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Below is a list of books that have received various awards. These timeless titles are ones we think your enjoy.
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March
by Geraldine Brooks
From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women , Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story “filled with the ache of love and marriage and with the power of war upon the mind and heart of one unforgettable man” (Sue Monk
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Award: The Pulitzer Prize
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Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
As the Reverend John Ames approaches the hour of his own death, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable family secrets.
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Award: The Pulitzer Prize
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The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
In THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING, Joan Didion writes an account of her life since the 2003 death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne. Didion’s grief was profound and debilitating; she and Dunne had been married for nearly 40 years, during which they were hardly ever apart. But in the
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Award: The National Book Award
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The Penderwicks
by Jeanne Birdsall
In this middle-grade novel, a summer of exciting new experiences awaits the lively Penderwick sisters at a summer rental cottage on the large Berkshire estate of Mrs. Tifton, a snobby heiress. With a spacey but loving botanist father, 12-year-old Rosalind is often in charge. Her younger
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Award: The National Book Award
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The Sea
by John Banville
Max Morden is an aging art historian whose wife has recently died of cancer. In his grief, he takes a trip to the seaside, to the "rubble of the past," where he and his family spent holidays as a child. Here grief and memory coincide as he ponders not only his wife’s death,
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Award: The Man Booker Prize
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The March
by E.L. Doctorow
As the Civil War was moving toward its inevitable conclusion, General William Tecumseh Sherman marched 60,000 Union troops through Georgia and the Carolinas, leaving a 60-mile-wide trail of death, destruction, looting, thievery and chaos. In The March , E.L. Doctorow has put his unique
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Award: The National Book Critics Circle Award
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The Known World
by Edward P. Jones
[A]n impressively researched, challenging novel debut....The particulars and consequences of the 'right' of humans to own other humans are dramatized with unprecedented ingenuity and intensity, in a harrowing tale that scarcely ever raises its voice....This will mean a great deal to a great
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Award: The Pulitzer Prize
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Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Cal Stephanides, hermaphrodite, recounts the history of his family, starting in 1922 in Smyrna, from where his grandparents embark for America, moving to Detroit where the family settles, and ending up in San Francisco, where Cal's sexual ambiguity finds its proper home. A New York Times
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Award: The Pulitzer Prize
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa...
by Rick Atkinson
In An Army at Dawn, , a comprehensive look at the 1942-1943 Allied invasion of North Africa, author Rick Atkinson posits that the campaign was, along with the battles of Stalingrad and Midway, where the 'Axis ... forever lost the initiative' and the 'fable of 3rd Reich invincibility was
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Award: The Pulitzer Prize
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The Master of the Senate (The Years of...
by Robert A. Caro
The third volume of Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson tells of his role as leader of the United Sates Senate. Caro explicates Johnson's deft use of power, which included cajoling, deal-making, and even intimidation. Johnson made history when he craftily built a coalition of Northern and
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Award: The Pulitzer Prize
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