Prize Winning Fiction & Nonfiction

A selection of prize winning fiction and nonfiction books are displayed on the bookshelves near the magazine area. Included among the titles are Pulitzer Prize Winners, Man Booker Prize Winners, and National Book Award Winners. Check out an award winning book today!

AT LAST . . .

Mother Nature has cast off her heavy winter quilt, unearthing a colorful coverlet of springtime flowers. The Barrington Library has a bounty of gardening books and magazines available to help you sprout your "green thumb" and cultivate your own colorful coverlet. We welcome you to cherry-pick from the arrangement of variegated offerings on our April display, located near the Library entrance, and CELEBRATE SPRING . . . AT LAST!

Suggestions from the May 2, 2011 Gathering

Of the First Monday Morning of the Month Book Club and Coffee Chat, group members have this to say:

“I don’t like being tied down to the standard “book club” model . . . I like to read at my own pace . . . I want to read what I want to read.”

Fiction:

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

The Surrendered by Chang-Rae Lee

The Millennium Trilogy: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl who Played with Fire, and, The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

Reading Lolita in Tehran: a Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

Ghost Light by Joseph O’Connor

Three Pine Mystery Series: Still Life, A Fatal Grace, The Cruelest Month, A Rule Against Murder,The Brutal Telling, and, Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny

An Academic Question, Jane and Prudence, et al. by Barbara Pym

Please Look after Mom by Kyung-sook Shin

The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

First 3 books (of 25) in the Capital Crime Series: Murder in the White House, Murder on Capitol Hill, and, Murder in the Supreme Court by Margaret Truman

Crosstime Traffic Series: Gunpowder Empire, Curious Notions, In High Places, The Disunited States of America, The Gladiator, The Valley-Westside War by Harry Turtledove

Nonfiction:

The Collected What if?: Eminent Historians Imagining What Might Have Been: Essays by Caleb Car

And Furthermore by Judi Dench

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Team of Rivals: the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Praying for Sheetrock, and, No Biking in the House without a Helmet by Melissa Fay Green

Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff by Rosemary Mahoney

The Unforgiving Minute: a Soldier’s Education by Craig Mullaney

Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle by Dervla Murphy

A Widow's Story by Joyce Carol Oates

A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Diaries and Letters by Barbara Pym

Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan by Doug Stanton

The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr

Manhunt: The Twelve Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James Swanson

Complete Plays: The Playboy of the Western World, Riders to the Sea, In the Shadow of the Glen, The Well of the Saints, The Tinker's Wedding, Deirdre of the Sorrows by John Millington Synge

The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon (children’s book)

The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls

Recommended Movies:

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Judi Dench Collection

Recommended Websites:

Fantasticfiction.co.uk - Information on over 350,000 books and bibliographies for over 30,000 authors

Stopyourekillingme.com - A website to die for . . . if you love mysteries!

Feel free to choose one, two, or even three titles to read simultaneously. As one group member offered:

“You should always have three books going at once -

One to read in the bathroom,

One to read by your bedside, and,

One to read by the chair that you like to sit in

during the day.”