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Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
As the Reverend John Ames approaches the hour of his own death, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to
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Award: The Pulitzer Prize
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The Sea
by John Banville
Max Morden is an aging art historian whose wife has recently died of cancer. In his grief, he takes a trip to the seaside, to the "rubble of the past," where he and his
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Award: The Man Booker Prize
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The Known World
by Edward P. Jones
[A]n impressively researched, challenging novel debut....The particulars and consequences of the 'right' of humans to own other humans are dramatized with unprecedented ingenuity
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Award: The Pulitzer Prize
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The News from Paraguay
by Lily Tuck
Pursued by the future dictator of Paraguay, Irish courtesan Ella Lynch struggles with isolation in spite of her power as his mistress, and witnesses the nation's victimization due
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Award: The National Book Award
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The Line of Beauty
by Alan Hollinghurst
Peter Crowther's book on the election was already in the shops. It was called LANDSLIDE!, and the witty assistant at Dillon's had arranged the window in a scaled-down version of
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Award: The Man Booker Prize
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Middlesex (Oprah's Book Club)
by Jeffrey Eugenides
A dazzling triumph from the bestselling author of The Virgin Suicidesthe astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three generations of a Greek-American family and
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Award: The Pulitzer Prize
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The Great Fire
by Shirley Hazzard
Soon after the end of World War II, a disillusioned veteran and U.S. Army major named Aldred Leith travels to a Japanese island, hoping to understand the impact of the war on the
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Award: The National Book Award
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Vernon God Little
by D. B. C. Pierre
In this black comedy by an Australian, set in Texas, Vernon, a poor-white 15-year-old, is accused of perpetrating the high-school massacre that was actually the work of his friend,
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Award: The Man Booker Prize
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Empire Falls (HBO Tie-in)
by Richard Russo
From his first novel, Mohawk, to his most recent, Straight Alan, Richard Russo has demonstrated great affinity for the tragicomic human condition, and here he expands his
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Award: The Pulitzer Prize
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John Adams
by David McCullough
Chronicles the life of America's second president, including his youth, his career as a Massachusetts farmer and lawyer, his marriage to Abigail, his rivalry with Thomas Jefferson,
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Award: The Pulitzer Prize
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