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award winning books
Below are list of a variety of award winning books. So browse through them and see if there is anything that interests you. Why not collect all of your favorite award winners?
  

pen/faulkner award

The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to the author of the best American work of fiction that year. The winner receives US $15,000 and each of four runners-up receives US $5000. The foundation brings the winner and runners-up to Washington, D.C. to read from their works at the Great Hall of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
2009 winner
Netherland - Joseph O'Neill - Book
Netherland - Joseph O'Neill +w

After the 9/11 terrorist attack, Dutch equities analyst Hans van den Broek,...  read more
nominees
Lush Life - Richard Price +w
Serena - Ron Rash +w
Ms. Hempel Chronicles - Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum +w
A Person of Interest - Susan Choi +w
2008 winner
The Great Man - Kate Christensen - Book
The Great Man - Kate Christensen +w

After the death of the egomaniacal and philandering New York painter Oscar...  read more
nominees
The Gateway - T.M. McNally +w
Chemistry and Other Stories - Ron Rash +w
The Maytrees - Annie Dillard +w
The Indian Clerk - David Leavitt +w
2007 winner
Everyman - Philip Roth - Book
Everyman - Philip Roth +w

Philip Roth's 27th novel begins at its unnamed protagonist's funeral, then...  read more
nominees
Twilight of the Superheroes - Deborah Eisenberg +w
All Aunt Hagar's Children - Edward P. Jones +w
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel - Amy Hempel +w
The Dead Fish Museum - Charles D'Ambrosio +w
2006 winner
The March - E.L. Doctorow - Book
The March - E.L. Doctorow +w

E. L. Doctorow digs deeply into American history once again in this epic tale...  read more
nominees
I Got Somebody in Staunton - William Henry Lewis +w
The Chrysanthemum Palace - Bruce Wagner +w
Last Night - James Salter +w
A Sudden Country - Karen Fisher +w
2005 winner
War Trash - Ha Jin - Book
War Trash - Ha Jin +w

Set during the Korean War and written in the form of a memoir, Ha Jin's novel...  read more
nominees
Gilead - Marilynne Robinson +w
The Green Lantern - Jerome Charyn +w
The Dew Breaker - Edwidge Danticat +w
Prisoners Of War - Steve Yarbrough +w
2004 winner
The Early Stories 1953-1975 - John Updike - Book
The Early Stories 1953-1975 - John Updike +w

These 103 stories represent almost every one that John Updike wrote during...  read more
nominees
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere - Z. Z. Packer +w
Old School - Tobias Wolff +w
A Distant Shore - Caryl Phillips +w
Elroy Nights - Frederick Barthelme +w
2003 winner
The Caprices - Sabina Murray - Book
The Caprices - Sabina Murray +w

These short stories by a Filipino-American writer all take place in World War...  read more
nominees
Little Casino - Gilbert Sorrentino +w
Roscoe - William Kennedy +w
The City of Your Final Destination - Peter Cameron +w
The Ecstatic - Victor Lavalle +w
2002 winner
Bel Canto - Ann Patchett - Book
Bel Canto - Ann Patchett +w

An opera singer becomes a long-term hostage in a South American country bedeviled...  read more
nominees
The Death of Vishnu - Manil Suri +w
The Hunters - Claire Messud +w
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen +w
Sister Noon - Karen Joy Fowler +w
2001 winner
The Human Stain - Philip Roth - Book
The Human Stain - Philip Roth +w

During the time of President Clinton's impeachment hearings, Coleman Silk--a...  read more
nominees
The Name of the World - Denis Johnson +w
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon +w
Off Keck Road - Mona Simpson +w
Harry Gold - Millicent Dillon +w
2000 winner
Waiting - Ha Jin - Book
Waiting - Ha Jin +w

This multi-award-winning novel about a romance between Dr. Lin Kong, an unhappily...  read more
nominees
Pu-239 - Ken Kalfus +w
Siam - Lily Tuck +w
Amy and Isabelle - Elizabeth Strout +w
The Night Inspector - Frederick Busch +w
1999 winner
The Hours - Michael Cunningham - Book
The Hours - Michael Cunningham +w

Michael Cunningham's critically acclaimed novel, which is inspired by Virginia...  read more
nominees
Cloudsplitter - Russell Banks +w
Starting Out in the Evening - Brian Morton +w
Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver +w
1998 winner
The Bear Comes Home - Rafi Zabor - Book
The Bear Comes Home - Rafi Zabor +w

A debut novel about Bear, a black Grizzly who plays alto saxophone well enough...  read more
nominees
The Hundred Brothers - Donald Antrim +w
The Ordinary Seaman - Francisco Goldman +w
The Mercy Seat - Rilla Askew +w
Because They Wanted to - Mary Gaitskill +w
1997 winner
Women in Their Beds - Gina Berriault - Book
Women in Their Beds - Gina Berriault +w

A collection of 35 spare and concise stories, including 10 heretofore uncollected....  read more
nominees
The Book of Mercy - Kathleen Cambor +w
St. Burl's Obituary - Daniel Akst +w
The Autobiography of My Mother - Jamaica Kincaid +w
Atticus - Ron Hansen +w
1996 winner
Independence Day - Richard Ford - Book
Independence Day - Richard Ford +w

INDEPENDENCE DAY is the sequel to Richard Ford's 1986 novel THE SPORTSWRITER....  read more
nominees
When the World Was Steady - Claire Messud +w
All Souls' Rising - Madison Smartt Bell +w
The Good Negress - A. J. Verdelle +w
The Tunnel - William H. Gass +w
1995 winner
Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson - Book
Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson +w

In the midst of a raging snowstorm, a trial on Puget Sound in the 1950s pits...  read more
nominees
Various Antidotes - Joanna Scott +w
Stones from the River - Ursula Hegi +w
The Children in the Woods - Frederick Busch +w
What I Lived for - Joyce Carol Oates +w
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