1989: Spartina by John Casey 2016: The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen National Book 1988: Paris Trout by Pete Dexter 2015: All the Light We Cannot See by A. Doerr 1987: Paco’s Story by Larry Heinemann 2014: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt Award 1986: World’s Fair by E. L. Doctorow 2013: Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson 1985: White Noise by Don DeLillo 2012: No prize awarded 2011: A Visit from the Goon Squad “Established in 1950, the National Book Award is an 1984: Victory Over Japan by Ellen Gilchrist by Jennifer Egan American literary prize administered by the National 1983: The Color Purple by Alice Walker 2010: Tinkers by Paul Harding Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization.” 1982: Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike 2009: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout - from the National Book Foundation website. 1980: Sophie’s Choice by William Styron 2008: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 1979: Going After Cacciato by Tim O’Brien by Junot Diaz 2018: The Friend by Sigrid Nunez 1978: Blood Tie by Mary Lee Settle 2007: The Road by Cormac McCarthy 2017: Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward 1977: The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner 2006: March by Geraldine Brooks 2016: The Underground Railroad by Colson 1976: J.R. by William Gaddis 2005: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Whitehead 1975: Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone 2004: The Known World by Edward P. Jones 2015: Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson The Hair of Harold Roux 2003: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 2014: Redeployment by Phil Klay by Thomas Williams 2002: Empire Falls by Richard Russo 2013: Good Lord Bird by James McBride 1974: Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon 2001: The Amazing Adventures of 2012: Round House by Louise Erdrich 1973: Chimera by John Barth Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon 2011: Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward 1972: The Complete Stories 2000: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri 2010: Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon by Flannery O’Connor 1999: The Hours by Michael Cunningham 2009: Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann 1971: Mr. Sammler’s Planet by Saul Bellow 1998: American Pastoral by Philip Roth 2008: Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen 1970: Them by Joyce Carol Oates 1997: Martin Dressler: The Tale of an 2007: Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson 1969: Steps by Jerzy Kosinski 1996: Independence Day by Richard Ford 2006: The Echo Maker by Richard Powers 1968: The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder 1995: The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields 2005: Europe Central by William T. Volmann 1967: The Fixer by Bernard Malamud 1994: The Shipping News by Annie Proulx 2004: The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck 1966: Collected Stories 1993: A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain 2003: The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard by Katherine Anne Porter by Robert Olen Butler 2002: Three Junes by Julia Glass 1965: Herzog by Saul Bellow 1992: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley 2001: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen 1991: Rabbit at Rest by John Updike 2000: In America by Susan Sontag Pulitzer 1990: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love 1999: Waiting by Ha Jin by Oscar Hijuelos 1998: Charming Billy by Alice McDermott Prize for 1989: Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler 1997: Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier Fiction 1988: Beloved by Toni Morrison 1996: Ship Fever and Other Stories by 1987: A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor Andrea Bartlett “For distinguished fiction published in book 1986: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry 1995: Sabbath’s Theater by Philip Roth form during the year by an American author, 1985: Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie 1994: A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis preferably dealing with American life…” 1984: Ironweed by William Kennedy 1993: The Shipping News by Annie Proulx - from the Pulitzer website. 1983: The Color Purple by Alice Walker 1992: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy 2018: Less by Andrew Greer 1982: Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike 1991: Mating by Norman Rush 2017: The Underground Railroad 1981: A Confederacy of Dunces by J.K. Toole 1990: Middle Passage by Charles Johnson by Colson Whitehead Pulitzer Prize (cont.) 2006: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai 1980: The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer 2005: The Sea by John Banville 1979: The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever 2004: The Line of Beauty by Alan Holling- 1978: Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson hurst FICTION 1977: No prize awarded 2003: Vernon God Little by D.B.C. Pierre 1976: Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow 2002: Life of Pi by Yann Martel 1975: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara 2001: True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey AWARD 1973: The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty 1972: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner 2000: Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood 1970: Collected Stories by Jean Stafford 1999: Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee 1969: House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday 1998: Amsterdam by Ian McEwan WINNERS 1967: The Fixer by Bernard Malamud 1997: The God of Small Things American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser by Arundhati Roy 1996: Last Orders by Graham Swift 1995: Ghost Road by Pat Barker 1994: How Late It Was, How Late Man Booker by James Kelman 1993: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle Prize 1992: Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje “The Man Booker Prize is the leading literary 1991: Famished Road by Ben Okri award in the English speaking world, and has 1990: Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt brought recognition, reward and readership to 1989: Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro outstanding fiction for over four decades.’” 1988: Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey - from the Man Booker Prize website. 1987: Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively 1986: The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis 2018: Milkman by Anna Burns 1985: The Bone People by Keri Hulme National Book Award 2017: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders 1984: Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner 2016: The Sellout by Paul Beatty 1983: The Life & Times of Michael K Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2015: A Brief History of Seven Killings by J. M. Coetzee by Marlon James 1982: Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally Man Booker Prize 2014: The Narrow Road to the Deep North 1981: Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie by Richard Flanagan 1978: The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch 2013: Luminaries by Eleanor Catton 1977: Staying On by Paul Scott 2012: Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel 1976: Saville by David Storey 2011: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes 1975: Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 2010: The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson 1974: The Conservationist 2009: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel by Nadine Gordimer 1100 E Street 2008: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga 1973: The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell San Rafael, CA 94901 2007: The Gathering by Anne Enright 1972: G by John Berger (415) 485-3321 www.srpubliclibrary.org .