2005 - The March by E.L. Doctorow 2004 - Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 2003 - Known World by Edward P. Jones 2002 - Atonement by Ian McEwan** 2001 - Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald 2000 - Being Dead by Jim Crace 1999 - Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem* 1998 - The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro 1997 - The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald 1996 - Women in Their Beds by Gina Berriault 1995 - Mrs. Ted Bliss by Stanley Elkin 1994 - The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields 1993- A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines 1992 - All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy**** 1991 - A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley***** 1990 - Rabbit at Rest by John Updike 1989 - Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow 1988 - The Middleman and Other Stories by Bharati Mukherjee 1987 - The Counterlife by Philip Roth 1986 - Kate Vaiden by Reynolds Price 1985 - The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler 1984 - Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich 1983 - Ironweed by William Kennedy 1982 - George Mills by Stanley Elkin 1981 - Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike |
**='yeah-ok' ***=not bad, could have been better. ****=well done, a fine book *****=excellent (rare) |