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Monday, April 25, 2011

ALA Notable Awards

 2011 Fiction
Nashville Chrome—Bass  (Fic)
Room: a novel—Donoghue   (Fic)
A Visit from the Goon Squad—Egan   (Fic)
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter—Franklin  (Selco)
Freedom—Franzen   (Fic)
Next—Hynes  (Selco)
Surrendered—Lee   (Fic)
Matterhorn: a Novel of the Vietnam War—Marlantes  (Fic)
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet—Mitchell  (Fic)
Skippy Dies—Murray  (Fic)
Lotus Eaters—Soli  (Selco)
Lonely Polygamist—Udall  (Fic)

2011 Non-Fiction
Washington: a life—Chernow  (921 Was)
The Hare with Amber Eyes: a Family’s Century of
Art and Loss—De Waal  (on order)
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary lives in North Korea—Demick  (951.9305 DE)
Travels in Sibera—Frazier  (957 FR)
Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the
Origins of Kindness—Harman  (on order)
Last Call: the Rise and Fall of Prohibition—Okrent  (363.4 OK)
Citizens of London: The Americans who Stood with Britain in its Darkest, Finest Hour—Olson  (940.5412 OL)                               
Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the
Little Bighorn—Philbrick  (973.8 PH)
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks—Skloot  (616 SK)
Just Kids—Smith  (921 SMI)
The Tiger: a True Story of Vengeance and SurvivalVaillant (599.756 VA)
Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America’s Great Migration—Wilkerson  (304.80973 WI)

2010 Fiction
The Anthologist—Baker  (Fic)
Await your Reply—Chaon  (Fic)
Brooklyn—Toibin  (Fic)
The Convalescent—Anthony  (Selco)
Generosity—Powers   (Fic)
Let the Great World Spin—McCann  (Fic)
Little Bee—Cleave  (Fic)
A Mercy—Morrison  (Fic)
Spooner—Dexter  (Fic)
Tinkers—Harding  (Fic)
The Vagrants—Li  (Selco)
Year of the Flood—Atwood  (Fic)

2010 Non-Fiction
Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty & Terror of Science—Holmes  (Selco)
Born to Run: a Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, & the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen—McDougall  (796.42 MC)
Columbine—Cullen  (373.788 CU)
Good Soldiers—Finkel (956.7044 FI)
The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, & the History of the Cold War—Thompson (Selco)
The Lost City of Z: a Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon—Grann  (918.1 GR)
The Photographer: into War-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders—Guibert  (Not in Selco)
Provenance: How a Con Man & a Forger Rewrote the History of  Modern Art—Salisbury   (Not in Selco)
The Snakehead: an Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld & the American Dream—Keefe  (Selco)
Stitches: A Memoir—Small  (Selco)
Tears in the Darkness: the Story of the Batan Death March & its Aftermath—Norman  (940.54 NO)
Zeitoun—Eggers (976.33 EG)

2009 Fiction
Atmospheric Disturbances—Galchen  (Fic)
City of Thieves—Benioff  (Fic)
Dangerous Laughter—Millhauser  (Fic)
Ginseng Hunter—Talarigo  (Fic)
The Hakawati—Alameddine  (Fic)
Olive Kitteridge—Strout  (Fic)
Peace—Bausch  (Fic)
Plague of Doves—Erdrich  (Fic)
Resistance—Sheers  (Fic)
Unaccustomed Earth—Lahiri  (Fic)
The Wasted Vigil– Nadeem  (Fic)

2009 Non-Fiction
American Made: the Enduring Legacy of the WPA—Taylo  (331.12 TA)
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the
American Century-- Coll  (953.805 CO)
The Dark Side: the Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals—Mayer  (973.931 MA)
Defying Dixie: the Radical roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950—Gilmore (Not in Selco)
Forever War—Filkins  (956.7044 FI)
Hemingses of Monticello—Gordon-Reed  (973.4 GO)
In Defense of Food—Pollan  (613 PO)
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies & the Birth of the New Hollywood—Harris  (791.43 HA)
Suicide Index: Putting My Father’s Death in Order—Wickersham  (155.9 WI)
This Republic of Suffering:Death and the American
Civil War—Faust  (973.7 FA)
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do—Vanderbilt  (629.28 VA)
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World—Horwitz  (970.01 HO)