2006 - The Echo Maker by Richard Powers 2005 - Europe Central by William T. Vollmann 2004 - The News From Paraguay by Lily Tuck 2003 - The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard 2002 - Three Junes by Julia Glass 2001 - The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen 2000 - In America by Susan Sontag 1999 - Waiting by Ha Jin 1998 - Charming Billy by Alice McDermott 1997 - Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier 1996 - Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett 1995 - Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth 1994 - A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis 1993 - The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx 1992 - All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy**** 1991 - Mating by Norman Rush 1990 - Middle Passage by Charles Johnson 1989 - Spartina by John Casey 1988 - Paris Trout by Pete Dexter 1987 - Paco's Story by Larry Heinemann 1986 - World's Fair by E. L. Doctorow 1985 - White Noise by Don DeLillo*** 1984 - Victory over Japan: A Book of Stories by Ellen Gilchrist 1983 - The Color Purple by Alice Walker (harcover) 1983 - Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty (paperback) 1982 - Rabbit is Rich by John Updike (harcover) 1982 - So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell (harcover) 1981 - Plains Song by Wright Morris 1981 - The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (paperback) 1980 - Sophie's Choice by William Styron (hardcover) 1980 - The World According to Garp by John Irving (paperback) 1979 - Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien 1978 - Blood Ties by Mary Lee Settle 1977 - The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner 1976 - Jr by William Gaddis 1975 - Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone 1974 - Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon 1973 - Chimera by John Barth 1972 - The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor by Flannery O'Connor 1971 - Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow 1970 - Them by Joyce Carol Oates 1969 - Steps by Jerzy Kosinski 1968 - The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder 1967 - The Fixer by Bernard Malamud 1966 - The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter 1965 - Herzog by Saul Bellow* 1964 - The Centaur by John Updike 1963 - Morte D'Urban by J. F. Powers 1962 - The Moviegoer by Walker Percy* 1961 - The Waters of Kronos by Conrad Richter 1960 - Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth 1959 - The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud 1958 - The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever 1957 - The Field of Vision by Wright Morris 1956 - Ten North Frederick by John O'Hara 1955 - A Fable by William Faulkner** 1954 - The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow 1953 - Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison*** 1952 - From Here to Eternity by James Jones 1951 - The Collected Stories of William Faulkner by William Faulkner 1950 - The Man With The Golden Arm by Nelson Algren |
**='yeah-ok' ***=not bad, could have been better. ****=well done, a fine book *****=excellent (rare) |