Lists of Bests: Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize http://www.listsofbests.com/list/34976 Has nothing to do with Franz Kafka. "The prize is named for a 30 year old editor killed in an auto accident...annually awarded for fiction by an American woman." It's given by the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender & Women's Studies and the Department of English at the University of Rochester. List begins in 1975 and continues to the present. Obtained from Wikipedia. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:23:59 GMT en-us 0 50 31 0 0 The Massacre at Fall Creek: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2792624 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jessamyn West</div> Ordinary People http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2151666 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Judith Guest</div> Song of Solomon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56284 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56284"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/140003342X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div> Final Payments http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1511366 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1511366"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307276783.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Gordon</div> Sally Hemings: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/913025 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/913025"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0312247044.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056430694_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Chase-Riboud</div> Morgan's Passing http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/280358 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/280358"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0449911721.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Tyler</div> Company of Women http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/959985 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/959985"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345329724.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Gordon</div> The Killing Ground (Beulah Quintet/Mary Lee Settle, Bk 5) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/653768 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/653768"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1570031185.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Lee Settle</div> During the Reign of the Queen of Persia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2354948 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2354948"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0345410467.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056437036_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joan Chase</div> Civil Wars (Contemporary American Fiction Ser.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2792630 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rosellen Brown</div> Always Coming Home (California Fiction) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23816 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23816"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0520227352.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ursula K. Le Guin</div> Bobby Soxer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2792631 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hortense Calisher</div> A Southern Family http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1060435 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1060435"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0380729873.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056438775_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gail Godwin</div> Labrador http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/504345 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/504345"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618075429.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kathryn Davis</div> John Dollar (Wsp Contemporary Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17741 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17741"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0671039555.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marianne Wiggins</div> Mary Reilly http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2484992 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2484992"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0349117810.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Valerie Martin</div> Through the Arc of the Rain Forest http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/485682 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/485682"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/091827382X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V64199196_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karen Tei Yamashita</div> The Kommandant's Mistress http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/584052 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/584052"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1559705426.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056517070_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sherri Szeman</div> Taft http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2518148 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2518148"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1841150495.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ann Patchett</div> The Instinct for Bliss: Short Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2792635 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2792635"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/0139MM44F5L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Melissa Pritchard</div> The Book of Mercy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1321564 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1321564"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0156005190.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kathleen Cambor</div> Aguero Sisters http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2038500 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cristina Garcia</div> Lost in Translation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10082 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10082"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385319444.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nicole Mones</div> Blue Money: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1333741 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1333741"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0826212107.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Susan Hubbard</div> The Hatbox Baby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1711605 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1711605"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/042518465X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carrie Brown</div> The Far Field: A Novel of Ceylon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1142506 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1142506"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618219161.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edie Meidav</div> Disturbance of the Inner Ear: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2792641 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2792641"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/01R8RJ8X8PL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joyce Hackett</div> Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28935 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28935"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400035007.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kate Moses</div> Madeleine Is Sleeping (Harvest Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/732983 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/732983"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0156032279.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1128549542_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum</div> The Tattoo Artist: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2500873 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2500873"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/140007844X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V60267839_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jill Ciment</div> The Dissident: A Novel (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2850851 <div id="position">31</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nell Freudenberger</div>