AWARD WINNING BOOKS

   

COSTA (Whitbread) Book Awards

Author

Call Number

Year

Restless

William Boyd

FIC BOY

2006

The Accidental

Ali Smith

FIC SMI

2005

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon

FIC HAD

2003

English Passengers

Matthew Kneale

FIC KNE

2000

The Ventriloquist’s Tale

Pauline Melville

FIC MEL

1997

Every Man for Himself

Beryl Bainbridge

FIC BAI

1996

The Moor’s Last Sigh

Salmon Rushdie

FIC RUS

1995

Behind the Scenes at the Museum

Kate Atkinson

FIC ATK

Felicia’s Journey

William Trevor

FIC TRE

1994

The Satanic Verses

Salmon Rushdie

FIC RUS

1988

An Artist of the Floating World

Kazuo Ishiguro

FIC ISH

1986

Injury Time

Beryl Bainbridge

FIC BAI

1977

   

Man Booker Prize

Author

Year

Year

The Inheritance of Loss

Kiran Desai

FIC DES

2006

Life of Pi

Yann Martel

FIC MAR

2002

The True History of the Kelly Gang

Peter Carey

FIC CAR

2001

The Blind Assassin

Margaret Atwood

FIC ATW

2000

Amsterdam

Ian McEwan

FIC MCE

1998

The God of Small Things

Arundhati Roy

FIC ROY

1997

Last Orders

Graham Smith

FIC SMI

1996

The Ghost Road

Pat Barker

FIC BAR

1995

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

Roddy Doyle

FIC DOY

1993

The English Patient

Michael Ondaatje

FIC OND

1992

Possession

A.S. Byatt

FIC BYA

1990

The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro

FIC ISH

1989

Moon Tiger

Penelope Lively

FIC LIV

1987

Midnight’s Children

Salmon Rushdie

FIC RUS

1981

Offshore

Penelope Fitzgerald

FIC FIT

1979

Staying On

Paul Scott

FIC SCO

1977

The Conservationist

Nadine Gordimer

FIC GOR

1974

   

National Book Award

Author

Year

Year

Only Revolutions

Mark Danielewski

FIC DAN

2006

Eat the Document

Dana Spiotta

FIC SPI

Europe Central

William Vollmann

FIC VOL

2005

Three Junes

Julia Glass

FIC GLA

2002

The Corrections

Johnathan Franzen

FIC FRA

2001

In America

Susan Sontag

FIC SON

2000

Waiting

Ha Jin

FIC JIN

1999

Charming Billy

Alice McDermott

FIC MCD

1998

Cold Mountain

Charles Frazier

FIC FRA

1997

Ship Fever and other Stories

Andrea Barrett

FIC BAR

1996

A Frolic of His Own

William Gaddis

FIC GAD

1994

The Shipping News

Anne Proulx

FIC PRO

1993

All the Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy

FIC MCC

1992

Paris Trout

Pete Dexter

FIC DEX

1988

World’s Fair

E.L. Doctorow

FIC DOC

1986

White Noise

Don DeLillo

FIC DEL

1985

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

FIC WAL

1983

The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty

Eudora Welty

FIC WEL

Rabbit is Rich

John Updike

FIC UPD

1982

So Long, See You Tommorow

William Maxwell

FIC MAX

Sophie’s Choice

William Styron

FIC STY

1980

The World According to Garp

John Irving

FIC IRV

Going After Cacciato

Tim O’Brien

FIC OBR

1979

JR

William Gaddis

FIC GAD

1976

Gravity’s Rainbow

Thomas Pynchon

FIC PYN

1974

Chimera

John Barth

FIC BAR

1973

The Complete Stories

Flannery O’Conner

FIC OCO

1972

Mr. Sammler’s Planet

Saul Bellow

FIC BEL

1971

Them

Joyce Carol Oates

FIC OAT

1970

The Eighth Day

Thornton Wilder

FIC WIL

1968

Herzog

Saul Bellow

FIC BEL

1965

The Centaur

John Updike

FIC UPD

1964

Goodbye, Columbus

Philip Roth

FIC ROT

1960

The Wapshot Chronicle

John Cheever

FIC CHE

1958

A Fable

William Faulkner

FIC FAU

1955

The Adventures of Augie March

Saul Bellow

FIC BEL

1954

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

FIC ELL

1953

From Here to Eternity

James Jones

FIC JON

1952

   

National Book Critics Circle Award

Author

Year

Year

The Inheritance of Loss

Kiran Desai

FIC DES

2006

The March

E.L. Doctorow

FIC DOC

2005

Gilead

Marilynne Robinson

FIC ROB

2004

Atonement

Ian McEwan

FIC MCE

2002

Motherless Brooklyn

Johnathan Lethem

FIC LET

1999

The Blue Flower

Penelope Fitzgerald

FIC FIT

1997

Mrs. Ted Bliss

Stanley Elkin

FIC ELK

1995

The Stone Diaries

Carol Shields

FIC SHI

1994

A Lesson Before Dying

Ernest Gaines

FIC GAI

1993

All the Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy

FIC MCC

1992

A Thousand Acres

Jane Smiley

FIC SMI

1991

Rabbit at Rest

John Updike

FIC UPD

1990

Billy Bathgate

E.L. Doctorow

FIC DOC

1989

The Counterlife

Philip Roth

FIC ROT

1987

Kate Vaiden

Reynolds Price

FIC PRI

1986

The Accidental Tourist

Anne Tyler

FIC TYL

1985

Love Medicine

Louise Erdrich

FIC ERD

1984

Ironweed

William Kennedy

FIC KEN

1983

Rabbit is Rich

John Updike

FIC UPD

1981

   

Nobel Laureates in Literature

Call Number

Year

Orhan Pamuk

FIC PAM

2006

V.S. Naipaul

FIC NAI

2001

Günter Grass

FIC GRA

1999

José Saramago

FIC SAR

1998

Seamus Heaney

829.3 BEO

1995

Toni Morrison

FIC MOR

1993

Nadine Gordimer

FIC GOR

1991

Octavio Paz

306 PAZ

1990

William Golding

FIC GOL

1983

Isaac Bashevis Singer

FIC SIN

1978

Saul Bellow

FIC BEL

1976

Heinrich Böll

FIC BOL

1972

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

365 SOL

1970

Samuel Beckett

FIC BEC

1969

John Steinbeck

FIC STE

1962

Boris Pasternak

FIC PAS

1958

Albert Camus

170 CAM

1957

Ernest Hemingway

FIC HEM

1954

Winston Churchill

940.53 CHU

1953

942 CHU

Bertrand Russell

109 RUS

1950

William Faulkner

FIC FAU

1949

T.S. Eliot

811 ELI

1948

Hermann Hesse

FIC HES

1946

Pearl S. Buck

FIC BUC

1938

Eugene O’Neill

812 ONE

1936

Luigi Pirandello

852.91 PIR

1934

John Galsworthy

FIC GAL

1932

Sinclair Lewis

FIC LEW

1930

Thomas Mann

FIC MAN

1929

William Butler Yeats

398.21 YEA

1923

821 YEA

Anatole France

FIC FRA

1921

Rabindranath Tagore

891.4 TAG

1913

Rudyard Kipling

FIC KIP

1907

Henryk Sienkiewicz

FIC SIE

1905

   

PEN/Faulkner Award

Author

Call Number

Year

The March

E.L. Doctorow

FIC DOC

2006

War Trash

Ha Jin

FIC JIN

2005

The Early Stories

John Updike

FIC UPD

2004

The Caprices

Sarah Hylton

FIC HYL

2003

Bel Canto

Ann Patchett

FIC PAT

2002

The Human Stain

Philip Roth

FIC ROT

2001

Waiting

Ha Jin

FIC JIN

2000

The Hours

Michael Cunningham

FIC CUN

1999

Independence Day

Richard Ford

FIC FOR

1996

Snow Falling on Cedars

David Guterson

FIC GUT

1995

Operation Shylock

Philip Roth

FIC ROT

1994

Mau II

Don DeLillo

FIC DEL

1992

Billy Bathgate

E.L. Doctorow

FIC DOC

1990

World’s End

T. Coraghessan Boyle

FIC BOY

1988

   

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Author

Call Number

Year

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

FIC MCC

2007

March

Geraldine Brooks

FIC BRO

2006

Gilead

Marilynne Robinson

FIC ROB

2005

Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides                

FIC EUG

2003

Empire Falls

Richard Russo

FIC RUS

2002

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Michael Chabon

FIC CHA

2001

Interpreter of Maladies

Jhumpa Lahiri

FIC LAH

2000

The Hours

Michael Cunningham

FIC CUN

1999

American Pastoral

Philip Roth

FIC ROT

1998

Independence Day

Richard Ford

FIC FOR

1996

The Stone Diaries

Carol Shields

FIC SHI

1995

The Shipping News

Annie Proulx

FIC PRO

1994

A Thousand Acres

Jane Smiley

FIC SMI

1992

Rabbit at Rest

John Updike

FIC UPD

1991

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

Oscar Hijuelos

FIC HIJ

1900

Breathing Lessons

Anne Tyler

FIC TYL

1989

Beloved

Toni Morrison

FIC MOR

1988

Lonesome Dove

Larry McMurtry

FIC MCM

1986

Ironweed

William Kennedy

FIC KEN

1984

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

FIC WAL

1983

Rabbit is Rich

John Updike

FIC UPD

1982

A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole

FIC TOO

1981

The Executioner’s Song

Norman Mailer

FIC MAI

1980

Humboldt’s Gift

Saul Bellow

FIC BEL

1976

The Killer Angels

Michael Shaara

FIC SHA

1975

The Optimist’s Daughter

Eudora Welty

FIC WEL

1973

House Made of Dawn

N. Scott Momaday

FIC MOM

1969

The Confessions of Nat Turner

William Styron

FIC STY

1968

The Keepers of the House

Shirley Anne Grau

FIC GRA

1965

The Reivers

William Faulkner

FIC FAU

1963

To Kill A Mockingbird

Harper Lee

FIC LEE

1961

Advise and Consent

Allen Drury

FIC DRU

1961

A Death in the Family

James Agee

FIC AGE

1958

A Fable

William Faulkner

FIC FAU

1955

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

FIC HEM

1953

The Caine Mutiny

Herman Wouk

FIC WOU

1952

The Town

Conrad Richter

FIC RIC

1951

All the King’s Men

Robert Penn Warren

FIC WAR

1947

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

FIC STE

1940

The Yearling

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

FIC RAW

1939

Gone With the Wind

Margaret Mitchell

FIC MIT

1937

The Good Earth

Pearl S. Buck

FIC BUC

1932

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Thornton Wilder

FIC WIL

1928

Arrowsmith

Sinclair Lewis

FIC LEW

1926

So Big

Edna Ferber

FIC FER

1925

Alice Adams

Booth Tarkington

FIC TAR

1922

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton

FIC WHA

1921

The Magnificent Ambersons

Booth Tarkington

FIC TAR

1919