| 2009 Elizabeth Strout
Olive Kitteridge, Random House
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| 2008 Junot Diaz
The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, Riverhead Books
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| 2007 Cormac McCarthy
The Road, Alfred A. Knopf
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| 2006 Geraldine Brooks
March, Viking
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| 2005 Marilynne Robinson
Gilead, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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| 2004 Edward P. Jones
The Known World, Amistad/HarperCollins
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| 2003 Jeffrey Eugenides
Middlesex, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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| 2002 Richard Russo
Empire Falls, Alfred A. Knopf
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| 2001 Michael Chabon
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Random House
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| 2000 Jhumpa Lahiri
Interpreter of Maladies, Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin
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| 1999 Michael Cunningham
The Hours, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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| 1998 Philip Roth
American Pastoral, Houghton Mifflin
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| 1997 Steven Millhauser
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer, Crown
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| 1996 Richard Ford
Independence Day, Alfred A. Knopf
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| 1995 Carol Shields
The Stone Diaries, Viking
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| 1994 E. Annie Proulx
The Shipping News, Charles Scribner's Sons
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| 1993 Robert Olen Butler
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, Henry Holt
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| 1992 Jane Smiley
A Thousand Acres, Alfred A. Knopf
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| 1991 John Updike
Rabbit At Rest, Alfred A. Knopf
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| 1990 Oscar Hijuelos
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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| 1989 Anne Tyler
Breathing Lessons, Alfred A. Knopf
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| 1988 Toni Morrison
Beloved, Alfred A. Knopf
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| 1987 Peter Taylor
A Summons to Memphis, Alfred A. Knopf
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| 1986 Larry McMurtry
Lonesome Dove, Simon & Schuster
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| 1985 Alison Lurie
Foreign Affairs, Random House
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| 1984 William Kennedy
Ironweed, Viking
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| 1983 Alice Walker
The Color Purple, Harcourt Brace
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| 1982 John Updike
Rabbit Is Rich, Alfred A. Knopf
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| 1981 John Kennedy Toole
A Confederacy of Dunces, Louisiana State Univ. Press
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| 1980 Norman Mailer
The Executioner's Song, Little, Brown
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| 1979 John Cheever
The Stories of John Cheever, Alfred A. Knopf
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| 1978 James Alan McPherson
Elbow Room, Atlantic Monthly Press
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| 1976 Saul Bellow
Humboldt's Gift, Viking
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| 1975 Michael Shaara
The Killer Angels, McKay
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| 1973 Eudora Welty
The Optimist's Daughter, Random
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| 1972 Wallace Stegner
Angle of Repose, Doubleday
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| 1970 Jean Stafford
Collected Stories, Farrar
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| 1969 N. Scott Momaday
House Made of Dawn, Harper
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| 1968 William Styron
The Confessions of Nat Turner, Random
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| 1967 Bernard Malamud
The Fixer, Farrar
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| 1966 Katherine Anne Porter
Collected Stories, Harcourt
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| 1965 Shirley Ann Grau
The Keepers of the House, Random
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| 1963 William Faulkner
The Reivers, Random
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| 1962 Edwin O'Connor
The Edge of Sadness, Little
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| 1961 Harper Lee
To Kill A Mockingbird, Lippincott
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| 1960 Allen Drury
Advise and Consent, Doubleday
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| 1959 Robert Lewis Taylor
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, Doubleday
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| 1958 James Agee
A Death In The Family, McDowell, Obolensky
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| 1956 MacKinlay Kantor
Andersonville, World
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| 1955 William Faulkner
A Fable, Random
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| 1953 Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea, Scribner
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| 1952 Herman Wouk
The Caine Mutiny, Doubleday
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| 1951 Conrad Richter
The Town, Alfred A. Knopf
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| 1950 A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
The Way West, Sloane
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| 1949 James Gould Cozzens
Guard of Honor, Harcourt
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| 1948 James A. Michener
Tales of the South Pacific, Macmillan
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