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Fiction ALA Notable Books
Selected by The Notable Books Council of the Reference and User Services Association, division of the American Library Association. For a full list of titles visit the ALA.

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The Convalescent
By Anthony, Jessica
2009-06 - McSweeney's Books
9781934781104
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Anthony, the inaugural winner of the Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award, makes an unforgettable debut with an unforgettable hero: Seymour Akos Pfliegman--unlikely bandit, unloved lover, and historian of the unimportant.
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The Year of the Flood
By Atwood, Margaret
2009-09 - Nan A. Talese
9780385528771
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The long-awaited new novel from the author of "The Handmaid's Tale" and "The Blind Assassin, The Year of the Flood" is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to Atwood's visionary power.
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The Anthologist
By Baker, Nicholson
2009-09 - Simon & Schuster
9781416572442
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"The Anthologist" captures all the warmth, wit, and extraordinary prose stylethat have made Baker--a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author--anAmerican master.
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Await Your Reply
By Chaon, Dan
2009-08 - Ballantine Books
9780345476029
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The lives of three strangers interconnect in unforeseen ways-and with unexpected consequences-in acclaimed author Dan Chaon's gripping, brilliantly written new novel.
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Little Bee
By Cleave, Chris
2009-02 - Simon & Schuster
9781416589631
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From the author of the international bestseller "Incendiary" comes a haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers--one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London.
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Spooner
By Dexter, Pete
2009-09 - Grand Central Publishing
9780446540728
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This is the story of the lifelong tie between former naval officer Calmer Ottosson and his step son, Warren Spooner--a troubled adolescent-turned-violent-adult, whom Calmer will never understand.
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Tinkers
By Harding, Paul
2009-01 - Bellevue Literary Press
9781934137123
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An INDIE NEXT Selection
An astonishing first novel of memory, consciousness, and man's place in the natural world.
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The Vagrants
By Li, Yiyun
2009-02 - Random House
9781400063130
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The astonishing first novel from the author of the award-winning story collection "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers" weaves together the delicate moments between mothers and sons, husbands and wives, illuminating the reality of oppression and pain.
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Let the Great World Spin
By McCann, Colum
2009-06 - Random House (NY)
9781400063734
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2009 National Book Award Winner-Fiction
McCann's most ambitious work to date offers a dazzling and hauntingly rich vision of the loveliness, pain, and mystery of life in New York City in the 1970s.
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A Mercy
By Morrison, Toni
2008-11 - Knopf Publishing Group
9780307264237
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A Mercy is a powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and is almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.
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Generosity: An Enhancement
By Powers, Richard
2009-09 - Farrar Straus Giroux
9780374161149
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From the National Book Award-winning author of "The Echo Maker" comes a playful and provocative novel about the discovery of the happiness gene. Funny, fast, and magical, "Generosity" celebrates both science and the freed imagination.
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Brooklyn
By Toibin, Colm
2009-05 - Scribner Book Company
9781439138311
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2009 Costa Novel Award Winner
From the award-winning author of "The Master" comes a moving historical novel set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s, concerning a young woman torn between her family and her past in Ireland and the American who wins her heart.
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