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ALA Notable Books - Winner

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The Hours

A Novel

Michael Cunningham Picador

A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood. In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely...

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ALA Notable Books - Winner - Fiction
ALA Stonewall Book Award - Winner - Fiction
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - Nominee - Fiction
Boston Book Review - Nominee - Fiction
National Books Critics Circle Awards - Nominee - Fiction
Book Sense Book of the Year Award - Nominee - Adult Fiction
PEN/Faulkner Award - Winner - Fiction
Lambda Literary Award - Nominee - Gay Men's Fiction
Triangle Awards - Winner - Gay Men's Fiction
Pulitzer Prize - Winner - Fiction

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The Country Life

A Novel

Rachel Cusk Picador

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Stella Benson answers a classified ad for an au pair, arriving in a tiny Sussex village that's home to a family...

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Learning Human

Selected Poems

Les Murray Farrar, Straus and Giroux

A bighearted selection from the inimitable Australian poet's diverse ten-book body of work Les Murray is one of the great poets of the English language,...

ALA Notable Books - Winner - Poetry

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Being Dead

A Novel

Jim Crace Picador

Lying in the sand dunes of Baritone Bay are the bodies of a middle-aged couple. Celice and Joseph, in their mid-50s and married for more than 30 years, are...

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National Book Critics Circle Awards - Winner - Criticism

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Bucking the Tiger

A Novel

Bruce Olds Picador

An American Library Association Notable Book John Henry Holliday was an Ivy League-educated dentist from a genteel Georgia family when at the age of...

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Opened Ground

Selected Poems, 1966-1996

Seamus Heaney Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

As selected by the author, Opened Ground includes the essential work from Heaney's twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn from two of...

ALA Notable Books - Winner - Poetry
Nobel Prize For Literature

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Tales from Ovid

24 Passages from the Metamorphoses

Ted Hughes Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

A powerful version of the Latin classic by England's late Poet Laureate, now in paperback.When it was published in 1997, Tales from Ovid was immediately...

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ALA Notable Books - Winner - Poetry
Whitbread Book Award - Winner - This book was a winner in both Book of the Year and the Poetry categories. This award was renamed the Costa Book Award in 2006.

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The Bounty

Poems

Derek Walcott Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

The Bounty was the first book of poems Walcott published after winning the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. Opening with the title poem, a memorable elegy to...

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Nobel Prize For Literature

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Blood Rites

Origins and History of the Passions of War

Barbara Ehrenreich A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book

An ALA Notable Book A New York Times Notable Book In Blood Rites, Barbara Ehrenreich confronts the mystery of the human attraction to violence: What draws...

ALA Notable Books - Winner - Nonfiction

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The River at the Center of the World

A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time

Simon Winchester Holt Paperbacks

A stunning tour of China, its people, and its history. Chosen as one of the best travel books of 1996 by the New York Times Book Review.

ALA Notable Books - Winner - Nonfiction
Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize - Nominee - Pacific Rim Book

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Beowulf

A New Verse Translation

Seamus Heaney Farrar, Straus and Giroux

A brilliant and faithful rendering of the Anglo-Saxon epic from the Nobel laureate. Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is...

ALA Notable Books - Winner - Poetry
Whitbread Book Award - Winner - This book was a winner in both the Book of the Year and Poetry categories. This award was renamed the Costa Book Award in 2006.

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Crossing Over

A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail

Rubén Martínez Picador

The U.S.-Mexican border is one of the most permeable boundaries in the world, breached daily by Mexicans in search of work. Thousands die crossing the line and...

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The Corrections

A Novel

Jonathan Franzen Picador

Stretching from the Midwest at midcentury to the Wall Street and Eastern Europe of today, The Corrections brings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and...

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ALA Notable Books - Winner - Fiction
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - Nominee - Fiction
L.A. Times Book Prize - Nominee - Fiction
National Book Awards - Winner - Fiction
Book Sense Book of the Year Award - Nominee - Adult Fiction
PEN/Faulkner Award - Nominee - Fiction

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Complications

A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Atul Gawande Picador

In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel’s edge....

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ALA Notable Books - Winner - Nonfiction
National Book Awards - Finalist - Nonfiction
PEN Literary Award - Nominee - First Nonfiction

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The Future of the Past

Alexander Stille Picador

A fascinating tour of the past as it exists today, and of the dangers that threaten it, through incisive portraits of our attempts to maintain it: the...

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The River at the Center of the World, Revised

A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time

Simon Winchester; With a New Afterword by the Author Picador

Rising in the mountains of the Tibetan border, the symbolic heart of China pierces 3,900 miles of rugged country before debouching into the oily swells of the...

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Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize - Nominee - Pacific Rim Book

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