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Monday, April 25, 2011

Award Winning

Pulitzer - Fiction

2011       A Visit from the Goon Squad--Egan  (Fic)
2010       Tinkers—Harding  (Fic)
2009       Olive Kitteridge—Strout  (Fic)
2008       Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao—Diaz  (Fic) 
2007       Road—McCarthy  (Fic)
2006       March—Brooks  (Fic)
2005       Gilead—Robinson  (Fic) 
2006       The Known World—Jones  (Fic)
2007       Middlesex—Eugenides  (Fic)
2008       Empire Falls—Russo  (Fic)
2001       Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay—Chabon   (Fic)
2000       Interpreter of Maladies—Lahiri  (Fic)
1999       The Hours—Cunningham  (Fic)

*For other Pulitzer Prize Lists, Click Here


National Book Critics Circle Awards

2010    A Visit from the Goon Squad-- Egan  (Fic)
2009    Wolf Hall –Mantel   (Fic)
2008    2666– Bolano  (Fic)
2007    Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao—Diaz  (Fic)
2006    Inheritance of Loss—Desai  (Fic)
2005    The March—Doctorow  (Fic)
2004    Gilead—Robinson  (Fic)
2003    The Known World—Jones  (Fic)
2002    Atonement—McEwan  (Fic)
2001    Austerlitz—Sebald   (Selco)
2000    Being Dead—Crace  (Fic)
1999    Motherless Brooklyn—Lethan  (Fic)

*For other National Book Critics Circle Awards, Click Here


Minnesota Book Awards - Fiction and Novel & Short Story

2011    The Tale of Halcyon Crane--Webb  (Fic)
            Vestments--Reimringer  (Fic)

2010    Jelly’s Gold—Housewright   (My)
            The Book of Night Women—James  (Fic)
2009    Plague of Doves—Erdrich  (Fic)
            Stalking Susan—Kramer  (Fic)
2008    Thunder Bay—Krueger   (My)
            The Last Communist Virgin—Ping  (Fic)
2007    Copper River—Krueger   (My)
            When Charlotte Comes Home—Smith  (Fic)
2006    The Painted Drum—Erdrich  (Fic)
            Iron Girl—Hart  (Fic)
2005    Alone at Night—Erickson  (Fic)
            Work of Wolves—Meyers  (Fic)
2003    Where No Gods Came—O’Connor  (Fic)
            Monkeewrench—Tracy   (My)
2003    Miniatures—Labiner  (Fic)
            Mortal Prey—Sandford  (Fic)
2002    Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse—Erdrich  (Fic)
            Purgatory Ridge—Krueger    (My)
2001    Shadow Baby—McGhee  (Fic)
            Dark Coulee—Logue  (Fic)                                
2000    Multicultiboho Sideshow—Pate  (Fic)
            Mrs. Million—Hautman  (Fic)
1999    Rainlight—McGhee  (Fic)

*For other Minnesota Book Awards, Click Here


Booker Awards

2010      Finkler Question—Jacobsen  (Fic)
2009      Wolf Hall—Mantel  (Fic)
2008      White Tiger—Adiga  (Fic)
2007      Gathering—Enright  (Fic)
2006      Inheritance of loss—Desai  (Fic)
2005      The Sea—Banville  (Fic)
2004      Line of Beauty—Hollinghurst    (Selco)
2003      Vernon God Little—Pierre     (Selco)
2002      Life of Pi—Martel  (Fic)
2001      True History of the Kelly Gang—Carey  (Fic)
2000      Blind Assassin—Atwood  (Fic)
1999      Disgrace—Coetzee  (Fic)

*For more on the Man Booker Prize, Click Here


Pen/Faulkner Awards

2010     War Dances—Alexie  (Fic)
2009     Netherland—O’Neill  (Fic)
2008     The Great Man—Christensen    (Selco)
2007     Everyman—Roth  (Fic)
2006     The March—Doctorow  (Fic)
2005     War Trash—Jin  (Fic)
2004     Early Stories—Updike  (Fic)
2003     The Caprices—Murray  (Fic)
2002     Bel Canto—Patchett  (Fic)
2001     Human Stain—Roth  (Fic)
2000     Waiting—Jin  (Fic)
1999     The Hours—Cunningham  (Fic)

*For more on the Pen/Faulkner Award, Click Here


National Book Awards - Fiction

2010    Lord of Misrule—Gordon  (Fic)
2009    Let the Great World Spin—McCann  (Fic)
2008    Shadow Country—Matthiessen  (Fic)
2007    Tree of Smoke—Johnson  (Fic)
2006    Echo Maker—Powers  (Fic)
2005    Europe Central—Vollmann  (Selco)
2004    News From Paraguay—Tuck  (Fic)   
2003    Great Fire—Hazzard  (Selco)                          
2002    Three Junes—Glass  (Fic)
2001    Corrections—Franzen  (Fic)
2000    In America—Sontag  (Fic)
1999    Waiting—Jin   (Fic)

*For other National Book Awards, Click Here