The Notable Books List includes approximately 25 very good, very readable, and at times very important fiction, nonfiction and poetry books for the adult reader.

Fiction:

Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barns

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt

Say Her Name by Francisco Goldman

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

Light Lifting by Alexander MacLeod

The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht

The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje

The Tragedy of Arthur by Arthur Phillips

Swamplandia! by Karen Russell

We the Animals by Justin Torres

Selected Stories by William Trevor

Nonfiction:

Right Turn at Machu Picchu:  Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time by Mark Adams

The Memory Palace by Mira Bartók

The Information:  A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick

The Swerve:  How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt

Unbroken:  A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand

Arguably:  Essays by Christopher Hitchens

Apollo's Angels:  A History of Ballet by Jennifer Homans

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Malcolm X:  A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable

Destiny of the Republic:  A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President by Candace Millard

Emperor of All Maladies:  A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Inside Scientology:  The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion by Janet Reitman

Poetry:

Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud

Beauty is a Verb:  The New Poetry of Disability by Jennifer Bartlett, Sheila Black, and Michael Northen