Bacterial Causes by Claudia Cornwall
Health and Medicine2013
In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America by Laurie Edwards
Health and Medicine2013
Wilson by A. Scott Berg
History2013
One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson
History2013
Thank You for Your Service by David Finkel
History2013
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin
History2013
The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme: An Illustrated Panorama by Joe Sacco
History2013
The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari by Paul Theroux
History2013
Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected and New Poems, 1950--2013 by Robert Bly
Poetry2013
Radiation: What It Is, What You Need to Know by Robert Peter Gale
Science2013
Imperial Dreams: Tracking the Imperial Woodpecker Through the Wild Sierra Madre by Tim Gallagher
Science2013
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach
Science2013
Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe by Lee Smolin
Science2013
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan
Social Sciences2013
To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care by Cris Beam
Social Sciences2013
Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism by Karima Bennoune
Social Sciences2013
Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home by Sheri Booker
Social Sciences2013
Hope Against Hope: Three Schools, One City, and the Struggle to Educate America's Children by Sarah Carr
Social Sciences2013
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
Social Sciences2013
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
Social Sciences2013
A House in the Sky: A Memoir by Amanda Lindhout
Social Sciences2013
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer
Social Sciences2013
Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation by Jonathan Rieder
Social Sciences2013
Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience by Sally Satel
Social Sciences2013
In the Name of God: The True Story of the Fight to Save Children from Faith-Healing Homicide by Cameron Stauth
Social Sciences2013
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities by Craig Steven Wilder
Social Sciences2013
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright
Social Sciences2013

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