ALA Notable Books for Adults
ALA Notable Books for Adults (established 1944) is an annual list selected by the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of the ALA. Within RUSA, a 12-member Notable Books Council selects "25 very good, very readable, and at times very important fiction, non-fiction, and poetry books for the adult reader."[1][2]
2014 List
Fiction
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Knopf)
- Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (Reagan Arthur)
- Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat (Knopf)
- Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See by Juliann Garey (Soho Press)
- Enon by Paul Harding (Random House)
- Unchangeable Spots of Leopards by Kristopher Jansma (Viking)
- The Dinner by Herman Koch (Hogarth Press)
- Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra (Hogarth Press)
- The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud (Knopf)
- Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (Viking)
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (Little Brown)
Non-fiction
- Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson (Doubleday)
- Year Zero: A History of 1945 by Ian Baruma (Penguin)
- On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand Year History by Nicholas Basbanes (Knopf)
- To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care by Cris Beam (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown (Viking)
- Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink (Crown)
- The Riddle of the Labyrinth: the Quest to Crack an Ancient Code by Margalit Fox (Harper Collins)
- On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks by Simon Garfield (Gotham Books)
- Johnny Cash: The Life by Robert Hilburn (Little, Brown)
- The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking by Brendan I. Koerner (Crown)
- Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of our Fellow Creatures by Virginia Morell (Crown)
- Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser (Penguin)
- Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit (Viking)
Poetry
- The Ogre’s Wife: Poems by Ron Koertge (Red Hen Press)
- Hum by Jamaal May (Alice James)
References
- ↑ Notable Books List: A Brief History, RUSA website.
- ↑ "2014 list". Reference and User Services Association. Retrieved 2014-11-29.
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