Notable Books List1961

Given by CODES: Notable Books Council

Other Names: ALA Notable Books for Adults, RUSA Notable Books List
50 Works 38,135 Books 441 Reviews ½ 4.0
"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
Diary and autobiography by John Adams
1961
Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
1961
Fables in ivory; Japanese netsuke and their legends by Adrienne Barbanson
1961
The will of Zeus; a history of Greece from the origins of Hellenic culture to the death of Alexander by Stringfellow Barr
1961
The American Heritage Book of Indians by William Brandon
1961
Arms control, disarmament, and national security by Donald G. Brennan
1961
The architecture of America; a social and cultural history by John E. Burchard
1961
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays by Albert Camus
1961
Slums and suburbs; a commentary on schools in metropolitan areas by James B. Conant
1961
Indian art in America: The arts and crafts of the North American Indian by Frederick J. Dockstader
1961
The Demons by Heimito von Doderer
1961
Antislavery: The Crusade for Freedom in America by Dwight Lowell Dumond
1961
The Age of Reason Begins by Will Durant
1961
Education for public responsibility by C. Scott Fletcher
1961
Fate is the Hunter by Ernest K. Gann
1961
Excellence: Can We Be Equal and Excellent Too? by John W. Gardner
1961
Promise at Dawn by Romain Gary
1961
A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene
1961
House Without a Roof by Maurice Hindus
1961
Mathematics in the Making by Lancelot Thomas Hogben
1961
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
1961
The future of mankind by Karl Jaspers
1961
The man who feels left behind by Gerald W. Johnson
1961
The Faith of a Heretic by Walter Kaufmann
1961
Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin by George F. Kennan
1961
Ishi in Two Worlds by Theodora Kroeber
1961
The Ship: An Illustrated History by Björn Landström
1961
Children of Sanchez by Oscar Lewis
1961
Poetry and Experience by Archibald MacLeish
1961
A New Life by Bernard Malamud
1961
Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell
1961
The Chateau by William Maxwell
1961
The White Nile by Alan Moorehead
1961
The coil of life; the story of the great discoveries in the life sciences by Ruth Moore
1961
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects by Lewis Mumford
1961
Music of the Spheres: The Material Universe From Atom to Quasar, Simply Explained by Guy Murchie
1961
The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor
1961
An Only Child by Frank O'Connor
1961
Tales from a Troubled Land by Alan Paton
1961
The Dawn of Civilization: The First World Survey of Human Cultures in Early Times by Stuart Piggott
1961
The Horizon Book of the Renaissance by J. H. Plumb
1961
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
1961
The Continent We Live on by Ivan Terence Sanderson
1961
Sinclair Lewis: An American Life by Mark Schorer
1961
Japanese Inn by Oliver Statler
1961
Citizen Hearst: A Biography of William Randolph Hearst by W. A. Swanberg
1961
The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas
1961
A Study of History, 12: Reconsiderations by Arnold J. Toynbee
1961
Curtains; selections from the drama criticism and related writings by Kenneth Tynan
1961
The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. White
1961

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