60 Years of Honoring Great American Books
by muffy
For the first time in its history, the National Book Award for Fiction is open to public vote. To participate, cast your vote for your favorite National Book Award recipient from 1950 to 2008.
Why fiction? You might wonder. Well, for one thing, 74 of the 77 fiction winners are in-print and available, the highest percentage of any category. Here is a complete list of the winners.
There is also a Book a Day Blog feature which today happens to be on the 1984 winner Victory Over Japan, by Ellen Gilchrist, a favorite of mine. This second story collection is recognized for "the art of high wit and dark humor, the audacious charms of characters whose eccentricities are original and whose proclivities tilt toward the racy and the illicit.".
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