Notable Books List1963

Given by CODES: Notable Books Council

Other Names: ALA Notable Books for Adults, RUSA Notable Books List
49 Works 43,002 Books 576 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
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
1963
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
1963
Teacher by Sylvia Ashton-Warner
1963
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
1963
Evangelical Theology: An Introduction by Karl Barth
1963
The Paper Economy by David T. Bazelon
1963
Francis Bacon: The Temper of a Man by Catherine Drinker Bowen
1963
Voices in the snow; encounters with Russian writers by Olga Andreyev Carlisle
1963
Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area by Harry M. Caudill
1963
The education of American teachers by James Bryant Conant
1963
The Living Sea by Jacques-Yves Cousteau
1963
The book of the dance by Agnes de Mille
1963
Tutankhamen by Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt
1963
The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky 1929-1940 by Isaac Deutscher
1963
Lawrence Durrell and Henry Miller: A Private Correspondence by Lawrence Durrell
1963
Face of North America; the natural history of a continent by Peter Farb
1963
The Mansions and the Shanties by Gilberto Freyre
1963
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
1963
The Americans; a new history of the people of the United States by Oscar Handlin
1963
The great ascent; the struggle for economic development in our time by Robert L. Heilbroner
1963
Here to stay by John Hersey
1963
The Ordeal of Change by Eric Hoffer
1963
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter
1963
The beginning & the end, and other poems by Robinson Jeffers
1963
Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C. G. Jung
1963
Strength to Love by Martin Luther King, Jr.
1963
Idiots First by Bernard Malamud
1963
The South and the Southerner by Ralph McGill
1963
Fly and the Fly-Bottle: Encounters with British Intellectuals by Ved Mehta
1963
The American Way of Death by Jessica Mitford
1963
The Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War by Samuel Eliot Morison
1963
The Road to Huddersfield: A Journey to Five Continents by Jan Morris
1963
Freedom in the Western World by Herbert Joseph Muller
1963
The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov
1963
Rascal by Sterling North
1963
The Lonely Voice: A Study of the Short Story by Frank O'Connor
1963
Writers at Work 02 by George Plimpton
1963
The time has come; a Catholic doctor's proposals to end the battle over birth control by John Rock
1963
Imagination by Harold Rugg
1963
Letters from Vatican City; Vatican Council II, first session: background and debates by Francis X. Murphy
1963
Saint Genet by Jean-Paul Sartre
1963
A life in photography by Edward Steichen
1963
To mix with time, new and selected poems by May Swenson
1963
Man-Made America by Christopher Tunnard
1963
The Quiet Crisis by Stewart L. Udall
1963
The Centaur by John Updike
1963
What is poetry? by John Hall Wheelock
1963
The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849 by Cecil Woodham-Smith
1963
The Edge of the Storm by Agustín Yañez
1963

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