50 Years of Books to Remember: The Great American Novel: Top-notch tellers of American tales
Annotation:Bitter, violent novel of the many faces of love and hate in a large city.
Place a Hold
Annotation:The story of ex-slave Sethe, haunted by the ghost of her murdered child, in a rich complex novel of slavery, love, and the triumph of the human spirit.
Annotation:Tender and compassionate story on the universal theme of death and grief.
Annotation:Skillfully-written tale of two amoral people and the obsession that consumes them.
Annotation:The varied responses of ordinary people are portrayed in this fictional account of fascism in America.
Annotation:A missionary family struggles to survive amid the chaos and intrigue of postcolonial Congo.
Annotation:An imaginative novel based on the firebombing of Dresden.
Annotation:A collection of brilliant short fiction by a major American author.
Annotation:Stark odyssey of a boy from the backwoods, by a talented Southern writer.
Annotation:Stark, spare short stories that concentrate on the essential details of human existence.
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A representative selection from over 1500 titles on annual lists of Books to Remember from 1956 to 2005. Compiled by Francie Einenkel and Susan Chute, Librarians, The New York Public Library.
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