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The Man The National Book Foundation presents this Listed here are the Best Novel winners. This prestigious award is awarded to the award, one of the nation=s most preeminent best contemporary fiction written by a literary prizes. 2008 Powers by Ursula Le Guin 2007 The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic Chabon of Ireland. 2008 by 2006 Seeker by Jack McDevitt 2007 by 2005 Camouflage by Joe Haldeman 2006 Echo Maker by 2008 The White Tiger by 2004 Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold 2005 Europe Central by William T. Vollmann 2007 The Gathering by 2004 by 2006 Inheritance of Loss by 2003 The Great Fire by Shirley Hazard PEN/Faulkner Award 2005 by The PEN/Faulkner Foundation confers this 2004 by

2003 by DBC Pierre annual prize for the best work of fiction by

an American author.

The Edgar Award The for Nonfiction 2009 Netherland by Joseph O’Neill 2008 The Hemingses of Monticello: An American The Edgar Allan Poe Awards are given by 2008 The Great Man by Kate Christensen Family by Annette Gordon-Reed 2007 Everyman by Philip Roth the Mystery Writers of America to honor 2007 Legacy of Ashes: The History of the C.I.A. 2006 The March by E.L. Doctorow authors of distinguished work in various by Tim Weiner 2005 War Trash by Ha Jin categories. Listed here are the Best 2006 The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of 2004 The Early Stories by John Updike Novels. Those Who Survived the Great American 2003 The Caprices by Sabrina Murray Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan

2005 The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion 2009 Blue Heaven by C.J. Box 2004 Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights 2008 Down River by John Hart and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle 2007 The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin 2003 Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of 2006 Citizen Vince by Jess Walter a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire 2005 Girl by T. Jefferson Parker The Pulitzer Prizes 2004 Resurrection Man by Ian Rankin Nebula Award Each year, over 100 distinguished judges

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of who serve on 20 separate juries award The National Book Award for Fiction America honors writers in several categories. 21 awards from over 2,000 entries. Listed here are the awards for Fiction, 2009 : The Re- Biography Enslavement of Black Americans from the Nonfiction, Biography. 2009 American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White Civil War to World War II by Douglas House by Jon Meacham

Blackmon 2008 Eden’s Outcasts by John Matteson Fiction 2008 The Years of Extermination by Saul 2007 The Most Famous Man : The 2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout Friedlander Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby 2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by 2007 :Al-Qaeda and the Road Applegate Junot Diaz to 9/11 by 2006 American Prometheus: The Triumph and 2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy 2006 : The Untold Story of Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by 2006 March by Geraldine Brooks = Britain s in Kenya by Caroline Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin 2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Elkins 2005 de Kooning: An American Master by 2004 The Known World by Edward Jones 2005 by Mark Stevens 2004 Gulag: A History by

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