Notable Books — Fiction
2011
- Nashville Chrome by Rick Bass
Room: A Novel by Emma Donoghue- A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
- Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
- Next by James Hynes
- The Surrendered by Chang Rae Lee
- Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes
- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: A Novel by David Mitchell.
- Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
- The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli
- The Lonely Polygamist: A Novel by Brady Udall
2010
- The Convalescent Jessica Anthony
The Year of the flood Margaret Atwood- The Anthologist Nicholson Baker
- Await your reply Dan Chaon
- Little Bee Chris Cleave
- Spooner Pete Dexter
- Tinkers Paul Harding
- The Vagrants Yiyun Li
- Let the great world spin Colum McCann
- A Mercy Toni Morrison
- Generosity: An enhancement Richard Powers
- Brooklyn Colm Toibin
2009
- The Hakawati Rabih Alameddine
- The Wasted Vigil Nadeem Aslam
- Peace Richard Bausch
- City of Thieves: A Novel David Benioff
- The Plague of Doves Louise Erdrich
- Atmospheric Disturbances Rivka Galchen
- Unaccustomed Earth Jhumpa Lahiri
- Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories Steven Millhauser
- Resistance Owen Sheers
- Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout
- The Ginseng Hunter Jeff Talarigo
2008
- Away Amy Bloom
- Five Skies Ron Carlson
- The Yiddish Policemen’s Union Michael Chabon
- An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England Brock Clarke
- Finn: a novel John Clinch
- The Ministry of Special Cases Nathan Englander
- The Five-Forty-Five to Cannes Tess Uriza Holthe
- Mister Pip Lloyd Jones
- On Chesil Beach Ian McEwan
- Complete Stories David Malouf
- Out Stealing Horses Per Pettersen
- Cheating at Canasta William Trevor
2007
- Beautiful Dreamer Christopher Bigsby
- Madonnas of Leningrad Debra Dean
- The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai
- The Whistling Season Ivan Doig
- The Secret River Kate Grenville
- The Attack Yasmina Khadra, translated from the French by John Cullen
- The Girls Lori Lansens
- The Road Cormac McCarthy
- The People’s Act of Love James Meek
- Black Swan Green David Mitchell
- Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman Haruki Murakami
- Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife Sam Savage
2006
- Midnight at the Dragon Café Judy Fong Bates
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer
- Veronica Mary Gaitskill
- Hungry Tide Amitav Ghosh
- Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro
- Beasts of No Nation Uzodinma Iweala
- No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy
- Saturday Ian McEwan
- Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami, translator: Philip Gabriel
- Gilead Marilynne Robinson
- The Hummingbird’s Daughter Luis Alberto Urrea
2005
- The Lemon Table Julian Barnes
- The Half Brother Lars Saabye Christensen
Birds without wings Louis de Bernières - I Sailed with Magellan Stuart Dybek
- The Swallows of Kabul Yasmina Khadra
- The Madonna of Excelsior Zakes Mda
- Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
- Runaway Alice Munro
- Popular Music from Vittula Mikael Niemi
- The Plot Against America Philip Roth
- Old School Tobias Wolff
2004
- Brick Lane Monica Ali
- The Inquisitor’s Manual Antonio Lobo Antunes
- Any Human heart William Boyd
- Alva and Irva: The Twins who saved a city Edward Carey
- Brownsville: Stories Oscar Casares
- Curious incident of the dog in the night-time Mark Haddon
- >The Kite runner Khaled Hosseini
- The Known world Edward P. Jones
- The Fortress of Solitude Jonathan Lethem
- Love Toni Morrison
- Star of the sea Joseph O’Connor
- Drinking coffee elsewhere Z Z Packer
- The Cave Jose Saramago
2003
- The Book of illusions Paul Auster
- Carmelo Sandra Cisneros
- The Shell collector Anthony Doerr
- Miniatures Norah Labiner
- Lovely green eyes Arnost Lustig
- Atonement Ian McEwan
- That they may face the rising sun John McGahern (published in the U.S. as By the lake)
- In Revere, in those days Roland Merullo
- Family matters Rohinton Mistry
- Rouse Up, O Young Men of the New Age! Kenzaburo Oe
- The Russian Debutante’s handbook Gary Shteyngart
- God’s fool Mark Slouka
2002
- True history of the Kelly Gang Peter Carey
- Among the missing Dan Chaon
- Samuel Johnson is indignant: stories Lydia Davis
- Erasure: a novel Percival Everett
- The Corrections Jonathan Franzen
- The Pick up Nadine Gordimer
- Island: the complete stories Alistair MacLeod
- Bucking the tiger Bruce Olds
- Austerlitz W G Sebald
- The Death of Vishnu Manil Suri
- Crooked river burning Mark Winegardner
2001
- The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood
- Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon
- Disgrace J M Coetzee
- Being Dead Jim Crace
- Last Samurai Helen DeWitt
- Delinquent Virgin Laura Kalpakian
- Truth and Bright Water Thomas King
- English Passengers Matthew Kneale
- Living to Tell Antonya Nelson
- Anil’s Ghost Michael Ondaatje
- Scar Vegas Tom Paine
- White Teeth Zadie Smith
- The Quick and the Dead Joy Williams
2000
Master Georgie Beryl Bainbridge- The Hours Michael Cunningham
- The Country life Rachel Cusk
- A Star called Henry Roddy Doyle
- House of sand and fog Andre Dubus
- For the relief of unbearable urges Nathan Englander
- Waiting Ha Jin
- The Colony of unrequited dreams Wayne Johnston
- A Dangerous friend Ward Just
- A Gesture life Chang-rae Lee
- Motherless Brooklyn Jonathan Letham
- Henry of Atlantic City Frederick Reuss
1999
- Triage Scott Anderson
- Flanders Patricia Anthony
- The Voyage of the Narwhal Andrea Barrett
- Collection fictions Jorge Luis Borges
- The Coast of good intentions Michael Byers
- The Farming of bones Edwidge Danticat
- About a boy Nick Hornby
- Charming Billy Alice McDermott
- Birds of America Lorrie Moore
- I married a communist Philip Roth
- Beach boy Ardashir Vakil
1998
- Yo! Julia Alvarez
- Alias Grace Margaret Atwood
- The Jade peony Wayson Choy
- Reading in the dark Seamus Deane
- Cold Mountain Charles Frazier
- Aguero sisters Cristina Garcia
- The Wind-up bird chronicle Haruki Murakami
- The Wishbones Tom Perrotta
- News of the Spirit Lee Smith
- The Far Euphrates Aryeh Lev Stollman
- Blu’s hanging Lois-Ann Yamanaka
1997
- Behind the scenes at the museum Kate Atkinson
- Ship Fever: Stories Andrea Barrett
- Drown Junot Diaz
- The Woman who walked into doors Roddy Doyle
- Middle Son Deborah Iida
- A Fine balance Rohinton Mistry
- Asking for love and other stories Roxana Robinson
- Funny boy Shyam Selvadurai
- Last orders Graham Swift
- After rain William Trevor
- The Night in question: stories Tobias Wolff
1996
- The First man Albert Camus
- The Point: stories Charles D’Ambrosio
- The Paperboy Pete Dexter
- The Unconsoled Kazuo Ishiguro
- Native speaker Chang-Rae Lee
- All the days and nights William Maxwell
- Snow angels Stewart O’Nan
- The Body is water Julie Schumacher
- Eveless Eden Marianne Wiggins
1995
- In the time of the butterflies Julia Alvarez
- The Birthday boys Beryl Bainbridge
- Souls raised from the dead Doris Betts
- The End of vandalism Tom Drury
- Scar tissue Michael Ignatieff
- Ancestral truths Sara Maitland
- Open secrets Alice Munro
- The Bird artist Howard Norman
- In the lake of the woods Tim O’Brien
- The Collected stories Grace Paley
- The Grass dancer Susan Power
- The Cage Audrey Schulman
1994
- In Troubled waters Beverly Coyle
- The Virgin suicides Jeffrey Eugenides
- A Lesson before dying Ernest Gaines
- The Pugilist at rest Thom Jones
- Judge on trial Ivan Klima
- Here’s your hat, what’s your hurry? Elizabeth McCracken
- Remembering Babylon David Malouf
- Wolf whistle Lewis Nordan
- The Shipping news E Annie Proulx
- Nobody’s fool Richard Russo
- Montana, 1948 Larry Watson
1993
- Leviathan Paul Auster
- Before and after Rosellen Brown
- A Good scent from a strange mountain Robert Olen Butler
- The Brothers K David James Duncan
- Turtle moon Alice Hoffman
- Let the dead bury their dead and other stories Randall Kenan
- All the pretty horses Cormac McCarthy
- Billie Dyer and other stories William Maxwell
- Small spaces between emergencies Alison Moore
- Jazz Toni Morrison
- Bailey’s Cafe Gloria Naylor
- The English patient Michael Ondaatje
- A Thousand acres Jane Smiley




