Pulitzer Prize: Awarded for distinguished fiction by an American author (titles from 1918 to the present)
National Book Award: Recognizes the best of American literature, "raising the cultural appreciation of great writing in the country while advancing the careers of both established and emerging writers." (titles from 1950 to the present)
National Book Critics Circle Award: Awarded for the finest books and reviews published in English. The National Book Critics Circle is a nonprofit organization consisting of nearly 700 active book reviewers.
PEN/FaulknerAward: "Honors the best published works of fiction by American citizens." The award was founded by members of the international writers’ organization, PEN.
Man Booker Prize: The UK's top literary prize presented to the best full-length novel written in English by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland
Edgar Award: Awarded for the best mystery fiction and nonfiction
Hugo Award (Science Fiction Achievement Award): Given by the World Science Fiction Society for the best science fiction or fantasy works
Nebula Award:
Awarded by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) for the best science fiction or fantasy works published in the United States during the two previous years
2007 The Road. Cormac McCarthy. LPC PS3563.C337.R63 2006
2006 March. Geraldine Brooks. LPC PR9619.3.B7153.M37 2006
2005 Gilead. Marilynne Robinson. LPC PS3568.O3125.G55 2006
2004 The Known World. Edward P. Jones. LPC PS3506.O4813.K58 2003
2003 Middlesex. Jeffrey Eugenides. LPC PS3555.U4.M53 2002
2002 Empire Falls. Richard Russo. LPC PS3568.U812.E4 2002
2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay: A Novel. Michael Chabon. LPC PS3553.A82 2000
2000 Interpreter of Maladies. Jhumpa Lahiri. LPC PS3562.A316.I58 1999
1999 The Hours. Michael Cunningham. LPC PS3553.U484.H68 2000
1998 American Pastoral. Philip Roth. LPC PS3568.O855.A77 1998
1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer. Stephen Millhauser. LPC PS3563.I422.M37 1997
1996 Independence Day. Richard Ford. LPC PS3556.O713.I53 1996
1995 The Stone Diaries. Carol Shields. LPC PR9199.3.S514.S76 1995
1994 The Shipping News. E. Annie Proulx. LPC PS3566.R697.S4 1993
1993 A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain. Robert Olen Butler. LPC PS3552.U8278.G66 2001
1992 A Thousand Acres. Jane Smiley. LPC PS3569.M39.T47 1996
1991 Rabbit at Rest. John Updike. LPC PS3571.P4.R23 1990
1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. Oscar Hijuelos. LPC PS3558.I376.M36 1990
1989 Breathing Lessons. Anne Tyler. LPC PS3570.Y45.B74 1988
1988 Beloved. Toni Morrison. LPC PS3563.O8749.B4 1987
1987 A Summons to Memphis. Peter Taylor. LPC PS3539.A9633.S8 1986
1986 Lonesome Dove. Larry McMurtry. LPC PS3563.A319.L6 1985
1985 Foreign Affairs. Alison Lurie. LPC PS3562.U7.F6 1984
1984 Ironweed. William Kennedy. LPC PS3561.E428.I7 1983
1983 The Color Purple. Alice Walker. LPC PS3573.A425.C6 1982 & PS3573.A425.C6 1985
1982 Rabbit Is Rich. John Updike. LPC PS3571.P4.R25 1981
1981 A Confederacy of Dunces. John Kennedy O’Toole. LPC PS3570.O54.C66 1995
1980 The Executioner’s Song. Norman Mailer. LPC PS3525.A4152.E89 1998
1979 The Stories of John Cheever. John Cheever. LPC PS3505.H6428.A7
1978 Elbow Room. James Alan McPherson. LPC PS3563.A325.E4 1983
1977 No Award
1976 Humboldt’s Gift. Saul Bellow. LPC PS3503.E4488.H8
1975 The Killer Angels. Michael Shaara. LPC PS3569.H2.K44 1974
1974 No Award
1973 The Optimist’s Daughter. Eudora Welty. LPC PS3545.E6.O6 2002
1972 Angle of Repose. Wallace Stegner. LPC P3537.T316.A8
1971 No Award
1970 The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford. Jean Stafford. LPC PS3569.T2.A6 1992
1969 House Made of Dawn. N. Scott Momaday. LPC PS3563.O47.H6 1977
1968 The Confessions of Nat Turner. William Styron. LPC PS3569.T9.C6 1967
1967 The Fixer. Bernard Malamud. LPC PS3563.A4.F4 1966
1966 The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter. Katherine Anne Porter. LPC PS3531.O752.A6 1979
1965 The Keepers of the House. Shirley Ann Grau. LPC PZ4.G775KE
1964 No Award
1963 The Reivers. William Faulkner. LPC PS3511.A86.R38 1962a
1962 The Edge of Sadness. Edwin O’Connor. LPC Library Does Not Own
1961 To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee. LPC PZ3.L4778to
1960 Advise and Consent. Allen Drury. LPC PZ3.D794ad
1959 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters. Robert Lewis Taylor. LPC Library Does Not Own
1958 A Death in the Family. James Agee. LPC PS3501.G35.D43 1998
1957 No Award
1956 Andersonville. MacKinlay Kantor. LPC PS3521.A47.A7 1955a
1955 A Fable. William Faulkner. LPC PS3511.A86.F2
1954 No Award
1953 The Old Man and the Sea. Ernest Hemingway. LPC PS3515.E370 & PS3515.E37O.C.2
1952 The Caine Mutiny. Herman Wouk. LPC PZ3.W923ca 1973
1951 The Town. Conrad Richter. LPC PS3535.I429.T6
1950 The Way West. A. B. Guthrie, Jr. LPC PZ3.G95876WAY
1949 Guard of Honor. James Gould Cozzens. Chabot PS3505.O99 G9 & PS3505.O99 G9 c.2
1948 Tales of the South Pacific. James A. Michener. LPC PS3525.I19.T3 1984
1947 All the King’s Men. Robert Penn Warren. LPC PS3545.A748.A5
1946 No Award
1945 A Bell for Adano. John Hersey. LPC PS3515.E7715.B4
1944 Journey in the Dark. Martin Flavin. LPC Library Does Not Own
1943 Dragon’s Teeth. Upton Sinclair. LPC Library Does Not Own
1942 In This Our Life. Ellen Glasgow. LPC Library Does Not Own
1941 No Award
1940 The Grapes of Wrath. John Steinbeck. LPC PS3537.T3234.G8 1986
1939 The Yearling. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. LPC PZ3.R259ye
1938 The Late George Apley. John Phillips Marquand. Chabot PS3525.A6695.L2
1937 Gone With the Wind. Margaret Mitchell . LPC PS3525.I972.G6 1975
1936 Honey in the Horn. Harold L. Davis. LPC Library Does Not Own
1935 Now in November. Josephine Winslow Johnson. Chabot PZ3 .J6334no
1934 Lamb in His Bosom. Caroline Miller. LPC Library Does Not Own
1933 The Store. T.S. Stribling. LPC Library Does Not Own
1932 The Good Earth. Pearl S. Buck LPC PS3503.U198 1939
1931 Years of Grace. Margaret Ayer Barnes. LPC Library Does Not Own
1930 Laughing Boy. Oliver La Farge. LPC PZ3.L129lau
1929 Scarlet Sister Mary. Julia Peterkin. LPC Library Does Not Own
1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Thornton Wilder. LPC PS3545.I345.B7 2003
1927 Early Autumn. Louis Bromfield. LPC Library Does Not Own
1926 Arrowsmith. Sinclair Lewis. LPC PS3523.E94.A6 2002
1925 So Big. Edna Ferber. Chabot PS3511.E46 S46 1962
1924 The Able McLaughlins. Margaret Wilson. LPC Library Does Not Own
1923 One of Ours. Willa Cather. Chabot PS3505.A87.O5 1922
1922 Alice Adams. Booth Tarkington. LPC Library Does Not Own
1921 The Age of Innocence. Edith Wharton. LPC PS3545.H16.A6 1985
1920 No Award
1919 The Magnificent Ambersons. Booth Tarkington. LPC PS2972.M25 1998
1918 His Family. Ernest Poole. LPC Library Does Not Own
2007 Tree of Smoke. Denis Johnson. LPC PS3560.O3745.T74 2007
2006 The Echo Maker. Richard Powers. LPC PS3566.O92.E27 2006
2005 Europe Central. William T. Vollman. LPC PS3572.O395.E97 2005
2004 The News From Paraguay. Lily Tuck. LPC PS3570.U236.N49 2004
2003 The Great Fire. Shirley Hazzard. LPC PR9619.3.H369.G74 2003
2002 Three Junes. Julia Glass. LPC PS3607.L37.T48 2002
2001 The Corrections. Jonathan Franzen. LPC PS3556.R352.C67 2001
2000 In America. Susan Sontag. LPC PS3569.O6547.I5 2000
1999 Waiting. Ha Jin. LPC PS3560.I6.W34 1999
1998 Charming Billy. Alice McDermott. LPC PS3563.C355.C48 1999
1997 Cold Mountain. Charles Frazier. LPC PS3556.R3599.C6 1997
1996 Ship Fever and Other Stories. Andrea Barrett. LPC PS3552.A7327.S55 1996
1995 Sabbath's Theater. Philip Roth. LPC PS3568.O855.S23 1996
1994 A Frolic of His Own. William Gaddis. LPC PS3557.A28.F76 1994
1993 The Shipping News. E. Annie Proulx. LPC PS3566.R697.S4 1993
1992 All the Pretty Horses. Cormac McCarthy. LPC PS3563.C337.A44 1992
1991 Mating. Norman Rush. LPC PS3568.U727.M38 1992
1990 Middle Passage. Charles Johnson. Chabot PS3560.O3735.M5 1990
1989 Spartina. John Casey. LPC Library Does Not Own
1988 Paris Trout. Pete Dexter. Chabot PS3554.E95.P37 1989
1987 Paco's Story. Larry Heinemann. Chabot PZ3.H4673 PA
1986 World's Fair. E. L. Doctorow. LPC PS3554.O3.W6 1985
1985 Fiction: White Noise. Don DeLillo. LPC GV1015.4.W66.C75 2002
1985 First Work of Fiction: Easy in the Islands. Bob Shacochis. LPC Library Does Not Own
1984 Fiction: Victory Over Japan : A Book of Stories. Ellen Gilchrist. LPC PS3557.I34258.V5
1984 First Work of Fiction: Stones for Ibarra. Harriet Doerr. LPC PS3571.P4.R25 1981
1983 Fiction (Paperback): Collected Stories of Eudora Welty. Eudora Welty. LPC PS3545.E6.A15
1980 First Novel: The Women of Brewster Place. Gloria Naylor. Chabot PS3564.A895 W6
1983 Original Paperback: The Red Magician. Lisa Goldstein. LPC Library Does Not Own
1983 Fiction (Hardcover): Color Purple. Alice Walker. LPC PS3573.A425.C6 1982
1982 Fiction (Hardcover): Rabbit Is Rich. John Updike. LPC PS3571.P4.R25
1981 Fiction (Paperback): So Long, See You Tomorrow. William Maxwell. LPC PS3525.A9464.S6
1981 First Novel: Dale Loves Sophie to Death. Robb Forman Dew. LPC Library Does Not Own
1981 Fiction (Hardcover): Plains Song for Female Voices. Wright Morris. LPC PS3525.O7475.P5 2000
1981 Fiction (Paperback): The Stories of John Cheever. John Cheever. LPC PS3505.H6428.A7 2000
1981 First Novel: Sister Wolf. Ann Arensberg. LPC Library Does Not Own
1980 Sophie's Choice. William Styron. LPC PS3569.T9.S67
1980 Fiction (Paperback): World According to Garp. John Irving. LPC PZ3.I714wo & PZ3.I714wo
1980 First Novel: Birdy. William Wharton. LPC PZ3.W5377bi 1978
1979 Going After Cacciato. Tim O'Brien. LPC PZ3.O1362go
1978 Blood Ties. Mary Lee Settle. LPC Library Does Not Own
1977 The Spectator Bird. Wallace Stegner. LPC PS3537.T316.S75
1976 Jr. William Gaddis. LPC Library Does Not Own
1975 Dog Soldiers. Robert Stone. LPC PZ3.S8789do
1975 The Hair of Harold Roux. Thomas Williams. LPC Library Does Not Own
1974 Gravity's Rainbow. Thomas Pynchon. LPC PS3566.Y55.G7
1974 A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories. Isaac Bashevis Singer. Chabot PJ5129.S515.C8
1973 Chimera. John Barth. LPC PZ3.B284ch
1973 Augustus. John Williams. LPC PS3545.I5286.A94 1995
1972 The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor. Flannery O'Connor. LPC Library Does Not Own
1971 Mr. Sammler's Planet. Saul Bellow. LPC PZ3.B41937M
1970 Them. Joyce Carol Oates. LPC PS3565.A8.T48 2000
1969 Steps. Jerzy Konsinski. LPC Library Does Not Own
1968 The Eighth Day. Thornton Wilder. Chabot PS3545.I345.E2
1967 The Fixer. Bernard Malamud. LPC PS3563.A4.F4 1966
1966 The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter. Katherine Anne Porter. LPC PS3531.O752.A6 1979
1965 Herzog. Saul Bellow. LPC PZ3.B41937hh
1964 The Centaur. John Updike. LPC PZ3.U64ce
1963 Morte D'Urban. J. F. Powers. LPC Library Does Not Own
1962 The Moviegoer. Walker Percy. LPC PZ.P43115MO
1961 The Waters of Kronos. Conrad Richter. LPC Library Does Not Own
1960 Goodbye, Columbus. Philip Roth. LPC PS3568.O855.G6 1993
1959 The Magic Barrel. Bernard Malamud. LPC PZ3.M237mag
1958 The Wapshot Chronicle. John Cheever. LPC PZ3.C3983wap
1957 The Field of Vision. Wright Morris. LPC Library Does Not Own
1956 Ten North. Frederick John O'Hara. LPC Library Does Not Own
1955 A Fable. William Faulkner. LPC PS3511.A86.F2
1954 The Adventures of Augie March. Saul Bellow. LPC PZ3.B41937ad
1953 Invisible Man. Ralph Ellison. LPC PZ3.E47in
1952 From Here to Eternity. James Jones. LPC PS3560.O49.F6
1951 The Collected Stories of William Faulkner. William Faulkner. LPC PS3511.A86.C7 1977
1950 The Man With the Golden Arm. Nelson Algren. Chabot PS3501.L4625.M13
2007 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Junot Diaz. On order
2006 The Interitance of Loss. Kiran Desai. LPC PS3554.E82.I54 2006
2005 The March: A Novel. E.L. Doctorow. LPC PS3554.O3.M37 2005
2004 Gilead. Marilynne Robinson. LPC PS3568.O3125.G55 2006
2003 The Known World. Edward P. Jones. LPC PS3560.O4813.K58 2003
2002 Atonement: A Novel. Ian McEwan. LPC PR6063.C4 A88 2002
2007 Everyman. Philip Roth. On order
2006 The March: A Novel. E.L. Doctorow. On order
2005 War Trash. Ha Jin. On order
2004 The Early Stories. John Updike. On order
2003 The Caprices. Sabina Murray. On order
2007 The Gathering. Anne Enright. On order
2006 The Inheritance of Loss. Kiran Desai. LPC PS3554.E82.I54 2006
2005 The Sea. John Banville. On order
2004 The Line of Beauty. Alan Hollinghurst. LPC PR6058.O4467.L56 2004
2003 Vernon God Little. DBC Pierre. LPC PR9619.4.P54.V47 2003
2002 Life of Pi. Yann Martel. LPC PR9199.3.M3855.L54 2001
2007 The Janissary Tree. Jason Goodwin.On order
2006 Citizen Vince. Jess Walter.On order
2005 California Girl. T. Jefferson Parker.On order
2004 Resurrection Men. Ian Rankin. On order
2003 Winter and Night. S. J. Rozan. On order
2002 Silent Joe. T. Jefferson Parker. On order
2006 Spin. Robert Charles Wilson. On order
2005 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Susanna Clarke. On order
2004 Paladin of Souls. Lois McMaster Bujold. On order
2003 Hominids. Robert J. Sawyer. On order
2002 American Gods. Neil Gaiman. LPC PR6057.A319.A841 2003
2001 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. J.K. Rowling. LPC PZ7.R79835.HAL 2000
2004 Paladin of Souls. Lois McMaster Bujold. On order
2003 The Speed of Dark. Elizabeth Moon. On order
2002 American Gods. Neil Gaiman. LPC PR6057.A319.A841 2003
2001 The Quantum Rose. Catherine Asaro. LPC PS3551.S29.Q36 2002