Notable Books List1978

Given by CODES: Notable Books Council

Andre Navne: ALA Notable Books for Adults (Engelsk), RUSA Notable Books List (Engelsk)
49 Works 52,804 Bøger 823 Reviews 4.0
"Since 1944, the goal of the Notable Books Council has been to make available to the nation’s readers a list of 25 very good, very readable, and at times very important fiction, nonfiction, and vis mere poetry books for the adult reader." vis mindre
Kategorier:
Alle, Fiction (211), Nonfiction (195), Poetry (39), No Category (2,389)
Years:
Alle, 2024 (26), 2023 (26), 2022 (25), 2021 (25), 2020 (26), 2019 (26), 2018 (26), 2017 (26), 2016 (26), 2015 (26), 2014 (26), 2013 (26), 2012 (26), 2011 (26), 2010 (26), 2009 (25), 2008 (25), 2007 (26), 2006 (25), 2005 (25), 2004 (28), 2003 (26), 2002 (26), 2001 (25), 2000 (26), 1999 (24), 1998 (26), 1997) (Book of the Year (1), 1997 (2), 1996 (3), 1995 (26), 1994 (26), 1993 (27), 1992 (26), 1991 (24), Fiction 1991 (1), 1990 (29), 1988 (27), 1987 (27), 1986 (37), 1985 (34), 1984 (43), 1983 (44), 1982 (42), 1981 (42), 1980 (33), 1979 (47), 1978 (49), 1977 (44), 1976 (50), 1975 (49), 1974 (30), 1973 (51), 1972 (44), 1971 (45), 1970 (29), 1969 (36), 1968 (44), 1967 (65), 1966 (59), 1965 (51), 1964 (53), 1963 (49), 1962 (56), 1961 (50), 1960 (45), 1959 (48), 1958 (47), 1957 (39), 1956 (43), 1955 (46), 1954 (34), 1953 (50), 1952 (52), 1951 (53), 1950 (41), 1949 (50), 1948 (50), 1947 (46), 1946 (50), 1945 (50)
Announced:
januar 20: 2024 Nyeste
VærkÅr
Max Perkins: Editor of Genius af A. Scott Berg
1978
Experiencing Science af Jeremy Bernstein
1978
Tender Mercies af Rosellen Brown
1978
I Patagonien af Bruce Chatwin
1978
The Stories of John Cheever af John Cheever
1978
The Execution of Mayor Yin, and Other Stories from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (Chinese Literature in Translation) af Jo-Hsi Ch'En
1978
An Introduction to Rembrandt af Kenneth Clark
1978
And I Worked at the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History, 1918-1978 af Malcolm Cowley
1978
The Guggenheims: An American Epic af John H. Davis
1978
The politics of cancer af Samuel S. Epstein
1978
Bloody Mary: The Life of Mary Tudor af Carolly Erickson
1978
The parties : Republicans and Democrats in this century af Henry Fairlie
1978
E. M. Forster: A Life af P. N. Furbank
1978
In My Father's House af Ernest J. Gaines
1978
Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac af Barry Gifford
1978
Final Payments af Mary Gordon
1978
The Romance of American Communism af Vivian Gornick
1978
Den menneskelige faktor af Graham Greene
1978
Remembering poets: Reminiscences and opinions : Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound af Donald Hall
1978
Vulnerable People: A View of American Fiction Since 1945 af Josephine Hendin
1978
Verden ifølge Garp af John Irving
1978
A Walk with Raschid & Other Stories af Josephine Jacobsen
1978
Lying Low af Diane Johnson
1978
Whistle af James Jones
1978
Robert Kennedy and His Times af Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
1978
New York Jew af Alfred Kazin
1978
The Suicide's Wife: A Novel af David Madden
1978
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964 af William Manchester
1978
Den utrolige og sørgelige historie om den troskyldige Eréndira og om hendes ryggesløse bedstemor af Gabriel García Márquez
1978
The Snow Leopard af Peter Matthiessen
1978
America's Great Illustrators af Susan E. Meyer
1978
The Sea, the Sea af Iris Murdoch
1978
Going After Cacciato af Tim O'Brien
1978
Music of three seasons, 1974-1977 af Andrew Porter
1978
The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977 af Adrienne Rich
1978
Black Night, White Snow: Russia's Revolutions 1905-1917 af Harrison E. Salisbury
1978
A Reckoning af May Sarton
1978
Collected poems 1940-1978 af Karl Jay Shapiro
1978
Short stories, five decades af Irwin Shaw
1978
Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice af Charles E. Silberman
1978
Illness as Metaphor af Susan Sontag
1978
New and Selected Things Taking Place af May Swenson
1978
Picture Palace af Paul Theroux
1978
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century af Barbara W. Tuchman
1978
Now and Then: Poems 1976-78 af Robert Penn Warren
1978
In Search of History: A Personal Adventure af Theodore H. White
1978
Somerset Dreams and Other Fictions af Kate Wilhelm
1978
The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts af George F. Will
1978
Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence af Garry Wills
1978

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20th century(24,345) America(6,498) American(16,786) American history(14,052) American literature(20,593) audiobook(7,493) autobiography(11,218) biography(51,068) book club(6,533) classic(16,679) classics(17,686) coming of age(7,519) contemporary fiction(7,335) dystopia(9,202) ebook(11,210) England(8,482) family(11,765) fantasy(9,250) favorites(6,930) fiction(273,126) goodreads(8,028) historical fiction(26,631) history(83,607) Kindle(10,868) literary fiction(8,781) literature(36,375) magical realism(8,210) memoir(25,230) non-fiction(93,186) novel(46,467) own(14,016) owned(6,682) paperback(6,997) philosophy(11,353) poetry(21,541) politics(11,116) psychology(7,607) Pulitzer Prize(6,504) read(35,873) religion(7,176) Roman(7,488) science(16,984) science fiction(15,201) short stories(12,735) to-read(193,787) travel(8,268) unread(16,968) usa(15,142) war(11,198) wwii(25,310)

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