Our novel pages contain checklists,
bibliographies, major literary prize lists, and the
FrogPicks Best 100 19th Century and Best 100 20th Century Novels as
well as the FrogPicks 500, a list of the
most important works in literature and philosophy. Some of our favorite
literary novelists include:
Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen,
James Joyce,
Thomas Pynchon,
Haruki Murakami,
Carlos Fuentes,
A.S. Byatt,
Joy Williams,
J. M. Coetzee,
Kathy Acker,
Jeanette Winterson,
Walker Percy,
Paul Auster,
Italo Calvino and many others.
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Awards
Pulitzer
Prize for Fiction - Awarded for best published work of fiction by an
author residing in North America.
The Man Booker
Prize - Awarded for best novel published by an author residing in Great
Britain or the British Commonwealth.
The Governor General's Award for Fiction -
Awarded for the best work of fiction published by a Canadian author in English.
There is a corresponding award for works published in French.
Orange Prize for Fiction
- Awarded annually for the best work of fiction by a women author.
New and Upcoming
Literary Novels
Cormac McCarthy, author of All
the Pretty Horses and Blood Meridian, returns to the west with a
modern fable of good vs. evil in
No Country for Old Men. The good is
Sheriff Bell, the evil is a psychopathic killer called Chigurh (if that reminds
you of Chiggers, the feisty bed bugs, you understand this character). Equally
evil is an ex-Special Forces turned killer named Wells.
Caught in the middle is Llewelyn
Moss who finds a bunch of drug money and goes against his normal values and
takes it, a decision he'll soon learn to regret...
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