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Award Winning Books More Man Booker winners: 1995: Sabbath’s Theater by Philip Roth Man Booker Prize 1990: Possession by A. S. Byatt 1994: A Frolic of His Own 1989: Remains of the Day by William Gaddis 2017: Lincoln in the Bardo by Kazuo Ishiguro 1993: The Shipping News by Annie Proulx by George Saunders 1985: The Bone People by Keri Hulme 1992: All the Pretty Horses 2016: The Sellout by Paul Beatty 1984: Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner by Cormac McCarthy 2015: A Brief History of Seven Killings 1982: Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally 1991: Mating by Norman Rush by Marlon James 1981: Midnight’s Children 1990: Middle Passage by Charles Johnson 2014: The Narrow Road to the Deep by Salman Rushdie More National Book winners: North by Richard Flanagan 1985: White Noise by Don DeLillo 2013: Luminaries by Eleanor Catton 1983: The Color Purple by Alice Walker 2012: Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel 1982: Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike 2011: The Sense of an Ending National Book Award 1980: Sophie’s Choice by William Styron by Julian Barnes 1974: Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon 2010: The Finkler Question 2016: Underground Railroad by Howard Jacobson by Colson Whitehead 2009: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel 2015: Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson 2008: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga 2014: Redeployment by Phil Klay 2007: The Gathering by Anne Enright 2013: Good Lord Bird by James McBride National Book Critics 2006: The Inheritance of Loss 2012: Round House by Louise Erdrich by Kiran Desai 2011: Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward Circle Award 2005: The Sea by John Banville 2010: Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon 2004: The Line of Beauty 2009: Let the Great World Spin 2016: LaRose by Louise Erdrich by Alan Hollinghurst by Colum McCann 2015: The Sellout by Paul Beatty 2003: Vernon God Little by D.B.C. Pierre 2008: Shadow Country 2014: Lila by Marilynne Robinson 2002: Life of Pi by Yann Martel by Peter Matthiessen 2013: Americanah 2001: True History of the Kelly Gang 2007: Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie by Peter Carey 2006: The Echo Maker by Richard Powers 2012: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk 2000: Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood 2005: Europe Central by Ben Fountain 1999: Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee by William T. Volmann 2011: Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman 1998: Amsterdam by Ian McEwan 2004: The News from Paraguay 2010: A Visit from the Goon Squad 1997: The God of Small Things by Lily Tuck by Jennifer Egan by Arundhati Roy 2003: The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard 2009: Wolf Hall 1996: Last Orders by Graham Swift 2002: Three Junes by Julia Glass by Hilary Mantel 1995: Ghost Road by Pat Barker 2001: The Corrections 2008: 2666 by Roberto Bolaño 1994: How Late It Was, How Late by Jonathan Franzen 2007: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar by James Kelman 2000: In America by Susan Sontag Wao by Junot Diaz 1993: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 1999: Waiting by Ha Jin 2006: Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai by Roddy Doyle 1998: Charming Billy by Alice McDermott 2005: The March by E.L. Doctorow 1992: (tie) The English Patient 1997: Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier 2004: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson by Michael Ondaatje 1996: Ship Fever and Other Stories 2003: The Known World Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth by Andrea Bartlett by Edward P. Jones 2002: Atonement by Ian McEwan 2008: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar 2001: Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald Wao by Junot Diaz 2000: Being Dead by Jim Crace 2007: The Road by Cormac McCarthy 1999: Motherless Brooklyn 2006: March by Geraldine Brooks by Jonathan Lethem 2005: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 1998: The Love of a Good Woman 2004: The Known World by Alice Munro by Edward P. Jones 1997: The Blue Flower 2003: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides by Penelope Fitzgerald 2002: Empire Falls by Richard Russo 1996: Women in Their Beds 2001: The Amazing Adventures of by Gina Berriault Kavalier and Clay 1995: Mrs. Ted Bliss by Stanley Elkin by Michael Chabon 1994: The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields 2000: Interpreter of Maladies Pick up an award-winning 1993: A Lesson Before Dying by Jhumpa Lahiri by Ernest J. Gains 1999: The Hours by Michael Cunningham book today! 1992: All the Pretty Horses 1998: American Pastoral by Philip Roth by Cormac McCarthy 1997: Martin Dressler 1991: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley by Steven Millhauser Man Booker Prize 1990: Rabbit at Rest by John Updike 1996: Independence Day by Richard Ford More National Book Critics Circle winners: 1995: The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields National Book Award 1985: Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler 1994: The Shipping News by Annie Proulx 1984: Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich 1993: A Good Scent from a Strange 1983: Ironweed by William Kennedy Mountain by Robert Olen Butler National Book Critics 1977: Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison 1992: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley 1974: Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow 1991: Rabbit at Rest by John Updike Circle Award 1990: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos More Pulitzer winners: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1988: Beloved by Toni Morrison 1986: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry 2017: Underground Railroad 1980: The Executioner’s Song by Colson Whitehead by Norman Mailer 2016: The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen 1961: To Kill a Mockingbird 2015: All the Light We Cannot See by Harper Lee by Anthony Doerr 1953: Old Man and the Sea 2014: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt by Ernest Hemmingway Dublin Library 2013: Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson 200 Civic Plaza, Dublin, CA 94568 2012: No prize awarded 2011: A Visit from the Goon Squad 925-803-7252 - www.aclibrary.org www.facebook.com/DublinLibrary by Jennifer Egan 2010: Tinkers by Paul Harding 2009: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout .
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