Notable Books List1984

Given by CODES: Notable Books Council

Other Names: ALA Notable Books for Adults, RUSA Notable Books List
43 Works 26,553 Books 432 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
In Exile from the Land of Snows: The Definitive Account of the Dalai Lama and Tibet Since the Chinese Conquest by John Avedon
1984
With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson by Mary Catherine Bateson
1984
The Hills: More Tales from the Blue Stacks, Stories of Ireland by Robert Bernen
1984
Diane Arbus: A Biography by Patricia Bosworth
1984
Civil Wars by Rosellen Brown
1984
Home Before Dark by Susan Cheever
1984
Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee
1984
Son of the Morning Star by Evan S. Connell
1984
Geisha by Liza Dalby
1984
The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, 1941-1944 by Lucjan Dobroszycki
1984
Lives of the Poets: Six Stories and a Novella by E. L. Doctorow
1984
A House in the Country by José Donoso
1984
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
1984
Reflections of nature : flowers in American art by Ella M. Foshay
1984
Victory over Japan: A Book of Stories by Ellen Gilchrist
1984
Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility by Germaine Greer
1984
The Tie That Binds by Kent Haruf
1984
Redesigning the American Dream: Gender, Housing, and Family Life by Dolores Hayden
1984
In a Patch of Fireweed: A Biologist's Life in the Field by Bernd Heinrich
1984
River by Ted Hughes
1984
Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life by Jane Jacobs
1984
In Another Country by Susan Kenney
1984
Gulf Coast: Where Land Meets Sea by C. C. Lockwood
1984
A Slot Machine, a Broken Test Tube: An Autobiography by Salvador Edward Luria
1984
Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
1984
The Ledge between the Streams by Ved Mehta
1984
Journeys by Jan Morris
1984
The Dead and the Living by Sharon Olds
1984
The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka by Ernst Pawel
1984
Machine Dreams by Jayne Anne Phillips
1984
Edisto by Padgett Powell
1984
Salmon by Atsushi Sakurai
1984
The Nightmare Years 1930-1940 (20th Century Journey: A Memoir of a Life and the Times) by William L. Shirer
1984
The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci by Jonathan D. Spence
1984
Waterland by Graham Swift
1984
Deadly gambits : the Reagan administration and the stalemate in nuclear arms control by Strobe Talbott
1984
The Good War: An Oral History of World War II by Studs Terkel
1984
Bloods: Black Veterans of the Vietnam War: An Oral History by Wallace Terry
1984
Leaving the Land by Douglas Unger
1984
One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty
1984
Brothers and Keepers by John Edgar Wideman
1984
A Late Divorce by A. B. Yehoshua
1984
Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet by Paul Zweig
1984

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