The Ultimate Reading List

Pulitzer Prize

Tinkers                                                Paul Harding

National Book Award

Lord of Misrule                                    Jaimy Gordon

Pen/Faulkner Award

War Dances                                        Sherman Alexie

National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

Wolf Hall                                             Hilary Mantel

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction

A Happy Marriage                               Rafael Yglesias

Indies' Choice Book Awards, formerly the Book Sense Book Award

Cutting for Stone                                 Abraham Verghese

Booker Award

The Finkler Question                           Howard Jacobson

NY Times Editor’s Choice

Freedom                                            Jonathan Franzen

The New Yorker Stories                      Ann Beattie

Room                                                Emma Donaghue

Selected Stories                                 William Trevor

A Visit From the Goon Squad              Jennifer Egan