Notable Books List1971

Given by CODES: Notable Books Council

Other Names: ALA Notable Books for Adults, RUSA Notable Books List
45 Works 39,297 Books 533 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
Categories:
All, Fiction (211), Nonfiction (195), Poetry (39), No Category (2,389)
Years:
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)
Announced:
January 20: 2024 Recent
WorkYear
Tent of Miracles by Jorge Amado
1971
Linnaeus: The Compleat Naturalist by Wilfrid Blunt
1971
William Cullen Bryant by Charles Henry Brown
1971
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
1971
Einstein: The Life and Times by Ronald W. Clark
1971
Vendetta of Silence by Ann Cornelisen
1971
The Book of Daniel: A Novel by E. L. Doctorow
1971
The Israelis;: Founders and sons by Amos Elon
1971
Paris Journal, 1965-1971 by Janet Flanner
1971
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
1971
Grendel by John Gardner
1971
Death of the Fox by George Garrett
1971
365 Days: The Forgotten Heroes of Vietnam by Ronald J. Glasser
1971
In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall
1971
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
1971
The 12-year Reich: A Social History Of Nazi Germany 1933-1945 by Richard Grunberger
1971
History of the Second World War by B. H. Liddell Hart
1971
The White Dawn: An Eskimo Saga by James A. Houston
1971
Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow by Ted Hughes
1971
Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich
1971
Cancroregina by Tommaso Landolfi
1971
Diary of a Century by Jacques-Henri Lartigue
1971
Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. Lash
1971
India's China War by Neville Maxwell
1971
Farragan's Retreat by Tom McHale
1971
Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee
1971
Ibsen by Michael Meyer
1971
The European Discovery of America, vol. 1, The Northern Voyages: A.D. 500–1600 by Samuel Eliot Morison
1971
Fire Sermon by Wright Morris
1971
Kennedy Justice by Victor S. Navasky
1971
Bound to Violence by Yambo Ouologuem
1971
London War Notes by Mollie Panter-Downes
1971
Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy
1971
Black fiddler by Richard Piro
1971
Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare by Frances Fox Piven
1971
Crossing the Water by Sylvia Plath
1971
Betrayed by Rita Hayworth by Manuel Puig
1971
The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer
1971
The Pentagon Papers: As Published by the New York Times by Neil Sheehan
1971
Beyond Freedom & Dignity by B. F. Skinner
1971
Cuba, or, The Pursuit of Freedom by Hugh Thomas
1971
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 by Barbara W. Tuchman
1971
Upstate: Records and Recollections of Northern New York by Edmund Wilson
1971
Collected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry) by James Wright
1971
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel
1971

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