Contents

• What's New: Recent Literary Awards
• University of Chicago Library Resources
• Literary Prizes
• Current Book Review Sources
• Best Seller Lists
• Bookstores on the Web
• Electronic Journals
• Selected Fiction Web Sites

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What's New: Recent Literary Awards

Nobel Prize in Literature

The 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Doris Lessing. Her most recent novel is The Cleft (London: HarperCollins, 2007; Regenstein Stacks PR6023.E833C54 2007).

Granta has announced its Best of the Young American Novelists 2007. Granta 97 is devoted to their new work.

Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread) | Governor General's Literary Awards | Man Booker Prize | National Book Award | National Book Critics Circle Award | Orange Prize for Fiction | PEN/Faulkner Award | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction | Scotiabank Giller Prize

2007 Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread)

2007 Costa First Novel Award

The winner of the Costa First Novel Award was Catherine O'Flynn's What Was Lost. The shortlist included:

• Anam, Tahmima. A Golden Age. London: John Murray, 2007.
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• Lalwani, Nikita. Gifted. London: Viking, 2007.
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  PR6112.A49G54 2007
  
  
• O'Flynn, Catherine. What Was Lost. Birmingham, England: Tindal Street, 2007.
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  PR6115.F59W43 2007
  
  
• Tearne, Roma. Mosquito. London: HarperPress, 2007.
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  PR6120.E27M67 2007
  
  

2007 Costa Novel Award

The winner of the Novel Award was L.L. Kennedy's Day. The shortlist included:

• Bartlett, Neil. Skin Lane. London: Serpent's Tail.
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• Kennedy, A.L. Day. London: Jonathan Cape, 2007.
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  PR6061.E5952D39 2007
  
  
• Thomson, Rupert. Death of a Murderer. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
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• Tremain, Rose. The Road Home. London: Chatto & Windus, 2007.
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  PR6070.R364R63 2007

2006 Governor General's Award for Fiction

Finalists for the 2006 Governor General's Award for Fiction were announced on October 16. The winner for English fiction, announced November 21, is Peter Behrens' Law of Dreams. The finalists include:

• Behrens, Peter. The Law of Dreams: A Novel. Toronto: House of Anansi Press; distributed by HarperCollins Canada, 2006.
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• Cole, Trevor. The Fearsome Particles. Toronto, Ont. McClelland & Stewart, 2006.
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  PR9199.4.C646 F43 2006
  
  
• Gaston, Bill. Gargoyles. Toronto : House of Anansi Press, 2006.
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• Glennon, Paul. The Dodecahedron, or A Frame for Frames. Erin, Ont. : Porcupine's Quill, 2005.
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• Hage, Rawi. De Niro's Game. Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2006.
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  Bookstacks PR9199.4.H33D4 2006

The 2007 Man Booker Award

The winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize, announced on October 16, is Anne Enright's The Gathering.. Titles on the shortlist include:

• Barker, Nicola. Darkmans. London: Fourth Estate, 2007.
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• Enright, Anne. The Gathering. London: Jonathan Cape, 2007.
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• Hamid, Mohsiln. The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Orlando: Harcourt, c2007.
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• Jones, Lloyd Mister Pip. London: John Murray, 2007.
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• McEwan, Ian. On Chesil Beach. London: Jonathan Cape, 2007.
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• Sinha, Indra. Animal's People. London: Scribner, 2007.
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  PR9499.4.S56A82 2005

The longlist is also available.

The 2007 National Book Award

The winner of the 2007 National Book Award for Fiction was Denis Johnson's Tree of Smoke. Finalists included:

• Berlinski, Mischa. Fieldwork. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
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• Davis, Lydia. Varieties of Disturbance: Stories. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. Regenstein Stacks PS3554.A9356 V37 2007
  
  
• Ferris, Joshua. Then We Came to the End: A Novel. New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2007.
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• Johnson, Denis. Tree of Smoke. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
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  PS3560.O3745 T74 2007
  
  
• Shepard, Jim. Like You'd Understand, Anyway. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
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  PS3569.H39384 L55 2007

2007 National Book Critics Circle Award

The winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award was Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Finalists included:

• Chandra, Vikram. Sacred Games. London: Faber, 2006.
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• Diaz, Junot. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. New York: Riverhead Books, 2007.
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• Matar, Hisham. In the Country of Men.London; New York: Viking, 2006.
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• Oates, Joyce Carol. The Gravedigger's Daughter: A Novel. New York: Ecco, 2007.
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• Wiggins, Marianne. The Shadow Catcher. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007.
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  PS3573.I385 S53 2007

Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction

The winner of the 2007 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, announced June 6, was Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun. The shortlist included:

• Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Half of a Yellow Sun. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
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• Cusk, Rachel. Arlington Park. London: Faber and Faber, 2006.
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• Desai, Kiran. The Inheritance of Loss. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006.
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• Guo, Xiaolu. A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers. London: Chatto & Windus, 2007.
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• Harris, Jane. The Observations. London: Faber and Faber, 2006.
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  PR6108.A76 O27 2006
  
  
• Tyler, Anne. Digging to America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
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  PS3570.Y45 D47 2006

The 2007 longlist is also available

Orange Broadband Award for New Writers

Karen Connelly's The Lizard Cage won the 2007 Orange Broadband Award for New Writers. The shortlist included:

• Allan, Clare. Poppy Shakespeare. London: Bloomsbury, 2006.
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• Connelly, Karen. The Lizard Cage. Toronto: Random House Canada, 2005
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  PR9199.3.C6376 L59 2005
  
  
• Farooki, Roopa. Bitter Sweets. London: Macmillan, 2007.
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  PR6106.A766 B58 2007

2007 PEN/Faulkner Award

Philip Roth's Everyman was the winner of the 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Finalists included:

• D'Ambrosio, Charles. The Dead Fish Museum. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
  
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• Eisenberg, Deborah. The Twilight of the Superheroes. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
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  PS3555.I793 T87 2006
  
  
• Hempel, Amy. The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel. New York: Scribner, 2006.
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  PS3558.E47916 A6 2006
  
  
• Jones, Edward P. All Aunt Hagar's Children. New York: Amistad, 2006.
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• Roth, Philip. Everyman. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
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  PS3568.O855E94 2006

2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao was the winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. The finalists included:

• Diaz, Junot. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. New York: Riverhead Books, 2007.
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• Johnson, Denis. Tree of Smoke. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
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  PS3560.O3745T74 2007
  
  
• Segal, Lore Groszmann. Shakespeare's Kitchen: Stories. New York: New Press: Distributed by W. W. Norton & Co., 2007.
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  PS3569.E425S47 2007

Scotiabank Giller Prize

The winner of the 2007 Scotiabank Geller Prize was Elizabeth Hay's Late Nights on Air. The shortlist included:

• Hay, Elizabeth. Late Nights on Air. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2007
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• Ondaatje, Michael. Divisadero. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
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• Poliquin, Daniel. A Secret Between Us; translated by Donald Winkler. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2007
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• Vassanji, M.G. The Assassin's Song. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
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  PR9199.3.V388 A9 2007
  
  
• York, Alissa. Effigy. Toronto: Random House Canada, 2007.
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The longlist is also available.

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University of Chicago Library Resources

• Class of 2000 Book Fund
  The Class of 2000 has established a book fund for the purchase of popular fiction and media for Regenstein. The gift is intented to provide students with mysteries, sicience fiction, other contemporary fiction, and media that would not ordinarily be purchased by the Library.
  
  
• Notable Books: Fiction and Poetry: Selections from the New York Times Book Review
  Each June and December the New York Times Book Review features notable books published in that year. The following bibliographies, beginning with 1990, list titles owned by the University of Chicago Library. The 2005 New York Times Notable Books list appears in the December 4, 2005 issue of the Book Review.
  
  
• Granta's Best
  
  In 1983 the editors of Granta (AP2.G73) named twenty writers under 40 as best of the young British novelists. A decade later they selected another twenty writers. The third was published in 2003. In 1996 a panel of judges, including Robert Stone, Anne Tyler, Tobias Wolff, and Ian Jack, named twenty American writers as best of their generation. In April of this year the second list of the best of the young American novelists was announced. On each occasion, an issue of Granta was devoted to excerpts from their work. The following lists include a selection of titles by these authors held by the Library.
  
  
  • Best of the Young British Novelists: 1983 (Granta #7)
  • Best of the Young British Novelists: 1993 (Granta #43)
  • Best of the Young American Novelists: 1996 (Granta # 54)
  • Best of the Young British Novelists: 2003 (Granta #81)
  • Best of the Young American Novelists: 2007 Granta #97
  
  
• Contemporary Literary Authors of Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Interest Writing in Western European Languages (Compiled by Sem Sutter, Assistant Director for Collections and Sebastian Hierl, former Bibliographer for English and Romance Literatures)
  
  
• Modern Literatures
  
  
• University of Chicago Library Catalog
  
  
• Selected Electronic Resources (UofC only)

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Literary Prizes

• Australian Literature Society Gold Medal
  Awarded annually for an outstanding literary work in the preceding calendar year.
• Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread)
  Includes best novel and best first novel awards.
• Governor General's Literary Awards
  Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts.
• Lambda Literary Awards
  Sponsored by the Lambda Book Report, a bimonthly review of lesbian and gay literature.
• Man Booker Prize
  Includes shortlisted titles and judges as well as winners.
• National Book Awards
• National Book Critics Circle
• The Nobel Prize
  Official site of the Nobel Foundation. Searchable by type of award, year, and other criteria. Pages for winners may include biographical information, text of the Nobel Lecture, and excerpts from their work.
• Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction
• Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction
• The Pulitzer Prize
  Sponsored by the Columbia Journalism Review. Searchable by year, type of prize, and author.
• Scotiabank Giller Prize
  Awarded to the best Canadian novel or short story collection published in English in Canada.

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Current Book Review Sources

• The Age Online (Melbourne): Books
  Includes current reviews and links to The Age Best Books of 1996 and 1997, and the nominees for 1998.
• Book Review Index, 1965-
  A comprehensive guide to book reviews with over five million review citations from thousands of publications. Click on the Find It! button to check the availability of full-text resources.
• BookBrowse
  Included book jacket blurbs, excerpts from reviews and author interviews.
• Boston Book Review
• Boston Globe
  Includes reviews from both the Sunday and daily papers. Archival files include reviews from 1997 and 1998. Categories include fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and commentaries.
• Chicago Tribune Books
  Includes reviews from the current Sunday book section, links to discussion groups, and best seller lists.
• Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  Includes reviews, book news, literary awards, and author interviews.
• Guardian Review
• The Independent (London)
  Includes reviews from the current three months.
• Los Angeles Times Books & Talks
  Includes reviews, book news, literary events, and links to first chapters.
• New York Review of Books
  Includes nearly every piece ever published in the Review, from the very first issue in 1963 to the most recent one.
• New York Times Book Review
  Includes all issues from 1997 to the present and a searchable archive of reviews published since 1996. Includes links to first chapters and other articles from the Times about authors and books. It also provides a list of Random House's 100 best English language novels of the 20th century, with links to many of the original reviews or other articles about the books that appeared in the Times. Free registration required for first-time readers.
• QBR: Black Book Review Online
  In addition to book reviews, features include interviews, a Guide to Black Classics, and a Black Booksellers Directory.
• Village Voice Literary Supplement
  Includes essays, reviews, and best seller lists. Archived issues date back to October 1998.
• Washington Post Book World
  Includes reviews from the current Sunday Book World.

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Best Seller Lists

• New York Times
  The complete lists include links to reviews from the Times and first chapters for some titles. Free registration required for first-time readers.
• Publishers Weekly
  Select the Bestsellers tab at the top of the page. Free registration is required to access the complete list of bestseller titles.

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Bookstores on the Web

Although designed to sell books, many "bookstore" sites also include information about recent award winning titles, best sellers, author interviews, excerpts from reviews, and excerpts from the books themselves. Sites include:

• Amazon.Com: Literature & Fiction
• Barnes & Noble: Fiction and Literature
• Seminary Co-op
  Includes listings of new titles, best-selling titles, and lectures and events.
• University of Chicago Bookstore

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Selected Electronic Journals

• Amarillo Bay
  Includes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.
• Archepelago: An International Journal of Literature, the Arts, and Opinion
• The Atlantic Monthly
  Browseable and searchable archive, nearly complete back to November 1995 with selected articles from earlier issues. "Atlantic Unbound" includes material not included in the print magazine.
• The Barcelona Review
• Blithe House Quarterly
  Publishes gay short fiction and includes links to other sites.
• The Blue Moon Review
  Includes fiction, poetry, and reviews.
• boldtype: an online literary magazine
  Includes short stories, essays, interviews, and excerpts from works in progress.
• Boston Book Review: A Political and Literary Forum
  Includes fiction, poetry, and links to other literary web sites.
• Callaloo (Project Muse--UofC only)
  Includes fiction, poetry, plays, critical essays, cultural studies, interviews by African and African-American writers. A complete back file is available through JSTOR
• Chicago Review
  Includes contents and selected full text from the current issue.
• DargonZine (The CIC Electronic Journals Collection)
  Original medieval fantasy fiction.
• eSCENE
  A yearly anthology of the best fiction published in online journals.
• Euphony: a journal of literatue and art
  Published by students at the University of Chicago and includes poetry, fiction, and drama.
• InterText (The CIC Electronic Journals Collection)
  Begun in 1991, publishes all genres of short fiction.
• Kudzu: a digital quarterly (The CIC Electronic Journals Collection)
  Includes fiction, poetry, and essays.
• The Literary Review
  Includes fiction, poetry, and essays.
• Mississippi Review (The CIC Electronic Journals Collection)
  Published by the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi; includes fiction, poetry and essays.
• Missouri Review
  Based at the University of Missouri, published fiction, poetry, and essays.
• Modern Fiction Studies (Project Muse--UofC only)
  Online issues date back to 1994.
• The Morpo Review
  Includes fiction and poetry.
• Mudlark: An Electronic Journal of Poetry and Poetics
• The New England Review
  Includes stories, poems, and essays.
• Oyster Boy Review
  Includes fiction, poetry and links to other literary websites.
• Ploughshares
  Includes selections from recent issues and links to other literary sites.
• Richmond Reveiw
  Includes essays, poetry, short stories, book reviews, and links to other web pages.
• The Rose & the Thorn: A Literary E-zine
• Salon Magazine
  • Salon Reviews
  • The Salon Interview
    Recent interviewees include Richard Powers, Dorothy Allison, Ian McEwan, Russell Banks, Martin Amis, and Toni Morrison. An archive of earlier interviews (e.g. A.S. Byatt, Julian Barnes, Jamaica Kincaid, Salmon Rushdie, John Updike) is also available.
• Salt River Review
  Incldes poetry, fiction, reviews, and commentary.
• SNReview
  Includes fiction and poetry.
• Sycamore Review (Purdue University)
  Includes tables of contents for all issues and full-text for issues that are out of print.
• Tatlin's Tower
  A monthly publication of new fiction.
• Zoetrope All Story
  Quarterly pulication of short stories.

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Selected Fiction Web Sites

• Contemporary British and American Literature (Voice of the Shuttle)
  
• Contemporary Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English (National University of Singapore)
• The English Server: Fiction Collection(edited by Martha Cheng and Geoff Sauer)
  Includes works of and about fiction, poetry, and drama.
• Hyperizons
  Includes original hypertext fiction, theory and criticism, as well as links to other related sites.
• Literary Fiction: Authors (Yahoo)
  List of web sites for individual authors. Contents vary by author and may include official author web sites, interviews, bibliographies, and more.
• Literature: Contemporary (About)
  Includes literary news, links to author web sites, genre fiction, and more.
• Meet the Author
  Meet the Author produces short video clips, called Book Bites, of authors discussing their books.
• Native American Authors (Internet Public Library)
  Provides information on contemporary Native North American authors with bibliographies of their published works, biographical information, and links to online resources including interviews, online texts and tribal websites.
• Poets & Writers Online
• Scottish Writers
• Storytellers: Native American Authors Online
  Compiled by Karen M. Strom.
• Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color (University of Minnesota)
• Web-Published Fiction (Yahoo)
• Writers on Writing
  Archive of a series of essays on writing that have appeared in the New York Times. Writers include Saul Bellow, Mary Gordon, Jamaica Kincaid, Annie Proulx, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, and others.