PEN/Faulkner Foundation Reading List

2008

2008 AWARD WINNER

Kate Christensen, The Great Man

2008 FINALISTS

Annie Dillard, The Maytrees

David Leavitt, The Indian Clerk

T.M. McNally, The Gateway: Stories

Ron Rash, Chemistry and Other Stories

2007
Philip Roth, Everyman
Charles D’Ambrosio, The Dead Fish Museum
Deborah Eisenberg, Twilight of the Superheroes
Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
Edward P. Jones, All Aunt Hagar’s Children

2006 E.L. Doctorow, The March Karen Fisher, A Sudden Country William Henry Lewis, I Got Somebody in Staunton James Salter, Last Night Bruce Wagner, The Chrysanthemum Place 2005 Ha Jin, War Trash Jerome Charyn, The Green Lantern Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker Marilynne Robinson, Gilead Steve Yarbrough, Prisoners of War

2004 John Updike, The Early Stories 1953–1975 Frederick Barthemle, Elroy Nights ZZ Packer, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere Caryl Phillips, A Distant Shore Tobias Wolff, Old School

2003 Sabina Murray, The Caprices Peter Cameron, The City of Your Final Destination William Kennedy, Roscoe Victor LaValle, The Ecstatic Gilbert Sorrentino, Little Casino

2002 Ann Patchett, Bel Canto Karen Joy Fowler, Sister Noon Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections Claire Messud, The Hunters Manil Suri, The Death of Vishnu

2001 Philip Roth, The Human Stain Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Millicent Dillon, Harry Gold Denis Johnson, The Name of the World Mona Simpson, Off Keck Road

2000
Ha Jin, Waiting
Frederick Busch, The Night Inspector
Ken Kalfus, PU-239
Elizabeth Strout, Amy and Isabelle
Lily Tuck, Siam

1999 Michael Cunningham, The Hours Russell Banks, Cloudsplitter Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible Brian Morton, Starting Out in the Evening Richard Selzer, The Doctor Stories

1998
Rafi Zabor, The Bear Comes Home
Donald Antrim, The Hundred Brothers
Rilla Askew, The Mercy Seat
Mary Gaitskill, Because They Wanted To
Francisco Goldman, The Ordinary Seaman

1997
Gina Berriault, Women in their Beds
Daniel Akst, St. Burl’s Obituary
Kathleen Cambor, The Book of Mercy
Ron Hansen, Atticus
Jamaica Kincaid, The Autobiography of My Mother

1996 Richard Ford, Independence Day Madison Smart Bell, All Souls’ Rising William Gass, The Tunnel Claire Messud, When the World Was Steady J. Verdelle, The Good Negress

1995
David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
Frederich Busch, The Children in the Woods
Ursula Hegi, Stones from the River
Joyce Carol Oates, What I Lived For
Joanna Scott, Various Antidotes

1994 Philip Roth, Operation Shylock Stanley Elkin, Van Gogh’s Room at Arles Dagoberto Gilb, The Magic of Blood Fae Myenne Ng, Bone Kate Wheeler, Not Where I Started From

1993
E. Annie Proulx, Postcards
Robert Olen Butler, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
Francisco Goldman, The Long Night of White Chickens
Maureen Howard, Natural History
Sylvia Watanabe, Talking to the Dead

1992
Don DeLillo, Mao II
Stephen Dixon, Frog
Paul Gervais, Extraordinary People
Allan Gurganus, White People
Bradford Morrow, The Almanac Branch

1991 John Edgar Wideman, Philadelphia Fire Paul Auster, The Music of Chance Joanne Meschery, A Gentleman”s Guide to the Frontier Steven Millhauser, The Barnum Museum Joanna Scott, Arrogance

1990
E. L. Doctorow, Billy Bathgate
Russell Banks, Affliction
Molly Gloss, The Jump-Off Creek
Josephine Jacobsen, On the Island
Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Leaving Brooklyn

1989
James Salter, Dusk
Mary McGarry Morris, Vanished
Thomas Savage, The Corner of Rife and Pacific
Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Death of Methuselah

1988 T. Coraghessan Boyle, World’s End Richard Bausch, Spirits Alice McDermott, That Night Cynthia Ozick, The Messiah of Stockholm Lawrence Thornton, Imagining Argentina

1987
Richard Wiley, Soldiers in Hiding
Richard Ford, The Sportswriter
Charles Johnson, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Janet Kauffman, Collaborators
Maureen Howard, Expensive Habits

1986
Peter Taylor, The Old Forest
William Gaddis, Carpenter’s Gothic
Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
Hugh Nissenson, The Tree of Life
Helen Norris, The Christmas Wife


1985
Tobias Wolff, The Barracks Thief
Harriet Doerr, Stones for Ibarra
Donald Hays, The Dixie Association
David Leavitt, Family Dancing
James Purdy, On Glory’s Courses

1984 John Edgar Wideman, Sent for You Yesterday Ron Hansen, The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford William Kennedy, Ironweed Jamaica Kincaid, At the Bottom of the River Bernard Malamud, The Stories Cynthia Ozick, The Cannibal Galaxy

1983
Toby Olson, Seaview
Maureen Howard, Grace Abounding
Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh and Other Stories
George Steiner, The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H.
Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
William S. Wilson, Birthplace

1982 David Bradley, The Chaneysville Incident Donald Barthelme, Sixty Stories Richard Bausch, Take Me Back Mark Helprin, Ellis Island and Other Stories Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping Robert Stone, A Flag for Sunrise

1981 Walter Abish, How German Is It? Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus Walker Percy, The Second Coming Gilbert Sorrentino, Aberration of Starlight John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

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