The Man Booker Prize
This prestigious award is awarded to the best contemporary fiction written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland.
- 2012 Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
- 2011 The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
- 2010 The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
- 2009 Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
- 2008 The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
- 2007 The Gathering by Anne Enright
The Edgar Award
The Edgar Allan Poe Awards are given by the Mystery Writers of America to honor authors of distinguished work in various categories. Listed here are the Best Novels.
- 2012 Gone by Mo Hayder
- 2011 The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton
- 2010 The Last Child by John Hart
- 2009 Blue Heaven by C.J. Box
- 2008 Down River by John Hart
- 2007 The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin
The National Book Award for Fiction
The National Book Foundation presents this award, one of the nation’s most preeminent literary prizes.
- 2012 The Round House by Louise Erdrich
- 2011 Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
- 2010 Just Kids by Patti Smith
- 2009 Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
- 2008 Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen
- 2007 Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
- 2006 Echo Maker by Richard Powers
The National Book Award for Nonfiction
- 2012 Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
- 2011 The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
- 2010 Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
- 2009 The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles
- 2008 The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
- 2007 Legacy of Ashes: The History of the C.I.A. by Tim Weiner
Nebula Award
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America honors writers in several categories. Listed here are the Best Novel winners. (2010 award given in 2011.)
- 2011 Among Others by Jo Walton
- 2010 Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis
- 2009 The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
- 2008 Powers by Ursula Le Guin
- 2007 The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
PEN/Faulkner Award
The PEN/Faulkner Foundation confers this annual prize for the best work of fiction by an American author.
- 2012 The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
- 2011 The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg by Deborah Eisenberg
- 2010 War Dances by Sherman Alexie
- 2009 Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
- 2008 The Great Man by Kate Christensen
- 2007 Everyman by Philip Roth
The Pulitzer Prizes
Each year, over 100 distinguished judges who serve on 20 separate juries award
21 awards from over 2,000 entries.
Listed here are the awards for Fiction, Nonfiction, Biography.
- Fiction
- 2012 No Award
- 2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- 2010 Tinkers by Paul Harding
- 2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
- 2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- General Nonfiction
- 2012 The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
- 2011 The Emperor of Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- 2010 The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy by David Hoffman
- 2009 Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas Blackmon
- 2008 The Years of Extermination by Saul Friedlander
- Biography
- 2012 George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
- 2011 Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
- 2010 The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles
- 2009 American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
- 2008 Eden’s Outcasts by John Matteson
- Poetry
- 2012 Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith
