Notable Books List1959

Given by CODES: Notable Books Council

Other Names: ALA Notable Books for Adults, RUSA Notable Books List
48 Works 19,246 Books 314 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
Categories:
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
The Great Decision: The Secret History of The Atomic Bomb by Michael Amrine
1959
Nautilus 90 North by William R. Anderson
1959
Spinster by Sylvia Ashton-Warner
1959
The House of Intellect (Perennial Classics) by Jacques Barzun
1959
The Joy of Music by Leonard Bernstein
1959
Adventures of a Biographer by Catherine Drinker Bowen
1959
The way things are by P. W. Bridgman
1959
A history of Western morals by Crane Brinton
1959
Image of America by R. L. Bruckberger
1959
Mainstreams of Modern Art by John Canaday
1959
The angry scar; the story of reconstruction by Hodding Carter
1959
The child, the parent, and the state by James Bryant Conant
1959
Rape of the Fair Country by Alexander Cordell
1959
To Appomattox: Nine April Days, 1865 by Burke Davis
1959
Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
1959
Sight and insight by Alexander Eliot
1959
The Siege at Peking by Peter Fleming
1959
The Warriors: Reflections on Men in Battle by J. Glenn Gray
1959
The Waist-High Culture by Thomas Griffith
1959
France; a modern history by Albert Léon Guérard
1959
A Life in the Theatre by Tyrone Guthrie
1959
Act One: An Autobiography by Moss Hart
1959
Mankind in the Making: The Story of Human Evolution by W. W. Howells
1959
Elizabeth the Great by Elizabeth Jenkins
1959
The Coming of the New Deal, 1933-1935 by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
1959
Portraits of greatness by Yousuf Karsh
1959
A Natural History of New York City by John Kieran
1959
Human Nature and the Human Condition by Joseph Wood Krutch
1959
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
1959
Men and atoms; the discovery, the uses, and the future of atomic energy by William L. Laurence
1959
In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech
1959
The Watch That Ends the Night by Hugh MacLennan
1959
Last Essays by Thomas Mann
1959
Wildlife in America by Peter Matthiessen
1959
The Stones of Florence by Mary McCarthy
1959
The little world of Laos by Oden Meeker
1959
Hawaii by James A. Michener
1959
John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography by Samuel Eliot Morison
1959
The Marauders by Charlton Ogburn
1959
My Russian journey by Santha Rama Rau
1959
A Concise History of Modern Painting by Herbert Read
1959
Wisdom of the West by Bertrand Russell
1959
Adventurous Alliance; the Story of the Agassiz Family of Boston by Louise Hall Tharp
1959
The Harmless People: The Absorbing Chronicle of an Expedition to the Bushmen of South-West Africa and the Hostile Desert in Which They Live by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
1959
The Years with Ross by James Thurber
1959
Add a Dash of Pity by Peter Ustinov
1959
Five ideas that change the world by Barbara Ward
1959
The Devil's Advocate by Morris West
1959

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