2009 National Book Award Winner-Fiction

McCann's most ambitious work to date offers a dazzling and hauntingly rich vision of the loveliness, pain, and mystery of life in New York City in the 1970s. …More

2008 National Book Award- Fiction Winner

This landmark one-volume reworking of Matthiessen's Watson trilogy--"Killing Mister Watson," "Lost Man's River," and "Bone by Bone"--reveals one of America's finest writes at the peak of his career. …More

National Book Critics Circle Best Recommended Fiction

Winner - 2007 National Book Award for Fiction
From the author of Jesus Son, a long-awaited tale of two American families swept up in the secrets and lies of the Vietnam war. Chris Offutt writes "Tree of Smoke is a masterpiece." …More

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Winner - 2006 National Book Award for Fiction
On a remote Nebraska road, 27-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near-fatal accident. His older sister Karin returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. When he emerges from a protracted coma, Mark believes that this woman--who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister--is really an identical impostor. …More

Winner - 2005 National Book Award for Fiction
In his newest work, Vollmann presents a mesmerizing series of intertwined paired stories that compare and contrast the moral decisions made by various figures--some famous, some infamous, some unknown--associated with the warring authoritarian cultures of Germany and the USSR in the 20th century. …More

Winner - 2004 National Book Award for Fiction
"As this biting, elegant novel examines the corrosive effects of a delusional dictator, it illuminates both a little-known corner of history and the world we live in now."--Andrea Barrett, "Servants of the Map."

A historical epic that tells an unusual love story, "The News from Paraguay" offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of 19th-century Paraguay, a largely untouched wilderness where Europeans and North Americans intermingle with both the old Spanish aristocracy and native Guaran' Indians. …More

Winner - 2003 National Book Award for Fiction
This is Hazzard's first novel since "The Transit of Venus," which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. The conflagration of her title is the Second World War. In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women must reinvent their lives and expectations, and learn, from their past, to dream again.

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Winner-2002 National Book Award for Fiction
This symphonic first novel teems with relationships and interconnected lives--about love, death, and birth in a Scottish family. …More

Winner - 2001 National Book Award for Fiction
Winner - 2002 ALA Notable Fiction Selection
A comic, tragic masterpiece of an American family breaking down in an age of easy fixes, Franzen's third novel brings an old-time America into wild collision with the era of home surveillance and New Economy speculation. Winner of the National Book Award. …More

Winner-2000 National Book Award for Fiction
In 1876, a group of Poles led by Maryna Zalezowska, Poland's greatest actress, travels to California to found a "utopian" commune. "In America" is a big, juicy, surprising book about a woman's search for self-transformation, about the fate of idealism, and about the world of the theater. …More

Winner - 2000 ALA Notable Fiction Selection
Winner - 1999 National Book Award for Fiction
Lin Kong is a devoted doctor in love with a modern young woman--a nurse who is educated, clever, and vivid. The only complication is the wife to whom he was married when they were very young--a tiny woman, humble and touchingly loyal, whom he visits in order to ask, again and again, for divorce. …More

Winner - 1998 National Book Award for Fiction

Everyone loved him. If you knew Billy at all, then you loved him. The late Billy Lynch's family and friends, a party of forty-seven, gather at a small bar and grill somewhere in the Bronx to remember better times in good company, and to redeem the pleasure of a drink or two from the miserable thing that a drink had become in Billy's life. His widow, Maeve, is there and everyone admires the way she is holding up, just as they always admired the way she cared for Billy after the alcohol had ruined him. But one cannot think of Billy Lynch's life, one's own relentless affection for him, without saying at some point, "There was that girl. The Irish girl". And one can't help but think that the real story of his life lay there. …More