The Ultimate Reading List

This list includes books that have won multiple awards.

Title - Author, Awards

All the Pretty Horses- Cormac McCarthy 2, 4
Atonement- Ian McEwan 4, 5
Billy Bathgate- E. L. Doctorow 3, 4

Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz 1,4
Cold Mountain- Charles Frazier 2, 6
Color Purple, The- Alice Walker 1, 2
Fixer, The- Bernard Malamud 1, 2
Gilead- Marilynne Robinson 1, 4
Hours, The- Michael Cunningham 1, 3
Independence Day- Richard Ford 1, 3
Inheritance of Loss, The- Kiran Desai 4, 7
Ironweed- William Kennedy 1, 4
Known World, The- Edward P. Jones 1, 4
Love Medicine- Louise Erdrich 4, 5
March, The- E.L. Doctorow 3, 4
Rabbit at Rest- John Updike 1, 4
Schindler's List- Thomas Keneally 5, 7
Shipping News, The- E. Annie Proulx 1, 2
Stone Diaries, The- Carol Shields 1, 4
Stories of John Cheever, The- John Cheever 1, 4
Waiting- Ha Jin 2, 3
Women in Their Beds- Gina Berriault 3, 4

1-Pulitzer Prize
2-National Book Award
3-Pen/Faulkner Award
4-National Book Critic’s Circle Award for Fiction
5-Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction
6-Book Sense Book Award
7-Man Booker Prize
8-American Library’s Top 100 Novels
9-Modern Library 100 Best Books
10-Library Journal’s Most Influential Fiction of the 20th Century
11-New York Library’s Books of the Century
12-Harvard Bookstore’s 100 Best Books
13-New York Times Editor’s Choice