Books

ALA Notable Book (awards)

This award was given to 69 books.


  1. Little Bee

    (published as "The Other Hand" in the UK)

    by Chris Cleave

    Year: 2010
  2. Let the Great World Spin

    by Colum McCann

    Year: 2010
    Category: Adult
  3. The Convalescent

    by Jessica Anthony

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  4. MaddAddam Trilogy: Book 2

    The Year of the Flood

    by Margaret Atwood

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  5. Await Your Reply

    by Dan Chaon

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  6. Spooner

    by Pete Dexter

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  7. Tinkers

    by Paul Harding

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  8. The Vagrants

    by Yiyun Li

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  9. A Mercy

    by Toni Morrison

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  10. Generosity, An Enhancement

    by Richard Powers

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  11. The Anthologist

    A Novel

    by Nicholson Baker

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  12. Brooklyn

    by Colm Tóibín

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  13. Zeitoun

    by Dave Eggers

    Year: 2010
    Category: Non-Fiction
  14. The Good Soldiers

    by David Finkel

    Year: 2010
    Category: Non-Fiction
  15. The Lost City of Z

    A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

    by David Grann

    Year: 2010
    Category: Non-Fiction
  16. The Photographer

    Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders

    by Emmanuel Guibert

    Year: 2010
    Category: Non-Fiction
  17. The Snakehead

    An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream

    by Patrick Radden Keefe

    Year: 2010
    Category: Non-Fiction
  18. Born to Run

    A Hidden Tribe, Super Athletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

    by Christopher McDougall

    Year: 2010
    Category: Non-Fiction
  19. Tears in the Darkness

    The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath

    by Elizabeth Norman, Michael Norman

    Year: 2010
    Category: Non-Fiction
  20. The Hawk and the Dove

    Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War

    by Nicholas Thompson

    Year: 2010
    Category: Non-Fiction
  21. Provenance

    How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art

    by Laney Salisbury, Aly Sujo

    Year: 2010
    Category: Non-Fiction
  22. The Age of Wonder

    How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

    by Richard Holmes

    Year: 2010
    Category: Non-Fiction
  23. Columbine

    by Dave Cullen

    Year: 2010
    Category: Non-Fiction
  24. Face

    by Sherman Alexie

    Year: 2010
    Category: Poetry
  25. The Hakawati

    by Rabih Alameddine

    Year: 2009
    Category: Fiction
  26. The Wasted Vigil

    by Nadeem Aslam

    Year: 2009
    Category: Fiction
  27. Peace

    by Richard Bausch

    Year: 2009
    Category: Fiction
  28. The Plague of Doves

    by Louise Erdrich

    Year: 2009
    Category: Fiction
  29. Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel

    by Rivka Galchen

    Year: 2009
    Category: Fiction
  30. Unaccustomed Earth

    by Jhumpa Lahiri

    Year: 2009
    Category: Fiction
  31. Dangerous Laughter

    Thirteen Stories

    by Steven Millhauser

    Year: 2009
    Category: Fiction
  32. Resistance

    by Owen Sheers

    Year: 2009
    Category: Fiction
  33. The Ginseng Hunter

    by Jeff Talarigo

    Year: 2009
    Category: Fiction
  34. City of Thieves

    by David Benioff

    Year: 2009
    Category: Fiction
  35. The Bin Ladens

    An Arabian Family in the American Century

    by Steve Coll

    Year: 2009
    Category: Non-Fiction
  36. This Republic of Suffering

    Death and the American Civil War

    by Drew Gilpin Faust

    Year: 2009
    Category: Non-Fiction
  37. The Forever War

    Dispatches from the War on Terror

    by Dexter Filkins

    Year: 2009
    Category: Non-Fiction
  38. Pictures at a Revolution

    Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood

    by Mark Harris

    Year: 2009
    Category: Non-Fiction
  39. A Voyage Long and Strange

    Rediscovering the New World

    by Tony Horwitz

    Year: 2009
    Category: Non-Fiction
  40. The Dark Side

    The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals

    by Jane Mayer

    Year: 2009
    Category: Non-Fiction
  41. In Defense of Food

    An Eater's Manifesto

    by Michael Pollan

    Year: 2009
    Category: Non-Fiction
  42. American-Made

    The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work

    by Nick Taylor

    Year: 2009
    Category: Non-Fiction
  43. Traffic

    Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)

    by Tom Vanderbilt

    Year: 2009
    Category: Non-Fiction
  44. The Suicide Index

    Putting My Father's Death in Order

    by Joan Wickersham

    Year: 2009
    Category: Non-Fiction
  45. The Hemingses of Monticello

    An American Family

    by Annette Gordon-Reed

    Year: 2009
    Category: Non-Fiction
  46. Special Orders: Poems

    by Edward Hirsch

    Year: 2009
    Category: Poetry
  47. The Ghost Soldiers

    Poems

    by James Tate

    Year: 2009
    Category: Poetry

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