Best Adult Books

The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America’s Top-Secret Military Research Agency

Annie Jacobsen

National Book Award

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e. e. cummings

National Book Award Finalist

Edgar

Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane: A True Story of Victorian Law and Disorder: The Unsolved Murder that Shocked Victorian England

Paul Thomas Murphy

Edgar Awards Finalist

Edgar

Quiet Neighbors

Catriona McPherson

Edgar Awards Finalist

Edgar

Reconstructing Amelia

Kimberly McCreight

Edgar Awards Finalist

Hugo

Saga, Volume 6

Brian K. Vaughan

Hugo Awards Finalist

Hugo

Schlock Mercenary:

Howard Tayler

Hugo Awards Finalist

Hugo

Schlock Mercenary: The Longshoreman of the Apocalypse

Howard Tayler

Hugo Awards Finalist

Hugo

Seveneves: A Novel

Neal Stephenson

Hugo Awards Finalist

Edgar

Shot in Detroit

Patricia Abbott

Edgar Awards Finalist

National Book Award

Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

Arlie Russell Hochschild

National Book Award Finalist

Edgar

The Strangler Vine

M.J. Carter

Edgar Awards Finalist

Surf's Up

Kwame Alexander

Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor

James M. Scott

Hugo

A Taste of Honey

Kai Ashante Wilson

Hugo Awards Finalist

National Book Award

The Throwback Special

Chris Bachelder

National Book Award Finalist

National Book Award

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

National Book Award Finalist

Hugo

Too Like the Lightning

Ada Palmer

Hugo Awards Finalist

Edgar

Trauma

Graham Masterton

Edgar Awards Finalist

National Book Award

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Thomas Pynchon

National Book Award Finalist

Edgar

Vanish

Tess Gerritsen

Edgar Awards Finalist

Edgar

What Remains of Me

Alison Gaylin

Edgar Awards Finalist

Edgar

Where It Hurts

Reed Farrel Coleman

Edgar Awards Finalist

Edgar

A Woman Unknown

Frances Brody

Edgar Awards Finalist