• From Powells.com
• Puddly Awards
• Children's Books
• Caldecott Medal
• Coretta Scott King Award
• Michael L. Printz Award
• National Book Award for Young People's Literature
• Newbery Medal
• Young Reader's Choice Award
• General Nonfiction
• Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize
• National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
• National Book Award for Nonfiction
• Oregon Book Award for Nonfiction
• Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction
• Literary Fiction
• Costa Book of the Year
• The Giller Prize
• Independent Publisher Book Award for Fiction
• Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize
• Man Booker Prize
• National Book Award for Fiction
• National Book Critics Circle Award
• Nobel Prize for Literature
• Oregon Book Award for Fiction
• Orange Prize for Fiction
• PEN/Faulkner Award
• PEN/Malamud Award
• PEN/Nabokov Award
• PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
• Mystery
• Edgar Award
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• Poetry
• National Book Award for Poetry
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
• National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry
• Sci-Fi & Fantasy
• Hugo Award
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• Cooking & Gardening
• The American Horticultural Society Book Award
• James Beard Cookbook Cookbook of the Year
• IACP Cookbook of the Year
• Alternative Press
• Firecracker Alternative Book Awards

2007

Review
"To write a fat 600-page novel about the Vietnam War nearly 35 years after it ended is an act of literary bravado. To do so as brilliantly as Denis Johnson has in 'Tree of Smoke' is positively a miracle..." Washington Post Book Review (read more)

2006

Review
"[A] muscularly ambitious book, one that scatters small yet piercing revelations among the more thunderous ideas....Powers may well be one of the smartest novelists now writing." Los Angeles Times (read more)

2005

Review
"Vollmann [is] a master of synthesis and an intense and compassionate writer....[A] work of compelling intimacy....Vollmann opens new portals onto a genocidal war never to be forgotten, and illuminates both the misery and beauty human beings engender." Booklist (Starred Review) (read more)

2004

Review
"Elegant.... Reading The News from Paraguay feels like looking into a crystal ball: seeing pieces of a garden, storm clouds building, lives passing." Los Angeles Times (read more)

2003

Review
"The Great Fire is one of the most sophisticated novels I've read in years. Beautiful writing and acute psychological insights." Mark, Powells.com (read more)

2002

Review
"Three Junes almost threatens to burst with all the life it contains. Glass' ability to locate the immense within the particular, and to simultaneously illuminate and deepen the mysteries of her characters' lives, would be marvelous in any novelist. In a first-time novelist, it's extraordinary." Michael Cunningham (read more)

2001

Review
"Ultimately The Corrections, with its emphasis on sibling rivalry, the break between generations, and the clash between pious bourgeois respectability and the slippery mores of this new and alien America, recalls no novel so much as John Cheever's The Wapshot Scandal. The Corrections is just as funny and sad and smart as that masterpiece, and Franzen, like Cheever, reminds us of the timelessness of human folly." Stewart O'Nan, The Atlantic (read more)

2000

Review
"Susan Sontag's new novel is a brilliant and profound investigation into the fate of thought and culture in America. Like her last novel, The Volcano Lover, In America masquerades as historical fiction, flaunting the stuff of drama and romance. It is something restless, hybrid, disturbing, original....Sontag gives us a convincing portrait of an artist who is losing her way, and it would be a pity if all the structural brilliance that surrounds her were to distract readers from her imperious, self-dramatizing and fallible character." Mark Rozzo, Los Angeles Times (read more)

1999

Review
"Ha Jin profoundly understands the conflict between the individual and society, between the timeless universality of the human heart and constantly shifting politics of the moment. With wisdom, restraint, and empathy for all his characters, he vividly reveals the complexities and subtleties of a world and a people we desperately need to know." Judges' Citation, National Book Award (read more)

1998

Review
"McDermott fashions her story out of an accumulation of hints and evasions, secrets and lies. Emotions are closeted, muffled, purged. There are no explosive confrontations, no charged recriminations. Yet the drama is enormous, arising from the tension of what isn't said. Billy, an innocent who couldn't fathom that life is neither poetry nor prayer, is the silent center of a superbly crafted novel." Dan Cryer, Salon (read more)

1997

Publisher Comments
Based on stories in the author's family, this novel is about a wounded Civil War soldier who walks away from the hospital and finds his arduous way home to his sweetheart – a cultured young woman who has been forced to learn the brutal ways of farm life. The stories of the two lovers are intertwined; when they converge, they find that their worlds have changed radically, and so have they. (read more)

1996

Publisher Comments
The love of science, the science of love – and the struggle to reconcile the two – are the subjects of this remarkable collection, stories and a novella. Interweaving historical and fictional characters, these stories move between past and present as they negotiate the complex territory of ambition, failure, achievement, and shattered dreams. (read more)

1995

Publisher Comments
Mickey Sabbath, an aging, misanthropic puppeteer, embarks on a journey into his checkered past when his long-time mistress dies. His journey turns into succession of disasters. And while Sabbath wants to die, he still has too much life in him to succumb. (read more)