Best Adult Books

The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War

Fred Kaplan

Nebula

Ironskin

Tina Connolly

Nebula Awards Finalist

Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History

John Fabian Witt

National Book Award

The Lowland

Jhumpa Lahiri

National Book Award Finalist

Edgar

Maigret, Simenon and France: Social Dimensions of the Novels and Stories

Bill Alder

Edgar Awards Finalist

Edgar

The Map of Lost Memories

Kim Fay

Edgar Awards Finalist

Memoirs of an American Citizen

Daniel Aaron

National Book Award

Metaphysical Dog

Frank Bidart

National Book Award Finalist

Edgar

Middlebrow Feminism in Classic British Detective Fiction

Melissa Schaub

Edgar Awards Finalist

Edgar

Mortal Sins: Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal

Michael D'Antonio

Edgar Awards Finalist

Edgar

The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter

Malcolm Mackay

Edgar Awards Finalist

Operation Haystack

Frank Herbert

The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy

David Nasaw

Edgar

Pimping Fictions: African American Crime Literature and the Untold Story of Black Pulp Publishing

Justin Gifford

Edgar Awards Finalist

Pulitzer

Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece

Michael Gorra

Pulitzer Prize Finalist

Edgar

The Ranger

Ace Atkins

Edgar Awards Finalist

Edgar

The Resurrectionist

Matthew Guinn

Edgar Awards Finalist

Roverandom

J.R.R. Tolkien

Edgar

Sandrine's Case

Thomas H. Cook

Edgar Awards Finalist

Scowler

Daniel Kraus

Nebula

Six-Gun Snow White

Catherynne M. Valente

Nebula Awards Finalist

Edgar

The Sixth Station

Linda Stasi

Edgar Awards Finalist

The Sleep of Reason

Morri Creech

Soul Catcher

Frank Herbert