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Readers' Corner - Featured Genre

Award Winners & Best Sellers

Best 12 African Books of the 20th Century: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Best Selling U.S. Hardcover Fiction:
  • Trinity by Leon Uris (1976)
  • Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (1958)
  • All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (1929)
Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult Fiction:
  • Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (2000)
  • Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (1994)
Giller Prize for Best Canadian Novel or Short Story Collection: Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (1996)

Library Journal's Most Influential Fiction of the 20th Century:
  • All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (#43)
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (#68)
  • Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (#111)
  • Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (#116)
Man Booker Prize for Fiction:
  • True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (2001)
  • God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (1997)
Orange Prize for Fiction by a Woman Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (2002)

Pen-Faulkner Award for Fiction: Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (2002)

Vance Palmer Prize for Australian Fiction: True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (2001)

Whitbread Book Award for the Novel: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2003)

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List of Titles by Location

AFGHANISTAN
  • Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
  • Caravans (James A. Michener)
  • Swallows of Kabul (Yasmina Khadra)
  • In the Face of Jinn (Cheryl Howard Crew)
  • Warlord's Son (Dan Fesperman)
AFRICA
  • Sheltering sky (Paul Bowles)
  • Pickup (Nadine Gordimer)
  • Flashback (Jenny Siler)
  • Good Doctor (Damon Galgut)
  • Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
  • No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Alexander Mccall Smith)
  • Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
  • Magician's Wife (Brian Moore)
ANTARCTICA
  • Ice (Louis Charbonneau)
  • Ice Limit (Douglas J. Preston)
AUSTRALIA
  • True History of the Kelly Gang (Peter Carey)
  • Thornbirds (Colleen Mccullough)
  • Slow Man (J.M. Coetzee)
CANADA
  • Deafening (Frances Itani)
  • Crow Lake (Mary Lawson)
  • Alias Grace (Margaret Atwood)
  • Forest Lover (Susan Vreeland)
CHINA
  • Empress Orchid (Anchee Min)
  • Bonesetters' Daughter (Amy Tan)
  • Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Lisa See)
  • Balzac and Little Chinese Seamstress (Sijie Dai)
  • Soul Mountain (Xingjian Gao)
CUBA
  • Days of Awe (Achy Obejas)
  • A Girl Like Che Guevara : A Novel (Teresa De La Caridad Doval)
  • Loving Che (Ana Menéndez)
DENMARK
  • Lost Queen (Norah Lofts)
  • Hornet Flight (Ken Follett)
EGYPT
  • Return to Thebes (Allen Drury)
  • Amelia Peabody Series (Elizabeth Peters)
  • Seventh Scroll (Wilbur A. Smith)
ENGLAND
  • Double Vision (Pat Barker)
  • Atonement (Ian McEwan)
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon)
  • Year of Wonders (Geraldine Brooks)
FINLAND
  • Fortress (Catherine Irvine Gavin)
  • Winter Fire (William R. Trotter)
FRANCE
  • Very Long Engagement (Sébastien Japrisot)
  • In the Company of Angels (N.M. Kelby)
  • Magician's Wife (Brian Moore)
  • Foreign Correspondent (Alan Furst)
  • Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette (Carolly Erickson)
GREECE
  • Virtues of War (Steven Pressfield)
  • Corelli's mandolin (Louis De Bernières)
  • Three Junes (Julia Glass)
  • Into the Blue (Robert Goddard)
GERMANY
  • The Reader (Bernhard Schlink)
  • All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
  • Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
  • Longing (James David Landis)
HUNGARY
  • Prague: A Novel (Arthur Phillips)
  • Feast in the garden (György Konrád)
INDIA
  • God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
  • Inheritance of Loss (Kiran Desai)
  • How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life (Mameve Medwed)
IRELAND
  • Lake of Sorrows (Erin Hart)
  • Pearl (Mary Gordon)
  • Butcher Boy (Pat McCabe)
  • Down By the River (Edna O'Brien)
  • Trinity (Leon Uris)
ISRAEL
  • Love life (Tseruyah Shalev)
  • Don't Call It Night (Amos Oz)
ITALY
  • Birth Of Venus: A Novel (Sarah Dunant)
  • Leonardo's Swans: A Novel (Karen Essex)
  • Secret Supper (Javier Sierra)
  • A Soldier Of The Great War (Mark Helprin)
JAPAN
  • Devil of Nanking (Mo Hayder)
  • Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
  • Ambassador's Son (Homer H. Hickam)
  • Snow Fox: A Novel (Susan Fromberg Schaeffer)
MEXICO
  • Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
  • Like Water For Chocolate (Laura Esquivel)
  • Hummingbird's Daughter: A Novel (Luis Alberto Urrea)
NORWAY
  • To Love a Stranger (Barbara Paul)
  • Music and Silence (Rose Tremain)
  • Don't Look Back (Karin Fossum)
RUSSIA
  • Catherine The Great Journey (Kristiana Gregory)
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
  • Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
SCOTLAND
  • Falcon for a Queen (Catherine Gaskin)
  • Master of Blacktower (Barbara Michaels)
SPAIN
  • Saving the World: A Novel (Julia Alvarez)
  • Zorro: A Novel (Isabel Allende)
  • Sharpe's Escape (Bernard Cornwell)
SOUTH AMERICA
  • Bel Canto (Ann Patchett)
  • Love In the Time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez)
  • News from Paraguay (Lily Tuck)
  • Brazil (John Updike)
TURKEY
  • Birds Without Wings (Louis De Bernières)
  • Snow (Orhan Pamuk)

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Books Made Into Movies

  • Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
  • Memoirs of a Geisha (2006)

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