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National Book Awards
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The National Book Awards are awarded annually to outstanding books by U.S. authors. Go to National Book Awards for more information, including previous winners and finalists.
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2012 Erdrich, Louise. The Round House : a Novel When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after being brutally attacked, 14-year-old Joe Coutz sets out with his three friends to find the person that destroyed his family. 2012 Adult Fiction Book | |
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2011 Ward, Jesmyn Salvage the Bones : a Novel Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups. 2011 Adult Fiction Book | |
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2010 Gordon, Jaimy Lord of Misrule : a Novel In the early 1970s, trainer Tommy Hansel attempts a horse racing scam at a small, backwoods track in West Virginia, but nothing goes according to his plan when the horses refuse to cooperate and nearly everyone at the track seems to know his scheme. 2010 Adult Fiction Book GORDON | |
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2009 McCann, Colum Let the Great World Spin In 1974 Manhattan, a radical young Irish monk struggles with personal demons while making his home among Bronx prostitutes, a group of mothers shares grief over their lost Vietnam soldier sons, and a young grandmother attempts to prove her worth. 2009 Adult Fiction Book MCCANN | |
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2008 Matthiessen, Peter Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend A reworking of the author's trilogy chronicles the legacy of E.J. Watson, a notorious desperado gunned down by his neighbors along the lawless nineteenth-century frontier of the Florida Everglades. 2008 Adult Fiction Book MATTHIE | |
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2007 Johnson, Denis Tree of Smoke The lives of Skip Sands, a spy-in-training engaged in psychological operations against the Vietcong, and brothers Bill and James Houston, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war, intertwine in a compelling novel of America during the Vietnam War. 2007 Adult Fiction Book JOHNSON | |
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2006 Powers, Richard The Echo Maker Twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter, suffering from a rare brain disorder that causes him to believe his sister to be an impostor, endeavors to discover the cause of the motor vehicle accident that resulted in his head injury. 2006 Adult Fiction Book POWERS | |
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2005 Vollmann, William T. Europe Central A series of interconnected stories seeks to contrast the moral decisions made by famous and everyday individuals with regard to the warring authoritarian cultures of Germany and the USSR in the twentieth century. 2005 Adult Fiction Book VOLLMANN | |
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2004 Tuck, Lily The News from Paraguay Pursued by the future dictator of nineteenth-century Paraguay, Irish courtesan Ella Lynch struggles with isolation and displacement in spite of her power as his mistress, and witnesses the nation's victimization in the wake of her lover's arrogant ambitions. 2004 Adult Fiction | |
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2003 Hazzard, Shirley The Great Fire In the aftermath of World War II, young men and women living in Europe and Asia reconstruct their lives, including a soldier who learns that material goods and success are not enough, and a woman in Japan who tends to her dying brother. 2003 Adult Fiction | |
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