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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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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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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...

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...

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

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A Woman in Berlin

Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary

Anonymous; Translated by Philip Boehm Picador

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in...

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I Sailed with Magellan

Stuart Dybek Picador

Following his renowned The Coast of Chicago and Childhood, story writer Stuart Dybek returns with eleven masterful and masterfully linked stories about...

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Society of Midland Authors Book Awards - Winner - Adult Fiction

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Gilead

A Novel

Marilynne Robinson Picador

Twenty-four years after her first novel, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations from the Civil War to the...

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ALA Notable Books - Winner - Fiction
L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist - Fiction
National Book Critics Circle Awards - Winner - Fiction
Ambassador Book Award - Winner - Fiction
Book Sense Book of the Year Award - Nominee - Adult Fiction
Christianity Today Book Award - Fiction
PEN/Faulkner Award - Nominee - Fiction
Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award - Winner - Nonfiction
Society of Midland Authors Book Awards - Winner - Adult Fiction
Pulitzer Prize - Winner - Fiction

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The Madonna of Excelsior

A Novel

Zakes Mda Picador

"A generous, patient, wry and intelligent voice...[that] suggests not just a writer who can seduce us through beautiful language and unfailing humor. We also...

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ALA Notable Books - Winner - Nominee - Fiction
Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award - Finalist - Fiction
Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award - Nominee - Fiction

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Human Cargo

A Journey Among Refugees

Caroline Moorehead Picador

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Traveling for nearly two years and across four continents, Caroline Moorehead takes readers on a journey to...

ALA Notable Books - Winner - Nonfiction
National Books Critics Circle Awards - Nominee - Nonfiction

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The Book of Illusions

A Novel

Paul Auster Picador

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK Six months after losing his wife and two young sons, Vermont Professor David Zimmer...

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ALA Notable Books - Winner - Fiction
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - Nominee - Fiction

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An Unexpected Light

Travels in Afghanistan

Jason Elliot Picador

With a New Afterword by the Author Part travelogue, part historical evocation, part personal quest, and part reflection on the joys and perils of passage,...

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