National Book Award for Nonfiction Challenge
National Book Award for Nonfiction (6/57)
2007. Legacy of Ashes. Tim Weiner.
2006. The Worst Hard Time. Timothy Egan.
2005. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion.
2004. Arc of Justice. Kevin Boyle.
2003. Waiting for Snow in Havana. Carlos Eire.
2002. Master of the Senate. Robert Caro.
2001. The Noonday Demon. Andrew Solomon.
2000. In the Heart of the Sea. Nathaniel Philbrick.
1999. Embracing Defeat. John W. Dower.
1998. Slaves in the Family. Edward Ball.
1997. American Sphinx. Joseph J. Ellis.
1996. An American Requiem. James Carroll.
1995. The Haunted Land. Tina Rosenberg.
1994. How We Die. Sherwin B. Nuland.
1993. United States: Essays. Gore Vidal.
1992. Becoming a Man. Paul Monette.
1991. Freedom. Orlando Patterson.
1990. The House of Morgan. Ron Chernow.
1989. From Beirut to Jerusalem. Thomas L. Friedman.
1988. A Bright Shining Lie. Neil Sheehan.
1987. The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Richard Rhodes.
1986. Arctic Dreams. Barry Lopez.
1985. Common Ground. J. Anthony Lucas.
1984. Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy. Robert V. Remini.
1983. China. Fox Butterfield.
1982. The Soul of a New Machine. Tracy Kidder.
1981. China Men. Maxine Hong Kingston.
1980. The Right Stuff. Tom Wolfe.
1979. Robert Kennedy and His Times. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
1978. Samuel Johnson. Walter Jackson Bate.
1977. The Uses of Enchantment. Bruno Bettleheim.
1976. The Great War and Modern Memory. Paul Fussell.
1975. The Life of Emily Dickinson. Richard B. Sewall.
1974. The Lives of a Cell. Lewis Thomas.
1973. Fire in the Lake. Frances Fitzgerald.
1972. Eleanor and Franklin. Joseph P. Lash.
1971. Roosevelt. James MacGregor Burns.
1970. An Unfinished Woman. Lillian Hellman.
1969. The Armies of the Night. Norman Mailer.
1968. Death at an Early Age. Jonathan Kozol.
1967. Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain. Justin Kaplan.
1966. A Thousand Days. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
1965. The Life of Lenin. Louis Fisher.
1964. John Keats. Aileen Ward.
1963. Henry James, Vol. 2 & 3. Leon Edel.
1962. The City in History. Lewis Mumford.
1961. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. William L. Shirer.
1960. James Joyce. Richard Ellman.
1959. Mistress to an Age. J. Christopher Herold.
1958. The Lion and the Throne. Catherine Drinker Bowen.
1957. Russia Leaves the War. George F. Kennan.
1956. An American in Italy. Herbert Kubly.
1955. The Measure of a Man. Joseph Wood Krutch.
1953. Course of Empire. Richard DeVoto.
1952. The Sea Around Us. Rachel Carson.
1951. Herman Melville. Newton Arvin.
1950. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ralph L. Rusk.
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National Book Critics Circle Award Challenge
National Book Critics Circle Award 1975 Winners
- Fiction: E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime
- General Nonfiction: R.W.B. Lewis, Edith Wharton
1976 Awards
Fiction Winner
- John Gardner, October Light
Fiction Finalists
- Renata Adler, Speedboat
- Vladimir Nabokov, Details of a Sunset
- Cynthia Ozick, Bloodshed
- Richard Yates, The Easter Parade
General Nonfiction Winner
- Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior
General Nonfiction Finalists
- George Dangerfield, The Damnable Question
- Alex Haley, Roots
- Irving Howe with Kenneth Libo, World of Our Fathers
- Richard Kluger, Simple Justice
1977 Awards
Fiction Winner
- Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
Fiction Finalists
- John Cheever, Falconer
- Joan Didion, A Book of Common Prayer
- Philip Roth, The Professor of Desire
- John Sayles, Union Dues
General Nonfiction Winner
- W. Jackson Bate, Samuel Johnson
General Nonfiction Finalists
- Michael Herr, Dispatches
- David McCullough, The Path Between the Seas
- John McPhee, Coming into the Country
- Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden
1978 Awards
Fiction Winner
- John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever
Fiction Finalists
- John Updike, The Coup
- Mary Gordon, Final Payments
- John Irving, The World According to Garp
- Charles Simmons, Wrinkles
General Nonfiction Winners
- Maureen Howard, Facts of Life
- Garry Willis, Inventing America
General Nonfiction Finalists
- Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror
- Theodore H. White, In Search of History
- Barrington Moore, Injustice
- Sissela Bok, Lying
- A. Scott Berg, Max Perkins
- Alfred Kazin, New York Jew
- Anne Hollander, Seeing Through Clothes
- Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard
1979 Awards
Fiction Winner
- Thomas Flanagan, The Year of the French
Fiction Finalists
- Philip Roth, The Ghost Writer
- William Styron, Sophie’s Choice
- Norman Mailer, The Executioner’s Song
- Elizabeth Hardwick, Sleepless Nights
- Leslie Epstein, King of the Jews
General Nonfiction Winner
- Telford Taylor, Munich
General Nonfiction Finalists
- Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff
- Joan Didion, White Album
- Edward Hoagland, African Calliope
- Douglas Hofstadter, Godel, Escher, Bach
1980 Awards
Fiction Winner
- Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus
Fiction Finalists
- E.L. Doctorow, Loon Lake
- Anne Tyler, Morgan’s Passing
- Walker Percy, The Second Coming
- William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow
General Nonfiction Winner
- Ronald Steel, Walter Lippman and the American Century
General Nonfiction Finalists
- Jean Strouse, Alice James
- Maxine Hong Kingston, China Men
- John Boswell, Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality
- Justin D. Kaplan, Walt Whitman: A Life
1981 Awards
Fiction Winner
- John Updike, Rabbit Is Rich
Fiction Finalists
- Robert Stone, A Flag for Sunrise
- Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker
- Donald Barthelme, Sixty Stories
- Leonard Michaels, The Men’s Club
General Nonfiction Winner
- Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of a Man
General Nonfiction Finalists
- James Fallows, National Defense
- T.J. Jackson Lears, No Place of Grace
- Dumas Malone, The Sage of Monticello
- Erving Goffman, Forms of Talk
1982 Awards
Fiction Winner
- Stanley Elkin, George Mills
Fiction Finalists
- Cynthia Ozick, Levitation
- Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
- Alice Walker, The Color Purple
- Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh and Other Stories
General Nonfiction Winner
- Robert A. Caro, The Path to Power
General Nonfiction Finalists
- The Nuclear Delusion George F. Keenan
- Jonathan Schell, The Fate of the Earth
- Daniel Lawrence O’Keefe, Stolen Lightning
- Kate Simon, Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood
1983 Awards
Fiction Winner
- William Kennedy, Ironweed
Fiction Finalists
- Philip Roth, The Anatomy of a Lesson
- Raymond Carver, Cathedral
- Joan Chase, During the Reign of the Queen
- Ron Loewinsohn, Magnetic Field(s)
General Nonfiction Winner
- Seymour M. Hersh, The Price of Power
General Nonfiction Finalists
- Roger Rosenblatt, The Price of Power
- William W. Warner, Distant Water
- Theodore Draper, Present History
- David S. Landes, Revolution in Time
1984 Awards
Fiction Winner
- Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine
Fiction Finalists
- David Leavitt, Family Dancing
- Alison Lurie, Foreign Affairs
- Jayne Anne Phillips, Machine Dreams
- Harriet Doerr, Stones for Ibarra
General Nonfiction Winner
- Freeman Dyson, Weapons and Hope
General Nonfiction Finalists
- David Wyman, The Abandonment of the Jews
- John Edgar Wideman, Brothers and Keepers
- Robert Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre
- Evan Connell, Son of the Morning Star
1985 Awards
Fiction Winner
- Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist .
Fiction Finalists
- Don DeLillo, White Noise
- Peter Taylor, The Old Forest and Other Stories
- Richard Powers, Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance
- Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
General Nonfiction Winner
- J. Anthony Lukas, Common Ground
General Nonfiction Finalists
- Tracy Kidder, House
- Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain
- Alan Riding, Distant Neighbors
- Eva Keuls, The Reign of the Phallus
1986 Awards
Fiction Winner
- Peter Taylor, A Summons to Memphis
Fiction Finalists
- Louise Erdrich, The Beet Queen
- Reynolds Price, Kate Vaiden
- Thomas Williams, The Moon Pinnace
- John Updike, Roger’s Version
General Nonfiction Winner
- Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams
General Nonfiction Finalists
- Bernard Bailyn, Voyagers to the West
- Jonathan Evan Maslow, Bird of Life, Bird of Death
- John W. Dower, War Without Mercy
- Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert
1987 Awards
Fiction Winner
- Philip Roth, The Counterlife
Fiction Finalists
- Jane Smiley, The Age of Grief
- Toni Morrison, Beloved
- Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
- Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety
General Nonfiction Winner
- Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
General Nonfiction Finalists
- Randy Shilts, And the Band Played On
- James Miller, Democracy Is in the Streets
- Charles Mee, The Genius of the People
- Stephen Jay Gould, Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle
1988 Awards
Fiction Winner
- Bharati Mukherjee, The Middleman
Fiction Finalists
- Don DeLillo, Libra
- Pete Dexter, Paris Trout
- J.F. Powers, Wheat That Springeth Green
- Raymond Carver, Where I’m Calling From
General Nonfiction Winner
- Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters
General Nonfiction Finalists
- James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom
- Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie
- Jane Kramer, Europeans
- Eric Foner, Reconstruction
1989 Awards
Fiction Winner
- E.L. Doctorow, Billy Bathgate
Fiction Finalists
- Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
- Oscar Hijeulos, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
- Jane Smiley, Ordinary Love & Good Will
- John Casey, Spartina
General Nonfiction Winner
- Michael Dorris, The Broken Cord
General Nonfiction Finalists
- Tracy Kidder, Among Schoolchildren
- Barbara Ehrenreich, Fear of Falling
- David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace
- Amy Wilentz, The Rainy Season
1990 Awards
Fiction Winner
- John Updike, Rabbit at Rest
Fiction Finalists
- Charles Johnson, Middle Passage
- Sue Miller, Family Pictures
- Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
- Wallace Stegner, Collected Stories
General Nonfiction Winner
- Shelby Steele, The Content of Our Character
General Nonfiction Finalists
- Mike Davis, City of Quartz
- Alma Guillermoprieto, Samba
- O.B. Hardison, Disappearing Through the Skylight
- Kevin Phillips, The Politics of Rich and Poor
1991 Awards
Fiction Winner
- Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
Fiction Finalists
- Louis Begley, Wartime Lies
- Gish Jen, Typical American
- Richard Powers, The Gold Bug Variations
- Norman Rush, Mating
General Nonfiction Winner
- Susan Faludi, Backlash
General Nonfiction Finalists
- Thomas Geoghegan, Which Side Are You on
- Melissa Fay Greene, Praying for Sheetrock
- Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities
- Dennis Overbye, Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos
1992 Awards
Fiction Winner
- Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
Fiction Finalists
- Randall Kenan, Let the Dead Bury Their Dead
- Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water
- Richard Price, Clockers
- Robert Stone, Outerbridge Reach
General Nonfiction Winner
- Norman Maclean, Young Men and Fire
General Nonfiction Finalists
- Michael D. Coe, Breaking the Maya Code
- Donald Katz, Home Fires
- Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Death Without Weeping
- Edward O. Wilson, The Diversity of Life
1993 Awards
Fiction Winner
- Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying
Fiction Finalists
- E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
- Bobbi Ann Mason, Feather Crowns
- Frances Sherwood, Vindication
- Rikki Ducornet, The Jade Cabinet (Dalkey Archive Press)
General Nonfiction Winner
- Alan Lomax, The Land Where the Blues Began
General Nonfiction Finalists
- Rosemary Mahoney, Whoredom in Kimmage
- George B. Schaller, The Last Panda
- Russ Rymer, Genie
- David Remnick, Lenin’s Tomb
1994 Awards
Fiction Winner
- Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
Fiction Finalists
- Alan Isler, The Prince of West End Avenue
- Julius Lester, And All Our Wounds Forgiven
- William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own
- Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies
General Nonfiction Winner
- Lynn Nicholas, The Rape of Europa
General Nonfiction Finalists
- Jane Mayer & Jill Abramson, Strange Justice
- Abraham Verghese, My Own Country
- Sherwin Nuland, How We Die
- John Demos, The Unredeemed Captive
1995 Awards
Fiction Winner
- Stanley Elkin, Mrs. Ted Bliss
Fiction Finalists
- Richard Ford, Independence Day
- Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2
- Jane Smiley, Moo
- Paul West, The Tent of Orange Mist
General Nonfiction Winner
- Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action
General Nonfiction Finalists
- Nicholas Basbanes, A Gentle Madness
- Madeleine Blais, In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle
- Fox Butterfield, All God’s Children
- Lawrence Weschler, Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder
1996 Awards
Fiction Winner
- Gina Berriault, Women in Their Beds
Fiction Finalists
- Louis Begley, About Schmidt
- Andre Dubus, Dancing After Hours
- Jamaica Kincaid, The Autobiography of My Mother
- Henry Roth, From Bondage
General Nonfiction Winner
- Jonathan Raban, Bad Land
General Nonfiction Finalists
- David Denby, The Great Books
- Daniel Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners
- Richard Kluger, Ashes to Ashes
- Bernard Lewis, The Middle East
1997 Awards
Fiction Winner
- Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower
Fiction Finalists
- Don DeLillo, Underworld
- Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
- Andrei Makine, Dreams of My Russian Summers
- Philip Roth, American Pastoral
General Nonfiction Winner
- Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
General Nonfiction Finalists
- Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air
- James Kugel, The Bible as It Was
- Pauline Maier, American Scripture
- Stephen Pinker, How the Mind Works
1998 Awards
Fiction Winner
- Alice Munro, The Love of a Good Woman
Fiction Finalists
- Michael Cunningham, The Hours
- David Gates, Preston Falls
- Lorrie Moore, Birds of America
- Lynne Tillman, No Lease on Life
General Nonfiction Winner
- Philip Gourevtich, We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Out Families
General Nonfiction Finalists
- Adam Hochschild, King Leopold’s Ghost
- Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone
- Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind
- Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman
1999 Awards
Fiction Winner
- Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn
Fiction Finalists
- A. Manette Ansay, Midnight Champagne
- Frederick Busch, The Night Inspector
- J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace
- David Gates, The Wonders of the Invisible World
General Nonfiction Winner
- Jonathan Weiner, Time, Love, Memory
General Nonfiction Finalists
- Jane Brox, Five Thousand Days Like This One
- John W. Dower, Embracing Defeat
- Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories
- Jean-Paul Kauffmann, The Black Room at Longwood
2000 Awards
Fiction Winner
- Jim Crace, Being Dead
Fiction Finalists
- Amy Bloom, A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You
- Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
- David Means, Assorted Fire Events: Stories
- Zadie Smith, White Teeth
General Nonfiction Winner
- Ted Conover, Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
General Nonfiction Finalists
- Fred Anderson, Crucible of War
- Frances Fitzgerald, Way Out There in the Blue
- Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust
- Alice Kaplan, The Collaborator
2001 Awards
Fiction Winner
- W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz
Fiction Finalists
- Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
- Alice Monroe, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
- Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
- Colson Whitehead, John Henry Days
General Nonfiction Winner
- Nicholson Baker, Double Fold
General Nonfiction Finalists
- Nina Bernstein, The Lost Children of Wilder
- Jan T. Gross, Neighbors
- Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit
- Sam Roberts, The Brother
2002 Awards
Fiction Winner
- Ian McEwan, Atonement
Fiction Finalists
- Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
- Aleksandar Hemon, Nowhere Man
- William Kennedy, Roscoe
- Edith Templeton, The Darts of Cupid
General Nonfiction Winner
- Samantha Power, A Problem from Hell
General Nonfiction Finalists
- Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
- William Langewiesche, American Ground
- Richard Rodriguez, Brown
- Gaby Wood, Edison’s Eve
2003 Awards
Fiction Winner
- Edward P. Jones, The Known World
Fiction Finalists
- Monica Ali, Brick Lane
- Richard Powers, The Time of Our Singing
- Tobias Wolff, Old School
- Caryl Phillips, A Distant Shore
General Nonfiction Winner
- Paul Hendrickson, Sons of Mississippi
General Nonfiction Finalists
- Caroline Alexander, The Bounty
- Anne Applebaum, Gulag
- Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Random Family
- William T. Vollmann, Rising Up and Rising Down
2004 Awards
Fiction Winner
- Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
Fiction Finalists
- Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker
- Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty
- David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
- Philip Roth, The Plot Against America
General Nonfiction Winner
- Diarmaid MacCulloch, The Reformation: A History
General Nonfiction Finalists
- Kevin Boyle, Arc of Justice
- Edward Conlon, Blue Blood
- David Shipler, The Working Poor
- Timothy Tyson, Blood Done Sign My Name
2005 Awards
Fiction Winner
- E.L. Doctorow, The March
Fiction Finalists
- Mary Gaitskill, Veronica
- Andrea Levy, Small Island
- Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
- William T. Vollmann, Europe Central
General Nonfiction Winner
- Svetlana Alexievich, Voices From Chernobyl
General Nonfiction Finalists
- Robert Fisk, The Great War for Civilisation
- Ellen Meloy, Eating Stone
- Caroline Moorehead, Human Cargo
- Anthony Shadid, Night Draws Near
2006 Awards
Fiction Winner
- Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
Fiction Finalists
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun
- Dave Eggers, What is the What
- Richard Ford, The Lay of the Land
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
General Nonfiction Winner
- Simon Schama, Rough Crossings
General Nonfiction Finalists
- Patrick Cockburn, The Occupation
- Anne Fessler, The Girls Who Went Away
- Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma
- Sandy Tolan, The Lemon Tree
Orange Prize Challenge
2007
winner
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Half of a Yellow Sun
shortlist
Rachel Cusk Arlington Park
Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss
Xiaolu Guo A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Jane Harris The Observations
Anne Tyler Digging to America
2006
winner
Zadie Smith On Beauty
shortlist
Nicole Krauss The History of Love
Hilary Mantel Beyond Black
Ali Smith The Accidental
Carrie Tiffany Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living
Sarah Waters The Night Watch
2005
winner
Lionel Shriver We Need to Talk About Kevin
shortlist
Jane Gardam Old Filth
Sheri Holman The Mammoth Cheese
Maile Meloy Liars and Saints
Marina Lewycka A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
2004
winner
Andrea Levy Small Island
shortlist
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Purple Hibiscus
Margaret Atwood Oryx and Crake
Shirley Hazzard The Great Fire
Gillian Slovo Ice Road
Rose Tremain The Colour
2003
winner
Valerie Martin Property
shortlist
Anne Donovan Buddha Da
Shena Mackay Heligoland
Carol Shields Unless
Zadie Smith The Autograph Man
Donna Tartt The Little Friend
2002
winner
Ann Patchett Bel Canto
shortlist
Anna Burns No Bones
Helen Dunmore The Siege
Maggie Gee The White Family
Chloe Hooper A Child’s Book of True Crime
Sarah Waters Fingersmith
2001
winner
Kate Grenville The Idea of Perfection
shortlist
Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin
Jill Dawson Fred & Edie
Ali Smith Hotel World
Rosina Lippi Homestead
Jane Smiley Horse Heaven
2000
winner
Linda Grant When I Lived in Modern Times
shortlist
Judy Budnitz If I Told You Once
Elizabeth Strout Amy and Isabelle
Eilis Ni Dhuibhne The Dancers Dancing
Zadie Smith White Teeth
1999
winner
Suzanne Berne A Crime in the Neighbourhood
shortlist
Jane Hamilton The Short History of a Prince
Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible
Toni Morrison Paradise
Julia Blackburn The Leper’s Companions
Marilyn Bowering Visible Worlds
1998
winner
Carol Shields Larry’s Party
shortlist
Kirsten Bakis Lives of the Monster Dogs
Pauline Melville The Ventriloquist’s Tale
Ann Patchett The Magician’s Assistant
Deirdre Purcell Love Like Hate Adore
Anita Shreve The Weight of Water
1997
winner
Anne Michaels Fugitive Pieces
shortlist
Margaret Atwood Alias Grace
Deirdre Madden One by One in the Darkness
Jane Mendelsohn I Was Amelia Earhart
E Annie Proulx Accordion Crimes
Manda Scott Hen’s Teeth
1996
winner
Helen Dunmore A Spell of Winter
shortlist
Julia Blackburn The Book of Colour
Pagan Kennedy Spinsters
Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses
Anne Tyler Ladder of Years
Marianne Wiggins Eveless Eden
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Challenge
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (18/83)
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1948 |
Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener |
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1949 |
Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens |
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1950 |
The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. |
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1951 |
The Town by Conrad Richter |
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1952 |
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk |
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1953 |
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway |
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1954 |
(No Award) |
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1955 |
A Fable by William Faulkner |
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1956 |
Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor |
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1957 |
(No Award) |
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1958 |
A Death In The Family by James Agee |
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1959 |
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor |
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1960 |
Advise and Consent by Allen Drury |
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1961 |
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee |
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1962 |
The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O’Connor |
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1963 |
The Reivers by William Faulkner |
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1964 |
(No Award) |
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1965 |
The Keepers Of The House by Shirley Ann Grau |
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1966 |
Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter |
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1967 |
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud |
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1968 |
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron |
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1969 |
House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday |
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1970 |
Collected Stories by Jean Stafford |
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1971 |
(No Award) |
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1972 |
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner |
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1973 |
The Optimists Daughter by Eudora Welty |
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1974 |
(No Award) |
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1975 |
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara |
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1976 |
Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow |
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1977 |
(No Award) |
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1978 |
Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson |
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1979 |
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever |
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1980 |
The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer |
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1981 |
A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole |
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1982 |
Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike |
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1983 |
The Color Purple by Alice Walker |
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1984 |
Ironweed by William Kennedy |
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1985 |
Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie |
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1986 |
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry |
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1987 |
A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor |
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1988 |
Beloved by Toni Morrison |
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1989 |
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler |
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1990 |
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos |
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1991 |
Rabbit At Rest by John Updike |
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1992 |
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley |
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1993 |
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler |
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1994 |
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx |
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1995 |
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields |
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1996 |
Independence Day by Richard Ford |
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1997 |
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser |
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1998 |
American Pastoral by Philip Roth |
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1999 |
The Hours by Michael Cunningham |
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2000 |
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri |
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2001 |
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon |
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2002 |
Empire Falls by Richard Russo |
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2003 |
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides |
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2004 |
The Known World by Edward P. Jones |
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2005 |
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson |
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2006 |
March by Geraldine Brooks |
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2007 |
The Road by Cormac McCarthy |
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2008 |
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz |
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Man Booker Prize Challenge
The Man Booker Prize (10/38)
1969
Winner P H Newby Something to Answer For
Shortlisted authors
Barry England Figures in a Landscape
Nicholas Mosley The Impossible Object
Iris Murdoch The Nice and the Good
Muriel Spark The Public Image
G M Williams From Scenes like These
1970
Winner Bernice Rubens The Elected Member
Shortlisted authors
A L Barker John Brown’s Body
Elizabeth Bowen Eva Trout
Iris Murdoch Bruno’s Dream
William Trevor Mrs Eckdorf in O’Neill’s Hotel
T W Wheeler The Conjunction
1971
Winner V S Naipaul In a Free State
Shortlisted authors
Thomas Kilroy The Big Chapel
Doris Lessing Briefing for a Descent into Hell
Mordecai Richler St Urbain’s Horseman
Derek Robinson Goshawk Squadron
Elizabeth Taylor Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
1972
Winner John Berger G
Shortlisted authors
Susan Hill Bird of Night
Thomas Keneally The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith
David Storey Pasmore
1973
Winner J G Farrell The Siege of Krishnapur
Shortlisted authors
Beryl Bainbridge The Dressmaker
Elizabeth Mavor The Green Equinox
Iris Murdoch The Black Prince
1974
Winners Nadine Gordimer The Conservationist
Stanley Middleton Holiday
Shortlisted authors
Kingsley Amis Ending Up
Beryl Bainbridge The Bottle Factory Outing
C P Snow In Their Wisdom
1975
Winner Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Heat and Dust
Shortlisted author
Thomas Keneally Gossip from the Forest
1976
Winner David Storey Saville
Shortlisted authors
André Brink An Instant in the Wind
R C Rising
Brian Moore The Doctor’s Wife
Julian Rathbone King Fisher Lives
William Trevor The Children of Dynmouth
1977
Winner Paul Scott Staying On
Shortlisted authors
Paul Bailey Peter Smart’s Confessions
Caroline Blackwood Great Granny Webster
Jennifer Johnston Shadows on our Skin
Penelope Lively The Road to Lichfield
Barbara Pym Quartet in Autumn
1978
Winner Iris Murdoch The Sea, the Sea
Shortlisted authors
Kingsley Amis Jake’s Thing
André Brink Rumours of Rain
Penelope Fitzgerald The Bookshop
Jane Gardam God on the Rocks
Bernice Rubens A Five-Year Sentence
1979
Winner Penelope Fitzgerald Offshore
Shortlisted authors
Thomas Keneally Confederates
V S Naipaul A Bend in the River
Julian Rathbone Joseph
Fay Weldon Praxis
1980
Winner William Golding Rites of Passage
Shortlisted authors
Anthony Burgess Earthly Powers
Anita Desai Clear Light of Day
Alice Munro The Beggar Maid
Julia O’Faolain No Country for Young Men
Barry Unsworth Pascali’s Island
J L Carr A Month in the Country
1981
Winner Salman Rushdie Midnight’s Children †
Shortlisted authors
Molly Keane Good Behaviour
Doris Lessing The Sirian Experiments
Ian McEwan The Comfort of Strangers
Ann Schlee Rhine Journey
Muriel Spark Loitering with Intent
D M Thomas The White Hotel
1982
Winner Thomas Keneally Schindler’s Ark
Shortlisted authors
John Arden Silence among the Weapons
William Boyd An Ice-Cream War
Lawrence Durrell Constance or Solitary Practices
Alice Thomas Ellis The 27th Kingdom
Timothy Mo Sour Sweet
1983
Winner J M Coetzee Life & Times of Michael K
Shortlisted authors
Malcolm Bradbury Rates of Exchange
John Fuller Flying to Nowhere
Anita Mason The Illusionist
Salman Rushdie Shame
Graham Swift Waterland
1984
Winner Anita Brookner Hotel du Lac
Shortlisted authors
J G Ballard Empire of the Sun
Julian Barnes Flaubert’s Parrot
Anita Desai In Custody
Penelope Lively According to Mark
David Lodge Small World
1985
Winner Keri Hulme The Bone People
Shortlisted authors
Peter Carey Illywhacker
J L Carr The Battle of Pollocks Crossing
Doris Lessing The Good Terrorist
Jan Morris Last Letters from Hav
Iris Murdoch The Good Apprentice
1986
Winner Kingsley Amis The Old Devils
Shortlisted authors
Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale
Paul Bailey Gabriel’s Lament
Robertson Davies What’s Bred in the Bone
Kazuo Ishiguro An Artist of the Floating World
Timothy Mo An Insular Possession
1987
Winner Penelope Lively Moon Tiger
Shortlisted authors
Chinua Achebe Anthills of the Savannah
Peter Ackroyd Chatterton
Nina Bawden Circles of Deceit
Brian Moore The Colour of Blood
Iris Murdoch The Book and the Brotherhood
1988
Winner Peter Carey Oscar and Lucinda
Shortlisted authors
Bruce Chatwin Utz
Penelope Fitzgerald The Beginning of Spring
David Lodge Nice Work
Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses
Marina Warner The Lost Father
1989
Winner Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day
Shortlisted authors
Margaret Atwood Cat’s Eye
John Banville The Book of Evidence
Sybille Bedford Jigsaw
James Kelman A Disaffection
Rose Tremain Restoration
1990
Winner A S Byatt Possession
Shortlisted authors
Beryl Bainbridge An Awfully Big Adventure
Penelope Fitzgerald The Gate of Angels
John McGahern Amongst Women
Brian Moore Lies of Silence
Mordecai Richler Solomon Gursky Was Here
1991
Winner Ben Okri The Famished Road
Shortlisted authors
Martin Amis Time’s Arrow
Roddy Doyle The Van
Rohinton Mistry Such a Long Journey
Timothy Mo The Redundancy of Courage
William Trevor Reading Turgenev (from Two Lives)
1992
Winners Michael Ondaatje The English Patient
Barry Unsworth Sacred Hunger
Shortlisted authors
Christopher Hope Serenity House
Patrick McCabe The Butcher Boy
Ian McEwan Black Dogs
Michèle Roberts Daughters of the House
1993
Winner Roddy Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Shortlisted authors
Tibor Fischer Under the Frog
Michael Ignatieff Scar Tissue
David Malouf Remembering Babylon
Caryl Phillips Crossing the River
Carol Shields The Stone Diaries
1994
Winner James Kelman How Late It Was, How Late
Shortlisted authors
Romesh Gunesekera Reef
Abdulrazak Gurnah Paradise
Alan Hollinghurst The Folding Star
George Mackay Brown Beside the Ocean of Time
Jill Paton Walsh Knowledge of Angels
1995
Winner Pat Barker The Ghost Road
Shortlisted authors
Justin Cartwright In Every Face I Meet
Salman Rushdie The Moor’s Last Sigh
Barry Unsworth Morality Play
Tim Winton The Riders
1996
Winner Graham Swift Last Orders
Shortlisted authors
Margaret Atwood Alias Grace
Beryl Bainbridge Every Man for Himself
Seamus Deane Reading in the Dark
Shena Mackay The Orchard on Fire
Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance
1997
Winner Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things
Shortlisted authors
Jim Crace Quarantine
Mick Jackson The Underground Man
Bernard MacLaverty Grace Notes
Tim Parks Europa
Madeleine St John The Essence of the Thing
1998
Winner Ian McEwan Amsterdam
Shortlisted authors
Beryl Bainbridge Master George
Julian Barnes England England
Martin Booth The Industry of Souls
Patrick McCabe Breakfast on Pluto
Magnus Mills The Restraint of Beasts
1999
Winner J M Coetzee Disgrace
Shortlisted authors
Anita Desai Fasting, Feasting
Michael Frayn Headlong
Andrew O’Hagan Our Fathers
Ahdaf Soueif The Map of Love
Colm Tóibín The Blackwater Lightship
2000
Winner Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin
Shortlisted authors
Trezza Azzopardi The Hiding Place
Michael Collins The Keepers of Truth
Kazuo Ishiguro When We were Orphans
Matthew Kneale English Passengers
Brian O’Doherty The Deposition of Father McGreevy
2001
Winner Peter Carey True History of the Kelly Gang
Shortlisted authors
Ian McEwan Atonement
Andrew Miller Oxygen
David Mitchell number9dream
Rachel Seiffert The Dark Room
Ali Smith Hotel World
2002
Winner Yann Martel The Life of Pi
Shortlisted authors
Rohinton Mistry Family Matters
Carol Shields Unless
William Trevor The Story of Lucy Gault
Sarah Waters Fingersmith
Tim Winton Dirt Music
2003
Winner DBC Pierre Vernon God Little
Shortlisted authors
Monica Ali Brick Lane
Margaret Atwood Oryx and Crake
Damon Galgut The Good Doctor
Zoë Heller Notes on a Scandal
Clare Morrall Astonishing Splashes of Colour
2004
Winner Alan Hollinghurst The Line of Beauty
Shortlisted authors
Achmat DangorBitter Fruit
Sarah Hall The Electric Michelangelo
David Mitchell Cloud Atlas
Colm Toibin The Master
Gerard Woodward I’ll go to Bed at Noon
2005
Winner John Banville The Sea
Shortlisted authors
Julian Barnes Arthur and George
Sebastian Barry A Long, Long Way
Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go
Ali SmithThe Accidental
Zadie Smith On Beauty
2006
Winner Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss
Shortlisted authors
Kate Grenville The Secret River
M J Hyland Carry Me Down
Hisham Matar In the Country of Men
Edward St Aubyn Mother’s Milk
Sarah Waters The Night Watch
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BBC Big Read Challenge
“BBC Big Read” Top 200 books (62/200)
1. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye– JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
18. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone – JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets – JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban – JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch – George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany – John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath – John Steinbeck
30. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker – Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth – Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion – Jane Austen
39. Dune – Frank Herbert
40. Emma – Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down – Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm – George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom – Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers – Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men – John Steinbeck
53. The Stand – Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56. The BFG – Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons – Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty – Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses – Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha – Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds – Colleen McCollough
65. Mort – Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree – Enid Blyton
67. The Magus – John Fowles
68. Good Omens – Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards! – Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies – William Golding
71. Perfume – Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch – Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda – Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White – Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses – James Joyce
79. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
80. Double Act – Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits – Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle – Dodie Smith
83. Holes – Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel – Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
89. Magician – Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road – Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather – Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear – Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic – Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine – Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel – Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love – Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries – Meg Cabot
100. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
101. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
102. Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach by Alex Garland
104. Dracula by Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc by Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
109. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum by Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole
113. The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
115. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game by Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls by Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
119. Shogun by James Clavell
120. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose by Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
124. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
128. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
129. Possession by A. S. Byatt
130. The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
132. Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
137. Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
139. Girls in Tears by Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers by Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Ramarque
142. Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
144. It by Stephen King
145. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile by Stephen King
147. Papillon by Henri Charriere
148. Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
149. Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian
150. Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
152. Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement by Ian McEwan
155. Secrets by Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
158. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
159. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
160. Cross Stitch by Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
162. River God by Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
165. The World According to Garp by John Irving
166. Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late by Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye
169. The Witches by Roald Dahl
170. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
171. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
172. They Used to Play on Grass by Terry Venables
173. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
175. Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby by Jacqueline Wilson
178. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
179. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
180. The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
181. The Suitcase Kid by Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
183. The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner by George Eliot
185. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
186. The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
187. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
188. Goosebumps by R. L. Stine
189. Heidi by Johanna Spyri
190. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
192. Man and Boy by Tony Parsons
193. The Truth by Terry Pratchett
194. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
198. The Once and Future King by T. H. White
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
200. Flowers in the Attic by V. Andrews
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1001 Books to Read Before You Die Challenge
1001 Books To Read Before You Die (106/1001)
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Raved-About Book Challenge
Raved-About Book List 2008
The Age of Gold by H. W. Brands
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
A Crack in the Edge of the World by Simon Winchester
A Death in the Family by James Agee
The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead edited by Jeffrey Eugenides
Native Son by Richard Wright
Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Once and Future King by T. H. White
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Praying for Sheetrock by Melissa Fay Greene
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer
Sundays in America by Suzanne Strempek Shea
Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt
Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham
The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany
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Book Around the States
BOOK AROUND THE STATES (24)
ALABAMA
ALASKA
ARIZONA
ARKANSAS I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
CALIFORNIA Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende
COLORADO The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means
CONNECTICUT Last Night at the Red Lobster by Stewart O’Nan
DC The Nine by Jeffrey Toobin
FLORIDA Strawberry Girl by Lois Lensky
GEORGIA Praying for Sheetrock by Melissa Fay Greene
HAWAII
IDAHO
ILLINOIS A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
INDIANA
IOWA
KANSAS Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
KENTUCKY Gabriel’s Horses by Alison Hart
LOUISIANA
MAINE Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
MARYLAND
MASSACHUSETTS Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
MICHIGAN Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
MINNESOTA Meet Kirsten: An American Girl by Janet Shaw
MISSISSIPPI Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred S. Taylor
MISSOURI The Trouble Begins at 8 by Sid Fleischman
MONTANA Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Lawson
NEBRASKA
NEVADA Roughing It by Mark Twain
NEW HAMPSHIRE
NEW JERSEY
NEW MEXICO …And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold
NEW YORK Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer
NORTH CAROLINA
NORTH DAKOTA
OHIO
OKLAHOMA Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
OREGON
PENNSYLVANIA An American Plague by Jim Murphy
SOUTH CAROLINA Scratch Beginnings by Adam Shepard
TENNESSEE
TEXAS Holes by Louis Sachar
VERMONT
VIRGINIA Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
WASHINGTON The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
WEST VIRGINIA M.C. Higgins the Great by Virginia Hamilton
WISCONSIN Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Brink Ryrie
WYOMING
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THE MINI-CHALLENGE 2008
Sponsored by ANovelChallenge owner, Wendy (caribousmom)
1. Complete all twelve mini-challenges from January 1st through December 31st of 2008 and become eligible for some fun prizes at the end of the year. DO NOT start this challenge prior to January 1, 2008.
2. Challenges may be completed in any order and may overlap other challenges. Work through them at your own speed.
3. Participants must EITHER post their progress (and reviews if appropriate) to their blog with links to this group OR directly to this group.
4. After completing each challenge, go to the database and record the completion date in the correct column next to your name.
Here are the challenges:
1. Read a short story – review it
I completed a whole book of short stories this week, My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead. They all centered on the theme of love. One of my favorites was the last story, “The Bear Came Over the Mountain.” An elderly woman is growing increasingly forgetful and her husband finds he has to put her in a nursing home. Within a short time, the woman meets an elderly man and they form a strong attachment. The husband at first feels very awkward being around his wife and her new admirer. But he grows to see the relationship is helpful to her and begins to support it.
A fascinating story in a book of fascinating stories.
2. Read a children’s book – review it
I’ve read over a hundred children’s books this year, so it is hard for me to pick out just one! Some of my favorites were Middle School is Worse than Meatloaf (interesting format), Winnie the Pooh (great characters), Battle of the Labyrinth (new Percy Jackson book), Elijah of Buxton (new Christopher Paul Curtis), Because of Winn-Dixie, The Westing Game, How to Steal a Dog, and Holes. But best of all I loved Never Cry Wolf, a book that was described to me as being a child’s book. Never Cry Wolf is the Story of a man who heads off into the wilds of Canada to study wolves. Boy, does he learn a lot! Everything he was told about wolves he finds is wrong.
3. Read a poem – tell us about it
4. Read a banned book – review it
One of the books I read this year that is on many banned book lists is The Giver. It’s called a children’s book, but I found it to be a book almost anyone would love. The Giver is the story of a boy who lives in a society where everything is controlled, from learning to ride a bicycle to finding a job. The boy in the story has reached the age where he is to be given his assignment for a job and he learns he is to be the Receiver of Memory, the one person in the society who holds all the memories of the world. It is a difficult job, as the boy learns.
5. Give a book away (you may donate to charity, give a book to a friend, leave a book “in the wild” to be found by another reader…as long as you do not sell it!) - post why you chose the book you did and where it went
I released 42 books the first week of the year.
6. Read two (2) articles from any one magazine – tell us about them
7. Read a classic (for this challenge a classic is defined as a piece of literature which has stood the test of time, has literary merit, is widely read, and was published prior to 1970) – review it
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
I was expecting to loathe this book. It was nothing like I expected.
Yes, For Whom the Bell Tolls is about war. There are all the horrors of war in this book. But nothing was extraneous, gratuitous, undeserved. And the book was about so much more than just war. Hemingway delves into relationships and honor and courage and heroism.
It is a great book.
8. Go to a book event and then tell the group about your experience (book events may be library events, author readings, seminars/lectures pertaining to books or reading, etc…)
In April, I went with a friend to see Cokie Roberts talk about her new book, Ladies of Liberty. She told many stories about the writing of the book and about her experiences with women in politics. She told us she is now working on children’s versions of her two books about woman and politics.
9. Read an essay – tell us about it
10. Read something inspirational – tell the group why it inspired you
I read Sundays in America this week. It is a book about the author’s yearlong attempt to visit many different Christian churches and find the one that was right for her. I have always wanted to visit other churches and this book may have inspired me to go out and visit some.
11. Read a book written by a “new-to-you” author – review it
12. Participate in a group or buddy read and discussion (this can be either a face to face book club, an on line group, or a blog/buddy read). Tell the group what you read and with whom; give us a review!
I’m participating in an online group discussion this month with a classics groups. The book is For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. Usually when I read a book with a group, I sit back and read all the posts. This time, I am attempting to jump in and post a few comments. That should take me out of my comfort zone pretty fast!
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