{"id":2205,"date":"2009-12-14T17:48:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T21:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/?p=2205"},"modified":"2010-08-30T10:05:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T14:05:26","slug":"in-the-news-2009-book-award-winners-critics-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/in-the-news-2009-book-award-winners-critics-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"In the News: 2009 Book Award Winners & Critics’ Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Week of December 14, 2009<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Seasons Greetings! “In the News” will be on holiday for three weeks. We’ll return with a new list of titles on January 11, 2010. – Maris<\/p>\n

News Item: <\/strong>Need something to read during Intersession? Pick up one of these award-winning titles and top-picks by New York Times<\/em>, NPR, and Publishers<\/em> Weekly<\/em> critics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science<\/em> <\/strong>– (Publishers Weekly <\/em>Top 10; New York Times<\/em> Notable Book, Non Fiction)
\n<\/em>By Richard Holmes. Pantheon Books, 2008
\nCall Number: Q127 .G4 H65 2008<\/p>\n

All Souls<\/em> <\/strong>– (Pulitzer Finalist, Fiction)
\nBy Christine Schutt. Harcourt, 2008
\nCall Number: PS3569 .C55555 A45 2008<\/p>\n

Amateur Barbarians: A Novel <\/em><\/strong>– (New York Times<\/em> Notable Book, Fiction)
\nBy Robert Cohen. Scribner, 2009
\nCall Number: PS3553 .O4273 A8 2009<\/p>\n

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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House<\/em><\/strong> – <\/em>(Pulitzer Winner, Biography or Autobiography<\/span>)
\nBy Jon Meacham. Random House, 2008
\nCall Number: E382 .M43 2008<\/p>\n

American Salvage: Stories<\/em><\/strong> – (National Book Award Finalist, Fiction)
\nBy Bonnie Jo Campbell. Wayne State University Press, 2009
\nCall Number: PS3553 .A43956 A8 2009<\/p>\n

The Anthologist <\/em><\/strong>– (New York Times <\/em>Notable Book, Fiction)
\nBy Nicholson Baker. Simon & Schuster, 2009
\nCall Number: PS3552 .A4325 A83 2009<\/p>\n

Asterios Polyp<\/strong> <\/em>– (New York Times<\/em> Notable Book, Fiction; NPR Recommendation)
\nBy David Mazzucchelli. Pantheon Books, 2009
\nCall Number: PN6727 .M2476 A77 2009<\/p>\n

Await Your Reply: A Novel <\/em><\/strong>– (Publishers Weekly<\/em> Top 10; New York Times<\/em> Notable Book, Fiction)
\nBy Dan Chaon. Ballantine Books, 2009
\nCall Number: PS3553 .G277 A95 2009<\/p>\n

Big Machine: A Novel <\/em><\/strong>– (Publishers Weekly<\/em> Top 10)
\nBy Victor LaValle. Spiegel & Grau, 2009
\nCall Number: PS3562 .A8458 B54 2009 (At Jupiter)<\/p>\n

The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century<\/em> <\/strong>– (Pulitzer Finalist, Biography or Autobiography)
\nBy Steve Coll. Penguin Press, 2008
\nCall Number: CS1129 .B552 2008 (At Jupiter)<\/p>\n

The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe<\/em> <\/strong>– (Pulitzer Finalist, General Nonfiction)
\n<\/em>By William I. Hitchcock. Free Press, 2008
\nCall Number: D755.7 .H56 2008<\/p>\n

Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It <\/em><\/strong>– (New York Times <\/em>Best Book, Fiction)
\n<\/em>By Maile Meloy. Riverhead Books, 2009
\nCall Number: PS3613 .E46 B68 2009<\/p>\n

Cheever: A Life <\/em><\/strong>– (Publishers Weekly<\/em> Top 10; New York Times<\/em> Notable Book, Nonfiction)
\nBy Blake Bailey. Alfred A. Knopf, 2009
\nCall Number: PS3505 .H6428 Z53 2009<\/p>\n

The Children’s Book: A Novel<\/em> <\/strong>– (Man Booker Shortlist)
\n<\/em>By A. S. Byatt. Knopf, 2009
\nCall Number: PR6052 .Y2 C48 2009<\/p>\n

Chronic <\/em><\/strong>– (Publishers Weekly<\/em> Best Book, Poetry)
\nBy D. A. Powell. Graywolf Press, 2009
\nCall Number: PS3566 .O828 C47 2009<\/p>\n

Chronic City, A Novel <\/em><\/strong>– (New York Times<\/em> Best Book, Fiction)
\nBy Jonathan Lethem. Doubleday, 2009
\nCall Number: PS3562 .E8544 C47 2009<\/p>\n

Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo<\/strong> <\/em>– (NPR Recommendation)
\nBy Werner Herzog. Ecco, 2009
\nCall Number: PN1998.3 .H477 A3 2009 (At Jupiter)<\/p>\n

Cutting for Stone: A Novel <\/em><\/strong>– (Publishers Weekly<\/em> Best Book, Fiction)
\nBy Abraham Verghese. Alfred A. Knopf, 2009
\nCall Number: PS3622 .E744 C87 2009<\/p>\n

Far North<\/strong> <\/em>– (National Book Award Finalist, Fiction)
\nBy Marcel Theroux. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2009
\nCall Number: PS3570 .H395 F37 2009<\/p>\n

The First Tycoon: The Epic of Cornelius Vanderbilt<\/strong> <\/em>– (National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction<\/span>; New York Times <\/em>Notable Book, Nonfiction)
\nBy T. J. Stiles. Alfred A. Knopf, 2009
\nCall Number: CT275 .V23 S85 2009<\/p>\n

Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor <\/em><\/strong>– (New York Times<\/em> Notable Book, Nonfiction)
\nBy Brad Gooch. Little, Brown and Co., 2009
\nCall Number: PS3565 .C57 Z6795 2009<\/p>\n

Following the Water: A Hydromancer’s Notebook <\/em><\/strong>– (National Book Award Finalist, Nonfiction)
\nBy David M. Carroll. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009
\nCall Number: QH105 .N4 C267 2009<\/p>\n

Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City <\/em><\/strong>– (National Book Award Finalist, Nonfiction)
\nBy Greg Grandin. Metropolitan Books, 2009
\nCall Number: F2651 .F55 G72 2009<\/p>\n

Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age<\/em><\/strong> – (Pulitzer Finalist, General Nonfiction)
\n<\/em>By Arthur Herman. Bantam Books, 2009
\nCall Number: DA47.9 .I4 H47 2009<\/p>\n

Going Away Shoes: Stories<\/strong> <\/em>– (NPR Recommendation)
\nBy Jill McCorkle. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2009
\nCall Number: PS3563 .C3444 G65 2009<\/p>\n

Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel <\/em><\/strong>– (New York Times <\/em>Best Book, Fiction)
\nBy Jeannette Walls. Scribner, 2009
\nCall Number: PS3623 .A3644 H35 2009<\/p>\n

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family<\/em> <\/strong>– (Pulitzer Winner, History<\/span>)
\nBy Annette Gordon-Reed. W. W. Norton & Co., 2008
\nCall Number: E332.74 .G67 2008<\/p>\n

How to Sell <\/em><\/strong>– (Publishers Weekly<\/em> Best Book, Fiction)
\nBy Clancy Martin. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009
\nCall Number: PS3613 .A77787 H68 2009<\/p>\n

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders<\/em> <\/strong>– (National Book Award Finalist, Fiction)
\nBy Daniyal Mueenuddin. W. W. Norton, 2009
\nCall Number: PR9540.9 .M84 I52 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America<\/strong> <\/em>– (New York Times <\/em>Notable Book, Nonfiction)
\nBy Steven Johnson. Riverhead Books, 2008
\nCall Number: QD22 .P8 J635 2008<\/p>\n

Lark and Termite: A Novel <\/em><\/strong>– (New York Times<\/em> Notable Book, Fiction)
\nBy Jayne Anne Phillips. Alfred A. Knopf, 2009
\nCall Number: PS3566 .H479 L37 2009 (At Jupiter)<\/p>\n

The Last War: A Novel <\/em><\/strong>– (Publishers Weekly<\/em> Best Book, Fiction)
\nBy Ana Men\u00e9ndez. HarperCollins, 2009
\nCall Number: PS3563 .E514 L37 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Let the Great World Spin: A Novel<\/em><\/strong> – (National Book Award Winner, Fiction<\/span>; New York Times<\/em> Notable Book, Fiction)
\nBy Colum McCann. Random House, 2009
\nCall Number: PR6063 .C335 L47 2009<\/p>\n

The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s<\/strong> <\/em>– (Pulitzer Finalist, History)
\n<\/em>By G. Calvin Mackenzie & Robert Weisbrot. Penguin Press, 2008
\nCall Number: E841 .M223 2008<\/p>\n

Little Bee<\/strong> <\/em>– (NPR Recommendation)
\nBy Chris Cleave. Simon & Schuster, 2009
\nCall Number: PR6103 .L43 L58 2009<\/p>\n

The Little Stranger<\/em> <\/strong>– (Man Booker Shortlist; Publishers Weekly<\/em> Best Book, Fiction)
\nBy Sarah Waters. Riverhead Books, 2009
\nCall Number: PR6073 .A828 L58 2009<\/p>\n

Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World <\/em><\/strong>– (New York Times<\/em> Best Book, Nonfiction)
\nBy Liaquat Ahamed. Penguin Press, 2009
\nCall Number: HG172 .A2 A43 2009<\/p>\n

Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir <\/em><\/strong>– (New York Times<\/em> Notable Book, Nonfiction)
\nBy Christopher Buckley. Twelve, 2009
\nCall Number: PS3552 .U3394 Z46 2009<\/p>\n

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon <\/em><\/strong>– (Publishers<\/em> Weekly<\/em> Top 10)
\nBy David Grann. Doubleday, 2009
\nCall Number: F2546 .G747 2009 (At Jupiter)<\/p>\n

Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever<\/em> <\/strong>– (New York Times<\/em> Notable Book, Nonfiction)
\nBy Walter Kim. Doubleday, 2009
\nCall Number: PS3561 .I746 Z46 2009<\/p>\n

Olive Kitteridge<\/em> <\/strong>– (2009 Pulitzer Winner, Fiction<\/span>)
\nBy Elizabeth Strout. Random House, 2008
\nCall Number: PS3569 .T736 O5 2008<\/p>\n

Open Interval <\/em><\/strong>– (National Book Award Finalist, Poetry)
\nBy Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009
\nCall Number: PS3622 .A585 O64 2009<\/p>\n

The Plague of Doves<\/strong> <\/em>– (Pulitzer Finalist, Fiction)
\nBy Louise Erdrich. HarperCollins, 2008
\nCall Number: PS3555 .R42 P55 2008<\/p>\n

Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species<\/em> <\/strong>– (National Book Award Finalist, Nonfiction)
\nBy Sean B. Carroll. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009
\nCall Number: QH361 .C275 2009<\/p>\n

Sag Harbor: A Novel<\/strong> <\/em>– (New York Times<\/em> Notable Book, Fiction; Publishers<\/em> Weekly<\/em> Best Book, Fiction)
\nBy Colson Whitehead. Doubleday, 2009
\nCall Number: PS3573 .H4768 S35 2009<\/p>\n

The Shadow of Sirius <\/em><\/strong>– (2009 Pulitzer Winner, Poetry<\/span>)
\nBy W. S. Merwin. Copper Canyon Press, 2008
\nCall Number: PS3563 .E75 S48 2008<\/p>\n

A Short History of Women <\/em><\/strong>– (New York Times<\/em> Best Book Fiction)
\nBy Kate Walbert. Scribner, 2004
\nCall Number: PS3573 .A42113 S54 2009<\/p>\n

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II<\/em><\/strong> – (Pulitzer Winner, General Nonfiction<\/span>)
\n<\/em>By Douglas A. Blackmon. Doubleday, 2008
\nCall Number: E185.2 .B545 2008<\/p>\n

Spooner<\/em> <\/strong>– (NPR Recommendation; Publishers<\/em> Weekly<\/em> Best Book, Fiction)
\nBy Pete Dexter. Grand Central Pub., 2009
\nCall Number: PS3554 .E95 S66 2009<\/p>\n

Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original <\/em><\/strong>– (New York Times <\/em>Notable Book, Nonfiction)
\nBy Robin D. G. Kelley. Free Press, 2009
\nCall Number: ML417 .M846 K46 2009<\/p>\n

The Third Reich At War <\/em><\/strong>– (New York Times<\/em> Notable Book, Nonfiction)
\nBy Richard J. Evans. Penguin Press, 2009
\nCall Number: D757 .E83 2009<\/p>\n

This is Where I Leave You<\/em> <\/strong>– (NPR Recommendation)
\nBy Jonathan Tropper. Dutton, 2009
\nCall Number: PS3570 .R5885 T47 2009<\/p>\n

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War<\/em> <\/strong>– (Pulitzer Finalist, History)
\n<\/em>By Drew Gilpin Faust. Alfred A. Knopf, 2008
\nCall Number: E468.9 .F385 2008<\/p>\n

Tinkers <\/em><\/strong>– (Publishers Weekly<\/em> Best Book, Fiction)
\nBy Paul Harding. Bellevue Literary Press, 2009
\nCall Number: PS3608 .A72535 T56 2009<\/p>\n

Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt<\/em> <\/strong>– (Pulitzer Finalist, Biography or Autobiography)
\n<\/em>By H. W. Brands. Doubleday, 2008
\nCall Number: E807 .B735 2008<\/p>\n

Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy<\/em> <\/strong>– (National Book Award Winner, Poetry<\/span>)
\nBy Keith Waldrop. University of California Press, 2009
\nCall Number: PS3573 .A423 T73 2009<\/p>\n

The Vagrants: A Novel<\/em> <\/strong>– (Publishers Weekly<\/em> Best Book, Fiction)
\nBy Yiyun Li. Random House, 2009
\nCall Number: PL3946 .Y59 V34 2009 (At Jupiter)<\/p>\n

Versed <\/em><\/strong>– (National Book Award Finalist, Poetry)
\nBy Rae Armantrout. Wesleyan University Press, 2009
\nCall Number: PS3551 .R455 V47 2009<\/p>\n

Watching the Spring Festival<\/em> <\/strong>– (Pulitzer Finalist, Poetry)
\nBy Frank Bidart. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
\nCall Number: PS3552 .I33 W38 2008<\/p>\n

The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America<\/strong><\/em> – (New York Times <\/em>Notable Book, Nonfiction)
\nBy Douglas Brinkley. HarperCollins, 2009
\nCall Number: E757 .B84 2009<\/p>\n

The Year of the Flood: A Novel <\/em><\/strong>– (New York Times<\/em> Notable Book, Fiction)
\nBy Margaret Atwood. Nan A. Talese\/Doubleday, 2009
\nCall Number: PR9199.3 .A8 Y43 2009<\/p>\n

Zeitoun <\/em><\/strong>– (New York Times<\/em> Notable Book, Nonfiction)
\nBy Dave Eggers. McSweeney’s Books, 2009
\nCall Number: E184 .A65 E34 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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