52 Award-Winning Titles Every Book Lover Should Read: A One Year Journal and Recommended Reading List from the American Library Association

by American Library Association (ALA)

Overview

The American Library Association presents an award-winning must-read book for every week of the year in this beautiful reading log.

Calling all book lovers! Expand your reading list with a one-year reading challenge from the American Library Association (ALA). Including the ALA's insights into each title, notes on the awards they've won, and prompts for further reflection, this journal is a must-have for all bibliophiles and library regulars.

Includes:

• 52 Award-Winning book recommendations to keep you reading all year
• Room to reflect on each book as you complete the challenge
• Pages for your personal reading log, perfect for sharing on social media

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781728244884
Publisher:	Sourcebooks
Publication date:	12/07/2021
Series:	52 Books Every Book Lover Should Read
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

The American Library Association is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. It is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with more than 57,000 members.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

About the Awards vii

My All-Time Favorite Books x

Reading Log xii

1 The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo 2

2 Lost Memory of Skin Russell Banks 6

3 The Girl Who Drank the Moon Kelly Barnhill 10

4 The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border Francisco Cantú 14

5 Moonglow Michael Chabon 18

6 The Water Dancer Ta-Nehisi Coates 22

7 New Kid Jerry Craft, illustrated by the author 26

8 Claire of the Sea Light Edwidge Danticat 30

9 Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Matthew Desmond 34

10 This Is How You Lose Her Junot Díaz 38

11 All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr 42

12 Manhattan Beach Jennifer Egan 46

13 Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis Timothy Egan 50

14 The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner Daniel Ellsberg 54

15 The Forgotten Waltz Anne Enright 58

16 The Round House Louise Erdrich 62

17 Canada Richard Ford 66

18 Fathoms: The World in the Whale Rebecca Giggs 70

19 Feast Your Eyes Myla Goldberg 74

20 The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism Doris Kearns Goodwin 78

21 Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI David Grann 82

22 Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster Adam Higginbotham 86

23 Hello, Universe Erin Entrada Kelly 90

24 Dig A. S. King 94

25 The Crossover Kwame Alexander 98

26 We Are Okay Nina LaCour 102

27 Heavy: An American Memoir Kiese Laymon 106

28 On Such a Full Sea Chang-rae Lee 110

29 March: Book Three John Lewis Andrew Aydin, illustrated Nate Powell 114

30 Lost Children Archive Valeria Luiselli 118

31 Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America Beth Macy 122

32 The Great Believers Rebecca Makkai 126

33 Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs Sally Mann 130

34 Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman Robert K. Massie 134

35 Last Stop on Market Street Matt de la Peña, illustrated Christian Robinson 138

36 Merci Suarez Changes Gears Meg Medina 142

37 I'll Give You the Sun Jandy Nelson 146

38 The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen 150

39 There There Tommy Orange 154

40 Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America Patrick Phillips 158

41 Figuring Maria Popova 162

42 Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic David Quammen 166

43 Bone Gap Laura Ruby 170

44 Swamplandia! Karen Russell 174

45 Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders 178

46 The Book of Aron Jim Shepard 182

47 Swing time Zadie Smith 186

48 Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Bryan Stevenson 190

49 The Goldfinch Donna Tartt 194

50 Nora Webster Colm Tóibín 198

51 Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward 202

52 The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead 206

About the American Library Association 211