{"id":45604,"date":"2014-02-04T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/?p=45604"},"modified":"2014-02-04T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T16:00:00","slug":"rusa-notables-awards-2014-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=45604","title":{"rendered":"RUSA Notables Awards: 2014 Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since 1944, the goal of the Notable Books Council has been to make available to the nation\u2019s readers a list of 25 very good, very readable, and at times very important fiction, nonfiction, and poetry books for the adult reader. [Source<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fiction<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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  • Americanah<\/em> by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie<\/li>\n
  • Life After Life<\/em> by Kate Atkinson<\/li>\n
  • Claire of the Sea Light<\/em> by Edwidge Danticat<\/li>\n
  • Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See<\/em> by Juliann Garey<\/li>\n
  • Enon<\/em> by Paul Harding<\/li>\n
  • Unchangeable Spots of Leopards<\/em> by Kristopher Jansma<\/li>\n
  • The Dinner<\/em> by Herman Koch<\/li>\n
  • Constellation<\/em> of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra<\/li>\n
  • The Woman Upstairs<\/em> by Claire Messud<\/li>\n
  • Tale for the Time Being<\/em> by Ruth Ozeki<\/li>\n
  • The Goldfinch<\/em> by Donna Tartt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Nonfiction<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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    • Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East <\/em>by Scott Anderson<\/li>\n
    • Year Zero: A History of 1945<\/em> by Ian Baruma<\/li>\n
    • On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand Year History <\/em>by Nicholas Basbanes<\/li>\n
    • To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care <\/em>by Cris Beam<\/li>\n
    • The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics<\/em> by Daniel James Brown<\/li>\n
    • Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital<\/em> by Sheri Fink<\/li>\n
    • The Riddle of the Labyrinth: the Quest to Crack an Ancient Code<\/em> by Margalit Fox<\/li>\n
    • On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks<\/em> by Simon Garfield<\/li>\n
    • Johnny Cash: The Life<\/em> by Robert Hilburn<\/li>\n
    • The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking<\/em> by Brendan I. Koerner<\/li>\n
    • Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of our Fellow Creatures<\/em> by Virginia Morell<\/li>\n
    • Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety<\/em> by Eric Schlosser<\/li>\n
    • Faraway Nearby<\/em> by Rebecca Solnit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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