LibGuides: Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction: 2010s

2012

The Longlist will not include the Winner and Finalists. Titles in blue denote those available through Unger Memorial Library.

The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright

The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright
Call Number: Fiction E59f (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780393072556
Publication Date: 2011-10-03
A new, unapologetic kind of adultery novel. Narrated by the proverbial other woman—Gina Moynihan, a sharp, sexy, darkly funny thirtysomething IT worker—The Forgotten Waltz charts an extramarital affair from first encounter to arranged, settled, everyday domesticity. . . . This novel’s beauty lies in Enright’s spare, poetic, off-kilter prose—at once heartbreaking and subversively funny. It’s built of startling little surprises and one fresh sentence after another. Enright captures the heady eroticism of an extramarital affair and the incendiary egomania that accompanies secret passion: For all their utter ordinariness, Sean and Gina feel like the greatest lovers who've ever lived.

Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks
Swamplandia by Karen Russell

The Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks
Call Number: Fiction b2185L (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780061857638
Publication Date: 2011-09-27
This is a novel that illuminates the shadowed edges of contemporary American culture with startling and unforgettable results. Suspended in a strangely modern day version of limbo, the young man at the center of this morally complex new novel must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration.
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
Call Number: Fiction R964s (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780307263995
Publication Date: 2011-02-01
Thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree has lived her entire life at Swamplandia!, her family’s island home and gator-wrestling theme park in the Florida Everglades. But when illness fells Ava’s mother, the park’s indomitable headliner, the family is plunged into chaos; her father withdraws, her sister falls in love with a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, and her brilliant big brother, Kiwi, defects to a rival park called The World of Darkness. As Ava sets out on a mission through the magical swamps to save them all, we are drawn into a lush and bravely imagined debut that takes us to the shimmering edge of reality.

The Longlist does not include the winning or finalist titles.

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes	Light Lifting by Alexander MacLeod
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt	IQ84 by Haruki Murakami
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides	The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht
Say Her Name by Fracisco Goldman	The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
Faith by Jennifer Haigh	The Tragedy of Arthur by Arthur Phillips
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach	Luminarium by Alex Shakar
When She Woke by Hillary Jordan	We the Animals by Justin Torres
Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes by William Kennedy	American Boy by Larry Watson
Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante

The Sense of an Ending

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Call Number: Fiction B2612s (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780307957122
Publication Date: 2011-10-05
This intense novel follows Tony Webster, a middle-aged man, as he contends with a past he never thought much about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. Tony thought he left this all behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.
The Sense of an Ending [E-Book] by Julian Barnes
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780307957337
Publication Date: 2011-10-05

The Sisters Brothers

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Call Number: Fiction D523s (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780062041265
Publication Date: 2011-04-26
When a frontier baron known as the Commodore orders Charlie and Eli Sisters, his hired gunslingers, to track down and kill a prospector named Herman Kermit Warm, the brothers journey from Oregon to San Francisco, and eventually to Warm's claim in the Sierra foothills, running into a witch, a bear, a dead Indian, a parlor of drunken floozies, and a gang of murderous fur trappers.

The Marriage Plot

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Call Number: Fiction E87m (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780374203054
Publication Date: 2011-10-11
It's the early 1980s—the country is in a deep recession, and life after college is harder than ever. In the cafés on College Hill, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels.

Say Her Name

Say Her Name by Francisco Goldman
Call Number: Fiction G619s (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780802119810
Publication Date: 2011-04-05
In a novel based on the author's real-life tragedy, Goldman, consumed with grief and guilt over the accidental death of his wife just before their second anniversary, obsessively collects every memory of her, especially her writings, with the hope of keeping her alive in his mind.

Faith

Faith by Jennifer Haigh
Call Number: Fiction H1505f (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780060755805
Publication Date: 2011-05-10
When Sheila McGann setsout to redeem her disgraced brother, a once-beloved Catholic priest in suburbanBoston, her quest will force her to confront cataclysmic truths about herfractured Irish-American family, her beliefs, and, ultimately, herself.

The Art of Fielding

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
Call Number: Fiction H254a (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780316126694
Publication Date: 2011-09-07
At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended.

When She Woke

When She Woke by Hillary Jordan
Call Number: Fiction J82w (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781565126299
Publication Date: 2011-10-04
When She Woke, tells the story of a stigmatized woman struggling to navigate an America of a not-too-distant future, where the line between church and state has been eradicated and convicted felons are no longer imprisoned and rehabilitated but chromed―their skin color is genetically altered to match the class of their crimes―and then released back into the population to survive as best they can. Hannah is a Red; her crime is murder. In seeking a path to safety in an alien and hostile world, Hannah unknowingly embarks on a path of self-discovery that forces her to question the values she once held true and the righteousness of a country that politicizes faith.
When She Woke [E-Book] by Hillary Jordan
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9781616201845
Publication Date: 2012-09-18

Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes

Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes by William Kennedy
Call Number: Fiction K366c (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780670022977
Publication Date: 2011-09-29
His life radically changed by an encounter with Ernest Hemingway in Cuba, journalist Daniel Quinn embarks on a turbulent journey marked by such historical events as the Albany race riots, the rise of Fidel Castro, and the assassination of Robert Kennedy.

Light Lifting

Light Lifting : stories by Alexander MacLeod
Call Number: Fiction M164L (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781897231944
Publication Date: 2011-04-05
CONTENTS: Miracle mile -- Wonder about parents -- Light lifting -- Adult beginner I -- The loop -- Good kids -- The number three.

The Tiger's Wife

The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht
Call Number: Fiction O12t (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780385343831
Publication Date: 2011-03-08
Remembering childhood stories her grandfather once told her, young physician Natalia becomes convinced that he spent his last days searching for "the deathless man," a vagabond who claimed to be immortal. As Natalia struggles to understand why her grandfather, a deeply rational man would go on such a farfetched journey, she stumbles across a clue that leads her to the extraordinary story of the tiger's wife.
The Tiger's Wife [OverDrive E-Book] by Téa Obreht
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780679604365
Publication Date: 2011

The Cat's Table

The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
Call Number: Fiction O581c (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780307700117
Publication Date: 2011-10-04
A stunning new novel, by turns poignant and electrifying, about the magical, often forbidden, discoveries of childhood and a lifelong journey that begins unexpectedly with a sea voyage.
The Cat's Table [CD] by Michael Ondaatje (Read by)
Call Number: CD Fiction ON (Adult CD Audiobooks)
ISBN: 9780307943712
Publication Date: 2011-10-04

The Tragedy of Arthur

The Tragedy of Arthur by Arthur Phillips
Call Number: Fiction P5575t (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781400066476
Publication Date: 2011-04-19
The Tragedy of Arthur is an emotional and elaborately constructed tour de force from “one of the best writers in America” (The Washington Post). Its doomed hero is Arthur Phillips, a young novelist struggling with a con artist father who works wonders of deception. Imprisoned for decades and nearing the end of his life, Arthur’s father reveals a treasure he’s kept secret for half a century: The Tragedy of Arthur, a previously unknown play by William Shakespeare. Arthur and his twin sister inherit their father’s mission: to see the manuscript published and acknowledged as the Bard’s last great gift to humanity . . . unless it’s their father’s last great con. By turns hilarious and haunting, this virtuosic novel, which includes Shakespeare’s (?) lost play in its entirety, brilliantly subverts our notions of truth, fiction, genius, and identity, as the two Arthurs—the novelist and the ancient king—play out their strangely intertwined fates.
The Tragedy of Arthur [E-Book] by Arthur Phillips
Call Number: Fiction P5575t (OverDrive E-Book)
ISBN: 9780679605065
Publication Date: 2011

We the Animals

We the Animals by Justin Torres
Call Number: Fiction T693w (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780547576725
Publication Date: 2011-08-30
Three brothers tear their way through childhood-- smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn--he's Puerto Rican, she's white--and their love is a serious, dangerous thing that makes and unmakes a family many times. Life in this family is fierce and absorbing, full of chaos and heartbreak and the euphoria of belonging completely to one another. From the intense familial unity felt by a child to the profound alienation he endures as he begins to see the world, this beautiful novel reinvents the coming-of-age story in a way that is sly and punch-in-the-stomach powerful. Written in magical language with unforgettable images, this is a stunning exploration of the viscerally charged landscape of growing up, how deeply we are formed by our earliest bonds, and how we are ultimately propelled at escape velocity toward our futures.

2013

The Longlist will not include the Winner and Finalists. Titles in blue denote those available through Unger Memorial Library.

Canada by Richard Ford

Canada by Richard Ford
Call Number: Fiction F7116c (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780061692048
Publication Date: 2012-05-22
After his parents are arrested and imprisoned for robbing a bank, fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons is taken in by Arthur Remlinger who, unbeknownst to Dell, is hiding a dark and violent nature that interferes with Dell's quest to find grace and peace on the prairie of Saskatchewan.

This is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
The Round House by Louise Erdrich

This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
Call Number: Fiction D542t (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781594487361
Publication Date: 2012-09-11
Presents a collection of stories that explores the heartbreak and radiance of love as it is shaped by passion, betrayal, and the echoes of intimacy.
CONTENTS: The sun, the moon, the stars -- Nilda -- Alma -- Invierno -- Flaca -- The pura principle -- Otravida, Otravez -- Miss Lora -- The cheater's guide to love -- This is how you lose her.
This Is How You Lose Her [CD] by Junot Díaz (Read by)
Call Number: CD Fiction DI (Adult Audiobook CD)
ISBN: 9781611761108
Publication Date: 2012-09-11

The Round House : a novel by Louise Erdrich
Call Number: Fiction E66q (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780062065247
Publication Date: 2012-10-02
When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after being brutally attacked, 14-year-old Joe Coutz sets out with his three friends to find the person that destroyed his family.
The Round House [CD] : a novel by Louise Erdrich; Gary Farmer (Read by)
Call Number: CD Fiction ER (Adult Audiobook CD]
ISBN: 9780062273857
Publication Date: 2013-01-08

The Longlist does not include the winning or finalist titles.

Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon	The Headmaster's Wager by Vincent Lam
The Bartender's Tale by Ivan Doig	Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Astray by Emma Donoghue	Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan	*Home* by Toni Morrison
A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers	Dear Life by Alice Munro
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain	The Cove by Ron Rash
Arcadia by Lauren Groff	The Lower River by Paul Theroux
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller	The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín
In One Person by John Irving	One Last Thing Before I Go by Jonathan Tropper
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson	The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce	Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver	Battleborn by Claire Vaye Watkins

Telegraph Avenue

Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon
Call Number: Fiction C428t (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780061493348
Publication Date: 2012-09-11
Longtime band mates Archy and Nat preside over Brokeland Records, a used-record emporium. All's well until a former NFL quarterback, one of the country's richest African Americans, decides to build his latest Dogpile megastore on nearby Telegraph Avenue. Not only could this spell doom for the little shop and its cross-race, cross-class dream, but it opens up past history regarding Archy's untethered dad and a Black Panther-era crime.
Telegraph Avenue [CD] by Michael Chabon
Call Number: CD Fiction CH (Adult CD Audiobooks)
ISBN: 9780062205780
Publication Date: 2012-09-11

The Bartender's Tale

The Bartender's Tale by Ivan Doig
Call Number: Kindle-0537
ISBN: 9781101596838
Publication Date: 2012
Tom Harry has a streak of frost in his black pompadour and a venerable bar called The Medicine Lodge, the chief watering hole and last refuge in the town of Gros Ventre, in northern Montana. Tom also has a son named Rusty, an "accident between the sheets" whose mother deserted them both years ago. The pair make an odd kind of family, with the bar their true home, but they manage just fine. Until the summer of 1960, that is, when Rusty turns twelve. Change arrives with gale force, in the person of Proxy, a taxi dancer Tom knew back when, and her beatnik daughter, Francine. Is Francine, as Proxy claims, the unsuspected legacy of her and Tom's past' Without a doubt she is an unsettling gust of the future, upending every certainty in Rusty's life and generating a mist of passion and pretense that seems to obscure everyone's vision but his own. The Bartender's Tale wonderfully captures how the world becomes bigger and the past becomes more complex in the last moments of childhood.

A Hologram for the King

A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
Call Number: Fiction E29h (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781936365746
Publication Date: 2012-06-19
In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
Call Number: Fiction F771b (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780060885595
Publication Date: 2012-05-01
A satire set in Texas during America's war in Iraq that explores the gaping national disconnect between the war at home and the war abroad. Follows the surviving members of the heroic Bravo Squad through one exhausting stop in their media-intensive "Victory Tour" at Texas Stadium, football mecca of the Dallas Cowboys, their fans, promoters, and cheerleaders.
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk [Kindle] by Ben Fountain
Call Number: Kindle-1067
ISBN: 9780060885595
Publication Date: 2012-05-01

Arcadia

Arcadia [Kindle] by Lauren Groff; Hyperion Staff
Call Number: Kindle-0608
ISBN: 9781401342784
Publication Date: 2012-03-13
The lyrical and haunting story of a great American dream--the progress of a utopian community and its lasting impact on a gifted young man.

The Dog Stars

The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
Call Number: Fiction H478d (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780307959942
Publication Date: 2012-08-07
Hig survived the flu that killed everyone he knows. His wife is gone, his friends are dead, he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, his only neighbor a gun-toting misanthrope. In his 1956 Cessna, Hig flies the perimeter of the airfield or sneaks off to the mountains to finsh and to pretend that things are the way they used to be. But when a random transmission somehow beams through his radio, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life, something like his old life, exists beyond the airport.
The Dog Stars [CD] by Peter Heller; Mark Deakins (Read by)
Call Number: CD Fiction HE (Adult CD Audiobooks)
ISBN: 9780449013113
Publication Date: 2012-08-07
The Dog Stars [E-Book] by Peter Heller
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780307960931
Publication Date: 2012-08-07

In One Person

In One Person by John Irving
Call Number: Fiction I726i (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781451664126
Publication Date: 2012-05-08
An elderly bisexual man looks back upon his life and romances, reflecting on his unfulfilled loves and broken dreams.
In One Person [CD] by John Irving; John Benjamin Hickey (Read by)
Call Number: CD Fiction IR (Adult CD Audiobooks)
ISBN: 9781442349155
Publication Date: 2012-05-08

The Orphan Master's Son

The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
Call Number: FIC JOHNS ADA OR (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780812992793
Publication Date: 2012-01-10
Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother—a singer “stolen” to Pyongyang—and an influential father who runs a work camp for orphans. Superiors in the North Korean state soon recognize the boy’s loyalty and keen instincts. Considering himself “a humble citizen of the greatest nation in the world,” Jun Do rises in the ranks. He becomes a professional kidnapper who must navigate the shifting rules, arbitrary violence, and baffling demands of his overlords in order to stay alive. Driven to the absolute limit of what any human being could endure, he boldly takes on the treacherous role of rival to Kim Jong Il in an attempt to save the woman he loves, Sun Moon, a legendary actress “so pure, she didn’t know what starving people looked like.”
The Orphan Master's Son [E-Book] by Adam Johnson
Call Number: FIC JOHNS ADA OR Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9780679643999
Publication Date: 2012

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
Call Number: Fiction J895u (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780812993295
Publication Date: 2012-07-24
Harold Fry is convinced that he must deliver a letter to an old love in order to save her, meeting various characters along the way and reminiscing about the events of his past and people he has known, as he tries to find peace and acceptance.
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry [CD] by Rachel Joyce; Jim Broadbent (Read by)
Call Number: CD Fiction JO (Adult CD Audiobooks)
ISBN: 9780449012758
Publication Date: 2012-07-24
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry [E-Book] by Rachel Joyce
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780679645115
Publication Date: 2012

Flight Behavior

Flight Behavior [Kindle] by Barbara Kingsolver
Call Number: Kindle-0702 (Request at the Circulation Desk)
ISBN: 9780062124289
Publication Date: 2012-11-06
Set in the present day in the rural community of Feathertown, Tennessee, this novel tells the story of Dellarobia Turnbow, a petite, razor-sharp 29-year-old who nurtured worldly ambitions before becoming pregnant and marrying at seventeen. Now, after more than a decade of tending to small children on a failing farm, oppressed by poverty, isolation and her husband's antagonistic family, she has mitigated her boredom by surrendering to an obsessive flirtation with a handsome younger man.
Flight Behavior [CD] by Barbara Kingsolver (Read by)
Call Number: CD Fiction KI (Adult CD Audiobooks)
ISBN: 9780062124326
Publication Date: 2012-11-06

Bring Up the Bodies

Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Call Number: Fiction M292b (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780805090031
Publication Date: 2012-05-08
Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son and her sharp intelligence and audacious will alienate his old friends and the noble families of England. When the discarded Katherine dies in exile from the court, Anne stands starkly exposed, the focus of gossip and malice. At a word from Henry, Thomas Cromwell is ready to bring her down. Over three terrifying weeks, Anne is ensnared in a web of conspiracy, while the demure Jane Seymour stands waiting her turn for the poisoned wedding ring. But Anne and her powerful family will not yield without a ferocious struggle.
Bring up the Bodies [CD] by Hilary Mantel; Simon Vance (Read by); Jane Carr (Read by)
Call Number: CD Fiction MA (Adult CD Audiobooks)
ISBN: 9781427225825
Publication Date: 2012-05-08

Sweet Tooth

Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
Call Number: Fiction M4738t (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780385536820
Publication Date: 2012-11-13
Cambridge student Serena Frome’s beauty and intelligence make her the ideal recruit for MI5. The year is 1972. The Cold War is far from over. England’s legendary intelligence agency is determined to manipulate the cultural conversation by funding writers whose politics align with those of the government. The operation is code named “Sweet Tooth.” Serena, a compulsive reader of novels, is the perfect candidate to infiltrate the literary circle of a promising young writer named Tom Haley. At first, she loves his stories. Then she begins to love the man. How long can she conceal her undercover life? To answer that question, Serena must abandon the first rule of espionage: trust no one.
Sweet Tooth [E-Book] by Ian McEwan
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780385536837
Publication Date: 2012

Home

Home by Toni Morrison
Call Number: Fiction M882h (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780307594167
Publication Date: 2012-05-08
The story of a Korean war veteran on a quest to save his younger sister

Dear Life

Dear Life : stories by Alice Munro
Call Number: Fiction M968d (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780307596888
Publication Date: 2012-11-13
In story after story in this brilliant new collection, Alice Munro pinpoints the moment a person is forever altered by a chance encounter, an action not taken, or a simple twist of fate. Her characters are flawed and fully human: a soldier returning from war and avoiding his fiancée, a wealthy woman deciding whether to confront a blackmailer, an adulterous mother and her neglected children, a guilt-ridden father, a young teacher jilted by her employer.
Dear Life [OverDrive E-Book] : stories by Alice Munro
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780307961044
Publication Date: 2012

The Cove

The Cove by Ron Rash
Call Number: Fiction R224c (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780061804199
Publication Date: 2012-04-10
Living deep within a cove in the Appalachians of North Carolina during World War I, Laurel Shelton finally finds the happiness she deserves in Walter, a mysterious stranger who is mute, but their love cannot protect them from a devastating secret.

The Lower River

The Lower River [Kindle] by Paul Theroux
Call Number: Kindle-0982
ISBN: 9780547746913
Publication Date: 2012-05-22
Ellis Hock never believed that he would return to Africa. He runs an old-fashioned menswear store in a small town in Massachusetts but still dreams of his Eden, the four years he spent in Malawi with the Peace Corps, cut short when he had to return to take over the family business. When his wife leaves him, and he is on his own, he realizes that there is one place for him to go: back to his village in Malawi, on the remote Lower River, where he can be happy again. Arriving at the dusty village, he finds it transformed: the school he built is a ruin, the church and clinic are gone, and poverty and apathy have set in among the people. They remember him--the White Man with no fear of snakes--and welcome him. But is his new life, his journey back, an escape or a trap?

One Last Thing Before I Go

One Last Thing Before I Go by Jonathan Tropper
Call Number: Fiction T856o (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780525952367
Publication Date: 2012-08-21
“Mistakes have been made.” Drew Silver has begun to accept that life isn’t going to turn out as he expected. His fleeting fame as the drummer for a one-hit wonder rock band is nearly a decade behind him. His ex-wife is about to marry a terrific guy. And his Princeton-bound teenage daughter Casey has just confided in him that she’s pregnant—because Silver is the one she cares least about letting down. So when Silver learns that he requires emergency life-saving heart surgery, he makes the radical decision to refuse the operation, choosing instead to spend what time he has left to repair his relationship with Casey, become a better man, and live in the moment—even if that moment isn’t going to last very long. As his exasperated family looks on, Silver grapples with the ultimate question of whether or not his own life is worth saving.

The Beginner's Goodbye

The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler
Call Number: Fiction T981ay (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780307957276
Publication Date: 2012-04-03
Crippled in his right arm and leg, Aaron grew up fending off a sister who constantly wanted to manage him. So when he meets Dorothy, an outspoken, independent young woman, she’s like a breath of fresh air. He marries her without hesitation, and they have a relatively happy, unremarkable marriage. Aaron works at his family’s vanity-publishing business, turning out titles that presume to guide beginners through the trials of life. But when a tree crashes into their house and Dorothy is killed, Aaron feels as though he has been erased forever. Only Dorothy’s unexpected appearances from the dead—in their house, on the roadway, in the market—help him to live in the moment and to find some peace. Gradually, Aaron discovers that maybe for this beginner there is indeed a way to say goodbye.
The Beginner's Goodbye [E-Book] by Anne Tyler
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780307958228
Publication Date: 2012

Beautiful Ruins

Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Call Number: Fiction W232b (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780061928123
Publication Date: 2012-06-12
A novel that spans fifty years. The Italian housekeeper and his long-lost American starlet; the producer who once brought them together, and his assistant. A glittering world filled with unforgettable characters.
Beautiful Ruins [CD] by Jess Walter; Edoardo Ballerini (Read by)
Call Number: CD Fiction WA (Adult CD Audiobooks)
ISBN: 9780062268365
Publication Date: 2012-12-04

2014

The Longlist will not include the Winner and Finalists. Titles in blue denote those available through Unger Memorial Library.

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Call Number: FIC TARTT DON GO (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780316055437
Publication Date: 2013-10-22
A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds him of his mother: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the art underworld.
The Goldfinch [E-Book] by Donna Tartt
Call Number: FIC TARTT DON GO Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9780316248624
Publication Date: 2013
The Goldfinch [Streaming audiobook] by Donna Tartt
Call Number: FIC TARTT DON GO Audiobk (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9781478980490
Publication Date: 2013

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat

Americanah [Kindle] by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Call Number: Kindle-0376 (Request at Circulation Desk)
ISBN: 9780307271082
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to start a new life in America, only to find her dreams are not all she expected.
Americanah [E-Book] by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780307962126
Publication Date: 2013-05-14

Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780385349680
Publication Date: 2013
Just as her father makes the wrenching decision to send her away for a chance at a better life, Claire Limyè Lanmè—Claire of the Sea Light—suddenly disappears. As the people of the Haitian seaside community of Ville Rose search for her, painful secrets, haunting memories, and startling truths are unearthed. In this stunning novel about intertwined lives, Edwidge Danticat crafts a tightly woven, breathtaking tapestry that explores the mysterious bonds we share—with the natural world and with one another.

The Longlist does not include the winning or finalist titles.

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson	The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards by Kristopher Jansma
Archangel by Andrea Barrett	The Dinner by Herman Koch
All the Land to Hold Us by Rick Bass	The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Circle by Dave Eggers	The Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
Too Bright to Hear, Too Loud to See by Juliann Garey	The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert	The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
Enon by Paul Harding	A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
A Guide for the Perplexed by Dara Horn	The Woman Who Lost Her Soul by Bob Shacochis
All the Land to Hold Us by Rick Bass	Fools by Joan Silber

Life After Life

Life after Life by Kate Atkinson
Call Number: Fiction A8759L v.1 (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780316176484
Publication Date: 2013-04-02
What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war. Does Ursula's apparently infinite number of lives give her the power to save the world from its inevitable destiny? And if she can -- will she? Darkly comic, startlingly poignant, and utterly original -- this is Kate Atkinson at her absolute best.
Life after Life [CD] by Kate Atkinson; Fenella Woolgar (Read by)
Call Number: CD Fiction AT (Adult CD Audiobooks)
ISBN: 9781619696969
Publication Date: 2013-04-02
Life After Life [E-Book] by Kate Atkinson
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9781619699557
Publication Date: 2013

The Circle

The Circle by Dave Eggers
Call Number: Fiction E29c (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780385351393
Publication Date: 2013-10-08
When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users' personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company's modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can't believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world--even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public.
The Circle [E-Book] by Dave Eggers
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780385351409
Publication Date: 2013

The Signature of All Things

The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
Call Number: Fiction G464s (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780670024858
Publication Date: 2013-10-01
Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittaker-a poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South American quinine trade, eventually becoming the richest man in Philadelphia. Born in 1800, Henry's brilliant daughter, Alma (who inherits both her father's money and his mind), ultimately becomes a botanist of considerable gifts herself. As Alma's research takes her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, she falls in love with a man named Ambrose Pike who makes incomparable paintings of orchids and who draws her in the exact opposite direction-into the realm of the spiritual, the divine, and the magical. Alma is a clear-minded scientist; Ambrose a utopian artist-but what unites this unlikely couple is a desperate need to understand the workings of this world and the mechanisms behind all life.
The Signature of All Things [CD] by Elizabeth Gilbert; Juliet Stevenson (Read by)
Call Number: CD Fiction GI (Adult CD Audiobooks)
ISBN: 9781611762020
Publication Date: 2013-10-01

The Dinner

The Dinner by Herman Koch
Call Number: Fiction K763d (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780770437855
Publication Date: 2013-02-12
It's a summer's evening in Amsterdam, and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. Between mouthfuls of food and over the scrapings of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse. But behind the empty words, terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened.
The Dinner [E-Book] by Herman Koch
Call Number: Fiction K763d OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780385346849
Publication Date: 2013

The Lowland

The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
Call Number: Fiction L1837L (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780307265746
Publication Date: 2013-09-24
Born just fifteen months apart, Subhash and Udayan Mitra are inseparable brothers, one often mistaken for the other in the Calcutta neighborhood where they grow up. But they are also opposites, with gravely different futures ahead. It is the 1960s, and Udayan—charismatic and impulsive—finds himself drawn to the Naxalite movement, a rebellion waged to eradicate inequity and poverty; he will give everything, risk all, for what he believes. Subhash, the dutiful son, does not share his brother’s political passion; he leaves home to pursue a life of scientific research in a quiet, coastal corner of America.
The Lowland [E-Book] by Jhumpa Lahiri
Call Number: Fiction L1837L OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780385350402
Publication Date: 2013

The Constellation of Vital Phenomena

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena [Kindle] by Anthony Marra
Call Number: FIC MARRA ANT CO Kindle (Request at circulation desk)
ISBN: 9780770436414
Publication Date: 2013
In a rural village in December 2004 Chechnya, a failed doctor Akhmed harbors the traumatized 8-year-old daughter of a father abducted by Russian forces and treats a series of wounded rebels and refugees while exploring the shared past that binds him to the child.
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena [E-Book] by Anthony Marra
Call Number: FIC MARRA ANT CO Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9780770436414
Publication Date: 2013

The Good Lord Bird

The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
Call Number: Fiction M4694g (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781594486340
Publication Date: 2013-08-20
The story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown's antislavery crusade - and who must pass as a girl to survive.

The Woman Upstairs

The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
Call Number: Fiction M585w (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780307596901
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
Relegated to the status of schoolteacher and friendly neighbor after abandoning her dreams of becoming an artist, Nora advocates on behalf of a charismatic Lebanese student and is drawn into the child's family until his artist mother's careless ambition leads to a shattering betrayal.

2015

The Longlist will not include the Winner and Finalists. Titles in blue denote those available through Unger Memorial Library.

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

All the Light We Cannot See : a novel by Anthony Doerr
Call Number: Ficton D651b (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781476746586
Publication Date: 2014-05-06
Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge.
All the Light We Cannot See [Kindle] by Anthony Doerr
Call Number: Kindle-258 (Get at Circulation Desk)
ISBN: 9781476746593
Publication Date: 2030-12-31
All the Light We Cannot See [OverDrive Audiobook] by Anthony Doerr
Call Number: OverDrive Audiobook
ISBN: 9781442378735
Publication Date: 2014

Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín
On Such a Full Sea by Chang-rae Lee

Nora Webster by Colm Toibin
Call Number: Fiction T646n (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781439138335
Publication Date: 2014-10-07
Set in Wexford, Ireland, Colm Tóibín's superb seventh novel introduces the formidable, memorable and deeply moving Nora Webster. Widowed at forty, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world to which she was born. And now she fears she may be drawn back into it. Wounded, strong-willed, clinging to secrecy in a tiny community where everyone knows your business, Nora is drowning in her own sorrow and blind to the suffering of her young sons, who have lost their father. Yet she has moments of stunning empathy and kindness, and when she begins to sing again, after decades, she finds solace, engagement, a haven--herself.

On Such a Full Sea by Chang-rae Lee
Call Number: FIC LEE CHAR ON (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781594486104
Publication Date: 2014-01-07
In a future, long-declining America, society is strictly stratified by class. Long-abandoned urban neighborhoods have been repurposed as highwalled, self-contained labor colonies. And the members of the labor class-descendants of those brought over en masse many years earlier from environmentally ruined provincial China-find purpose and identity in their work to provide pristine produce and fish to the small, elite, satellite charter villages that ring the labor settlement. In this world lives Fan, a female fish-tank diver, who leaves her home in the B-Mor settlement (once known as Baltimore), when the man she loves mysteriously disappears. Fan's journey to find him takes her out of the safety of B-Mor, through the anarchic Open Counties, where crime is rampant with scant governmental oversight, and to a faraway charter village, in a quest that will soon become legend to those she left behind.

The Longlist does not include the winning or finalist titles.

Song of the Shank by Jefferey Renard Allen	The Children Act by Ian McEwan
The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld	Thirty Girls by Susan Minot
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante	The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan	The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness
Tigerman by Nick Harkaway	Us by David Nicholls
The Confessions of Frances Godwin by Robert Hellenga	Orfeo by Richard Powers
The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez	Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 by Francine Prose
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James	Something Rich and Strange by Ron Rash
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel	Lila by Marilynne Robinson
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel	All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
In Paradise by Peter Matthiessen

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
Call Number: Fiction F582n (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780385352857
Publication Date: 2014-08-12
A novel of love and war that traces the life of one man--an Australian surgeon--from a prisoner-of-war camp on the Thai-Burma Death Railway during World War II, up to the presen.

The Book of Unknown Americans

The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez
Call Number: Fiction H521b (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780385350846
Publication Date: 2014-06-03
Arturo and Alma Rivera have lived their whole lives in Mexico. One day, their beautiful fifteen-year-old daughter, Maribel, sustains a terrible injury, one that casts doubt on whether she'll ever be the same. And so, leaving all they have behind, the Riveras come to America with a single dream: that in this country of great opportunity and resources, Maribel can get better. When Mayor Toro, whose family is from Panama, sees Maribel in a Dollar Tree store, it is love at first sight. It's also the beginning of a friendship between the Rivera and Toro families, whose web of guilt and love and responsibility is at this novels core.
The Book of Unknown Americans [E-Book] : a novel by Cristina Henríquez
Call Number: Fiction H521b OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780385350853
Publication Date: 2014

A Brief History of Seven Killings

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Call Number: Fiction J278c (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781594486005
Publication Date: 2014-10-02
From the acclaimed writer of The Book of Night Women comes a masterful novel framed as a fictional oral history that explores the events and characters surrounding the attempted assassination of Bob Marley during the political turmoil on Jamaica in the late 1970s.

Station Eleven

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Call Number: Fiction M271s (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780385353304
Publication Date: 2014-09-09
One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theater troupe known as the Traveling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains-this suspenseful, elegiac, spellbinding novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect five people: the actor, the man who tried to save him, the actor's first wife, his oldest friend, and a young actress with the Traveling Symphony, caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous self-proclaimed prophet.
Station Eleven [E-Book] by Emily St. John Mandel
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780385353311
Publication Date: 2014

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher : stories by Hilary Mantel
Call Number: Fiction M292a (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781627792103
Publication Date: 2014-09-30
CONTENTS: Sorry to Disturb -- Comma -- Winter Break -- Harley Street -- Offences Against the Person -- How Shall I Know You? -- The Heart Fails Without Warning -- Terminus -- The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher.

In Paradise

In Paradise by Peter Matthiessen
Call Number: Fiction M443i (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781594633171
Publication Date: 2014-04-08
From the two-time National Book Award winning author of The Snow Leopard and Shadow Country, a short, powerful novel about an American professor of Holocaust Studies who, over the course of a weeklong spiritual retreat at Auschwitz, is forced to grapple with his own past and a family secret: the Jewish mother abandoned to her doom by his Gentile father.

The Children Act

The Children Act : a novel by Ian McEwan
Call Number: Fiction M4738c (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780385539708
Publication Date: 2014-09-09
Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London presiding over cases in family court. She is fiercely intelligent, well respected, and deeply immersed in the nuances of her particular field of law. Often the outcome of a case seems simple from the outside, the course of action to ensure a child's welfare obvious. But the law requires more rigor than mere pragmatism, and Fiona is expert in considering the sensitivities of culture and religion when handing down her verdicts. But Fiona's professional success belies domestic strife. Her husband, Jack, asks her to consider an open marriage and, after an argument, moves out of their house. His departure leaves her adrift, wondering whether it was not love she had lost so much as a modern form of respectability; whether it was not contempt and ostracism she really fears. She decides to throw herself into her work, especially a complex case involving a seventeen-year-old boy whose parents will not permit a lifesaving blood transfusion because it conflicts with their beliefs as Jehovah's Witnesses. But Jack doesn't leave her thoughts, and the pressure to resolve the case--as well as her crumbling marriage--tests Fiona in ways that will keep readers thoroughly enthralled until the last stunning page.
The Children Act [E-Book] by Ian McEwan
Call Number: Fiction M4738c OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780385539715
Publication Date: 2014

Thirty Girls

Thirty Girls [E-Book] by Susan Minot
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780385350525
Publication Date: 2014
Esther is a Ugandan teenager abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army and forced to witness and commit unspeakable atrocities, who is struggling to survive, to escape, and to find a way to live with what she has seen and done. Jane is an American journalist who has traveled to Africa, hoping to give a voice to children like Esther and to find her center after a series of failed relationships. In unflinching prose, Minot interweaves their stories, giving us razor-sharp portraits of two extraordinary young women confronting displacement, heartbreak, and the struggle to wrest meaning from events that test them both in unimaginable ways.

The Bone Clocks

The Bone Clocks : a novel by David Mitchell
Call Number: Fiction M681b (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781400065677
Publication Date: 2014-09-02
A vast, intricate novel that weaves six narratives and spans from 1984 to the 2030s about a secret war between a cult of soul-decanters and a small group of vigilantes called the Night Shift who try to take them down. An up-all-night story that fluently mixes the super-natural, sci-fi, horror, social satire, and hearbreaking realism.
The Bone Clocks [E-Book] : a novel by David Mitchell
Call Number: Fiction M681b OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780812994735
Publication Date: 2014

Us

Us : a novel by David Nicholls
Call Number: Fiction N613u (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780062365583
Publication Date: 2014-10-28
Douglas Petersen may be mild-mannered, but behind his reserve lies a sense of humor that, against all odds, seduces beautiful Connie into a second date. and eventually into marriage. Now, almost three decades after their relationship first blossomed in London, they live more or less happily in the suburbs with their moody seventeen year-old son, Albie. Then Connie tells him she thinks she wants a divorce. The timing couldn't be worse. Hoping to encourage her son's artistic interests, Connie has planned a month-long tour of European capitals, a chance to experience the world's greatest works of art as a family, and she can't bring herself to cancel. And maybe going ahead with the original plan is for the best anyway? Douglas is privately convinced that this landmark trip will rekindle the romance in the marriage, and might even help him to bond with Albie. Narrated from Douglas's endearingly honest, slyly witty, and at times achingly optimistic point of view, Us is the story of a man trying to rescue his relationship with the woman he loves, and learning how to get closer to a son who's always felt like a stranger.

Orfeo

Orfeo : a novel by Richard Powers
Call Number: Fiction P8884o (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780393240825
Publication Date: 2014-01-20
Composer Peter Els --the "Bioterrorist Bach" -- pays a final visit to the people he loves, those who shaped his musical journey and, through the help of his ex-wife, his daughter, and his longtime collaborator, he hatches a plan to turn his disastrous collision with Homeland Security into a work of art that will reawaken its audience to the sounds all around them.

Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932

Lovers at the Chameleon Club - Paris 1932 by Francine Prose
Call Number: Fiction P966L (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780061713781
Publication Date: 2014-04-22
A richly imagined and stunningly inventive story of love, art, and betrayal in Paris of the 20's, 30's, and 40's.

Lila

Lila by Marilynne Robinson
Call Number: FIC ROBIN MAR G3 (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780374187613
Publication Date: 2014-10-07
Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church-the only available shelter from the rain-and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a minister, John Ames, and begins a new existence while trying to make sense of the life that preceded her newfound security.

2016

The Longlist will not include the Winner and Finalists. Titles in blue denote those available through Unger Memorial Library.

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard
A Little Life by Hanya Yanaghihara

A Little Life [OverDrive E-Book] : a novel by Hany Yanagihara
Call Number: FIC YANAG HAN LI Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9780385539265
Publication Date: 2015
Follows four college classmates; broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition; as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma.

The Longlist does not include the winning or finalist titles.

The Distant Marvels by Chantel Acevedo	Delicious Food by James Hannaham
The Harder They Come by T. C. Boyle	Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson
Mothers, Tell Your Daughters by Bonnie Jo Campbell	Marvel and a Wonder by Joe Meno
Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg	Honeydew by Edith Pearlman
Outline y by Rachel Cusk	Prudence by David Treuer
The Green Road by Anne Enright	A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
Purity by Jonathan Franzen	The Dying Grass by William T. Vollmann
Best Boy by Eli Gottlieb	The Visiting Privilege by Joy Williams
City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg

The Harder They Come

The Harder They Come : a novel by T. C. Boyle
Call Number: Fiction B792h (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780062349378
Publication Date: 2015-03-31
Set in contemporary Northern California, The Harder They Come explores the volatile connections between three damaged people -- an aging ex-Marine and Vietnam veteran, his psychologically unstable son, and the son's paranoid, much older lover -- as they careen towards an explosive confrontation.

Did You Ever Have a Family

Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
Call Number: FIction C625d (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781476798172
Publication Date: 2015-09-01
On the eve of her daughter's wedding, June Reid's life is completely devastated when a shocking disaster takes the lives of her daughter, her daughter's fiancé, her ex-husband, and her boyfriend, Luke -- her entire family, all gone in a moment. And June is the only survivor. Alone and directionless, June drives across the country, away from her small Connecticut town. In her wake, a community emerges, weaving a beautiful and surprising web of connections through shared heartbreak. From the couple running a motel on the Pacific Ocean where June eventually settles into a quiet half-life, to the wedding's caterer whose bill has been forgotten, to Luke's mother, the shattered outcast of the town -- everyone touched by the tragedy is changed as truths about their near and far histories finally come to light.

The Green Road

The Green Road by Anne Enright
Call Number: FIction E59g (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780393248210
Publication Date: 2015-05-11
Spanning thirty years, The Green Road tells the story of Rosaleen, matriarch of the Madigans, a family on the cusp of either coming together or falling irreparably apart. As they grow up, Rosaleen's four children leave the west of Ireland for lives they could have never imagined in Dublin, New York, and Mali, West Africa. In her early old age their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she’s decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds. Her adult children come back for a last Christmas, with the feeling that their childhoods are being erased, their personal history bought and sold.

Purity

Purity by Jonathan Franzen
Call Number: Fiction F837p (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780374710743
Publication Date: 2015-09-01
Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother--her only family--is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she'll ever have a normal life.
Purity [CD] by Jonathan Franzen; Dylan Baker (Read by); Jenna Lamia (Read by); Robert Petkoff (Read by)
Call Number: CD Fiction FR (Adult CD Audiobooks)
ISBN: 9781427262196
Publication Date: 2015-09-01

City on Fire

City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg
Call Number: FIC HALLB GARR CI (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780385353779
Publication Date: 2015-10-13
Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city's biggest fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Sam, two Long Island teenagers seduced by downtown's nascent punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter; his spunky, West Coast-transplant neighbor; and the detective trying to figure out what they all have to do with a shooting in Central Park. From post-Vietnam youth culture to the fiscal crisis, from a lushly appointed townhouse on Sutton Place to a derelict squat on East 3rd Street, this city on fire is at once recognizable and completely unexpected. And when the infamous blackout of July 13th, 1977 plunges it into darkness, each of these entangled lives will be changed, irrevocably.
City on Fire [E-Book] : a novel by Garth Risk Hallberg
Call Number: FIC HALLB GARR CI Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9780385353786
Publication Date: 2015

Welcome to Braggsville

Welcome to Braggsville : a novel by T. Geronimo Johnson
Call Number: Fiction J686w (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780062302120
Publication Date: 2015-02-17
From the PEN/Faulkner finalist and critically acclaimed author of Hold it 'Til it Hurts comes a dark and socially provocative southern-fried comedy about four liberal UC Berkeley students who stage a mock lynching during a Civil War reenactment--a fierce, funny, tragic work from a bold new writer.

A Spool of Blue Thread

A Spool of Blue Thread : a novel by Anne Tyler
Call Number: Fiction T981t (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781101874271
Publication Date: 2015-02-10
"It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two sons, their grandchildren, even their faithful old dog--is on the porch, listening contentedly as Abby tells the tale they have heard so many times before. And yet this gathering is different too: Abby and Red are growing older, and decisions must be made about how best to look after them, and the fate of the house so lovingly built by Red's father. Brimming with the luminous insight, humor, and compassion that are Anne Tyler's hallmarks, this capacious novel takes us across three generations of the Whitshanks, their shared stories and long-held secrets, all the unguarded and richly lived moments that combine to define who and what they are as a family.
A Spool of Blue Thread [CD] : a novel by Anne Tyler; Kimberly Farr (Read by)
Call Number: CD Fiction TY (Adult CD Audiobooks)
ISBN: 9780553551037
Publication Date: 2015-02-10
A Spool of Blue Thread [E-Book\ : a novel by Anne Tyler
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9781101874288
Publication Date: 2015

2017

The Longlist will not include the Winner and Finalists. Titles in blue denote those available through Unger Memorial Library.

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Call Number: Fiction W592u (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780385542364
Publication Date: 2016-08-02
Cora is a young slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him. In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage—and a powerful meditation on the history we all share.
The Underground Railroad [CD] by Colson Whitehead; Bahni Turpin (Read by)
Call Number: FIC WHITE COL UN CD (Adult CD Audiobooks)
ISBN: 9781524736255
Publication Date: 2016-08-02
The Underground Railroad [E-Book] by Colson Whitehead
Call Number: FIC WHITE COL UN Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9780385537049
Publication Date: 2016-08-02
The Underground Railroad [Streaming audiobook] by Colson Whitehead
Call Number: FIC WHITE COL UN Audiobk (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9781524736286
Publication Date: 2016

Moonglow by Michael Chabon
Swing Time by Zadie Smith

Moonglow by Michael Chabon
Call Number: FIC CHABO MIC MO (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780062225559
Publication Date: 2016-11-22
A man bears witness to his grandfather's deathbed confessions, which reveal his family's long-buried history and his involvement in a mail-order novelty company, World War II, and the space program.

Swing Time by Zadie Smith
Call Number: FIC SMITH ZAD SW (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781594203985
Publication Date: 2016-11-15
Two brown girls dream of being dancers--but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either. Tracey makes it to the chorus line but struggles with adult life, while her friend leaves the old neighborhood behind, traveling the world as an assistant to a famous singer, Aimee, observing close up how the one percent live. But when Aimee develops grand philanthropic ambitions, the story moves from London to West Africa, where diaspora tourists travel back in time to find their roots, young men risk their lives to escape into a different future, the women dance just like Tracey--the same twists, the same shakes--and the origins of a profound inequality are not a matter of distant history, but a present dance to the music of time.
Swing Time [E-Book] by Zadie Smith
Call Number: FIC SMITH ZAD SW Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9780399564314
Publication Date: 2016

The Longlist does not include the winning or finalist titles.

The Angel of History by Rabih Alameddine	The Sport of Kings by C. E. Morgan
Dodgers by Bill Beverly	Christodora by Tim Murphy
Perfume River by Robert Olen Butler	Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
Heroes of the Frontier by Dave Eggers	Mister Monkey by Francine Prose
Sudden Death by Alvaro Enrigue	The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith
LaRose by Louise Erdrich	My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi	The Good Lieutenant by Whitney Terrell
Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett	Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleie Thien
To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey	As Good as Gone by Larry Watson
How I Became a North Korean by Krys Lee	Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

The Angel of History

The Angel of History by Rabih Alameddine
Call Number: Fiction A3184a (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780802125767
Publication Date: 2016-10-04
Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic, The Angel of History follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco at the height of AIDS. Hovered over by the presence of alluring, sassy Satan who taunts Jacob to remember his painful past and dour, frigid Death who urges him to forget and give up on life, Jacob is also attended to by 14 saints. Set in Cairo and Beirut; Sana'a, Stockholm, and San Francisco; Alameddine gives us a charged philosophical portrait of a brilliant mind in crisis.

Perfume River

Perfume River : a novel by Robert Olen Butler
Call Number: Fiction B9865p (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780802125750
Publication Date: 2016-09-06
Robert Quinlan is a seventy-year-old historian teaching at Florida State University, where his wife Darla is also tenured. Their marriage, forged in the fervor of anti-Vietnam War protests, now bears the fractures of time, both personal and historical, with the couple trapped in an existence of morning coffee and solitary jogging and separate offices. For Robert and Darla, the cracks remain under the surface, whereas the divisions in Robert's own family are more apparent: he has almost no relationship with his brother Jimmy, who became estranged from the family as the Vietnam War intensified. Robert and Jimmy's father, a veteran of WWII, is coming to the end of his life, and aftershocks of war ripple across their lives once again when Jimmy refuses to appear at his father's bedside. And an unstable homeless man whom Robert at first takes to be a fellow Vietnam veteran turns out to have a deep impact not just on Robert, but on his entire family.

Heroes of the Frontier

Heroes of the Frontier : a novel by Dave Eggers
Call Number: Fiction E29he (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780451493804
Publication Date: 2016-07-26
Josie and her children's father have split up, she's been sued by a former patient and lost her dental practice, and she's grieving the death of a young man senselessly killed shortly after enlisting. When her ex asks to take the children to meet his new fiancée's family, Josie makes a run for it to Alaska with her kids, Paul and Ana. At first their trip feels like a vacation: they see bears and bison, they eat hot dogs cooked on a bonfire, and they spend nights parked along icy cold rivers in dark forests. But as they drive in their rattling old RV, pushed north by the ubiquitous wildfires, Josie is chased by enemies both real and imagined, and past mistakes pursue her tiny family, even to the very edge of civilization.

LaRose

LaRose by Louise Erdrich
Call Number: FIC ERDRI LOU LAR (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780062277022
Publication Date: 2016-05-10
North Dakota, late summer, 1999. Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence - but when the buck springs away, Landreaux realizes he's hit something else, a blur he saw as he squeezed the trigger. When he staggers closer, he realizes he has killed his neighbor's five-year-old son, Dusty Ravich. The youngest child of his friend and neighbor, Peter Ravich, Dusty was best friends with Landreaux's five-year-old son, LaRose. The two families have always been close, sharing food, clothing, and rides into town; their children played together despite going to different schools; and Landreaux's wife, Emmaline, is half sister to Dusty's mother, Nola. Horrified at what he's done, the recovered alcoholic turns to an Ojibwe tribe tradition - the sweat lodge - for guidance, and finds a way forward. Following an ancient means of retribution, he and Emmaline will give LaRose to the grieving Peter and Nola. "Our son will be your son now," they tell them.

Homegoing

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Call Number: FIC GYASI YAA H (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781101947135
Publication Date: 2016-06-07
Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath Effia in the Castle's women's dungeon, and then shipped off on a boat bound for America, where she will be sold into slavery. Stretching from the tribal wars of Ghana to slavery and Civil War in America, from the coal mines in the north to the Great Migration to the streets of 20th century Harlem, Yaa Gyasi's has written a modern masterpiece, a novel that moves through histories and geographies and--with outstanding economy and force--captures the troubled spirit of our own nation.
Homegoing [E-Book] : a novel by Yaa Gyasi
Call Number: FIC GYASI YAA H Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9781101947142
Publication Date: 2016

Imagine Me Gone

Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett
Call Number: Fiction H352i (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780316261357
Publication Date: 2016-05-03
When Margaret's fiancé, John, is hospitalized for depression, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him. What follows is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith. At the heart of it is their eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music fanatic, and the story of how, over the span of decades, his younger siblings-the responsible Celia and the tightly controlled Alec-struggle along with their mother to care for Michael's increasingly troubled existence.

To the Bright Edge of the World

To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
Call Number: Fiction I955t (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780316242851
Publication Date: 2016-08-02
In the winter of 1885, decorated war hero Colonel Allen Forrester leads an exploratory expedition up the Wolverine River and into the vast, untamed Alaska Territory. Leaving behind Sophie, his newly pregnant wife, Forrester records his extraordinary experiences in hopes that his journal will reach her if he doesn't return. As they map the territory and gather information on native tribes, whose understanding of the natural world is unlike anything they have ever encountered, Forrester and his team can't escape the sense that some great, mysterious force threatens their lives. Meanwhile, in Vancouver, Sophie chafes under the social restrictions of a pregnant woman on her own, and yearns to travel alongside her husband. She, too, explores nature, through the new art of photography, unaware that the coming winter will test her own courage and faith to the breaking point.

The Sport of Kings

The Sport of Kings by C. E. Morgan
Call Number: Fiction M847s (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780374281083
Publication Date: 2016-05-03
Hellsmouth, a willful thoroughbred filly with the blood of Triple Crown winners flowing through her veins, has the legacy of the Forges riding on her. One of the oldest and proudest families in Kentucky, the Forge family is as mythic as the history of the South itself. Descended from one of the first settlers to brave the Gap, Henry Forge, through an act of naked ambition, is attempting to blaze a new path, breeding horses on the family's crop farm. His daughter, Henrietta, becomes his partner in the endeavor, although she has desires of her own. Their conflict escalates when Allmon Shaughnessy, a black man fresh from prison, comes to work in the stables, and the ugliness of the farm's past and the exigencies of appetite become evident. Together, the three stubbornly try to create a new future through sheer will--one that isn't written in their very fabric--while they mold Hellsmouth into a champion.

Commonwealth

Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
Call Number: FIC PATCH ANN CO (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780062491794
Publication Date: 2016-09-13
In the winter of 1885, decorated war hero Colonel Allen Forrester leads an exploratory expedition up the Wolverine River and into the vast, untamed Alaska Territory. Leaving behind Sophie, his newly pregnant wife, Forrester records his extraordinary experiences in hopes that his journal will reach her if he doesn't return. As they map the territory and gather information on native tribes, whose understanding of the natural world is unlike anything they have ever encountered, Forrester and his team can't escape the sense that some great, mysterious force threatens their lives. Meanwhile, in Vancouver, Sophie chafes under the social restrictions of a pregnant woman on her own, and yearns to travel alongside her husband. She, too, explores nature, through the new art of photography, unaware that the coming winter will test her own courage and faith to the breaking point.
Commonwealth [CD] by Ann Patchett
Call Number: CD Fiction PA (Adult CD Audiobooks)
ISBN: 9780062491794
Publication Date: 2016-09-13

The Last Painting of Sara de Vos

The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith
Call Number: Fiction S646L (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780374106683
Publication Date: 2016-04-05
A rare seventeenth-century painting links three lives, on three conteinents, over three centuries in The Last Painting of Sara De Vos, an exhilarating new novel from Dominic Smith.

My Name is Lucy Barton

My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Call Number: Fiction S927m (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781400067695
Publication Date: 2016-01-12
Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn’t spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy’s childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy’s life: her escape from her troubled family, her desire to become a writer, her marriage, her love for her two daughters. Knitting this powerful narrative together is the brilliant storytelling voice of Lucy herself: keenly observant, deeply human, and truly unforgettable.
My Name is Lucy Barton [E-Book] by Elizabeth Strout
Call Number: Fiction S927m OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780812989076
Publication Date: 2016

Do Not Say We Have Nothing

Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
Call Number: Fiction T434d (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780393609882
Publication Date: 2016-10-11
Master storyteller Madeleine Thien takes us inside an extended family in China, showing us the lives of two successive generations—those who lived through Mao’s Cultural Revolution and their children, who became the students protesting in Tiananmen Square. At the center of this epic story are two young women, Marie and Ai-Ming. Through their relationship Marie strives to piece together the tale of her fractured family in present-day Vancouver, seeking answers in the fragile layers of their collective story. Her quest will unveil how Kai, her enigmatic father, a talented pianist, and Ai-Ming’s father, the shy and brilliant composer, Sparrow, along with the violin prodigy Zhuli were forced to reimagine their artistic and private selves during China’s political campaigns and how their fates reverberate through the years with lasting consequences.

Another Brooklyn

Another Brooklyn [CD] by Jacqueline Woodson; Robin Miles (Read by)
Call Number: J-CD Fiction WO (Juvenile Audiobook CD)
ISBN: 9781504733588
Publication Date: 2016-08-09
Running into a long-ago friend sets a memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything, until it wasn't. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they ambled through neighborhood streets, Brooklyn was a place where they believed that they were beautiful, talented, and brilliant. But beneath the hopeful veneer, there was another Brooklyn, a dangerous place where grown men reached for innocent girls in dark hallways, where ghosts haunted the night, where mothers disappeared. A world where madness was just a sunset away and fathers found hope in religion.

2018

The Longlist will not include the Winner and Finalists. Titles in blue denote those available through Unger Memorial Library.

Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
Call Number: Fiction E28m (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781476716732
Publication Date: 2017-10-03
Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family with the Great Depression underway. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. She is the sole provider for her mother, a farm girl who had a brief and glamorous career with the Ziegfeld Follies, and her lovely, severely disabled sister. At a nightclub, she chances to meet Dexter Styles again, and she begins to understand the complexity of her father's life, the reasons he might have vanished.

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Call Number: FIC SAUND GEO LI (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780812995343
Publication Date: 2017-02-14
February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returned to the crypt several times alone to hold his boy's body. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory, where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state, called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo, a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie's soul.
Lincoln in the Bardo [CD] by George Saunders (Read by); Nick Offerman (Read by); David Sedaris (Read by)
Call Number: CD Fiction SA (Adult CD Audiobooks)
ISBN: 9780553397574
Publication Date: 2017-02-14
Lincoln in the Bardo [E-Book] by George Saunders
Call Number: FIC SAUND GEO LI Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9780812995350
Publication Date: 2017

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Call Number: FIC WARD JES SI (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781501126062
Publication Date: 2017-09-05
Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie, on a farm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Leonie is simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she's high; Mam is dying of cancer; and quiet, steady Pop tries to run the household and teach Jojo how to be a man. When the white father of Leonie's children is released from prison, she packs her kids and a friend into her car and sets out across the state for Parchman farm, the Mississippi State Penitentiary, on a journey rife with danger and promise.

The Longlist does not include the winning or finalist titles.

The Golden Legend by Nadeem Aslam	Less by Andrew Sean Greer
4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster	Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry	Human Acts by Kang Han
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne	White Tears by Hari Kunzru
What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons	The Night Ocean by Paul La Farge
The Graybar Hotel by Curtis Dawkins	Five-Carat Soul by James McBride
American War by Omar El Akkad	The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott
Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich	Augustown by Kei Miller
Fresh Complaint by Jeffrey Eugenides	The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund	The Golden House by Salman Rushdie
Here in Berlin by Cristina Garcia	Spoils by Brian Van Reet

4 3 2 1

4 3 2 1 : a novel by Paul Auster
Call Number: Fiction A934f (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781627794466
Publication Date: 2017-01-31
Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four identical Fergusons made of the same DNA, four boys who are the same boy, go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Athletic skills and sex lives and friendships and intellectual passions contrast. Each Ferguson falls under the spell of the magnificent Amy Schneiderman, yet each Amy and each Ferguson have a relationship like no other. Meanwhile, readers will take in each Ferguson's pleasures and ache from each Ferguson's pains, as the mortal plot of each Ferguson's life rushes on.

Days Without End

Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
Call Number: FIC BARRY SEB D (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780525427360
Publication Date: 2017-01-24
Entering the U.S. army after fleeing the Great Famine in Ireland, seventeen-year-old Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, experience the harrowing realities of the Indian wars and the American Civil War between the Wyoming plains and Tennessee.

The Heart's Invisible Furies

The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
Call Number: Fiction B7923h (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781524760786
Publication Date: 2017-08-22
Adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple who remind him that he is not a real member of their family, Cyril embarks on a journey to find himself and where he came from, discovering his identity, a home, a country, and much more throughout a long lifetime.

What We Lose

What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons
Call Number: Fiction C6252w (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780735221710
Publication Date: 2017-07-11
Raised in Pennsylvania, Zinzi Clemmons's heroine Thandi views the world of her mother's childhood in Johannesburg as both impossibly distant and ever present. She is an outsider wherever she goes, caught between being black and white, American and not. She tries to connect these dislocated pieces of her life, and as her mother succumbs to cancer, Thandi searches for an anchor - someone, or something, to love. In arresting and unsettling prose, we watch Thandi's life unfold, from losing her mother and learning to live without the person who has most profoundly shaped her existence, to her own encounters with romance and unexpected motherhood.

The Graybar Hotel

The Graybar Hotel : stories by Curtis Dawkins
Call Number: Fiction D271g (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781501162299
Publication Date: 2017-07-04
In Curtis Dawkins’s first short story collection, longlisted for the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal, he offers a window into prison life through the eyes of his narrators and their cellmates. Dawkins reveals the idiosyncrasies, tedium, and desperation of long-term incarceration—he describes men who struggle to keep their souls alive despite the challenges they face.

American War

American War : a novel by Omar El Akkad
Call Number: FIC ELAKK OMA AM (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780451493583
Publication Date: 2017-04-04
Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. When her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she begins to grow up shaped by her particular time and place. But not everyone at Camp Patience is who they claim to be. Eventually Sarat is befriended by a mysterious functionary, under whose influence she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. The decisions that she makes will have tremendous consequences not just for Sarat but for her family and her country, rippling through generations of strangers and kin alike.

Future Home of the Living God

Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
Call Number: Fiction E66g (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780062694072
Publication Date: 2017-11-14
The world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed itself, affecting every living creature on earth. Science cannot stop the world from running backwards, as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans. Twenty-six-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, adopted daughter of a pair of big-hearted, open-minded Minneapolis liberals, is as disturbed and uncertain as the rest of America around her. But for Cedar, this change is profound and deeply personal. She is four months pregnant. Though she wants to tell the adoptive parents who raised her from infancy, Cedar first feels compelled to find her birth mother, Mary Potts, an Ojibwe living on the reservation, to understand both her and her baby's origins. As Cedar goes back to her own biological beginnings, society around her begins to disintegrate, fueled by a swelling panic about the end of humanity. There are rumors of martial law, of Congress confining pregnant women. Of a registry, and rewards for those who turn these wanted women in. Flickering through the chaos are signs of increasing repression: a shaken Cedar witnesses a family wrenched apart when police violently drag a mother from her husband and child in a parking lot. The streets of her neighborhood have been renamed with Bible verses. A stranger answers the phone when she calls her adoptive parents, who have vanished without a trace. It will take all Cedar has to avoid the prying eyes of potential informants and keep her baby safe.

Less

Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Call Number: Fiction G793L (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780316316125
Publication Date: 2017-07-18
Who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too awkward--and you can't say no--it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world. QUESTION: How do you arrange to skip town? ANSWER: You accept them all. What would possibly go wrong? Arthur Less will almost fall in love in Paris, almost fall to his death in Berlin, barely escape to a Moroccan ski chalet from a Saharan sandstorm, accidentally book himself as the (only) writer-in-residence at a Christian Retreat Center in Southern India, and encounter, on a desert island in the Arabian Sea, the last person on Earth he wants to face. Somewhere in there: he will turn fifty. Through it all, there is his first love. And there is his last.

Exit West

Exit West : a novel by Mohsin Hamid
Call Number: FIC HAMID MOH EX (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780735212176
Publication Date: 2017-03-07
In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, thrust into premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear whispers about doors--doors that can whisk people far away, if perilously and for a price. As violence and the threat of violence escalate, Nadia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving their homeland and their old lives behind, they find a door and step through.
Exit West [E-Book] : a novel by Mohsin Hamid
Call Number: FIC HAMID MOH EX Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9780735212183
Publication Date: 2017

Human Acts

Human Acts : a novel by Han Kang
Call Number: FIC HAN KAN HU (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781101906729
Publication Date: 2017-01-17
In the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed.

The story of this tragic episode unfolds in a sequence of interconnected chapters as the victims and the bereaved encounter suppression, denial, and the echoing agony of the massacre. From Dong-ho’s best friend who meets his own fateful end; to an editor struggling against censorship; to a prisoner and a factory worker, each suffering from traumatic memories; and to Dong-ho's own grief-stricken mother; and through their collective heartbreak and acts of hope is the tale of a brutalized people in search of a voice.

The Night Ocean

The Night Ocean by Paul La Farge
Call Number: Fiction L159n (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781101981085
Publication Date: 2017-03-07
Marina Willett, M.D., has a problem. Her husband, Charlie, has become obsessed with H.P. Lovecraft, in particular with one episode in the legendary horror writer's life: In the summer of 1934, the "old gent" lived for two months with a gay teenage fan named Robert Barlow, at Barlow's family home in central Florida. What were the two of them up to? Were they friends--or something more? Just when Charlie thinks he's solved the puzzle, a new scandal erupts, and he disappears. The police say it's suicide. Marina is a psychiatrist, and she doesn't believe them.

Five-Carat Soul

Five-Carat Soul by James McBride
Call Number: Fiction M4694f (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780735216693
Publication Date: 2017-09-26
An antiques dealer discovers that a legendary toy commissioned by Civil War General Robert E. Lee now sits in the home of a black minister in Queens. Five strangers find themselves thrown together and face unexpected judgment. An American president draws inspiration from a conversation he overhears in a stable. And members of The Five-Carat Soul Bottom Bone Band recount stories from their own messy and hilarious lives.

The Ninth Hour

The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott
Call Number: FIC MDERM ALI NI (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780374280147
Publication Date: 2017-09-19
A portrait of the Irish-American experience is presented through the story of an Irish immigrant's suicide and how it reverberates through innumerable lives in early twentieth-century Catholic Brooklyn.

Augustown

Augustown : a novel by Kei Miller
Call Number: Fiction M6472a (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781101871614
Publication Date: 2017-05-23
Ma Taffy may be blind but she sees everything. So when her great-nephew Kaia comes home from school in tears, what she senses sends a deep fear running through her. While they wait for his mama to come home from work, Ma Taffy recalls the story of the flying preacherman and a great thing that did not happen. A poor suburban sprawl in the Jamaican heartland, Augustown is a place where many things that should happen don't, and plenty of things that shouldn't happen do. For the story of Kaia leads back to another momentous day in Jamaican history, the birth of the Rastafari and the desire for a better life.

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
Call Number: FIC ROY ARU MI (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781524733155
Publication Date: 2017-06-06
In a graveyard outside the walls of Old Delhi, a resident unrolls a threadbare Persian carpet. On a concrete sidewalk, a baby suddenly appears, just after midnight. In a snowy valley, a bereaved father writes a letter to his five-year-old daughter about the people who came to her funeral. In a second-floor apartment, a lone woman chain-smokes as she reads through her old notebooks. At the Jannat Guest House, two people who have known each other all their lives sleep with their arms wrapped around each other, as though they have just met.
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness [E-Book] by Arundhati Roy
Call Number: FIC ROY ARU MI Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9781524733162
Publication Date: 2017

The Golden House

The Golden House by Salman Rushdie
Call Number: Fiction R951fy (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780399592805
Publication Date: 2017-09-05
On the day of Barack Obama's inauguration, an enigmatic billionaire from foreign shores takes up residence in the architectural jewel of "the Gardens," a cloistered community in New York's Greenwich Village. The neighborhood is a bubble within a bubble, and the residents are immediately intrigued by the eccentric newcomer and his family. Along with his improbable name, untraceable accent, and unmistakable whiff of danger, Nero Golden has brought along his three adult sons: agoraphobic, alcoholic Petya, a brilliant recluse with a tortured mind; Apu, the flamboyant artist, sexually and spiritually omnivorous, famous on twenty blocks; and D, at twenty-two the baby of the family, harboring an explosive secret even from himself. There is no mother, no wife; at least not until Vasilisa, a sleek Russian expat, snags the septuagenarian Nero, becoming the queen to his king--a queen in want of an heir.
The Golden House [E-Book] : a novel by Salman Rushdie
Call Number: Fiction R591fy OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780399592812
Publication Date: 2017

Spoils

Spoils by Brian van Reet
Call Number: Fiction R322s (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780316316163
Publication Date: 2017-04-18
It is April 2003. American forces have taken Baghdad and are now charged with winning hearts and minds. But this vital tipping point is barely recognized for what it is, as a series of miscalculations and blunders fuels an already-smoldering insurgency intent on making Iraq the next graveyard of empires.

2019

The Longlist will not include the Winner and Finalists. Titles in blue denote those available through Unger Memorial Library.

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Call Number: FIC MAKKA REB GR (Adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780735223523
Publication Date: 2018-06-19
In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico's funeral, the virus circles closer and closer to Yale himself. Soon the only person he has left is Fiona, Nico's little sister. Thirty years later, Fiona is in Paris tracking down her estranged daughter who disappeared into a cult. While staying with an old friend, a famous photographer who documented the Chicago crisis, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways AIDS affected her life and her relationship with her daughter. The two intertwining stories take us through the heartbreak of the eighties and the chaos of the modern world, as both Yale and Fiona struggle to find goodness in the midst of disaster.

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
There There by Tommy Orange

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Call Number: Fiction E247w (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780525521426
Publication Date: 2018-09-18
Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born. When his master's eccentric brother chooses him to be his manservant, Wash is terrified of the cruelties he is certain await him. But Christopher Wilde, or "Titch," is a naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor, and abolitionist. He initiates Wash into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky; where two people, separated by an impossible divide, might begin to see each other as human; and where a boy born in chains can embrace a life of dignity and meaning. But when a man is killed and a bounty is placed on Wash's head, Titch abandons everything to save him. What follows is their flight along the eastern coast of America, and, finally, to a remote outpost in the Arctic, where Wash, left on his own, must invent another new life.
Washington Black [Large Type] by Esi Edugyan
Call Number: Fiction E247w LargeType
ISBN: 9781643580074
Publication Date: 2018-12-01

There There by Tommy Orange
Call Number: FIC ORANG TOM TH (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780525520375
Publication Date: 2018-06-05
Twelve Native Americans came to the Big Oakland Powwow for different reasons. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life together after his uncle's death and has come to work the powwow and to honor his uncle's memory. Edwin Frank has come to find his true father. Bobby Big Medicine has come to drum the Grand Entry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather. Orvil has taught himself Indian dance through YouTube videos, and he has come to the powwow to dance in public for the very first time. Tony Loneman is a young Native American boy whose future seems destined to be as bleak as his past, and he has come to the Powwow with darker intentions -- intentions that will destroy the lives of everyone in his path.
There There [E-Book] by Tommy Orange
Call Number: FIC ORANG TOM TH Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9780525520382
Publication Date: 2018-06-05

The Longlist does not include the winning or finalist titles.

Waiting for Eden by Elliot Ackerman	The Incendiaries by R. O. Kwon
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah	Circe by Madeline Miller
Census by Jesse Ball	John Woman by Walter Mosley
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi	Warlight by Micahel Ondaatje
Virgil Wander by Leif Enger	The Overstory by Richard Powers
Ordinary People by Diana Evans	*Lake Success* by Gary Shteyngart
Small Country by Gaël Faye	You Think It, I'll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld
Southernmost by Silas House	The Parking Lot Attendant by Nafkote Tamirat
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones	Clock Dance by Anne Tyler
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver	Tin Man by Sarah Winman
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner	The Mercy Seat by Elizabeth Winthrop

Census

Census by Jesse Ball
Call Number: Fiction B1885c (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780062676139
Publication Date: 2018-03-06
When a widower receives notice from a doctor that he doesn’t have long left to live, he is struck by the question of who will care for his adult son—a son whom he fiercely loves, a boy with Down syndrome. With no recourse in mind, and with a desire to see the country on one last trip, the man signs up as a census taker for a mysterious governmental bureau and leaves town with his son.

Freshwater

Freshwater [E-Book] by Akwaeke Emezi
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780802165565
Publication Date: 2018-02-01
Freshwater tells the story of Ada, an unusual child who is a source of deep concern to her southern Nigerian family. Young Ada is troubled, prone to violent fits. Born “with one foot on the other side,” she begins to develop separate selves within her as she grows into adulthood. And when she travels to America for college, a traumatic event on campus crystallizes the selves into something powerful and potentially dangerous, making Ada fade into the background of her own mind as these alters―now protective, now hedonistic―move into control.

Virgil Wander

Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
Call Number: Fiction E575v (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780802128782
Publication Date: 2018-10-02
When Midwestern movie house owner Virgil Wander's car flies off the road into icy Lake Superior he survives, but his language and memory are altered and he emerges into a world no longer familiar to him. Virgil begins to piece together his personal history and the lore of his broken town, with the help of a cast of affable and curious locals. Into this community returns a prodigal son, Adam Leer, who may hold the key to reviving their town.
Virgil Wander [E-Book] by Leif Enger
Call Number: Fiction E575v OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780802146687
Publication Date: 2018-10-02

Ordinary People

Ordinary People by Diana Evans
Call Number: Fiction E914o (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781631494819
Publication Date: 2018-09-11
In a crooked house in South London, Melissa feels increasingly that she's defined solely by motherhood, while Michael mourns the former thrill of their romance. In the suburbs, Stephanie's aspirations for bliss on the commuter belt, coupled with her white middle-class upbringing, compound Damian's itch for a bigger life catalyzed by the death of his activist father. Longtime friends from the years when passion seemed permanent, the couples have stayed in touch, gathering for births and anniversaries, bonding over discussions of politics, race, and art. But as bonds fray, the lines once clearly marked by wedding bands aren't so simply defined. Ordinary People is a moving examination of identity and parenthood, sex and grief, and the fragile architecture of love.

Small Country

Small Country : a novel by Gaël Faye
Call Number: Fiction F2817s (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781524759872
Publication Date: 2018-06-05
Burundi, 1992. For ten-year-old Gabriel, life in his comfortable expatriate neighborhood of Bujumbura with his French father, Rwandan mother and little sister Ana, is something close to paradise. These are carefree days of laughter and adventure--sneaking Supermatch cigarettes and gorging on stolen mangoes--as he and his mischievous gang of friends transform their tiny cul-de-sac into their kingdom. But dark clouds are gathering over this small country, and soon their peaceful existence will shatter when Burundi, and neighboring Rwanda, are brutally hit by civil war and genocide. A novel of extraordinary power and beauty, Small Country describes an end of innocence as seen through the eyes of a child caught in the maelstrom of history.

Southernmost

Southernmost : a novel by Silas House
Call Number: Fiction H842s (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781616206253
Publication Date: 2018-06-05
When an evangelical preacher in Tennessee offers shelter to two gay men after a catastrophic flood, he's met with resistance by his wife and congregation, and eventually loses custody of his son. He decides to kidnap his son and flee to Key West, where he suspects his estranged gay brother is living

An American Marriage

An American Marriage : a novel by Tayari Jones
Call Number: Fiction J795a (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781616208776
Publication Date: 2018-02-06
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding. As Roy's time in prison passes, she is unable to hold on to the love that has been her center. After five years, Roy's conviction is suddenly overturned, and he returns to Atlanta ready to resume their life together.
An American Marriage [E-Book] : a novel by Tayari Jones
Call Number: Fiction J795a OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9781616207601
Publication Date: 2018-02-06
An American Marriage [Streaming Audio] : a novel by Tayari Jones; Sean Crisden (Narrated by); Eisa Davis (Narrated by)
Call Number: Fiction J795a OverDrive Audiobook
ISBN: 9781681688343
Publication Date: 2018-02-06

Unsheltered

Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
Call Number: Fiction K556u (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780062684561
Publication Date: 2018-10-16
Willa Knox has always prided herself on being the embodiment of responsibility for her family. Which is why it's so unnerving that she's arrived at middle age with nothing to show for her hard work and dedication but a stack of unpaid bills and an inherited brick home in Vineland, New Jersey, that is literally falling apart. The magazine where she worked has folded, and the college where her husband had tenure has closed. The dilapidated house is also home to her ailing and cantankerous Greek father-in-law and her two grown children: her stubborn, free-spirited daughter, Tig, and her dutiful debt-ridden, ivy educated son, Zeke, who has arrived with his unplanned baby in the wake of a life-shattering development.

The Mars Room

The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
Call Number: FIC KUSHN RAC MA (Adult fiction)
ISBN: 9781476756608
Publication Date: 2018-05-01
It’s 2003 and Romy Hall, named after a German actress, is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility, deep in California’s Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: her young son, Jackson, and the San Francisco of her youth. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike; and the deadpan absurdities of institutional living, portrayed with great humor and precision.

The Incendiaries

The Incendiaries by R. O. Kwon
Call Number: Fiction K995i (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780735213890
Publication Date: 2018-07-31
Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet in their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn't tell anyone she blames herself for her mother's recent death. Will is a misfit scholarship boy who transfers to Edwards from Bible college, waiting tables to get by. What he knows for sure is that he loves Phoebe. Grieving and guilt-ridden, Phoebe is drawn into a secretive cult founded by a charismatic former student with an enigmatic past. When the group commits a violent act in the name of faith, Will finds himself struggling to confront a new version of the fanaticism he's worked so hard to escape. Haunting and intense, The Incendiaries is a fractured love story that explores what can befall those who lose what they love most.

Circe

Circe : a novel by Madeline Miller
Call Number: Fiction M649c (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780316414647
Publication Date: 2018
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child--not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power--the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus. Butt there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love.
Circe [OverDrive E-Book] : a novel by Madeline Miller
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780316414647
Publication Date: 2018

John Woman

John Woman by Walter Mosley
Call Number: Fiction M912j (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780802128416
Publication Date: 2018-09-04
At twelve years old, Cornelius, the son of an Italian-American woman and an older black man from Mississippi named Herman, secretly takes over his father's job at a silent film theater in New York's East Village. Five years later, as Herman lives out his last days, he shares his wisdom with his son, explaining that the person who controls the narrative of history controls their own fate. After his father dies and his mother disappears, Cornelius sets about reinventing himself--as Professor John Woman, a man who will spread Herman's teachings into the classrooms of his unorthodox southwestern university and beyond. But there are other individuals who are attempting to influence the narrative of John Woman, and who might know something about the facts of his hidden past.
John Woman [Large Type] by Walter Mosley
Call Number: Fiction M912j LargeType
ISBN: 9781683249733
Publication Date: 2018-11-01

Warlight

Warlight : a novel by Michael Ondaatje
Call Number: FIC ONDAA MIC W (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780525521204
Publication Date: 2018
In a narrative as beguiling and mysterious as memory itself--shadowed and luminous at once--we read the story of fourteen-year-old Nathaniel, and his older sister, Rachel. In 1945, just after World War II, they stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and they grow both more convinced and less concerned as they come to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women joined by a shared history of unspecified service during the war, all of whom seem, in some way, determined now to protect, and educate (in rather unusual ways) Rachel and Nathaniel. But are they really what and who they claim to be? And what does it mean when the siblings' mother returns after months of silence without their father, explaining nothing, excusing nothing? A dozen years later, Nathaniel begins to uncover all that he didn't know and understand in that time, and it is this journey--through facts, recollection, and imagination--that he narrates in this masterwork from one of the great writers of our time.
Warlight [CD] : a novel by Michael Ondaatje; Steve West (Read by)
Call Number: CD Fiction ON (Adult CD Audiobooks)
ISBN: 9780525627517
Publication Date: 2018-05-08
Warlight [E-Book] : a novel by Michael Ondaatje
Call Number: FIC ONDAA MIC W Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9780525521204
Publication Date: 2018

You Think It, I'll Say It

You Think It, I'll Say It : stories by Curtis Sittenfeld
Call Number: Fictio nS623y (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780399592874
Publication Date: 2018
A dazzling collection of short stories from the New York Times bestselling author of Prep, American Wife, and Eligible Curtis Sittenfeld has established a reputation as a sharp chronicler of the modern age who humanizes her subjects even as she skewers them. Now, with this first collection of short fiction, her "astonishing gift for creating characters that take up residence in readers' heads" ( The Washington Post ) is showcased like never before.
You Think It, I'll Say It [CD] : stories by Curtis Sittenfeld; Mark Deakins (Read by); Emily Rankin (Read by)
Call Number: CD Fiction SI (Adult CD Audiobooks)
ISBN: 9780525527770
Publication Date: 2018-04-24

The Parking Lot Attendant

The Parking Lot Attendant : a novel by Nafkote Tamirat
Call Number: Fiction T158p (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781250128515
Publication Date: 2018-03-13
A haunting story of fatherhood, national identity, and what it means to be an immigrant in America today, Nafkote Tamirat's The Parking Lot Attendant explores how who we love, the choices we make, and the places we’re from combine to make us who we are.

Clock Dance

Clock Dance by Anne Tyler
Call Number: Fiction T981cL (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780525521228
Publication Date: 2018-07-10
Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life. In 1967, she is a schoolgirl coping with her mother's sudden disappearance. In 1977, she is a college coed considering a marriage proposal. In 1997, she is a young widow trying to piece her life back together. And in 2017, she yearns to be a grandmother, yet the prospect is dimming. So, when Willa receives a phone call from a stranger, telling her that her son's ex-girlfriend has been shot, she drops everything and flies across the country to Baltimore. The impulsive decision to look after this woman and her nine-year-old daughter will lead Willa into uncharted territory--surrounded by eccentric neighbors, plunged into the rituals that make a community a family, and forced to find solace in unexpected places.
Clock Dance [E-Book] : a novel by Anne Tyler
Call Number: Fiction T981cL OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780525521235
Publication Date: 2018

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

2012

The Longlist will not include the Winner and Finalists. Titles in blue denote those available through Unger Memorial Library.

The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright

Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks

Swamplandia by Karen Russell

The Sense of an Ending

The Sisters Brothers

The Marriage Plot

Say Her Name

Faith

The Art of Fielding

When She Woke

Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes

Light Lifting

The Tiger's Wife

The Cat's Table

The Tragedy of Arthur

We the Animals

2013

The Longlist will not include the Winner and Finalists. Titles in blue denote those available through Unger Memorial Library.

Canada by Richard Ford

This is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz

The Round House by Louise Erdrich

Telegraph Avenue

The Bartender's Tale

A Hologram for the King

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

Arcadia

The Dog Stars

In One Person

The Orphan Master's Son

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Flight Behavior

Bring Up the Bodies

Sweet Tooth

Home

Dear Life

The Cove

The Lower River

One Last Thing Before I Go

The Beginner's Goodbye

Beautiful Ruins

2014

The Longlist will not include the Winner and Finalists. Titles in blue denote those available through Unger Memorial Library.

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat

Life After Life

The Circle

The Signature of All Things

The Dinner

The Lowland

The Constellation of Vital Phenomena

The Good Lord Bird

The Woman Upstairs

2015

The Longlist will not include the Winner and Finalists. Titles in blue denote those available through Unger Memorial Library.

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín

On Such a Full Sea by Chang-rae Lee

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

The Book of Unknown Americans

A Brief History of Seven Killings

Station Eleven

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher

In Paradise

The Children Act

Thirty Girls

The Bone Clocks

Us

Orfeo

Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932

Lila

2016

The Longlist will not include the Winner and Finalists. Titles in blue denote those available through Unger Memorial Library.

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard

A Little Life by Hanya Yanaghihara

The Harder They Come