Massachusetts Book AwardMust-Read (Longlist)Nonfiction

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Altri nomi: Mass Book Awards (Inglese), Massachusetts Must-Read (Inglese)
187 opere 83,208 libri 2,818 recensioni ½ 4.0
Awarded by the Massachusetts Center for the Book
Each year, the MassBooks recognize significant achievements in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, and children's literature from the previous mostra altro calendar year. To be eligible, books must have been written by authors who currently live and work in Massachusetts or must present topics of particular and specific importance to the Commonwealth regardless of their author’s residency.
Throughout the award year, we promote an award winner and two honors books in each of the four award categories by producing/hosting reading, discussion, and activity guides for each title at our web site and by featuring the books at the Massachusetts table in the Pavilion of the States at the National Book Festival. The award and honors titles are also deposited in Special Collections at the State Library.
Massachusetts Book Award website
The 1st annual awards were made in 2001 mostra meno
Fasi:
Tutto, Winner (103), Honor Book (178), Must-Read (Longlist) (869), Special Director's Mention (3)
Categorie:
Tutto, Saggistica (187)
Anni:
Tutto, 2023 (12), 2022 (12), 2021 (12), 2020 (12), 2019 (12), 2018 (12), 2017 (12), 2016 (12), 2015 (6), 2014 (6), 2013 (6), 2012 (12), 2011 (12), 2010 (12), 2009 (12), 2008 (3), 2007 (2), 2006 (3), 2005 (3), 2004 (3), 2003 (3), 2002 (3), 2001 (5)

Must-Read (Longlist) 187

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How to Raise an Antiracist di Ibram X. Kendi2023
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners di Margaret A. Burnham2023
The Third Person di Emma Grove2023
The Imposter's War: The Press, Propaganda, and the Battle for the Minds of America di Mark Arsenault2023
Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality di Tomiko Brown-Nagin2023
Winslow Homer: American Passage di William R. Cross2023
Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution di Eric Jay Dolin2023
We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power di Caleb Gayle2023
Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War di Roger Lowenstein2023
This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You di Susan Rogers2023
Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau di Ben Shattuck2023
Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity di Donald Yacovone2023
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake di Tiya Miles2022
Sotto un cielo bianco. La natura del futuro di Elizabeth Kolbert2022
Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy di Nathaniel Philbrick2022
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song di Henry Louis Gates Jr.2022
Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence di Anita Hill2022
White Hot Hate: A True Story of Domestic Terrorism in America’s Heartland di Dick Lehr2022
Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth di Avi Loeb2022
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War di Louis Menand2022
Names for Light: A Family History di Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint2022
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters di Steven Pinker2022
Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training di Adam Stern2022
The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir di Sherry Turkle2022
How to Make a Slave and Other Essays (21st Century Essays) di Jerald Walker2021
Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow di Nicholas A. Basbanes2021
What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World di Sara Hendren2021
Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto di Michelle Bowdler2021
Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field di Howard Bryant2021
Bright Precious Thing: A Memoir di Gail Caldwell2021
A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes di Eric Jay Dolin2021
Money for Nothing: The Scientists, Fraudsters, and Corrupt Politicians Who Reinvented Money, Panicked a Nation, and Made the World Rich di Thomas Levenson2021
The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir di Sara Seager2021
The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism di Katherine Stewart2021
Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy di Larry Tye2021
Finding sanctuary : an artist explores the nature of Mass Audubon di vandusenbarry2021
The Body Papers di Grace Talusan2020
Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter di Kerri K. Greenidge2020
American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation di Holly Jackson2020
Walk This Way: Run-DMC, Aerosmith, and the Song that Changed American Music Forever di Geoff Edgers2020
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow di Henry Louis Jr Gates2020
Once More To The Rodeo: A Memoir di Calvin Hennick2020
The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor di Arthur Kleinman2020
City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present di Alex Krieger2020
What We Will Become: A Mother, a Son, and a Journey of Transformation di Mimi Lemay2020
Womanish: A Grown Black Woman Speaks on Love and Life di Kim McLarin2020
Some of My Friends Are...: The Daunting Challenges and Untapped Benefits of Cross-Racial Friendships di Deborah L. Plummer2020
The Optimist's Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age di Bina Venkataraman2020
Queste verità. Una storia degli Stati Uniti d'America di Jill Lepore2019
The Game: Harvard, Yale, and America in 1968 di George Howe Colt2019
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro di Rachel Slade2019
We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival di Jabari Asim2019
Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip's War di Lisa Brooks2019
After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America's Greatest Poet di Julie Dobrow2019
Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates di Eric Jay Dolin2019
The Biological Mind: How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are di Alan Jasanoff2019
How Democracies Die di Steven Levitsky2019
The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World di Charles C. Mann2019
Illuminismo adesso. In difesa della ragione, della scienza, dell'umanesimo e del progresso di Steven Pinker2019
Above and Beyond: John F. Kennedy and America's Most Dangerous Cold War Spy Mission di Casey Sherman2019
The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization di Martin Puchner2018
Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. di Danielle S. Allen2018
The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire di Stephen Kinzer2018
To the New Owners: A Martha's Vineyard Memoir di Madeleine Blais2018
The Correspondence: Essays di JD Daniels2018
Areas of Fog di Will Dowd2018
The Wine Lover's Daughter: A Memoir di Anne Fadiman2018
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve di Stephen Greenblatt2018
Brief Eulogies for Lost Animals di Daniel Hudon2018
The dawn watch: Joseph Conrad in a global world di Maya Jasanoff2018
Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast di Megan Marshall2018
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir di Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich2018
A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley di Jane Kamensky2017
Le scienziate che misurarono il cielo di Dava Sobel2017
Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon di Larry Tye2017
Civilianized: A Young Veteran's Memoir di Michael Anthony2017
Brilliant Beacons: A History of the American Lighthouse di Eric Jay Dolin2017
The Hero's Body: A Memoir di William Giraldi2017
American Philosophy: A Love Story di John Kaag2017
A Truck Full of Money di Tracy Kidder2017
Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution di Nathaniel Philbrick2017
Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady di Susan Quinn2017
The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art di Sebastian Smee2017
Metà della Terra. Salvare il futuro della vita di Edward O. Wilson2017
Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter di Kate Clifford Larson2016
Massacre on the Merrimack: Hannah Duston's Captivity and Revenge in Colonial America di Jay Atkinson2016
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 di Joseph J. Ellis2016
I fratelli Wright di David McCullough2016
The Point of Vanishing: A Memoir of Two Years in Solitude di Howard Axelrod2016
The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey di Deborah Cramer2016
Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World’s Greatest Art Heist di Stephen Kurkjian2016
America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve di Roger Lowenstein2016
We Were Brothers di Barry Moser2016
BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google di John Palfrey2016
La conversazione necessaria. La forza del dialogo nell'era digitale di Sherry Turkle2016
The Horse: The Epic History of Our Noble Companion di Wendy Williams2016
La sesta estinzione: una storia innaturale di Elizabeth Kolbert2015
The Map Thief: The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare-Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps di Michael Blanding2015
The Court-Martial of Paul Revere: A Son of Liberty and America's Forgotten Military Disaster di Michael M. Greenburg2015
John Quincy Adams: American Visionary di Fred Kaplan2015
The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway di Doug Most2015
Other People's Houses: How Decades of Bailouts, Captive Regulators, and Toxic Bankers Made Home Mortgages a Thrilling Business di Jennifer Taub2015
Margaret Fuller: A New American Life di Megan Marshall2014
Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country di Andrew Bacevich2014
Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance di Carla Kaplan2014
Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin di Jill Lepore2014
A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story di Qais Akbar Omar2014
The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari di Paul Theroux2014
Brothers: On His Brothers and Brothers in History di George Howe Colt2013
Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life di Natalie Dykstra2013
To Free a Family: The Journey of Mary Walker di Sydney Nathans2013
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War di Stephen R. Platt2013
In Pursuit of Giants: One Man's Global Search for the Last of the Great Fish di Matt Rigney2013
The Choke Artist: Confessions of a Chronic Underachiever di David Yoo2013
Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: Seeking History and Hidden Gems in Flea-Market America di Maureen Stanton2012
Season to Taste: How I Lost My Sense of Smell and Found My Way di Molly Birnbaum2012
American Anthrax: Fear, Crime, and the Investigation of the Nation's Deadliest Bioterror Attack di Jeanne Guillemin2012
The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture di Joshua Kendall2012
1493: Pomodori, tabacco e batteri: come Colombo ha creato il mondo in cui viviamo di Charles C. Mann2012
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris di David McCullough2012
Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History di Ben Mezrich2012
Why Read Moby-Dick? di Nathaniel Philbrick2012
Fenway 1912: The Birth of a Ballpark, a Championship Season, and Fenway's Remarkable First Year di Glenn Stout2012
Cabin: Two Brothers, a Dream, and Five Acres in Maine di Lou Ureneck2012
In search of Motif No. 1 : the history of a fish shack di L. M. Vincent2012
Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II di Mitchell Zuckoff2012
First Family: Abigail and John Adams di Joseph J. Ellis2011
Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America di Benjamin L. Carp2011
The Great Penguin Rescue: 40,000 Penguins, a Devastating Oil Spill, and the Inspiring Story of the World's Largest Animal Rescue di Dyan Denapoli2011
Schooner: Building a Wooden Boat on Martha's Vineyard di Tom Dunlop2011
Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things di Randy O. Frost2011
War di Sebastian Junger2011
Knowing Jesse: A Mother's Story of Grief, Grace, and Everyday Bliss di Marianne Leone2011
Hamlet's BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age di William Powers2011
Mornings with Mailer: A Recollection of Friendship di Dwayne Raymond2011
Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre di Heather Cox Richardson2011
Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy di Bruce Watson2011
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration di Isabel Wilkerson2011
American Passage: The History of Ellis Island di Vincent J. Cannato2010
The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft di Ulrich Boser2010
You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas di Augusten Burroughs2010
Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town di Elyssa East2010
Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: an Epic Quest for Reality among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms di Ethan Gilsdorf2010
The Fence: A Police Cover-up Along Boston's Racial Divide di Dick Lehr2010
Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts di Elise Lemire2010
Miliardari per caso. L'invenzione di Facebook: una storia di soldi, sesso, genio e tradimento di Ben Mezrich2010
Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women di Harriet Reisen2010
Fresh Pond: The History of a Cambridge Landscape di Jill Sinclair2010
L'ultima tempesta. Il più grande salvataggio di sempre di Michael J. Tougias2010
A Brave Vessel di Hobson Woodward2010
Snow Falling in Spring: Coming of Age in China During the Cultural Revolution (Melanie Kroupa Books) di Moying Li2009
Through an Uncommon Lens: The Life and Photography of F. Holland Day di Patricia J. Fanning2009
White Heat di Brenda Wineapple2009
A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade di Christopher Benfey2009
Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science: An Astronomer Among the American Romantics di Renee Bergland2009
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library) di Drew Gilpin Faust2009
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World di Tony Horwitz2009
The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse di Jane Kamensky2009
The Paradise of All These Parts: A Natural History of Boston di John Hanson Mitchell2009
Patriot Pirates: The Privateer War for Freedom and Fortune in the American Revolution di Robert H. Patton2009
Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art out of Desperate Times di Susan Quinn2009
The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order di Joan Wickersham2009
Salem Witch Judge: The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall di Eve LaPlante2008
Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America di Eric Jay Dolin2008
Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father di John Matteson2008
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War di Nathaniel Philbrick2007
House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power di James Carroll2007
The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism di Megan Marshall2006
Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet di Charlotte Gordon2006
A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit di Alan Lightman2006
Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books di Aaron Lansky2005
Spirit and Flesh: Life in a Fundamentalist Baptist Church di James M. Ault2005
Washington's Crossing di David Hackett Fischer2005
Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides di Christian G. Appy2004
The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home di George Howe Colt2004
Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 di Nathaniel Philbrick2004
Revere Beach Elegy: A Memoir of Home and Beyond di Roland Merullo2003
Black Livingstone: A True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth-Century Congo di Pagan Kennedy2003
Choosing Naia: A Family's Journey di Mitchell Zuckoff2003
The Imprisoned Guest: Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, The Original Deaf-Blind Girl di Elisabeth Gitter2002
Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Hospital di Alex Beam2002
Uphill Walkers: Portrait of a Family di Madeleine Blais2002
Reflections in Bullough's Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New England di Diana Muir2001
Constant Turmoil: The Politics of Industrial Life in Nineteenth-Century New England di Mary H. Blewett2001
Red Sox Century: The Definitive History of Baseball's Most Storied Franchise, Expanded and Updated di Richard A. Johnson2001
Nel cuore dell'oceano: la vera storia della baleniera Essex di Nathaniel Philbrick2001
Fire & Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834 di Nancy Lusignan Schultz2001

Descrizioni

Awarded by the Massachusetts Center for the Book
Each year, the MassBooks recognize significant achievements in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, and children's literature from the previous calendar year. To be eligible, books must have been written by authors who currently live and work in Massachusetts or must present topics of particular and specific importance to the Commonwealth regardless of their author’s residency.
Throughout the award year, we promote an award winner and two honors books in each of the four award categories by producing/hosting reading, discussion, and activity guides for each title at our web site and by featuring the books at the Massachusetts table in the Pavilion of the States at the National Book Festival. The award and honors titles are also deposited in Special Collections at the State Library.
Massachusetts Book Award website
The 1st annual awards were made in 2001 (English, Scritto da un membro)
Massachusetts Book Awards

The Massachusetts Book Awards highlight the work of our vital contemporary writing community and encourage readers to do some "close reading" of those imaginative works created by the authors among us. Throughout the award year, we a list of "Must Reads " in each of four award categories -- fiction, nonfiction, poetry & children's/young adult literature -- that have been written by Massachusetts writers or about Massachusetts themes. We also publish an annual MassBook Census of Massachusetts books. In the Fall, we name promote an award winner in each of the categories. (English, Scritto da un membro)

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