Notable Books List1968

Given by CODES: Notable Books Council

Other Names: ALA Notable Books for Adults, RUSA Notable Books List
44 Works 32,821 Books 561 Reviews ½ 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 show more poetry books for the adult reader." show less
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All, Fiction (222), Nonfiction (206), Poetry (41), No Category (2,365)
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All, 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)
WorkYear
The American University: How It Runs, Where It Is Going by Jacques Barzun
1968
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
1968
His Toy, His Dream, His Rest: 308 Dream Songs by John Berryman
1968
Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen
1968
In the Mecca: Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
1968
The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson by Henri Cartier-Bresson
1968
Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver
1968
Or I'll Dress You In Mourning by Larry Collins
1968
George Washington in the American Revolution, 1775-1783 by James Thomas Flexner
1968
The Dance of Genghis Cohn by Romain Gary
1968
A Mass for the Dead by William Gibson
1968
The Politics of Pure Science by Daniel S. Greenberg
1968
Black Rage by William H. Grier
1968
Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography (1-2) by Michael Holroyd
1968
How Children Learn by John Holt
1968
American Album by Oliver Jensen
1968
36 Children by Herbert Kohl
1968
Memoirs; sixty years on the firing line by Arthur Krock
1968
Ho Chi Minh by Jean Lacouture
1968
Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima by Robert Jay Lifton
1968
The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer
1968
Anti-Memoirs by André Malraux
1968
Being Geniuses Together, 1920-1930 by Robert McAlmon
1968
The Crime of Punishment by Karl Menninger
1968
Andrew Wyeth by Richard Meryman
1968
Iberia by James A. Michener
1968
The Violent Peace by Carl Mydans
1968
Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders by National Advisory Comm...
1968
The French by François Nourissier
1968
The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell [4-volume set] by George Orwell
1968
An artist and the Pope by Curtis Bill Pepper
1968
A Cab at the Door by V. S. Pritchett
1968
The Joys of Yiddish by Leo Rosten
1968
Plant Dreaming Deep by May Sarton
1968
Henry VIII by J. J. Scarisbrick
1968
The Glass House: The Life of Theodore Roethke by Allan Seager
1968
The American Challenge by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
1968
The First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
1968
The Biological Time Bomb by Gordon Rattray Taylor
1968
Tolstoy by Henri Troyat
1968
T. H. White; a biography by Sylvia Townsend Warner
1968
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson
1968
Song of the Young Sentry by David Westheimer
1968
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
1968

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