Notable Books List1974

Given by CODES: Notable Books Council

Other Names: ALA Notable Books for Adults, RUSA Notable Books List
30 Works 80,936 Books 1,353 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
Watership Down by Richard Adams
1974
The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson by Bernard Bailyn
1974
Aldous Huxley: A Biography by Sybille Bedford
1974
Executive Privilege: A Constitutional Myth by Raoul Berger
1974
The Memory of Old Jack by Wendell Berry
1974
The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski
1974
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
1974
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
1974
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
1974
Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made by Eugene D. Genovese
1974
The Odd Woman by Gail Godwin
1974
Paine by David Freeman Hawke
1974
Something Happened by Joseph Heller
1974
Noise in the Trees : Poems and a Memoir by William Heyen
1974
The Case Worker by George Konrad
1974
Sir Walter Ralegh by Robert Lacey
1974
Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman by Merle Miller
1974
The Fearful Void by Geoffrey Moorhouse
1974
The European Discovery of America, vol. 2, The Southern Voyages, A.D. 1492–1616 by Samuel Eliot Morison
1974
Behold Man: A Photographic Journey of Discovery Inside the Body by Lennart Nilsson
1974
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
1974
The Palace Guard by Dan Rather
1974
All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw by Theodore Rosengarten
1974
Muscle and blood by Rachel Scott
1974
Between Me and Life: A Biography of Romaine Brooks by Meryle Secrest
1974
Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
1974
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do by Studs Terkel
1974
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas
1974
Whistler: A Biography by Stanley Weintraub
1974
All the President's Men by Bob Woodward
1974

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