Book Awards Reading Challenge

1976 – Loyd Little for Parthian Shot
1977 – Renata Adler for Speedboat
1978 – Darcy O'Brien for A Way of Life, Like Any Other
1979 – Reuben Bercovitch for Hasen
1980 – Alan Saperstein for Mom Kills Kids and Self
1981 – Joan Silber for Household Words
1982 – Marilynne Robinson for Housekeeping
1983 – Bobbie Ann Mason for Shiloh and Other Stories
1984 – Joan Chase for During the Reign of the Queen of Sheba
1985 – Josephine Humphreys for Dreams of Sleep
1986 – Alan V. Hewar for Lady's Time
1987 – Mary Ward Brown for Tongues of Flame
1988 – Lawrence Thornton for Imagining Argentina
1989 – Jane Hamilton for The Book of Ruth
1990 – Mark Richard for The Ice at the Bottom of the World
1991 – Bernard Cooper for Maps to Anywhere
1992 – Louis Begley for Wartime Lies
1993 – Edward P. Jones for Lost in the City
1994 – Dagoberto Gilb for The Magic of Blood
1995 – Susan Power for The Grass Dancer
1996 – Chang-Rae Lee for Native Speaker
1997 – Ha Jin for Ocean of Words
1998 – Charlotte Bacon for A Private State
1999 – Rosina Lippi for Homestead
2000 – Jhumpa Lahiri for Interpreter of Maladies
2001 – Akhil Sharma for An Obedient Father
2002 – Justin Cronin for Mary and O'Neil
2003 – Gabriel Brownstein for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W
2004 – Jennifer Haigh for Mrs. Kimble
2005 – Chris Abani for Graceland
2006 – Yiyun Li for A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
2007 – Ben Fountain for Brief Encounters With Che Guevara
2008 - Joshua Ferris for Then We Came to the End
2009 - Michael Dahlie for A Gentleman's Guide To Graceful Living
2010 - Brigid Pasulka for A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True
2011 - Brando Skyhorse for The Madonnas of Echo Park