Lists featuring The Known World: A Novel

• Pulitzer Prize Winners for Novel/Fiction
• New York Times's "Best Books of the Years 1996-2008"
• National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction)
• New York Times' Best Fiction Books of the Past Five Years
• International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
• Today Show Book Club
• 250 authors every person should read
• Qeta's "The NYT Best Work of American Fiction in the last 25 Years (2006)"
• cclarkebrown's "My Library"
• paulinseattle's "books i've read 1992 to 2005"
• southernbohemian's "What I Read in 2007"
• LilyLane's "Books on my shelf I haven't read - Adult Fiction"
• scfsara's "To-Read List"
• penguinmdh's "August"
• Vesra's "Librarything 1000 Top Books 2007"
• jantalking's "To Be Read Pile"
• New York Times's "Editor's Picks 1968-2011"
• Paulakaye3's "Librarything 1000 Top Books 2007"
• Mollymeade's "Books in my apartment I need to read"
• jantalking's "Books To Be Read"
• EastofEden's "Books I have to read"
• jamboreebop's "books read pre-2007"
• sherrystacey's "Books I Want to Read"
• suscrapper's "Books I Will Read in My Lifetime (I Hope)"