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National Book Critics Circle
2008 (Criticism)
Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter (University of Chicago Press)
Click to search this book in our catalog   Seth Lerer
Library Journal : Starred Review. Apropos of his subject matter, Lerer (English & comparative literature, Stanfo...More
2008 (Criticism)
Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter (University of Chicago Press)
Click to search this book in our catalog   Seth Lerer
Library Journal : Starred Review. Apropos of his subject matter, Lerer (English & comparative literature, Stanfo...More
2008 (Poetry)
Sleeping It Off in Rapid City (Farrar, Strauss)
Click to search this book in our catalog   August Kleinzahler
Library Journal : Kleinzahler's tone might be world-weary, his characters slightly frayed, but each poem in this...More
 
2008 (Poetry)
Half the World in Light(University of Arizona Press)
 Juan Felipe Herrera
Library Journal : Herrera has been honing his writing for 40 years, through 12 collections, so it's hardly surpr...More
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2008 (Autobiography)
My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
 Ariel Sabar
Library Journal : Sabar, a former political reporter for the Christian Science Monitor, grew up as a typical ...More
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2008 (Biography)
The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul
 Patrick French
Library Journal : This sweeping biography follows the Nobel laureate from his childhood in Trinidad to his college y...More
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2008 (General Nonfiction)
The Forever War
Click to search this book in our catalog   Dexter Filkins
Publishers Weekly : Starred Review. Filkins, a New York Times prize–winning reporter, is widely regarde...More
2008 (Fiction)
2666
Click to search this book in our catalog   Roberto Bolaño
Library Journal : This sprawling, digressive, Jamesian "loose, baggy monster" reads like five independent ...More
2008 (Fiction)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Click to search this book in our catalog   Junot Diaz
Publishers Weekly : SignatureReviewed by Matthew SharpeAreader might at first be surprised by how many chapte...More
 
2008 (Nonfiction)
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experiments on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
 Harriet Washington
Publishers Weekly: Starred Review. This groundbreaking study documents that the infamous Tuskegee experiments, in wh...More
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2008 (Biography)
Stanley, the Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer
 Tim Jeal
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2007 (Fiction)
The Inheritance of Loss
 Kiran Desai
Library Journal: A shell of his once imposing self, retired magistrate Patel retreats from society to live on what w...More
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2007 (Nonfiction)
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
Click to search this book in our catalog   Simon Schama
Library Journal: Given his popularity, Schama, widely known for his 15-part BBC documentary, A History of Britain...More
2007 (Biography)
James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
Click to search this book in our catalog   Julie Phillips
Publishers Weekly: Starred Review. Journalist Phillips has achieved a wonder: an evenhanded, scrupulously documented...More
2006 (Fiction)
The March
Click to search this book in our catalog   E. L. Doctorow
Library Journal: Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's long and bloody march to the sea remains one of the most enigma...More
 
2006 (Nonfiction)
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of Nuclear Disaster
 Svetlana Alexievich
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2006 (Biography)
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
 Kai Bird
Library Journal: Recently, there has been a resurgence of interest in the life, career, achievements, and trials of ...More
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2005 (Fiction)
Gilead
 Marilynne Robinson
Publishers Weekly: Fans of Robinson's acclaimed debut Housekeeping (1981) will find that the long wait ha...More
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2005 (Nonfiction)
The Reformation: A History
Click to search this book in our catalog   Diarmaid MacCulloch
Library Journal: Does the world really need another general history of the Reformation? MacCulloch (history of the C...More
2005 (Biography)
De Kooning: An American Master
Click to search this book in our catalog   Mark Stevens
Publishers Weekly: This sweeping biography, 10 years in the making, chronicles in fastidious detail de Kooning's...More
2004 (Fiction)
The Known World
Click to search this book in our catalog   Edward P. Jones
 
2004 (Nonfiction)
Sons of Mississippi
 Paul Hendrickson
Library Journal: Hendrickson (The Living and the Dead) uses a photograph published in the July 1962 Life magazine as...More
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2004 (Biography)
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
 William Taubman
Library Journal : There has been a surprising paucity of information produced about the baby boomers' biggest bo...More
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2003 (Fiction)
Atonement
 Ian McEwan
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2003 (Nonfiction)
A Problem From Hell
Click to search this book in our catalog   Samantha Power
Publishers Weekly : Power, a former journalist for U.S. News and World Report and the Economist and now the executiv...More
2003 (Biography)
Charles Darwin
Click to search this book in our catalog   Janet Browne
Library Journal : This volume concludes a magisterial biography. The first volume, Charles Darwin: Voyaging, examine...More
2002 (Fiction)
Austerlitz
Click to search this book in our catalog   W. G. Sebald
Library Journal : This tremendously emotional novel is far easier to sum up than to evaluate: Jacques Austerlitz, an...More
 
2002 (Nonfiction)
Double Fold
 Nicholson Baker
Library Journal : Baker keeps going after libraries, this time for microfilming old newspapers and brittle books. ...More
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2002 (Biography)
Boswell's Presumptious Task
 Adam Sisman
Library Journal : Sisman, a former publisher and author of A.J.P. Taylor: A Biography, notes in his introduction tha...More
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2001 (Fiction)
Being Dead
 Jim Crace
Library Journal : While not well known in this country, Crace (Quarantine) is established in Britain, where this nat...More
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2001 (Nonfiction)
Newjack: Guarding Sing-Sing
Click to search this book in our catalog   Ted Conover
Library Journal : Having already documented the lives of illegal aliens (Coyotes) and hoboes (Rolling Nowhere), jour...More
2001 (Biography)
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Click to search this book in our catalog   Herbert Bix
2000 (Fiction)
Motherless Brooklyn
Click to search this book in our catalog   Jonathan Lethem
Library Journal : The short and shady life of Frank Minna ends in murder, shocking the four young men employed by hi...More
 
2000 (Nonfiction)
Time, Love, Memory
 Jonathan Weiner
Library Journal : Seymour Benzer is not likely to be mentioned by members of the general public as being among the g...More
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2000 (Biography)
The Hairstons
 Henry Wiencek
Library Journal : This profile of the Hairstons, a large family of planters and slaves spreading from Virginia and N...More
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1999 (Fiction)
The Love of a Good Woman
 Alice Munro
Library Journal : In the title story, set in the early spring of 1951, three young boys on a lark make a grim discov...More
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1999 (Nonfiction)
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
Click to search this book in our catalog   Philip Gourevitch
Library Journal : In 1994, the world was informed of the inexplicable mass killings in Rwanda, in which over 800,000...More
1999 (Biography)
A Beautiful MInd
Click to search this book in our catalog   Sylvia Nasar
Library Journal : John Forbes Nash's mathematical research would eventually win him a Nobel prize, but only after he...More
1998 (Fiction)
The Blue Flower
Click to search this book in our catalog   Penelope Fitzgerald
Library Journal : Fitzgerald never repeats herself, and her latest novel, named Book of the Year by 19 British newsp...More
 
1998 (Nonfiction)
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
 Anne Fadiman
Library Journal : Award-winning reporter Fadiman has turned what began as a magazine assignment into a riveting, cro...More
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1998 (Biography)
Ernie Pyle's War
 James Tobin
Publishers Weekly : No one on the flat plains of western Indiana could have foretold that a small, homely, self-depr...More
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1997 (Fiction)
Women in their Beds
 Gina Berriault
Publisher's Weekly : Whether focusing on yuppies or drifters, social workers or Indian restaurateurs, heroin addicts...More
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1997 (Nonfiction)
Bad Land
Click to search this book in our catalog   Jonathan Raban
Library Journal : Hunting Mister Heartbreak (LJ 4/15/91) told of British-born Raban's last journey through the Unite...More
1997 (Biography)
Angela's Ashes
Click to search this book in our catalog   Frank McCourt
Library Journal : McCourt is the eldest of eight children born to Angela Sheehan and Malachy McCourt in the 1920s. T...More
1996 (Fiction)
Mrs. Ted Bliss
Click to search this book in our catalog   Stanley Elkin
Library Journal : After her husband's death, Dorothy Bliss stays on alone in The Towers, their Miami Beach retiremen...More
 
1996 (Nonfiction)
A Civil Action
 Jonathan Harr
Library Journal : Harr, a former staff writer at New England Monthly, describes a case that is to the civil justice ...More
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1996 (Biography)
Savage Art
 Robert Polito
Library Journal : Polito, who directs the writing program at New York City's New School for Social Research and who ...More
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1995 (Fiction)
The Stone Diaries
 Carol Shields
Library Journal : Author of the ``most satisfying'' The Republic of Love ( LJ 1/92), Canadian novelist Shields here ...More
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1995 (Nonfiction)
The Rape of Europa
Click to search this book in our catalog   Lynn Nicholas
Library Journal : First-time author Nicholas presents a poorly written survey of the traffic in art under the Nazi r...More
1995 (Biography)
Shot in the Heart
Click to search this book in our catalog   Mikal Gilmore
Library Journal : The last months of lifetime criminal Gary Gilmore, who murdered two Mormon store clerks and then d...More

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