Best Adult Books

National Book Award

Endurance

Alfred Lansing

National Book Award Finalist

National Book Award

The Feel Trio

Fred Moten

National Book Award Finalist

Edgar

The Figure of the Detective: A Literary History and Analysis

Charles Brownson

Edgar Awards Finalist

A Free Man of Color

John Guare

National Book Award

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

George V. Higgins

National Book Award Finalist

Edgar

God Speed the Night

Dorothy Salisbury Davis and Jerome Ross

Edgar Awards Finalist

Edgar

The Gone Dead Train

Lisa Turner

Edgar Awards Finalist

Nebula

Hard Landing

Algis Budrys

Nebula Awards Finalist

Harry Potter Boxed Set

J. K. Rowling

Edgar

How the Light Gets In

Louise Penny

Edgar Awards Finalist

National Book Award

In Time Like Air

May Sarton

National Book Award Finalist

Edgar

James Ellroy: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction

Jim Mancall

Edgar Awards Finalist

Pulitzer

Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World

Leo Damrosch

Pulitzer Prize Finalist

Edgar

The Jones Men

Vern E. Smith

Edgar Awards Finalist

Edgar

Joyland

Stephen King

Edgar Awards Finalist

Edgar

Judges & Justice & Lawyers & Law: Exploring the Legal Dimensions of Fiction and Film

Francis M. Nevins

Edgar Awards Finalist

Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life

Jonathan Sperber

Edgar

Kiss the Blood Off My Hands: Classic Film Noir

Robert MIklitsch

Edgar Awards Finalist

Law and Society Reader II

Erik Larson

Edgar

Life or Death

Michael Robotham

Edgar Awards Finalist

Edgar

The Life We Bury

Allen Eskens

Edgar Awards Finalist

National Book Award

Lila

Marilynne Robinson

National Book Award Finalist

Little Boys Soar

Kwame Alexander

Edgar

The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder That Shook the Nation

Harold Schechter

Edgar Awards Finalist