Sunday, April 10, 2011

National Book Critics Award....14/34

Year Won, Title, Author
2010A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
2009Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel - Yes
20082666 by Roberto Bolano
2007The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz - Yes
2006The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai - Yes
2005 The March by E. L. Doctorow - Yes
2004Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson - Yes
2003The Known World by Edward P. Jones - Yes
2002Atonement by Ian McEwan - Yes
2001Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
2000Being Dead by Jim Crace - Yes
1999 Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
1998 The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro
1997 The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald - Yes
1996 Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories by Gina Berriault
1995 Mrs. Ted Bliss by Stanley Elkin
1994 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields - Yes
1993 A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines - Yes
1992 All the Pretty Horses by Cormac Mccarthy - Yes
1991 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley - Yes
1990 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike - Yes
1989 Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow
1988 The Middleman and Other Stories by Bharati Mukherjee
1987 The Counterlife by Philip Roth
1986 Kate Vaiden by Reynolds Price
1985 Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler - Yes
1984 Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich - Yes
1983 Ironweed by William Kennedy - Yes
1982 George Mills by Stanley Elkin
1981 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike - Yes
1980 The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
1979 The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan
1978 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
1977 Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison - Yes
1976 October Light by John C Gardner

Modern Library 100......71/100

Modern Library 100 Titles and Authors
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Yes
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger - Yes
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck - Yes
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - Yes
The Color Purple by Alice Walker - Yes
Ulysses by James Joyce
Beloved by Toni Morrison - Yes
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding - Yes
1984 by George Orwell - Yes
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner - Yes
Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov - Yes
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck - Yes
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White - Yes
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller - Yes
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley - Yes
Animal Farm by George Orwell - Yes
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway - Yes
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner - Yes
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway - Yes
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad - Yes
Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne - Yes
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston - Yes
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison - Yes
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison - Yes
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell - Yes
Native Son by Richard Wright - Yes
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey - Yes
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut - Yes
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway - Yes
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway - Yes
The Call of the Wild by Jack London - Yes
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf - Yes
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James - Yes
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
The World According to Garp by John Irving - Yes
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren - Yes
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster - Yes
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien - Yes
Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally - Yes
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton - Yes
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand - Yes
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair - Yes
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf - Yes
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum - Yes
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence - Yes
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess - Yes
The Awakening by Kate Chopin - Yes
My Antonia by Willa Cather - Yes
Howards End by E.M. Forster - Yes
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote - Yes
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger-Yes
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie - Yes
Jazz by Toni Morrison
Sophie's Choice by William Styron - Yes
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster - Yes
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton - Yes
A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Yes
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence - Yes
Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe - Yes
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
A Separate Peace by John Knowles - Yes
Light in August by William Faulkner
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James - Yes
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe - Yes
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier - Yes
A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh - Yes
Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
The Autobiography of Alice B. Tokias by Gertrude Stein
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett - Yes
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
White Noise by Don DeLillo
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather - Yes
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells - Yes
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad - Yes
The Bostonians by Henry James - -Yes
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather - Yes
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame - Yes
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand - Yes
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles - Yes
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rabbit, Run by John Updike - Yes
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie - Yes