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2024 (Fiction)
Night Watch
Click to search this book in our catalog   Jayne Anne Phillips

Kirkus Set in West Virginia during and after the Civil War, Phillips’ book takes as given that slavery ...More

2024 (Nonfiction)
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
Click to search this book in our catalog   Nathan Thrall

Publishers Weekly Journalist Thrall (The Only Language They Understand) offers a unique window onto the Israe...More

2024 (Biography)
King: A Life
Click to search this book in our catalog   Jonathan Eig

Publishers Weekly Martin Luther King Jr. went beyond meek nonviolence into far-reaching radicalism, according...More

 
2023 (Fiction)
Demon Copperhead:
 Barbara Kingsolver

Publishers Weekly The family of West Texas born-and-raised Cassidy Drake, who’s 13 and reads as white, ...More

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2023 (Nonfiction)
His Name Is George Floyd (Pulitzer Prize Winner): One Mans Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
 Robert Samuels

Book list We saw him die. We say his name. Yet how well do we know George Floyd, whose death in Minneapolis p...More

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2023 (Biography)
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
 Beverly Gage

Book list Jack, June, Quint, Dirk, and Rover are back for another post-monster apocalypse adventure. With Bla...More

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2022 (Fiction)
The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family
Click to search this book in our catalog   Joshua Cohen

Publishers Weekly Cohen’s stinging comedy (after the collection Attention) explores Jewish identity and...More

2022 (Nonfiction)
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City
Click to search this book in our catalog   Andrea Elliott

Publishers Weekly “A child’s homelessness is hidden,” writes New York Times investigative r...More

2022 (Biography)
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artists Memoir of the Jim Crow South
Click to search this book in our catalog   Winfred Rembert

Book list This is a book like no other, from Winfred Rembert’s unique and uniquely powerful autobiograp...More

 
2021 (Fiction)
The Night Watchman:
 Louise Erdrich

Library Journal In 1953, Chippewa Council member Thomas Wazhushk, night watchman at a factory near the Turtle...More

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2021 (Nonfiction)
Wilmingtons Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
 David Zucchino

Library Journal In the late 1890s, Wilmington, NC, was a successful mixed-race community with a strong Africa...More

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2021 (Biography)
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
 Les Payne

Kirkus Comprehensive, timely life of the renowned activist and his circuitous rise to prominence.Pulitzer Pri...More

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2020 (Fiction)
The Nickel Boys
Click to search this book in our catalog   Colson Whitehead

Book list There were rumors about Nickel Academy, a Florida reform school, but survivors kept their traumas t...More

2020 (Nonfiction)
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
Click to search this book in our catalog   Greg Grandin

Publishers Weekly As New York University historian Grandin observes, President Trump's aim of building a ...More

2020 (Biography)
Sontag: Her Life and Work
Click to search this book in our catalog   Benjamin Moser

Publishers Weekly In this doorstopper biography, Moser (Why This: A Biography of Clarice Lispector), for whom...More

 
2019
The Overstory
 Richard Powers

Library Journal Standing as silent witnesses to our interweaving genealogies, cyclical wars, and collapsing e...More

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2019
Amity and Prosperity
 Eliza Griswold

Library Journal Fracking, the extraction of natural gas from rocks up to one mile deep, made some residents o...More

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2019
The New Negro
 Jeffery C. Stewart

Publishers Weekly Stewart (Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen) offers a detailed, definitive biography of Alain...More

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2018
Less
Click to search this book in our catalog   Andrew Sean Greer

Library Journal This hilarious and touching novel follows Arthur Less, a gay man, as he travels around the wo...More

2017
The Underground Railroad
Click to search this book in our catalog   Colson Whitehead
2016
The Sympathizer
Click to search this book in our catalog   Viet Thanh Nguyen

Publishers Weekly This astonishing first novel has at its core a lively, wry first-person narrator called the...More

 
2015
All the Light We Cannot See
 Anthony Doerr

Library Journal Shifting among multiple viewpoints but focusing mostly on blind French teenager Marie-Laure ...More

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2014
The Goldfinch: A Novel
 Donna Tartt

Publishers Weekly Donna Tartt's latest novel clocks in at an unwieldy 784 pages. The story begins with a...More

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2013
The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel
 Adam Johnson

Library Journal Johnson's North Korean tale is a mixture of adventure and romance, managing epic and int...More

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2011
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Click to search this book in our catalog   Jennifer Egan

Book list *Starred Review* Egan is a writer of cunning subtlety, embedding within the risky endeavors of sedu...More

2010
Tinkers
Click to search this book in our catalog   Paul Harding

Book list *Starred Review* A tinker is a mender, and in Harding's spellbinding debut, he imagines the old...More

2009
Olive Kitteridge:
Click to search this book in our catalog   Elizabeth Strout

Library Journal In her third novel, New York Times best-selling author Strout (Abide with Me) tracks Olive K...More

 
2008
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
 Junot Diaz

Library Journal Having caught everyone's attention with his short stories, D!az offers a debut novel sta...More

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2007
The Road
 Cormac McCarthy

Publishers Weekly Violence, in McCarthy's postapocalyptic tour de force, has been visited worldwide in t...More

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2006
March
 Geraldine Brooks

Publishers Weekly Brooks's luminous second novel, after 2001's acclaimed Year of Wonders, imagines t...More

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2005
Gilead: A Novel
Click to search this book in our catalog   Marilynne Robinson

Book list To find out what really happened to her purportedly dead sister, sharpshooting 13-year-old Georgie ...More

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