| 2009 (Fiction) |
| Olive Kitteridge |
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Elizabeth Strout.
Library Journal
: In her third novel, New York Times best-selling author Strout ( Abide with Me) tracks ...More |
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| 2007 (Fiction) |
| The road |
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Cormac McCarthy
Library Journal: Starred Review. Winner of the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, McCar ...More |
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| 2007 (Nonfiction) |
| The looming tower |
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Lawrence Wright
Library Journal: Wright (fellow, Ctr. on Law & Security, NYU Sch. of Law; Twins) goes back—way back ...More |
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| 2006 (Fiction) |
| March |
Geraldine Brooks
Publishers Weekly: Starred Review. Brooks's luminous second novel, after 2001's acclaimed Year of Wonders...More |
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| 2005 (Fiction) |
| Gilead |
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Marilynne Robinson
Publishers Weekly: Fans of Robinson's acclaimed debut Housekeeping (1981) will find that the long wait ha ...More |
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| 2004 (Nonfiction) |
| Gulag: A History |
Anne Applebaum
Library Journal: Subsequent to Solzhenitsyn's landmark Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisov ...More |
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| 2003 (Fiction) |
| Middlesex |
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Jeffrey Eugenides
Publishers Weekly
: As the Age of the Genome begins to dawn, we will, perhaps, expect our fictional protagonists to ...More |
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| 2003 (Nonfiction) |
| A Problem From Hell |
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Samantha Power
Publishers Weekly
: Power, a former journalist for U.S. News and World Report and the Economist and now the executiv ...More |
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| 2003 (Biography) |
| Master of the Senate |
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Robert A. Caro
Library Journal
: Lyndon Johnson's 12 years in the Senate (1949-61) were his happiest years, according to his wi ...More |
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| 2002 (Fiction) |
| Empire Falls |
Richard Russo
Library Journal
: "Elijah Whiting...had not succeeded in killing his wife with a shovel, nor had he recovered f ...More |
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| 2002 (Nonfiction) |
| Carry Me Home |
Diane McWhorter
Library Journal
: McWhorter, who was born into Birmingham's white elite, examines the city's pivotal role in the bat ...More |
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| 2002 (Biography) |
| John Adams |
David McCullough
Library Journal
: This life of Adams is an extraordinary portrait of an extraordinary man who has not received his d ...More |
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| 2000 (Biography) |
| Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) |
Stacy Schiff
Library Journal
: Vladimir Nabokov's works have come to the attention of the public again with the publication of Li ...More |
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| 1999 (Fiction) |
| The Hours |
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Michael Cunningham
Library Journal
: Clarissa Dalloway certainly is a popular lady nowadays, with a recent movie and now a new book bas ...More |
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| 1999 (Nonfiction) |
| Annals of the Former World |
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John McPhee
Library Journal
: McPhee is the most celebrated contemporary writer on North American geology, and Annals is his mag ...More |
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| 1999 (Biography) |
| Lindbergh |
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A. Scott Berg
Library Journal
: Berg, whose biographies of Max Perkins and Sam Goldwyn are central texts in their fields, restores ...More |
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| 1998 (Fiction) |
| American Pastoral |
Philip Roth
Library Journal
: In his latest novel, Roth shows his age. Not that his writing is any less vigorous and supple. But ...More |
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| 1998 (Nonfiction) |
| Guns, Germs and Steel |
Jared Diamond
Library Journal
: Most of this work deals with non-Europeans, but Diamond's thesis sheds light on why Western civili ...More |
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| 1998 (Biography) |
| Personal History |
Katharine Graham
Library Journal
: Katharine Meyer Graham was a woman born into a world of wealth and privilege who raised four child ...More |
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| 1997 (Fiction) |
| Martin Dressler |
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Steven Millhauser
Library Journal
: This story of a 19th-century New York entrepreneur by the author of Edwin Mullhouse (LJ 8/15/72) b ...More |
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| 1997 (Nonfiction) |
| Ashes to Ashes |
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Richard Kluger
Library Journal
: Two recent releases chronicle the history of the current political status of the controversial tob ...More |
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| 1997 (Biography) |
| Angela's Ashes |
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Frank McCourt
Library Journal
: McCourt is the eldest of eight children born to Angela Sheehan and Malachy McCourt in the 1920s. T ...More |
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| 1996 (Fiction) |
| Independence Day |
Richard Ford
Publisher's Weekly
: In this sequel to The Sportswriter, Ford follows his middle-aged American everyman, Frank B ...More |
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| 1996 (Nonfiction) |
| The Haunted Land |
Tina Rosenberg
Publishers Weekly
: Freelance journalist Rosenberg's frequent trips since 1991 to eastern Europe and the former Sovi ...More |
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| 1996 (Biography) |
| God: A Biography |
Jack Miles
Library Journal
: Despite its provocative title, this is a serious attempt to come to an understanding of the portra ...More |
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| 1995 (Fiction) |
| The Stone Diaries |
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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 Beak of the Finch |
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Jonathan Weiner
Library Journal
: This is an account of Peter and Rosemary Grant's research on the microevolutionary modifications t ...More |
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| 1995 (Biography) |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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Joan D. Hedrick
Library Journal
: In writing this biography of Stowe, the most substantial since Forrest Wilson's Crusader in Crinol ...More |
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