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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
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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
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Award: The Pulitzer Prize
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Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
by Ted Conover
NEWJACK: Guarding Sing Sing is the story of Conover's rookie year as a guard at Sing Sing. It is a nerve-jangling account of his passage into the storied prison and the culture of
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Award: The National Book Critics Circle Award
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Waiting
by Ha Jin
This is the story of Lin Kong, a man living in two worlds, struggling with the conflicting claims of two utterly different women as he moves through the political minefields of
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Award: The National Book Award
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Havana Dreams
by Wendy Gimbel
This is Gimbel’s fascinating, powerfully evocative story of four generations of Cuban women whose lives illuminate a vivid picture of Cuba in the twentieth century. At the center
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Award: The Boston Book Review Award
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The Medusa and the Snail
by Lewis Thomas
Lewis Thomas’s fascinating observations of the quirkiness of the world’s lifeforms cause the listener to ponder simultaneously a tiny organism and the workings of the cosmos. In
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Award: The Pulitzer Prize
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Stranger in a Strange Land
by Robert A. Heinlein
This is the epic saga of an earthling, Valentine Michael Smith, born and educated on Mars, who arrives on our planet with many psi powers, including the ability to take control of
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Award: The Hugo Award
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A Confederacy Of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
“A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves,
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Award: The Pulitzer Prize
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The Honourable Schoolboy
by John Lecarr
The preceding novel in the George Smiley series—Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy—unmasked the double agent at the heart of the British Secret Service. Now, George Smiley, with the
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Award: The James Tait Black Prize
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