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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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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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Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The
by Michael Chabon
It's 1939, in New York City. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just pulled off his greatest feat - smuggling himself out of Hitler's Prague. He's looking to make big money, fast, so that he can bring his family to freedom. His
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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 its guards - both fresh-faced 'newjacks' like Conover and brutally hardened veterans. As he struggles to be a
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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 society designed to regulate his every move and stifle the promptings of his innermost heart. For more than
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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 of the Revuelta family is Naty, born in 1925, who became intoxicated with Castro and his revolution.
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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 one chapter he examines the medusa jellyfish and a sea slug, mutually parasitic and dependent on one another.
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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 the minds of others'and complete innocence regarding the mores of man.
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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, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once.' So enters one of the most
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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 unenviable job of restoring the health and reputation of his demoralized organization, goes on the offensive. He
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Award: The James Tait Black Prize
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