Notable Books - Fiction

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