| Jump to: Books: Award Winners | Editors: Breaking 100,000 | Groups: Recommendations Award Winners  | Zeitoun by Dave Eggers Winner of the 2010 American Book Awards. Eggers riveting nonfiction book is about Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a prosperous Syrian-American and father of four, who chose to stay during Hurricane Katrina to protect his house and contracting business. In the days after the storm, he traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and helping those he could. A week later, Zeitoun abruptly disappeared. Learn more
| | |  | Winner of the 2010 Thriller Awards, this is the third book in the Detective D.D. Warren series. From a master of suspense comes a chilling new novel that explores the dangers lurking closer than you think. Because even in the perfect family, you never know what is going on behind closed doors. Learn more
| | |  | Winner of the 2010 Michael L. Printz Award for Young Adult Literature. From the author of the popular Gemma Doyle Trilogy comes the adventure of 16-year-old slacker Cameron. All Cameron wants is to get through high school with a minimum of effort. It's not a lot to ask. But that's before she's given some bad news: she's sick and going to die. Which totally sucks. Learn more
| | |  | The recently announced Library of Congress Poet Laureate, W.S. Merwin, is also the 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner for his poetry. In his best book in a decade-and one of the best outright-Merwin points his oracular, unpunctuated poems toward his own past, and offering what may be his most personal, generous and empathic collection. Learn more
| | |  | Winner of the 2010 Prometheus Award. This provocative tale takes place after civilization has fallen into complete economic collapse. This reborn civilization is one in which every individual is incorporated at birth, and spends years trying to attain control their own life by getting a majority of their own shares. Learn more | | |  | The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver Winner of the 2010 Orange Prize. In her first novel in nine years, Barbara Kingsolver, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author, takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is a poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their modern identities. Learn more | Find more award winning books to read from the Nebula Award, National Book Award, or the Pulitzer Prize lists. | Editors break 100,000! Our Shelfari Librarians and Editors have made an incredible contribution to the Shelfari community. Pequeño Saltamontes and Kelly M have each contributed over 100,000 edits to our book pages and catalog. Punxsutawney Paul and BookCrazy, two of our librarians, have each reviewed over 100,000 requests from members like you. Their incredible effort makes it easier to learn more about books and find new books to read. Thank you Pequeño Saltamontes, Kelly M, Punxsutawney Paul and BookCrazy for all your hard work! See Shelfari’s top 100 editors » Find a book group! Whether you enjoy discussing paranormal romance, graphic design or 19th century British literature—there is a book group for you. Here are a few groups we recommend: |  | This is a group for the lovers and readers of historical fiction from any period, any country and any culture. We enjoy a wide range of books from the latest bestseller to older treasures, we'd love for you to join us. More
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