bold = in queue
"Classics"
2. On The Road – by Jack Kerouac
3. The Sound And The Fury- by William Faulkner
4. To The Lighthouse- by Virginia Woolf
6. A Passage To India- by E.M. Forster
7. A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man – by James Joyce
8. As I Lay Dying- by William Faulkner
9. Brave New World- by Aldous Huxley
10. Brideshead Revisited- by Evelyn Waugh
11. Gravity’s Rainbow – by Thomas Pynchon
12. Invisible Man- by Ralph Ellison
13. Heart Of Darkness – by Joseph Conrad
14. Herzog – by Saul Bellow
15. I, Claudius- by Robert Graves
16. Light In August- by William Faulkner
17. Midnight’s Children- by Salman Rushdie
18. Moby Dick- by Herman Melville
19. Nostromo- by Joseph Conrad
20. Slaughterhouse-Five- by Kurt Vonnegut
21. The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter- by Carson Mccullers
22. The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie- by Muriel Spark
23. The Sheltering Sky- by Paul Bowles
24. The Sun Also Rises- by Ernest Hemingway
25. Under The Volcano- by Malcolm Lowry
26. A Dance To The Music Of Time- by Anthony Powell
27. Blood Meridian- by Cormac Mccarthy
28. Sons And Lovers- by D.H. Lawrence
29. Ragtime- by E.L. Doctorow
30. The Death Of The Heart- by Elizabeth Bowen
31. A Handful Of Dust- by Evelyn Waugh
32. Wise Blood – by Flannery O’connor
33. The Good Soldier- by Ford Madox Ford
34. The Heart Of The Matter- by Graham Greene
35. Tropic Of Cancer- by Henry Miller
36. Under The Net- by Iris Murdoch
37. Go Tell It On The Mountain- by James Baldwin
38. Deliverance- by James Dickey
39. Ulysses- by James Joyce
40. Wide Sargasso Sea- by Jean Rhys
41. The Magus- by John Fowles
42. Appointment In Samarra- by John O’hara
43. The Day Of The Locust- by Nathanael West
44. Native Son- by Richard Wright
45. All The King’s Men- by Robert Penn Warren
46. The Adventures Of Augie March- by Saul Bellow
47. Winesburg, Ohio- by Sherwood Anderson
48. An American Tragedy- by Theodore Dreiser
49. The Bridge Of San Luis Rey- by Thornton Wilder
50. A Bend In The River- by V.S. Naipaul
51. Pale Fire- by Vladimir Nabokov
52. Of Human Bondage- by W. Somerset Maugham
53. The Moviegoer- by Walker Percy
54. Death Comes For The Archbishop- by Willa Cather
55. Absalom, Absalom- by William Faulkner
56. The Recognitions- by William Gaddis
57. Naked Lunch- by William S. Burroughs
58. Housekeeping- by Marilynne Robinson
59. Medea- by Euripides
60. Leaves Of Grass – by Walt Whitman
61. Things Fall Apart- by Chinua Achebe
62. The Rainbow – by D.H. Lawrence
63. The Golden Notebook- by Doris Lessing
65. The Brothers Karamazov- by Fyodor M Dostoyevsky
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude- by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
67. The Power And The Glory – by Graham Greene
68. Scoop- by Evelyn Waugh
69. The Tin Drum- by Gunther Grass
70. Madame Bovary- by Gustave Flaubert
71. A Doll’s House- by Henrik Ibsen
72. A House For Mr Biswas- by V.S. Naipaul
73. Atonement- by Ian Mcewan
74. Journey To The End Of The Night- by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
75. Money- by Martin Amis
76. Don Quixote- by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
77. American Pastoral- by Philip Roth
78. Loving – by Henry Green
79. The Big Sleep- by Raymond Chandler
80. Henderson The Rain King – by Saul Bellow
81. Sister Carrie – by Theodore Dreiser
82. Mrs. Dalloway- by Virginia Woolf
83. My Antonia – by Willa Cather
84. Candide – by Francois Voltaire (Author); John Butt (Translator)
85. Dubliners – by James Joyce
87. The Fountainhead- by Ayn Rand
89. Portnoy’s Complaint- by Philip Roth
90. The Quiet American – by Graham Greene
91. The Winter Of Our Discontent – by John Steinbeck
92. Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance- by Robert Pirsig
93. Finnegans Wake- by James Joyce
94. Love In The Time Of Cholera- by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
95. Northanger Abbey – by Jane Austen
96. Rabbit, Run- by John Updike
97. Red Harvest- by Dashiell Hammett
98. Something Wicked This Way Comes- by Ray Bradbury
99. Seize The Day – by Saul Bellow
100. The Log From The Sea Of Cortez – by John Steinbeck
The ALA's 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–1999
(will strike what i've read already. sidenote: robert cormier and judy blume really know how to get banned!)
1. Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
2. Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
4. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
8. Forever by Judy Blume
10. Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
11. Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
12. My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
14. The Giver by Lois Lowry
15. It's Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
17. A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
19. Sex by Madonna
20. Earth's Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel
21. The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
23. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
24. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
25. In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
26. The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard
27. The Witches by Roald Dahl
28. The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
29. Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry
30. The Goats by Brock Cole
31. Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
32. Blubber by Judy Blume
33. Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
34. Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
35. We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
36. Final Exit by Derek Humphry
37. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
38. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
39. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
40. What's Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras
42. Beloved by Toni Morrison
43. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
44. The Pigman by Paul Zindel
45. Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard
46. Deenie by Judy Blume
48. Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
49. The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
50. Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz
51. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
52. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
53. Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
54. Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole
55. Cujo by Stephen King
56. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
57. The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
58. Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
59. Ordinary People by Judith Guest
60. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
61. What's Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras
62. Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
63. Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
64. Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
65. Fade by Robert Cormier
66. Guess What? by Mem Fox
67. The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
68. The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
69. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
70. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
71. Native Son by Richard Wright
72. Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women's Fantasies by Nancy Friday
73. Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen
74. Jack by A.M. Homes
75. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
76. Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
77. Carrie by Stephen King
78. Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
79. On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
80. Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
81. Family Secrets by Norma Klein
82. Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole
83. The Dead Zone by Stephen King
84. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
85. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
86. Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
89. Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
90. Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
91. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
92. Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
93. Sex Education by Jenny Davis
94. The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
95. Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
96. How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
97. View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts
98. The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
99. The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney
100. Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
The Newbery Medal is awarded to the year's most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. The medal is presented by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association.
2007 The Higher Power of Lucky The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
2006 Criss Cross Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
2005 Kira-Kira Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
2004 The Tale of Despereaux The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
2003 Crispin: The Cross of Lead Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
2002 A Single Shard A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
2001 A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
2000 Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
1999 Holes by Louis Sachar
1998 Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
1997 The View From Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg
1996 The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
1995 Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
1994 The Giver by Lois Lowry
1993 Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
1992 Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
1991 Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
1989 Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
1988 Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
1985 The Hero and the Crown by Robin Mckinley
1984 Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
1983 Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt
1982 A Visit To William Blake's Inn by Nancy Willard
1981 Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
1980 A Gathering of Days by Joan W. Blos
1979 The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
1977 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
1976 The Grey King by Susan Cooper
1975 M.C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
1974 The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
1973 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
1972 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh (aladdin) by Robert C. O'brien
1971 The Summer of the Swans by Betsy Cromer Byars
1970 Sounder by William H. Armstrong
1969 The High King by Lloyd Alexander
1968 From the Mixed-up File of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
1967 Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt
1966 I, Juan De Pareja by Elizabeth Borton De Trevino
1965 Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
1964 It's Like This Cat by Emily Cheney Neville
1962 The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
1961 Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'dell
1960 Onion John by Joseph Krumgold
1959 The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
1958 Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
1957 Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Eggertsen Sorensen
1956 Carry on Mr Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
1955 The Wheel on the School by Meindert De Jong
1954 And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold
1953 Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark
1952 Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
1951 Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
1950 The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli
1949 King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
1948 The Twenty-one Balloons by William Paene Du Bois
1947 Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
1946 Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
1945 Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
1944 Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
1943 Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
1942 The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds
1941 Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
1940 Daniel Boone by James Daugherty
1939 Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
1938 The White Stag by Kate Seredy
1937 Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer
1936 Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
1935 Dobry by Monica. Shannon
1934 Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs
1933 Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
1932 Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer
1931 The Cat Who Went To Heaven by Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
1930 Hitty: Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
1929 The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
1928 Gay Neck by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
1927 Smoky the Cowhorse by Will James
1926 Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman
1925 Tales From the Silver Lands by Charles Finger
1924 The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes
1923 The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
1922 The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon
The National Book Award is awarded by the National Book Foundation. Listed here are the winners in the Fiction category. Other categories include Nonfiction, Poetry, Young People's Literature, and the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
2006 The Echo Maker The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
2005 Europe Central Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
2004 The News from Paraguay The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck
2003 The Great Fire The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
2002 Three Junes Three Junes by Julia Glass
2001 The Corrections The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
2000 In America In America by Susan Sontag
1999 Waiting Waiting by Ha Jin
1998 Charming Billy Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
1997 Cold Mountain Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
1996 Ship Fever and Other Stories Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett
1995 Sabbath's Theater Sabbath's Theater by Phillip 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
1986 Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
1985 White Noise by Don Delillo
1985 Easy in the Islands (1st Novel Award) by Bob Shacochis
1984 Stones for Ibarra (1st Novel Award) by Harriet Doerr
1984 Victory Over Japan by Ellen Gilchrist
1983 The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
1983 The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty
1982 Dale Loves Sophie to Death (1st Novel Award) by Robb Forman Dew
1982 Rabbit is Rich by John Updike
1981 Plains Song by Wright Morris
1981 Sister Wolf (1st Novel Award) by Ann Arensberg
1980 Birdy (1st Novel Award) by William Wharton
1980 Sophie's Choice by William Styron
1980 The World According to Garp by John Irving
1979 Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
1978 Blood Ties by Mary Lee Settle
1977 The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner
1977 Master Tung`s Western Chamber Romance by Li Li Chen
1976 JR by William Gaddis
1975 The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams
1975 Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
1974 Gravity's Ranbow by Thomas Pynchon
1974 A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
1973 Augustus by John Williams
1973 Chimera by John Barth
1972 The Complete Stories 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 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 Barrell by Bernard Malamud
1958 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 by William Faulkner
1950 The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
Together, over 700 book reviewers chose the National Book Critics Circle Awards, which are offered in five categories: fiction, general nonfiction, biography/autobiography, poetry, and criticism. Also awarded each year are the Ivan Sandrof Award for Contribution to American Arts and Letters and the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, which is given by the NBCC to one of its members.
2006 The Inheritance of LossThe Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
2005 The MarchThe March by E. L. Doctorow
2004 Gilead: A NovelGilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
2003 The Known WorldThe Known World by Edward P. Jones
2002 AtonementAtonement by Ian McEwan
2001 AusterlitzAusterlitz by W. G. Sebald
2000 Being DeadBeing 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: New and Selected Stories 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 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
1980 The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
1979 The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan
1978 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
1977 Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
1976 October Light by John C Gardner
The Pulitzer Prize has been awarded by Columbia University since 1917. The awards are given on the recommendations of a board of jurors for Journalism, Letters, Music and Drama. The awards for Letters include Fiction, which is listed here, Nonfiction, Poetry, Biography or Autobiography, and History.
2007 The RoadThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
2006 MarchMarch by Geraldine Brooks
2005 GileadGilead by Marilynne Robinson
2004 The Known WorldThe Known World by Edward P. Jones
2003 MiddlesexMiddlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
2002 Empire FallsEmpire Falls by Richard Russo
2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
1999 The Hoursby Michael Cunningham
1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth
1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford
1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
1993 A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike
1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison
1987 A Summons To Memphis by Peter Taylor
1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry Mcmurtry
1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy
1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
1978 Elbow Room: Stories by James Alan Mcpherson
1977 No award was given.
1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
1974 No award was given.
1973 The Optimist's Daughter (large Print) by Eudora Welty
1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Earle Stegner
1971 No award was given.
1970 The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford
1969 House Made of Dawn by N Scott Momaday
1968 The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
1967 The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
1966 The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
1965 The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
1964 No award was given.
1963 The Reivers: A Reminiscence by William Faulkner
1962 The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor
1961 To Kill a Mockingbird by 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 by James Agee
1957 No award was given.
1956 Andersonville by Mackinlay Kantor
1955 A Fable by William Faulkner
1954 No award was given.
1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1952 The Caine Mutiny: A Novel of World War II by Herman Wouk
1951 The Town by Conrad Richter
1950 The Way West by A B Guthrie
1949 Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
1946 No award was given.
1945 A 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 No award was given.
1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1938 The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand
1937 Gone With the Wind by 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 by 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 by Thornton Wilder
1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield
1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
1925 So Big by Edna Ferber
1924 The Able Mclaughlins by Margaret Wilson
1923 One of Ours by Willa Silbert Cather
1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
1920 No award was given.
1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
1918 His Family by Ernest Poole
Nobel Laureates: Literature
2007: Doris Lessing
2006 Orhan Pamuk England
2005 Harold Pinter England
2004 Elfriede Jelinek Austria
2003 J. M. Coetzee South Africa
2002 Imre Kertesz Hungary
2001 V. S. Naipaul England
2000 Gao Xingjian China
1999 Gunter Grass Germany
1998 Jose Saramago Portugal
1997 Dario Fo Italy
1996 Wislawa Szymborska Poland
1995 Seamus Heaney Ireland
1994 Kenzaburo Oe Japan
1993 Toni Morrison U.S.
1992 Derek Walcott The Antilles/US
1991 Nadine Gordimer South Africa
1990 Octavio Paz Mexico
1989 Camilo Jose Cela Spain
1988 Naguib Mahfouz Egypt
1987 Joseph Brodsky U.S.
1986 Wole Soyinka Nigeria
1985 Claude Simon France
1984 Jaroslav Seifert Czechoslovakia
1983 William Golding England
1982 Gabriel Garcia Marquez Colombia
1981 Elias Canetti Bulgaria
1980 Czeslaw Milosz U.S.
1979 Odysseus Elytis Greece
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer U.S.
1977 Vicente Aleixandre Spain
1976 Saul Bellow U.S.
1975 Eugenio Montale Italy
1974 Harry Martinson Sweden
1974 Eyvind Johnson Sweden
1973 Patrick White Australia
1972 Heinrich Boll Germany
1971 Pablo Neruda Chile
1970 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn U.S.S.R.
1969 Samuel Beckett France
1968 Yasunari Kawabata Japan
1967 Miguel Angel Asturias Guatemala
1966 Shmuel Yosef Agnon Israel
1966 Nelly Sachs Sweden
1965 Mikhail Sholokov U.S.S.R.
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre France
1963 Giorgios Seferis Greece
1962 John Steinbeck U.S.
1961 Ivo Andric Yugoslavia
1960 St.-John Perse France
1959 Salvatore Quasimodo Italy
1958 Boris Pasternak U.S.S.R.
1957 Albert Camus France
1956 Juan Ramon Jimenez Spain
1955 Halldor Kiljan Laxness Iceland
1954 Ernest Hemingway U.S.
1953 Winston Churchill England
1952 Francois Mauriac France
1951 Par Lagerkvist Sweden
1950 Bertrand Russell England
1949 William Faulkner U.S.
1948 T.S. Eliot England
1947 Andre Gide France
1946 Hermann Hesse Switzerland
1945 Gabriela Mistral Chile
1944 Johannes V. Jensen Denmark
1943 No award was given
1942 No award was given
1941 No award was given
1940 No award was given
1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpaa Finland
1938 Pearl S. Buck U.S.
1937 Roger Martin Du Gard France
1936 Eugene O'Neill U.S.
1935 No award was given
1934 Luigi Pirandello Italy
1933 Ivan Bunin Russia
1932 John Galsworthy England
1931 Erik Karlfeldt Sweden
1930 Sinclair Lewis U.S.
1929 Thomas Mann Germany
1928 Sigrid Undset Norway
1927 Henri Bergson France
1926 Grazia Deledda Italy
1925 George Bernard Shaw England
1924 Wladyslaw Reymont Poland
1923 William Butler Yeats Ireland
1922 Jacinto Benavente Spain
1921 Anatole France France
1920 Knut Hamsun Norway
1919 Carl Spitteler Switzerland
1918 No award was given
1917 Karl Gjeilerup Denmark
1917 Henrik Pontoppidan Denmark
1916 Verner Von Heidenstam Sweden
1915 Romain Rolland France
1914 No award was given
1913 Rabindranath Tagore India
1912 Gerhart Hauptmann Germany
1911 Maurice Maeterlinck Belgium
1910 Paul Von Heyse Germany
1909 Selma Lagerlof Sweden
1908 Rudolf Eucken Germany
1907 Rudyard Kipling England
1906 Giosue Carducci Italy
1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz Poland
1904 Jose Echegaray Spain
1904 Frederic Mistral France
1903 Bjornstjerne Bjornson Norway
1902 Theodor Mommsen Germany
1901 Rene F.A.S. Prudhomme France
Time Magazine
100 best English - language novels from 1923 to the present
The Complete List
A - B
The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow
All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren
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American Pastoral
Philip Roth
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An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser
George Orwell
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Appointment in Samarra
John O'Hara
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Judy Blume
The Assistant
Bernard Malamud
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At Swim-Two-Birds
Flann O'Brien
Atonement
Ian McEwan
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Beloved
Toni Morrison
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The Berlin Stories
Christopher Isherwood
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The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
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The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood
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Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder
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C - D
Call It Sleep
Henry Roth
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Catch-22
Joseph Heller
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J.D. Salinger
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Anthony Burgess
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron
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The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
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The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon
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A Dance to the Music of Time
Anthony Powell
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The Day of the Locust
Nathanael West
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather
A Death in the Family
James Agee
The Death of the Heart
Elizabeth Bowen
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Deliverance
James Dickey
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Dog Soldiers
Robert Stone
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F - G
Falconer
John Cheever
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
John Fowles
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The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing
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Go Tell it on the Mountain
James Baldwin
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Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
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The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
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Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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H - I
A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh
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The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers
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The Heart of the Matter
Graham Greene
Herzog
Saul Bellow
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Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson
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A House for Mr. Biswas
V.S. Naipaul
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I, Claudius
Robert Graves
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Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
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William Faulkner
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C.S. Lewis
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Lord of the Flies
William Golding
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
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Loving
Henry Green
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Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis
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The Man Who Loved Children
Christina Stead
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Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
Money
Martin Amis
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The Moviegoer
Walker Percy
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Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Naked Lunch
William Burroughs
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Native Son
Richard Wright
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Neuromancer
William Gibson
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
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1984
George Orwell
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On the Road
Jack Kerouac
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
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The Painted Bird
Jerzy Kosinski
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov
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A Passage to India
E.M. Forster
Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion
Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth
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Possession
A.S. Byatt
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The Power and the Glory
Graham Greene
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark
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Rabbit, Run
John Updike
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Ragtime
E.L. Doctorow
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The Recognitions
William Gaddis
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Red Harvest
Dashiell Hammett
Revolutionary Road
Richard Yates
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The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
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Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
The Sot-Weed Factor
John Barth
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
The Sportswriter
Richard Ford
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The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
John le Carre
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The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
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Zora Neale Hurston
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Chinua Achebe
Harper Lee
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To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
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Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller
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Ubik
Philip K. Dick
Under the Net
Iris Murdoch
Under the Volcano
Malcolm Lowry
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Watchmen
Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
White Noise
Don DeLillo
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White Teeth
Zadie Smith
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Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys
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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell
The Best Way To Play by Bill Cosby
Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Cane River by Lalita Tademy
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Jewel by Bret Lott
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Love in the Time of Cholera By Gabriel García Márquez
A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
The Meanest Thing To Say by Bill Cosby
The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes
Night by Elie Wiesel
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Open House by Elizabeth Berg
Paradise by Toni Morrison
The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Songs In Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
Sula by Toni Morrison
Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
The Treasure Hunt by Bill Cosby
Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay
A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons
We Were The Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
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http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/bestseller/index.html
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