Read, Remember, Recommend: A Reading Journal for Book Lovers

Read, Remember, Recommend A Reading Journal for Book Lovers

Created by

RACHELLE ROGERS KNIGHT

For my boys, Samuel and Holden. May the world of books always fill you with adventure.

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Contents Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Awards and Notable Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 United States Pulitzer Prize for Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Finalists (1990–2009). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 National Book Award for Fiction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 National Book Award for Fiction Finalists (1990–2009) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 National Book Award for Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Shortlists (1990–2008) . . . 31 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Canada Governor General’s Literary Awards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Scotiabank Giller Prize. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Trillium Book Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

United Kingdom/Commonwealth Man Booker Prize for Fiction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Shortlists (1990–2009). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Costa Book of the Year Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Orange Prize for Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Africa Caine Prize for African Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Australia Miles Franklin Literary Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Pacific Rim and South Asia Kiriyama Prize. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

International International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Minority/Social Justice Awards Bellwether Prize for Fiction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards . . 70 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction by an American Woman. . . . . 72 Latino Book Awards of the Latino Book & Family Festival. . . . . . . . . . . 74

Publication Prizes ForeWord Magazine Editor’s Choice Prize Winners for Fiction. . . . . . 75 Los Angeles Times Award for Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Grub Street Book Prize for Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 New York Times Best Books of the Year for Fiction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Quill & Quire Books of the Year. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Salon Book Award for Fiction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Bookstore Lists Barnes & Noble Discover Great New WritersTM Awards. . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Borders Original Voices Award for Fiction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Pennie’s Picks—The Costco Connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Book Clubs Best Books for Discussion from Book Club Classics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 The Oprah Winfrey Show: Oprah’s Book Club. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Richard & Judy Book Club. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Target Club Picks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Best of Lists Modern Library: 100 Best Books of the Century. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Radcliffe Publishing Course: 100 Best Novels of the Century. . . . . . . 111

Classics Madison, Wisconsin, Public Library: Readable Classics. . . . . . . . . . . . 116

All about the Indies Indies Choice Book Award for Fiction (Previously the Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Fiction). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Indies Choice Book Award for Fiction (Book Sense Book of the Year) Shortlists (2000–2009) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Tournament of Books—Rooster Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Fiction. . . . . . . . . 129 Regional Independent Booksellers Associations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association Award . . . . . . . . . 130

Midwest Booksellers Association Book Choice Award . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Mountains and Plains Regional Book Award for Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . 133 New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award for Fiction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award—Fiction Winners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Book Award for Fiction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Southern Independent Booksellers Association Award. . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Others Alan Cheuse’s Favorites—National Public Radio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 National Endowment for the Arts—The Big Read. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 American Library Association Notable Books for Adults. . . . . . . . . . . 147

Key to Footnotes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Blank Lists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

To Read. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Journal Pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Recommendations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Loaner Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . References and Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Book Blogs (and Other Book-Related Websites). . . . . . . . . . Literary Terms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Introduction

Welcome to Read, Remember, Recommend: A Reading Journal for Book Lovers. While this journal was created for adults who love fiction and literature, we have also created a journal for teens. With this journal, you can • Discover new writers while expanding your reading lists • Keep details about what you’ve read and journal your thoughts, feelings, and emotions about each book • Keep track of your to-read list • List your recommendations to share with other readers, friends, and book club members • Note and keep track of books you’ve loaned and borrowed • Peruse an extensive list of literary blogs and book award lists • Expand your knowledge of literary terms

The Boxes Want

To Read

Recommend

Own

Throughout the journal you will find boxes similar to these. They are designed to help you keep track of what you have read, what you want to read, what you want to recommend for someone else to read, what you own, and what you would like to buy or borrow. The following is an explanation of each of the boxes X X and how to use them. Own: Use a check in this box to indicate if you / own the book. This will help you organize your personal library. It can also assist you when you desire to loan a particular selection. Recommend: If you have read the book, use this box to indicate whether or not you would recommend the selection to someone in the future. To Read: Use this box to indicate whether you have read the book, using an X; or would like to read the book, using a /. After you have read the selection, come back and finish marking with a \. This is a great method to quickly indicate what you have already read and to help you find your next book. Want: Scan this column, on the right-hand side, to find those works you would like to buy or check out from the library. Use a / to indicate a book you want. After acquiring the selection, use a \ to complete the X.

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Read The Lists It’s late at night and you’ve just finished a great book. Ahhhhh. What a feeling! The characters are still fresh in your imagination, friends you will keep and think back on from time to time. Questions and thoughts swirl in your mind. Did Holden “catch” Phoebe? In Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, is the boy better off with his mother or father? Does Offred get out of Gilead and is she able to find her daughter? Kafka, why a roach? If set in modern times, would Elizabeth’s and Mr. Darcy’s social classes have helped or hindered their relationship? Was Pi telling the truth about his amazing adventure? As you reflect over the book’s ending, a strange panic begins to form in your mind. What’s next? The lists in this journal will help ensure you never have that feeling again. They offer stacks of suggestions in both contemporary and classic literature, spanning centuries. Each list represents the inspiration and effort of an individual or group of people devoted to publicizing what they believe are examples of the world’s greatest literature. So, peruse, ponder, and plunge in!

Awards Lists

Academic organizations, newspapers, periodicals, and corporations review hundreds of each year’s most notable books. They reward what they deem the “best” book for their group and by doing so help publicize works of literary merit. Awards listed in this journal represent a sample of the great honors granted to fiction and literature authors each year. Most major awards are included, along with some lesser-known prizes. At the beginning of each list, a brief explanation of the award is given. Each entry includes the year of the award, author, and title. For awards that are granted to one title per year, space is provided so that you may enter the authors and titles of award winners for the next two years. One goal of publishing this journal is to promote great works of fiction and literature; therefore, every effort has been made to note all the awards a particular author or work has been granted and to emphasize accumulated awards whenever an author or work is listed. This is accomplished through the use of footnotes. Each award has a corresponding footnote symbol, and when a particular title is listed, the additional awards it has won are footnoted. A footnote key can be found on page 153.

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Being considered for these prestigious awards is, in itself, a tremendous honor, one which can change the course of an author’s career; therefore, the finalist or shortlisted authors from a few prizes have been included. A few awards are footnoted, but not given list space in the journal. These are awards given to authors themselves and not a specific title. These awards are denoted with a footnote next to the authors’ name. These awards include: Nobel Prize in Literature * - The Nobel prizes are often regarded as the most prestigious of international awards. Since its inception in 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has recognized authors, both widely acclaimed and relatively unknown, from many different cultural and linguistic traditions. Nobel Prizes in Literature are usually awarded for a body of work rather than a single publication. New England Book Awards / -The New England Book Awards, established in 1990 by the New England Independent Booksellers Association (NEIBA), promote authors and publishers who have produced a “body of work that stands as a significant contribution to New England’s culture.” NEIBA, the largest regional bookselling organization in the United States, exists to foster independent bookselling in New England, including Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Man Booker International Prize ¦ - The Man Booker International Prize is designed to recognize a single author for his or her achievement in fiction. An author of any nationality can win, as long as his or her work is available in English. The prize, which started in 2005, is awarded every other year, allowing the judging panel time to study the work of nominated authors in depth. Literary excellence is the sole focus of the Man Booker International Prize. Lannan Literary Award for Fiction • - The Lannan Literary Awards and Fellowships were established in 1989 to honor writers who have produced exceptional work. Through its awards program, the progressive Lannan Foundation hopes to “stimulate the creation of literature in English and to develop a wider audience for contemporary prose and poetry.” Writers may not apply for Lannan awards, though they are some of the world’s most lucrative. A group of eminent writers, literary scholars, publishers, and editors suggests candidates anonymously and the foundation’s literary committee makes final decisions. Chicago Tribune Literary Award ¶ - Since 2002, the Chicago Tribune has awarded the Chicago Tribune Literary Prize as a lifetime achievement award to honor “an author whose body of work has had great impact on American society.” The Tribune is dedicated to literacy and the literary arts and works to honor authors whose novels, plays, or stories have “changed the face of literature.” Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award ! - This is awarded each December by the Tulsa Library Trust to an internationally acclaimed author in

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recognition of a “distinguished body of work written in the field of literature and letters” and who has made a major contribution to the field of literature and letters. The Writers’ Trust Notable Author Award ф - An award given annually to a Canadian writer with “no less than three works of literary merit which are predominately fiction.” The award was created in 2008 by merging two prizes: the Marian Engel Award for a female writer in mid-career (1986–2007) and the Timothy Findley Award for a male writer in mid-career (2002–2007). Franz Kafka Prize ^ - This is an international literary award presented in honor of Franz Kafka, the German-language writer of such notable works as The Metamorphosis. First awarded in 2001, the prize is cosponsored by the Kafka Society and the city of Prague, Czech Republic, where Kafka was born. Awardwinning works must exhibit “humanistic character and contribution to cultural, national, language, and religious tolerance, its existential, timeless character, its human validity, and its ability to hand over a testimony about our times.” Poet Laureate ♦ - Since 1937, the Library of Congress has selected a Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. The appointee is given the task of increasing the “national consciousness to a greater appreciation of the reading and writing of poetry.” For links to these awards, see the Resources section on page 249.

Notable Lists

If you check online or with your local library, you will find countless reading lists available for all genres, interests, and age groups. Book publishers, bookstores, reader’s groups, talk shows, magazines, and libraries all create book lists. The journal contains representative lists of this kind, offering a wide selection of noteworthy suggestions from varied sources. All the lists reflect the tastes and values of their proponents. Some lists are controversial, even provocative, but they have nevertheless sparked debate among readers, propelling the creation of rival lists and encouraging millions of readers to explore works of literature they might otherwise have missed. An introduction to the organization behind each list and an explanation of purpose is given before each list. In addition, the author, title, rank (if applicable), and year of original publication is included for each individual work on all the lists. Footnotes are not given for notable lists.

Blank Lists

Blank lists have been provided at the back of the lists section, starting on page 155. Use these pages to record your own personal best lists, book club lists

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(past and present), new winners for lists in this journal, and other lists that aren’t represented in the journal.

Remember To Read Use this section to keep track of all the books you want to read. Whenever you hear of a book through recommendation, a review, or your own research, make sure to record the title and author. The resulting list will be a great resource when it’s time to shop for books. Mark books you want to buy or borrow and check them off as you acquire them; then, as you finish each book, complete the check mark to record and remember what you have read.

Journal Pages

At the beginning of this section are several pages to record each title you have read. If you journal about the book, enter the page number of the journal entry. If not, enter the date you finished reading the title. Use the journal pages to record information about what you have read, including the following elements: Title, author, and date you started the book, along with a check mark for noting whether you would recommend the book to others. Who recommended the book? A book you choose to record may be a book club selection, a gift, recommended by a friend or publication, or an assignment. Reason for reading the book. Are you reading this book for fun or a book club discussion? Did it win an award, or did you enjoy the author’s previous books? Words you don’t know. Include the word, the definition, and the page number on which you found it. Passages to remember. Sometimes sections in a book capture your interest or intrigue you with their thoughts. They might make you say, “I wish I’d said that!” or “Wow, I’ve definitely felt that way before.” Make sure to remember these segments by including them in your journal entry. Include the passage, the page, and, if you wish, how you feel about the passage or why you want to remember it. Such passages can be great to read to a discussion group, send to a friend, tape to your refrigerator, or use as future inspiration. Comments. This is the most important space in your reading journal. Use it to record comments about the book itself, the characters, the plot, how specific events or characters made you feel, the dialogue, the narration, and parts you don’t like or don’t understand. You might also wish to record how this book

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compares to other books you’ve read by the same author. Are you more or less inclined to seek out additional works? If you are reading this book as a book club selection, jot down discussion points and questions throughout your reading. Don’t forget to record highlights from the group discussion itself. It’s interesting to note how others experienced the book. Did they share similar thoughts and feelings? Did you change any of your conclusions about the book after discussing it? What did you learn about yourself, the book, and other members of the group from the discussion? What insights did you gain?

A Note on Journaling

Although it may take some time to develop the habit, journaling throughout the course of reading a book can leave you feeling as though you’ve truly experienced the work. Jot down your thoughts and feelings as you experience them to ensure you capture the moment. Keep your journal with you on the bus, subway, in car trips, and at the doctor’s office. Take it in your backpack or purse and put it on your nightstand— anywhere you read. Next to your treasured books, your journal will become your greatest friend. With this friend you can browse back and reminisce. Looking back over past journal entries and remembering the book—and who you were when you read it—offers great opportunity for reflection and insight. Books have the capacity to transform us—how we feel, think, and perceive our world. We may be as changed by reading a book as are the characters who live in its pages. Make the journal yours. Don’t worry about complete sentences, your handwriting, or whether something makes sense or not—if you feel it, write it down.

Recommend Recommendation List The only thing better than reading a good book is sharing it. Your recommendations can enrich the reading lives of those in your reading circle. Use the Recommendation list to record the books you would recommend. Keep in mind that a book doesn’t have to be a favorite to be recommended. Jot down selections you know someone else would enjoy. There is room to keep recommendations for different people and groups.

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Loaner Lists

These lists are designed to help you keep track of books you’ve shared. Record the titles of the books you’ve loaned and the people who borrowed them, as well as when they were borrowed and returned. Similar lists will remind you to read and return books others have loaned to you.

Resources

Award and Blog Links The References and Resources section includes all names and website links to most national and international book awards not given list space in the journal. The website links for the author awards are also listed. A myriad of book-related blogs are also referenced. These are under the headings of literary blogs and lighter blogs. The literary blogs are mainly written by literary critics and people connected in some way to the publishing industry. The lighter blogs are typically created by reading enthusiasts, librarians, and bookstore employees. All of these blogs contain a wealth of book-related information from reviews, opinions, news on new books, author interviews, and reading challenges.

Literary Terms The next step in appreciating and enjoying great literature is to understand the methods writers employ in crafting their stories. Becoming familiar with their tools will help you understand works better from the writer’s perspective. The literary term definitions in the References and Resources section will help you recognize not only different types of fiction, but how the stories themselves are constructed. Stories are assembled using a large and intricate structure involving characters, their relationship to each other, setting, plot, theme, and narration. Authors use these literary tools to turn a simple narrative into a complex, memorable experience for their readers. As you become familiar with the terms, you will be able to point out specific literary techniques an author has used. Make sure to journal about these devices as you discover them.

Reflect

As humans, we were born to gather. And we love to look at what we’ve collected. We bibliophiles (book lovers) need to gather books. We can’t deny it—and shouldn’t try. And who among us can resist a good annotated list? It is

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wonderful to turn over the pages of a reading journal—your personal bookshelf in miniature—to see what you have assembled. This journal was created with the book lover in mind. We hope that its size, its ease of use, and the information contained within it will inspire active and involved reading. We also hope it will help you savor your reading accomplishments. When you’ve scrutinized the lists, go back, note the check marks, check your notes, and celebrate! What you have read will be yours forever.

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Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prizes are awarded each year, to American authors, in 21 categories, including fiction and poetry. Named after Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-born publisher, the prizes are regarded as the highest U.S. national awards, particularly in journalism. The prize for fiction honors a distinguished work, preferably one dealing with American life. The prize for poetry is awarded for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. The awards are overseen by Columbia University. Each winner receives a certificate and $10,000 in cash. No fiction prizes were given in 1920, 1941, 1946, 1954, 1957, 1964, 1971, 1974, and 1977. No poetry award was granted in 1946. For more information on all of the Pulitzer Prizes, visit http:// www.pulitzer.org.

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Elizabeth Strout

Olive Kitteridge

2008

Junot Díaz

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao ††,<,xx,x

2007

Cormac McCarthy

The Road

2006

Geraldine Brooks /,!

March

2005

Marilynne Robinson

Gilead

2004

Edward P. Jones •

The Known World

2003

Jeffrey Eugenides

Middlesex

2002

Richard Russo /

Empire Falls

2001

Michael Chabon !

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

2000

Jhumpa Lahiri

Interpreter of Maladies

1999

Michael Cunningham

The Hours

1998

Philip Roth ^

American Pastoral

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1997

Steven Millhauser •

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

1996

Richard Ford /

Independence Day

1995

Carol Shields ф

The Stone Diaries

1994

E. Annie Proulx

The Shipping News

1993

Robert Olen Butler

A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

1992

Jane Smiley

A Thousand Acres

1991

John Updike !

Rabbit at Rest

1990

Oscar Hijuelos

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

1989

Anne Tyler

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Breathing Lessons *,!

Beloved

1988

Toni Morrison

1987

Peter Taylor

A Summons to Memphis

1986

Larry McMurtry !

Lonesome Dove

1985

Alison Lurie

Foreign Affairs

1984

William Kennedy !

Ironweed

1983

Alice Walker

The Color Purple

1982

John Updike !

Rabbit Is Rich

1981

John Kennedy Toole

1980

Norman Mailer

1979

John Cheever

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A Confederacy of Dunces The Executioner’s Song The Stories of John Cheever ‡,††

James Alan McPherson 1978

Elbow Room

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1976

Saul Bellow

1975

Michael Shaara !

1973

Eudora Welty

1972

Wallace Stegner

The Killer Angels The Optimist’s Daughter Angle of Repose

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1970

Jean Stafford

Collected Stories

1969

N. Scott Momaday

House Made of Dawn

1968

William Styron

The Confessions of Nat Turner

1967

Bernard Malamud

The Fixer

1966

Katherine Anne Porter

The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter ‡

1965

Shirley Ann Grau

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The Keepers of the House The Reivers

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1963

William Faulkner

1962

Edwin O’Connor

The Edge of Sadness

1961

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

1960

Allen Drury

Advise and Consent

1959

Robert Lewis Taylor

The Travels of Jamie McPheeters

1958

James Agee

A Death in the Family

1956

MacKinlay Kantor

Andersonville

1955

William Faulkner *

A Fable

1953

Ernest Hemingway *

The Old Man and the Sea

1952

Herman Wouk

The Caine Mutiny

1951

Conrad Richter

The Town

1950

A. B. Guthrie Jr.

The Way West

1949

James Gould Cozzens Guard of Honor

1948

James A. Michener

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All the King’s Men

1947

Robert Penn Warren

1945

John Hersey

A Bell for Adano

1944

Martin Flavin

Journey in the Dark

1943

Upton Sinclair

Dragon’s Teeth

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Title

1942

Ellen Glasgow

In This Our Life

1940

John Steinbeck *

The Grapes of Wrath

1939

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

The Yearling

1938

John Phillips Marquand

The Late George Apley

1937

Margaret Mitchell

Gone With the Wind

1936

Harold L. Davis

Honey in the Horn

1935

Josephine W. Johnson

Now in November

1934

Caroline Miller

Lamb in His Bosom

1933

T. S. Stribling

The Store

1932

Pearl S. Buck

The Good Earth

1931

Margaret Ayer Barnes

Years of Grace

1930

Oliver Lafarge

Laughing Boy

1929

Julia Peterkin

Scarlet Sister Mary

1928

Thornton Wilder

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

1927

Louis Bromfield

Early Autumn

*

Arrowsmith

1926

Sinclair Lewis

1925

Edna Ferber

So Big

1924

Margaret Wilson

The Able McLaughlins

1923

Willa Cather

One of Ours

1922

Booth Tarkington

Alice Adams

1921

Edith Wharton

The Age of Innocence

1919

Booth Tarkington

The Magnificent Ambersons

1918

Ernest Poole

His Family

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13

Awards and Notable Lists

Title

2009

Christine Schutt

All Souls

2009

Louise Erdrich

The Plague of Doves

2008

Lore Segal

Shakespeare’s Kitchen Tree of Smoke

•

2008

Denis Johnson

2007

Alice McDermott

2007

Richard Powers

2006

Lee Martin

‡,xx,x,♣

After This The Echo Maker

•

‡,x

The Bright Forever The March

¶

††,§

2006

E. L. Doctorow

2005

Ha Jin

War Trash

2005

Ward Just

An Unfinished Season

2004

Marianne Wiggins

Evidence of Things Unseen

2004

Susan Choi

American Woman

2003

Andrea Barrett

Servants of the Map: Stories

2003

Adam Haslett

You Are Not a Stranger Here

2002

Colson Whitehead

John Henry Days

2002

Jonathan Franzen

The Corrections

2001

Joy Williams

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xx

xx

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The Quick and the Dead !,¶

Blonde

2001

Joyce Carol Oates

2000

E. Annie Proulx

Close Range: Wyoming Stories %%

2000

Ha Jin

Waiting

1999

Barbara Kingsolver

The Poisonwood Bible

1999

Russell Banks

Cloudsplitter

1998

Don DeLillo

Underworld

‡,§ |||

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14

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Ursula K. Le Guin

Unlocking the Air and Other Stories

1997

Joanna Scott •

The Manikin

1996

Oscar Hijuelos

Mr. Ives’ Christmas Sabbath’s Theater

^

1996

Philip Roth

1995

Grace Paley •

1995

Joyce Carol Oates

1994

Philip Roth ^

1994

Reynolds Price

‡

The Collected Stories !,¶

What I Lived For Operation Shylock: A Confession § The Collected Stories

!,¶

Black Water

1993

Joyce Carol Oates

1993

Alice McDermott

At Weddings and Wakes

1992

David Gates

Jernigan

1992

Don DeLillo

Mao II

1991

Robert M. Pirsig

Lila: An Inquiry into Morals

1991

Linda Hogan

Mean Spirit

1990

E. L. Doctorow ¶

Billy Bathgate

1990

Tim O’Brien

The Things They Carried

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Year 2011

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Want

1997

Want

Bear and His Daughter: Stories

To Read

Robert Stone

To Read

1998

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Title

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Author

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Year

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§

*** ††,§

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Title

Title

2009

W. S. Merwin

The Shadow of Sirius

2008

Philip Schultz

Failure

2008

Robert Hass ♦

Time and Materials

2007

Natasha Trethewey

Native Guard

2006

Claudia Emerson

Late Wife

2010

xo

Delights & Shadows

♦

2005

Ted Kooser

2004

Franz Wright

Walking to Martha’s Vineyard

2003

Paul Muldoon

Moy Sand and Gravel

2002

Carl Dennis

Practical Gods

2001

Stephen Dunn

Different Hours

2000

C. K. Williams

Repair

1999

Mark Strand

♦

1998

Charles Wright

Black Zodiac

1997

Lisel Mueller

Alive Together: New and Selected Poems

1996

Jorie Graham

The Dream of the Unified Field

1995

Philip Levine

The Simple Truth

1994

Yusef Komunyakaa

Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems

1993

Louise Glück ♦

The Wild Iris

1992

James Tate

1991 1990

Blizzard of One

Selected Poems

Mona Van Duyn Charles Simic

♦

♦

Near Changes The World Doesn’t End

♦ ♦

1989

Richard Wilbur

1988

William Meredith ♦

New and Collected Poems Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems

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15

Awards and Notable Lists

Year

Author

Title

1987

Rita Dove ♦

Thomas and Beulah

1986

Henry S. Taylor

The Flying Change

1985

Carolyn Kizer

Yin

1984

Mary Oliver

American Primitive

1983

Galway Kinnell

Selected Poems

1982

Sylvia Plath

The Collected Poems

1981

James Schuyler

The Morning of the Poem

1980

Donald Justice

xo

Selected Poems ♦

Now and Then

1979

Robert Penn Warren

1978

Howard Nemerov ♦

The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov xo

1977

James Merrill

Divine Comedies

1976

John Ashbery

Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror xo,♦

1975

Gary Snyder

1974

Robert Lowell

Turtle Island The Dolphin

♦

Up Country

♦

1973

Maxine Kumin

1972

James Wright

Collected Poems

1971

William S. Merwin

The Carrier of Ladders

1970

W. S. Merwin

Untitled Subjects

1969

George Oppen

Of Being Numerous ♦

The Hard Hours

1968

Anthony Hecht

1967

Anne Sexton

Live or Die

1966

Richard Eberhart ♦

Selected Poems

1965

John Berryman

77 Dream Songs

1964

Louis Simpson

At the End Of The Open Road

1963

William Carlos Williams ♦

Pictures from Brueghel

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+

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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

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Title

1962

Alan Dugan

Poems

1961

Phyllis McGinley

Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades

1960

W. D. Snodgrass

Heart’s Needle

1959

Stanley Kunitz ♦

Selected Poems 19281958

1958

Robert Penn Warren ♦

Promises: Poems, 19541956 xo

1957

Richard Wilbur ♦

Things of This World

1956

Elizabeth Bishop ♦

Poems - North & South

1955

Wallace Stevens

The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens xo

1954

Theodore Roethke

The Waking

1953

Archibald MacLeish

Collected Poems, 19171952 xo

1952

Marianne Moore

Collected Poems

1951

Carl Sandburg

Complete Poems

1950

Gwendolyn Brooks ♦

Annie Allen

1949

Peter Viereck

Terror and Decorum

1948

W. H. Auden

1947

xo

xo

xo

The Age of Anxiety

Robert Lowell

♦

♦

Lord Weary’s Castle V-Letter and Other Poems

1945

Karl Shapiro

1944

Stephen Vincent Benét

Western Star

1943

Robert Frost ♦

A Witness Tree

1942

William Rose Benét

The Dust Which is God

1941

Leonard Bacon

Sunderland Capture

1940

Mark Van Doren

Collected Poems

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17

Awards and Notable Lists

Year

Author

Title

1939

John Gould Fletcher

Selected Poems

1938

Marya Zaturenska

Cold Morning Sky

1937

Robert Frost ♦

A Further Range

1936

Robert P.T. Coffin

Strange Holiness

1935

Audrey Wurdemann

Bright Ambush

1934

Robert Hillyer

Collected Verse

1933

Archibald MacLeish

Conquistador

1932

George Dillon

The Flowering Stone

1931

Robert Frost

Collected Poems

♦ ♦

Selected Poems

1930

Conrad Aiken

1929

Stephen Vincent Benét

John Browns Body

1928

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Tristram

1927

Leonora Speyer

Fiddler’s Farewell

1926

Amy Lowell

What’s O’Clock

1925

Edwin Arlington Robinson

The Man Who Died Twice

Robert Frost ♦

New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes

1923

Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Ballad of the HarpWeaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. A Miscellany

1922

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Collected Poems

1924

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19

Awards and Notable Lists

National Book Awards  

The National Book Awards, including the Award for Fiction and Poetry, are given annually in October to American authors for books published the prior year. The purpose of these awards, created in 1950 by a group of publishers, is “to enhance the public’s awareness of exceptional books... and to increase the popularity of reading in general.” Award categories have varied over the years, but now include nonfiction, poetry, and young people’s literature. For each genre, an independent five-judge panel selects the winner. Each winner receives a crystal sculpture and $10,000. In certain years, two awards were given in fiction, sometimes to honor publications in both hardcover and paperback. More information for both awards can be found at http://www. nationalbook.org/nba.html.

2011 2010 2009

Let the Great World Spin

Colum McCann !

Shadow Country

x

2008

Peter Matthiessen

2007

Denis Johnson •

Tree of Smoke

2006

Richard Powers •

The Echo Maker

2005

William T. Vollmann

Europe Central

2004

Lily Tuck

The News from Paraguay x

2003

Shirley Hazzard

The Great Fire

2002

Julia Glass

Three Junes

2001

Jonathan Franzen

The Corrections

2000

Susan Sontag

In America

1999

Ha Jin

Waiting

§

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%

↑,xx

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Title

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Year

Author

Title

1998

Alice McDermott

Charming Billy

1997

Charles Frazier

Cold Mountain

1996

Andrea Barrett

Ship Fever and Other Stories

1995

Philip Roth ^

Sabbath’s Theater

1994

William Gaddis

A Frolic of His Own

1993

E. Annie Proulx

The Shipping News

1992

Cormac McCarthy

All the Pretty Horses

1991

Norman Rush

Mating

1990

Charles Johnson

Middle Passage

1989

John Casey

Spartina

1988

Pete Dexter

Paris Trout

1987

Larry Heinemann ¶

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♣

Paco’s Story World’s Fair

1986

E. L. Doctorow

1985

Don DeLillo

White Noise

1984

Ellen Gilchrist

Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories

1983

Eudora Welty !

The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty

1983

Alice Walker

The Color Purple **

1982

William Maxwell

So Long, See You Tomorrow

1982

John Updike !

Rabbit Is Rich

1981

John Cheever

The Stories of John Cheever **,††

1981

Wright Morris

Plains Song

1980

William Styron

Sophie’s Choice

1980

John Irving

The World According to Garp

**,††

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Title

1979

Tim O’Brien

Going After Cacciato

1978

Mary Lee Settle

Blood Ties

1977

Wallace Stegner

The Spectator Bird

1976

William Gaddis

JR

1975

Robert Stone

Dog Soldiers

1975

Thomas Williams

The Hair of Harold Roux

Isaac Bashevis Singer

A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories

1974

*

1974

Thomas Pynchon

Gravity’s Rainbow

1973

John Barth

Chimera

1973

John Williams

Augustus

1972

Flannery O’Connor

The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor

1971

Saul Bellow *,!

Mr. Sammler’s Planet !,¶

Them

1970

Joyce Carol Oates

1969

Jerzy Kosinski

Steps

1968

Thornton Wilder

The Eighth Day

1967

Bernard Malamud

The Fixer

1966

Katherine Anne Porter

The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter **

1965

Saul Bellow *,!

Herzog

1964

John Updike

!

1963

J. F. Powers

Morte D’Urban

1962

Walker Percy

The Moviegoer

1961

Conrad Richter

The Waters of Kronos

^

1960

Philip Roth

1959

Bernard Malamud

**

The Centaur

Goodbye The Magic Barrel

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Year

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21

Awards and Notable Lists

Year

Author

Title

1958

John Cheever

The Wapshot Chronicles

1957

Wright Morris

The Field of Vision

1956

John O’Hara

Ten North Frederick

1955

William Faulkner *

A Fable

1954

Saul Bellow *,!

The Adventures of Augie March

1953

Ralph Ellison

Invisible Man

1952

James Jones

From Here to Eternity

1951

William Faulkner *

Collected Stories of William Faulkner

1950

Nelson Algren

The Man with the Golden Arm

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‡

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National Book Award for Fiction Finalists (1990–2009) 

Title

2009

Bonnie Jo Campbell

American Salvage

2009

Daniyal Mueenuddin

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

2009

Jayne Anne Phillips

Lark and Termite

2009

Marcel Theroux

Far North

2008

Salvatore Scibona

The End

2008

Marilynne Robinson

Home

2008

Rachel Kushner

Telex from Cuba

•,/,x

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Year

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Finalists receive $1,000 and are recognized by the foundation.

Title

2008

Aleksandar Hemon

The Lazarus Project

2007

Mischa Berlinksi

Fieldwork

2007

Lydia Davis

Varieties of Disturbance

2007

Joshua Ferris

Then We Came to the End §§,@,x,xx

2007

Jim Shepard

Like You’d Understand, Anyway

2006

Mark Z. Danielewski

Only Revolutions

2006

Jess Walter

The Zero

2006

Dana Spiotta

Eat the Document

2006

Ken Kalfus

A Disorder Peculiar to the Country xx

2005

Christopher Sorrentino Trance

2005

Mary Gaitskill

Veronica

2005

E. L. Doctorow ¶

The March

2005

Renè Steinke

Holy Skirts

2004

Joan Silber

Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories

2004

Christine Schutt

Florida

2004

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Madeleine is Sleeping o

2004

Kate Walbert

Our Kind

2003

Marianne Wiggins

Evidence of Things Unseen

2003

Scott Spencer

A Ship Made of Paper

2003

Edward P. Jones •

The Known World

2003

T. C. Boyle

Drop City

2002

Adam Haslett

You Are Not a Stranger Here

2002

Martha McPhee

Gorgeous Lies

x

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Awards and Notable Lists

Year

Author

Title

2002

Brad Watson

The Heaven of Mercury

2002

Mark Costello

Big If

2001

Susan Straight •

Highwire Moon

2001

Louise Erdrich

The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

2001

Jennifer Egan

Look at Me

2001

Dan Chaon

Among the Missing

2000

Alan Lightman

The Diagnosis

2000

Charles Baxter

The Feast of Love

2000

Francine Prose

Blue Angel

2000

Joyce Carol Oates !,¶

Blonde

1999

Kent Haruf

Plainsong

1999

Andre Dubus III

House of Sand and Fog

1999

Patricia Henley

Hummingbird House

1999

Jean Thompson

Who Do You Love

1998

Robert Stone

Damascus Gate

1998

Gayl Jones

The Healing

1998

Allegra Goodman ¶

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¦

Kaaterskill Falls A Man in Full

1998

Tom Wolfe

1997

Don DeLillo

Underworld

1997

Diane Johnson

Le Divorce

1997

Ward Just

Echo House

1997

Cynthia Ozick •

The Puttermesser Papers

1996

Elizabeth McCracken

The Giant’s House

1996

Ron Hansen

Atticus

1996

Janet Peery

The River Beyond the World

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National Book Award for Fiction Finalists (1990–2009)

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Title

1996

Steven Millhauser •

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer **

1995

Stephen Dixon

Interstate •

Krik? Krak!

1995

Edwidge Danticat

1995

Madison Smartt Bell

All Souls’ Rising

1995

Rosario Ferrè

The House on the Lagoon

1994

Grace Paley •

The Collected Stories

1994

Howard Norman /,•

The Bird Artist

1994

Richard Dooling

White Man’s Grave

1994

Ellen Currie

Moses Supposes

1993

Thom Jones

The Pugilist at Rest

1993

Amy Bloom

Come to Me

1993

Bob Shacochis

1993

Richard Powers

1992

Dorothy Allison

1992

Cristina Garcia

Swimming in the Volcano •

Operation Wandering Soul Bastard Out of Carolina Dreaming in Cuban

•

Lost in the City

§§

1992

Edward P. Jones

1992

Robert Stone

Outerbridge Reach

1991

Stephen Dixon

Frog

1991

Sandra Scofield

Beyond Deserving

1991

Louis Begley

Wartime Lies

1991

Stanley Elkin

The MacGuffin

1990

Jessica Hagedorn

Dogeaters

1990

Elena Castedo

Paradise

1990

Felipe Alfau

Chromos

1990

Joyce Carol Oates !,¶

Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart

§§

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25

Awards and Notable Lists

26

Read, Remember, Recommend

National Book Award for Poetry 

xo

2009

Keith Waldrop

Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy

2008

Mark Doty

Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems

2007

Robert Hass ♦

Time and Materials

2006

Nathaniel Mackey

Splay Anthem

2005

W. S. Merwin

Migration: New & Selected Poems

2004

Jean Valentine

Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003

2003

C. K. Williams

The Singing

2002

Ruth Stone

In the Next Galaxy

2001

Alan Dugan

Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry

2000

Lucille Clifton

Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000

1999

Ai

Vice: New & Selected Poems

1998

Gerald Stern

This Time: New and Selected Poems

1997

William Meredith ♦

Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems

1996

Hayden Carruth

Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey

2011 2010

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Title

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No award was given from 1985 to 1990.

Title

1995

Stanley Kunitz ♦

Passing Through: The Later Poems

1994

James Tate

A Worshipful Company of Fletchers

1993

A. R. Ammons

Garbage

1992

Mary Oliver

New & Selected Poems

1991

Philip Levine

What Work Is

1983

Charles Wright

Country Music: Selected Early Poems

1983

Galway Kinnell

Selected Poems

1982

William Bronk

Life Supports: New and Collected Poems

1981

Lisel Mueller

The Need to Hold Still

1980

Philip Levine

Ashes: Poems New and Old and 7 Years From Somewhere ♦

1979

James Merrill

Mirabell: Book of Numbers

1978

Howard Nemerov ♦

The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov +

1977

Richard Eberhart ♦

Collected Poems, 19301976

1976

John Ashbery

Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror +,♦

1975

Marilyn Hacker

Presentation Piece

1974

Adrienne Rich

Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972

Allen Ginsberg

The Fall of America: Poems of these States, 1965-1971

1974

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Awards and Notable Lists

Year

Author

Title

1973

A. R. Ammons

Collected Poems, 19511971

1972

Howard Moss

Selected Poems

1972

Frank O’Hara

The Collected Works of Frank O’Hara

1971

Mona Van Duyn ♦

1970

Elizabeth Bishop

♦

1969

John Berryman

His Toy, His Dream, His Rest

1968

Robert Bly

The Light Around the Body

1967

James Merrill

Nights and Days

1966

James Dickey ♦

Buckdancer’s Choice: Poems

1965

Theodore Roethke

The Far Field

1964

John Crowe Ransom

Selected Poems

1963

William Stafford ♦

Traveling Through the Dark

1962

Alan Dugan

Poems

1961

Randall Jarrell ♦

The Woman at the Washington Zoo

1960

Robert Lowell ♦

Life Studies

1959

Theodore Roethke

Words for the Wind

1958

Robert Penn Warren ♦

Promises: Poems, 19541956 +

1957

Richard Wilbur ♦

Things of This World

1956

W. H. Auden

The Shield of Achilles

1955

Wallace Stevens

The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens +

1954

Conrad Aiken ♦

Collected Poems

To See, To Take The Complete Poems

+

+

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xo

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National Book Award for Poetry

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28

Title

1953

Archibald MacLeish

Collected Poems, 19171952 +

1952

Marianne Moore

Collected Poems

1951

Wallace Stevens

The Auroras of Autumn

1950

William Carlos Williams ♦

Paterson: Book III and Selected Poems

To Read

Author

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Year

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+

The National Book Critics Circle Awards

The National Book Critics Circle Awards are given annually in March to the finest books published in English, in the United States. Winning authors may be citizens of any country. The NBCC is a nonprofit organization comprised of 700 book reviewers. The award is given to books in six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The National Book Critics Award carries no monetary prize. A 24-person panel of judges evaluates the candidates. Members of the judging team are also free to nominate books for the award. The winners for fiction and poetry are listed here. Visit http://www.bookcritics.org/ for more information.

Roberto Bolaño

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Year

Author

Title

2007

Junot Díaz

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao **,<,xx,x

2006

Kiran Desai

The Inheritance of Loss

2005

E. L. Doctorow ¶

The March

2004

Marilynne Robinson

Gilead

2003

Edward P. Jones •

The Known World

2002

Ian McEwan

Atonement

2001

W. G. Sebald

Austerlitz

2000

Jim Crace

Being Dead

1999

Jonathan Lethem

Motherless Brooklyn

1998

Alice Munro ¦,•,ф

The Love of a Good Woman «,≡,xxx

1997

Penelope Fitzgerald

The Blue Flower

1996

Gina Berriault

Women in Their Beds §

1995

Stanley Elkin

Mrs. Ted Bliss ф

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§

** **,♪

/

xx xx

The Stone Diaries

xx

**,@@

1994

Carol Shields

1993

Ernest J. Gaines

A Lesson Before Dying

1992

Cormac McCarthy

All the Pretty Horses

1991

Jane Smiley

A Thousand Acres

1990

John Updike !

Rabbit at Rest

**

1989

E. L. Doctorow ¶

Billy Bathgate

§

1988

Bharati Mukherjee

The Middleman & Other Stories

1987

Philip Roth ^

The Counterlife

1986

Reynolds Price

Kate Vaiden

1985

Anne Tyler

The Accidental Tourist

1984

Louise Erdrich

Love Medicine

¦

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**

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Title

1983

William Kennedy !

Ironweed

1982

Stanley Elkin

George Mills

1981

John Updike !

Rabbit Is Rich

1980

Shirley Hazzard

The Transit of Venus

1979

Thomas Flanagan

The Year of the French

1978

John Cheever

The Stories of John Cheever **,‡

1977

Toni Morrison *,!

Song of Solomon o

1976

John Gardner

October Light

1975

E. L. Doctorow

¶

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Awards and Notable Lists

**

**,‡

Ragtime

Title

2008

Aleksandar Hemon

The Lazarus Project

2008

Marilynne Robinson

Home

2008

Elizabeth Strout

Olive Kitteridge

2008

M. Glenn Taylor

The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart

2007

Marianne Wiggins

The Shadow Catcher

2007

Joyce Carol Oates !,¶

The Gravedigger’s Daughter

2007

Hisham Matar

In the Country of Men

2007

Vikram Chandra

Sacred Games

x

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xx

x

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National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Shortlists (1990–2008)

Year

Author

Title

2006

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Half of a Yellow Sun

2006

Cormac McCarthy

The Road

2006

Richard Ford /

The Lay of the Land

2006

Dave Eggers

What Is the What

2005

Andrea Levy

Small Island

2005

William T. Vollmann

Europe Central

2005

Kazuo Ishiguro

Never Let Me Go

2005

Mary Gaitskill

Veronica

2004

David Mitchell

Cloud Atlas

2004

Alan Hollinghurst

The Line of Beauty

2004

Philip Roth ^

x,~~

2004

Edwidge Danticat •

The Dew Breaker

2003

Richard Powers •

The Time of Our Singing

2003

Monica Ali

Brick Lane

2003

Tobias Wolff

Old School

2003

Caryl Phillips •

A Distant Shore

2002

William Kennedy !

Roscoe

2002

Jeffrey Eugenides

Middlesex

2002

Aleksandar Hemon

Nowhere Man

2002

Edith Templeton

The Darts of Cupid and Other Stories

2001

Ann Patchett

Bel Canto

2001

Alice Munro ¦,•,ф

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage

2001

Jonathan Franzen

The Corrections

2001

Colson Whitehead

John Henry Days

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xx

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xx,x x ‡‡,xx

The Plot Against America x

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Title

2000

Zadie Smith

White Teeth

2000

David Means

Assorted Fire Events: Stories /

2000

Michael Chabon !

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay **

2000

Amy Bloom

A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You

1999

David Gates

The Wonders of the Invisible World: Stories

1999

J. M. Coetzee *

Disgrace

1999

Frederick Busch

The Night Inspector

1999

A. Manette Ansay

Midnight Champagne

1998

Lynne Tillman

No Lease on Life

1998

Lorrie Moore

•

Birds of America

1998

Michael Cunningham

The Hours

1998

David Gates

Preston Falls

1997

Philip Roth

^

1997

Andrei Makine

Dreams of My Russian Summers

1997

Charles Frazier

Cold Mountain

1997

Don DeLillo

Underworld

1996

Jamaica Kincaid /,•

The Autobiography of My Mother

1996

Andre Dubus III

Dancing After Hours

1996

Louis Begley

About Schmidt

1996

Henry Roth

↑,xx

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American Pastoral

**

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From Bondage /

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Independence Day

1995

Richard Ford

1995

Richard Powers •

Galatea 2.2

1995

Jane Smiley

Moo

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Awards and Notable Lists

Year

Author

Title

1995

Paul West •

The Tent of Orange Mist

1994

William Gaddis

A Frolic of His Own ‡

1994

Julia Álvarez

In the Time of the Butterflies

1994

Alan Isler

The Prince of West End Avenue

1994

Julius Lester

And All Our Wounds Forgiven

1993

Bobbie Ann Mason

Feather Crowns

1993

E. Annie Proulx

The Shipping News

1993

Rikki Ducornet •

The Jade Cabinet

1993

Frances Sherwood

Vindication

1992

Robert Stone

Outerbridge Reach

1992

Richard Price

Clockers

1992

Joyce Carol Oates !,¶

Black Water

1992

Randall Kenan

Let the Dead Bury Their Dead

1991

Norman Rush

Mating

1991

Richard Powers •

The Gold Bug Variations

1991

Gish Jen •

Typical American

1991

Louis Begley

Wartime Lies

1990

Wallace Stegner

Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner

1990

Sue Miller

Family Pictures

1990

Charles Johnson

Middle Passage

1990

Tim O’Brien

The Things They Carried

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‡

§§

‡,♣

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35

Awards and Notable Lists

2008

August Kleinzahler

Sleeping It Off in Rapid City

2007

Mary Jo Bang

Elegy

2006

Troy Jollimore

Tom Thomson in Purgatory

2005

Jack Gilbert

Refusing Heaven

2004

Adrienne Rich

The School Among the Ruins

2003

Susan Stewart

Columbarium

2002

B.H. Fairchild

Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest

2001

Albert Goldbarth

Saving Lives

2000

Judy Jordan

Carolina Ghost Woods

1999

Ruth Stone

Ordinary Words

1998

Marie Ponsot

The Bird Catcher

1997

Charles Wright

Black Zodiac

1996

Robert Hass ♦

Sun Under Wood

1995

William Matthews

Time and Money

1994

Mark Rudman

Rider

1993

Mark Doty

My Alexandria

1992

Hayden Carruth

Collected Shorter Poems 1946-1991

1991

Albert Goldbarth

Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology

2011 2010 2009

+

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♦

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Year

Own

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Author

Title

1990

Amy Gerstler

Bitter Angel

1989

Rodney Jones

Transparent Gestures

1988

Donald Hall ♦

That One Day

1987

C. K. Williams

Flesh and Blood

1986

Edward Hirsch

Wild Gratitude

1985

Louise Glück

♦

1984

Sharon Olds

The Dead and the Living

1983

James Merrill

The Changing Light at Sandover

1982

Katha Pollitt

Antarctic Traveler

1981

A. R. Ammons

A Coast of Trees

1980

Frederick Seidel

Sunrise

Philip Levine

Ashes: Poems New and Old and 7 Years From Somewhere xo

1978

L. E. Sissman

Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems of L. E. Sissman

1977

Robert Lowell ♦

1979

1976

Elizabeth Bishop

1975

John Ashbery

The Triumph of Achilles

Day by Day ♦

Geography III Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror +,xo

Want

Year

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National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry ♦

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37

Awards and Notable Lists

Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award

§§

2009

Michael Dahlie

A Gentleman’s Guide to Graceful Living

2008

Joshua Ferris

End

2007

Ben Fountain

Brief Encounters with Che Guevara @

2006

Yiyun Li

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

2005

Chris Abani •

Graceland

2004

Jennifer Haigh

Mrs. Kimble

2003

Gabriel Brownstein

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W

2002

Justin Cronin

Mary and O’Neil

2001

Akhil Sharma

An Obedient Father

2000

Jhumpa Lahiri

Interpreter of Maladies

1999

Rosina Lippi

Homestead

1998

Charlotte Bacon

A Private State

1997

Ha Jin

Ocean of Words

1996

Chang-rae Lee

Native Speaker

1995

Susan Power

The Grass Dancer

2011 2010

Then We Came to the xx,@,x

♣

@

**

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Title

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Mary Hemingway founded the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award in 1976 to honor the memory of her husband, Ernest Hemingway, and to recognize distinguished first books of fiction. A panel of three renowned fiction writers selects the winner, which can be either a novel or book of short stories. The award is a cash prize of $8,000 and is announced in March. The award website is http://www.pen-ne.org/hemingway.html.

Year

Author

Title

1994

Dagoberto Gilb

The Magic of Blood

1993

Edward P. Jones •

Lost in the City

1992

Louis Begley

Wartime Lies

1991

Bernard Cooper

Maps to Anywhere

1990

Mark Richard

The Ice at the Bottom of the World

1989

Jane Hamilton

The Book of Ruth

1988

Lawrence Thornton

Imagining Argentina

1987

Mary Ward Brown

Tongues of Flame

1986

Alan V. Hewar

Lady’s Time

1985

Josephine Humphreys

Dreams of Sleep

1984

Joan Chase

During the Reign of the Queen of Persia o

1983

Bobbie Ann Mason

Shiloh and Other Stories

1982

Marilynne Robinson

Housekeeping

1981

Joan Silber

Household Words

1980

Alan Saperstein

Mom Kills Kids and Self

1979

Reuben Bercovitch

Hasen

1978

Darcy O’Brien

A Way of Life

1977

Renata Adler

Speedboat

1976

Loyd Little

Parthian Shot

Want

§§

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39

Awards and Notable Lists

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

§

2011 2010 2009

Joseph O’Neill

Netherland

2008

Kate Christensen

The Great Man

2007

Philip Roth

x

Everyman

^

2006

E. L. Doctorow

2005

Ha Jin

¶

The March

††

War Trash !

The Early Stories

2004

John Updike

2003

Sabina Murray

The Caprices

2002

Ann Patchett

Bel Canto

2001

Philip Roth ^

The Human Stain

2000

Ha Jin

Waiting

1999

Michael Cunningham

The Hours

1998

Rafi Zabor

The Bear Comes Home

1997

Gina Berriault

Women in Their Beds

1996

Richard Ford /

Independence Day **

1995

David Guterson

1994

Philip Roth ^

•,xx

‡ **

††

Snow Falling on Cedars @,|||,♣

Operation Shylock: Confession

A

Want

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The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is a national prize, given annually in February, which honors the best published works of fiction by American citizens. Three judges are chosen by the directors of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. The judges select one winner and four finalists from more than 300 works submitted. All five are honored at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington. The winner receives a $15,000 cash award. Details can be found at http://www.penfaulkner.org.

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Title

1993

E. Annie Proulx

Postcards

1992

Don DeLillo

Mao II

John Edgar Wideman 1991

Philadelphia Fire

• ¶

Billy Bathgate

††

1990

E. L. Doctorow

1989

James Salter

Dusk

1988

T. C. Boyle

World’s End

1987

Richard Wiley

Soldiers in Hiding

1986

Peter Taylor

The Old Forest

1985

Tobias Wolff

The Barracks Thief

John Edgar Wideman 1984

•

Sent for You Yesterday

1983

Toby Olson

Seaview

1982

David Bradley

The Chaneysville Incident

1981

Walter Abish

How German Is It

Want

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Year

§

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41

Awards and Notable Lists

Governor General’s Literary Awards

@@

2008

Nino Ricci

The Origin of Species

2007

Michael Ondaatje

Divisadero

2006

Peter Behrens

The Law of Dreams

2005

David Gilmour

A Perfect Night to Go to China

2004

Miriam Toews

A Complicated Kindness xxx

2003

Douglas Glover ф

Elle

2002

Gloria Sawai

A Song for Nettie Johnson

2001

Richard B. Wright

Clara Callan

«,≡,xxx

2000

Michael Ondaatje

Anil’s Ghost

«,oo

1999

Matt Cohen

Elizabeth and After

1998

Diane Schoemperlen ф

Forms of Devotion

2011 2010 2009

Want

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The Governor General’s Literary Awards are presented by the Governor General of Canada each November to recognize works of distinction in a number of academic and artistic fields. The Literary Awards, created in 1937 and awarded in both French and English, have become Canada’s pre-eminent literary prize. Administered by the Canada Council for the Arts since 1957, the awards comprise seven categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, children’s literature (one each for text and illustration), and translation. BMO Financial Group has been a major sponsor since 1988. In 2007, the cash prize increased to $25,000 (Canadian). Each winner also receives an artisan-bound copy of his or her winning book and the book’s publisher is awarded $3,000 to support promotion. No award was given in 1965. A detailed description of all the Governor General’s Awards, including process, criteria, and winners can be found at http:// www.canadacouncil.ca/prizes/ggla.

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Year

Author

Title

1997

Jane Urquhart ф

The Underpainter

1996

Guy Vanderhaeghe ф

The Englishman’s Boy

1995

Greg Hollingshead

The Roaring Girl

1994

Rudy Wiebe

A Discovery of Strangers The Stone Diaries

ф

**,††

1993

Carol Shields

1992

Michael Ondaatje

The English Patient

1991

Rohinton Mistry ф

Such a Long Journey

1990

Nino Ricci

Lives of the Saints

1989

Paul Quarrington

Whale Music

≡,‡‡ ~

David Adams Richards 1988

ф

1987

M. T. Kelly

1986

Alice Munro

Nights Below Station Street A Dream Like Mine

1985

Margaret Atwood

1984

Josef Škvorecký

1983

Leon Rooke

1982

The Progress of Love

¦,•,ф

The Handmaid’s Tale

!,¶

/

The Engineer of Human Souls Shakespeare’s Dog

Guy Vanderhaeghe •

ф

Man Descending Home Truths

1981

Mavis Gallant

1980

George Bowering

Burning Water

1979

Jack Hodgins

The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne

1978

Alice Munro ¦,•,ф

Who Do You Think You Are?

1977

Timothy Findley

The Wars

1976

Marian Engel

Bear

1975

Brian Moore

The Great Victorian Collection ↑

1974

Margaret Laurence

The Diviners

Want

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@@

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1973

Rudy Wiebe

The Temptations of Big Bear

1972

Robertson Davies

The Manticore

1971

Mordecai Richler

St. Urbain’s Horseman

1970

Dave Godfrey

The New Ancestors

1969

Robert Kroetsch

The Studhorse Man

1968

Alice Munro ¦,•,ф

Dance of the Happy Shades

1966

Margaret Laurence

A Jest of God

1964

Douglas LePan

The Deserter

1963

Hugh Garner

Hugh Garner’s Best Stories

1962

Kildare Dobbs

Running to Paradise

1961

Malcolm Lowry

Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place

1960

Brian Moore

The Luck of Ginger Coffey

1959

Hugh MacLennan

The Watch That Ends the Night

1958

Colin McDougall

Execution

1957

Gabrielle Roy

Street of Riches

1956

Adele Wiseman

The Sacrifice

1955

Lionel Shapiro

The Sixth of June

1954

Igor Gouzenko

The Fall of a Titan

1953

David Walker

Digby

1952

David Walker

The Pillar

1951

Morley Callaghan

The Loved and the Lost

1950

Germaine Guèvremont

The Outlander

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Title

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Year

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43

Awards and Notable Lists

Year

Author

Title

1949

Philip Child

Mr. Ames Against Time

1948

Hugh MacLennan

The Precipice

1947

Gabrielle Roy

The Tin Flute

1946

Winifred Bambrick

Continental Revue

1945

Hugh MacLennan

Two Solitudes

1944

Gwethalyn Graham

Earth and High Heaven

1943

Thomas H. Raddall

The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek

1942

G. Herbert Sallans

Little Man

1941

Alan Sullivan

Three Came to Ville Marie

1940

Ringuet

Thirty Acres

1939

Franklin D. McDowell

The Champlain Road

1938

Gwethalyn Graham

Swiss Sonata

1937

Laura G. Salverson

The Dark Weaver

1936

Bertram Brooker

Think of the Earth

Own

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45

Awards and Notable Lists

Scotiabank Giller Prize

«

2010 2009 2008

Linden MacIntyre ф

The Bishop’s Man Late Nights on Air

xxx

2007

Elizabeth Hay

2006

Vincent Lam

Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures

2005

David Bergen

The Time in Between

2004

Alice Munro ¦,•,ф

Runaway

2003

M.G. Vassanji

The In-Between World of Vikram Lall

2002

Austin Clarke

The Polished Hoe

2001

Richard B. Wright

Clara Callan

David Adams Richards

Mercy Among the Children xxx

≡,~

@@,≡,xxx

2000

ф

2000

Michael Ondaatje

Anil’s Ghost

1999

Bonnie Burnard ф

A Good House

1998

Alice Munro ¦,•,ф

The Love of a Good Woman ††,≡,xxx

1997

Mordecai Richler

Barney’s Version

@@,oo

x

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Title

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Year

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Toronto businessman Jack Rabinovitch established the Giller Prize in 1994 to honor his late wife, Doris Giller, a respected literary journalist. In 2005, Scotiabank joined as a cosponsor, doubling the available cash award. The Scotiabank Giller Prize celebrates “the best in Canadian fiction” each year and works to improve marketing so that winning books are “brought to the attention of all Canadians.” Currently a $50,000 (Canadian) purse is awarded each November to the author of the best novel or short story collection published in English and $5,000 to each of four finalists. History and details of the award are posted online at http://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca.

Year

Author

Title

1996

Margaret Atwood !,¶

Alias Grace

1995

Rohinton Mistry ф

A Fine Balance

1994

M.G. Vassanji

The Book of Secrets

Trillium Book Award

Want

«

To Read

Scotiabank Giller Prize

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46

xx ~,/

≡

2010 2009 2008

The Withdrawal Method

Pasha Malla ф

Helpless

2007

Barbara Gowdy

2006

Mark Frutkin

Fabrizio’s Return

2005

Camilla Gibb

Sweetness in the Belly

2004

Wayson Choy

All That Matters

Want

Title

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Author

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Year

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In 1987, the government of Ontario established the Trillium Book Award to “recognize excellence, support marketing, and foster increased public awareness of the quality and diversity of Ontario writers and writing.” In 1994, writers and publishers working in the French language became eligible for a separate award, the Prix Trillium. Each winning author receives $20,000 (Canadian). Their publishers obtain $2,500 to market and promote the winning titles. The purse is the same as that for the English poetry prize. The Trillium Award is open to books in any genre: fiction, nonfiction, drama, children’s books, and poetry. Canadian citizens and immigrants who have lived in Ontario for at least three out of the past five years may receive an award. A jury of writers and literary figures reads all submissions and distributes the prizes each June. Read more at http://www.omdc.on.ca/ site11.aspx.

Title

2003

Thomas King

The Truth About Stories

2002

Austin Clarke

The Polished Hoe

2002

Nino Ricci

Testament

2001

Richard B. Wright

Clara Callan

2000

Don Coles

Kurgan •

«,~

@@,«,xxx

No Great Mischief

♪,xxx

1999

Alistair MacLeod

1998

André Alexis

Childhood

1998

Alice Munro ¦,•,ф

The Love of a Good Woman ††,«,xxx

1997

Dionne Brand

Land to Light On •

Fugitive Pieces

1996

Anne Michaels

1995

Wayson Choy

The Jade Peony

1995

Margaret Atwood !,¶

Morning in the Burned House

1994

Donald Haram Akenson

Conor: A Biography of Conor Cruise O’Brien

1993

Jane Urquhart ф

Away

1993

Margaret Atwood !,¶

The Robber Bride

1992

Michael Ondaatje

The English Patient

1991

Margaret Atwood !,¶

Wilderness Tips

¦,•,ф

•

@@,‡‡

Friend of My Youth

1990

Alice Munro

1989

Modris Eksteins

Rites of Spring

1988

Timothy Findley

Stones

1987

Michael Ondaatje

In the Skin of a Lion

Want

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Year

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47

Awards and Notable Lists

48

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Man Booker Prize for Fiction

‡‡

Man Book Award Winners (2002 2011) 2011 2010 2009

Hilary Mantel

Wolf Hall

2008

Aravind Adiga

The White Tiger

2007

Anne Enright

The Gathering

2006

Kiran Desai

The Inheritance of Loss ††

2005

John Banville •

The Sea

2004

Alan Hollinghurst

The Line of Beauty

2003

DBC Pierre

Vernon God Little

2002

Yann Martel

Life of Pi

x

xx

Winners of the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969 2002) 2001

Peter Carey

True History of the Kelly Gang ~

2000

Margaret Atwood !,¶

The Blind Assassin

1999

J. M. Coetzee *

Disgrace

1998

Ian McEwan

Amsterdam

1997

Arundhati Roy

The God of Small Things

1996

Graham Swift

Last Orders

1995

Pat Barker

The Ghost Road

~

↑

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Title

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Year

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The Man Booker Prize for fiction is awarded annually in October for the best original full-length novel written in English by a citizen of the British Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland. The Booker Prize was established in 1968 and until 2001 was known as such. Since 2002, the award has been called the Man Booker Prize in honor of its current benefactor, Man Group, PLC. A committee of judges drawn from among England’s finest critics, writers, and academics chooses the winners. The prize is currently worth £50,000—sometimes split between two recipients. Read more at http://www.themanbookerprize.com.

Title

1994

James Kelman

How Late It Was

1993

Roddy Doyle

Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha

1992

Michael Ondaatje

The English Patient @@,≡

1992

Barry Unsworth

Sacred Hunger

1991

Ben Okri

The Famished Road

1990

A. S. Byatt

Possession

1989

Kazuo Ishiguro

The Remains of the Day

1988

Peter Carey

Oscar and Lucinda

1987

Penelope Lively

Moon Tiger

1986

Kingsley Amis

The Old Devils

1985

Keri Hulme

The Bone People

1984

Anita Brookner

%

Hotel du Lac Life & Times of Michael K

*

1983

J. M. Coetzee

1982

Thomas Keneally !

Schindler’s List

1981

Salman Rushdie

Midnight’s Children

1980

William Golding *

Rites of Passage

1979

Penelope Fitzgerald

Offshore

1978

Iris Murdoch

The Sea, the Sea

1977

Paul Scott

Staying On

1976

David Storey

Saville

1975

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Heat and Dust

1974

Stanley Middleton

Holiday

1974

Nadine Gordimer

*

1973

J. G. Farrell

/ ↑

The Conservationist The Siege of Krishnapur

•

G.

↑

1972

John Berger

1971

V. S. Naipaul *

In a Free State

1970

Bernice Rubens

The Elected Member

1969

P. H. Newby

Something to Answer For

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Year

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50

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Man Booker Prize for Fiction Shortlists (1990–2009) 

A. S. Byatt

The Children’s Book *

Summertime

2009

J. M. Coetzee

2009

Adam Foulds

The Quickening Maze

2009

Simon Mawer

The Glass Room

2009

Sarah Waters

The Little Stranger

2008

Steve Toltz

A Fraction of the Whole

2008

Philip Hensher

2008

Linda Grant

The Clothes on Their Backs

2008

Amitav Ghosh

Sea of Poppies

2008

Sebastian Barry

The Secret Scripture

2007

Nicola Barker

Darkmans

2007

Indra Sinha

Animal’s People

2007

Ian McEwan

On Chesil Beach

2007

Lloyd Jones

Mister Pip

2007

Mohsin Hamid

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

2007

Anne Enright

The Gathering

2006

Kate Grenville

The Secret River

2006

M. J. Hyland

Carry Me Down

2006

Sarah Waters

The Night Watch

2006

Edward St. Aubyn

Mother’s Milk

2006

Hisham Matar

In the Country of Men

2005

Kazuo Ishiguro

Never Let Me Go

The Northern Clemency xx,x

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xx,x

Want

2009

Title

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Year

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Each receives $2,500 and a leather-bound copy of his or her book.

Title

2005

Zadie Smith

On Beauty

2005

Sebastian Barry

A Long Long Way

2005

Julian Barnes

Arthur & George

2005

Ali Smith

The Accidental

2004

Achmat Dangor

Bitter Fruit

2004

Sarah Hall

The Electric Michelangelo

2004

David Mitchell

Cloud Atlas

x

2004

Colm Tóibín

The Master

♪,/

2004

Gerard Woodward

I’ll Go to Bed at Noon

2003

Monica Ali

Brick Lane

2003

Clare Morrall

Astonishing Splashes of Colour

2003

Zoë Heller

Notes on a Scandal

2003

Damon Galgut

•,xx,x

x

¶,x

xx,@

The Good Doctor !,¶

Oryx and Crake

2003

Margaret Atwood

2002

Tim Winton

Dirt Music

2002

Sarah Waters

Fingersmith

2002

William Trevor

The Story of Lucy Gault

2002

Carol Shields ф

Unless

2002

Rohinton Mistry ф

Family Matters

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Works Shortlisted for the Booker Prize (1990 2001) 2001

Ian McEwan

Atonement

2001

Andrew Miller

Oxygen

2001

David Mitchell

Number9dream

2001

Rachel Seiffert

The Dark Room

2001

Ali Smith

Hotel World

2000

Brian O’Doherty

The Deposition of Father McGreevy

††,/

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Year

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Awards and Notable Lists

Year

Author

Title

2000

Trezza Azzopardi

The Hiding Place

2000

Kazuo Ishiguro

When We Were Orphans

2000

Matthew Kneale

English Passengers

2000

Michael Collins

The Keepers of Truth

¶

The Map of Love

•

1999

Ahdaf Soueif

1999

Andrew O’Hagan

Our Fathers

1999

Michael Frayn

Headlong

1999

Anita Desai

Fasting, Feasting

1999

Colm Tóibín

The Blackwater Lightship

1998

Beryl Bainbridge

Master Georgie

1998

Julian Barnes

England, England

1998

Martin Booth

The Industry of Souls

1998

Patrick McCabe

Breakfast on Pluto

1998

Magnus Mills

The Restraint of Beasts

1997

Mick Jackson

The Underground Man

1997

Jim Crace

Quarantine

1997

Madeleine St. John

The Essence of the Thing

1997

Tim Parks

Europa

1997

Bernard MacLaverty

Grace Notes

1996

Seamus Deane

Reading in the Dark ф

↑

¶

A Fine Balance

«,~,/

1996

Rohinton Mistry

1996

Beryl Bainbridge

Every Man for Himself

1996

Margaret Atwood !,¶

Alias Grace

1996

Shena Mackay

The Orchard on Fire

1995

Tim Winton

The Riders

1995

Justin Cartwright

In Every Face I Meet

1995

Salman Rushdie

The Moor’s Last Sigh

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1995

Barry Unsworth

Morality Play

1994

Alan Hollinghurst

The Folding Star

1994

Romesh Gunesekera

Reef

1994

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Paradise

1994

Jill Paton Walsh

Knowledge of Angels

1994

George Mackay Brown Beside the Ocean of Time

1993

Tibor Fischer

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Crossing the River

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1993

David Malouf •

Remembering Babylon

1993

Michael Ignatieff

Scar Tissue

1992

Ian McEwan

Black Dogs

1992

Michèle Roberts

Daughters of the House

1992

Patrick McCabe

The Butcher Boy

1992

Christopher Hope

Serenity House

1991

William Trevor

Reading Turgenev (from Two Lives)

1991

Rohinton Mistry ф

Such a Long Journey

1991

Roddy Doyle

The Van

1991

Martin Amis

Time’s Arrow

1991

Timothy Mo

The Redundancy of Courage

1990

Mordecai Richler

Solomon Gursky Was Here ~

1990

Brian Moore

Lies of Silence

1993

Carol Shields

1993

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1990

John McGahern

1990

Penelope Fitzgerald

The Gate of Angels

1990

Beryl Bainbridge

An Awfully Big Adventure

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53

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Costa Book of the Year Award

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2008

Sebastian Barry

The Secret Scripture

2007

A. L. Kennedy •

Day

2006

William Boyd

Restless

2005

Ali Smith

The Accidental

2004

Andrea Levy

Small Island

2003

Mark Haddon

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NightTime xx

2002

Michael Frayn

Spies

2001

Patrick Neate

Twelve Bar Blues

2000

Matthew Kneale

English Passengers

1999

Rose Tremain

Music & Silence

1998

Justin Cartwright

Leading the Cheers

1997

Jim Crace

Quarantine

1996

Beryl Bainbridge

Every Man for Himself

1995

Salman Rushdie

The Moor’s Last Sigh

1994

William Trevor

Felicia’s Journey

2010 2009 ↑

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In 1971, Whitbread, PLC, created the Whitbread Awards to honor the most enjoyable books from resident authors in England or Ireland. In 2006 Costa Coffee, a Whitbread subsidiary, assumed ownership of the awards. Costa Awards are granted in six categories; first novel, novel, biography, poetry, children’s literature, and Book of the Year. Since the Book of the Year award began in 1985, it has gone seven times to a novel and three times to a first novel. The prize for Book of the Year is £30,000. The winners are announced each January. See http://www.costabookawards.com for more information.

1993

Joan Brady

Theory of War

1992

Alasdair Gray

Poor Things

1991

Jane Gardam

The Queen of the Tambourine

1990

Nicholas Mosley

Hopeful Monsters

1989

Lindsay Clarke

The Chymical Wedding

1988

Salman Rushdie

The Satanic Verses

1987

Ian McEwan

The Child in Time

1986

Kazuo Ishiguro

An Artist of the Floating World

1985

Peter Ackroyd

Hawksmoor

1984

Christopher Hope

Kruger’s Alp

1983

William Trevor

Fools of Fortune

1982

John Wain

Young Shoulders

1981

Maurice Leitch

Silver’s City

1980

David Lodge

How Far Can You Go?

1979

Jennifer Johnston

The Old Jest

1978

Paul Theroux

Picture Palace

1977

Beryl Bainbridge

Injury Time

1976

William Trevor

The Children of Dynmouth

1975

William McIlvanney

Docherty

1974

Iris Murdoch

The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

1973

Shiva Naipaul

The Chip-Chip Gatherers

1972

Susan Hill

The Bird of Night

1971

Gerda Charles

The Destiny Waltz

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Orange Prize for Fiction

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Marilynne Robinson

Home

2008

Rose Tremain

The Road Home

2007

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Half of a Yellow Sun

2006

Zadie Smith

On Beauty

2005

Lionel Shriver

We Need to Talk About Kevin

2004

Andrea Levy

Small Island

2003

Valerie Martin

Property

2002

Ann Patchett

Bel Canto

2001

Kate Grenville

The Idea of Perfection

2000

Linda Grant

When I Lived in Modern Times

1999

Suzanne Berne

A Crime in the Neighbourhood

1998

Carol Shields ф

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1997

Anne Michaels

1996

Helen Dunmore

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The Orange Prize for Fiction (previously the Orange Broadband Prize) is given annually in June to a woman from any nationality who publishes, in England, a book originally written in English. Books of short stories and novellas are not eligible. The prize for the award is £30,000 and a bronze figurine called the Bessie. Not only is the Orange Prize given to female authors, it is adjudicated exclusively by female authors. See http://www. orangeprize.co.uk/home for more information.

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James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction

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2008

Sebastian Barry

The Secret Scripture

2007

Rosalind Belben

Our Horses in Egypt

2006

Cormac McCarthy

The Road

2005

Ian McEwan

Saturday

2004

David Peace

GB84

2003

Andrew O’Hagan

Personality

2002

Jonathan Franzen

The Corrections

2001

Sid Smith

Something Like a House

2000

Zadie Smith

White Teeth

1999

Timothy Mo

Renegade, or Halo2

1998

Beryl Bainbridge

Master Georgie

1997

Andrew Miller

Ingenious Pain

1996

Alice Thompson

Justine

1996

Graham Swift

Last Orders

1995

Christopher Priest

The Prestige

1994

Alan Hollinghurst

The Folding Star

2010 2009

1993

Caryl Phillips

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The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes, awarded in biography and fiction, are the oldest literary awards in the United Kingdom. The two prizes, for fiction and nonfiction, each now worth £10,000, have been awarded annually since 1919. They are given out at the prestigious Edinburgh Book Festival in August. Eligible works of fiction and biographies must be written in English, and first published or copublished in the United Kingdom. The author can be any nationality. The winners in fiction are listed here. For more information go to http://www.englit.ed.ac.uk/jtbinf.htm.

Year

Author

Title

1992

Rose Tremain

Sacred Country

1991

Iain Sinclair

Downriver

1990

William Boyd

Brazzaville Beach

1989

James Kelman

A Disaffection

1988

Piers Paul

A Season in the West

1987

George Mackay Brown The Golden Bird

1986

Jenny Joseph

Persephone

1985

Robert Edric

Winter Garden

1984

Angela Carter

Nights at the Circus

1984

J. G. Ballard

Empire of the Sun

1983

Jonathan Keates

Allegro Postillions

1982

Bruce Chatwin

On the Black Hill

1981

Salman Rushdie

Midnight’s Children

1981

Paul Theroux

The Mosquito Coast

1980

J. M. Coetzee *

Waiting for the Barbarians

1979

William Golding *

Darkness Visible

1978

Maurice Gee

Plumb

1977

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John Le Carré •

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1976

John Banville

1975

Brian Moore

The Great Victorian Collection @@

1974

Lawrence Durrell

Monsieur, or the Prince of Darkness

1973

Iris Murdoch

The Black Prince

1972

John Berger •

G.

1971

Nadine Gordimer *

A Guest of Honour

1970

Lily Powell

The Bird of Paradise

1969

Elizabeth Bowen

Eva Trout

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1968

Maggie Ross

The Gasteropod

1967

Margaret Drabble

Jerusalem the Golden

1965

Muriel Spark

The Mandelbaum Gate

1964

Frank Tuohy

The Ice Saints

1963

Gerda Charles

A Slanting Light

1962

Ronald Hardy

Act of Destruction

1961

Jennifer Dawson

The Ha-Ha

1960

Rex Warner

Imperial Caesar

1959

Morris West

The Devil’s Advocate

1958

Angus Wilson

The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot

1957

Anthony Powell

At Lady Molly’s

1956

Rose Macaulay

The Towers of Trebizond

1955

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Mother and Son

1954

C. P. Snow

The New Men and the Masters

1953

Margaret Kennedy

Troy Chimneys

1952

Evelyn Waugh

Men at Arms

1951

Chapman Mortimer

Father Goose

1950

Robert Henriques

Through the Valley

1949

Emma Smith

The Far Cry

1948

Graham Greene

The Heart of the Matter

1947

L. P. Hartley

Eustace and Hilda

1946

Oliver Onions

Poor Man’s Tapestry

1945

L. A. G. Strong

Travellers

1944

Forrest Reid

Young Tom

1943

Mary Lavin

Tales from Bective Bridge

1942

Arthur Waley

Translation of Monkey by Wu Cheng’en

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Author

Title

1941

Joyce Cary

A House of Children

1940

Charles Morgan

The Voyage

1939

Aldous Huxley

After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

1938

C. S. Forester

A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours

1937

Neil M. Gunn

Highland River

1936

Winifred Holtby

South Riding

1935

L. H. Myers

The Root and the Flower

1934

Robert Graves

I, Claudius and Claudius the God

1933

A. G. Macdonell

England, Their England

1932

Helen de Guerry Simpson

Boomerang

1931

Kate O’Brien

Without My Cloak

1930

E. H. Young

Miss Mole

1929

J. B. Priestley

The Good Companions

1928

Siegfried Sassoon

Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man

1927

Francis Brett

Portrait of Clare

1926

Radclyffe Hall

Adam’s Breed

1925

Liam O’Flaherty

The Informer

1924

E. M. Forster

A Passage to India

1923

Arnold Bennett

Riceyman Steps

1922

David Garnett

Lady into Fox

1921

Walter de la Mare

Memoirs of a Midget

1920

D. H. Lawrence

The Lost Girl

1919

Hugh Walpole

The Secret City

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Caine Prize for African Writing

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2009

E. C. Osondu

Waiting

2008

Henrietta Rose-Innes

Poison

2007

Monica Arac de Nyeko

Jambula Tree

2006

Mary Watson

Jungfrau

2005

S. A. Afolabi

Monday Morning

2004

Brian Chikwava

Seventh Street Alchemy

2003

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Weight of Whispers

2002

Binyavanga Wainaina

Discovering Home

2001

Helon Habila

Love Poems

2000

Leila Aboulela

The Museum

2011 2010

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Named in memory of the late Sir Michael Caine, former chairman of the Booker Prize management committee, the Caine Prize for African Writing is awarded to a short story by an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or elsewhere. The four African winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature—Wole Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer, Naguib Mahfouz, and John Coetzee—have all been patrons of the Caine Prize. The winners are announced each July. Please refer to the website (http://www.caineprize. com) for further details and criteria for entry. Stories from the short list in each of the prize years have been published in anthologies available from Global Book Marketing in London or online at www.africabookcentre.com.

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Miles Franklin Literary Award

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2009

Tim Winton

Breath

2008

Steven Carroll

The Time We Have Taken

2007

Alexis Wright

Carpentaria

2006

Roger McDonald

The Ballad of Desmond Kale

2005

Andrew McGahan

The White Earth

2004

Shirley Hazzard

The Great Fire

2003

Alex Miller

Journey to the Stone Country

2002

Tim Winton

Dirt Music

2001

Frank Moorhouse

Dark Palace

2000

Kim Scott

Benang

2000

Thea Astley

Drylands

1999

Murray Bail

Eucalyptus

1998

Peter Carey

Jack Maggs

1997

David Foster

The Glade within the Grove

1996

Christopher Koch

Highways to a War

2011 2010

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The Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia’s first and most prestigious book prize, was established with a bequest from the author Miles Franklin (My Brilliant Career, 1901) and is given annually in June for a novel “of the highest literary merit” that “presents Australian life in any of its phases.” First presented in 1957 to Patrick White for his novel Voss, the award is currently worth 42,000 Australian dollars. No award was given in 1988. Consult the award website for more information: http://www.trust.com.au/awards/ miles_franklin.

Title

1995

Helen Demidenko

The Hand That Signed the Paper

1994

Rodney Hall

The Grisly Wife

1993

Alex Miller

The Ancestor Game

1992

Tim Winton

Cloudstreet

1991

David Malouf •

The Great World

1990

Tom Flood

Oceana Fine

1989

Peter Carey

Oscar and Lucinda

1987

Glenda Adams

Dancing on Coral

1986

Elizabeth Jolley

The Well

1985

Christopher Koch

The Doubleman

1984

Tim Winton

Shallows

1982

Rodney Hall

Just Relations

1981

Peter Carey

Bliss

1980

Jessica Anderson

The Impersonators

1979

David Ireland

A Woman of the Future

1978

Jessica Anderson

Tirra Lirra by the River

1977

Ruth Park

Swords and Crowns and Rings

1976

David Ireland

The Glass Canoe

1975

Xavier Herbert

Poor Fellow My Country

1974

Ronald McKie

The Mango Tree

1972

Thea Astley

The Acolyte

1971

David Ireland

The Unknown Industrial Prisoner

1970

Dal Stivens

Horse of Air

1969

George Johnston

Clean Straw for Nothing

1968

Thomas Keneally !

Three Cheers for the Paraclete

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Year

Author

Title

1967

Thomas Keneally !

Bring Larks and Heroes

1966

Peter Mathers

Trap

1965

Thea Astley

The Slow Natives

1964

George Johnston

My Brother Jack

1963

Sumner Locke Elliott

Careful, He Might Hear You

1962

George Turner

The Cupboard Under the Stairs

1962

Thea Astley

The Well Dressed Explorer

1961

Patrick White *

Riders in the Chariot

1960

Elizabeth O’Conner

The Irishman

1959

Vance Palmer

The Big Fellow

1958

Randolph Stow

To the Islands

1957

Patrick White *

Voss

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65

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Kiriyama Prize

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2008

Lloyd Jones

Mister Pip ~

2007

Haruki Murakami ^

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

2006

Luis Alberto Urrea

The Hummingbird’s Daughter

2005

Nadeem Aslam •

Maps for Lost Lovers

2004

Shan Sa

2010 2009

The Girl Who Played Go ф

Family Matters

2002

Rohinton Mistry

2001

Patricia Grace

Dogside Story

2000

Michael Ondaatje

Anil’s Ghost

1999

Cheng Ching-wen

Three-Legged Horse

1998

Ruth L. Ozeki

My Year of Meats

1996

Alan Brown

Audrey Hepburn’s Neck

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Originally called the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, this cash award of $30,000 is split between the author of a winning fiction title and the author of a winning nonfiction title. The prize was established in 1996 to recognize outstanding books about the Pacific Rim and South Asia that “encourage greater mutual understanding of and among the peoples and nations of this vast and culturally diverse region.” There was no fiction prize in 1997. The Pacific Rim includes countries that border the Pacific Ocean: Asia and the Indian subcontinent, Australia and Oceania, and the western Americas. Publishers submit eligible books, which must be in English and concerned with the Pacific Rim in a significant way. Authors may live in any country. The prize is awarded in March. See http://www.kiriyamaprize.org for additional details. The San Franciscobased nonprofit, Pacific Rim Voices, sponsors the Kiriyama Prize, named for Reverend Seiyu Kiriyama, president and founder of Agon Shu, a Buddhist Association headquartered in Tokyo, who provided the organization’s first grants. More information can be found at www.pacificrimvoices.org.

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International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award ♪

2009

Michael Thomas

Man Gone Down

2008

Rawi Hage

DeNiro’s Game

2007

Per Petterson

Out Stealing Horses

2006

Colm Tóibín

The Master

2005

Edward P. Jones •

The Known World

2004

Tahar Ben Jelloun

This Blinding Absence of Light

2003

Orhan Pamuk *

My Name is Red

2002

Michel Houellebecq

2011 2010

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2001

Alistair MacLeod

2000

Nicola Barker

Wide Open

1999

Andrew Miller

Ingenious Pain

1998

Herta Müller

The Land of Green Plums

1997

Javier Marias

A Heart So White

1996

David Malouf •

Remembering Babylon

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The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is an annual international prize, open to books written in any language and published in English. The award is administered and managed by Dublin City Public Libraries in partnership with the Dublin City Council, the Municipal Government of Dublin City, and the international firm Improved Management Productivity and Control (IMPAC). Libraries in capital and major cities around the world may nominate up to three titles on the basis of “high literary merit.” Winners are announced in June and receive a trophy from Waterford Crystal and a cash prize, €100,000, which is awarded to the author if the book was written in English and divided 75/25 between author and translator if the winning book was written in another language. Details may be obtained at http://www. impacdublinaward.ie/index.htm.

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Commonwealth Writers’ Prize

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2009

Christos Tsiolkas

The Slap

2008

Lawrence Hill

The Book of Negroes

2007

Lloyd Jones

Mister Pip

2006

Kate Grenville

The Secret River

2005

Andrea Levy

Small Island

2004

Caryl Phillips •

A Distant Shore

2003

Austin Clarke

The Polished Hoe

2002

Richard Flanagan

Gould’s Book of Fish

2001

Peter Carey

True History of the Kelly Gang ‡‡

2000

J. M. Coetzee *

Disgrace

1999

Murray Bail

Eucalyptus

2011 2010

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The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize is presented annually in May by the Commonwealth Foundation, with support from Australia’s Macquarie Group Foundation, to “promote new voices, reward achievement, encourage wider readership and greater literacy, thereby increasing appreciation of different cultures and building understanding between cultures.” The prize aims to reward “cutting-edge fiction” written in English, by both established and new writers, across four regions of the Commonwealth of Nations: Africa; Canada and the Caribbean; Europe; and South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. The prize is global in character, administration, and judging. Two £1,000 prizes, for Best Book and Best First Book, are awarded in each of the four regions. These eight winners compete for the overall categorical titles, which carry prizes of £10,000 and £5,000 respectively. In addition, the overall winner of the Best Book Prize is usually invited to London for an audience with the Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, head of the Commonwealth. For more information, see http://www .commonwealthfoundation.com/culturediversity/writersprize.

Year

Author

Title

1998

Peter Carey

Jack Maggs

1997

Earl Lovelace

Salt

1996

Rohinton Mistry ф

A Fine Balance «,/

1995

Louis De Bernières •

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

1994

Vikram Seth

A Suitable Boy

1993

Alex Miller

The Ancestor Game

1992

Rohinton Mistry ф

Such a Long Journey

1991

David Malouf •

The Great World

1990

Mordecai Richler

Solomon Gursky Was Here

1989

Janet Frame

The Carpathians

1988

Festus Iyayi

Heroes

1987

Olive Senior

Summer Lightning

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Bellwether Prize for Fiction

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2008

Heidi Durrow

The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

2006

Hillary Jordan

Mudbound

2004

Marjorie Kowalski Cole Correcting the Landscape

2002

Gayle Brandeis

The Book of Dead Birds

2000

Donna M. Gershten

Kissing the Virgin’s Mouth

2012 2010

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The Bellwether Prize for Fiction was founded and funded by author Barbara Kingsolver to support “literature of social change.” The $25,000 cash prize, awarded in even-numbered years to a previously unpublished novel, comes with a major publisher’s contract, including standard royalties. The Bellwether is unlike any other prize: it seeks to “advocate serious literary fiction that addresses issues of social justice and the impact of culture and politics on human relationships.” Qualifying manuscripts must show “outstanding literary merit” and “address contemporary or historical issues in a manner that advocates social responsibility” in the tradition of writers like Nadine Gordimer, Wole Soyinka, Toni Morrison, Harper Lee, and John Steinbeck. The prize board describes social responsibility as “a moral obligation of individuals to engage with their communities in ways that promote a more respectful coexistence.” To be eligible for the Bellwether, an author must be a U.S. citizen, with a publication record, whose book(s) have not previously sold more than 10,000 copies. Details may be obtained at http://www.bellwetherprize.org. Interested publishers may contact the Bellwether board through the NWUSO.

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Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards ¦

2008

Stephen L. Carter

New England White

2007

Marita Golden

After

2006

Martha Southgate

Third Girl From the Left

2005

Diane McKinneyWhetstone

Leaving Cecil Street

2004

Barbara ChaseRiboud

Hottentot Venus

2003

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Douglass Women

2002

Pearl Cleage

I Wish I Had a Red Dress

2001

Paule Marshall

The Fisher King

2000

Valerie Wilson Wesley

Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do

1999

Gayl Jones

The Healing

1998

Sandra JacksonOpoku

The River Where Blood Is Born

1997

Florence Ladd

Sarah’s Psalm

1996

Walter Mosley

RL’s Dream

2010 2009 x

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The Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) presents three $500 awards in adult fiction, nonfiction, and first novel. These awards honor outstanding achievement in presenting “cultural, historical and sociopolitical aspects of the Black Diaspora” and to “encourage the artistic expression of the African American experience.” Eligible books must (1) portray some aspect of the African American experience past, present, or future; (2) be written by an African American; (3) be published in the United States in the year preceding presentation of the award; and (4) be an original work. The awards are announced in June. Find out more at http://www.bcala.org/awards/literary.htm.

Title

1995

Maxine Clair

Rattlebone

1994

Ernest J. Gaines

A Lesson Before Dying

Hurston/Wright Legacy Award™

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2008

Junot Díaz

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao **,††,xx,x

2007

Edward P. Jones •

All Aunt Hagar’s Children

2006

Nancy Rawles

My Jim

2011 2010 2009

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The mission of the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation is to “discover, develop, and honor Black writers.” Underwritten in part by Borders Books & Music, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award™ is one of several presented by the foundation. An appointed panel of 12 distinguished publishing professionals, three for each category, reviews all submissions to select six nominees in each of four categories: fiction, debut fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Winners and finalists receive an Egyptian statue representing divine intellectual pursuits. The amount of accompanying cash prizes will vary depending on funds raised in a given year. Eligible works must be full-length books in any of the four categories, published in the United States during the calendar year for which the application is submitted. Eligible writers must be of Black African descent but may reside in any area of the diaspora. Winners are announced in November. Details may be found at http://www.hurstonwright.org/index.shtml.

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Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction by an American Woman o

2008

Saher Alam

The Groom to Have Been

2007

Miranda BeverlyWhittemore

Set Me Free

2006

Nell Freudenberger

The Dissident

2005

Jill Ciment

The Tattoo Artist

2004

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

Madeleine is Sleeping

2003

Kate Moses

Wintering

2002

Joyce Hackett

Disturbance of the Inner Ear

2001

Edie Meidav •

The Far Field

2000

Carrie Brown

The Hatbox Baby

1999

Susan Hubbard

Blue Money

1998

Nicole Mones

Lost in Translation

1997

Cristina Garcia

The Agüero Sisters

2010 2009

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Awarded annually since 1976, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction by an American Woman honors the memory of a young editor killed in an automobile accident just as the promise of her career was unfolding. Her family, friends, and professional associates created the prize’s endowment to perpetuate “the literary standards and personal ideals for which she stood.” The $5,000 prize, administered by the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies and the Department of English at the University of Rochester, is given to a female U.S. citizen “who has written the best book-length work of prose fiction, whether novel, short stories, or experimental writing.” Details are available at http://www.rochester.edu/ college/wst/SBAI/kafka.html.

Title

1996

Kathleen Cambor

The Book of Mercy

1995

Melissa Pritchard

The Instinct for Bliss

1994

Ann Patchett

Taft

1993

Sherri Szeman

The Kommandant’s Mistress

1990

Karen Tei Yamashita

Through the Arc of the Rain Forest

1990

Valerie Martin

Mary Reilly

1989

Marianne Wiggins

John Dollar Labrador

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1988

Kathryn Davis

1987

Gail Godwin

A Southern Family

1986

Hortense Calisher

The Bobby Soxer

1985

Ursula K. Le Guin

Always Coming Home

1984

Rosellen Brown

Civil Wars

1983

Joan Chase

During the Reign of the Queen of Persia §§

1982

Mary Lee Settle

The Killing Ground

1981

Mary Gordon

The Company of Women

1980

Anne Tyler

Morgan’s Passing

1979

Barbara ChaseRiboud

Sally Hemings

1978

Mary Gordon

Final Payments *,!

Song of Solomon

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1977

Toni Morrison

1976

Judith Guest

Ordinary People

1975

Jessamyn West

The Massacre at Fall Creek

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2009

Daniel Serrano

Gunmetal Black

2009

Paulo Coelho

Brida

2008

Raul Ramos y Sanchez

America Libre: A Novel of a National Nightmare

2007

Isabel Allende

Inés of My Soul

2006

Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Carry Me Like Water

2005

Michelle Herrera Mulligan

Noise of Infinite Longing

2004

Everardo Torrez

Narco

Edgardo Vega Yunque

No Matter How Much You Cook or Pay the Rent You Blew It Cauze Bill Bailey Ain’t Never Coming Home Again

2011 2010

2004

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The Latino Book & Family Festival began in Los Angeles, in 1997, and is currently hosted in several major U.S. Latino markets, with plans to expand. Sponsored by Latino Literacy Now, and coproduced by actor and activist Edward James Olmos, the festival and its associated multi-category book awards seek to “promote literacy, culture, and education and to provide people of all ages and backgrounds the opportunity to celebrate the diversity of the multicultural communities in the United States in a festival atmosphere.” For information on categories go to http://lbff.us/latinobook-awards.

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2008

Nilita Vachani

HomeSpun

2007

Amity Gaige

The Folded World

2006

Jana Oliver

Sojourn

2005

Fay Freimuth

A Multitude of Mercies

2004

Kate Niles

The Basket Maker

2003

Rigoberto González

Crossing Vines

2002

Luis Alberto Urrea

Six Kinds of Sky

2001

Leif Enger

Peace Like a River

2000

G.K. Wuori

An American Outrage: A Novel of Quillifarkeag, Maine

1999

Jonis Agee

Taking the Wall

1998

Jim Harrison

The Road Home

2010 2009

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ForeWord magazine calls itself “the only literary trade journal devoted exclusively to reviewing great titles from independent presses.” Its Book of the Year Awards program seeks to share these titles with booksellers, librarians, and readers. Winners, selected by a panel of librarians and booksellers, are named in a variety of categories. (220 Book of the Year Award winners were honored in 61 categories in 2008.) The award itself, which may be noted with a foil seal on the book’s cover, can provide authors and publishers a new reason to promote the title. Two Editor’s Choice Prize winners, who receive a $1,500 cash prize in addition to the promotional benefits, are named in fiction and nonfiction categories. Find more information at http://www.forewordmagazine.com/awards.

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Los Angeles Times Award for Fiction

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2008

Marilynne Robinson

Home

2007

Andrew O’Hagan

Be Near Me

2006

A. B. Yehoshua

A Woman in Jerusalem

2005

Gabriel García Márquez *

Memories of My Melancholy Whores

2004

Colm Tóibín

The Master

2003

Pete Dexter

Train

2002

Ian McEwan

Atonement

2001

Mary Robison

Why Did I Ever

2000

David Means

Assorted Fire Events: Stories

1999

Amit Chaudhuri

Freedom Song: Three Novels

1998

W. G. Sebald

The Rings of Saturn

1997

James Carlos Blake

2010 2009

1996

Rohinton Mistry

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Since 1980, the Los Angeles Times has awarded annual book prizes in nine single-title categories: biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction (the Art Seidenbaum Award added in 1991), history, mystery/thriller (category added in 2000), poetry, science and technology (category added in 1989), and young adult fiction (category added in 1998). The award for fiction may be given to an author of any nationality. The winning novelist receives $1,000. Both the nomination of the novels and the awarding of prizes are at the sole discretion of a panel of three judges. The awards are presented as part of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books each April. More information can be found at http://www.latimes.com/extras/bookprizes.

Title

1995

William Boyd

The Blue Afternoon

1994

David Malouf •

Remembering Babylon

1993

Barbara Kingsolver

Pigs in Heaven

1992

Art Spiegelman

Maus II

1991

Allan Gurganus

White People

1990

Edna O’Brien

Lantern Slides

1989

Fay Weldon

The Heart of the Country

1988

Gabriel García Márquez *

Love in the Time of Cholera

1987

James Welch

Fools Crow

1986

Margaret Atwood !,¶

The Handmaid’s Tale

1985

Louise Erdrich

Love Medicine

1984

Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

1983

Thomas Keneally !

Schindler’s List

1982

Robert Stone

A Flag for Sunrise

1981

D. M. Thomas

The White Hotel

1980

Walker Percy

The Second Coming

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Grub Street Book Prize for Fiction

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2009

Alan Cheuse

To Catch the Lightning

2008

Joshua Furst

The Sabotage Café

2007

Sheri Joseph

Stray

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Grub Street is a non-profit creative writing center designed to support writers in all stages of their development. The group is “dedicated to nurturing writers and connecting readers with the wealth of writing talent in the Boston area.” The Grub Street Book Prize for fiction is awarded to an author who resides outside of New England and who has previously published (first books are not eligible). Each winner receives $1000 and a reading/book party in downtown Boston at the Grub Street event space. Other awards are granted in nonfiction and poetry. For more information about Grub Street, see http://www.grubstreet.org/index.php.

2011 2010

New York Times Best Books of the Year for Fiction

2008 2008

Steven Millhauser Toni Morrison

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Dangerous Laughter A Mercy

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Each December the editors of the New York Times Book Review select 10 “best books of the year” from their previously selected “100 Notable Books” of that same year. Five fiction and five non-fiction titles are selected. The fiction titles since 2000 are listed here. See http://www.nytimes. com/2008/12/14/books/review/10Best-t.html for more information.

Title

2008

Joseph O’Neill

Netherland

2008

Roberto Bolaño

2666

2008

Jhumpa Lahiri

Unaccustomed Earth

2007

Denis Johnson •

Tree of Smoke

2007

Joshua Ferris

Then We Came to the End §§,xx,@,x

2007

Roberto Bolaño

The Savage Detectives

2007

Per Petterson

Out Stealing Horses ♪

2007

Michael Thomas

Man Gone Down

2006

Marisha Pessl

Special Topics in Calamity Physics

2006

Richard Ford /

The Lay of the Land

2006

Claire Messud

2006

Amy Hempel

The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

2006

Gary Shteyngart

Absurdistan

2005

Haruki Murakami ^

Kafka on the Shore

2005

Zadie Smith

On Beauty

2005

Curtis Sittenfeld

Prep

2005

Ian McEwan

Saturday ↑,x

2005

Mary Gaitskill

Veronica

2004

Orhan Pamuk *

Snow

2004

Alice Munro ¦,•,ф

Runaway «

2004

Philip Roth ^

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2004

Colm Tóibín

The Master

2004

Marilynne Robinson

Gilead

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The Emperor’s Children x,~~

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The Plot Against America

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Title

2003

Gabriel García Márquez *

Living to Tell the Tale •

The Known World

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2003

Edward P. Jones

2003

Jonathan Lethem

The Fortress of Solitude

2003

T. C. Boyle

Drop City

2003

Monica Ali

Brick Lane

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Ian McEwan

Atonement

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2002

Jeffrey Eugenides

Middlesex

2002

William Kennedy !

Roscoe

2001

Peter Carey

True History of the Kelly Gang ‡‡,~

2001

Colson Whitehead

John Henry Days

2001

Alice Munro ¦,•,ф

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage

2001

Jonathan Franzen

The Corrections

2001

W. G. Sebald

Austerlitz

2000

Jim Crace

Being Dead

2000

Seamus Heaney

Beowulf: A New Verse Translation

2000

John Updike !

Gertrude and Claudius

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Philip Roth

2000

Zadie Smith

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The Human Stain White Teeth

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Quill & Quire Books of the Year

Title

2008

John McFetridge

Everybody Knows This is Nowhere

2008

Claudia Dey

Stunt

2008

Rawi Hage

Cockroach

2008

Andrew Davidson

The Gargoyle

2008

Rebecca Rosenblum

Once

2008

Kenneth J. Harvey

Blackstrap Hawco: Said to Be About a Newfoundland Family

2007

Barbara Gowdy ф

Helpless

2007

Zoe Whittall

Bottle Rocket Hearts

2007

William Gibson

Spook Country

2007

CS Richardson

The End of the Alphabet

2007

Sean Dixon

The Girls Who Saw Everything

2007

Michael Ondaatje

Divisadero

2006

Jack Whyte

Knights of the Black and White

2006

Kenneth J. Harvey

Inside

2006

The Friends of Meager David Adams Richards ф Fortune

2006

Carol Windley

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Each December, the Canadian book magazine Quill & Quire chooses fifteen ‘Books of the Year’ in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books. These are books Quill & Quire deems some of the most important in Canadian publishing; books that have made an impact on the Canadian literary landscape and other worthy titles that may have been overlooked. The fiction picks since 2004 are listed here. For more information, see http:// www.quillandquire.com.

Year

Author

Title

2006

Ami McKay

The Birth House

2005

Neil Bissoondath

The Unyielding Clamour of the Night

2005

Joseph Boyden

Three Day Road xxx

2005

George Elliott Clarke

George & Rue

2005

David Gilmour

A Perfect Night to Go to China @@

2005

Lisa Moore

Alligator

2004

Paul Quarrington

Galveston

2004

Robert McGill

The Mysteries

Salon Book Award for Fiction

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2008

Roberto Bolaño

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Each December since 1996, Salon’s book critic, Laura Miller, has published a “Ten Best” list, consisting of five works of fiction and five of nonfiction. Sometimes she shares the byline and sometimes takes the credit and blame alone. As Miller explains: “Our aim in assembling this yearly list has always been to single out the books we deeply enjoyed and avidly devoured, leaving the dutiful, ‘serious’ choices to more venerable publications. Salon’s list of our 10 favorite books has been just that—a decidedly personal selection.” The 2008 list can be found at http://www.salon.com/books/ awards/2008/12/08/2008/index.html. Earlier lists are a little harder to locate but following the “Read More” links will take you in the right direction. The five fiction titles for each year are listed here. List editors include the following: 1996, 1997, 1998 Laura Miller and Dwight Garner; 1999 Laura Miller and Craig Seligman; 2000 Laura Miller and Maria Russo; 2005, 2006 Laura Miller and Hillary Frey; 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008 Laura Miller.

Title

2008

Susan Choi

A Person of Interest

2008

Tana French

The Likeness

2008

Rivka Galchen

Atmospheric Disturbances

2008

Philip Hensher

The Northern Clemency

2007

Michael Chabon !

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union

2007

Denis Johnson •

Tree of Smoke ‡,x,♣

2007

Joshua Ferris

Then We Came to the End §§,@,x

2007

Vikram Chandra

Sacred Games

2007

Junot Díaz

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao **,††,<,x

2006

Stephen Wright •

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Wizard of the Crow

2006

Ngugi Wa Thiong’

2006

Ken Kalfus

A Disorder Peculiar to the Country

2006

Deborah Eisenberg •

Twilight of the Superheroes

2006

Dave Eggers

What Is the What

2005

Rachel Ingalls

Times Like These

2005

Kelly Link

Magic for Beginners

2005

Zadie Smith

On Beauty

2005

Haruki Murakami ^

Kafka on the Shore

2005

Kazuo Ishiguro

Never Let Me Go

2005

Mary Gaitskill

Veronica

2004

Orhan Pamuk *

Snow

2004

Alan Hollinghurst

The Line of Beauty

2004

Stephen Elliott

Happy Baby

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2004

Susanna Clarke

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell |||

2004

Kate Atkinson

Case Histories

2003

Valerie Martin

Property

2003

Tobias Wolff

Old School

2003

Brian Hall

I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company: A Novel of Lewis and Clark

2003

Jonathan Lethem

The Fortress of Solitude

2003

T. C. Boyle

Drop City

2003

Mark Haddon

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NightTime ¶

2003

Ellen Ullman

The Bug

2003

Monica Ali

Brick Lane

2003

William Boyd

Any Human Heart

2003

Susan Choi

American Woman

2001

Kelly Link

Stranger Things Happen

2001

Colson Whitehead

John Henry Days

2001

Jonathan Franzen

The Corrections

2001

Ann Patchett

Bel Canto

2001

W. G. Sebald

Austerlitz

2000

Richard Slotkin

Abe: A Novel of the Young Lincoln

2000

Jim Crace

Being Dead

2000

Mark Salzman

2000

Denis Johnson

2000

Zadie Smith

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The Name of the World White Teeth

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Title

1999

Stewart O’Nan

A Prayer for the Dying

1999

Kent Haruf

Plainsong

1999

A. L. Kennedy

Original Bliss

1999

Jonathan Lethem

Motherless Brooklyn

1999

Neal Stephenson

Cryptonomicon

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Birds of America

1998

Lorrie Moore

1998

Andrea Barrett

The Voyage of the Narwhal

1998

José Saramago *

Blindness

1998

Brian Morton

Starting Out in the Evening

1998

Ken Kalfus

Thirst

1997

Bernhard Schlink

The Reader

1997

Thomas Pynchon

Mason & Dixon

1997

Mary Gaitskill

Because They Wanted To

1997

Charles Frazier

Cold Mountain

1997

Margaret Atwood !,¶

Alias Grace

1996

Allegra Goodman

The Family Markowitz

1996

David Markson

Reader’s Block

1996

Elizabeth McCracken

The Giant’s House

1996

Salman Rushdie

The Moor’s Last Sigh

1996

David Foster Wallace •

Infinite Jest

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Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers™ Awards @

2008

Gin Phillips

The Well and the Mine

2007

Joshua Ferris

Then We Came to the End §§,xx,x

2006

Ben Fountain

Brief Encounters with Che Guevara §§

2005

Uzodinma Iweala

Beasts of No Nation

2004

John Dalton

Heaven Lake

2003

Monica Ali

Brick Lane

2002

Anthony Doerr

The Shell Collector

2001

Manil Suri

The Death of Vishnu

2000

Tracy Chevalier

Girl with a Pearl Earring

1999

Lily King

The Pleasing Hour

2010 2009

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Each season and every year since 1990, a volunteer group of Barnes & Noble booksellers names the best new books of great literary merit written by “debuting and underappreciated writers” to be promoted through Barnes & Noble book stores and online at www.bn.com in the Discover Great New Writers™ program. In the spring of each year, a panel of distinguished literary judges chooses two outstanding authors (one fiction and one nonfiction) to receive the Discover Great New Writers™ Award, which consists of a $10,000 cash prize and a premium Barnes & Noble promotions package. Publishers recommend writers they feel have made a strong literary debut, but have published fewer than three previous books or have sold fewer than 10,000 copies of previous books. Books may be literary fiction or nonfiction with a “strong narrative.” Authors may not submit their own work. Details and recent winners may be found on the Barnes & Noble website: http://www .barnesandnobleinc.com/for_publishers/discover_program/discover_ program.html.

Title

1998

Carrie Brown

Rose’s Garden

1997

J. Robert Lennon

The Light of Falling Stars

1996

Elizabeth McCracken

The Giant’s House

1995

Chang-rae Lee

Native Speaker

1994

David Guterson

1993

Sandra Benitez

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A Place Where the Sea Remembers

Borders Original Voices Award for Fiction

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Steven Galloway

The Cellist of Sarajevo

2010 2009 2008

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The annual Original Voices Awards, presented by Borders Group, Inc., recognizes “fresh, compelling, and ambitious works from… new and emerging talents.” Books chosen for the Original Voices program may be “innovative and inspiring new books from first-time authors” or “works that represent a new direction for established authors.” In a typical year, more than 100 works from contemporary authors and illustrators are spotlighted through monthly in-store features. In December, finalists for the awards are selected via an online vote of corporate and store employees. A committee of employees reads each finalist in the four categories—fiction, nonfiction, young adult, and children’s picture books—and names the winners. Each winner receives $5,000 from Borders and winning books are featured in 500 U.S. stores. Detailed information may be obtained at http://www.beneaththecover.com/2009/01/14/ borders%C2%AE-selects-2008-original-voices-award-winners.

Year

Author

Title

2007

Steven Hall

The Raw Shark Texts

2006

Kevin Brockmeier

The Brief History of the Dead

2005

Nicole Krauss

The History of Love x

2004

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The Shadow of the Wind

2003

Khaled Hosseini

The Kite Runner

2002

Paul Auster

The Book of Illusions

2001

Mark Dunn

Ella Minnow Pea

2000

Myla Goldberg

Bee Season

1999

E. Annie Proulx

Close Range: Wyoming Stories

1998

José Saramago *

Blindness

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Millions of Costco Wholesale members rely on the recommendations of book buyer Pennie Clark Ianniciello. Pennie and her staff focus on trade paperbacks, but include plenty of hard covers and other formats, debating their way down to must-read recommendations every month in the widely circulated magazine, The Costco Connection. The fiction selections of Pennie’s “Buyer’s Pick” for the previous ten years are listed here. For more information go to http://www.costcoconnection.com/connection/200811.

Dec-09

Sue Grafton

U is for Undertow

Nov-09

Barbara Kingsolver

The Lacuna

Oct-09

Kathleen Kent

The Heretic’s Daughter

Sep-09

Linda Olsson

Astrid and Veronika

Aug-09

Jennifer Niven

Velva Jean Learns to Drive

Sep-11 Aug-11 Jul-11 Jun-11 May-11 Apr-11 Mar-11 Feb-11 Jan-11 Dec-10 Nov-10 Oct-10 Sep-10 Aug-10 Jul-10 Jun-10 May-10 Apr-10 Mar-10 Feb-10 Jan-10

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Year

Author

Title

Jul-09

Selden Edwards

The Little Book

Jun-09

Jeffery Deaver

Roadside Crosses

May-09

Marisa de los Santos

Belong to Me

Apr-09

Harlan Coben

Long Lost

Mar-09

Arundhati Roy

The God of Small Things ‡‡

Feb-09

Jamie Ford

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Jan-09

Jen Lancaster

Such a Pretty Fat

Dec-08

Wally Lamb /

The Hour I First Believed

Nov-08

The Guernsey Literary Mary Ann Shaffer and and Potato Peel Pie Annie Barrows Society |||,?

Oct-08

Michael Connelly

The Brass Verdict

Sep-08

Nelson DeMille

The Gate House

Aug-08

Brunonia Berry

The Lace Reader

Jul-08

Jennifer Haigh

The Condition

Jun-08

Karleen Koen

Through a Glass Darkly

May-08

Dick Francis

Decider, Slay Ride and Wild Horses

Apr-08

John Shors

Beneath a Marble Sky

Mar-08

Irène Némirovsky

Suite Française

Feb-08

Adam Bravers

Mr. Lincoln’s Wars

Dec-07

Sara Gruen

Water for Elephants

Nov-07

Ken Follett

World Without End

Oct-07

Diane Setterfield

The Thirteenth Tale

Sep-07

Nancy Horan

Loving Frank

Aug-07

Laura Moriarty

The Center of Everything

Jul-07

Janet Evanovich

One for the Money

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Jun-07

Celia Rivenbark

We’re Just Like You, Only Prettier

May-07

Wilbur Smith

River God

Mar-07

Jhumpa Lahiri

The Namesake

Feb-07

Diana Norman

Mistress of the Art of Death

Jan-07

Christopher Moore

You Suck

Dec-06

Lisa See

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan †

Nov-06

Sena Jeter Naslund

Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette

Oct-06

Jonathan Safran Foer

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close x

Sep-06

Alice Greenway

White Ghost Girls

Aug-06

Markus Zusak

The Book Thief

Jun-06

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The Shadow of the Wind

May-06

Paulo Coelho

The Alchemist

Mar-06

Steve Klugel

Last Days of Summer

Jan-06

William Nicholson

The Society of Others

Dec-05

Khaled Hosseini

The Kite Runner

Nov-05

Alice Munro ¦,•,ф

Runaway

Oct-05

Vince Flynn

Consent to Kill

Sep-05

John Berendt

The City of Falling Angels

Aug-05

Jody Shields

The Fig Eater

Jul-05

John Irving

Until I Find You

Jun-05

Elizabeth Kostova

The Historian |||,x

May-05

Tim Green

Exact Revenge

Apr-05

Diane McKinneyWhetstone

Blues Dancing

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Mar-05

Elizabeth Flock

Me & Emma

Feb-05

Thomas King

Green Grass, Running Water

Jan-05

Patricia Reilly Giff •

Pictures of Hollis Woods The Known World

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Dec-04

Edward P. Jones

Nov-04

Jimmy Carter

The Hornet’s Nest

Oct-04

Jennifer Weiner

Little Earthquakes

Sep-04

Mark Spragg

An Unfinished Life

Aug-04

Rani Manicka

The Rice Mother

Jul-04

Carl Hiaasen

Skinny Dip

Jun-04

Marian Keyes

Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married

May-04

Kent Haruf

Plainsong

Apr-04

Lorna Landvik

Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons

Mar-04

Alexander McCall Smith

The Kalahari Typing School for Men

Feb-04

Rachel Simmons

Odd Girl Out

Jan-04

Linda A. Fairstein

The Kills

Dec-03

Kien Nguyen

The Tapestries

Nov-03

Steve Martin

The Pleasure of My Company

Oct-03

Jonathan Lethem

The Fortress of Solitude

Sep-03

Lauren Belfer

City of Light

Aug-03

Michel Faber

The Crimson Petal and the White

Jul-03

Austin Clarke

The Polished Hoe

Jun-03

Lisa Scottoline

Dead Ringer

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May-03

Kate Atkinson

Behind the Scenes at the Museum

Apr-03

Dan Brown

The Da Vinci Code

Mar-03

Margot Livesey

Eva Moves the Furniture

Feb-03

Pete Hamill

Forever

Jan-02

Gregory Maguire /

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

Nov-02

Robert Hellenga

The Fall of a Sparrow

Oct-02

Daniel Mason

The Piano Tuner

Sep-02

Michael Connelly

Blood Work

Aug-02

Vikram Seth

An Equal Music

Jul-02

Joanne Harris

Five Quarters of the Orange

Jun-02

Sarah Stonich

These Granite Islands

May-02

Walter Mosley

Fearless Jones

Apr-02

Nuala O’Faolain

My Dream of You

Feb-02

Ivan Doig

This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind

Dec-01

Lisa Carey

The Mermaids Singing

Nov-01

Diana Gabaldon

The Fiery Cross

Oct-01

J.R.R. Tolkien

Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Sep-01

Laura Esquivel

Swift as Desire

Aug-01

Myla Goldberg

Bee Season

Anita Shreve /

The Weight of Water

May-01

Peter Mayle

French Lessons

Apr-01

David James Duncan

The Brothers K

Mar-01

Alice Mattison

The Book Borrower

Jul-01

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Dave Eggers

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Jan-01

Elizabeth McCracken

The Giant’s House

Dec-00

Ana Castillo

Peel My Love Like an Onion

Nov-00

Rosamunde Pilcher

Winter Solstice

Oct-00

Sena Jeter Naslund

Ahab’s Wife

Sep-00

Colleen McCullough

Morgan’s Run

Aug-00

Margaret Atwood

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Alias Grace

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Pearl Abraham

The Romance Reader

Jun-00

Antoine de SaintExupéry

The Little Prince

May-00

Judy Blume

Summer Sisters

Apr-00

Jane McCafferty

One Heart

Mar-00

Kathy Hepinstall

The House of Gentle Men

Feb-00

Ursula Hegi

The Vision of Emma Blau

Jan-00

John Dunning

Booked to Die

Nov-99

Kent Haruf

Plainsong

Oct-99

Isabel Allende

Daughter of Fortune

Sep-99

Richard Paul Evans

The Dance

Aug-99

Lane Von Herzen

Copper Crown

Jul-99

Ann Patchett

The Magician’s Assistant

Jun-99

Ken Grimwood

Replay

May-99

Arthur Golden

Memoirs of a Geisha

Mar-99

Sandra Cisneros •

The House on Mango Street

Mar-99

Sandra Cisneros •

Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories

Feb-99

Michael Connelly

Angels Flight

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Awards and Notable Lists

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Best Books for Discussion from Book Club Classics

Classics Worth a Second Look Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre

1847

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

1925

Kate Chopin

The Awakening

1899

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary

1857

Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights

1847

Alice Walker

The Color Purple

1982

William Faulkner *

The Sound and the Fury

1929

Edith Wharton

Ethan Frome

1911

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein

1818

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter

1850

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Light and Engaging Reads Ad Hudler

Man of the House

2008

Ad Hudler

Househusband

2002

Stephanie Kallos

Broken For You

Carrie Adams

The Stepmother

2009

Carrie Adams

The Godmother

2007

Sarah Addison Allen

Garden Spells

2007

Marisa de los Santos

Belong to Me

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2004

2008

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BookClubClassics.com is a website that offers resources for serious readers who like to have fun. Resources include recommended reading lists, discussion questions, discussion guides, and bookmarks. Readers of all genres welcome! The following lists are guaranteed to spark discussion in even the most reticent book clubs. Fiction that is more thematic in nature, rather than plot-oriented, tends to encourage discussion. In addition, since many book clubs meet once a month, most of these titles are reasonable in length (with a few exceptions).

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Marisa de los Santos

Love Walked In

2006

Kate Maloy

Every Last Cuckoo

2008

Dark and Daring (but extremely discussable)   Lionel Shriver

We Need to Talk About Kevin •

2003

Khaled Hosseini

The Kite Runner

2003

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Toni Morrison

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Beloved

1986 **

1987

Ralph Ellison

Invisible Man

Cormac McCarthy

The Road

William Styron

Sophie’s Choice

Hillary Jordan

Mudbound

Sebastian Barry

The Secret Scripture

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1952

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2006 ‡

1979

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2008 ¶

2008

Pushing the Boundaries of Reality  Audrey Niffenegger

The Time Traveler’s Wife

2003

Margaret Atwood !,¶

The Blind Assassin

2000

Mary Doria Russell

The Sparrow

Jeffrey Eugenides

Middlesex

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1996

**,??

2002

Kazuo Ishiguro

Never Let Me Go

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2005

Maxine Hong Kingston

The Woman Warrior

1976

Perennial Book Club Favorites   Ann Patchett

Bel Canto

Anita Diamant

The Red Tent

Leif Enger

Peace Like a River

Ian McEwan

Atonement

Richard Russo

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Markus Zusak

The Book Thief

2006

Daphne du Maurier

Rebecca

1960

Water for Elephants Sara Gruen

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Nancy Horan

Loving Frank

Khaled Hosseini

A Thousand Splendid Suns |||

2007

The Guernsey Literary Mary Ann Shaffer and and Potato Peel Pie Annie Barrows Society |||,?

2008

2006 ||

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NightTime ¶,xx

Mark Haddon

2007

2003

Literary Lovelies   Virginia Woolf

Mrs. Dalloway

1925

Michael Cunningham

The Hours

1998

Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God

1937

Ian McEwan

Amsterdam

1999

J. M. Coetzee

Disgrace

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1999

Marilynne Robinson

Gilead

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Marilynne Robinson

Home

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Barbara Kingsolver

The Poisonwood Bible |||

1998

Michael Chabon !

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay **

2000

Tobias Wolff

Old School

2003

Grace Paley •

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

1974

Dangerous Laughter

2008

Steven Millhauser

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2004 2008

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Read, Remember, Recommend

The Oprah Winfrey Show: Oprah’s Book Club 

Title

2009

Uwem Akpan

Say You’re One of Them

2008

David Wroblewski

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

2007

Ken Follett

The Pillars of the Earth

2007

Gabriel García Márquez *

Love in the Time of Cholera /

2007

Sidney Poitier

The Measure of a Man

2007

Cormac McCarthy

The Road

**,↑,x

2007

Jeffrey Eugenides

Middlesex

**,??

2006

Elie Wiesel

Night

William Faulkner

*

The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner

*

As I Lay Dying

2005

William Faulkner

*

Light in August

2004

Pearl S. Buck

The Good Earth

2004

Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina

2004

Carson McCullers

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

2005 2005

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Started in 1996, Oprah’s Book Club highlights books selected by Oprah Winfrey. Originally, the host discussed a new book often—six to ten books a year. In 2002, Oprah suspended the book club. In 2003, she reinstated it, making books a periodic, rather than a regular feature. Her list also began to focus on classic works of literature. In the fall of 2005, Oprah’s Book Club expanded to include nonfiction and memoir.

Title

2004

Gabriel García Márquez *

One Hundred Years of Solitude

2003

John Steinbeck *

East of Eden

2003

Alan Paton

Cry, the Beloved Country

2002

Ann-Marie MacDonald Fall on Your Knees

2002

Joyce Carol Oates !,¶

We Were the Mulvaneys

2002

Toni Morrison *,!

Sula

2001

Rohinton Mistry ф

A Fine Balance

2001

Jonathan Franzen

The Corrections

2001

Lalita Tademy

Cane River

2001

Gwyn Hyman Rubio

Icy Sparks

2000

Barbara Kingsolver

The Poisonwood Bible

2000

Andre Dubus III

House of Sand and Fog

2000

Christina Schwarz

Drowning Ruth

2000

Elizabeth Berg

2000

Sue Miller

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Open House While I Was Gone

2000

Toni Morrison ,

The Bluest Eye

2000

Tawni O’Dell

Back Roads

2000

Robert Morgan

Gap Creek

2000

Isabel Allende

Daughter of Fortune

1999

Breena Clarke

River, Cross My Heart

1999

Jane Hamilton

A Map of the World

1999

A. Manette Ansay

Vinegar Hill

1999

Maeve Binchy

Tara Road

1999

Melinda Haynes

Mother of Pearl

1999

Bernhard Schlink

The Reader

1999

Bret Lott

Jewel

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99

Awards and Notable Lists

Year

Author

Title

1998

Billie Letts

Where the Heart Is

1998

Pearl Cleage

What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

1998

Chris Bohjalian /

Midwives •

Breath, Eyes, Memory

1998

Edwidge Danticat

1998

Anna Quindlen

Black and Blue

1998

Wally Lamb /

I Know This Much Is True

1998

Janet Fitch

White Oleander

1998

Toni Morrison *,!

1998

Alice Hoffman

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Paradise Here on Earth She’s Come Undone

1997

Wally Lamb

1997

Kaye Gibbons

Ellen Foster

1997

Kaye Gibbons

A Virtuous Woman

1997

Mary McGarry Morris

Songs in Ordinary Time

1997

Maya Angelou

The Heart of a Woman

1997

Sheri Reynolds

The Rapture of Canaan

1997

Ursula Hegi

Stones from the River

1997

Ernest J. Gaines

A Lesson Before Dying

1996

Jacquelyn Mitchard

The Deep End of the Ocean

1996

Toni Morrison *,!

Song of Solomon ††,o

1996

Jane Hamilton

The Book of Ruth

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101

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Richard & Judy Book Club 

2009

Kate Atkinson

2009

Jesse Kellerman

The Brutal Art

2009

Steven Galloway

The Cellist of Sarajevo

2009

Andrew Davidson

The Gargoyle

2009

Kate Summerscale

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher

2009

David Ebershoff

The 19th Wife

2009

Frances Osborne

The Bolter

2009

Joseph O’Neill

Netherland

2009

Beatrice Colin

The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite

2009

Elizabeth H. Winthrop December

2008

Khaled Hosseini

A Thousand Splendid Suns |||

2008

Roger Jon Ellory

A Quiet Belief in Angels

2008

Katharine McMahon

Rose of Sebastopol

2008

Danny Scheinmann

Random Acts of Heroic Love

2008

Mark Slouka

Visible World

2008

Patrick Gale

Notes from an Exhibition

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Title When Will There Be Good News?

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The Richard & Judy Book Club began as a regular segment on a British talk show presented by a married couple, Richard Madelay and Judy Finnigan. The final episode aired on July 1, 2009, though the book club persists online at www.richardandjudybookclub.co.uk. The club has dramatically boosted sales of its featured books. The Richard & Judy Book of the Year Award, presented at the British Book Awards, has honored the book club selection that garners the most public votes. These are listed in bold.

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Author

Title

2008

Joshua Ferris

Then We Came to the End §§,xx,@,x

2008

Lloyd Jones

Mister Pip

2008

Tim Butcher

Blood River

2008

Peter Ho Davies

The Welsh Girl

2007

Jed Rubenfeld

The Interpretation of Murder

2007

William Boyd

Restless

2007

A.M. Homes

This Book Will Save Your Life

2007

Lori Lansens

The Girls

2007

James Robertson

The Testament of Gideon Mack

2007

Griff Rhys Jones

Semi-detached

2007

Catherine Ryan Hyde

Love in the Present Tense

2007

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Half of a Yellow Sun

2006

Kate Mosse

Labyrinth /,!

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March **

2006

Geraldine Brooks

2006

Andrew Smith

Moondust

2006

Julian Barnes

Arthur & George

2006

Richard Benson

The Farm

2006

Michael Connelly

The Lincoln Lawyer

2006

Martin Davies

The Conjurer’s Bird

2006

Nicole Krauss

The History of Love

2006

Anchee Min

Empress Orchid

2006

Eva Rice

The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets

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102

Title

2005

David Mitchell

Cloud Atlas

2005

William Brodrick

The Sixth Lamentation

2005

Paula Byrne

Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson

2005

Justin Cartwright

The Promise of Happiness

2005

Karen Joy Fowler

The Jane Austen Book Club

2005

Chris Heath

Feel: Robbie Williams

2005

Audrey Niffenegger /

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The Time Traveler’s Wife My Sister’s Keeper

2005

Jodi Picoult

2005

Andrew Taylor

The American Boy

2005

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The Shadow of the Wind

2004

Alice Sebold

The Lovely Bones

2004

Zoë Heller

Notes on a Scandal

2004

William Dalrymple

White Mughals

2004

Martina Cole

The Know

2004

David Nicholls

Starter for Ten

2004

Joseph O’Connor

Star of the sea

2004

Asne Seierstad

The Bookseller of Kabul

2004

Nigel Slater

Toast: The Story of a Boy’s Hunger

2004

Adriana Trigiani

Lucia, Lucia

2004

Monica Ali

Brick Lane

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Awards and Notable Lists

104

Read, Remember, Recommend

Target Club Picks

Fall 2009

Jamie Ford

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Summer 2009

Andrew Davidson

The Gargoyle

Summer 2009

Meg Waite Clayton

The Wednesday Sisters

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Every six to eight weeks since 2005, a panel of Target employees chooses a new book for the Target Bookmarked™ Book Club. These selections are mainly fiction (listed here), but can also include social science and biography choices. Special editions of each book are produced by the publisher and include a letter by the author addressed to Target readers. For more information go to http://www.target.com/Club-Picks-Books-MMB/b/ref=sc_ fe_l_5/187-7773246-8153843?ie=UTF8&node=2233733011.

Title

Spring 2009

Emily Giffin

Something Borrowed

Spring 2009

Emily Giffin

Something Blue

Winter 2009

Lisa Genova

Still Alice

Fall 2008

Tatiana de Rosnay

Sarah’s Key

Summer 2008

Diane Chamberlain

The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes

Spring 2008

Nancy Horan

Loving Frank

Spring 2008

Michelle Richmond

The Year of Fog

Winter 2008

Betty Smith

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Winter 2008

Juliette Fay

Shelter Me

Fall 2007

Kate Furnivall

The Russian Concubine

Fall 2007

Brian Groh

Summer People

Summer 2007

Carolyn Parkhurst

Lost and Found

Spring 2007

Laura Fitzgerald

Veil of Roses

Winter 2007

Kate Jacobs

The Friday Night Knitting Club

Fall 2006

Jodi Picoult /

The Tenth Circle

Fall 2006

Kim Edwards

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter

Summer 2006

Sandra Kring

The Book of Bright Ideas

A. Manette Ansay

Blue Water

Spring 2006

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Year

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105

Awards and Notable Lists

Author

Title

Jonathan Tropper

Everything Changes

Fall 2005

Sarah Dunant

The Birth of Venus

Fall 2005

Amanda Eyre Ward

How to Be Lost

Summer 2005

Jodi Picoult /

My Sister’s Keeper

Martha Moody

Best Friends

Spring 2006

Winter 2005

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Modern Library: 100 Best Books of the Century 

1

James Joyce

Ulysses

2

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

1925

3

James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

1916

4

Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita

1955

5

Aldous Huxley

Brave New World

1932

6

William Faulkner *

The Sound and the Fury

1929

7

Joseph Heller

Catch-22

1961

1918-20

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In July 1998, Modern Library Publishers issued their “100 Best Books of the Century” list. The purpose for publishing this list was “to get people talking about great books.” More than 400,000 readers cast their votes online. The Modern Library list has spurred many “rival” lists, including the Radcliffe Publishing Course list of 100 best novels. For more information about the list, or to see the 100 Best Nonfiction, go to www.randomhouse.com/ modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html.

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Arthur Koestler

Darkness at Noon

1940

9

D. H. Lawrence

Sons and Lovers

1913

10

John Steinbeck *

The Grapes of Wrath **

1939

11

Malcolm Lowry

Under the Volcano

1947

12

Samuel Butler

The Way of All Flesh

1903

13

George Orwell

1984

1949

14

Robert Graves

I, Claudius

1934

15

Virginia Woolf

To the Lighthouse

1927

16

Theodore Dreiser

An American Tragedy

1925

17

Carson McCullers

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

1940

18

Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse-Five

1969

19

Ralph Ellison

Invisible Man

1952

20

Richard Wright

Native Son

1940

21

Saul Bellow *,!

Henderson the Rain King

1959

22

John O’Hara

Appointment in Samarra

1934

23

John Dos Passos

U.S.A.

24

Sherwood Anderson

Winesburg, Ohio

25

E. M. Forster

A Passage to India

26

Henry James

The Wings of the Dove

1902

27

Henry James

The Ambassadors

1903

28

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tender is the Night

1934

29

James T. Farrell

The Studs Lonigan Trilogy

1932-35

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1924

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Title

Year

30

Ford Madox Ford

The Good Soldier

1915

31

George Orwell

Animal Farm

1945

32

Henry James

The Golden Bowl

1904

33

Theodore Dreiser

Sister Carrie

1900

34

Evelyn Waugh

A Handful of Dust

1934

As I Lay Dying

1930

*

35

William Faulkner

36

Robert Penn Warren ♦

All the King’s Men

37

Thornton Wilder

The Bridge of San Luis Rey **

1927

38

E. M. Forster

Howards End

1910

39

James Baldwin

Go Tell It on the Mountain

1953

40

Graham Greene

The Heart of the Matter ↑

1948

Lord of the Flies

1954

Deliverance

1970

41

William Golding

*

♦

**

1946

42

James Dickey

43

Anthony Powell

A Dance to the Music of Time

44

Aldous Huxley

Point Counter Point

1928

1951-75

Ernest Hemingway 45

*

The Sun Also Rises

1926

46

Joseph Conrad

The Secret Agent

1907

47

Joseph Conrad

Nostromo

1904

48

D. H. Lawrence

The Rainbow

1915

49

D. H. Lawrence

Women in Love

1920

50

Henry Miller

Tropic of Cancer

1934

51

Norman Mailer !

The Naked and the Dead

1948

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52

Philip Roth ^

Portnoy’s Complaint

1969

53

Vladimir Nabokov

Pale Fire

1962

54

William Faulkner *

Light in August

1932

55

Jack Kerouac

On the Road

1957

56

Dashiell Hammett

The Maltese Falcon

1930

57

Ford Madox Ford

Parade’s End

1924-28

58

Edith Wharton

The Age of Innocence **

1920

59

Max Beerbohm

Zuleika Dobson

1911

60

Walker Percy

The Moviegoer

1961

61

Willa Cather

Death Comes for the Archbishop

1927

62

James Jones

From Here to Eternity ‡

1951

63

John Cheever

The Wapshot Chronicles ‡

1957

64

J. D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye

1951

65

Anthony Burgess

A Clockwork Orange

1962

66

W. Somerset Maugham

Of Human Bondage

1915

67

Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness

1902

68

Sinclair Lewis *

Main Street

1920

69

Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth

1905

70

Lawrence Durrell

The Alexandria Quartet

1957-60

71

Richard Hughes

A High Wind in Jamaica

1929

72

V. S. Naipaul *

A House for Mr. Biswas

1961

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Title

Year

The Day of the Locust

1939

73

Nathanael West

74

*

A Farewell to Arms

1929

75

Evelyn Waugh

Scoop

1938

76

Muriel Spark

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

1962

77

James Joyce

Finnegans Wake

1939

78

Rudyard Kipling *

Kim

1901

79

E. M. Forster

A Room With a View

1908

80

Evelyn Waugh

Brideshead Revisited

1945

81

Saul Bellow *,!

The Adventures of Augie March ‡

1953

82

Wallace Stegner

Angle of Repose

1971

Ernest Hemingway

**

A Bend in the River

1989

Elizabeth Bowen

The Death of the Heart

1938

85

Joseph Conrad

Lord Jim

1900

86

E. L. Doctorow ¶

Ragtime

87

Arnold Bennett

The Old Wives’ Tale

1908

88

Jack London

The Call of the Wild

1903

89

Henry Green

Loving

1945

90

Salman Rushdie

Midnight’s Children

91

Erskine Caldwell

83

V. S. Naipaul

84

*

!

††

1975

‡‡,↑

1981

Tobacco Road

1932

Ironweed

1983

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92

William Kennedy

93

John Fowles

The Magus

1966

94

Jean Rhys

Wide Sargasso Sea

1966

95

Iris Murdoch

Under the Net

1954

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96

William Styron

Sophie’s Choice

97

Paul Bowles

The Sheltering Sky

1949

98

James M. Cain

Postman Always Rings Twice

1934

99

J. P. Donleavy

The Ginger Man

1955

100

Booth Tarkington

The Magnificent Ambersons **

1918

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1979

Radcliffe Publishing Course: 100 Best Novels of the Century 

1925

1

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

2

J. D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye *

The Grapes of Wrath

3

John Steinbeck

4

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

5

Alice Walker

The Color Purple

6

James Joyce

Ulysses

**

1951 **

1939 1960

**,‡

1982 1922

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At the request of the Modern Library editorial board, the Radcliffe Publishing Course (now known as the Columbia Publishing Course) compiled and published a rival “100 Best Novels of the Century” list. According to the American Library Association, 42 of the books on the list have been targets of banning attempts.

Title

Year

7

Toni Morrison *,!

Beloved

8

William Golding *

Lord of the Flies

1954

9

George Orwell

1984

1949

10

William Faulkner *

The Sound and the Fury

1929

11

Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita

1955

12

John Steinbeck *

Of Mice and Men

1937

13

E. B. White

Charlotte’s Web

1952

14

James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

1916

15

Joseph Heller

Catch-22

1961

16

Aldous Huxley

Brave New World

1932

17

George Orwell

Animal Farm

1945

18

*

The Sun Also Rises

1926

As I Lay Dying

1930

**

1987

Ernest Hemingway *

19

William Faulkner

20

*

A Farewell to Arms

1929

21

Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness

1902

22

A. A. Milne

Winnie-the-Pooh

1926

23

Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God

1937

24

Ralph Ellison

Invisible Man

Ernest Hemingway

25

Toni Morrison

*,!

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Song of Solomon

1952 ††,o

1977

26

Margaret Mitchell

Gone With the Wind

27

Richard Wright

Native Son

1940

28

Ken Kesey

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

1962

*

1936

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29

Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse-Five

1969

Ernest Hemingway 30

*

For Whom the Bell Tolls

1940

31

Jack Kerouac

On the Road

1957

Ernest Hemingway 32

*

The Old Man and the Sea **

1952

33

Jack London

The Call of the Wild

1903

34

Virginia Woolf

To the Lighthouse

1927

35

Henry James

Portrait of a Lady

1881

36

James Baldwin

Go Tell It on the Mountain

1953

37

John Irving

The World According to Garp ‡

1978

38

Robert Penn Warren ♦

All the King’s Men

1946

39

E. M. Forster

A Room With a View

1908

40

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings

1956

41

Thomas Keneally !

Schindler’s List

1982

42

Edith Wharton

The Age of Innocence **

1920

43

Ayn Rand

The Fountainhead

1943

44

James Joyce

Finnegans Wake

1939

45

Upton Sinclair

The Jungle

1906

46

Virginia Woolf

Mrs. Dalloway

1925

47

L. Frank Baum

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

1900

48

D. H. Lawrence

Lady Chatterley’s Lover

1928

49

Anthony Burgess

A Clockwork Orange

1962

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Year

50

Kate Chopin

The Awakening

1899

51

Willa Cather

My Ántonia

1918

52

E. M. Forster

Howards End

1910

53

Truman Capote

In Cold Blood

1965

54

J. D. Salinger

Franny and Zooey

55

Salman Rushdie

The Satanic Verses

56

*,!

57 58

Toni Morrison

Jazz Sophie’s Choice

William Styron William Faulkner

1961 ¶

*

1988 1992

‡

1979

Absalom, Absalom!

1936 1924

59

E. M. Forster

A Passage to India

60

Edith Wharton

Ethan Frome

1911

61

Flannery O’Connor

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

1955

62

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tender is the Night

1934

63

Virginia Woolf

Orlando

1928

64

D. H. Lawrence

Sons and Lovers

1913

65

Tom Wolfe ¶

Bonfire of the Vanities

1987

66

Kurt Vonnegut

Cat’s Cradle

1963

67

John Knowles

A Separate Peace

1959

Light in August

1932

The Wings of the Dove

1902

Things Fall Apart

1959

68

William Faulkner

69

Henry James ¦

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70

Chinua Achebe

71

Daphne du Maurier

Rebecca

1938

72

Douglas Adams

A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

1979

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73

William S. Burroughs

Naked Lunch

1959

74

Evelyn Waugh

Brideshead Revisited

1945

75

D. H. Lawrence

Women in Love

1920

76

Thomas Wolfe

Look Homeward, Angel

1929

In Our Time

1925

Ernest Hemingway 77

*

78

Gertrude Stein

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

1933

79

Dashiell Hammett

The Maltese Falcon

1930

80

Norman Mailer !

The Naked and the Dead

1948

81

Jean Rhys

Wide Sargasso Sea

1966

82

Don DeLillo

White Noise

1985

83

Willa Cather

O Pioneers!

1913

84

Henry Miller

Tropic of Cancer

1934

85

H. G. Wells

The War of the Worlds

1900

86

Joseph Conrad

Lord Jim

1900

87

Henry James

The Bostonians

1886

88

Theodore Dreiser

An American Tragedy

1925

89

Willa Cather

Death Comes for the Archbishop

1927

90

Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows

1908

91

F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise

1920

92

Ayn Rand

Atlas Shrugged

1957

93

John Fowles

The French Lieutenant’s Woman

1969

Babbitt

1966

94

Sinclair Lewis

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Year

95

Rudyard Kipling *

Kim

1901

96

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Beautiful and the Damned

1922

Rabbit, Run

1960

Where Angels Fear to Tread

1905

Main Street

1920

97

John Updike

98

E. M. Forster

!

*

99

Sinclair Lewis

100

Salman Rushdie

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Midnight’s Children ‡‡,↑

1981

Madison, Wisconsin, Public Library: Readable Classics

Louisa May Alcott

Little Women

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

1813

James Baldwin

Go Tell It on the Mountain

1953

Saul Bellow *,!

The Adventures of Augie March ‡

1953

1868-69

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The Madison Public Library in Madison, Wisconsin, compiled the Readable Classics list. The library defines its terms: “A ‘classic’ is a work of enduring interest and appeal in which successive generations can find truths that will not age. ‘Readable’ includes those classics whose appeal is immediately apparent and continues throughout.” http://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/booklists/ fiction.html.

Karen (Isak Dineson) Blixen

Seven Gothic Tales

1934

Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre

1847

Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights

1847

Anthony Burgess

A Clockwork Orange

1962

Olive Ann Burns

Cold Sassy Tree

1984

Truman Capote

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

1958

Lewis Carroll

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

1865

Willa Cather

My Ántonia

1918

John Cheever

The Stories of John Cheever **,‡,††

1978

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Select Tales

18841904

Charles Dickens

David Copperfield

E. L. Doctorow ¶

Ragtime

Ivan Doig

Dancing at the Rascal Fair ♣

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Brothers Karamazov

1879-80

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

18871927

Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo

1844

Daphne du Maurier

Rebecca

1938

Lawrence Durrell

The Alexandria Quartet

Ralph Ellison

Invisible Man

William Faulkner Henry Fielding

*

††

The Reivers

1849-50 1975

‡

**

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

1987

1957-60 1952 1962 1749

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Title

Year

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

1925

E. M. Forster

Howards End

1910

Gabriel García Márquez *

One Hundred Years of Solitude

1967

Lord of the Flies

1954

Graham Greene

The Power and the Glory

1940

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Selected Short Stories

Joseph Heller

Catch-22

1961

Ernest Hemingway *

For Whom the Bell Tolls

1940

O. Henry

The Best Short Stories of O. Henry

18991910

Herman Hesse

Narcissus and Goldmund

1930

Victor Hugo

Les Miserables

1862

Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God

1937

Aldous Huxley

Brave New World

1932

John Irving

The World According to Garp ‡

1978

Shirley Jackson

The Lottery

1949

Henry James

The Turn of the Screw

1898

Sarah Orne Jewett

The Best Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett

1925

James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

1914-15

Jack Kerouac

On the Road

1957

Barbara Kingsolver

The Bean Trees

1988

Rudyard Kipling *

Best Short Stories of Rudyard Kipling

18871925

John Knowles

A Separate Peace

1959

William Golding

*

1837-50

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D. H. Lawrence

Sons and Lovers

1913

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

Sinclair Lewis *

Main Street

1920

Jack London

The Call of the Wild

1903

Carson McCullers

The Member of the Wedding

1946

Larry McMurtry !

Lonesome Dove

1995

Bernard Malamud

The Fixer

Thomas Mann *

Death in Venice

Katherine Mansfield

The Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield

1911-23

W. Somerset Maugham

Of Human Bondage

1915

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick

1851

James A. Michener

Hawaii

1959

Walter M. Miller Jr.

A Canticle for Leibowitz

1960

Margaret Mitchell

Gone With the Wind

1936

**

**

**,‡

1960

1966 1913

**

Toni Morrison ,

Beloved

Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita

1955

George Orwell

Animal Farm

1945

Boris Pasternak *

Doctor Zhivago

1957

Alan Paton

Cry, the Beloved Country

1948

Edgar Allan Poe

Complete Stories & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

1831-49

E. Annie Proulx

The Shipping News

* !

**

1987

**,‡

All Quiet on the Western Erich Maria Remarque Front

1993 1929

O. E. Rolvaag

Giants in the Earth

1927

J. D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye

1951

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Mary Shelley

Frankenstein

1818

Muriel Spark

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

1962

The Grapes of Wrath

1939

John Steinbeck

*

**

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1886

William M. Thackeray

Vanity Fair

1847

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings

Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina

Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Anne Tyler

The Accidental Tourist

John Updike

The Centaur

!

1954-56 1878 1885 ††

‡

1985 1963

Jules Verne

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

1869

Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse-Five

1969

Margaret Walker

Jubilee

1966

Alice Walker

The Color Purple

Robert Penn Warren

♦

**,‡

All the King’s Men

1982

**

1946

Evelyn Waugh

Brideshead Revisited

1945

H. G. Wells

The War of the Worlds

1898

Edith Wharton

The Age of Innocence

T. H. White

The Once and Future King

1958

Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

1891

Thornton Wilder

The Bridge of San Luis Rey **

1927

Thomas Wolfe

Look Homeward, Angel

1929

Richard Wright

Native Son

1940

**

1920

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Indies Choice Book Award for Fiction (Previously the Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Fiction) |||

2011 2010

2009

The Guernsey Literary Mary Ann Shaffer and and Potato Peel Pie Annie Barrows Society ?

2008

Khaled Hosseini

A Thousand Splendid Suns

2007

Sara Gruen

Water for Elephants

2006

Elizabeth Kostova

The Historian

2005

Susanna Clarke

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell xx,x

2004

Dan Brown

The Da Vinci Code

2003

Alice Sebold

The Lovely Bones

2002

Leif Enger

Peace Like a River

2001

Anita Diamant

The Red Tent

2000

Barbara Kingsolver

The Poisonwood Bible

1999

Rebecca Wells

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

1998

Charles Frazier

Cold Mountain

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More than 1,200 independent booksellers across the United States nominate books they most enjoyed recommending to customers during the previous year. Six Indies Choice Book Awards are given annually in May, including adult fiction (listed here), adult nonfiction, children’s literature, illustrated children’s book, rediscovery, and paperback. The winners are voted on by indie booksellers across the country, chosen to reflect the unique titles championed by indies. For more information go to http:// www.indiebound.org/articles/paige/indies-choice-book-awards.

Author

Title

1997

Frank McCourt

Angela’s Ashes

1996

David Guterson

§,@,♣

1994

Laura Esquivel

Like Water for Chocolate

1993

Robert James Waller

The Bridges of Madison County

Susan Jeffers

Brother Eagle, Sister Sky: A Message from Chief Seattle

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Snow Falling on Cedars

1992

2009

Dennis Lehane

The Given Day

2009

Jhumpa Lahiri

Unaccustomed Earth x

2009

Geraldine Brooks ,

People of the Book

2009

Joseph O’Neill

Netherland §,x

2009

David Benioff

City of Thieves

2008

Michael Chabon !

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union xx

2008

Richard Russo /

Bridge of Sighs

2008

Ann Patchett

Run

2008

Amy Bloom

Away

2007

Kevin Brockmeier

The Brief History of the Dead %%

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Title

2007

Irène Némirovsky

Suite Française

2007

Cormac McCarthy

The Road

2007

Kiran Desai

The Inheritance of Loss ††,‡‡

2006

E. L. Doctorow ¶

The March

2006

Lisa See

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan †

2006

Ian McEwan

Saturday

2006

Haruki Murakami ^

Kafka on the Shore

2005

Sarah Dunant

The Birth of Venus

2005

Philip Roth ^

x,~~

2005

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The Shadow of the Wind

2005

Kent Haruf

Eventide

2004

Mark Haddon

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NightTime ¶,xx

2004

Jennifer Haigh

Mrs. Kimble

2004

Audrey Niffenegger

The Time Traveler’s Wife

2004

Louise Erdrich

The Master Butchers Singing Club

2003

Sue Monk Kidd

The Secret Life of Bees

2003

Ian McEwan

Atonement

2003

Michel Faber

The Crimson Petal and the White

2003

Yann Martel

Life of Pi

2002

Mark Dunn

Ella Minnow Pea

Louise Erdrich

The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

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††,§

↑,x xx

The Plot Against America

2002

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Title

2002

Jonathan Franzen

The Corrections

2002

Richard Russo /

Empire Falls

2001

Andre Dubus III

House of Sand and Fog

2001

Michael Cunningham

The Hours

2001

Myla Goldberg

Bee Season

2001

Margaret Atwood !,¶

The Blind Assassin

2000

Iris Murdoch

The Black Prince

2000

Kent Haruf

Plainsong

2000

Erik Larson

Isaac’s Storm

2000

Susan Vreeland

Girl in Hyacinth Blue

2000

Sena Jeter Naslund

Ahab’s Wife

2000

Elizabeth Mavor

The Green Equinox

‡,↑,xx

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Tournament of Books—Rooster Award

x

Title

2009

Toni Morrison

2009

Aleksandar Hemon

The Lazarus Project

2009

Jhumpa Lahiri

Unaccustomed Earth

2009

Hari Kunzru

My Revolutions

2009

Philip Hensher

The Northern Clemency xx

2009

Louis De Bernières •

A Partisan’s Daughter

2009

Roberto Bolaño

2666

2009

Aravind Adiga

The White Tiger

2009

Mark Sarvas

Harry, Revised

2009

E. Lockhart

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

2009

Tom Piazza

City of Refuge

2009

Peter Matthiessen !

Shadow Country

2009

Keith Lee Morris

The Dart League King

*,!

A Mercy

††,xx ‡‡

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The Morning News, an online literary publication, has put on the Tournament of Books every year since 2005. With Powell’s Books of Portland, Oregon, as sponsor, the tournament identifies “16 of the most celebrated and highly touted novels of the year, seed[s] them in a March Madness-type bracket, conscript[s] them into a ‘Battle Royale of Literary Excellence,’ and… present[s] the author of the winning book a live rooster.” Literary figures, mostly eminent, some fringe, each name winners in the head-to-head matchups—and majority rules. For added excitement, a “zombie round,” is introduced near the end of the tournament, in which two defeated books, determined by the online votes of ordinary readers, get a second chance. In honor of a favorite character in contemporary literature, David Sedaris’s brother, aka “The Rooster,” the winning author receives a live chicken. The winners for each year are listed in bold. Discounted copies of the contenders are for sale at www.powells.com. For more information about the Rooster Award, visit http://www.themorningnews.org/tob.

Year

Author

Title

2009

Fae Myenne Ng

Steer Towards Rock

2009

Joseph O’Neill

Netherland

2009

Marilynne Robinson

Home

2008

Junot Díaz

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao **,††,<,xx

2008

Marianne Wiggins

The Shadow Catcher

2008

Tom McCarthy

Remainder

2008

Roberto Bolaño

The Savage Detectives

2008

Ian McEwan

On Chesil Beach

2008

Ann Patchett

Run

2008

Denis Johnson •

Tree of Smoke ‡,xx,♣

2008

Joshua Ferris

Then We Came to the End §§,xx,@

2008

Laura Lippman

What the Dead Know

2008

Jeff Parker

Ovenman

2008

Stephen L. Carter

New England White

2008

Stephen Marche

Shining at the Bottom of the Sea

2008

Jonathan Lethem

You Don’t Love Me Yet

2008

Vendela Vida

Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name

2008

Anya Ulinich

Petropolis

2008

Brock Clarke

An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England

2007

Cormac McCarthy

The Road

2007

Colson Whitehead

Apex Hides the Hurt

2007

Richard Ford

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The Lay of the Land

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Title

2007

English, August: An Upamanyu Chatterjee Indian Story

2007

Emily Barton

Brookland

2007

Gary Shteyngart

Absurdistan

2007

Brian K. Vaughan and Niko Henrichon

Pride of Baghdad

2007

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Half of a Yellow Sun

2007

Kate Atkinson

One Good Turn

2007

Thomas Pynchon

Against the Day

2007

Sam Savage

Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife

2007

Richard Powers •

The Echo Maker

2007

Monica Ali

Alentejo Blue

2007

Julian Barnes

Arthur & George

2007

Claire Messud

The Emperor’s Children

2007

Peter Orner •

The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo

2006

Ali Smith

The Accidental

2006

David Bergen

The Time in Between

2006

Jonathan Safran Foer

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

2006

Mary Gaitskill

Veronica

2006

Kazuo Ishiguro

Never Let Me Go

2006

Stephanie Doyon

The Greatest Man in Cedar Hole

2006

Sam Lipsyte

Home Land

2006

Elizabeth Kostova

The Historian

2006

Cormac McCarthy

No Country for Old Men

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Year

Author

Title

2006

Ian McEwan

Saturday

2006

Nicole Krauss

The History of Love

2006

Kristin Allio

Garner

2006

Neil Gaiman

Anansi Boys

2006

Uzodinma Iweala

Beasts of No Nation

2006

Whitney Terrel

The King of Kings County

2006

Zadie Smith

On Beauty

2005

David Mitchell

Cloud Atlas

2005

Susanna Clarke

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell xx,|||

2005

T. C. Boyle

The Inner Circle

2005

Lily Tuck

2005

Karen Shepard

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•,xx

The News from Paraguay ‡

The Bad Boy’s Wife The Plot Against America ~~

^

2005

Philip Roth

2005

Cynthia Ozick •

Heir to the Glimmering World

2005

Stephen Amidon

Human Capital

2005

Muriel Spark

2005

Edwidge Danticat

The Finishing School The Dew Breaker

•

I Am Charlotte Simmons

¶

2005

Tom Wolfe

2005

Jonathan Ames

Wake Up, Sir •

Birds Without Wings

2005

Louis De Bernières

2005

Lorraine Adams

Harbor

2005

Ben Jones

The Rope Eater

2005

Ward Just

An Unfinished Season

??

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Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Fiction xxx

2011 2010 Through Black Spruce

2009

Joseph Boyden

2008

Elizabeth Hay

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2007

Ami McKay

The Birth House

2006

Joseph Boyden

Three Day Road

2005

Miriam Toews

A Complicated Kindness @@

2004

Ann-Marie MacDonald

The Way the Crow Flies

2003

Guy Vanderhaeghe ф

The Last Crossing

2002

Richard B. Wright

Clara Callan

2001

David Adams Richards ф

Mercy Among the Children «

2000

Alistair MacLeod •

No Great Mischief

1999

Alice Munro ¦,•,ф

The Love of a Good Woman ††,«,≡

1998

Ann-Marie MacDonald

Fall on Your Knees

Late Nights on Air

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The Canadian Booksellers Association (CBA) Libris Awards honor outstanding achievement by authors and editors, sales reps and distributors, booksellers, and publishers in delivering excellent books to Canadian readers. CBA’s Fiction Book of the Year award is given to a Canadian work of fiction published in the previous year that had “an outstanding impact on the Canadian bookselling industry, created wide media attention, brought people into bookstores, and had strong sales.” See http://www.cbabook.org/ libris-eventinfo.html for additional details.

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Regional Independent Booksellers Associations

The nine regional independent booksellers associations in the United States—Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association, Midwest Booksellers Association, Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association, New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association, New England Independent Booksellers Association, Northern California Independent Booksellers Association, Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, Southern California Independent Booksellers Association, and Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance—are not-for-profit trade associations established to support and promote independent retail bookselling in the United States. Together they represent over 2,100 independent bookstores and booksellers. Each association establishes its own membership criteria and range of programs and services. All nine sponsor some kind of book award program to recognize significant regional books and authors. More information may be downloaded at www.bookweb.org/files/open/pdf/Regional_Guide.pdf.

Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association Award  ??

2009

Joe Meno

The Great Perhaps

2008

Ellen Baker

Keeping the House

2011 2010

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Established by the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association (GLIBA) in 1995, these awards seek to “recognize and reward excellence in the writing and publishing of books that capture the spirit and enhance awareness of the Great Lakes region,” including Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan. Books in any category may be considered at the judges’ discretion, as long as they have been published in the previous year, contain a Great Lakes theme or setting, or are by authors living in the Great Lakes region. Winners receive a cash prize, a ceramic sculpture, and an extensive marketing and promotion package. The GLIBA website offers details at http://www.gliba.org/glbookawards.php.

Title

2007

Sara Gruen

Water for Elephants

2006

Katrina Kittle

The Kindness of Strangers

2005

Ward Just

An Unfinished Season

2004

Ingrid Hill

Ursula, Under

2003

Jeffrey Eugenides

Middlesex

2002

Ann Packer

The Dive from Clausen’s Pier

2001

Carrie Brown

The Hatbox Baby

2000

A. Manette Ansay

Midnight Champagne

1999

Craig Holden

Four Corners of Night

1998

Thomas Mallon

Dewey Defeats Truman

1997

A. Manette Ansay

Read This and Tell Me What It Says

1996

Scott Russell Sanders

Writing from the Center

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Midwest Booksellers Association Book Choice Award ||

2009

David Wroblewski

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

2008

Nancy Horan

Loving Frank

2007

Sara Gruen

Water for Elephants

2011 2010

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Choice Awards winners are nominated and eventually chosen by independent booksellers who are members of the Midwest Booksellers Association (MBA). All nominated books must be related to the Midwest, either in subject matter or because the author lives in one of the MBA states: Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Winning books will exhibit broad appeal across the region. Awards are given in five categories: adult fiction (listed here), adult nonfiction, poetry, children’s picture book, and children’s literature (including both fiction and nonfiction). Any bookseller who works in an MBA member store may nominate up to five titles in each of the five categories. For more information, consult the MBA website: http://www.midwestbooksellers.org.

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Mountains and Plains Regional Book Award for Fiction ***

2009

Craig Johnson

Another Man’s Moccasins: A Walt Longmire Mystery

2008

Aryn Kyle

The God of Animals

2007

Gene Guerin

Cottonwood Saints

2006

Karen Fisher

A Sudden Country

2005

Kent Meyers

The Work of Wolves

2004

Kent Nelson

Land That Moves, Land That Stands Still

2003

Debra Magpie Earling

Perma Red

2002

Brady Udall

The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint

2001

Claire Davis

Winter Range

2000

Kent Haruf

Plainsong

1999

Jim Fergus

One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

1998

Rick Bass

The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness

2011 2010

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The Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association is a nonprofit group comprised of 250 booksellers in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming. This award, created in 1990, is given annually to honor books set in the Mountain and Plains regions. There was no fiction award given in 1992 and three were given in both 1993 and 1994. The organization also honors works for children, poetry, and nonfiction. See http://www.mountainsplains.org for more information.

Year

Author

Title

1997

David London

Sun Dancer

1996

Win Blevins

Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

1995

Laura Hendrie

Stygo

1994

Ron Querry

The Death of Bernadette Lefthand

1994

Larry Watson

Montana, 1948

1994

Barbara Kingsolver

Pigs in Heaven

1993

Cormac McCarthy

All the Pretty Horses

1993

Pam Houston

Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories

1993

James Galvin

The Meadow

1991

Linda Hogan

Mean Spirit

1990

Olive Ghiselin

The Testimony of Mr. Bones

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New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award for Fiction ~~

2009

Robert Goolrick

A Reliable Wife

2008

Hillary Jordan

Mudbound

2007

Claire Messud

The Emperor’s Children

2006

Uzodinma Iweala

Beasts of No Nation

2005

Philip Roth ^

The Plot Against America x

2004

Jhumpa Lahiri

The Namesake

2003

Richard Price

Samaritan

2002

Maxine Clair

October Suite

2001

Chang-rae Lee

A Gesture Life

2000

Breena Clarke

River, Cross My Heart

2011 2010 > x

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The New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association (NAIBA) sponsors its Book of the Year Awards to recognize authors who were born or lived in the Atlantic region—New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Washington D.C., Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Virginia—and/or books whose story takes place in that region. There are five categories: fiction, nonfiction, picture book, children’s literature, and special interest. Publishers are limited to two submissions per category. More information is available at http://www .newatlanticbooks.com/book_awards.html.

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Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Award ?

2011 2010

2009

The Guernsey Literary Mary Ann Shaffer and and Potato Peel Pie Annie Barrows Society |||

2008

Daniel Alarcon •

Lost City Radio

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The annual Book of the Year awards, presented by the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association (NCIBA), honor books published in the award year and written or illustrated by residents of Northern California. Independent booksellers, representing 200 stores in the region, vote for their favorite titles from a list of finalists created by bookseller committees. NCIBA is dedicated to supporting, nurturing, and promoting independent retail bookselling in California. Book of the Year winners may be chosen in several categories, including nonfiction, fiction, poetry, children’s literature, children’s illustrated, and a regional title focusing on the history or culture of Northern California. For more information, see the NCIBA website: http://www.nciba.com.

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Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award— Fiction Winners ♣

2009

Dave Boling

Guernica

2009

Garth Stein

The Art of Racing in the Rain

2008

Denis Johnson •

Tree of Smoke ‡,xx,x

2007

Ivan Doig

The Whistling Season

2006

Garth Stein

How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets

2006

Jim Lynch

The Highest Tide

2005

Seth Kantner

Ordinary Wolves

2005

Stephanie Kallos

Broken For You

2004

Matt Ruff

Set This House in Order

2003

Chuck Palahniuk

Lullaby

2011 2010

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The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) supports “literacy, free speech, and independent bookselling” in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association awards have been given annually since 1965. Awards vary from year to year because PNBA does not solicit nominations for specific categories, but simply requires that authors and/or illustrators reside within the region (including British Columbia) and that nominated books be published within the current calendar year. Nominations for special awards for publishing, illustration, or a body of work may also be submitted. Special awards are given at the discretion of PNBA’s Awards Committee, which is made up of representative booksellers. A new committee is formed each March, submissions are due at the end of October, and the winners are picked in mid-November. The awards are heavily publicized and promoted by PNBA member bookstores. Details may be found at http://www.pnba.org/awards.htm.

Year

Author

Title

2003

Gina Ochsner

The Necessary Grace to Fall

2003

Michael Collins

The Resurrectionists

2002

Craig Joseph Danner

Himalayan Dhaba

2001

James Welch

The Heartsong of Charging Elk

2001

Claire Davis

Winter Range

2001

Pete Fromm

How All This Started

2000

Diane Smith

Letters from Yellowstone

1999

Rosina Lippi

Homestead

1999

Nicole Mones

Lost in Translation

1999

Robert Clark

Mr. White’s Confession

1999

Frank Soos

Unified Field Theory

1998

Pete Fromm

Dry Rain

1998

Kathleen Alcala

Spirits of the Ordinary

1998

Joanna Rose

Little Miss Strange

1997

Kevin Canty

Into the Great Wide Open

1997

Chuck Palahniuk

Fight Club

1996

Craig Lesley

The Sky Fisherman

1996

Kathleen Tyau

A Little Too Much Is Enough

1995

Rebecca Brown

Gifts of the Body

1995

David Guterson

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1994

Thom Jones

The Pugalist at Rest

1993

David James Duncan

The Brothers K

1993

Clay Morgan

Santigo and the Drinking Party

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Snow Falling on Cedars

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Title

1993

Laura Kalpakian

Graced Land

1992

Deirdre McNamer

Rima in the Weeds

1992

Tom Spanbauer

The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon

1991

Mary Clearman Blew

Runaway

1991

Charles Johnson

Middle Passage

1991

James Welch

The Indian Lawyer

1990

Laura Kalpakian

Dark Continent and Other Stories

1990

Molly Gloss

The Jump-Off Creek

1989

Thomas Savage

Corner of Rife & Pacific

1989

William Gibson

Mona Lisa Overdrive

1989

Lynda Sexson

Margaret of the Imperfections

1988

Carol Orlock

Goddess Letters

1988

Ivan Doig

Dancing at the Rascal Fair

1987

Alex Hancock

Into the Light

1987

James Welch

Fools Crow

1986

Jim Heynen

You Know What Is Right

1985

William Kittredge

We Are Not in This Together

1985

Douglas Unger

Leaving the Land

1985

Ivan Doig

English Creek

1985

Craig Lesley

Winterkill

1984

Raymond Carver

Cathedral

1984

David James Duncan

The River Why

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140

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Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Book Award for Fiction †

2009

Lisa See

Shanghai Girls

2008

David Benioff

City of Thieves

2007

Lisa See

Peony in Love

2006

Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack

Literacy and Longing in L.A.

2005

Lisa See

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

2004

Michelle Huneven

Jamesland

2003

T. Jefferson Parker

Cold Pursuit

2002

T. C. Boyle

After the Plague & Other Stories

2011 2010

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Any member of the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association (SCIBA)—including booksellers, book wholesalers, publishers, and other industry professionals—may nominate a work, author, or illustrator for a SCIBA Book Award, but only booksellers may vote to determine the winners. Awards are given in six categories: nonfiction, fiction, mystery, art and architecture, children’s novel, and children’s picture book. To be eligible, a book must have been published between July 1 and June 30 of the award year. Works that reflect “the Southern California culture or experience” are preferred. Eligible authors and/or illustrators must reside within the SCIBA region—from Morro Bay south to the Mexican border. Entry forms and details may be downloaded at http://www.scibabooks.org/ book_awards.

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Southern Independent Booksellers Association Award ±

2009

Ron Rash

Serena

2008

Sarah Addison Allen

Garden Spells

2007

Watt Key

Alabama Moon

2006

Joshilyn Jackson

Gods in Alabama

2005

Ron Rash

Saints at the River

2004

Clyde Edgerton

Lunch at the Piccadilly

2003

Sue Monk Kidd

The Secret Life of Bees

2002

Doug Marlett

The Bridge

2001

Tony Earley

Jim the Boy

2000

Fred Chappell

Look Back All the Green Valley

1999

Tim Gautreaux

The Next Step in the Dance

2011 2010

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The Book Award was created in 1999 to recognize excellent books of southern origin, as determined by members of the Southern Independent Booksellers Association (SIBA), and “to give southern readers an enviable list of books to enjoy, read, buy, and give as gifts.” Books are nominated in six categories, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, cooking, young adult, and children’s. Eligible books must be set in the American South and have been published within the award year. Only SIBA-member booksellers in the states of Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and Mississippi can submit nominations and vote on the selections. Winners are chosen from among the finalists by a panel of southern booksellers. More information can be found on the SIBA website: http://www.sibaweb.com.

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Alan Cheuse’s Favorites—National Public Radio

All-time Best Fiction James Joyce

Ulysses

1922

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick

1851

William Faulkner *

The Sound and the Fury

1929

Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina

1877

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Collected Stories

18831903

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Selected Short Stories

18371854

Mark Twain

Huckleberry Finn

1884

Virginia Woolf

To the Lighthouse

1927

Sherwood Anderson

Winesburg, Ohio

1919

Ernest Hemingway *

The First Forty-Nine Stories

19361938

Richard Wright

Native Son

1940

John Dos Passos

U.S.A.

Isaac Babel

The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel

1920s

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Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio’s longtime “voice of books,” is the author of four novels, three collections of short fiction, and the memoir Fall Out of Heaven. As a book commentator, Cheuse is a regular contributor to National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The Antioch Review, Prairie Schooner, New Letters, The Idaho Review, and The Southern Review, among other places. He teaches in the Writing Program at George Mason University and the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and is a National Book Award judge for 2009. For more on Alan’s works go to http://www.alancheuse.com.

Fiction Favorites from World War Two On   Norman Mailer !

The Naked and the Dead

1948

James Jones

From Here to Eternity

1951

John Steinbeck *

East of Eden

1952

Jorge Luis Borges

Ficciones

1962

Alejo Carpentier

The Lost Steps

1953

Seize the Day

1956

Mario Vargas Llosa

The Green House

1966

James Baldwin

Go Tell It on the Mountain

1953

William Styron

The Confessions of Nat Turner **

1967

Joan Didion

Play It As It Lays

1970

Philip K. Dick

The Man in the High Castle

1962

Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse-Five

1969

Gabriel García Márquez *

A Hundred Years of Solitude

1967

Doris Lessing *

Collected Stories of Doris Lessing

1978

Light Years

1975

Far Tortuga

1975

Wallace Stegner

Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner

1990

Eudora Welty !

The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty ‡

1982

Bernard Malamud

The Complete Stories

1997

Grace Paley •

The Collected Stories of Grace Paley

1994

Saul Bellow

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James Salter Peter Matthiessen

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Title

Year

Evan Connell

The Collected Stories of Evan S. Connell

1995

Herbert Gold

Love and Like

1960

Recent Favorites   Vasily Aksyonov

Generations of Winter

1994

Raymond Carver

Raymond Carver: Collected Stories

19761988

Haruki Murakami ^

The Wind-up Bird Chronicles

1997

We Were the Mulvaneys

1996

Richard Ford /

Rock Springs

1987

Italo Calvino

Cosmicomics

1965

Jayne Anne Phillips

Fast Lanes

James Welch

The Indian Lawyer

Amos Oz

The Same Sea

2001

Cormac McCarthy

The Crossing

1994

Robert Stone

Outerbridge Reach

1992

James D. Houston

Snow Mountain Passage

2001

Joyce Carol Oates

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2000 ♣

1990

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National Endowment for the Arts—The Big Read

Jorge F. Hernández

Sun, Stone, and Shadows

2008

Tobias Wolff

Old School

2003

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Ernest J. Gaines

A Lesson Before Dying

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1993

Tim O’Brien

The Things They Carried

1990

Amy Tan

The Joy Luck Club

1989

Cynthia Ozick •

The Shawl

1989

Louise Erdrich

Love Medicine ††,/

1983

Marilynne Robinson

Housekeeping

1980

Rudolfo Anaya

Bless Me, Ultima

1972

Ursula K. Le Guin

A Wizard of Earthsea

1968

Naguib Mahfouz

The Thief and the Dogs

1961

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

1960

Emily Dickinson

The Poetry of Emily Dickinson

1955

Fahrenheit 451

1953

Carson McCullers

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

1940

John Steinbeck *

The Grapes of Wrath

Ray Bradbury

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1939

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This list was created by the National Endowment for the Arts in conjunction with the Institute of Museum and Library Services to address the issue of declining literary reading in America, especially among the young. The Big Read looks to inspire “people across the country to pick a good book” and to “encourage reading for pleasure and enlightenment.” Reading programs, resources for discussing classic literature, and a comprehensive website help citizens read and discuss these works within their communities. For more information go to http://www.neabigread.org.

Title

Year

Robinson Jeffers

The Poetry of Robinson Jeffers

1938

Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God

1937

Dashiell Hammett

The Maltese Falcon

1930

A Farewell to Arms

1929

Thornton Wilder

The Bridge of San Luis Rey **

1927

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

Edith Wharton

The Age of Innocence

Willa Cather

My Ántonia

1918

Jack London

The Call of the Wild

1903

Leo Tolstoy

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

1886

Henry James

Washington Square

1880

Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

1876

Edgar Allan Poe

The Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

1849

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1839

Ernest Hemingway

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1920

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American Library Association Notable Books for Adults

Title

2009

David Benioff

City of Thieves

2009

Rabih Alameddine

The Hakawati

2009

Nadeem Aslam •

The Wasted Vigil

2009

Richard Bausch

Peace

2009

Jeff Talarigo

The Ginseng Hunter

2009

Louise Erdrich

The Plague of Doves

2009

Rivka Galchen

Atmospheric Disturbances

2009

Jhumpa Lahiri

Unaccustomed Earth

2009

Steven Millhauser •

Dangerous Laughter

2009

Owen Sheers

Resistance

2009

Elizabeth Strout

Olive Kitteridge

2008

Jon Clinch

Finn •

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The Complete Stories

2008

David Malouf

2008

William Trevor

Cheating at Canasta

2008

Amy Bloom

Away

Brock Clarke

An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England x

2008

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The goal of Notable Books Council is to “make available to the nation’s readers a list of 25 very good, very readable, and at times very important fiction, nonfiction, and poetry books for the adult reader.” The Notable Books list evolved from an activity sponsored by the Lending Round Table of the American Library Association (ALA). Since 1944, selection has been carried out in a variety of ways. In 1991 the Notable Books Council came under the auspices of the Reference and User Services Association’s Collection Development and Evaluation Section (RUSA CODES). To learn more about the ALA and its literary awards, visit www.ala.org/rusa.

Year

Author

Title

2008

Tess Uriza Holthe

The Five-Forty-Five to Cannes

2008

Ron Carlson

Five Skies

2008

Nathan Englander

The Ministry of Special Cases

2008

Lloyd Jones

Mister Pip

2008

Ian McEwan

On Chesil Beach

2008

Per Petterson

Out Stealing Horses

2008

Jim Crace

The Pesthouse

2008

Michael Chabon !

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union xx

2007

Kate Grenville

The Secret River

2007

Ivan Doig

The Whistling Season

2007

Kiran Desai

The Inheritance of Loss ††,‡‡

2007

Debra Dean

The Madonnas of Leningrad

2007

Christopher Bigsby

Beautiful Dreamer

2007

Yasmina Khadra

The Attack

2007

Lori Lansens

The Girls

2007

Cormac McCarthy

The Road

2007

Sam Savage

Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife x

2007

Haruki Murakami ^

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman oo

2007

David Mitchell

Black Swan Green

2007

James Meek

The People’s Act of Love

2006

Judy Fong Bates

Midnight at the Dragon Café

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Title

2006

Jonathan Safran Foer

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close x

2006

Mary Gaitskill

Veronica

2006

Amitav Ghosh

The Hungry Tide

2006

Kazuo Ishiguro

Never Let Me Go xx,x

2006

Uzodinma Iweala

Beasts of No Nation

2006

Cormac McCarthy

No Country for Old Men x

2006

Ian McEwan

Saturday

2006

Haruki Murakami ^

Kafka on the Shore

2006

Marilynne Robinson

Gilead

2006

Luis Alberto Urrea

The Hummingbird’s Daughter oo

2005

Stuart Dybek •

I Sailed with Magellan

2005

Louis De Bernières •

Birds Without Wings

2005

Lars Saabye Christensen

The Half Brother

2005

Julian Barnes

The Lemon Table

2005

Yasmina Khadra

The Swallows of Kabul

2005

Zakes Mda

The Madonna of Excelsior

2005

David Mitchell

Cloud Atlas

2005

Alice Munro ¦,•,ф

Runaway

2005

Mikael Niemi

Popular Music from Vittula

2005

Philip Roth ^

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Tobias Wolff

Old School

2004

ZZ Packer

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere

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Awards and Notable Lists

Year

Author

Title

2004

Joseph O’Connor

Star of the Sea

2004

Toni Morrison *,!

Love

2004

Monica Ali

Brick Lane

2004

Antonio Lobo Antunes

The Inquisitor’s Manual

2004

William Boyd

Any Human Heart

2004

Edward Carey

Alva and Irva:The Twins Who Saved a City

2004

Oscar Casares

Brownsville: Stories

2004

Mark Haddon

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NightTime ¶,xx

2004

Khaled Hosseini

The Kite Runner

2004

Edward P. Jones •

The Known World

2004

Jonathan Lethem

The Fortress of Solitude

2003

Arnost Lustig

Lovely Green Eyes

2003

Norah Labiner

Miniatures

2003

Anthony Doerr

The Shell Collector

2003

Sandra Cisneros •

Caramelo

2003

Paul Auster

The Book of Illusions

2003

Ian McEwan

Atonement

2003

John McGahern •

By the Lake

2003

Mark Slouka

God’s Fool

2003

Gary Shteyngart

The Russian Debutante’s Handbook

2003

Kenzaburo Oe

Rouse Up, O Young Men of the New Age!

2003

Rohinton Mistry ф

Family Matters oo

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2003

Roland Merullo

In Revere, in Those Days

2002

Lydia Davis •

Samuel Johnson is Indignant: Stories

2002

Peter Carey

True History of the Kelly Gang ‡‡,~

2002

Dan Chaon

Among the Missing

2002

Percival Everett

Erasure

2002

Jonathan Franzen

The Corrections

2002

Nadine Gordimer *

The Pickup

2002

Alistair MacLeod •

Island: The Complete Stories

2002

Bruce Olds

Bucking the Tiger

2002

W. G. Sebald

Austerlitz

2002

Manil Suri

The Death of Vishnu

2002

Mark Winegardner

Crooked River Burning

2001

Helen DeWitt

Last Samurai

2001

Jim Crace

Being Dead

2001

J. M. Coetzee *

Disgrace

2001

Frederick Busch

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The Blind Assassin

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Margaret Atwood

2001

Michael Chabon !

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay **

2001

Laura Kalpakian

Delinquent Virgin

2001

Thomas King

Truth and Bright Water

2001

Joy Williams

The Quick and the Dead

2001

Zadie Smith

White Teeth

2001

Tom Paine

Scar Vegas

2001

Michael Ondaatje

Anil’s Ghost

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Awards and Notable Lists

Year

Author

Title

2001

Antonya Nelson

Living to Tell

2001

Matthew Kneale

English Passengers

2000

Michael Cunningham

The Hours

2000

Rachel Cusk

The Country Life

2000

Roddy Doyle

A Star Called Henry

2000

Andre Dubus III

House of Sand and Fog

2000

Nathan Englander

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges

2000

Ha Jin

Waiting

2000

Beryl Bainbridge

Master Georgie

2000

Ward Just

A Dangerous Friend

2000

Chang-rae Lee

A Gesture Life

2000

Jonathan Lethem

Motherless Brooklyn

2000

Frederick Reuss

Henry of Atlantic City

2000

Wayne Johnston

The Colony of Unrequited Dreams

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Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards

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Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Fiction

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International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

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James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction

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Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction by an American Woman

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Latino Book Awards of the Latino Book & Family Festival

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Los Angeles Times Award for Fiction

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Man Booker Prize for Fiction

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Midwest Booksellers Association Book Choice Award

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Miles Franklin Literary Award

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Mountains and Plains Regional Book Award for Fiction

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National Book Award for Fiction

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National Book Award for Poetry

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National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

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National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry

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New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award for Fiction

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Fiction Winners

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PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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References and Resources

There is a wealth of book-related information available online. The following are some helpful links to find more information on worldwide fiction book awards not given list space in this journal. There are also links for blogs, social networking sites, and resources for book clubs. These links are included because they are useful sites and did not solicit or pay to be included. If you know of a list or other resource that should be mentioned here, please send it to: [email protected].

Book Awards U.S. Book Awards Ambassador Book Award

www.esuus.org/Programs_Books_Across_Sea_ Ambassador_Book_Awards.htm

American Academy of Arts and Letters Awards

www.artsandletters.org/awards2_all.php

American Book Award

www.beforecolumbusfoundation.org

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award

www.anisfield-wolf.org

Benjamin Franklin Awards

www.ibpa-online.org/pubresources/benfrank. aspx

Best Translated Book Award

www.rochester.edu/College/translation/ threepercent/index.php?s=btb

Dana Award

www.danaawards.com

Eric Hoffer Award

www.hofferaward.com/home.html

James D. Phelan Award

www.sff.org/programs/awards-programs/ art-awards

James Jones First Novel Fellowship

www.wilkes.edu/pages/1159.asp

Independent Publisher Book Award for Fiction

www.independentpublisher.com/ awardwinners.php

Lambda Literary Award

www.lambdaliterary.org

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U.S. Book Awards Mercantile Library Center for Fiction Awards

www.mercantilelibrary.org/awards

Pushcart Prize

www.pushcartprize.com

Robert Kirsch

www.latimes.com/extras/bookprizes

Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Awards

www.ronajaffefoundation.org

Sherwood Anderson Foundation Writers Award

sherwoodandersonfoundation.org/current_ winner

St. Louis Literary Award

www.slu.edu/libraries/associates/award.html

Stonewall Book Award

www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/glbtrt/stonewall/ stonewallbook.cfm

VCU Cabell First Novelist Award

www.firstnovelist.vcu.edu/about.html

William FaulknerWilliam Wisdom Creative Writing Competition

www.wordsandmusic.org/competition.html

Whiting Writers’ Award

www.whitingfoundation.org

State Awards Arkansas—The Porter Prize www.porter-prize.com California Book Awards

www.commonwealthclub.org/bookawards

California—Joseph Henry Jackson Award

www.sff.org

Colorado Book Awards

www.coloradohumanities.org/ccftb/Colorado_ Book_Awards.htm

Connecticut Book Awards

www.hplct.org/cfb/cba.htm

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State Awards Florida Book Awards

floridabookawards.lib.fsu.edu

Louisiana Writer Award

www.state.lib.la.us/la_dyn_templ.cfm?doc_ id=18

Massachusetts Book Awards

www.massbook.org/index.html

Michigan Notables

www.michigan.gov/hal/0.1607.7-16017447_39583---.00.html

Minnesota Book Awards

thefriends.org/mnbookawards_index.html

Montana Book Awards

www.montanabookaward.org

New Mexico Book Awards

nmbookcoop.com/BookAwards/BookAwards. html

New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts www.nmarts.org/govartsawards.html New York Society Library Book Awards

www.nysoclib.org/awards/index.html

North Carolina Book Awards

www.history.ncdcr.gov/affiliates/lit-hist/ awards.htm

Northern California Book Awards

www.poetryflash.org/NCBA.html

Ohioana Book Awards

www.ohioana.org/awards/book.asp

Oklahoma Book Awards

www.odl.state.ok.us/ocb/obaward.htm

Oregon Book Awards

www.literary-arts.org/awards

Utah Book Award

www.slcpl.lib.ut.us/details.jsp?parent_ id=15&page_id=137

Virginia—Library of Virginia Literary Awards

www.lya.virginia.gov/public/litawards

Washington State Book Award

www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=about_ leaders_washingtoncenter_awardwinners

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State Awards Writer’s League of Texas

www.writersleague.org/contests/book-awards. htm

Australian Book Awards The Age of the Year Awards

www.theage.com.au

Australian Booksellers Association Choice Award

www.aba.org.au/choiceAwards.asp

Australian Book Industry Awards

www.publishers asn.au

Australian Capital Territory Awards

www.arts.act.gov.au

Australian Indie Award

www.leadingedgebooks.com.au

Australian Literature Society Awards

asaliterature.com/?page_id=4

Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Awards

www.arts.gov.au/books/pmliteraryawards

Australian/Vogel Literary Award

www.allenandunwin.com/default. aspx?page=442

Barbara Jefferis Award

www.asauthors.org/scripts/cgiip.exe/ WService=ASP0016/ccms.r?PageId=10128

CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature

www.waverley.nsw.gov.au/library/award

Nita Kibble Literary Award

www.perpetual.com.au/campaigns/shortlist_ kibble_home.aspx

New South Wales Premiers Literary Awards

www.arts.nsw.gov.au

Northern Territory Literary Awards

www.ntl.nt.gov.au/news/events/literary_ awards

Patrick White Award

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_White

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Australian Book Awards Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards

www.premiers.gld.gov.au

Tasmanian Book Awards

www.arts.tas.gov.au

Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards

www.slv.vic.gov.au/programs/literary/pla/index. html

Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards

www.slwa.wa.gov.au/about_us/premiers_ book_awards

Canadian Book Awards Alberta Literary Awards

www.writersguild.ab.ca

Alberta Readers’ Choice Award

www.albertareaderschoice.ca

Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel

www.amazon.ca/First-Novel-Award-Books/ b?ie=UTF8&node=1194446

Atlantic Book Awards

www.atlanticbookawards.ca

Banff Mountain Book Competition

www.banffcentre.ca

British Columbia Book Prizes

www.bcbookprizes.ca

Canadian Authors Association Awards

www.canauthors.org/index.html

CBC Literary Awards

www.radio-canada.ca

City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize

www.calgary.ca

City of Vancouver Book Award

vancouver.ca/commsvcs/oca/awards

Danuth Gleed Literary Award (short fiction)

www.writersunion.ca

Darmouth Awards

www.halifax.ca/bookawards

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Canadian Book Awards Grand Prix du Livre de Montreal

ville.montreal.qc.ca

Lorne Pierce Medal

www.rsc.ca/index.php?page_id=61&land_ id=1&award_id=20

Manitoba Book Award Winners

www.bookpublishers.mb.ca/mba

Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards www.mbwriter.mb.ca/mwapa/mwapa.html Matt Cohen Prize

www.writerstrust.com/programs_apa_mattcohen.html

Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards

www.writersalliance.nf.ca/awards.html

Ottawa Book Prize

www.ottawa.ca/residents/arts/funding_awards/ book_awards/index_en.html

Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts

www.arts.on.ca

Quebec Writer’s Federation Awards

www.qwf.org/awards

Saskatchewan Book Awards

www.bookawards.sk.ca

Re-Lit Awards

therelitawards.blogspot.com

Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize

www.writerstrust.com/programs_apa_rogers. html

Toronto Book Award

www.toronto.ca/book_awards/index.htm

Victoria Butler Book Prize

victoriabookprizes.ca

Writers’ Trust Awards

www.writerstrust.com/events_writers_trust_ awards.html

Irish Book Awards All Irish Awards can be found here:

www.irishbookawards.ie/AwardDetails.aspx

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International Book Awards Dylan Thomas Prize for Young Writers

www.thedylanthomasprize.com

Warwick Prize for Writing

www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac.cross_fac/ prizeforwriting

New Zealand Book Awards Montana New Zealand Book Awards www.booksellers.co.nz/mba_abt_awards.htm Nielsen BookData New Zealand Booksellers’ Choice Award

www.booksellers.co.nz/tr_ind_awards.htm

UK Book Awards Authors Club First Novel Award

www.booktrust.org.uk/Prizes-and-awards

Aye Write! Bank of Scotland Prize for Scottish Fiction

www.ayewrite.com/Book-Prize

BBC National Short Story Award

www.booktrust.org.uk/Home

Desmond Elliot Prize

www.desmondelliottprize.org

Dylan Thomas Prize for Young Writers

www.thedylanthomasprize.com

Galaxy British Book Awards

www.britishbookawards.co.uk

Guardian First Novel

www.guardian.co.uk/books/guardianfirst bookaward

Hawthornden Prize

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthornden_Prize

John Llewellyn Rhys Prize

www.booktrust.org.uk/show/feature/Home/ John-Llewellyn_Rhys-Prize

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UK Book Awards The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize

www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/ books

Saltire Society Scottish Literary Awards

www.saltiresociety.org.uk

Society of Authors Awards

www.societyofauthors.org/prizes-grants-andawards/prizes-for-fiction-and-non-fiction

Somerset Maugham Award

www.societyofauthors.org/prizes-grants-andawards

Wales Book of the Year Prize

www.academi.org/book-of-the-year

Waverton Good Read Award

www.wavertongoodread.org.uk

Short Story Awards Flannery O’Connor Award

www.ugapress.uga.edu/FOC.html

Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award

munsterlit.ie/FOC%20Award%20page.html

PEN/O. Henry Award

www.randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry

PEN/Malamud Award and Memorial Reading

www.penfaulkner.org/penmalamud.htm

Rea Award for the Short Story

www.reaaward.org

Red Hen Press Short Story Award

www.redhen.org

The Story Prize

www.thestoryprize.org

Audio Book Awards Audiofile Earphone Award

www.audiofilemagazine.com/earphones.cfm

Audies

www.audiopub.org/audies-gala.asp

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Author Awards Nobel Prize for Literature

nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature

New England Independent Booksellers Association Book Award for Fiction

www.newenglandbooks.org

Man Booker International Prize

www.themanbookerprize.com

Lannan Literary Award for Fiction

www.lannan.org

Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award

www.helmerichaward.org

Chicago Tribune Literary Award

http://www.chicagohumanities.org

Writer’s Trust Author Awards

www.writerstrust.com/programs_apa.html

Franz Kafka Prize

www.franzkafka-soc.cz/index.php?lang=en& action=view&page=xcenafkafky

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Book Blogs

There are thousands of Internet sites dedicated to blogging about books and reading. The following is a small but rich representation of blogs for readers to share what they are reading, read book reviews, get information for their book clubs, and read about other people who love to read. As with anything Internet related, blogging sites are continually being added and changed. The links mentioned here were accurate at the time of printing. Make sure to check out the blog roll on each site for more great blog suggestions.

Book Blogs Use these directories to find even more book related blogs online. Bookblogs.ning.com www.greencritter.com/bbaw/default.aspx lbc.typepad.com

Literary Blogs Books, INQ. The Epilogue booksinq.blogspot.com Bookdwarf www.bookdwarf.com Book Slut www.bookslut.com Booksquare Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism. booksquare.com Conversational Reading Daily literary news, with interviews, reviews, thoughts and obsessions. www.conversationalreading.com The Elegant Variation marksarvas.blogs.com Litblog Co-op Uniting the leading literary weblogs for the purpose of drawing attention to the best of contemporary fiction, authors, and presses that are struggling to be noticed in a flooded marketplace. http://lbc.typepad.com Mark Athitakis’ American Fiction Notes americanfiction.wordpress.com

Resources GalleyCat www.mediabistro.com/galleycat Maud Newton maudnewton.com/blog/index.php The Millions www.themillions.com A Commonplace Blog On books, bookmen, and other rapidly aging notions. dgmyers.blogspot.com Grumpy Old Bookman grumpyoldbookman.blogspot.com The Literary Saloon Literary weblog at the complete review. www.complete-review.com/main/main.html Elegant Variation marksarvas.blogs.com Ready Steady Book A literary site. www.readysteadybook.com/Blog.aspx The Reading Experience Contemporary Literature and Criticism noggs.typepad.com Small Spiral Notebook A venture into something literary www.smallspiralnotebook.com Three Percent A resource for international literature. www.bookdwarf.com

Lighter Book-Related Blogs 1 More Chapter www.1morechapter.com/ A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy yzocaet.blogspot.com A Girl Walks into a Bookstore agirlwalksintoabookstore.blogspot.com Bermuda Onion bermudaonion.wordpress.com

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Bibliolatry To read is divine. bookworship.blogspot.com Bloody Hell! It’s a Book Barrage! chartroose.wordpress.com Bloggin’ ‘Bout Books blogginboutbooks.blogspot.com Book Addiction heatherlo.wordpress.com Bookavore Voracious reader with a certain verbal attitude. bookavore.com Book Awards Reading Challenge bookawardschallenge.blogspot.com Book Chatter and Other Stuff bookchatterandotherstuff.blogspot.com Book, Line and Sinker booklineandsinker.wordpress.com Bookfoolery and Babble bookfoolery.blogspot.com Bookgasm Reading material to get excited about. www.bookgasm.com Booking Mama Sharing ideas on books, book clubs, and occasionally some other things. bookingmama.blogspot.com Book Loons bookloons.com Book Nook Club Life is too short to read bad books. booknookclub.blogspot.com Bookseller Chick Connecting readers to books, authors to readers, and exploring the on- and offline worlds in between. www.booksellerchick.blogspot.com Books on the Brain lisamm.wordpress.com Bookstore People Reviews of independent bookstores because buying and reading books is an adventure www.bookstorepeople.com

Resources CaribousMom Reading a good book with a furchild by my side. www.caribousmom.com Chain Reading blog.chainreader.com The Evening Reader eveningreader.wordpress.com The Friendly Book Nook thefriendlybooknook.com GENRE: Fiction www.genrefiction.net Girls Just Reading Book reviews and random thoughts from three avid readers. girlsjustreading.blogspot.com Great New Books That are a Must Read newgreatbooks.blogspot.com Hey Lady! Whatcha Readin’? Reading is sexy. heylady.net J. Kaye’s Book Blog j-kaye-book-blog.blogspot.com The Literarian Reading between the lines http://www.theliterarian.com Literary Minded blogs.crikey.com.au/literaryminded Linus’ Blanket www.linussblanket.com Maw Books Blog blog.mawbooks.com Much Madness is Divinest Sense Too many books, not enough time www.danahuff.net/?p=849 My Friend Amy www.myfriendamysblog.com Musings of a Bookish Kitty www.literaryfeline.com The Novel World thenovelworld.com

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Rebecca Reads Thoughts about reading fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books, new and old reviews.rebeccareid.com Reading and Ruminations readingandruminations.wordpress.com She is Too Fond of Books www.sheistoofondofbooks.com She Reads and Reads Book talk and reviews with a focus on fiction written by women. shereadsandreads.blogspot.com Words to Mouth Where Readers Meet Authors Beyond the Printed Page wordstomouth.com The Written Word myreadingbooks.blogspot.com BiblioBuffet Writing worth reading, reading worth writing about. http://www.bibliobuffet.com

Blogs Connected to Bookstores Check out these blogs from the people who know books best. These blogs are listed because they are resources for any reader, not just those in their area. They post great reviews, challenges, and author information. BayShore Blog (BayShore Bookstore, Oconto, WI) bayshorebooksllc.blogspot.com Between the Covers (Tattered Cover Bookstore, Denver, CO) tatteredcoverbookstore.blogspot.com Big Blue Marble Bookstore (Philadelphia, PA) bigbluemarblebooks.blogspot.com Book Culture (Book Culture Books, New York City, NY) bookculture.wordpress.com Boone Bridge Books Blog (Tigard, OR) blog.boonebridgebooks.com Book Flap (Kepler’s Bookstore, Menlo Park, CA) keplers.blogspot.com BookPeople (BookPeople Bookstore, Austin, TX) bookpeopleblog.wordpress.com Book Soup (Los Angeles, CA) booksoupbookstore.blogspot.com

Resources Boswell and Books (Boswell Book Company, Milwaukee, WI) boswellandbooks.blogspot.com Burgundy Books (East Haddam Village, CT) blog.burgundybooks.com Fiction Addiction (Greenville, SC) www.fictionaddictionblog.com Flap Copy (Changing Hands Bookstore, Tucson, AZ) flapcopy.blogspot.com The Front Table (Seminary Co-op Bookstores, Chicago, IL) blog.semcoop.com/index.php Joseph-Beth Booksellers (Pittsburgh, PA) joseph-beth.blogspot.com Inkblotter (The King’s English Bookshop, Salt Lake City, UT) thekingsenglish.wordpress.com Inkwell Bookstore (Falmouth, MA) inkwellbookstore.blogspot.com The Inside Flap (Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops Milwaukee, WI) www.insideflap.blogspot.com Just the Bookstore (Glen Ellyn, IL) justthebookstore.blogspot.com Kash’s Book Corner (Boulder Bookstore, Boulder, CO) kashsbookcorner.blogspot.com Lemuia Books (Jackson, MS) blog.lemuriabooks.com Magers and Quinn Booksellers (Minneapolis, MN) blog.magersandquinn.com Monkeyread (Monkey See Monkey Read, Northfield, MN) monkeyread.wordpress.com McNally Jackson Books (New York City, NY) mcnallyjackson.com/blog Next Chapter’s Reading Copy (Mequon, WI) nextchapterreadingcopy.blogspot.com Newtonville Books (Newton, MA) www.newtonvillebooks.com/blog Norlight Lit Life (Northern Lights Books, Duluth, MN) northernlightsbooks.blogspot.com Odyssey Books (South Hadley Village Commons, MA) www.odysseybks.blogspot.com Omnivoracious (Amazon.com) www.omnivoracious.com

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Porter Square Books (Cambridge, MA) portersquarebooksblog.blogspot.com Powell’s Books www.powells.com/blog Rediscovered Bookshop (Boise, ID) rediscoveredblog.blogspot.com RiverRun Bookstore (Portsmouth, NH) www.riverrunbookstore.com/blog Subterranean Books (St. Louis, MS) subbooks.com/blog Vroman’s Bookstore (Pasadena, CA) blog.vromans.com The Written Nerd (Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene, Brooklyn) www.writtennerd.blogspot.com

Blogs Connected to Publications The Book Bench (The New Yorker) www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books Kenyon Review kenyonreview.org/blog Paper Cuts (New York Times) papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com PEN America A blog for writers and readers. www.penamerica.blogspot.com Jacket Copy (Los Angeles Times) latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy Short Stack (Washington Post) voices.washingtonpost.com/shortstack Signatures (Good Magazine) www.good.is/series/signatures The Blog (The Second Pass) thesecondpass.com/?cat=8

Social Networking Sites for Readers Read, Share, Connect. Goodreads www.goodreads.com

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LibraryThing www.librarything.com Shelfari www.shelfari.com Book Lust booklust.wetpaint.com aNobii www.anobii.com BookJetty www.bookjetty.com

Book Exchange Sites Trade books for the cost of postage. Paperbackswap www.paperbackswap.com BookMooch www.bookmooch.com Bookins www.bookins.com Swaptree www.swaptree.com TitleTrader www.titletrader.com Frugal Reader www.frugalreader.com Bookcrossing­—this is a book tracking site. Leave a book in a public spot for someone else to pick and enjoy. Track the book online and see where it goes. www.bookcrossing.com

Book Club Resource Sites Book Club Classics Great resources for serious readers who like to have fun. http://bookclubclassics.com/Blog/ Book Club Girl Dedicated to sharing great books, news and tips with book club girls everywhere. www.bookclubgirl.com

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Book Group Buzz Book group tips, reading lists, and lively talk of literary news from the experts at Booklist Online bookgroupbuzz.booklistonline.com Book Group Expo Where readers and authors meet! bookgroupexpo.com/index.html Reading Group Guides www.readinggroupguides.com/blog/blog.asp Booksprouts Making book clubs and reading groups easy, online http://www.booksprouts.com Lit Lovers A well-read online community. www.litlovers.com/index.html

Online Book Clubs African American Literature Book Club www.aalbc.com Book Talk http://www.booktalk.org The GRITS Online Reading Club thegritsbookclub.com 24/8 Online Book Club www.248bookclub.com

Bookstore Book Clubs Barnes and Noble Book Clubs bookclubs.barnesandnoble.com/bn Target Club Picks http://www.target.com/Club-Picks-Books-MMB/b/ref=sc fe l 5/187-77732468153843?ie=UTF8&node=2233733011. Books-a-Million’s Book Club www.booksamillion.com/bookclubs Borders Book Club bordersbookclub.gather.com

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Also, check out sites such as Facebook, Yahoo! Groups, and Meetup.com for book clubs in your area.

Read-Alikes Besides using the lists in this journal, another way to find books you might enjoy is to use a read-alike list. These lists provide the name of an author, title, or series, with corresponding authors, titles, and series that are similar. There are many lists available online (search using the term “read-alike”). Here are a few great examples: www.anniston.lib.al.us/readalikes.htm atn-reading-lists.wikispaces.com/Read+Alikes www.hclib.org/pub/bookspace/FindAGoodBook.cfm www.rmlib.org/Readalikes.htm

Novelist Novelist is a huge database of book related information you can access through your library’s website, using your active library card to login. The database contains information on over 155,000 fiction titles, including reviews, annotations, Read Alike lists, and Book Discussions Guides. Contact your local library to see if they subscribe to Novelist.

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Literary Terms

Written by Molly Lundquist of LitLovers.com

LitLovers is a full-service website devoted to book clubs and individual readers. The site offers a wealth of resources: reading guides, book recommendations, online lit courses, how-to’s, recipes, and games—all to enhance reading and the book club experience. Molly Lundquist, LitLovers founder, spent years as a corporate speechwriter and later as a college English instructor. LitLovers combines her passions for reading, writing, and teaching. Allegory (see Symbol) Archetype (see Symbol) Characters—individuals who populate a book and act out the storyline or plot. There are major and minor characters, as well as a protagonist (hero or heroine) and antagonist (rival to protagonist). Characterization—the method by which authors create characters. Writers choose among five different “shapes,” or types, of characters and also decide whether characters develop or change. Round—psychologically and emotionally complex characters with fully developed inner lives. Flat—two dimensional, underdeveloped characters with scant attention paid to inner lives. Stock—stereotypes, such as dumb blonde or jock, miserly man, handsome rake or femme fatale. Authors use both round and flat (even stock) characters in the same story—there isn’t time or space enough to develop all characters equally. Dynamic—characters who change during the course of the story; they grow, mature, and learn about the world and their role in it. Dynamic characters are main characters (thought not all main characters are dynamic). Static—characters who remain unchanged by the end of the story. Static characters make up secondary and minor characters. Cliché—an expression that becomes trite with overuse. Clichéd writing is unoriginal and predictable, often following a formulaic plot. Climax (see Plot) Comedy—today, a humorous narrative; traditionally, a drama that begins with disorder but ends with order restored and happiness on the part of all characters. Shakespeare’s As You Like it is a comedy. Conflict—the struggle between opposing forces in a story. Conflict creates interest and suspense within a plot (suspense is what keeps you turning the page). Authors use two types of conflict, often within the same story:

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External—conflict outside characters that acts upon them: character vs. character; character vs. community, society, or nature; or nation vs. nation. Internal—conflict within a character, an emotional or psychological state of mind in which a character wars against him/herself. Denouement (see Plot) Epic—traditionally, a long narrative poem recounting the adventures of a (mythological) hero who reflects the history and wider values of his culture (The Iliad and The Odyssey); today, a term that often refers to any narrative incorporating a wide, historical sweep of a given society. Fantasy—fiction that takes place in a non-existent world, such as a fairyland. Tolkein’s Lord of the Ring series is a good example, as is the C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia and J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. Figure of speech—a word or phrase that points to something other than its literal meaning, that connotes rather than denotes. Figures of speech heighten meaning by creating an emotional response from the reader. (See Metaphor and Simile.) Flashback (see Plot Devices) Foreshadowing (see Plot Devices) Genre—French for type or kind; used in literature to distinguish between poetry, drama, and prose. Or comedy, tragedy, epic poetry, and romance. Or fiction and non-fiction. Sub-genres refer to action, detective/mystery, fantasy, gothic, romance, science fiction, spy, thriller, or western. Or biography, memoir, history, and current events. “Genre” is a fluid word. Gothic—type of fiction originated by Horace Walpole in the 18th century centering on magic, mystery and spooky medieval buildings. Today, it refers to a dark, foreboding mystery and an unknown terror. Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, Daphne DuMaurier’s Rebecca and even Steven King’s The Shining are a few examples. Imagery—the use of descriptive words, phrases, or figures of speech (similes or metaphors) that appeal to a reader’s sensory perceptions. Images convey the mood, or atmosphere, of a work. Irony—a different reality than what is intended or expected. There are four basic types of irony: Verbal—what is said is not what is meant. Sarcasm is a form of verbal irony Situational—what happens is the opposite of what is expected or desired; unintended consequences. Dramatic—readers know things that the characters do not. Readers are “in the know.” Cosmic—bad things happening to good people; a working out of fate. Magical realism—fiction based on the life of ordinary individuals but interspersed

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with supernatural or magical beings and occurrences. Magical realism was developed by South American writers, primarily Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Jorge Borges, and employed by North American writers like Alice Hoffman. (See Realism) Melodrama—a work of fiction depending on sensationalism—heightened drama—to achieve its effects; heavy dependence on plot with little character development. Characters in a melodrama tend to be sharply drawn in terms of good or evil—with heavy dependence on plot. Metaphor—a figure of speech that compares one object to another without using the word “like” (as in a simile). “He is a snake”... as opposed to “he is like a snake.” (see Simile and Figure of speech). Mood—the underlying atmosphere created in a literary work; it may be dark or somber, light and airy, mocking or earnest, satiric or sincere, dismissive or admiring. Mood is created by descriptive imagery, choice of diction, character dialog, and subject matter. Mystery (detective or crime story)—a crime is committed and the hero/heroine must uncover the perpetrator. Mystery novels exemplify the underlying philosophy of realistic fiction in that the world is knowable (rather than mysterious and unknowable) through the close observation of empirical facts. A sub-genre of fiction. Narrator (see Point of View) Novel—a prose form devoted to the realistic, everyday lives of ordinary people. The novel evolved in the late 17th century from French romances—fanciful stories centered on the nobility and interventions of supernatural beings. (See Realism and Romance) Perspective (see Point of View) Plot—the events or action in a story; plot is what happens to the characters. A classic plot has a basic “architecture”; think of it as a pyramid: Exposition (ground to the left of the pyramid)—background information, usually placed at the beginning of a story. Provided either by a narrator or through dialogue. Rising action (left side of the pyramid)--the working through of the plot’s conflict. Climax (apex of the pyramid)--when the conflict reaches its highest point of tension or suspense; the crisis, or turning point, in the action. Falling action (right side of the pyramid)--also known as denouement, the dropping off of tension as the conflict resolves itself. Conclusion (ground to the right)--a wrap-up of the story’s plot lines, perhaps an epilogue or afterword. Plot Devices—techniques writers use to help further events of the story.

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Flashback—a backward look at events prior to the story’s present time frame as a way of explanation; sometimes provided by a narrator as a sort of reverie by a character. Foreshadowing—a dramatic hint (an event, perhaps) of what is to come later in the story; often used to lay the groundwork for an ending so that it doesn’t feel manipulative or “tacked on.” Suspended revelation—a device whereby the author withholds information from readers to create interest and suspense. Mysteries are completely dependent on suspended revelation, but all fiction uses it. It’s like fishing—the author lets the line out gradually, bit by bit, and then reels us in at the end. Cliff hanger—a dramatic, suspenseful moment at the end of a chapter. The reader is left “hanging” until the action is resolved in the next chapter or later. Point of view—narrative perspective; who tells the story. POV is one the most important decisions an author makes—who tells the story determines the reader’s sympathy and how much information readers are given. There are two basic points of view: first person and third person. But it’s more complicated: First-person—a character within the story: the “I” of the story. We can know only as much as the “I” character knows. Third-person—a narrator who is external to the story, not a character. There are three types of narrators: Omniscient—all knowing; reveals the behavior and thoughts of all characters; there is no single, privileged character. Limited Omniscient—limited knowledge; reveals the behavior and thoughts of primary characters only—leading readers to identify more closely with them. Objective—impersonal; reveals characters only through dialog and behavior; has no access to their inner thoughts. Realism—fiction based on the life of ordinary individuals with strict adherence to everyday, accepted reality (no interference of supernatural elements). (See Novel and Romance.) Romance—today, a sub-genre of fiction in which a man and woman overcome obstacles in their attraction to one another but come together at the end; traditionally, a long French narrative (prose or poetry), featuring noblemen and women. Romances, incorporating supernatural elements, gradually evolved into the realistic prose novel. (See Novel and Realism) Saga—a tale of family adventure over generations. Science fiction—futuristic fiction that revolves around adventures in planetary space; often based on scientific explorations into astrophysics, such as other dimensions, parallel universes, extra-terrestrial life, and time warps. A sub-genre of fiction.

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Setting—the context of the story’s events. Authors choose settings carefully in order to set mood, establish theme, or use as a symbolic element. There are four basic types of settings. Location—indoors/outdoors, rural/urban, geographical area Time—time of day, season, year, historical era Culture—religious values, social mores, political beliefs, philosophical outlook Physical—weather, topography (mountains, bodies of water), architecture. Simile—a figure of speech that compares one object to another: her lips are like roses. (See Metaphor) Style—the choice of words (diction) and their arrangement into sentences that is particular to an author. Style reflects how authors attempt to express their ideas. Sentences, for instance, may be long and convoluted like Faulkner or short and pithy like Hemingway. Style can also affect mood. Subplot—a secondary and lesser plot; used to shed light on the main plot, either through contrast or comparison. Sometimes a subplot serves as a diversion from the primary plot to relieve tension. Subtext—what is not stated explicitly in the text. Subtext reveals a deeper, alternate, meaning underlying the words written on the page. Suspense—the anxious anticipation on the reader’s part to see how the plot plays out and how characters resolve their issues. It’s what keeps readers turning the pages. Symbol—an object, person or event that represents something other than itself. There are four types of symbols: Conventional—found in our daily lives: wedding ring (unending love); flag (love of country); dove (peace or hope). There are hundreds of conventional symbols. Literary—used to deepen or extend a story’s meaning. Literary symbols are suggestive, meaning different things—rather than definitive, meaning only one thing. Allegory—a definitive, one-to-one correspondence, used often in religious works such as Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, in which a pilgrim named Christian seeks salvation. On the path he meets characters called Hopeful, Goodwill, and Mr. Worldly. Archetype—universal patterns that have timeless recognition: light = goodness, safety, enlightenment; dark = evil, mystery, fear; water = life force, birth/rebirth, or purity. A hero’s journey follows the same pattern in all cultures (a call to action, through adversity, to victory), and the Cinderella motif (debasement to triumph) is found in hundreds of ancient folktales throughout the globe. Theme—a central, underlying idea explored by an author; generally implicitly stated. A theme serves as a unifying principle: characters, plot, and imagery all express the working out of this central idea.

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Thriller—highly dramatic, plot-driven novel characterized by fast-paced action and a clever hero who must thwart the plans of heinous villains. A sub-genre of fiction. Tragedy—today, a narrative that ends in death or unrelenting sadness; traditionally, a drama that moves from order to disorder and ends with the downfall of the main character due to an inherent flaw (pride or lack of self-knowledge). Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex is a tragedy, as are Shakespeare’s Othello, Hamlet, and King Lear.

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Author Abani, Chris Abish, Walter Aboulela, Leila Abraham, Pearl Achebe, Chinua Ackroyd, Peter Adams, Carrie Adams, Douglas Adams, Glenda Adams, Lorraine Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi

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37 40 61 94 114 55 95 114 63 128 32, 56, 102, 127 Adiga, Aravind 48, 125 Adler, Renata 38 Afolabi, S. A. 61 Agee, James 11 Agee, Jonis 75 Ai 26 Aiken, Conrad 18, 28 Akenson, Donald Haram 47 Akpan, Uwem 98 Aksyonov, Vasily 144 Alam, Saher 72 Alameddine, Rabih 147 Alarcon, Daniel 136 Alcala, Kathleen 138 Alcott, Louisa May 116 Alexis, André 47 Alfau, Felipe 25 Algren, Nelson 22 Ali, Monica 32, 51, 80, 84, 86, 103, 127, 150 Allen, Sarah Addison 95, 141 Allende, Isabel 74, 94, 99 Allio, Kristin 128 Allison, Dorothy 25 Álvarez, Julia 34 Ames, Jonathan 128 Amidon, Stephen 128 Amis, Kingsley 49 Amis, Martin 53 Ammons, A. R. 27, 28, 36 Anaya, Rudolfo 145 Anderson, Jessica 63 Anderson, Sherwood 107, 142 Angelou, Maya 100 Ansay, A. Manette 33, 99, 105, 131

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Antunes, Antonio Lobo 150 Ashbery, John 16, 27, 36 Aslam, Nadeem 65, 147 Astley, Thea 62, 63, 64 Atkinson, Kate 84, 93, 101, 127 Atwood, Margaret 42, 46, 47, 48, 51, 52, 77, 85, 94, 96, 124, 151 Aubyn, Edward St. 50 Auden, W. H. 17, 28 Austen, Jane 116 Auster, Paul 88, 150 Azzopardi, Trezza 52 Babel, Isaac 142 Bacon, Charlotte 37 Bacon, Leonard 17 Bail, Murray 62, 67 Bainbridge, Beryl 52, 53, 54, 55, 57, 152 Baker, Ellen 130 Baldwin, James 108, 113, 116, 143 Ballard, J. G. 58 Bambrick, Winifred 44 Bang, Mary Jo 35 Banks, Russell 13 Banville, John 48, 58 Barker, Nicola 50, 66 Barker, Pat 48 Barnes, Julian 51, 52, 102, 127, 149 Barnes, Margaret Ayer 12 Barrett, Andrea 13, 20, 85 Barry, Sebastian 50, 51, 54, 57, 96 Barth, John 21 Barton, Emily 127 Bass, Rick 133 Bates, Judy Fong 148 Baum, L. Frank 113 Bausch, Richard 147 Baxter, Charles 24 Beerbohm, Max 109 Begley, Louis 25, 33, 34, 38 Behrens, Peter 41 Belben, Rosalind 57 Belfer, Lauren 92 Bell, Madison Smartt 25 Bellow, Saul 10, 21, 22, 107, 110, 116, 143 Benét, Stephen Vincent 17, 18 Benét, William Rose 17

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Benioff, David 122, 140, 147 Benitez, Sandra 87 Bennett, Arnold 60, 110 Benson, Richard 102 Bercovitch, Reuben 38 Berendt, John 91 Berg, Elizabeth 99 Bergen, David 45, 127 Berger, John 49, 58 Berlinski, Mischa 23 Berne, Suzanne 56 Bernières, Louis De 68, 125, 128, 149 Berriault, Gina 30, 39 Berry, Brunonia 90 Berryman, John 16, 28 Beverly Whittemore, Miranda 72 Bigsby, Christopher 148 Binchy, Maeve 99 Bishop, Elizabeth 17, 28, 36 Bissoondath, Neil 82 Blake, James Carlos 76 Blevins, Win 134 Blew, Mary Clearman 139 Blixen, Karen 117 Bloom, Amy 25, 33, 122, 147 Blume, Judy 94 Bly, Robert 28 Bohjalian, Chris 100 Bolaño, Roberto 29, 79, 82, 125, 126 Boling, Dave 137 Booth, Martin 52 Borges, Jorge Luis 143 Bowen, Elizabeth 58, 110 Bowering, George 42 Bowles, Paul 111 Boyd, William 54, 58, 77, 84, 102, 150 Boyden, Joseph 82, 129 Boyle, T. C. 23, 40, 80, 84, 128, 140 Bradbury, Ray 145 Bradley, David 40 Brady, Joan 55 Brand, Dionne 47 Brandeis, Gayle 69 Bravers, Adam 90 Brett, Francis 60 Brockmeier, Kevin 88, 122 Brodrick, William 103

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Bromfield, Louis 12 Bronk, William 27 Brontë, Charlotte 95, 117 Brontë, Emily 95, 117 Brooker, Bertram 44 Brookner, Anita 49 Brooks, Geraldine 9, 102, 122 Brooks, Gwendolyn 17 Brown, Alan 65 Brown, Carrie 72, 86, 131 Brown, Dan 93, 121 Brown, George Mackay 53, 58 Brown, Mary Ward 38 Brown, Rebecca 138 Brown, Rosellen 73 Brownstein, Gabriel 37 Buck, Pearl S. 12, 98 Burgess, Anthony 109, 113, 117 Burnard, Bonnie 45 Burns, Olive Ann 117 Burroughs, William S. 115 Busch, Frederick 33, 151 Butcher, Tim 102 Butler, Robert Olen 10 Butler, Samuel 107 Byatt, A. S. 49, 50 Bynum, Sarah Shun lien 23, 72 Byrne, Paula 103 Cain, James M. 111 Caldwell, Erskine 110 Calisher, Hortense 73 Callaghan, Morley 43 Calvino, Italo 144 Cambor, Kathleen 73 Campbell, Bonnie Jo 22 Canty, Kevin 138 Capote, Truman 114, 117 Carey, Edward 150 Carey, Lisa 93 Carey, Peter 48, 49, 62, 63, 67, 68, 80, 151 Carlson, Ron 148 Carpentier, Alejo 143 Carré, John Le 58 Carroll, Lewis 117 Carroll, Steven 62 Carruth, Hayden 26, 35

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Author Carter, Angela Carter, Jimmy Carter, Stephen L. Cartwright, Justin Carver, Raymond Cary, Joyce Casares, Oscar Casey, John Castedo, Elena Castillo, Ana Cather, Willa

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58 92 70, 126 52, 54, 103 139, 144 60 150 20 25 94 12, 109, 114, 115, 117, 146 Chabon, Michael 9, 33, 83, 97, 122, 148, 151 Chamberlain, Diane 105 Chandra, Vikram 31, 83 Chaon, Dan 24, 151 Chappell, Fred 141 Charles, Gerda 55, 59 Chase, Joan 38, 73 Chase Riboud, Barbara 70, 73 Chatterjee, Upamanyu 127 Chatwin, Bruce 58 Chaudhuri, Amit 76 Cheever, John 10, 20, 22, 31, 109, 117 Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich 117, 142 Cheuse, Alan 78 Chevalier, Tracy 86 Chikwava, Brian 61 Child, Philip 44 Ching wen, Cheng 65 Choi, Susan 13, 83, 84 Chopin, Kate 95, 114 Choy, Wayson 47 Christensen, Kate 39 Christensen, Lars Saabye 149 Ciment, Jill 72 Cisneros, Sandra 94, 150 Clair, Maxine 71, 135 Clark, Robert 138 Clarke, Austin 45, 47, 67, 92 Clarke, Breena 99, 135 Clarke, Brock 126, 147 Clarke, George Elliott 82 Clarke, Lindsay 55 Clarke, Susanna 84, 121, 128 Clayton, Meg Waite 104

Author Cleage, Pearl Clifton, Lucille Clinch, Jon Coben, Harlan Coelho, Paulo Coetzee, J. M.

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70, 100 26 147 90 74, 91 33, 48, 49, 50, 58, 67, 97, 151 Coffin, Robert P. T. 18 Cohen, Matt 41 Cole, Marjorie Kowalski 69 Cole, Martina 103 Coles, Don 47 Colin, Beatrice 101 Collins, Michael 52, 138 Compton Burnett, Ivy 59 Connell, Evan 144 Connelly, Michael 90, 93, 94, 102 Conrad, Joseph 108, 109, 110, 112, 115 Cooper, Bernard 38 Costello, Mark 24 Cozzens, James Gould 11 Crace, Jim 30, 52, 54, 80, 84, 148, 151 Cronin, Justin 37 Cunningham, Michael 9, 33, 39, 97, 124, 152 Currie, Ellen 25 Cusk, Rachel 152 Dahlie, Michael 37 Dalrymple, William 103 Dalton, John 86 Dangor, Achmat 51 Danielewski, Mark Z. 23 Danner, Craig Joseph 138 Danticat, Edwidge 25, 32, 100, 128 Davidson, Andrew 81, 101, 104 Davies, Martin 102 Davies, Peter Ho 102 Davies, Robertson 43 Davis, Claire 133, 138 Davis, Harold L. 12 Davis, Kathryn 73 Davis, Lydia 23, 151 Dawson, Jennifer 59 de la Mare, Walter 60 de los Santos, Marisa 90, 95, 96 de Nyeko, Monica Arac 61 Dean, Debra 148

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Deane, Seamus 52 Deaver, Jeffery 90 DeLillo, Don 13, 14, 20, 24, 33, 40, 115 Demidenko, Helen 63 DeMille, Nelson 90 Dennis, Carl 15 Desai, Anita 52 Desai, Kiran 30, 48, 123, 148 DeWitt, Helen 151 Dexter, Pete 20, 76 Dey, Claudia 81 Diamant, Anita 96, 121 Díaz, Junot 9, 30, 71, 83, 126 Dick, Philip K. 143 Dickens, Charles 117 Dickey, James 28, 108 Dickinson, Emily 145 Didion, Joan 143 Dillon, George 18 Dixon, Sean 81 Dixon, Stephen 25 Dobbs, Kildare 43 Doctorow, E. L. 13, 14, 20, 23, 30, 31, 39, 40, 110, 117, 123 Doerr, Anthony 86, 150 Doig, Ivan 93, 117, 137, 139, 148 Donleavy, J. P. 111 Dooling, Richard 25 Doren, Mark Van 17 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 117 Doty, Mark 26, 35 Dove, Rita 16 Doyle, Arthur Conan 117 Doyle, Roddy 49, 53, 152 Doyon, Stephanie 127 Drabble, Margaret 59 Dreiser, Theodore 107, 108, 115 Drury, Allen 11 Dubus, Andre III 24, 33, 99, 124, 152 Ducornet, Rikki 34 Dugan, Alan 17, 26, 28 Dumas, Alexandre 117 Dunant, Sarah 106, 123 Duncan, David James 93, 138, 139 Dunmore, Helen 56 Dunn, Mark 88, 123 Dunn, Stephen 15

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Dunning, John 94 Durrell, Lawrence 58, 109, 117 Durrow, Heidi 69 Duyn, Mona Van 15, 28 Dybek, Stuart 149 Earley, Tony 141 Earling, Debra Magpie 133 Eberhart, Richard 16, 27 Ebershoff, David 101 Edgerton, Clyde 141 Edric, Robert 58 Edwards, Kim 105 Edwards, Selden 90 Egan, Jennifer 24 Eggers, Dave 32, 83, 94 Eisenberg, Deborah 83 Eksteins, Modris 47 Elkin, Stanley 25, 30, 31 Elliott, Stephen 83 Elliott, Sumner Locke 64 Ellison, Ralph 22, 96, 107, 112, 117 Ellory, Roger Jon 101 Emerson, Claudia 15 Engel, Marian 42 Enger, Leif 75, 96, 121 Englander, Nathan 148, 152 Enright, Anne 48, 50 Erdrich, Louise 13, 24, 30, 77, 123, 145, 147 Esquivel, Laura 93, 122 Eugenides, Jeffrey 9, 32, 80, 96, 98, 131 Evanovich, Janet 90 Evans, Richard Paul 94 Everett, Percival 151 Faber, Michel 92, 123 Fairchild, B. H. 35 Fairstein, Linda A. 92 Farrell, J. G. 49 Farrell, James T. 107 Faulkner, William 11, 22, 95, 98, 106, 108, 109, 112, 114, 117, 142 Fay, Juliette 105 Ferber, Edna 12 Fergus, Jim 133 Ferrè, Rosario 25 Ferris, Joshua 23, 37, 79, 83, 86, 102, 126

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Fielding, Henry 117 Findley, Timothy 42, 47 Fischer, Tibor 53 Fisher, Karen 133 Fitch, Janet 100 Fitzgerald, F. Scott 95, 106, 107, 111, 114, 115, 116, 118, 146 Fitzgerald, Laura 105 Fitzgerald, Penelope 30, 49, 53 Flanagan, Richard 67 Flanagan, Thomas 31 Flaubert, Gustave 95 Flavin, Martin 11 Fletcher, John Gould 18 Flock, Elizabeth 92 Flood, Tom 63 Flynn, Vince 91 Foer, Jonathan Safran 91, 127, 149 Follett, Ken 90, 98 Ford, Ford Madox 108, 109 Ford, Jamie 90, 104 Ford, Richard 10, 32, 33, 39, 79, 126, 144 Forester, C. S. 60 Forster, E. M. 60, 107, 108, 110, 113, 114, 116, 118 Foster, David 62 Foulds, Adam 50 Fountain, Ben 37, 86 Fowler, Karen Joy 103 Fowles, John 110, 115 Frame, Janet 68 Francis, Dick 90 Franzen, Jonathan 13, 19, 32, 57, 80, 84, 99, 124, 151 Frayn, Michael 52, 54 Frazier, Charles 20, 33, 85, 121 Freimuth, Fay 75 French, Tana 83 Freudenberger, Nell 72 Fromm, Pete 138 Frost, Robert 17, 18 Frutkin, Mark 46 Furnivall, Kate 105 Furst, Joshua 78 Gabaldon, Diana 93 Gaddis, William 20, 21, 34

Author Gaige, Amity Gaiman, Neil Gaines, Ernest J. Gaitskill, Mary

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75 128 30, 71, 100, 145 23, 32, 79, 83, 85, 127, 149 Galchen, Rivka 83, 147 Gale, Patrick 101 Galgut, Damon 51 Gallant, Mavis 42 Galloway, Steven 87, 101 Galvin, James 134 Garcia, Cristina 25, 72 Gardam, Jane 55 Gardner, John 31 Garner, Hugh 43 Garnett, David 60 Gates, David 14, 33 Gautreaux, Tim 141 Gee, Maurice 58 Genova, Lisa 105 Gershten, Donna M. 69 Gerstler, Amy 36 Ghiselin, Olive 134 Ghosh, Amitav 50, 149 Gibb, Camilla 46 Gibbons, Kaye 100 Gibson, William 81, 139 Giff, Patricia Reilly 92 Giffin, Emily 105 Gilb, Dagoberto 38 Gilbert, Jack 35 Gilchrist, Ellen 20 Gilmour, David 41, 82 Ginsberg, Allen 27 Glasgow, Ellen 12 Glass, Julia 19 Gloss, Molly 139 Glover, Douglas 41 Glück, Louise 15, 36 Godfrey, Dave 43 Godwin, Gail 73 Gold, Herbert 144 Goldbarth, Albert 35 Goldberg, Myla 88, 93, 124 Golden, Arthur 94 Golden, Marita 70 Golding, William 49, 58, 108, 112, 118

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González, Rigoberto 75 Goodman, Allegra 24, 85 Goolrick, Robert 135 Gordimer, Nadine 49, 58, 151 Gordon, Mary 73 Gouzenko, Igor 43 Gowdy, Barbara 46, 81 Grace, Patricia 65 Grafton, Sue 89 Graham, Gwethalyn 44 Graham, Jorie 15 Grahame, Kenneth 115 Grant, Linda 50, 56 Grau, Shirley Ann 11 Graves, Robert 60, 107 Gray, Alasdair 55 Green, Henry 110 Green, Tim 91 Greene, Graham 59, 108, 118 Greenway, Alice 91 Grenville, Kate 50, 56, 67, 148 Grimwood, Ken 94 Groh, Brian 105 Gruen, Sara 90, 97, 121, 131, 132 Guerin, Gene 133 Guest, Judith 73 Guèvremont, Germaine 43 Gunesekera, Romesh 53 Gunn, Neil M. 60 Gurganus, Allan 77 Gurnah, Abdulrazak 53 Guterson, David 39, 87, 122, 138 Guthrie, A. B. Jr. 11 Habila, Helon 61 Hacker, Marilyn 27 Hackett, Joyce 72 Haddon, Mark 54, 84, 97, 123, 150 Hage, Rawi 66, 81 Hagedorn, Jessica 25 Haigh, Jennifer 37, 90, 123 Hall, Brian 84 Hall, Donald 36 Hall, Radclyffe 60 Hall, Rodney 63 Hall, Sarah 51 Hall, Steven 88 Hamid, Mohsin 50

Author Hamill, Pete Hamilton, Jane Hammett, Dashiell Hancock, Alex Hansen, Ron Hardy, Ronald Harris, Joanne Harrison, Jim Hartley, L. P. Haruf, Kent

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93 38, 99, 100 109, 115, 146 139 24 59 93 75 59 24, 85, 92, 94, 123, 124, 133 Harvey, Kenneth J. 81 Haslett, Adam 13, 23 Hass, Robert 15, 26, 35 Hawthorne, Nathaniel 95, 118, 142 Hay, Elizabeth 45, 129 Haynes, Melinda 99 Hazzard, Shirley 19, 31, 62 Heaney, Seamus 80 Heath, Chris 103 Hecht, Anthony 16 Hegi, Ursula 94, 100 Heinemann, Larry 20 Hellenga, Robert 93 Heller, Joseph 106, 112, 118 Heller, Zoë 51, 103 Hemingway, Ernest 11, 108, 110, 112, 113, 115, 118, 142, 146 Hemon, Aleksandar 23, 31, 32, 125 Hempel, Amy 79 Hendrie, Laura 134 Henley, Patricia 24 Henriques, Robert 59 Henry, O. 118 Hensher, Philip 50, 83, 125 Hepinstall, Kathy 94 Herbert, Xavier 63 Hernández, Jorge F. 145 Hersey, John 11 Herzen, Lane Von 94 Hesse, Herman 118 Hewar, Alan V. 38 Heynen, Jim 139 Hiaasen, Carl 92 Hijuelos, Oscar 10, 14 Hill, Ingrid 131 Hill, Lawrence 67

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Hill, Susan 55 Hillyer, Robert 18 Hirsch, Edward 36 Hodgins, Jack 42 Hoffman, Alice 100 Hogan, Linda 14, 134 Holden, Craig 131 Hollinghurst, Alan 32, 48, 53, 57, 83 Hollingshead, Greg 42 Holtby, Winifred 60 Holthe, Tess Uriza 148 Homes, A. M. 102 Hope, Christopher 53, 55 Horan, Nancy 90, 97, 105, 132 Hosseini, Khaled 88, 91, 96, 97, 101, 121, 150 Houellebecq, Michel 66 Houston, James D. 144 Houston, Pam 134 Howard, Richard 16 Hubbard, Susan 72 Hudler, Ad 95 Hughes, Richard 109 Hugo, Victor 118 Hulme, Keri 49 Humphreys, Josephine 38 Huneven, Michelle 140 Hurston, Zora Neale 97, 112, 118, 146 Huxley, Aldous 60, 106, 108, 112, 118 Hyde, Catherine Ryan 102 Hyland, M. J. 50 Ignatieff, Michael 53 Ingalls, Rachel 83 Ireland, David 63 Irving, John 20, 91, 113, 118 Ishiguro, Kazuo 32, 49, 50, 52, 55, 83, 96, 127, 149 Isler, Alan 34 Iweala, Uzodinma 86, 128, 135, 149 Iyayi, Festus 68 Jackson, Joshilyn 141 Jackson, Mick 52 Jackson, Shirley 118 Jackson Opoku, Sandra 70 Jacobs, Kate 105 James, Henry 107, 108, 113, 114, 115, 118, 146

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Jarrell, Randall 28 Jeffers, Robinson 146 Jeffers, Susan 122 Jelloun, Tahar Ben 66 Jen, Gish 34 Jewett, Sarah Orne 118 Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer 49 Jin, Ha 13, 19, 37, 39, 152 John, Madeleine St. 52 Johnson, Charles 20, 34, 139 Johnson, Craig 133 Johnson, Denis 13, 19, 79, 83, 84, 126, 137 Johnson, Diane 24 Johnson, Josephine W. 12 Johnston, George 63, 64 Johnston, Jennifer 55 Johnston, Wayne 152 Jolley, Elizabeth 63 Jollimore, Troy 35 Jones, Ben 128 Jones, Edward P. 9, 23, 25, 30, 38, 66, 71, 80, 92, 150 Jones, Gayl 24, 70 Jones, Griff Rhys 102 Jones, James 22, 109, 143 Jones, Lloyd 50, 65, 67, 102, 148 Jones, Rodney 36 Jones, Thom 25, 138 Jordan, Hillary 69, 96, 135 Jordan, Judy 35 Joseph, Jenny 58 Joseph, Sheri 78 Joyce, James 106, 110, 111, 112, 113, 118, 142 Just, Ward 13, 24, 128, 131, 152 Justice, Donald 16 Kalfus, Ken 23, 83, 85 Kallos, Stephanie 95, 137 Kalpakian, Laura 139, 151 Kantner, Seth 137 Kantor, MacKinlay 11 Kaufman, Jennifer and Karen Mack 140 Keates, Jonathan 58 Kellerman, Jesse 101 Kelly, M. T. 42 Kelman, James 49, 58

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45 90, 100 90 92 102, 148 124 42, 43 59 60, 107, 108, 113, 114, 115, 119 Le Guin, Ursula K. 14, 73, 145 Lee, Chang rae 37, 87, 135, 152 Lee, Harper 11, 111, 119, 145 Lehane, Dennis 122 Leitch, Maurice 55 Lennon, J. Robert 87 LePan, Douglas 43 Lesley, Craig 138, 139 Lessing, Doris 143 Lester, Julius 34 Lethem, Jonathan 30, 80, 84, 85, 92, 126, 150, 152 Letts, Billie 100 Levine, Philip 15, 27, 36 Levy, Andrea 32, 54, 56, 67 Lewis, Sinclair 12, 109, 115, 116, 119 Li, Yiyun 37 Lightman, Alan 24 Link, Kelly 83, 84 Lippi, Rosina 37, 138 Lippman, Laura 126 Lipsyte, Sam 127 Little, Loyd 38 Lively, Penelope 49 Livesey, Margot 93 Llosa, Mario Vargas 143 Lockhart, E. 125 Lodge, David 55 London, David 134 London, Jack 110, 113, 119, 146 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 146 Lott, Bret 99 Lovelace, Earl 68 Lowell, Amy 18 Lowell, Robert 16, 17, 28, 36 Lowry, Malcolm 43, 107 Lurie, Alison 10 Lustig, Arnost 150

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Lynch, Jim 137 Macaulay, Rose 59 MacDonald, Ann Marie 99, 129 MacDonell, A. G. 60 MacIntyre, Linden 45 Mackay, Shena 52 Mackey, Nathaniel 26 MacLaverty, Bernard 52 MacLeish, Archibald 17, 18, 29 MacLennan, Hugh 43, 44 MacLeod, Alistair 47, 66, 129, 151 Maguire, Gregory 93 Mahfouz, Naguib 145 Mailer, Norman 10, 108, 115, 143 Makine, Andrei 33 Malamud, Bernard 11, 21, 119, 143 Malla, Pasha 46 Mallon, Thomas 131 Malouf, David 53, 63, 66, 68, 77, 147 Maloy, Kate 96 Manicka, Rani 92 Mann, Thomas 119 Mansfield, Katherine 119 Mantel, Hilary 48 Marche, Stephen 126 Marias, Javier 66 Markson, David 85 Marlett, Doug 141 Marquand, John Phillips 12 Márquez, Gabriel García 76, 77, 80, 98, 99, 118, 143 Marshall, Paule 70 Martel, Yann 48, 123 Martin, Lee 13 Martin, Steve 92 Martin, Valerie 56, 73, 84 Mason, Bobbie Ann 34, 38 Mason, Daniel 93 Matar, Hisham 31, 50 Mathers, Peter 64 Matthews, William 35 Matthiessen, Peter 19, 125, 143 Mattison, Alice 93 Maugham, W. Somerset 109, 119 Maurier, Daphne du 97, 114, 117 Mavor, Elizabeth 124 Mawer, Simon 50 Maxwell, William 20

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Mayle, Peter 93 McCabe, Patrick 52, 53 McCafferty, Jane 94 McCann, Colum 19 McCarthy, Cormac 9, 20, 30, 32, 57, 96, 98, 123, 126, 127, 134, 144, 148, 149 McCarthy, Tom 126 McCourt, Frank 122 McCracken, Elizabeth 24, 85, 87, 94 McCullers, Carson 98, 107, 119, 145 McCullough, Colleen 94 McDermott, Alice 13, 14, 20 McDonald, Roger 62 McDougall, Colin 43 McDowell, Franklin D. 44 McEwan, Ian 30, 48, 50, 51, 53, 55, 57, 76, 79, 80, 96, 97, 123, 126, 128, 148, 149, 150 McFetridge, John 81 McGahan, Andrew 62 McGahern, John 53, 150 McGill, Robert 82 McGinley, Phyllis 17 McIlvanney, William 55 McKay, Ami 82, 129 McKie, Ronald 63 McKinney Whetstone, Diane 70, 91 McMahon, Katharine 101 McMurtry, Larry 10, 119 McNamer, Deirdre 139 McPhee, Martha 23 McPherson, James Alan 10 Mda, Zakes 149 Means, David 33, 76 Meek, James 148 Meidav, Edie 72 Melville, Herman 119, 142 Meno, Joe 130 Meredith, William 15, 26 Merrill, James 16, 27, 28, 36 Merullo, Roland 151 Merwin, William S. 15, 16, 26 Messud, Claire 79, 127, 135 Meyers, Kent 133 Michaels, Anne 47, 56 Michener, James A. 11, 119 Middleton, Stanley 49 Millay, Edna St. Vincent 18

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Miller, Alex 62, 63, 68 Miller, Andrew 51, 57, 66 Miller, Caroline 12 Miller, Henry 108, 115 Miller, Sue 34, 99 Miller, Walter M. Jr. 119 Millhauser, Steven 10, 25, 78, 97, 147 Mills, Magnus 52 Milne, A. A. 112 Min, Anchee 102 Mistry, Rohinton 42, 46, 51, 52, 53, 65, 68, 76, 99, 150 Mitchard, Jacquelyn 100 Mitchell, David 32, 51, 103, 128, 148, 149 Mitchell, Margaret 12, 112, 119 Mo, Timothy 53, 57 Momaday, N. Scott 11 Mones, Nicole 72, 138 Moody, Martha 106 Moore, Brian 42, 43, 53, 58 Moore, Christopher 91 Moore, Lisa 82 Moore, Lorrie 33, 85 Moore, Marianne 17, 29 Moorhouse, Frank 62 Morgan, Charles 60 Morgan, Clay 138 Morgan, Robert 99 Moriarty, Laura 90 Morrall, Clare 51 Morris, Keith Lee 125 Morris, Mary McGarry 100 Morris, Wright 20, 22 Morrison, Toni 10, 31, 73, 78, 96, 99, 100, 112, 114, 119, 125, 150 Mortimer, Chapman 59 Morton, Brian 85 Moses, Kate 72 Mosley, Nicholas 55 Mosley, Walter 70, 93 Moss, Howard 28 Mosse, Kate 102 Mueenuddin, Daniyal 22 Mueller, Lisel 15, 27 Mukherjee, Bharati 30 Muldoon, Paul 15 Mulligan, Michelle Herrera 74

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Munro, Alice 30, 32, 42, 43, 45, 47, 79, 80, 91, 129, 149 Murakami, Haruki 65, 79, 83, 123, 144, 148, 149 Murdoch, Iris 49, 55, 58, 110, 124 Murray, Sabina 39 Myers, L. H. 60 Müller, Herta 66 Nabokov, Vladimir 106, 109, 112, 119 Naipaul, Shiva 55 Naipaul, V. S. 49, 109, 110 Naslund, Sena Jeter 91, 94, 124 Neate, Patrick 54 Nelson, Antonya 152 Nelson, Kent 133 Nemerov, Howard 16, 27 Némirovsky, Irène 90, 123 Newby, P. H. 49 Ng, Fae Myenne 126 Nguyen, Kien 92 Nicholls, David 103 Nicholson, William 91 Niemi, Mikael 149 Niffenegger, Audrey 96, 103, 123 Niles, Kate 75 Niven, Jennifer 89 Norman, Diana 91 Norman, Howard 25 O’Brien, Darcy 38 O’Brien, Edna 77 O’Brien, Kate 60 O’Brien, Tim 14, 21, 34, 145 O’Conner, Elizabeth 64 O’Connor, Edwin 11 O’Connor, Flannery 21, 114 O’Connor, Joseph 103, 150 O’Dell, Tawni 99 O’Doherty, Brian 51 O’Faolain, Nuala 93 O’Flaherty, Liam 60 O’Hagan, Andrew 52, 57, 76 O’Hara, Frank 28 O’Hara, John 22, 107 O’Nan, Stewart 85 O’Neill, Joseph 39, 79, 101, 122, 126 Oates, Joyce Carol 13, 14, 21, 24, 25, 31, 34, 99, 144 Ochsner, Gina 138

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150 49 151 36 75 15, 27 40 89 41, 42, 45, 47, 49, 65, 81, 151 Onions, Oliver 59 Oppen, George 16 Orlock, Carol 139 Orner, Peter 127 Orwell, George 107, 108, 112, 119 Osborne, Frances 101 Osondu, E. C. 61 Owuor, Yvonne Adhiambo 61 Oz, Amos 144 Ozeki, Ruth L. 65 Ozick, Cynthia 24, 128, 145 Packer, Ann 131 Packer, ZZ 149 Paine, Tom 151 Palahniuk, Chuck 137, 138 Paley, Grace 14, 25, 97, 143 Palmer, Vance 64 Pamuk, Orhan 66, 79, 83 Park, Ruth 63 Parker, Jeff 126 Parker, T. Jefferson 140 Parkhurst, Carolyn 105 Parks, Tim 52 Passos, John Dos 107, 142 Pasternak, Boris 119 Patchett, Ann 32, 39, 56, 73, 84, 94, 96, 122, 126 Paton, Alan 99, 119 Paul, Piers 58 Peace, David 57 Peery, Janet 24 Percy, Walker 21, 77, 109 Pessl, Marisha 79 Peterkin, Julia 12 Petterson, Per 66, 79, 148 Phillips, Caryl 32, 53, 57, 67 Phillips, Gin 86

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Saperstein, Alan 38 Saramago, José 85, 88 Sarvas, Mark 125 Sassoon, Siegfried 60 Savage, Sam 127, 148 Savage, Thomas 139 Sawai, Gloria 41 Scheinmann, Danny 101 Schlink, Bernhard 85, 99 Schoemperlen, Diane 41 Schultz, Philip 15 Schutt, Christine 13, 23 Schuyler, James 15 Schwarz, Christina 99 Scibona, Salvatore 22 Scofield, Sandra 25 Scott, Joanna 14 Scott, Kim 62 Scott, Paul 49 Scottoline, Lisa 92 Sebald, W. G. 30, 76, 80, 84, 151 Sebold, Alice 103, 121 See, Lisa 91, 123, 140 Segal, Lore 13 Seidel, Frederick 36 Seierstad, Asne 103 Seiffert, Rachel 51 Senior, Olive 68 Serrano, Daniel 74 Seth, Vikram 68, 93 Setterfield, Diane 90 Settle, Mary Lee 21, 73 Sexson, Lynda 139 Sexton, Anne 16 Shaara, Michael 10 Shacochis, Bob 25 Shaffer, Mary Ann and Annie Barrows 90, 97, 121, 136 Shapiro, Karl 17 Shapiro, Lionel 43 Sharma, Akhil 37 Sheers, Owen 147 Shelley, Mary 95, 120 Shepard, Jim 23 Shepard, Karen 128 Sherwood, Frances 34 Shields, Carol 10, 30, 42, 51, 53, 56

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Thomas, Michael 66, 79 Thompson, Alice 57 Thompson, Jean 24 Thornton, Lawrence 38 Tillman, Lynne 33 Toews, Miriam 41, 129 Tóibín, Colm 51, 52, 66, 76, 79 Tolkien, J. R. R. 93, 113, 120 Tolstoy, Leo 98, 120, 142, 146 Toltz, Steve 50 Toole, John Kennedy 10 Torrez, Everardo 74 Tremain, Rose 54, 56, 58 Trethewey, Natasha 15 Trevor, William 51, 53, 54, 55, 147 Trigiani, Adriana 103 Tropper, Jonathan 106 Tsiolkas, Christos 67 Tuck, Lily 19, 128 Tuohy, Frank 59 Turner, George 64 Twain, Mark 120, 142, 146 Tyau, Kathleen 138 Tyler, Anne 10, 30, 73, 120 Udall, Brady 133 Ulinich, Anya 126 Ullman, Ellen 84 Unger, Douglas 139 Unsworth, Barry 49, 53 Updike, John 10, 20, 21, 30, 31, 39, 80, 116, 120 Urquhart, Jane 42, 47 Urrea, Luis Alberto 65, 75, 149 Vachani, Nilita 75 Valentine, Jean 26 Vanderhaeghe, Guy 42, 129 Vassanji, M. G. 45, 46 Vaughan, Brian K. and Niki Henrichon 127 Verne, Jules 120 Vida, Vendela 126 Viereck, Peter 17 Vollmann, William T. 19, 32 Vonnegut, Kurt 107, 113, 114, 120, 143 Vreeland, Susan 124 Wain, John 55

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Williams, C. K. 15, 26, 36 Williams, John 21 Williams, Joy 13, 151 Williams, Thomas 21 Williams, William Carlos 16, 29 Wilson, Angus 59 Wilson, Margaret 12 Windley, Carol 81 Winegardner, Mark 151 Winthrop, Elizabeth H. 101 Winton, Tim 51, 52, 62, 63 Wiseman, Adele 43 Wolfe, Thomas 115, 120 Wolfe, Tom 24, 114, 128 Wolff, Tobias 32, 40, 84, 97, 145, 149 Woodward, Gerard 51 Woolf, Virginia 97, 107, 113, 114, 142 Wouk, Herman 11 Wright, Alexis 62 Wright, Charles 15, 27, 35 Wright, Franz 15 Wright, James 16 Wright, Richard 107, 112, 120, 142 Wright, Richard B. 41, 45, 47, 129 Wright, Stephen 83 Wroblewski, David 98, 132 Wuori, G. K. 75 Wurdemann, Audrey 18 Yamashita, Karen Tei 73 Yehoshua, A. B. 76 Young, E. H. 60 Yunque, Edgardo Vega 74 Zabor, Rafi 39 Zafón, Carlos Ruiz 88, 91, 103, 123 Zaturenska, Marya 18 Zusak, Markus 91, 97 Škvorecký, Josef 42

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1984 107, 112 19th Wife, The 101 2666 29, 79, 82, 125 77 Dream Songs 16 Abe: A Novel of the Young Lincoln 84 Able McLaughlins, The 12 About Schmidt 33 Absalom, Absalom! 114 Absurdistan 79, 127 Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette 91 Accidental Tourist, The 30, 120 Accidental, The 51, 54, 127 Acolyte, The 63 Act of Destruction 59 Adam’s Breed 60 Adventures of Augie March, The 22, 110, 116 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The 120 Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The 146 Advise and Consent 11 After 70 After Many a Summer Dies the Swan 60 After the Plague & Other Stories 140 After This 13 Against the Day 127 Age of Anxiety, The 17 Age of Innocence, The 12, 109, 113, 120, 146 Agüero Sisters, The 72 Ahab’s Wife 94, 124 Ain’t Nobody’s Business if I Do 70 Alabama Moon 141 Alchemist, The 91 Alentejo Blue 127 Alexandria Quartet, The 109, 117 Alias Grace 46, 52, 85, 94 Alice Adams 12 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 117 Alive Together: New and Selected Poems 15 All Aunt Hagar’s Children 71 All Quiet on the Western Front 119 All Souls 13 All Souls’ Rising 25 All That Matters 47 All the King’s Men 11, 108, 113, 120

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All the Pretty Horses 20, 30, 134 Allegro Postillions 58 Alligator 82 Alva and Irva:The Twins Who Saved a City 150 Always Coming Home 73 Amalgamation Polka 83 Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The 9, 33, 97, 151 Ambassadors, The 107 America Libre: A Novel of a National Nightmare 74 American Boy, The 103 American Outrage: A Novel of Quillifarkeag, Maine, An 75 American Pastoral 9, 33 15 American Primitive American Tragedy, An 107, 115 American Woman 13, 84 22 American Salvage Among the Missing 24, 151 Amongst Women 53 Amsterdam 48, 97 Anansi Boys 128 Ancestor Game, The 63, 68 And All Our Wounds Forgiven 34 Andersonville 11 Angela’s Ashes 122 Angels Flight 94 Angle of Repose 10, 110 Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons 92 Anil’s Ghost 41, 45, 65, 151 Animal Farm 108, 112, 119 Animal’s People 50 Anna Karenina 98, 120, 142 Annie Allen 17 Another Man’s Moccasins: A Walt Longmire Mystery 133 Antarctic Traveler 36 Any Human Heart 84, 150 Apex Hides the Hurt 126 Appointment in Samarra 107 Arrowsmith 12 Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England, An 126, 147 Art of Racing in the Rain, The 137 Arthur & George 51, 102, 127

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Artist of the Floating World, An 55 As I Lay Dying 98, 108, 112 Ashes: Poems New and Old and 7 Years From Somewhere 27, 36 Assorted Fire Events: Stories 33, 76 Astonishing Splashes of Colour 51 Astrid and Veronika 89 At Lady Molly’s 59 At the End of the Open Road 16 At Weddings and Wakes 14 Atlas Shrugged 115 Atmospheric Disturbances 83, 147 Atomised 66 Atonement 30, 51, 76, 80, 96, 123, 150 Attack, The 148 Atticus 24 Audrey Hepburn’s Neck 65 Augustus 21 Auroras of Autumn, The 29 Austerlitz 30, 80, 84, 151 Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, The 115 Autobiography of My Mother, The 33 Awakening, The 95, 114 Away 47, 122, 147 Awfully Big Adventure, An 53 Babbitt 115 Back Roads 99 Bad Boy’s Wife, The 128 Ballad of Desmond Kale, The 62 Ballad of the Harp Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. A Miscellany, The 18 Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart, The 31 Barney’s Version 46 Barracks Thief, The 40 Basket Maker, The 75 Bastard Out of Carolina 25 Be Near Me 76 Bean Trees, The 118 Bear 42 Bear and His Daughter: Stories 14 Bear Comes Home, The 39 Beasts of No Nation 86, 128, 135, 149 Beautiful and the Damned, The 116 Beautiful Dreamer 148

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Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart 25 Because They Wanted To 85 Bee Season 88, 93, 124 Behind the Scenes at the Museum 93 Being Dead 30, 80, 84, 151 Bel Canto 32, 39, 56, 84, 96 Bell for Adano, A 11 Belong to Me 90, 95 Beloved 10, 96, 112, 119 Benang 62 Bend in the River, A 110 90 Beneath a Marble Sky 80 Beowulf: A New Verse Translation Beside the Ocean of Time 53 Best Friends 106 Best Short Stories of O. Henry, The 118 Best Short Stories of Rudyard Kipling 118 Best Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, The 118 Beyond Deserving 25 Big Fellow, The 64 Big If 24 Billy Bathgate 14, 30, 40 Bird Artist, The 25 Bird Catcher, The 35 Bird of Night, The 55 Bird of Paradise, The 58 Birds of America 33, 85 Birds Without Wings 128, 149 Birth House, The 82, 129 Birth of Venus, The 106, 123 Bishop’s Man, The 45 Bitter Angel 36 Bitter Fruit 51 Black and Blue 100 Black Dogs 53 Black Prince, The 58, 124 Black Swan Green 148 Black Water 14, 34 Black Zodiac 15, 35 Blackstrap Hawco: Said to Be About a Newfoundland Family 81 Blackwater Lightship, The 52 Bless Me, Ultima 145 Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 26

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Blind Assassin, The 48, 96, 124, 151 Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, A 33 Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman 65, 148 Blindness 85, 88 Bliss 63 Blizzard of One 15 Blonde 13, 24 Blood River 102 Blood Ties 21 Blood Work 93 Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures 45 Blue Afternoon, The 77 Blue Angel 24 Blue Flower, The 30 Blue Money 72 Blue Water 105 Blues Dancing 91 Bluest Eye, The 99 Bobby Soxer, The 73 Bolter, The 101 Bone People, The 49 Bonfire of the Vanities 114 Book Borrower, The 93 Book of Bright Ideas, The 105 Book of Dead Birds, The 69 Book of Illusions, The 88, 150 Book of Mercy, The 73 Book of Negroes, The 67 Book of Ruth, The 38, 100 Book of Secrets, The 46 Book Thief, The 91, 97 Booked to Die 94 Bookseller of Kabul, The 103 Boomerang 60 Bostonians, The 115 Bottle Rocket Hearts 81 Brass Verdict, The 90 Brave New World 106, 112, 118 Brazzaville Beach 58 Breakfast at Tiffany’s 117 Breakfast on Pluto 52 Breath 62 Breath, Eyes, Memory 100 Breathing Lessons 10 Brick Lane 32, 51, 80, 84, 86, 103, 150 Brida 74

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Brideshead Revisited 110, 115, 120 Bridge of San Luis Rey, The 12, 108, 120, 146 Bridge of Sighs 122 Bridge, The 141 Bridges of Madison County, The 122 Brief Encounters with Che Guevara 37, 86 Brief History of the Dead, The 88, 122 Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The 9, 30, 71, 83, 126 Bright Ambush 18 Bright Forever, The 13 Bring Larks and Heroes 64 Broken For You 95, 137 Brookland 127 Brother Eagle, Sister Sky: A Message from Chief Seattle 122 Brothers K, The 93, 138 117 Brothers Karamazov, The Brownsville: Stories 150 Brutal Art, The 101 28 Buckdancer’s Choice: Poems Bucking the Tiger 151 Bug, The 84 Burning Water 42 Butcher Boy, The 53 By the Lake 150 Caine Mutiny, The 11 Call of the Wild, The 110, 113, 119, 146 Cane River 99 Canticle for Leibowitz, A 119 Caprices, The 39 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin 68 Caramelo 150 Careful, He Might Hear You 64 Carolina Ghost Woods 35 Carpathians, The 68 Carpentaria 62 Carrier of Ladders, The 16 Carry Me Down 50 Carry Me Like Water 74 Case Histories 84 Cat’s Cradle 114 Catch-22 106, 112, 118 Catcher in the Rye, The 109, 111, 119 Cathedral 139 Cellist of Sarajevo, The 87, 101

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Centaur, The 21, 120 Center of Everything, The 90 Champlain Road, The 44 Chaneysville Incident, The 40 Changing Light at Sandover, The 36 Charlotte’s Web 112 Charming Billy 20 Cheating at Canasta 147 Child in Time, The 55 Childhood 47 Children of Dynmouth, The 55 Children’s Book, The 50 Chimera 21 Chip Chip Gatherers, The 55 Chromos 25 Chymical Wedding, The 55 City of Falling Angels, The 91 City of Light 92 City of Refuge 125 City of Thieves 122, 140, 147 Civil Wars 73 Clara Callan 41, 45, 47, 129 Clean Straw for Nothing 63 Clockers 34 Clockwork Orange, A 109, 113, 117 Close Range: Wyoming Stories 13, 88 Clothes on Their Backs, The 50 Cloud Atlas 32, 51, 103, 128, 149 Cloudsplitter 13 Cloudstreet 63 Coast of Trees, A 36 Cockroach 81 Cold Morning Sky 18 Cold Mountain 20, 33, 85, 121 Cold Pursuit 140 Cold Sassy Tree 117 Collected Poems 16, 17, 18, 28, 29 Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov, The 16, 27 Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, The 17, 28 Collected Poems, 1917-1952 17, 29 Collected Poems, 1930-1976 27 Collected Poems, 1951-1971 28 Collected Poems, The 15 Collected Shorter Poems 1946-1991 35 Collected Stories 11, 142

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Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, The 79 Collected Stories of Doris Lessing 143 Collected Stories of Eudora Welty 20 Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, The 143 Collected Stories of Evan S. Connell, The 144 Collected Stories of Grace Paley, The 143 Collected Stories of Isaac Babel, The 142 Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, The 11, 21 Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner 34, 143 Collected Stories of William Faulkner 22 Collected Stories, The 14, 25 Collected Verse 18 Collected Works of Frank O’Hara, The 28 Colony of Unrequited Dreams, The 152 Color Purple, The 10, 20, 95, 111, 120 Columbarium 35 Come to Me 25 Company of Women, The 73 Complete Poems 17 Complete Poems, The 28 Complete Sherlock Holmes, The 117 Complete Stories & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe 119 Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor, The 21 Complete Stories, The 143, 147 Complicated Kindness, A 41, 129 Condition, The 90 Confederacy of Dunces, A 10 Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister 93 Confessions of Nat Turner, The 11, 143 Conjurer’s Bird, The 102 Conor: A Biography of Conor Cruise O’Brien 47 Conquistador 18 Consent to Kill 91 Conservationist, The 49 Continental Revue 44 Copper Crown 94 Corner of Rife & Pacific 139 Correcting the Landscape 69 Corrections, The 13, 19, 32, 57, 80, 84, 99, 124, 151

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Cosmicomics 144 Cottonwood Saints 133 Count of Monte Cristo, The 117 Counterlife, The 30 Country Life, The 152 Country Music: Selected Early Poems 27 Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories 134 Crime in the Neighbourhood, A 56 Crimson Petal and the White, The 92, 123 Crooked River Burning 151 Crossing the River 53, 57 Crossing Vines 75 Crossing, The 144 Crown of Feathers and Other Stories, A 21 Cry, the Beloved Country 99, 119 Cryptonomicon 85 Cupboard Under the Stairs, The 64 Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W, The 37 Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, The 54, 84, 97, 123, 150 Da Vinci Code, The 93, 121 Damascus Gate 24 Dance of the Happy Shades 43 Dance to the Music of Time, A 108 Dance, The 94 Dancing After Hours 33 Dancing at the Rascal Fair 117, 139 Dancing on Coral 63 Dangerous Friend, A 152 Dangerous Laughter 78, 97, 147 Dark Continent and Other Stories 139 Dark Palace 62 Dark Room, The 51 Dark Weaver, The 44 Darkmans 50 Darkness at Noon 107 Darkness Visible 58 Dart League King, The 125 Darts of Cupid and Other Stories, The 32 Daughter of Fortune 94, 99 Daughters of the House 53 David Copperfield 117 Day 54 Day by Day 36

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110 36 92 109, 115 Death in the Family, A 11 Death in Venice 119 Death of Bernadette Lefthand, The 134 Death of Ivan Ilyich, The 146 Death of the Heart, The 110 Death of Vishnu, The 86, 151 December 101 Decider, Slay Ride and Wild Horses 90 Deep End of the Ocean, The 100 Delights & Shadows 15 Delinquent Virgin 151 Deliverance 108 DeNiro’s Game 66 Deposition of Father McGreevy, The 51 Deserter, The 43 Destiny Waltz, The 55 Devil’s Advocate, The 59 Dew Breaker, The 32, 128 Dewey Defeats Truman 131 Diagnosis, The 24 Different Hours 15 Digby 43 Dirt Music 51, 62 Disaffection, A 58 Discovering Home 61 Discovery of Strangers, A 42 Disgrace 33, 48, 67, 97, 151 Disorder Peculiar to the Country, A 23, 83 Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks, The 125 Dissident, The 72 Distant Shore, A 32, 67 Disturbance of the Inner Ear 72 Dive from Clausen’s Pier, The 131 Divine Comedies 16 Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood 121 Diviners, The 42 Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 27 Divisadero 41, 81

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Docherty 55 Doctor Copernicus 58 Doctor Zhivago 119 Dog Soldiers 21 Dogeaters 25 Dogside Story 65 Dolphin, The 16 Don’t Tell Anyone 151 Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 26 Doubleman, The 63 Douglass Women 70 Downriver 58 Dragon’s Teeth 11 Dream Like Mine, A 42 Dream of the Unified Field, The 15 Dreaming in Cuban 25 Dreams of My Russian Summers 33 Dreams of Sleep 38 Drinking Coffee Elsewhere 149 Drop City 23, 80, 84 Drowning Ruth 99 Dry Rain 138 Drylands 62 During the Reign of the Queen of Persia 38, 73 Dusk 40 Dust Which is God, The 17 Early Autumn 12 Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest 35 Early Stories, The 39 Earth and High Heaven 44 East of Eden 99, 143 Eat the Document 23 Echo House 24 Echo Maker, The 13, 19, 127 Edge of Sadness, The 11 Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems 26 Eighth Day, The 21 Elbow Room 10 Elected Member, The 49 Electric Michelangelo, The 51 Elegy 35 Elizabeth and After 41 Ella Minnow Pea 88, 123

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Elle 41 Ellen Foster 100 Emperor’s Children, The 79, 127, 135 Empire Falls 9, 96, 124 Empire of the Sun 58 Empress Orchid 102 End of the Alphabet, The 81 End, The 22 Engineer of Human Souls, The 42 England, England 52 England, Their England 60 English Creek 139 English Passengers 52, 54, 152 English Patient, The 42, 47, 49 English, August: An Indian Story 127 Englishman’s Boy, The 42 Enormous Changes at the Last Minute 97 Equal Music, An 93 Erasure 151 Essence of the Thing, The 52 Ethan Frome 95, 114 Eucalyptus 62, 67 Europa 52 Europe Central 19, 32 Eustace and Hilda 59 93 Eva Moves the Furniture Eva Trout 58 Eventide 123 Every Last Cuckoo 96 Every Man for Himself 52, 54 Everybody Knows This is Nowhere 81 Everyman 39 Everything Changes 106 Evidence of Things Unseen 13, 23 Exact Revenge 91 Execution 43 Executioner’s Song, The 10 Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close 91, 127, 149 Fable, A 11, 22 Fabrizio’s Return 46 Fahrenheit 451 145 Failure 15 Fall of a Sparrow, The 93 Fall of a Titan, The 43 Fall of America: Poems of these States, 1965-1971, The 27

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Fall on Your Knees 99, 129 Family Markowitz, The 85 Family Matters 51, 65, 150 Family Pictures 34 Famished Road, The 49 Far Cry, The 59 Far Field, The 28, 72 Far North 22 Far Tortuga 143 Farewell to Arms, A 110, 112, 146 Farm, The 102 Fast Lanes 144 Fasting, Feasting 52 Father Goose 59 Fearless Jones 93 Feast of Love, The 24 Feather Crowns 34 Feel: Robbie Williams 103 Felicia’s Journey 54 Ficciones 143 Fiddler’s Farewell 18 Field of Vision, The 22 Fieldwork 23 Fiery Cross, The 93 Fig Eater, The 91 Fight Club 138 Final Payments 73 Fine Balance, A 46, 52, 68, 76, 99 Fingersmith 51 Finishing School, The 128 Finn 147 Finnegans Wake 110, 113 Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems 26 Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife 127, 148 First Forty Nine Stories, The 142 Fisher King, The 70 Five Quarters of the Orange 93 Five Skies 148 Five Forty Five to Cannes, The 148 Fixer, The 11, 21, 119 Flag for Sunrise, A 77 Flesh and Blood 36 Florida 23 Flowering Stone, The 18 Flying Change, The 15 Folded World, The 75

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Folding Star, The 53, 57 Fools Crow 77, 139 Fools of Fortune 55 For the Relief of Unbearable Urges 152 For Whom the Bell Tolls 113, 118 Foreign Affairs 10 Forever 93 Forms of Devotion 41 Fortress of Solitude, The 80, 84, 92, 150 Fountainhead, The 113 Four Corners of Night 131 Fraction of the Whole, A 50 Frankenstein 95, 120 Franny and Zooey 114 Freedom Song: Three Novels 76 French Lessons 93 French Lieutenant’s Woman, The 115 Friday Night Knitting Club, The 105 Friend of My Youth 47 81 Friends of Meager Fortune, The Frog 25 Frolic of His Own, A 20, 34 33 From Bondage From Here to Eternity 22, 109, 143 Fugitive Pieces 47, 56 Further Range, A 18 G. 49, 58 Galatea 2.2 33 Galveston 82 Gap Creek 99 Garbage 27 Garden Spells 95, 141 Gargoyle, The 81, 101, 104 Garner 128 Gasteropod, The 59 Gate House, The 90 Gate of Angels, The 53 Gathering, The 48, 50 GB84 57 Generations of Winter 144 Gentleman’s Guide to Graceful Living, A 37 Geography III 36 George & Rue 82 George Mills 31 Gertrude and Claudius 80 Gesture Life, A 135, 152

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Ghost Road, The 48 Giant’s House, The 24, 85, 87, 94 Giants in the Earth 119 Gifts of the Body 138 Gilead 9, 30, 79, 97, 149 Ginger Man, The 111 Ginseng Hunter, The 147 Girl in Hyacinth Blue 124 Girl Who Fell From the Sky, The 69 Girl Who Played Go, The 65 Girl with a Pearl Earring 86 Girls Who Saw Everything, The 81 Girls, The 102, 148 Given Day, The 122 Glade within the Grove, The 62 Glass Canoe, The 63 Glass Room, The 50 Go Tell It on the Mountain 108, 113, 116, 143 God of Animals, The 133 God of Small Things, The 48, 90 God’s Fool 150 Goddess Letters 139 Godmother, The 95 Gods in Alabama 141 Going After Cacciato 21 Gold Bug Variations, The 34 Golden Bird, The 58 Golden Bowl, The 108 Gone With the Wind 12, 112, 119 Good Companions, The 60 Good Doctor, The 51 Good Earth, The 12, 98 Good House, A 45 Good Man Is Hard to Find, A 114 Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, A 10 Good Soldier, The 108 Goodbye 21 Gorgeous Lies 23 Gould’s Book of Fish 67 Grace Notes 52 Graced Land 139 Graceland 37 Grapes of Wrath, The 12, 107, 111, 120, 145 Grass Dancer, The 37

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Heart of the Country, The 77 Heart of the Matter, The 59, 108 Heart So White, A 66 Heart’s Needle 17 Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, A 94 Heartsong of Charging Elk, The 138 Heat and Dust 49 Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology 35 Heaven Lake 86 Heaven of Mercury, The 24 Heir to the Glimmering World 128 Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems of L. E. Sissman 36 Helpless 46, 81 Henderson the Rain King 107 Henry of Atlantic City 152 Here on Earth 100 Heretic’s Daughter, The 89 Heroes 68 Herzog 21 Hiding Place, The 52 High Wind in Jamaica, A 109 Highest Tide, The 137 Highland River 60 Highways to a War 62 Highwire Moon 24 Himalayan Dhaba 138 His Family 12 His Toy, His Dream, His Rest 28 Historian x, The 121 Historian, The 91, 127 History of Love, The 88, 102, 128 History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, The 117 Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, A 114 Holiday 49 Holy Skirts 23 Home 22, 31, 56, 76, 97, 126 Home Land 127 Home Schooling 81 Home Truths 42 HomeSpun 75 Homestead 37, 138 Honey in the Horn 12 Honourable Schoolboy, The 58 Hopeful Monsters 55

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Hornet’s Nest, The 92 Horse of Air, A 63 Hotel du Lac 49 Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet 90, 104 Hotel World 51 Hottentot Venus 70 Hour I First Believed, The 90 Hours, The 9, 33, 39, 97, 124, 152 House for Mr. Biswas, A 109 House Made of Dawn 11 House of Children, A 60 House of Gentle Men, The 94 House of Mirth, The 109 House of Sand and Fog 24, 99, 124, 152 House on Mango Street, The 94 House on the Lagoon, The 25 Household Words 38 Househusband 95 Housekeeping 38, 145 How All This Started 138 How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets 137 How Far Can You Go? 55 How German Is It 40 How Late It Was 49 How to Be Lost 106 Howards End 108, 114, 118 Huckleberry Finn 142 Hugh Garner’s Best Stories 43 Human Capital 128 Human Stain, The 39, 80 Humboldt’s Gift 10 Hummingbird House 24 Hummingbird’s Daughter, The 65, 149 Hundred Years of Solitude, A 143 Hungry Tide, The 149 I Am Charlotte Simmons 128 I Know This Much Is True 100 I Sailed with Magellan 149 I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company: A Novel of Lewis and Clark 84 I Wish I Had a Red Dress 70 I’ll Go to Bed at Noon 51 I, Claudius 107 I, Claudius and Claudius the God 60

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Ice at the Bottom of the World, The 38 Ice Saints, The 59 Icy Sparks 99 Idea of Perfection, The 56 Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories 23 Imagining Argentina 38 Imperial Caesar 59 Impersonators, The 63 In a Free State 49 In America 19 In Cold Blood 114 In Every Face I Meet 52 In Other Rooms, Other Wonders 22 In Our Time 115 In Revere, in Those Days 151 In the Country of Men 31, 50 In the Next Galaxy 26 In the Rogue Blood 76 In the Skin of a Lion 47 In the Time of the Butterflies 34 In This Our Life 12 In Between World of Vikram Lall, The 45 Independence Day 10, 33, 39 Indian Lawyer, The 139, 144 Industry of Souls, The 52 Inés of My Soul 74 Infinite Jest 85 Informer, The 60 Ingenious Pain 57, 66 Inheritance of Loss, The 30, 48, 123, 148 Injury Time 55 Inner Circle, The 128 Inquisitor’s Manual, The 150 Inside 81 Instinct for Bliss, The 73 Interpretation of Murder, The 102 Interpreter of Maladies 9, 37 Interstate 25 Into the Great Wide Open 138 Into the Light 139 Invisible Man 22, 96, 107, 112, 117 Irishman, The 64 Ironweed 10, 31, 110 Isaac’s Storm 124 Island: The Complete Stories 151

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Jack Maggs 62, 68 Jade Cabinet, The 34 Jade Peony, The 47 Jambula Tree 61 Jamesland 140 Jane Austen Book Club, The 103 Jane Eyre 95, 117 Jazz 114 Jernigan 14 Jerusalem the Golden 59 Jest of God, A 43 Jewel 99 Jim the Boy 141 John Browns Body 18 John Dollar 73 John Henry Days 13, 32, 80, 84 Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell 84, 121, 128 Journey in the Dark 11 62 Journey to the Stone Country Joy Luck Club, The 145 JR 21 Jubilee 120 Jump Off Creek, The 139 Jungfrau 61 Jungle, The 113 Just Relations 63 Justine 57 Kaaterskill Falls 24 Kafka on the Shore 79, 83, 123, 149 Kalahari Typing School for Men, The 92 Kate Vaiden 30 Keepers of the House, The 11 Keepers of Truth, The 52 Keeping the House 130 Killer Angels, The 10 Killing Ground, The 73 Kills, The 92 Kim 110, 116 Kindness of Strangers, The 131 King of Kings County, The 128 Kissing the Virgin’s Mouth 69 Kite Runner, The 88, 91, 96, 150 Knights of the Black and White 81 Know, The 103 Knowledge of Angels 53

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9, 23, 30, 66, 80, 92, 150 Kommandant’s Mistress, The 73 Krik? Krak! 25 Kruger’s Alp 55 Kurgan 47 Labrador 73 Labyrinth 102 Lace Reader, The 90 Lacuna, The 89 Lady Chatterley ’s Lover 113 Lady into Fox 60 Lady’s Time 38 Lamb in His Bosom 12 Land of Green Plums, The 66 Land That Moves, Land That Stands Still 133 Land to Light On 47 Lantern Slides 77 Lark and Termite 22 Larry’s Party 56 Last Crossing, The 129 Last Days of Summer 91 Last Orders 48, 57 Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, The 24, 123 Last Samurai 151 Late George Apley, The 12 Late Nights on Air 45, 129 Late Wife 15 Laughing Boy 12 Law of Dreams, The 41 Lay of the Land, The 32, 79, 126 Lazarus Project, The 23, 31, 125 Le Divorce 24 Leading the Cheers 54 Leaving Cecil Street 70 Leaving the Land 139 Lemon Table, The 149 Les Miserables 118 Lesson Before Dying, A 30, 71, 100, 145 Let the Dead Bury Their Dead 34 Let the Great World Spin 19 Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name 126 Letters from Yellowstone 138

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Lies of Silence 53 Life & Times of Michael K 49 Life of Pi 48, 123 Life Studies 28 Life Supports: New and Collected Poems 27 Light Around the Body, The 28 Light in August 98, 109, 114 Light of Falling Stars, The 87 Light Years 143 Like Water for Chocolate 122 Like You’d Understand, Anyway 23 Likeness, The 83 Lila: An Inquiry into Morals 14 Lincoln Lawyer, The 102 Line of Beauty, The 32, 48, 83 140 Literacy and Longing in L.A. Little Book, The 90 Little Earthquakes 92 Little Man 44 138 Little Miss Strange Little Prince, The 94 Little Stranger, The 50 Little Too Much Is Enough, A 138 Little Women 116 Live or Die 16 Lives of the Saints 42 Living to Tell 152 Living to Tell the Tale 80 Lolita 106, 112, 119 Lonesome Dove 10, 119 Long Long Way, A 51 Long Lost 90 Look at Me 24 Look Back All the Green Valley 141 Look Homeward, Angel 115, 120 Lord Jim 110, 115 Lord of the Flies 108, 112, 118 Lord of the Rings Trilogy 93 Lord of the Rings, The 113, 120 Lord Weary’s Castle 17 Lost and Found 105 Lost Art of Keeping Secrets, The 102 Lost City Radio 136 Lost Girl, The 60 Lost in the City 38 Lost in the City §§ 25

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Lost in Translation 72, 138 Lost Steps, The 143 Lottery, The 118 Love 150 Love and Like 144 Love in the Present Tense 102 Love in the Time of Cholera 77, 98 Love Medicine 30, 77, 145 Love of a Good Woman, The 30, 45, 47, 129 Love Poems 61 Love Walked In 96 Loved and the Lost, The 43 Lovely Bones, The 103, 121 Lovely Green Eyes 150 Loving 110 Loving Frank 90, 97, 105, 132 Lucia, Lucia 103 Luck of Ginger Coffey, The 43 Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married 92 Lullaby 137 Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite, The 101 Lunch at the Piccadilly 141 Lying Awake 84 MacGuffin, The 25 Madame Bovary 95 Madeleine is Sleeping 23, 72 Madonna of Excelsior, The 149 Madonnas of Leningrad, The 148 Magic Barrel, The 21 Magic for Beginners 83 Magic of Blood, The 38 Magician’s Assistant, The 94 Magnificent Ambersons, The 12, 111 Magus, The 110 Main Street 109, 116, 119 Maltese Falcon, The 109, 115, 146 Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, The 10 Man Descending 42 Man Gone Down 66, 79 Man in Full, A 24 Man in the High Castle, The 143 Man of the House 95 Man Who Died Twice, The 18 Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon, The 139

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Man with the Golden Arm, The 22 Mandelbaum Gate, The 59 Mango Tree, The 63 Manikin, The 14 Manticore, The 43 Mao II 14, 40 Map of Love, The 52 Map of the World, A 99 Maps for Lost Lovers 65 Maps to Anywhere 38 March 9, 102 March, The 13, 23, 30, 39, 123 Margaret of the Imperfections 139 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer 10, 25 37 Mary and O’Neil Mary Reilly 73 Mason & Dixon 85 Massacre at Fall Creek, The 73 Master Butchers Singing Club, The 123 Master Georgie 52, 57, 152 Master, The 51, 66, 76, 79 Mating 20, 34 Maus II 77 Me & Emma 92 Meadow, The 134 Mean Spirit 14, 134 Measure of a Man, The 98 Member of the Wedding, The 119 Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man 60 Memoirs of a Geisha 94 Memoirs of a Midget 60 Memories of My Melancholy Whores 76 Memory Keeper’s Daughter, The 105 Men at Arms 59 Mercy Among the Children 45, 129 Mercy, A 78, 125 Mermaids Singing, The 93 Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot, The 59 Middle Passage 20, 34, 139 Middleman & Other Stories, The 30 Middlesex 9, 32, 80, 96, 98, 131 Midnight at the Dragon Café 148 Midnight Champagne 33, 131 Midnight’s Children 49, 58, 110, 116 Midwives 100 Migration: New & Selected Poems 26

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Miniatures 150 Ministry of Special Cases, The 148 Mirabell: Book of Numbers 27 Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, The 133 Miss Mole 60 Mister Pip 50, 65, 67, 102, 148 Mistress of the Art of Death 91 Moby Dick 119, 142 Mom Kills Kids and Self 38 Mona Lisa Overdrive 139 Monday Morning 61 Monsieur, or the Prince of Darkness 58 Montana, 1948 134 Moo 33 Moon Tiger 49 Moondust 102 Moor’s Last Sigh, The 52, 54, 85 Morality Play 53 Morgan’s Passing 73 Morgan’s Run 94 Morning in the Burned House 47 Morning of the Poem, The 15 Morte D’Urban 21 Moses Supposes 25 Mosquito Coast, The 58 Mother and Son 59 Mother of Pearl 99 Motherless Brooklyn 30, 85, 152 Mother’s Milk 50 Moviegoer, The 21, 109 Moy Sand and Gravel 15 Mr. Ames Against Time 44 Mr. Ives’ Christmas 14 Mr. Lincoln’s Wars 90 Mr. Sammler’s Planet 21 Mr. White’s Confession 138 Mrs. Dalloway 97, 113 Mrs. Kimble 37, 123 Mrs. Ted Bliss 30 Mudbound 69, 96, 135 Multitude of Mercies, A 75 Museum, The 61 Music & Silence 54 My Alexandria 35 My Ántonia 114, 117, 146 My Brother Jack 64 My Dream of You 93

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My Jim 71 My Name is Red 66 My Revolutions 125 My Sister’s Keeper 103, 106 My Year of Meats 65 Mysteries, The 82 Naked and the Dead, The 108, 115, 143 Naked Lunch 115 Name of the World, The 84 Namesake, The 91, 135 Narcissus and Goldmund 118 Narco 74 Native Guard 15 Native Son 107, 112, 120, 142 Native Speaker 37, 87 Near Changes 15 Necessary Grace to Fall, The 138 Need to Hold Still, The 27 Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems 15 Netherland 39, 79, 101, 122, 126 Never Let Me Go 32, 50, 83, 96, 127, 149 New & Selected Poems 27 New Ancestors, The 43 New and Collected Poems 15 New England White 70, 126 New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes 18 New Men and the Masters, The 59 News from Paraguay, The 19, 128 Next Step in the Dance, The 141 Night 98 Night Inspector, The 33 Night Watch, The 50 Nights and Days 28 Nights at the Circus 58 Nights Below Station Street 42 No Country for Old Men 127, 149 No Great Mischief 47, 66, 129 No Lease on Life 33 No Matter How Much You Cook or Pay the Rent You Blew It Cauze Bill Bailey Ain’t Never Coming Home Again 74 Noise of Infinite Longing 74 Northern Clemency, The 50, 83, 125

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Nostromo 108 Notes from an Exhibition 101 Notes on a Scandal 51, 103 Now and Then 16 Now in November 12 Nowhere Man 32 Number9dream 51 O Pioneers! 115 Obedient Father, An 37 Ocean of Words 37 Oceana Fine 63 October Light 31 October Suite 135 Odd Girl Out 92 Of Being Numerous 16 Of Human Bondage 109, 119 Of Mice and Men 112 Offshore 49 Old Devils, The 49 Old Forest, The 40 Old Jest, The 55 Old Man and the Sea, The 11, 113 Old School 32, 84, 97, 145, 149 Old Wives’ Tale, The 110 Olive Kitteridge 9, 31, 147 On Beauty 51, 56, 79, 83, 128 On Chesil Beach 50, 126, 148 On the Black Hill 58 On the Road 109, 113, 118 Once 81 Once and Future King, The 120 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 112 One for the Money 90 One Good Turn 127 One Heart 94 One Hundred Years of Solitude 99, 118 One of Ours 12 One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd 133 Only Revolutions 23 Open House 99 Operation Shylock: A Confession 14, 39 Operation Wandering Soul 25 Optimist’s Daughter, The 10 Orchard on Fire, The 52 Ordinary People 73 Ordinary Wolves 137

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Ordinary Words 35 Origin of Species, The 41 Original Bliss 85 Orlando 114 Oryx and Crake 51 Oscar and Lucinda 49, 63 Our Fathers 52 Our Horses in Egypt 57 Our Kind 23 Out Stealing Horses 66, 79, 148 Outerbridge Reach 25, 34, 144 Outlander, The 43 Ovenman 126 Oxygen 51 Paco’s Story 20 Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha 49 Pale Fire 109 Parade’s End 109 Paradise 25, 53, 100 Paris Trout 20 Parthian Shot 38 Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems 15 Partisan’s Daughter, A 125 Passage to India, A 60, 107, 114 Passing Through: The Later Poems 27 Paterson: Book III and Selected Poems 29 Peace 147 Peace Like a River 75, 96, 121 Peel My Love Like an Onion 94 Peony in Love 140 People of the Book 122 People’s Act of Love, The 148 Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson 103 Perfect Night to Go to China, A 41, 82 Perma Red 133 Persephone 58 Person of Interest, A 83 Personality 57 Pesthouse, The 148 Petropolis 126 Philadelphia Fire 40 Piano Tuner, The 93 Pickup, The 151 Picture of Dorian Gray, The 120 Picture Palace 55

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Pictures from Brueghel 16 Pictures of Hollis Woods 92 Pied Piper of Dipper Creek, The 44 Pigs in Heaven 77, 134 Pillar, The 43 Pillars of the Earth, The 98 Place Where the Sea Remembers, A 87 Plague of Doves, The 13, 147 Plains Song 20 Plainsong 24, 85, 92, 94, 124, 133 Play It As It Lays 143 Pleasing Hour, The 86 Pleasure of My Company, The 92 Plot Against America, The 32, 79, 123, 128, 135, 149 Plumb 58 Poems 17, 28 Poems North & South 17 Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry 26 Poetry of Emily Dickinson, The 145 Poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The 146 Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, The 146 Point Counter Point 108 Poison 61 Poisonwood Bible, The 13, 97, 99, 121 Polished Hoe, The 45, 47, 67, 92 Poor Fellow My Country 63 Poor Man’s Tapestry 59 Poor Things 55 Popular Music from Vittula 149 Portnoy’s Complaint 109 Portrait of a Lady 113 Portrait of Clare 60 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A 106, 112, 118 Possession 49 Postcards 40 Postman Always Rings Twice 111 Power and the Glory, The 118 Practical Gods 15 Prayer for the Dying, A 85 Precipice, The 44 Prep 79 Presentation Piece 27 Prestige, The 57

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Preston Falls 33 Pride and Prejudice 116 Pride of Baghdad 127 Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The 110, 120 Prince of West End Avenue, The 34 Private State, A 37 Progress of Love, The 42 Promise of Happiness, The 103 Promises: Poems, 1954-1956 17, 28 Property 56, 84 Pugalist at Rest 138 Pugilist at Rest, The 25 Puttermesser Papers, The 24 Quarantine 52, 54 55 Queen of the Tambourine, The Quick and the Dead, The 13, 151 Quickening Maze, The 50 Quiet Belief in Angels, A 101 Rabbit at Rest 10, 30 Rabbit Is Rich 10, 20, 31 Rabbit, Run 116 Ragtime 31, 110, 117 Rainbow, The 108 Random Acts of Heroic Love 101 Rapture of Canaan, The 100 Rattlebone 71 Raw Shark Texts, The 88 Raymond Carver: Collected Stories 144 Read This and Tell Me What it Says 131 Reader’s Block 85 Reader, The 85, 99 Reading in the Dark 52 Reading Turgenev (from Two Lives) 53 Rebecca 97, 114, 117 Red Tent, The 96, 121 Redundancy of Courage, The 53 Reef 53 Refusing Heaven 35 Reivers, The 11, 117 Reliable Wife, A 135 Reluctant Fundamentalist, The 50 Remainder 126 Remains of the Day, The 49 Remembering Babylon 53, 66, 77 Renegade, or Halo2 57 Repair 15 Replay 94

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Resistance 147 Restless 54, 102 Restraint of Beasts, The 52 Resurrection of Joseph Bourne, The 42 Resurrectionists, The 138 Rice Mother, The 92 Riceyman Steps 60 Rider 35 Riders in the Chariot 64 Riders, The 52 Rima in the Weeds 139 Rings of Saturn, The 76 Rites of Passage 49 Rites of Spring 47 River Beyond the World, The 24 River God 91 River Where Blood Is Born, The 70 River Why, The 139 River, Cross My Heart 99, 135 RL’s Dream 70 Road Home, The 56, 75 Road, The 9, 32, 57, 96, 98, 123, 126, 148 Roadside Crosses 90 Roaring Girl, The 42 Robber Bride, The 47 Rock Springs 144 Romance Reader, The 94 Room With a View, A 110, 113 Root and the Flower, The 60 Rope Eater, The 128 Roscoe 32, 80 Rose of Sebastopol 101 Rose’s Garden 86 Rouse Up, O Young Men of the New Age! 150 Run 122, 126 Runaway 45, 79, 91, 139, 149 Running to Paradise 43 Russian Concubine, The 105 Russian Debutante’s Handbook, The 150 Sabbath’s Theater 14, 20 Sabotage Café, The 78 Sacred and Profane Love Machine, The 55 Sacred Country 58 Sacred Games 31, 83

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Sacred Hunger 49 Sacrifice, The 43 Saints at the River 141 Sally Hemings 73 Salt 68 Samaritan 135 Same Sea, The 144 Samuel Johnson is Indignant: Stories 151 Santigo and the Drinking Party 138 Sarah’s Key 105 Sarah’s Psalm 70 Satanic Verses, The 55, 114 Saturday 57, 79, 123, 128, 149 Savage Detectives, The 79, 126 Saville 49 Saving Lives 35 Say You’re One of Them 98 Scar Tissue 53 Scar Vegas 151 Scarlet Letter, The 95 Scarlet Sister Mary 12 Schindler’s List 49, 77, 113 35 School Among the Ruins, The Scoop 110 26 Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey Sea of Poppies 50 Sea, The 48 Sea, the Sea, The 49 Season in the West, A 58 Seaview 40 Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, The 127 Second Coming, The 77 Secret Agent, The 108 Secret City, The 60 Secret Life of Bees, The 123, 141 Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes, The 105 Secret River, The 50, 67, 148 Secret Scripture, The 50, 54, 57, 96 Seize the Day 143 Select Tales 117 Selected Poems 15, 16, 18, 27, 28 Selected Poems 1928-1958 17 Selected Short Stories 118, 142 Self portrait in a Convex Mirror 16, 27, 36 Semi detached 102

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40 114, 118 141 53 13 72 137 117 61 31, 126 19, 125 15 88, 91, 103, 123 Shakespeare’s Dog 42 Shakespeare’s Kitchen 13 Shallows 63 Shanghai Girls 140 Shawl, The 145 She’s Come Undone 100 Shell Collector, The 86, 150 Shelter Me 105 Sheltering Sky, The 111 Shield of Achilles, The 28 Shiloh and Other Stories 38 Shining at the Bottom of the Sea 126 Ship Fever and Other Stories 20 Ship Made of Paper, A 23 Ship of the Line and Flying Colours, A 60 Shipping News, The 10, 20, 34, 119 Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield, The 119 Siege of Krishnapur, The 49 Silver’s City 55 Simple Truth, The 15 Singing, The 26 Sister Carrie 108 Six Kinds of Sky 75 Sixth Lamentation, The 103 Sixth of June, The 43 Skinny Dip 92 Sky Fisherman, The 138 Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness, The 133 Slanting Light, A 59 Slap, The 67 Slaughterhouse Five 107, 113, 120, 143

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Sleeping It Off in Rapid City 35 Slow Natives, The 64 Small Island 32, 54, 56, 67 Snow 79, 83 Snow Falling on Cedars 39, 87, 122, 138 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan 91, 123, 140 Snow Mountain Passage 144 So Big 12 So Long, See You Tomorrow 20 Society of Others, The 91 Sojourn 75 Soldiers in Hiding 40 Solomon Gursky Was Here 53, 68 Something Blue 105 105 Something Borrowed Something Like a House 57 49 Something to Answer For Song for Nettie Johnson, A 41 Song of Solomon 31, 73, 100, 112 Songs in Ordinary Time 100 Sons and Lovers 107, 114, 119 Sophie’s Choice 20, 96, 111, 114 Sound and the Fury, The 95, 98, 106, 112, 142 South Riding 60 Southern Family, A 73 Sparrow, The 96 Spartina 20 Special Topics in Calamity Physics 79 Spectator Bird, The 21 Speedboat 38 Spell of Winter, A 56 Spies 54 Spirits of the Ordinary 138 Splay Anthem 26 Spook Country 81 St. Urbain’s Horseman 43 Star Called Henry, A 152 Star of the Sea 103, 150 Starter for Ten 103 Starting Out in the Evening 85 Staying On 49 Steer Towards Rock 126 Stepmother, The 95 Steps 21 Still Alice 105

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Stone Diaries, The 10, 30, 42, 53 Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse 134 Stones 47 Stones from the River 100 Store, The 12 Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, The 146 Stories of John Cheever, The 10, 20, 31, 117 Story of Edgar Sawtelle, The 98, 132 Story of Lucy Gault, The 51 Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The 120 Strange Holiness 18 Stranger Things Happen 84 Stray 78 Street of Riches 43 Studhorse Man, The 43 Studs Lonigan Trilogy, The 107 Stunt 81 Stygo 134 Such a Long Journey 42, 53, 68 Such a Pretty Fat 90 Sudden Country, A 133 Suitable Boy, A 68 Suite Française 90, 123 Sula 99 Summer Lightning 68 Summer People 105 Summer Sisters 94 Summertime 50 Summons to Memphis, A 10 Sun Also Rises, The 108, 112 Sun Dancer 134 Sun Under Wood 35 Sun, Stone, and Shadows 145 Sunderland Capture 17 Sunrise 36 Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, The 101 Swallows of Kabul, The 149 Sweetness in the Belly 46 Swift as Desire 93 Swimming in the Volcano 25 Swiss Sonata 44 Swords and Crowns and Rings 63 Taft 73

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Taking the Wall 75 Tales from Bective Bridge 59 Tales of the South Pacific 11 Tapestries, The 92 Tara Road 99 Tattoo Artist, The 72 Telex from Cuba 22 Temptations of Big Bear, The 43 Ten North Frederick 22 Tender is the Night 107, 114 Tent of Orange Mist, The 34 Tenth Circle, The 105 Terror and Decorum 17 Testament 47 Testament of Gideon Mack, The 102 134 Testimony of Mr. Bones, The That One Day 36 97, Their Eyes Were Watching God 112, 118, 146 Them 21 Then We Came to the End 23, 37, 79, 83, 86, 102, 126 Theory of War 55 These Granite Islands 93 Thief and the Dogs, The 145 Things Fall Apart 114 Things of This World 17, 28 Things They Carried, The 14, 34, 145 Think of the Earth 44 Third Girl From the Left 70 Thirst 85 Thirteenth Tale, The 90 Thirty Acres 44 This Blinding Absence of Light 66 This Book Will Save Your Life 102 This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind 93 This Side of Paradise 115 This Time: New and Selected Poems 26 Thomas and Beulah 16 Thousand Acres, A 10, 30 Thousand Splendid Suns, A 97, 101, 121 Thousand Years of Good Prayers, A 37 Three Came to Ville Marie 44 Three Cheers for the Paraclete 63 Three Day Road 82, 129

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Three Junes 19 Three Legged Horse 65 Through a Glass Darkly 90 Through Black Spruce 129 Through the Arc of the Rain Forest 73 Through the Valley 59 Time and Materials 15, 26 Time and Money 35 Time in Between, The 45, 127 Time of Our Singing, The 32 Time Traveler’s Wife, The 96, 103, 123 Time We Have Taken, The 62 Time’s Arrow 53 Times Like These 83 Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades 17 Tin Flute, The 44 Tirra Lirra by the River 63 To Catch the Lightning 78 To Kill a Mockingbird 11, 111, 119, 145 To See, To Take 28 To the Islands 64 To the Lighthouse 107, 113, 142 Toast: The Story of a Boy’s Hunger 103 Tobacco Road 110 Tom Thomson in Purgatory 35 Tongues of Flame 38 Towers of Trebizond, The 59 Town, The 11 Train 76 Trance 23 Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy 26 Transit of Venus, The 31 Translation of Monkey by Wu Cheng’en 59 Transparent Gestures 36 Trap 64 Traveling Through the Dark 28 Travellers 59 Travels of Jamie McPheeters, The 11 Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A 105 Tree of Smoke 13, 19, 79, 83, 126, 137 Tristram 18 Triumph of Achilles, The 36 Tropic of Cancer 108, 115

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Troy Chimneys 59 True History of the Kelly Gang 48, 67, 80, 151 Truth About Stories, The 47 Truth and Bright Water 151 Turn of the Screw, The 118 Turtle Island 16 Twelve Bar Blues 54 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 120 Twilight of the Superheroes 83 Two Solitudes 44 Typical American 34 U is for Undertow 89 107, 142 U.S.A. Ulysses 106, 111, 142 Unaccustomed Earth 79, 122, 125, 147 Unbearable Lightness of Being, The 77 Under the Frog 53 Under the Net 110 Under the Volcano 107 Underground Man, The 52 Underpainter, The 42 Underworld 13, 24, 33 Unfinished Life, An 92 Unfinished Season, An 13, 128, 131 Unified Field Theory 138 Unknown Industrial Prisoner, The 63 Unless 51 Unlocking the Air and Other Stories 14 Until I Find You 91 Untitled Subjects 16 Unyielding Clamour of the Night, The 82 Up Country 16 Ursula, Under 131 V Letter and Other Poems 17 Van, The 53 Vanity Fair 120 Varieties of Disturbance 23 Veil of Roses 105 Velva Jean Learns to Drive 89 Vernon God Little 48 Veronica 23, 32, 79, 83, 127, 149 Vice: New & Selected Poems 26 Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories 20 Vindication 34 Vinegar Hill 99

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Virtuous Woman, A 100 Visible World 101 Vision of Emma Blau, The 94 Voss 64 Voyage of the Narwhal, The 85 Voyage, The 60 Waiting 13, 19, 39, 61, 152 Waiting for the Barbarians 58 Wake Up, Sir 128 Waking, The 17 Walking to Martha’s Vineyard 15 Wapshot Chronicles, The 22, 109 War of the Worlds, The 115, 120 War Trash 13, 39 Wars, The 42 Wartime Lies 25, 34, 38 Washington Square 146 Wasted Vigil, The 147 Watch That Ends the Night, The 43 Water for Elephants 90, 97, 121, 131, 132 Waters of Kronos, The 21 Way of All Flesh, The 107 Way of Life, A 38 Way the Crow Flies, The 129 Way West, The 11 We Are Not in This Together 139 We Need to Talk About Kevin 56, 96 We Were the Mulvaneys 99, 144 We’re Just Like You, Only Prettier 91 Wednesday Sisters, The 104 Weight of Water, The 93 Weight of Whispers 61 Well and the Mine, The 86 Well Dressed Explorer, The 64 Well, The 63 Welsh Girl, The 102 Western Star 17 Whale Music 42 What I Lived For 14 What Is the What 32, 83 What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day 100 What the Dead Know 126 What Work Is 27 What’s O’Clock 18 When I Lived in Modern Times 56

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When We Were Orphans 52 When Will There Be Good News? 101 Where Angels Fear to Tread 116 Where the Heart Is 100 While I Was Gone 99 Whistling Season, The 137, 148 White Earth, The 62 White Ghost Girls 91 77 White Hotel, The White Man’s Grave 25 White Mughals 103 White Noise 20, 115 White Oleander 100 White People 77 White Teeth 33, 57, 80, 84, 151 White Tiger, The 48, 125 Who Do You Love 24 Who Do You Think You Are? 42 Why Did I Ever 76 Wide Open 66 Wide Sargasso Sea 110, 115 Wild Gratitude 36 Wild Iris, The 15 Wilderness Tips 47 Wind in the Willows, The 115 Wind up Bird Chronicles, The 144 Winesburg, Ohio 107, 142 Wings of the Dove, The 107, 114 Winnie the Pooh 112 Winter Garden 58 Winter Range 133, 138 Winter Solstice 94 Wintering 72 Winterkill 139 Withdrawal Method, The 46 Without My Cloak 60 Witness Tree, A 17 Wizard of Earthsea, A 145 Wizard of the Crow 83 Wolf Hall 48 Woman at the Washington Zoo, The 28 Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories 94 Woman in Jerusalem, A 76 Woman of the Future, A 63 Woman Warrior, The 96 Women in Love 108, 115

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