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The Notable Books Council, a group of readers' advisory experts within the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of the American Library Association, has announced its selections for the 2015 Notable Books List.
Since 1944, the goal of the Notable Books Council has been to make available to the nation's readers a list of about twenty-five very good, very readable, and at times very important fiction, nonfiction, and poetry books for the adult reader. A book may be selected for inclusion on the Notable Books List if it possesses exceptional literary merit, expands the horizons of human knowledge, makes a specialized body of knowledge accessible to the nonspecialist, has the potential to contribute significantly to the solution of a contemporary problem, or presents a unique concept.
The 2015 winners are:
FICTION
Denfeld, Rene. The Enchanted: A Novel. Harper (ISBN: 9780-06-228550-8). Death row inmates await escape through execution in this weirdly gorgeous tale.
Doerr, Anthony. All the Light We Cannot See. Scribner (ISBN: 978-1-4767-4658-6). Navigating the dark of World War II, a German boy and a French girl survive using senses other than sight.
Flanagan, Richard. Narrow Road to the Deep North: A Novel. Knopf (ISBN: 978-0-385-35285-7). Australian beaches, Burmese jungles, love and death permeate a story of World War II POWs.
Harkaway, Nick. Tigerman. Knopf (ISBN: 978-0-385-352413). Funny, strange, and...