Lists of Bests: PEN/Faulkner Award (Fiction)

Send to Printer PEN/Faulkner Award (Fiction) Named for its founder, William Faulkner, the PEN/Faulkner Award is given yearly to the best work of fiction by an American author. Faulkner used his Nobel Prize funds to create the award in 1980. The sponsoring award organization is PEN —Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, and Novelists—an international organization of writers. Started in 1980, the PEN/Faulkner Award winners and nominess are selected by a judging panel of three noted writers of fiction. (found at: http://www.penfaulkner.org/)
	1.	How German Is It? by Walter Abish
	2.	The Chaneysville Incident by David Bradley
	3.	Seaview: A Novel (Rediscovery) by Toby Olson
	4.	Sent for You Yesterday by John Edgar Wideman
	5.	The Barracks Thief by Tobias Wolff
	6.	The Old Forest and Other Stories by Peter Taylor
	7.	Soldiers in Hiding: A Novel (Rediscovery) by Richard Wiley
	8.	World's End by Tom Coraghessan Boyle
	9.	Dusk and Other Stories by James Salter
	10.	Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow
	11.	Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman
	12.	Mao II: A Novel by Don DeLillo
	13.	Postcards by E Annie Proulx
	14.	Operation Shylock : A Confession (Vintage International) by Philip Roth
	15.	Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel by David Guterson
	16.	Independence Day by Richard Ford
	17.	Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories by Gina Berriault
	18.	The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zabor
	19.	The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham
	20.	Waiting: A Novel by Ha Jin
	21.	Human Stain by Philip Roth
	22.	Bel Canto (P.S.) by Ann Patchett
	23.	The Caprices by Sabina Murray
	24.	The Early Stories: 1953-1975 by John Updike
	25.	War Trash by Ha Jin
	26.	The March by E.L. Doctorow
	27.	Everyman by Philip Roth
	28.	The Great Man by Kate Christensen
	29.	Netherland (Vintage Contemporaries) by Joseph O'Neill
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