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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 old man lies dying. As time collapses into memory, he travels deep into his past where he is reunited with his father and relives the wonder and pain of his impoverished New England youth. At once heartbreaking and life affirming, Tinkers is an elegiac meditation on love, loss, and the fierce beauty of nature.
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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
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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