Handout for NLA/NEMA 2011

1. Notable Books for Adults List, 2011
FICTION
*Bass, Rick. Nashville Chrome. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 9780547317267.
Donoghue, Emma. Room: A Novel. Little, Brown. 9780316098335.
Egan, Jennifer. A Visit from the Goon Squad. Knopf. 9780307592835.
*Franklin, Tom. Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter. William Morrow. 9780060594664.
Franzen, Jonathan. Freedom. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 9780374158460.
Hynes, James. Next. Reagan Arthur. 9780316051927.
Lee, Chang Rae. The Surrendered. Riverhead. 9781594489761.
Marlantes, Karl. Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War. Atlantic Monthly Press. 9780802119285.
Mitchell, David. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: A Novel. Random House. 9781400065455.
Murray, Paul. Skippy Dies. Faber and Faber. 9780865479432.
Soli, Tatjana. The Lotus Eaters. St. Martin’s. 9780312611576.
Udall, Brady. The Lonely Polygamist: A Novel. W.W.Norton. 9780393062625.
NON-FICTION
Chernow, Ron. Washington: A Life. Penguin. 9781594202667.
*de Waal, Edmund. The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family’s Century of Art and Loss. Farrar, Straus and
Giroux. 9780374105976.
Demick, Barbara. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea. Spiegel & Grau. 9780385523905.
*Frazier, Ian. Travels in Siberia. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 9780374278724.
Harman, Oren. The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness. W.W.
Norton. 9780393067781.
Okrent, Daniel. Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. Scribner. 9780743277020.
*Olson, Lynne. Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour.
Random House. 9781400067589.

2. Philbrick, Nathaniel. The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Viking.
9780670021727.
*Skloot, Rebecca. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Crown. 9781400052172.
Smith, Pattie. Just Kids. Ecco. 9780066211312.
*Vaillant, John. The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival. Knopf. 9780307268938.
Wilkerson, Isabel. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration. Random
House. 9780679444329.
POETRY
Hoagland, Tony. Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty: Poems. Graywolf Press.
9781555975494.
Williams, C.K. Wait: Poems. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 9780374285913.
*Pat’s top seven books from this list, in terms of being generally appealing, well-written, and worth reading.
Notable Books for Adults List, 2011. American Library Association
<http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rusa/awards/notablebooks/lists/2011/index.cfm> (28 September 2011)
Note: Annotations are available on the website.
Prepared by Pat Leach, Lincoln City Libraries, October 2011
Pat’s blog about her reading and other topics: http://www.lincolnlibraries.org/firefly/