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1976 - 2000
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Booker Prize for Fiction
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1900 - 1925
1926 - 1950
1951 - 1975
1976 - 2000
2001 - 2020
1976 - 1983
Ordinary People
by
Judith Guest
Call Number: PS3557.U345 O7 1982
ISBN: 9780140065176
Publication Date: 1976
Song of Solomon
by
Toni Morrison
Call Number: PS3563.O8749 S67
ISBN: 9780394497846
Publication Date: 1977
Ceremony
by
Leslie Marmon Silko
Call Number: PS3569.I44 C4 1986 & eBook
Publication Date: 1977
The Shining
by
Stephen King
Call Number: PS3561.I483 S5
ISBN: 9780743424424
Publication Date: 1977
The World According to Garp
by
John Irving
Call Number: PS3559.R8 W67 1998
ISBN: 9780679603061
Publication Date: 1978
National Book Award finalist
Sophie's Choice
by
William Styron
Call Number: PS3569.T9 S67 1992
ISBN: 9780679736370
Publication Date: 1979
National Book Award winner
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by
Italo Calvino; William Weaver (Translator)
Call Number: PQ4809.A45 S3713
ISBN: 9780679420255
Publication Date: 1979; 1981 (Translation)
A Confederacy of Dunces
by
John Kennedy Toole
Call Number: PS3570.O54 C66
ISBN: 9780807126066
Publication Date: 1980
The Name of the Rose
by
Umberto Eco; William Weaver (Translator)
Call Number: PQ4865.C6 N613
ISBN: 9780151446476
Publication Date: 1980; 1983 (Translation)
The Complete Maus
by
Art Spiegelman
Call Number: DS135.P63 S68
ISBN: 9780679406419
Publication Date: 1980-1991
Midnight's Children
by
Salman Rushdie
Call Number: PR6068.U757 M5 1991
ISBN: 9780140132700
Publication Date: 1981
Man Booker Prize winner
The Color Purple
by
Alice Walker
Call Number: PS3573.A425 C6
ISBN: 9780151191543
Publication Date: 1982
The House of the Spirits
by
Isabel Allende
Call Number: PQ8098.1.L54 C313 2005
ISBN: 9781400043187
Publication Date: 1982
A Gathering of Old Men
by
Ernest J. Gaines
Call Number: PS3557.A355 G3 1992
ISBN: 9780679738909
Publication Date: 1983
Ironweed
by
William Kennedy
Call Number: PS3561.E428 I7 1983
ISBN: 9780670401765
Publication Date: 1983
Pulitzer Prize winner
1984 - 1988
The House on Mango Street
by
Sandra Cisneros
Call Number: PS3553.I78 H6 2009
ISBN: 9780679734772
Publication Date: 1984
Love Medicine
by
Louise Erdrich
Call Number: PS3555.R42 L6 1984
ISBN: 9780061787423
Publication Date: 1984
Bright Lights, Big City
by
Jay McInerney
Call Number: PS3563.C3694 B7
Publication Date: 1984
Neuromancer
by
William Gibson
Call Number: PS3557.I2264 N48
ISBN: 9780441569595
Publication Date: 1984
The Handmaid's Tale
by
Margaret Atwood
Call Number: PR9199.3.A8 H3 1986 & eBook
ISBN: 9780385490818
Publication Date: 1985
Man Booker Prize winner
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
by
Jeanette Winterson
Call Number: PR6073.I558 O7
ISBN: 9780802135162
Publication Date: 1985
Blood Meridian
by
Cormac McCarthy
Call Number: PS3563.C337 B4 & eBook
ISBN: 9780679641049
Publication Date: 1985
White Noise
by
Don DeLillo
Call Number: PS3554.E4425 W48 2009
ISBN: 9780143105985
Publication Date: 1985
National Book Award winner
The Accidental Tourist
by
Anne Tyler
Call Number: PS3570.Y45 A64 1985
ISBN: 9780345452009
Publication Date: 1985
Pulitzer Prize finalist
Watchmen
by
Alan Moore; Dave Gibbons (Illustrator)
Call Number: PN6737.M6 W35
ISBN: 9780930289232
Publication Date: 1986-1987
Beloved
by
Toni Morrison
Call Number: PS3563.O8749 B4 2004 & eBook
ISBN: 9781400033416
Publication Date: 1987
Pulitzer Prize winner and National Book Award finalist
Norwegian Wood
by
Haruki Murakami
Call Number: PL856.U673 N6713
ISBN: 9780375704024
Publication Date: 1987
The Bean Trees
by
Barbara Kingsolver
Call Number: PS3561.I496 B44 1992
Publication Date: 1988
Love in the Time of Cholera
by
Gabriel García Márquez; Edith Grossman (Translator)
Call Number: PQ8180.17.A73 A813
ISBN: 9780394561615
Publication Date: 1985; 1988 (English Translation)
1989 - 2000
The Remains of the Day
by
Kazuo Ishiguro
Call Number: PR6059.S5 R46 1989
Publication Date: 1989
Man Booker Prize winner
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
by
Óscar Hijuelos
Call Number: PS3558.I376 M36 1989
Publication Date: 1989
Pulitzer Prize winner
Mama Day
by
Gloria Naylor
Call Number: PS3564.A895 M3 1993
Publication Date: 1989
The Joy Luck Club
by
Amy Tan
Call Number: PS3570.A48 J6346 2010
Publication Date: 1989
Jasmine
by
Bharati Mukherjee
Call Number: PR9499.3.M77 J3 1999
Publication Date: 1989
A Thousand Acres
by
Jane Smiley
Call Number: PS3569.M39 T47 1991
Publication Date: 1991
Pulitzer Prize winner
All the Pretty Horses
by
Cormac Mccarthy
Call Number: PS3563.C337 A79 1992
Publication Date: 1992
National Book Award winner
Blindness
by
José Saramago; Giovanni Pontiero (Translator)
Call Number: PQ9281.A66 E6813 1998
Publication Date: 1995
Infinite Jest
by
David Foster Wallace
Call Number: PS3573.A425635 I54 1996
ISBN: 9780316921176
Publication Date: 1996
Fight Club
by
Chuck Palahniuk
Call Number: PS3566.A4554 F54 1996
Publication Date: 1996
American Pastoral
by
Philip Roth
Call Number: PS3568.O855 A77 1998
ISBN: 9780395860212
Publication Date: 1997
Pulitzer Prize winner
Waiting
by
Ha Jin
Call Number: Request through ILL
ISBN: 9780375706417
Publication Date: 1999
National Book Award and PEN/Faulkner Award winner
Pulitzer Prize finalist
Disgrace
by
J. M. Coetzee
Call Number: PR9369.3.C58 D5 1999
Publication Date: 1999
Man Booker Prize winner
The Human Stain
by
Philip Roth
Call Number: PS3568.O855 H8 2000
Publication Date: 2000
PEN/Faulkner Award winner
The Blind Assassin
by
Margaret Atwood
Call Number: PR9199.3.A8 B55 2000
Publication Date: 2000
Man Booker Prize winner
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