Commonwealth Writers Prize

1987 - Olive Senior, Summer Lightning
1988 - Festus Iyayi, Heroes
1989 - Janet Frame, The Carpathians
1990 - Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here
1991 - David Malouf, The Great World
1992 - Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey,
1993 - Alex Miller The Ancestor Game
1994 - Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy
1995 - Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin*
1996 - Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
1997 - Earl Lovelace, Salt
1998 - Peter Carey, Jack Maggs
1999 - Murray Bail, Eucalyptus
2000 - John Maxwell Coetzee, Disgrace
2001 - Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang*
2002 - Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish
2003 - Austin Clarke, The Polished Hoe
2004 - Caryl Phillips, A Distant Shore
2005 - Andrea Levy, Small Island*
2006 - Kate Grenville, The Secret River
2007 - Lloyd Jones, Mr. Pip
2008 - Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes (U.S. title: Someone Knows My Name)*
2009 - The Slap, Christos Tsiolkas

Stephen King Books

• 1960 - People, Places, And Things - Volume 1 (limited edition with Chris Chelsey)
• 1964 - The Star Invaders (limited edition)
• 1974 - Carrie
• 1975 - Salem's Lot
• 1977 - The Shining
• 1978 - Night Shift (stories)
• 1978 - The Stand
• 1979 - The Dead Zone
• 1980 - Firestarter
• 1981 - Cujo
• 1981 - Danse Macabre (nonfiction about horror)
• 1981 - Roadwork
• 1982 - Creepshow (comic book, illustrated by Bernie Wrightson)
• 1982 - The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
• 1982 - Different Seasons (novellas)
• 1983 - Christine
• 1983 - Pet Sematary
• 1983 - Cycle of the Werewolf
• 1984 - The Talisman (written with Peter Straub)
• 1985 - Skeleton Crew (stories)
• 1985 - The Bachman Books (novel collection)
• 1986 - It
• 1987 - The Eyes of the Dragon
• 1987 - Misery
• 1987 - The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
• 1988 - The Tommyknockers
• 1988 - Nightmares in the Sky (Photo book with text by King)
• 1988 - Dark Visions
• 1989 - The Dark Half
• 1989 - Dolan's Cadillac (limited edition)
• 1989 - My Pretty Pony (limited edition)
• 1990 - The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition
• 1990 - Four Past Midnight (stories)
• 1991 - Needful Things
• 1991 - The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
• 1992 - Gerald's Game
• 1993 - Dolores Claiborne ?
• 1993 - Nightmares & Dreamscapes (stories)
• 1994 - Insomnia??
• 1995 - Rose Madder??
• 1995 - Umney's Last Case
• 1996 - The Green Mile (originally published as a monthly serial consisting of six parts: The Two Dead Girls, The Mouse on the Mile, Coffey's Hands, The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix, Night Journey, and Coffey on the Mile)
• 1996 - Desperation
• 1997 - Six Stories (stories)
• 1997 - The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
• 1998 - Bag of Bones??
• 1999 - Storm of the Century
• 1999 - The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon??
• 1999 - The New Lieutenant's Rap (limited edition)
• 1999 - Hearts in Atlantis
• 1999 - Blood and Smoke (audio book)
• 2000 - Riding the Bullet (electronically published novella)
• 2000 - The Plant(electronically published)
• 2000 - Secret Windows
• 2000 - On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (nonfiction autobiography)
• 2000 - Dreamcatcher??
• 2001 - Black House (written with Peter Straub)
• 2002 - From a Buick 8
• 2002 - Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales
• 2003 - The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger (revised edition)
• 2003 - The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
• 2004 - The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
• 2004 - The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
• 2004 - Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season
• 2005 - The Colorado Kid
• 2006 - Cell
• 2006 - Lisey's Story
• 2008 - Duma Key
• 2008 - Just After Sunset
• UR (e-novella available only on Amazon.com's Kindle)

The Printz Prize

2009
Jellicoe Road, by Melina Marchetta
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves, by M.T. Anderson
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, by E. Lockhart
Nation, by Terry Pratchett
Tender Morsels, by Margo Lanagan

2008
The White Darkness, by Geraldine McCaughrean
Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet, by Elizabeth Knox
One Whole and Perfect Day, by Judith Clarke
Repossessed, by A.M. Jenkins
Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath, by Stephanie Hemphill

2007
American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; Volume I: The Pox Party, by M.T. Anderson
An Abundance of Katherines, by John Green
Surrender, by Sonya Hartnett
The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak

2006
Looking for Alaska, by John Green
Black Juice, by Margo Lanagan
I Am the Messenger, by Markus Zusak
John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth, a Photographic Biography, by Elizabeth Partridge
A Wreath for Emmett Till, by Marilyn Nelson

2005
how i live now, by Meg Rosoff
Airborn, by Kenneth Oppel
Chanda’s Secrets, by Allan Stratton
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, by Gary D. Schmidt

2004
The First Part Last, by Angela Johnson
A Northern Light, by Jennifer Donnelly
Keesha’s House, by Helen Frost
Fat Kid Rules the World, by K.L. Going
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, by Carolyn Mackler

2003
Postcards from No Man’s Land, by Aidan Chambers
The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer
My Heartbeat, by Garret Freymann-Weyr
Hole in My Life, by Jack Gantos

2002
A Step From Heaven, by An Na
The Ropemaker, by Peter Dickinson
Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art, by Jan Greenberg
Abrams Freewill, by Chris Lynch
True Believer, by Virginia Euwer Wolff

2001
Kit’s Wilderness, by David Almond
Many Stones, by Carolyn Coman
The Body of Christopher Creed, by Carol Plum-Ucci
Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, by Louise Rennison April 09
Stuck in Neutral, by Terry Trueman

2000
Monster, by Walter Dean Myers
Skellig, by David Almond April 09
Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson
Hard Love, by Ellen Wittlinger

NY Times Notable Books 2005 - 2008

I totally stole this list from 3M. I let her do the hard work, then I just copy and paste - she's such a good friend to let me mooch from here. I like this idea, keeping track of the NY Times recommended books for the year. Some have been good, some not so good. I've bolded the ones I've already read, I've italicized the books I own and am waiting to read, and the little star* beside the ones that I am interested in, some day. Here's the link to the most recent list, and past years.

2009 ( 3 of 45)

1. Amatuer Barbarians by Robert Cohen
2. American Rust by Philipp Meyey
3. The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
4. The Art Student's War by Brad Leithauser
5. Asterios Polyp by David Mazzuchelli
6. Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
7. Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy
8. The Case Book of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd
9. Chronic City by Johnathan Letham
10. The Confessions of Edward Day by Valerie Martin
11. Dearest Creature by Amy Grestler
12. Do Not Deny Me: Stories by Jean Thompson
13. Don't Cry:Stories by Mary Gaitskill
14. Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
15. Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
16. Family Album by Penelope Lively
17. Follow Me by Joanna Scott
18. A Gate at the Stairs by Lorri Moore
19. Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers
20. Half- Broke Horses: A True Life Novel by Jeannette Walls
21. How It Ended: New and Collected Stories by Jay McInerney
22. In Other Rooms, In Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
23. Invisible by Paul Auster
24. Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
25. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
26. Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
27. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
28. The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
29. Love and Obstacles: Stories by Aleksander Hemon
30. Love and Summer by William Trevor
31. The Museum of Innocence by Orham Pamuk
32. My Father's Tears: And Other Stories by John Updike
33. Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazou Ishiguro
34. Nothing Right: Short Stories by Antonya Nelson
35. Once the Shore: Stories by Paul Yoon
36. One DOA, One on the Way by Mary Robison
37. Sag Harbour by Colson Whitehead
38. A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert
    
39. The Sky Below by Stacey D'Arasmo
40. The Song is You by Arthur Phillips
41. Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
42. Typhoon by Charles Cumming
43. A Village Life by Louise Gluck
44. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
45. The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

2008 ( 3 of 48 read)

1. AMERICAN WIFE. By Curtis Sittenfeld.
2. ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES. By Rivka Galchen.
3. BASS CATHEDRAL. By Nathaniel Mackey.
4. BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN. By Charles Bock.
5. BEIJING COMA. By Ma Jian. Translated by Flora Drew.
6. A BETTER ANGEL: Stories. By Chris Adrian.
7. BLACK FLIES. By Shannon Burke.
8. THE BLUE STAR. By Tony Earley.
9. THE BOAT. By Nam Le.
10. BREATH. By Tim Winton.
11. DANGEROUS LAUGHTER: Thirteen Stories. By Steven Millhauser.
12. DEAR AMERICAN AIRLINES. By Jonathan Miles.
13. DIARY OF A BAD YEAR. By J. M. Coet­zee.
14. DICTATION: A Quartet. By Cynthia Ozick.
15. ELEGY: Poems. By Mary Jo Bang.
16. THE ENGLISH MAJOR. By Jim Harrison.
17. FANON. By John Edgar Wideman.
18. THE FINDER. By Colin Harrison.
19. FINE JUST THE WAY IT IS: Wyoming Stories 3 . By Annie Proulx.
20. THE GOOD THIEF . By Hannah Tinti.
21. HALF OF THE WORLD IN LIGHT: New and Selected Poems. By Juan Felipe Herrera.
22. HIS ILLEGAL SELF. By Peter Carey.
23. *HOME. By Marilynne Robinson.
24. INDIGNATION. By Philip Roth.
25. THE LAZARUS PROJECT. By Aleksandar Hemon.
26. LEGEND OF A SUICIDE. By David Vann.
27. LIFE CLASS. By Pat Barker.
28. LUSH LIFE. By Richard Price.
29. A MERCY. By Toni Morrison.
30. MODERN LIFE: Poems . By Matthea Harvey.
31. A MOST WANTED MAN . By John le Carré.
32. MY REVOLUTIONS. By Hari Kunzru.
33. *NETHERLAND. By Joseph O’Neill.
34. OPAL SUNSET: Selected Poems, 1958-2008. By Clive James.
35. THE OTHER. By David Guterson.
36. OUR STORY BEGINS: New and Selected Stories. By Tobias Wolff.
37. THE ROAD HOME. By Rose Tremain.
38. THE SACRED BOOK OF THE WEREWOLF. By Victor Pelevin. Translated by Andrew Bromfield.
39. THE SCHOOL ON HEART’S CONTENT ROAD. By Carolyn Chute.
40. SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT: A New Verse Translation. By Simon Armitage.
41. SLEEPING IT OFF IN RAPID CITY: Poems, New and Selected. By August Kleinzahler.
42. TELEX FROM CUBA. By Rachel Kushner.
43. 2666. By Roberto Bolaño. Translated by Natasha Wimmer.
44. UNACCUSTOMED EARTH. By Jhumpa Lahiri.
45. THE UNFORTUNATES. By B. S. Johnson.
46. WHEN WILL THERE BE GOOD NEWS? By Kate Atkinson.
47. THE WIDOWS OF EASTWICK. By John Updike.
48. YESTERDAY’S WEATHER. By Anne Enright.

2007 ( 11 of 50 read)

1. *THE ABSTINENCE TEACHER. By Tom Perrotta.
2. AFTER DARK. By Haruki Murakami. Translated by Jay Rubin.
3. THE BAD GIRL. By Mario Vargas Llosa. Translated by Edith Grossman.
4. BEARING THE BODY. By Ehud Havazelet.
5. THE BEAUTIFUL THINGS THAT HEAVEN BEARS. By Dinaw Mengestu.
6. *BRIDGE OF SIGHS. By Richard Russo.
7. *THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO. By Junot Díaz.
8. CALL ME BY YOUR NAME. By André Aciman.
9. CHEATING AT CANASTA. By William Trevor.
10. THE COLLECTED POEMS, 1956-1998. By Zbigniew Herbert. Translated by Alissa Valles.
11. DANCING TO “ALMENDRA.” By Mayra Montero. Translated by Edith Grossman.
12. EXIT GHOST. By Philip Roth.
13. FALLING MAN. By Don DeLillo.
14. FELLOW TRAVELERS. By Thomas Mallon.
15. A FREE LIFE. By Ha Jin.
16. THE GATHERING. By Anne Enright.
17. HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS. By J.K. Rowling.
18. HOUSE LIGHTS. By Leah Hager Cohen.
19. HOUSE OF MEETINGS. By Martin Amis.
20. IN THE COUNTRY OF MEN. By Hisham Matar.
21. THE INDIAN CLERK. By David Leavitt.
22. KNOTS. By Nuruddin Farah.
23. LATER, AT THE BAR: A Novel in Stories. By Rebecca Barry.
24. LET THE NORTHERN LIGHTS ERASE YOUR NAME. By Vendela Vida.
25. LIKE YOU’D UNDERSTAND, ANYWAY: Stories. By Jim Shepard.
26. MAN GONE DOWN. By Michael Thomas.
27. *MATRIMONY. By Joshua Henkin.
28. THE MAYTREES. By Annie Dillard.
29. THE MINISTRY OF SPECIAL CASES. By Nathan Englander.
30. *MOTHERS AND SONS: Stories. By Colm Toibin.
31. NEXT LIFE. By Rae Armantrout.
32. ON CHESIL BEACH. By Ian McEwan.
33. OUT STEALING HORSES. By Per Petterson. Translated by Anne Born.
34. THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST. By Mohsin Hamid.
35. REMAINDER. By Tom McCarthy.
36. THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES. By Roberto Bolaño. Translated by Natasha Wimmer.
37. SELECTED POEMS. By Derek Walcott.
38. *THE SEPTEMBERS OF SHIRAZ. By Dalia Sofer.
39. SHORTCOMINGS. By Adrian Tomine.
40. SUNSTROKE: And Other Stories. By Tessa Hadley.
41. THEN WE CAME TO THE END. By Joshua Ferris.
42. THROW LIKE A GIRL: Stories. By Jean Thompson.
43. TIME AND MATERIALS: Poems, 1997-2005. By Robert Hass.
44. *TREE OF SMOKE. By Denis Johnson.
45. TWENTY GRAND: And Other Tales of Love and Money. By Rebecca Curtis.
46. VARIETIES OF DISTURBANCE: Stories. By Lydia Davis.
47. THE VIEW FROM CASTLE ROCK: Stories. By Alice Munro.
48. WHAT IS THE WHAT. The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng: A Novel. By Dave Eggers.
49. WINTERTON BLUE. By Trezza Azzopardi.
50. THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN’S UNION. By Michael Chabon.

2006 (10/50 read)

1. ABSURDISTAN. By Gary Shteyngart.
2. AFTER THIS. By Alice McDermott.
3. AGAINST THE DAY. By Thomas Pynchon.
4. ALENTEJO BLUE. By Monica Ali.
5. ALL AUNT HAGAR’S CHILDREN. By Edward P. Jones.
6. APEX HIDES THE HURT. By Colson Whitehead.
7. ARTHUR AND GEORGE. By Julian Barnes.
8. AVERNO. By Louise Glück.
9. BEASTS OF NO NATION. By Uzodinma Iweala.
10. BLACK SWAN GREEN. By David Mitchell.
11. BROOKLAND. By Emily Barton.
12. COLLECTED POEMS, 1947-1997. By Allen Ginsberg.
13. THE COLLECTED STORIES OF AMY HEMPEL.
14. THE DEAD FISH MUSEUM. By Charles D’Ambrosio.
15. DIGGING TO AMERICA. By Anne Tyler.
16. THE DISSIDENT. By Nell Freudenberger.
17. THE DREAM LIFE OF SUKHANOV. By Olga Grushin.
18. EAT THE DOCUMENT. By Dana Spiotta.
19. THE ECHO MAKER. By Richard Powers.
20. THE EMPEROR’S CHILDREN. By Claire Messud.
21. EVERYMAN. By Philip Roth.
22. FORGETFULNESS. By Ward Just.
23. GALLATIN CANYON: Stories. By Thomas McGuane.
24. GATE OF THE SUN. By Elias Khoury. Translated by Humphrey Davies.
25. GOLDEN COUNTRY. By Jennifer Gilmore.
26. HALF OF A YELLOW SUN. By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
27. HIGH LONESOME: New & Selected Stories, 1966-2006. By Joyce Carol Oates.
28. THE INHABITED WORLD. By David Long.
29. THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS. By Kiran Desai.
30. INTUITION. By Allegra Goodman.
31. THE KEEP. By Jennifer Egan.
32. LAST EVENINGS ON EARTH. By Roberto Bolaño. Translated by Chris Andrews.
33. THE LAY OF THE LAND. By Richard Ford.
34. LISEY’S STORY. By Stephen King.
35. NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS, 1964-2006. By Ishmael Reed.
36. OLD FILTH. By Jane Gardam.
37. ONE GOOD TURN. By Kate Atkinson.
38. ONLY REVOLUTIONS. By Mark Z. Danielewski.
39. THE POSSIBILITY OF AN ISLAND. By Michel Houellebecq. Translated by Gavin Bowd.
40. THE ROAD. By Cormac McCarthy.
41. SKINNER’S DRIFT. By Lisa Fugard.
42. SPECIAL TOPICS IN CALAMITY PHYSICS. By Marisha Pessl.
43. THE STORIES OF MARY GORDON. By Mary Gordon.
44. STRONG IS YOUR HOLD. By Galway Kinnell.
45. *SUITE FRANÇAISE. By Irène Némirovsky. Translated by Sandra Smith.
46. TERRORIST. By John Updike.
47. THE TRANSLATOR. By Leila Aboulela.
48. TWILIGHT OF THE SUPERHEROES. By Deborah Eisenberg.
49. THE USES OF ENCHANTMENT. By Heidi Julavits.
50. *A WOMAN IN JERUSALEM. By A. B. Yehoshua. Translated by Hillel Halkin.

2005 (2/39 read)

1. BEYOND BLACK. By Hilary Mantel.
2. A CHANGED MAN. By Francine Prose.
3. COLLECTED POEMS, 1943-2004. By Richard Wilbur.
4. EMPIRE RISING. By Thomas Kelly.
5. ENVY. By Kathryn Harrison.
6. EUROPE CENTRAL. By William T. Vollmann.
7. FOLLIES: New Stories. By Ann Beattie.
8. HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE. By J. K. Rowling.
9. HOME LAND. By Sam Lipsyte.
10. THE HOT KID. By Elmore Leonard.
11. HOW WE ARE HUNGRY: Stories. By Dave Eggers.
12. IN CASE WE’RE SEPARATED: Connected Stories. By Alice Mattison.
13. INDECISION. By Benjamin Kunkel.
14. KAFKA ON THE SHORE. By Haruki Murakami.
15. LUNAR PARK. By Bret Easton Ellis.
16. MAPS FOR LOST LOVERS. By Nadeem Aslam.
17. THE MARCH. By E. L. Doctorow.
18. MEMORIES OF MY MELANCHOLY WHORES. By Gabriel García Márquez.
19. MIGRATION: New and Selected Poems. By W. S. Merwin.
20. MISSING MOM. By Joyce Carol Oates.
21. MISSION TO AMERICA. By Walter Kirn.
22. MOTHER’S MILK. By Edward St. Aubyn.
23. NATURAL HISTORY: Poems. By Dan Chiasson.
24. NEVER LET ME GO. By Kazuo Ishiguro.
25. *NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN. By Cormac McCarthy.
26. *ON BEAUTY. Zadie Smith.
27. OVERLORD: Poems. By Jorie Graham.
28. THE PAINTED DRUM. By Louise Erdrich.
29. PLEASE DON’T COME BACK FROM THE MOON. By Dean Bakopoulos.
30. *PREP. By Curtis Sittenfeld.
31. *SATURDAY. By Ian McEwan.
32. THE SEA. By John Banville.
33. SEVEN TYPES OF AMBIGUITY. By Elliot Perlman.
34. SHALIMAR THE CLOWN. By Salman Rushdie.
35. SLOW MAN. By J. M. Coetzee.
36. STAR DUST. Frank Bidart.
37. THE SUCCESSOR. By Ismail Kadare.
38. TOWELHEAD. By Alicia Erian.
39. VERONICA. By Mary Gaitskill.

2004 (3/42 read)

1. ALOFT. By Chang-rae Lee.
2. *THE AMATEUR MARRIAGE. By Anne Tyler.
3. AMERICAN SMOOTH: Poems. By Rita Dove.
4. BANDBOX. By Thomas Mallon.
5. A BIT ON THE SIDE. By William Trevor.
6. CLOUD ATLAS. By David Mitchell.
7. COLLECTED POEMS. By Donald Justice.
8. THE CURSE OF THE APPROPRIATE MAN. By Lynn Freed.
9. THE DARLING. By Russell Banks.
10. THE FALLS. By Joyce Carol Oates.
11. THE FIRST DESIRE. By Nancy Reisman.
12. FOUR SOULS. By Louise Erdrich.
13. GILEAD. By Marilynne Robinson.
14. THE HAMILTON CASE. By Michelle de Kretser.
15. HARBOR. By Lorraine Adams.
16. HEIR TO THE GLIMMERING WORLD. By Cynthia Ozick.
17. I AM CHARLOTTE SIMMONS. By Tom Wolfe.
18. THE INNER CIRCLE. By T. Coraghessan Boyle.
19. THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB. By Karen Joy Fowler.
20. JONATHAN STRANGE & MR. NORRELL. By Susanna Clarke.
21. THE LEMON TABLE: Stories. By Julian Barnes.
22. THE LINE OF BEAUTY.By Alan Hollinghurst.
23. LITTLE CHILDREN. By Tom Perrotta.
24. MAGIC SEEDS. By V. S Naipaul.
25. *THE MASTER. By Colm Toibin.
26. MEN AND CARTOONS: Stories. By Jonathan Lethem.
27. NATASHA: And Other Stories. By David Bezmozgis.
28. OBLIVION: Stories. By David Foster Wallace.
29. OUR KIND. By Kate Walbert.
30. THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY. By Tony Eprile.
31. THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA. By Philip Roth.
32. THE PRODIGAL. By Derek Walcott.
33. *RUNAWAY. By Alice Munro.
34. *SNOW. By Orhan Pamuk.
35. THE STONE THAT THE BUILDER REFUSED. By Madison Smartt Bell.
36. SWEET LAND STORIES. By E. L. Doctorow.
37. TRANSMISSION. By Hari Kunzru.
38. THE TYRANT’S NOVEL. By Thomas Keneally.
39. AN UNFINISHED SEASON. By Ward Just.
40. VILLAGES. By John Updike.
41. WAKE UP, SIR! By Jonathan Ames.
42. WAR TRASH. By Ha Jin.

Orange Prize Project

2009
Home by Marilynne Robinson - WINNER
Scottsboro by Ellen Feldman
The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
Molly Fox's Birthday by Deidre Madden
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie

2008

The Road Home, by Rose Tremain - WINNER
Fault Lines, by Nancy Huston
The Outcast, by Sadie Jones
When We Were Bad, by Charlotte Mendelson
Lullabies for Little Criminals, by Heather O'Neill
Lottery, by Patricia Wood


2007

Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - WINNER
Arlington Park, by Rachel Cusk
The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, by Xiaolu Guo
The Observations, by Jane Harris
Digging to America, by Anne Tyler

2006

On Beauty, by Zadie Smith - WINNER
The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss
Beyond Black, by Hilary Mantel
The Accidental, by Ali Smith
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living, by Carrie Tiffany
The Night Watch, by Sarah Waters

2005

We Need to Talk About Kevin, by Lionel Shriver - WINNER
Old Filth, by Jane Gardam
The Mammoth Cheese, by Sheri Holman
Liars and Saints, by Maile Meloy
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, by Marina Lewycka

2004

Small Island, by Andrea Levy - WINNER
Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood
The Great Fire, by Shirley Hazzard
Purple Hibiscus, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Ice Road, by Gillian Slovo
The Colour, by Rose Tremain

2003

Property, by Valerie Martin - WINNER
Buddha Da, by Anne Donovan
Heligoland, by Shena Mackay
Unless, by Carol Shields
The Autograph Man, by Zadie Smith
The Little Friend, by Donna Tartt

2002

Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett- WINNER
No Bones, by Anna Burns
The Siege, by Helen Dunmore
The White Family, by Maggie Gee
A Child's Book of True Crime, by Chloe Hooper
Fingersmith, by Sarah Waters

2001

The Idea of Perfection, by Kate Grenville - WINNER
The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood
Fred & Edie, by Jill Dawson
Hotel World, by Ali Smith
Homestead, by Rosina Lippi
Horse Heaven, by Jane Smiley

2000

When I Lived in Modern Times, by Linda Grant - WINNER
If I Told You Once, by Judy Budnitz
Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
The Dancers Dancing, by Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
White Teeth, by Zadie Smith

1999

A Crime in the Neighborhood, by Suzanne Berne - WINNER
The Short History of a Prince, by Jane Hamilton
The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
Paradise, by Toni Morrison
The Leper's Companions, by Julia Blackburn
Visible Worlds, by Marilyn Bowering

1998

Larry's Party, by Carol Shield - WINNER
Lives of the Monster Dogs, by Kirsten Bakis
The Ventriloquist's Tale, by Pauline Melville
The Magician's Assistant, by Ann Patchett
Love Like Hate Adore, by Deirdre Purcell
The Weight of Water, by Anita Shreve

1997

Fugitive Pieces, by Anne Michaels - WINNER
Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood
One by One in the Darkness, by Deirdre Madden
Accordion Crimes, by E. Annie Proulx
Hen's Teeth, by Manda Scott
I Was Amelia Earhart, by Jane Mendelsohn July/09

1996

A Spell of Winter, by Helen Dunmore - WINNER
The Book of Colour, by Julia Blackburn
Spinsters, by Pagan Kennedy
The Hundred Secret Senses, by Amy Tan
Ladder of Years, by Anne Tyler
Eveless Eden, by Marianne Wiggins

New Writers Award
2008
Inglorious, by Joanna Kavenna - WINNER
The Monsters of Templeton, by Lauren Groff
The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam, by Lauren Liebenberg

2007
The Lizard Cage, by Karen Connelly - WINNER July 2009
Poppy Shakespeare, by Clare Allan
Bitter Sweets, by Roopa Farooki

2006
Disobedience, by Naomi Alderman - WINNER
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, by Yiyun Li
The Dream Life of Sukhanov, by Olga Grushin

2005
26a, by Diana Evans - WINNER
Lucky Girls, by Nell Freudenberger
How I Live Now, by Meg Rosoff Nov 2009

Jack Caffery mysteries

by Mo Hayder (rec'd by suziQoregon)

Birdman (2000)
The Treatment (2001)
Ritual (2008)

Bram Stoker Award

Bram Stoker Award


2007 The Missing by Sarah Langan
2006 Lisey's Story by Stephen King Dec/08
2005 (tie) Creepers by David Morrell
Dread in the Beast by Charlee Jacob
2004 In the Night Room by Peter Straub
2003 lost boy, lost girl by Peter Straub
2002 The Night Class by Tom Piccirilli
2001 American Gods by Neil Gaiman 2007
2000 Traveling Vampire Show by Richard Laymon
1999 Mr. X by Peter Straub
1998 Bag of Bones by Stephen King
1997 Children of the Dusk by Janet Berliner
1996 The Green Mile by Stephen King
1995 Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates 2007
1994 Dead in the Water by Nancy Holder
1993 The Throat by Peter Straub
1992 The Blood of the Lamb by Thomas F. Monteleone
1991 Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammon
1990 Mine by Robert R. McCammon
1989 Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons
1988 Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
1987 (tie) Misery by Stephen King
Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon

Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

2009 - Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout 2009
2008 - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
2007 - The Road - Cormac McCarthy 2007
2006 - March - Geraldine Brooks
2005 - Gilead - Marilynne Robinson 2009
2004 - The Known World - Edward P. Jones
2003 - Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides 2006
2002 - Empire Falls - Richard Russo
2001 - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon
2000 - Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
1999 - The Hours - Michael Cunningham 2008
1998 - American Pastoral - Philip Roth
1997 - Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer - Millhauser
1996 - Independence Day - Richard Ford
1995 - The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields 2008
1994 - The Shipping News - Annie Proulx
1993 - A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain - Robert Olen Butler
1992 - A Thousand Acres - Jan Smiley
1991 - Rabbit at Rest - John Updike
1990 - The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love - Oscar Hijuelos
1989 - Breathing Lessons - Anne Tyler
1988 - Beloved - Toni Morrison
1987 - A Summons to Memphis - Peter Taylor
1986 - Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
1985 - Foreign Affairs - Alison Lurie
1984 - Ironweed - William Kennedy
1983 - The Color Purple - Alice Walker
1982 - Rabbit is Rich - John Updike
1981 - A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 2007
1980 - The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer
1979 - The Stories of John Cheever - John Cheever
1978 - Elbow Room - James Alan McPherson
1977 - None given
1976 - Humboldt's Gift - Saul Bellow
1975 - The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara
1974 - None given
1973 - The Optimist's Daughter - Eudora Welty
1972 - Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner
1971 - None given
1970 - Collected Stories by Jean Stafford
1969 - House Made of Dawn by Scott Momaday
1968 - The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
1967 - The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
1966 - Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter
1965 - The Keepers Of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
1964 - None given
1963 - The Reivers - William Faulkner
1962 - The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor
1961 - To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
1960 - Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
1959 - The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
1958 - A Death in the Family - James Agee 2009
1957 - None
1956 - Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
1955 - A Fable - William Faulkner
1954 - None
1953 - The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
1952 - The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
1951 - The Town by Conrad Richter
1950 - The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
1949 - Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
1948 - Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
1947 - All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
1946 - None
1945 - Bell for Adano by John Hersey
1944 - Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin
1943 - Dragon's Teeth I by Upton Sinclair
1942 - In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow
1941 - None
1940 - The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
1939 - The Yearling - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1938 - The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand
1937 - Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
1936 - Honey in the Horn by Harold Lenoir Davis
1935 - Now in November by Josephine W. Johnson
1934 - Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
1933 - The Store by Thomas Stribling
1932 - The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
1931 - Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes
1930 - Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge
1929 - Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
1928 - The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder
1927 - Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield
1926 - Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
1925 - So Big - Edna Ferber *
1924 - The Able McLauglins - Margaret Wilson
1923 - One of Ours - Willa Cather
1922 - Alice Adams - Booth Tarkington
1921 - The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
1920 - None
1919 - The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington
1918 - His Family Ernest Poole

National Book Critics' Circle Award

2007 Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2006 Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss
2005 E.L. Doctorow The March
2004 Marilynne Robinson Gilead 2009
2003 Edward P. Jones The Known World
2002 Ian McEwan Atonement 2008
2001 W.G. Sebald Austerlitz
2000 Jim Crace Being Dead
1999 Jonathan Lethem Motherless Brooklyn
1998 Alice Munro The Love of a Good Woman
1997 Penelope Fitzgerald The Blue Flower
1996 Gina Berriault Women in Their Beds
1995 Stanley Elkin Mrs. Ted Bliss
1994 Carol Shields The Stone Diaries 2007
1993 Ernest J. Gaines A Lesson Before Dying 2008
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 and Other Stories
1987 Philip Roth The Counterlife
1986 Reynolds Price Kate Vaiden
1985 Anne Tyler The Accidental Tourist
1984 Louise Erdrich Love Medicine
1983 William Kennedy Ironweed
1982 Stanley Elkin George Mills
1981 John Updike Rabbit Is Rich

IMPAC Dublin

2009 Man Gone Down, Michael Thomas
2008 Rawi Hage, De Niro's Game 2009
2007 Per Petterson, Out Stealing Horses 2008
2006 Colm Tóibín, The Master
2005 Edward P. Jones, The Known World
2004 Tahar Ben Jelloun, This Blinding Absence of Light 2008
2003 Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red
2002 Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
2001 Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief 2009
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

Giller Winners

Giller Winner

2009 The Bishop's Man - Linden MacIntyre July/09
2008 Joseph Boyden - Through Black Spruce
2007 Elizabeth Hay — Late Nights on Air
2006 Vincent Lam — Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures 2008
2005 David Bergen — The Time in Between *
2004 Alice Munro — Runaway
2003 M.G. Vassanji — The In-Between World of Vikram Lall
2002 Austin Clarke — The Polished Hoe
2001 Richard B. Wright — Clara Callan July/09
2000 Michael Ondaatje — Anil's Ghost
David Adams Richards — Mercy Among the Children Jan/09
1999 Bonnie Burnard — A Good House
1998 Alice Munro — The Love of a Good Woman
1997 Mordecai Richler — Barney's Version
1996 Margaret Atwood — Alias Grace
1995 Rohinton Mistry — A Fine Balance
1994 M.G. Vassanji — The Book of Secrets

Man Booker Prize

Man Booker Prize

2008 The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga 2008
- A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz
- The Secret Scripture - Sebastian Barry
2007 The Gathering by Anne Enright 2008
- On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2006 The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
- In the Country of Men - Hiram Matar
- The Night Watch - Sarah Waters
2005 The Sea by John Banville
- Arthur and George - Julian Barnes
- Never Let Me Go - Kazou Ishiguro
2004 The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst * own
- Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
2003 Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre *in library, 279 pages
2002 Life of Pi by Yann Martel
2001 True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey * own
- Atonement - Ian McEwan
2000 The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood 2007
1999 Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
1998 Amsterdam: A Novel by Ian McEwan 2009
1997 The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 2007
1996 Last Orders by Graham Swift 2008
- Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
- A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
1995 The Ghost Road by Pat Barker *in library, 277 pages
1994 How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman *in library, 373 pages
- Reef - Romesh Gunesekera
1993 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
- The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
1992 The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (co-winner) *in library, 301 pages
1992 Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth (co-winner) *in library
1991 The Famished Road by Ben Okri *in library, 500 pages
- Such a Long Journey - Rohinton Mistry
1990 Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt *in library, 555 pages
1989 The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro 2008
- Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
1988 Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey *in library, 512 pages
1987 Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively 2009
1986 The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis *in library, 294 pages
- The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
1985 The Bone People by Keri Hulme 2007
1984 Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner 2008
1983 Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee 2008
1982 Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally *in library, 400 pages
1981 Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie *in library, 447 pages
1980 Rites of Passage by William Golding *in library, 278 pages
1979 Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald *in library, 141 pages
1978 The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch *in library, 501 pages
1977 Staying on by Paul Scott *talking book in library
1976 Saville by David Storey
1975 Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1974 The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer *in library, 252 pages
1974 Holiday by Stanley Middleton
1973 The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell
1972 G. by John Berger
1971 In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul
1970 The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens
1969 Something to Answer For by P. H. Newby

Newbery Award Winners

Newbery Award, Ongoing Progress

2009 Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
2008 Laura Amy Schlitz, Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
2007 Susan Patron, The Higher Power of Lucky
2006 Lynne Rae Perkins, Criss Cross
2005 Cynthia Kadohata, Kira-Kira
2004 Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux 2008
2003 Avi Crispin, The Cross of Lead
2002 Linda Sue Park, A Single Shard
2001 Richard Peck, A Year Down Yonder
2000 Christopher Paul Curtis, Bud, Not Buddy
1999 Louis Sachar, Holes 2007
1998 Karen Hesse, Out of the Dust
1997 E. L. Konigsburg, The View from Saturday 2008
1996 Karen Cushman, The Midwife's Apprentice
1995 Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons
1994 Lois Lowry, The Giver 2007
1993 Cynthia Rylant, Missing May
1992 Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Shiloh 2008
1991 Jerry Spinelli, Maniac Magee 2008
1990 Lois Lowry, Number the Stars 2008
1989 Paul Fleischman, Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
1988 Russell Freedman, Lincoln: A Photobiography
1987 Sid Fleischman, The Whipping Boy
1986 Patricia MacLachlan Sarah, Plain and Tall
1985 Robin McKinley, The Hero and the Crown
1984 Beverly Cleary, Dear Mr. Henshaw 2009
1983 Cynthia Voigt, Dicey's Song
1982 Nancy Willard, A Visit to William Blake's Inn
1981 Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved
1980 Joan Blos, A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal
1979 Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game
1978 Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia 2007
1977 Mildred Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
1976 Susan Cooper, The Grey King
1975 Virginia Hamilton, M. C. Higgins, the Great
1974 Paula Fox, The Slave Dancer
1973 Jean Craighead George, Julie of the Wolves
1972 Robert C. O'Brien, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
1971 Betsy Byars, Summer of the Swans
1970 William H. Armstrong, Sounder
1969 Lloyd Alexander, The High King
1968 E. L. Konigsburg, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E.
Frankweiler 2008
1967 Irene Hunt, Up a Road Slowly
1966 Elizabeth Borton de Treviño, I, Juan de Pareja
1965 Maia Wojciechowska, Shadow of a Bull
1964 Emily Cheney Neville, It's Like This, Cat
1963 Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time 2007
1962 Elizabeth George Speare, The Bronze Bow
1961 Scott O'Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins 2008
1960 Joseph Krumgold, Onion John
1959 Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond
1958 Harold Keith, Rifles for Watie
1957 Virginia Sorenson, Miracles on Maple Hill
1956 Jean Lee Latham, Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
1955 Meindert DeJong ,The Wheel on the School *
1954 Joseph Krumgold, ...And Now Miguel
1953 Ann Nolan Clark, Secret of the Andes
1952 Eleanor Estes, Ginger Pye
1951 Elizabeth Yates, Amos Fortune, Free Man
1950 Marguerite de Angeli, The Door in the Wall
1949 Marguerite Henry, King of the Wind
1948 William Pène du Bois, The Twenty-One Balloons
1947 Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, Miss Hickory
1946 Lois Lenski, Strawberry Girl
1945 Robert Lawson, Rabbit Hill
1944 Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain
1943 Elizabeth Gray Vining, Adam of the Road
1942 Walter D. Edmonds, The Matchlock Gun
1941 Armstrong Sperry, Call It Courage
1940 James Daugherty, Daniel Boone
1939 Elizabeth Enright, Thimble Summer
1938 Kate Seredy, The White Stag
1937 Ruth Sawyer, Roller Skates
1936 Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn
1935 Monica Shannon, Dobry
1934 Cornelia Meigs, Invincible Louisa
1933 Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
1932 Laura Adams Armer, Waterless Mountain
1931 Elizabeth Coatsworth, The Cat Who Went to Heaven
1930 Rachel Field, Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
1929 Eric P. Kelly, The Trumpeter of Krakow
1928 Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon
1927 Will James, Smoky the Cow Horse
1926 Arthur Bowie Chrisman, Shen of the Sea
1925 Charles Finger, Tales from Silver Lands
1924 Charles Hawes, The Dark Frigate
1923 Hugh Lofting, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
1922 Hendrik Willem van Loon, The Story of Mankind