Notable Books List2022

Given by CODES: Notable Books Council

Other Names: ALA Notable Books for Adults, RUSA Notable Books List
25 Works 20,390 Books 882 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
WorkCategoryYear
The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine
Fiction2022
Gordo by Jaime Cortez
Fiction2022
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
Fiction2022
Matrix by Lauren Groff
Fiction2022
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Fiction2022
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Fiction2022
Painting Time by Maylis de Kerangal
Fiction2022
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
Fiction2022
Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
Fiction2022
The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade
Fiction2022
Afterparties: Stories by Anthony Veasna So
Fiction2022
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
Nonfiction2022
The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town by Brian Alexander
Nonfiction2022
Poet Warrior: A Memoir by Joy Harjo
Nonfiction2022
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn
Nonfiction2022
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
Nonfiction2022
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi
Nonfiction2022
English Pastoral: An Inheritance by James Rebanks
Nonfiction2022
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert
Nonfiction2022
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery across America by Clint Smith
Nonfiction2022
Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space by Stephen Walker
Nonfiction2022
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds by Scott Weidensaul
Nonfiction2022
Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems by Rita Dove
Poetry2022
Winter Recipes from the Collective: Poems by Louise Glück
Poetry2022
The Renunciations: Poems by Donika Kelly
Poetry2022

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