Notable Books List1950

Given by CODES: Notable Books Council

Other Names: ALA Notable Books for Adults, RUSA Notable Books List
41 Works 24,514 Books 219 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
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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
WorkYear
American Indian Design and Decoration by Le Roy H. Appleton
1950
Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther by Roland Bainton
1950
Berlioz and His Century: An Introduction to the Age of Romanticism by Jacques Barzun
1950
Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763 by James Boswell
1950
John Adams and the American Revolution by Catherine Drinker Bowen
1950
Ideas and men; the story of Western thought by Crane Brinton
1950
The Index of American Design by Erwin O. Christensen
1950
The Grand Alliance by Winston S. Churchill
1950
The Hinge of Fate by Winston S. Churchill
1950
Shakespeare of London by Marchette Chute
1950
John C. Calhoun: American Portrait by Margaret L. Coit
1950
The American Mind: An Interpretation of American Thought and Character Since the 1880's by Henry Steele Commager
1950
Of Men and Mountains by William O. Douglas
1950
The Age of Faith by Will Durant
1950
Collected Stories of William Faulkner by William Faulkner
1950
The Life of Mahatma Gandhi by Louis Fischer
1950
The Lady's Not for Burning by Christopher Fry
1950
The Plymouth Adventure: A Chronicle Novel of the Voyage of the Mayflower by Ernest Gebler
1950
A Life of Jesus by Edgar J. Goodspeed
1950
The Popular Book: A History of America's Literary Taste by James D. Hart
1950
The Wall by John Hersey
1950
Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft by Thor Heyerdahl
1950
The Art of Teaching by Gilbert Highet
1950
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1: 1760-1776 by Thomas Jefferson
1950
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2: 1777-18 June, 1779, including the Revisal of the laws, 1776-1786 by Thomas Jefferson
1950
Incredible tale; the odyssey of the average American in the last half century by Gerald W. Johnson
1950
Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings by Amy Ruth Kelly
1950
Captain Sam Grant by Lloyd Lewis
1950
Korea today by George McAfee McCune
1950
Menaboni’s Birds by Athos Menaboni
1950
Autobiography of Robert A. Millikan (Three centuries of science in America) by Robert Andrews Millikan
1950
The Emergence of Lincoln by Allan Nevins
1950
Mao Tse-Tung by Robert Payne
1950
Editor to Author: The Letters of Maxwell E. Perkins by Maxwell E. Perkins
1950
The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg by Carl Sandburg
1950
The Disenchanted by Budd Schulberg
1950
Great Audience by Gilbert Seldes
1950
The Peabody Sisters of Salem by Louise Hall Tharp
1950
The Liberal Imagination by Lionel Trilling
1950
Jane Mecom, the favorite sister of Benjamin Franklin: her life here first fully narrated from their entire surviving correspondence by Carl Van Doren
1950
The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society by Norbert Wiener
1950

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