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Works (595)

Titles	Order
The Ash Garden by Dennis Bock	2001
The Bay of Angels by Anita Brookner	2001
Carry Me Across the Water by Ethan Canin	2001
Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold	2001
The Clothes They Stood Up In by Alan Bennett	2001
The Columnist by Jeffrey Frank	2001
The Constant Gardener by John le Carré	2001
Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews -- A History by James Carroll	2001
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen	2001
The Deadwood Beetle by Mylene Dressler	2001
Death of a River Guide by Richard Flanagan	2001
The Dinosaur Hunters: A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World by Deborah Cadbury	2001
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn	2001
Empire Falls by Richard Russo	2001
Everything You Need by A. L. Kennedy	2001
Ex-Libris by Ross King	2001
The Grand Complication by Allen Kurzweil	2001
The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi	2001
How to Be Good by Nick Hornby	2001
John Adams by David McCullough	2001
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich	2001
Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards	2001
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand	2001
Paradise Park by Allegra Goodman	2001
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger	2001
The Shaping of a Life: A Spiritual Landscape by Phyllis Tickle	2001
Thinks . . . by David Lodge	2001
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey	2001
Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Niven — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
Aged by Culture by Margaret Morganroth Gullette — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
Aloft by Chang-Rae Lee — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2004
American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans by Eve LaPlante	Nonfiction, 2004
Apprentice to the Flower Poet Z.: A Novel by Debra Weinstein — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2004
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution by Laurent Dubois	Nonfiction, 2004
The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America's Largest Labor Uprising by Robert Shogan — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
Birds Without Wings by Louis De Bernières	Fiction, 2004
Bloodsworth: The True Story of the First Death Row Inmate Exonerated by DNA by Tim Junkin	Nonfiction, 2004
But Come Ye Back: A Novel in Stories by Beth Lordan — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2004
Chain of Command: the Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib by Seymour M. Hersh — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
Confessions of a Tax Collector: One Man's Tour of Duty Inside the IRS by Richard Yancey — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2004
The Cult of Personality Testing: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves by Annie Murphy Paul — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
The Darling by Russell Banks	Ficion, 2004
Dresden: Tuesday, February 13, 1945 by Frederick Taylor — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2004
An Evening of Long Goodbyes by Paul Murray — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2004
Eventide by Kent Haruf — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2004
The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2004
The First Crusade: A New History by Thomas Asbridge — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
Four Souls by Louise Erdrich — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2004
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom by Conrad Black	Nonfiction, 2004
Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the China He Lost by Jonathan Fenby — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War by Evan Wright — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2004
Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom by Catherine Clinton	Nonfiction, 2004
Help: The Original Human Dilemma by Garret Keizer — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
Human Capital: A Novel by Stephen Amidon — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2004
Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror by Michael F. Scheuer — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed (Plus) by Carl Honoré — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
The Iraq War by John Keegan — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2004
Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theater, His Dance by Deborah Jowitt — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2004
Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation by Rhys Isaac — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2004
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2004
Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir by Neely Tucker — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
The Master by Colm Tóibín — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2004
Miracle at Sing Sing: How One Man Transformed the Lives of America's Most Dangerous Prisoners by Ralph Blumenthal — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale by Gillian Gill — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
Osama: The Making of a Terrorist by Jonathan Randal — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime: From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism by Geoffrey R. Stone — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2004
Prince Edward: A Novel by Dennis McFarland — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2004
Reformation : Europe's house divided : 1490-1700 by Diarmaid MacCulloch — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
Shostakovich and Stalin: The Extraordinary Relationship Between the Great Composer and the Brutal Dictator by Solomon Volkov — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
Someone to Run With by David Grossman — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2004
Somerset Maugham: A Life by Jeffrey Meyers — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
Spice: The History of a Temptation by Jack Turner — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness by Karen Armstrong — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
Spirit and Flesh: Life in a Fundamentalist Baptist Church by James M. Ault — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
The State Boys Rebellion by Michael D'Antonio — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2004
The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World by Alister McGrath — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
Voyageurs by Margaret Elphinstone — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2004
War Trash by Ha Jin — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2004
Waterborne by Bruce Murkoff	Fiction, 2004
Western Muslims and the Future of Islam by Tariq Ramadan — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
What's Right with Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West by Feisal Abdul Rauf — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
Wild Grass: Three Portraits of Change in Modern China by Ian Johnson — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations by James Surowiecki — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2004
The Work of Wolves by Kent Meyers — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2004
You Remind Me of Me by Dan Chaon — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2004
1776 by David McCullough — not in English Common Knowledge	History, 2005
The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa by Michael Kimmelman — not in English Common Knowledge	Art, 2005
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2005
The Beatles: The Biography by Bob Spitz — not in English Common Knowledge	Music, 2005
Becoming Justice Blackmun : Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court journey by Linda Greenhouse — not in English Common Knowledge	Biography, 2005
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2005
The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton by Jerome Karabel — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2005
The Fate of Africa by Martin Meredith — not in English Common Knowledge	History, 2005
The Final Solution. A Story of Detection by Michael Chabon — not in English Common Knowledge	Mystery, 2005
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2005
Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2005
The Ha-Ha by Dave King — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2005
His Oldest Friend: The Story of an Unlikely Bond by Sonny Kleinfield — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2005
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2005
In the Shadow of the Law by Kermit Roosevelt — not in English Common Knowledge	Mystery, 2005
Ireland by Frank Delaney — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2005
Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws That Changed America by Nick Kotz — not in English Common Knowledge	History, 2005
The King of Kings County by Whitney Terrell — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2005
The Lady and the Panda: The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal by Vicki Croke — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2005
The Last Coach: A Life of Paul "Bear" Bryant by Allen Barra — not in English Common Knowledge	Sport, 2005
Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads by Greil Marcus — not in English Common Knowledge	Music, 2005
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly — not in English Common Knowledge	Mystery, 2005
The lost German slave girl by John Bailey — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2005
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang — not in English Common Knowledge	Biography, 2005
March by Geraldine Brooks — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2005
The March by E. L. Doctorow — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2005
Mark Twain: A Life by Ron Powers — not in English Common Knowledge	Biography, 2005
Marley & Me by John Grogan — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2005
Miss Leavitt's Stars : The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe by George Johnson — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2005
My Jim by Nancy Rawles — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2005
New Art City by Jed Perl — not in English Common Knowledge	Art, 2005
Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by Lydia Millet	Fiction, 2005
On Beauty by Zadie Smith — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2005
The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2005
Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa — not in English Common Knowledge	History, 2005
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard	Nonfiction, 2005
Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix by Charles R. Cross — not in English Common Knowledge	Music, 2005
Sarah's Long Walk: How the Free Blacks of Boston and their Struggle for Equality Changed America by Stephen Kendrick — not in English Common Knowledge	History, 2005
Saturday by Ian McEwan — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2005
The Sea by John Banville — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2005
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie	Fiction, 2005
A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullin — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2005
The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House by John F. Harris — not in English Common Knowledge	Biography, 2005
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin — not in English Common Knowledge	Biography, 2005
Thirteen ways of looking at the novel by Jane Smiley — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2005
Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager by Buzz Bissinger — not in English Common Knowledge	Sport, 2005
Tilt-a-Whirl by Chris Grabenstein — not in English Common Knowledge	Mystery, 2005
Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev by Robert Dessaix — not in English Common Knowledge	Memoir, 2005
Two Lives by Vikram Seth — not in English Common Knowledge	Memoir, 2005
When Computers Were Human by David Alan Grier — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2005
When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt After the White House by Patricia O'Toole — not in English Common Knowledge	Biography, 2005
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2005
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion — not in English Common Knowledge	Memoir, 2005
Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund	General Fiction, 2006
The Accidental by Ali Smith — not in English Common Knowledge	General Fiction, 2006
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2006
Arthur & George by Julian Barnes — not in English Common Knowledge	General Fiction, 2006
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 by Taylor Branch	Biography, 2006
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell — not in English Common Knowledge	General Ficion, 2006
Cellophane by Marie Arana — not in English Common Knowledge	General Fiction, 2006
Digging to America by Anne Tyler — not in English Common Knowledge	General Fiction, 2006
The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History by Jonathan Franzen — not in English Common Knowledge	Biography, 2006
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud — not in English Common Knowledge	General Fiction, 2006
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2006
Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury — not in English Common Knowledge	General Fiction, 2006
The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood by Sy Montgomery — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2006
Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2006
Imperium by Robert Harris — not in English Common Knowledge	General Fiction, 2006
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai — not in English Common Knowledge	General Fiction, 2006
The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd — not in English Common Knowledge	General Fiction, 2006
The Last of Her Kind by Sigrid Nunez — not in English Common Knowledge	General Fiction, 2006
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford — not in English Common Knowledge	General Fiction, 2006
LBJ: Architect of American Ambition by Randall Woods — not in English Common Knowledge	Biography, 2006
Leaving Home by Anita Brookner — not in English Common Knowledge	General Fiction, 2006
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2006
Let Me Finish by Roger Angell — not in English Common Knowledge	Memoir, 2006
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir by Bill Bryson — not in English Common Knowledge	Memoir, 2006
Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power by Richard Carwardine — not in English Common Knowledge	Biography, 2006
A Long, Long Way by Sebastian Barry — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2006
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2006
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson — not in English Common Knowledge	Mysteries/thrillers, 2006
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2006
The Mission Song by John le Carré — not in English Common Knowledge	Mysteries/thrillers, 2006
Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee by Charles J. Shields — not in English Common Knowledge	Biography, 2006
Modigliani: A Life by Jeffrey Meyers — not in English Common Knowledge	Biography, 2006
My Life in France by Julia Child — not in English Common Knowledge	Memoir, 2006
The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 by Ron Suskind — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2006
Operation Yao Ming: The Chinese Sports Empire, American Big Business, and the Making of an NBA Superstar by Brook Larmer — not in English Common Knowledge	Biography, 2006
Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China by Peter Hessler — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2006
The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard — not in English Common Knowledge	Mysteries/thrillers, 2006
Pearl by Mary Gordon — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2006
The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq by Rory Stewart — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2006
The Producer: John Hammond and the Soul of American Music by Dunstan Prial — not in English Common Knowledge	Biography, 2006
The Rainaldi Quartet by Paul Adam — not in English Common Knowledge	Mysteries/thrillers, 2006
The Road by Cormac McCarthy — not in English Common Knowledge	General Fiction, 2006
The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups by Ron Rosenbaum — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2006
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl — not in English Common Knowledge	General Fiction, 2006
State of Denial by Bob Woodward — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2006
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky — not in English Common Knowledge	General Fiction, 2006
The Summer Snow by Rebecca Pawel — not in English Common Knowledge	Mysteries/thrillers, 2006
Talk Talk by T. C. Boyle — not in English Common Knowledge	General Fiction, 2006
Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey — not in English Common Knowledge	General Fiction, 2006
There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children by Melissa Fay Greene	2006
Things I Didn't Know: A Memoir by Robert Hughes — not in English Common Knowledge	Memoir, 2006
Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York by Adam Gopnik — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2006
Tigers in Red Weather: A Quest for the Last Wild Tigers by Ruth Padel — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2006
Tilting at Windmills: A Novel of Cervantes and the Errant Knight by Julian Branston — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction,2006
Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2006
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2006
After Dark by Haruki Murakami — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2007
American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion by Paul M. Barrett — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2007
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2007
The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor by William Langewiesche — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2007
Boomsday by Christopher Buckley — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2007
Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2007
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2007
The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam (Vintage Departures) by Tom Bissell — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2007
Finn by Jon Clinch — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2007
God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America by Hanna Rosin — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfition, 2007
Gomorrah: A Personal Journey Into The Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System by Roberto Saviano — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2007
Heyday by Kurt Andersen — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2007
In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2007
Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire by Alex von Tunzelmann — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2007
The Kings of New York: A Year Among the Geeks, Oddballs, and Genuises Who Make Up America's Top HighSchool Chess Team by Michael Weinreb — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2007
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke	2007
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2007
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2007
Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcón — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2007
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2007
The Maytrees: A Novel by Annie Dillard — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2007
Paula Spencer by Roddy Doyle — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2007
Petropolis by Anya Ulinich — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2007
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2007
Run by Ann Patchett — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2007
The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2007
The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2007
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2007
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2007
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2007
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2007
Zoli by Colum McCann — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2007
All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well by Tod Wodicka	Fiction, 2008
America America by Ethan Canin	Fiction, 2008
The Black Tower by Louis Bayard	Fiction, 2008
The Blue Star: A Novel by Tony Earley	Fiction, 2008
Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America by Jonathan Gould	Nonfiction, 2008
City of Refuge by Tom Piazza	Fiction, 2008
Driftless by David Rhodes	Fiction, 2008
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery	Fiction, 2008
Exit Music by Ian Rankin	Fiction, 2008
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang	Nonfiction, 2008
The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century by Edward Dolnick	Nonfiction, 2008
Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon--and the Journey of a Generation by Sheila Weller	Nonfiction, 2008
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane	Fiction, 2008
A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam	Fiction, 2008
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer	Fiction, 2008
Home by Marilynne Robinson	Fiction, 2008
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman	Nonfiction, 2008
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan	Nonfiction, 2008
John Lennon: The Life by Philip Norman	Nonfiction, 2008
The Journal of Hélène Berr by Hélène Berr	Nonfiction, 2008
The Konkans by Tony D'Souza	Fiction, 2008
The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America by Thurston Clarke	Nonfiction, 2008
The Likeness by Tana French	Fiction, 2008
McMafia: Crime without Frontiers by Misha Glenny	Nonfiction, 2008
A Mercy by Toni Morrison	Fiction, 2008
A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré	Fiction, 2008
My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq by Ariel Sabar	Nonfiction, 2008
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill	Fiction, 2008
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein	Nonfiction, 2008
The Nuclear Jihadist: The True Story of the Man Who Sold the World's Most Dangerous Secrets...And How We Could Have Stopped Him by Douglas Frantz	Nonfiction, 2008
The Numerati by Stephen Baker	Nonfiction, 2008
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell	Nonfiction, 2008
Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer by Shannon Brownlee	Nonfiction, 2008
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich	Fiction, 2008
The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria	Nonfiction, 2008
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh	Fiction, 2008
I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass	Fiction, 2008
Serena by Ron Rash	Fiction, 2008
So Brave, Young and Handsome: A Novel by Leif Enger	Fiction, 2008
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski	Fiction, 2008
A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade by Christopher Benfey	Nonfiction, 2008
The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret by Seth Shulman	Nonfiction, 2008
Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner	Fiction, 2008
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America by David Hajdu	Nonfiction, 2008
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library) by Drew Gilpin Faust	Nonfiction, 2008
When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson	Fiction, 2008
White Heat by Brenda Wineapple	Nonfiction, 2008
A. Lincoln: A Biography by Ronald C. White	Nonfiction, 2009
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes	Nonfiction, 2009
The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker	Fiction, 2009
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson	Nonfiction, 2009
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan	Nonfiction, 2009
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba	Nonfiction, 2009
Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey	Nonfiction, 2009
The Children's Book by A. S. Byatt	Fiction, 2009
The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President by Taylor Branch	Nonfiction, 2009
Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality by Barbara Bradley Hagerty	Nonfiction, 2009
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T. J. Stiles	Nonfiction, 2009
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore	Fiction, 2009
The Good Soldiers by David Finkel	Nonfiction, 2009
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability by David Owen	Nonfiction, 2009
The Help by Kathryn Stockett	Fiction, 2009
Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan by Doug Stanton	Nonfiction, 2009
Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips	Fiction, 2009
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann	Fiction, 2009
Lit: A Memoir by Mary Karr	Nonfiction, 2009
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann	Nonfiction, 2009
Love and Summer by William Trevor	Fiction, 2009
Mathilda Savitch by Victor Lodato	Fiction, 2009
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit	Nonfiction, 2009
Provenance: how a con man and a forger rewrote the history of modern art by Laney Salisbury	Nonfiction, 2009
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford	Nonfiction, 2009
Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Found the Hidden Gospels by Janet Soskice	Nonfiction, 2009
The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe	Nonfiction, 2009
The Somme: The Darkest Hour on the Western Front by Peter Hart	Nonfiction, 2009
Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder	Nonfiction, 2009
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman	Nonfiction, 2009
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	Fiction, 2009
The Third Reich at War by Richard J. Evans	Nonfiction, 2009
The Weight of Heaven by Thrity Umrigar	Fiction, 2009
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel	Fiction, 2009
Woodsburner by John Pipkin	Fiction, 2009
A World of Trouble by Patrick Tyler	Nonfiction, 2009
36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction by Rebecca Goldstein	Fiction, 2010
At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson	Nonfiction, 2010
Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste	Fiction, 2010
Berlin at War. Life and Death in Hitler's Capital, 1939-45 by Roger Moorhouse	Nonfiction, 2010
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis	Nonfiction, 2010
Chocolate Wars: The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World's Greatest Chocolate Makers by Deborah Cadbury	Nonfiction, 2010
Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip by Peter Hessler	Nonfiction, 2010
Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of The Berlin Airlift-June 1948-May 1949 by Richard Reeves	Nonfiction, 2010
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S. C. Gwynne	Nonfiction, 2010
Faithful Place by Tana French	Fiction, 2010
The Fiddler in the Subway: The Story of the World-Class Violinist Who Played for Handouts. . . And Other Virtuoso Performances by America's Foremost Feature Writer by Gene Weingarten	Nonfiction, 2010
The Grace of Silence: A Memoir by Michele Norris	Nonfiction, 2010
Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the International Hunt for His Assassin by Hampton Sides	Nonfiction, 2010
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman	Fiction, 2010
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer	2010
The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood by Jane Leavy	Nonfiction, 2010
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent	Nonfiction, 2010
Let the Swords Encircle Me: Iran--A Journey Behind the Headlines by Scott Peterson	Nonfiction, 2010
Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship by Gail Caldwell	Nonfiction, 2010
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson	Fiction, 2010
Mark Twain: Man in White: The Grand Adventure of His Final Years by Michael Shelden	Nonfiction, 2010
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick	Nonfiction, 2010
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach	Nonfiction, 2010
Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb	Nonfiction, 2010
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey	Fiction, 2010
Poetry in Person: Twenty-five Years of Conversation with America's Poets by Alexander Neubauer	Nonfiction, 2010
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman	Nonfiction, 2010
Room by Emma Donoghue	Fiction, 2010
Ruby's Spoon by Anna Lawrence Pietroni	Fiction, 2010
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant	Nonfiction, 2010
Tinkers by Paul Harding	Fiction, 2010
To the End of the Land by David Grossman	Fiction, 2010
Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier	Nonfiction, 2010
I Want to Be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here on Earth by Brenda Peterson	Nonfiction, 2010
The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 by Evan Thomas	Nonfiction, 2010
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson	Nonfiction, 2010
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow	Nonfiction, 2010
The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea by Philip Hoare	Nonfiction, 2010
Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed by Judy Pasternak	2010
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami	Fiction, 2011
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach	Fiction, 2011
Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories by Edith Pearlman	Fiction, 2011
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton	Nonfiction, 2011
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis	Nonfiction, 2011
The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje	Fiction, 2011
Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War by Annia Ciezadlo	Nonfiction, 2011
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard	Nonfiction, 2011
Doc by Mary Doria Russell	Fiction, 2011
Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock by David Margolick	Nonfiction, 2011
Grant's Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year by Charles Bracelen Flood	Nonfiction, 2011
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough	Nonfiction, 2011
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson	Nonfiction, 2011
The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War by Ben Shepard	Nonfiction, 2011
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable	Nonfiction, 2011
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides	Fiction, 2011
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz	Nonfiction, 2011
Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II by Michael Burleigh	Nonfiction, 2011
Nightwoods by Charles Frazier	Fiction, 2011
Once Upon a River by Bonnie Jo Campbell	Fiction, 2011
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean	Nonfiction, 2011
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett	Fiction, 2011
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson	Nonfiction, 2011
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht	Fiction, 2011
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 by Adam Hochschild	Nonfiction, 2011
Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2012
Arcadia by Lauren Groff — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2012
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2012
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2012
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2012
Canada by Richard Ford — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2012
Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2012
The Distance Between Us: A Memoir by Reyna Grande — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2012
Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2012
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2012
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden	Nonfiction, 2012
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2012
In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner	Fiction, 2012
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2012
The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer by Anne-Marie O'Connor	Nonfiction, 2012
The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2012
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2012
Reagan and Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship by Richard Aldous — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2012
The Round House by Louise Erdrich — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2012
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2012
Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power by Seth Rosenfeld — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2012
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2012
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2012
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2012
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2012
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2013
Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven by John Eliot Gardiner — not in English Common Knowledge	2013
The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster by Jonathan M. Katz — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2013
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2013
Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2013
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2013
Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned The Tide in the Second World War by Paul Kennedy — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2013
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2013
For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet's Journey through a Chinese Prison by Liao Yiwu — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2013
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2013
The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind and Changed the History of Free Speech in America by Thomas Healy	Nonfiction, 2013
Harvest by Jim Crace — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2013
How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2013
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2013
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2013
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2013
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2013
MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2013
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing by Anya Von Bremzen — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2013
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2013
The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2013
Sycamore Row by John Grisham — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2013
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki — not in English Common Knowledge	fiction, 2013
The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese by Michael Paterniti	Nonfiction, 2013
Thank You for Your Service by David Finkel — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2013
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2013
The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 by Margaret MacMillan — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2013
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2013
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2013
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2013
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos	Non-fiction, 2014
All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu	Fiction, 2014
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr	Fiction, 2014
Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph by Jan Swafford — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2014
A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention by Matt Richtel — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2014
Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town by Beth Macy — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2014
Florence Gordon by Brian Morton	Fiction, 2014
The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames by Kai Bird — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2014
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2014
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2014
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbott — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2014
Lila by Marilynne Robinson	Fiction, 2014
The Magician's Land by Lev Grossman	Fiction, 2014
A Map of Betrayal by Ha Jin	Fiction, 2014
Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín	Fiction, 2014
On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee	Fiction, 2014
Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah	Fiction, 2014
Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp by Lawrence Wright — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2014
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine	Fiction, 2014
Unremarried Widow: A Memoir by Artis Henderson — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2014
All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West by David Gessner	Nonfiction, 2015
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia by Michael Booth	2015
The Automobile Club of Egypt by Alaa al-Aswani	Fiction, 2015
The Big Green Tent by Ludmila Ulitskaya	Fiction, 2015
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2015
Flood of Fire by Amitav Ghosh	Fiction, 2015
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America by Jill Leovy — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2015
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2015
Green on Blue: A Novel by Elliot Ackerman	Fiction, 2015
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2015
Honeydew by Edith Pearlman — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2015
The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower by Michael Pillsbury — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2015
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War by Lynsey Addario	Nonfiction, 2015
The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures by William deBuys	Nonfiction, 2015
Leaving Before the Rains Come by Alexandra Fuller — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2015
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice by Bill Browder	Nonfiction, 2015
The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2015
Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor by James M. Scott	Nonfiction, 2015
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2015
Vanessa and Her Sister by Priya Parmar — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2015
America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History by Andrew Bacevich	Nonfiction, 2016
Another Brooklyn: A Novel by Jacqueline Woodson — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2016
Barkskins by Annie Proulx	Fiction, 2016
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2016
The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family by Gail Lumet Buckley	Nonfiction, 2016
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2016
The Bones of Grace by Tahmima Anam — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2016
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2016
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2016
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2016
Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall by Nina Willner — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2016
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2016
An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler by Peter Fritzsche — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2016
The Kindness of Enemies by Leila Aboulela — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2016
LaRose by Louise Erdrich — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2016
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies by Ross King — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2016
Moonglow by Michael Chabon — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2016
Napoleon's Last Island by Thomas Keneally — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2016
New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America by Wendy Warren	Nonfiction, 2016
The Nix by Nathan Hill	Fiction, 2016
The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes	Fiction, 2016
Raoul Wallenberg: The Heroic Life and Mysterious Disappearance of the Man Who Saved Thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust by Ingrid Carlberg	Nonfiction, 2016
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2016
The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2016
The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition by Manisha Sinha	Nonfiction, 2016
Somme: Into the Breach by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2016
Swing Time by Zadie Smith — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2016
Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America by Douglas R. Egerton — not in English Common Knowledge	2016
Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple	Fiction, 2016
The Trespasser by Tana French	Fiction, 2016
Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2017
Be Free or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero by Cate Lineberry — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2017
Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898-1940 by Jed Perl — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2017
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy	Nonfiction, 2017
Dark at the Crossing by Elliot Ackerman — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2017
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2017
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2017
Glass Houses by Louise Penny	Fiction, 2017
The Golden Legend by Nadeem Aslam	Fiction, 2017
The Gourmands' Way: Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy by Justin Spring	Nonfiction, 2017
Grant by Ron Chernow — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2017
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2017
Henry David Thoreau: A Life by Laura Dassow Walls — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2017
Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam by Mark Bowden	Nonfiction, 2017
The Leavers by Lisa Ko — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2017
Lenin the Dictator: An Intimate Portrait by Victor Sebestyen	Nonfiction, 2017
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2017
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2017
The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis by Patrick Kingsley — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2017
An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2017
The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories by Penelope Lively — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2017
Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship by Michelle Kuo	Nonfiction, 2017
Salt Houses by Hala Alyan	Fiction, 2017
Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World's Oceans by James Stavridis — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2017
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2017
The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao by Ian Johnson — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2017
Stanton: Lincoln’s War Secretary by Walter Stahr — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2017
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor	Fiction, 2017
Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War by Daniel J. Sharfstein — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2017
I Was Told to Come Alone by Souad Mekhennet — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2017
All the Lives We Never Lived by Anuradha Roy	Fiction, 2018
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston	Nonfiction, 2018
Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C.S. Lewis by Patti Callahan	Fiction, 2018
The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq by Dunya Mikhail	Nonfiction, 2018
The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Table by Rick Bragg	Nonfiction, 2018
Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island by Earl Swift	Nonfiction, 2018
Circe by Madeline Miller	Fiction, 2018
Clock Dance by Anne Tyler	Fiction, 2018
The Cloister by James Carroll	Fiction, 2018
Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen: A Novel by Sarah Bird	Fiction, 2018
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker	Nonfiction, 2018
Fisherman's Blues: A West African Community at Sea by Anna Badkhen	Nonfiction, 2018
Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948 by Ramachandra Guha	Nonfiction, 2018
Gateway to the Moon: A Novel by Mary Morris	Fiction, 2018
Greeks Bearing Gifts by Philip Kerr	Fiction, 2018
The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar	Fiction, 2018
The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley	Fiction, 2018
No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria by Rania Abouzeid	Nonfiction, 2018
Our Homesick Songs by Emma Hooper	Fiction, 2018
Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown by Lauren Hilgers	Nonfiction, 2018
Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World by Miles J. Unger	Nonfiction, 2018
Reagan: An American Journey by Bob Spitz	Nonfiction, 2018
Reporter: A Memoir by Seymour M. Hersh	Nonfiction, 2018
Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist by Eli Saslow	Nonfiction, 2018
Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution by Todd S. Purdum	Nonfiction, 2018
Transcription by Kate Atkinson	Fiction, 2018
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver	Fiction, 2018
The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine F. Weiss	Nonfiction, 2018
Akin by Emma Donoghue	Fiction, 2019
Ayesha At Last by Uzma Jalaluddin	Fiction, 2019
Battling Bella: The Protest Politics of Bella Abzug by Leandra Ruth Zarnow	Nonfiction, 2019
Busted in New York and Other Essays by Darryl Pinckney	Nonfiction, 2019
Chances Are… by Richard Russo	Fiction, 2019
The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando by William J. Mann	Nonfiction, 2019
The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir by Samantha Power	Nonfiction, 2019
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes	Fiction, 2019
A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century by Jason DeParle	Nonfiction, 2019
The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future by Jon Gertner	Nonfiction, 2019
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See	Fiction, 2019
Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution by Helen Zia	Nonfiction, 2019
The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts by Karen Armstrong	Nonfiction, 2019
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham	Nonfiction, 2019
Music: A Subversive History by Ted Gioia	Nonfiction, 2019
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead	Fiction, 2019
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer	2019
Out of Darkness, Shining Light by Petina Gappah	Fiction, 2019
The Parisian by Isabella Hammad	Fiction, 2019
The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History by Nathalia Holt	Nonfiction, 2019
Strangers and Cousins: A Novel by Leah Hager Cohen	Fiction, 2019
The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H. G. Parry	Fiction, 2019
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates	Fiction, 2019
The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman	2019
Young Castro: the making of a revolutionary by Jonathan M. Hansen	Nonfiction, 2019

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