Notable Books List1983

Given by CODES: Notable Books Council

Other Names: ALA Notable Books for Adults, RUSA Notable Books List
44 Works 35,756 Books 713 Reviews ½ 3.9
"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
Disraeli by Sarah Bradford
1983
Bricktop by Bricktop
1983
Cathedral: Stories by Raymond Carver
1983
During the Reign of the Queen of Persia by Joan Chase
1983
On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin
1983
The Kingfisher by Amy Clampitt
1983
Salvador by Joan Didion
1983
Politics and Money: The New Road to Corruption by Elizabeth Drew
1983
The Times Are Never So Bad: A Novella and Eight Short Stories by Andre Dubus
1983
Generations: An American Family by John Egerton
1983
Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey
1983
Eleni by Nicholas Gage
1983
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1983
Blue Highways: A Journey into America by William Least Heat-Moon
1983
Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
1983
Son of the Revolution by Liang Heng
1983
The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House by Seymour M. Hersh
1983
Scientific Temperaments: Three Lives in Contemporary Science by Philip J. Hilts
1983
Without Honor: Defeat in Vietnam and Cambodia by Arnold R. Isaacs
1983
Ornamentalism: The New Decorativeness In Architecture & Design by Robert Jensen
1983
Ironweed by William Kennedy
1983
The Africans by David Lamb
1983
F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography by André Le Vot
1983
Magnetic Field(s) by Ron Loewinsohn
1983
Cal by Bernard MacLaverty
1983
The Stories of Bernard Malamud by Bernard Malamud
1983
Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the Forgotten Man by Robert S. McElvaine
1983
The Philosopher's Pupil by Iris Murdoch
1983
Peron: A Biography by Joseph A. Page
1983
The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake by Breece D'J Pancake
1983
William Morris Textiles by Linda Parry
1983
Jurgis Petraskas: Poems by Anthony Petrosky
1983
All Under Heaven: The Chinese World by Eliot Porter
1983
The Rosenberg File by Ronald Radosh
1983
All American Music by John Rockwell
1983
Shame by Salman Rushdie
1983
For the World to See: The Life of Margaret Bourke-White by Jonathan Silverman
1983
Picture Bride (Yale Series of Younger Poets) by Cathy Song
1983
The London Embassy by Paul Theroux
1983
Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism by John Updike
1983
Distant Water: The Fate of the North Atlantic Fisherman by William W. Warner
1983
Sent for You Yesterday by John Edgar Wideman
1983
Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orange by Fred A. Wilcox
1983
Meditations in Green by Stephen Wright
1983

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