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The Man with the Golden Arm
The Man with the Golden Arm is a novel by Nelson Algren that recounts the life of "Frankie Machine", a card-dealer in an illicit poker game being run not far from the tenement in which he lives. Machine is a morphine junkie just back to Chicago's...
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From Here to Eternity
From Here to Eternity is a novel by James Jones, winner of the National Book Award for fiction in 1952. It was ranked 62 on Modern Library's list of the 100 Best Novels. It is loosely based on Jones' experiences in the pre-World War II Hawaiian...
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Invisible Man
Invisible Man is a novel written by Ralph Ellison, and the only one that he published during his lifetime (his other novels were published posthumously). It won him the National Book Award in 1953. The novel addresses many of the social and...
The Adventures of Augie March
The Adventures of Augie March (1953) is a novel by Saul Bellow. It centers on the eponymous character who grows up during the Great Depression. This picaresque novel is an example of bildungsroman, tracing the development of an individual through a...
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A Fable
A Fable is a novel written in 1954 by the American author William Faulkner, which won him both the Pulitzer prize and the National Book Award in 1955. Despite these recognitions, however, the novel received mixed critical reviews and a reputation as...
Ten North Frederick
Ten North Frederick is a 1955 novel by John O'Hara. It focuses on the life of an ambitious American named Joe Chapin, who desires to become President of the United States. The novel tells Chapin's story along with those of his patrician wife, two...
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The Field of Vision
The Field of Vision is a 1956 novel by Wright Morris, written in the style of High modernism. It won the National Book Award in 1956.
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The Wapshot Chronicle
The Wapshot Chronicle is a 1957 novel by John Cheever about an eccentric family who live in a Massachusetts fishing village. The book won the National Book Award in 1958, and was later followed by a sequel, The Wapshot Scandal, published in 1964....
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The Magic Barrel
The Magic Barrel is a collection of thirteen short stories written by Bernard Malamud and published in 1958. It won the 1959 National Book Award for fiction.
The stories included are The First Seven Years, The Mourners, The Girl of My Dreams, Angel...
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Goodbye, Columbus
Goodbye, Columbus (1959) is the title of the first book published by the American novelist Philip Roth, a collection of six stories.
In addition to its title novella, set in New Jersey, Goodbye, Columbus contains the five short stories "The...
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The Waters of Kronos
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The Moviegoer
The Moviegoer is a 1961 novel by Walker Percy which won a National Book Award in 1962. The novel was the first published by Percy and quickly became regarded as one of the most popular pieces of Southern literature in the 20th century. Time magazine...
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Morte D'Urban
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The Centaur
The Centaur is a 1963 novel by John Updike. It won the National Book Award in 1964. The story concerns George Caldwell, a school teacher, and his son Peter, outside of Alton (i.e., Reading), Pennsylvania. The novel explores the relationship between...
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Herzog
Herzog is a 1964 novel by Saul Bellow. In a nod to the epistolary novels of early British literature, letters from the protagonist constitute much of the text.
Herzog won the 1965 National Book Award for Fiction. Time Magazine included the novel in...
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The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter was an anthology of the work of Katherine Anne Porter. The collection of 19 short stories and long stories won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award in 1966. In the preface "Go...
The Fixer
The Fixer is a 1966 novel by Bernard Malamud inspired by the true story of Menahem Mendel Beilis, an unjustly imprisoned Jew in Tsarist Russia. The notorious "Beilis trial" of 1913 caused an international uproar that forced Russia to back down in...
The Eighth Day
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Steps
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Them
Them (styled as them) by Joyce Carol Oates is the third novel in The Wonderland Quartet, first published in 1969.
Them explores the complex struggles of American life through three down-on-their-luck characters—Loretta, Maureen and Jules—who are...
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Mr. Sammler's Planet
Mr. Sammler's Planet is a 1970 novel by the American author Saul Bellow. It was awarded the National Book Award for fiction in 1971.
Mr. Artur Sammler, Holocaust survivor, intellectual, and occasional lecturer at Columbia University in 1960s New...
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Chimera
Chimera is a 1972 novel in the form of three loosely connected novellas by John Barth. The novellas are Dunyazadiad, Perseid and Bellerophoniad, the eponyms of which are Dunyazad, Perseus and Bellerophon, the last of whom slew the Chimera. This work...
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Augustus
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Gravity's Rainbow
Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern novel written by Thomas Pynchon and first published on February 28, 1973.
The narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II and centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the...
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Dog Soldiers
Dog Soldiers' is a 1974 novel by American novelist Robert Stone. The story revolves around journalist John Converse, Merchant Marine sailor Ray Hicks, Converse's wife Marge, and their involvement in a heroin deal gone bad. The novel won the 1975...
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J R
J R is a novel by William Gaddis. Published in 1975 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., J R was Gaddis's second novel and received the National Book Award in 1976.
J R tells the story of the eponymous 11-year-old boy who obscures his identity through payphone...
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The Spectator Bird
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Blood Tie
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Going After Cacciato
Going After Cacciato is a war novel written by author Tim O'Brien and winner of the National Book Award for fiction in 1979. This complex novel is set during the Vietnam War and is told from the point of view of the protagonist, Paul Berlin. The...
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The Stories of John Cheever
The Stories of John Cheever is a 1978 short story collection by American author John Cheever. It contains some of his most famous stories, including "The Enormous Radio," "Goodbye, My Brother," "The Country Husband," "The Five-Forty-Eight" and "The...
The World According to Garp
The World According to Garp is John Irving's fourth novel. Published in 1978, the book was a bestseller for several years.
A movie adaptation starring Robin Williams was released in 1982, with a screenplay written by Steve Tesich.
The story deals...
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Plains Song
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Rabbit Is Rich
Rabbit Is Rich is a 1981 novel by John Updike. It is the third novel of the four-part series which begins with Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux, and concludes with Rabbit At Rest. There is also a related 2001 novella, Rabbit Remembered. Rabbit Is Rich...
Sophie's Choice
Sophie's Choice is a 1982 American drama film that tells the story of a Polish immigrant, Sophie, and her tempestuous lover who share a boarding house with a young writer in Brooklyn. It stars Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, and Peter MacNicol. Alan J....
The Color Purple
The Color Purple is an acclaimed 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker. It received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award. It was later adapted into a film and musical of the same name.
Taking place mostly...
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty is, as the name suggests, a collection of stories by Eudora Welty. It was published by Harvest Publishing in 1982 and demonstrates the author's ability to write from the point of view of diverse characters...
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White Noise
White Noise is the eighth novel by Don DeLillo, and is an example of postmodern literature. Widely considered his "breakout" work, the book won the National Book Award in 1985 and brought him to the attention of a much larger audience. Time Magazine...
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World's Fair
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Paco's Story
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Paris Trout
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Spartina
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Middle Passage
Middle Passage is a 1990 historical novel by Charles R. Johnson about the final voyage of an illegal American slave ship. Set in 1830, it speaks of a freed slave named Rutherford Calhoun. The novel won the National Book Award in 1990.
The novel...
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Mating
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All the Pretty Horses
All the Pretty Horses is a novel by U.S. author Cormac McCarthy published in 1992. Its romanticism (in contrast to the bleakness of McCarthy's earlier work) brought the writer much public attention. The novel was a bestseller and won the U.S....
The Shipping News
The Shipping News is a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning novel by E. Annie Proulx which was published in 1993. It was adapted into a film of the same name, released in 2001.
The story centers on Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper reporter...
A Frolic of His Own
A Frolic of His Own is a novel by William Gaddis. Published in 1994 by Poseidon Press, A Frolic of His Own was Gaddis's fourth novel. It received the American Book Award and the National Book Award in 1994.
The title comes from the decision in Joel...
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Sabbath's Theater
Sabbath's Theater (1995, ISBN 0-679-77259-6) is a novel by Philip Roth about the exploits of 64-year-old Mickey Sabbath. It received the National Book Award for fiction in 1995.
Mickey Sabbath (modeled after American Jewish painter R.B. Kitaj) is an...
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Cold Mountain
Cold Mountain is a 1997 historical fiction novel by Charles Frazier. It tells the story of W. P. Inman, a wounded deserter from the Confederate army near the end of the American Civil War who walks for months to return to Ada Monroe, the love of his...
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Charming Billy
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In America
In America is a 1999 novel by Susan Sontag which won the National Book Award in 2000.
Although it is fiction, it is based upon the true story of the Polish actress Helena Modjeska— called Maryna Zalewska in the book, her arrival in California in...
Waiting: A Novel
Waiting: a Novel is a novel by award-winning author Ha Jin, a Chinese author who as of 2006 was teaching creative writing at Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts. The book is based on a true story that Jin heard from his wife when they were...
The Corrections
The Corrections is a 2001 novel by American author Jonathan Franzen. It revolves around the troubles of an elderly Midwestern couple and their three adult children, tracing their lives from the mid-twentieth century to "one last Christmas" together...
Three Junes
Three Junes is Julia Glass' debut novel. It won the National Book Award in 2002.
Three Junes follows the McLeods, a Scottish family, throughout their lives and relationships. Its members are Paul and Maureen, and their sons: Fenno, and twins David...
