Lists of Bests: National Book Award's "Fiction Finalists 2000-2008" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/65900 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:05:52 GMT en-us 0 50 45 0 0 In America: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66395 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66395"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312273207.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Susan Sontag</div> The Feast of Love (Vintage Contemporaries) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2794971 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Baxter</div> Blonde http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6572908 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joyce Carol Oates</div> Blue Angel: A Novel (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/990682 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/990682"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060882034.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Francine Prose</div> The Diagnosis: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9261 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9261"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375725504.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Lightman</div> The Corrections: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6393 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6393"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312421273.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122533764_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Franzen</div> Look at Me: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10558 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10558"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385721358.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jennifer Egan</div> Among the Missing (Ballantine Reader's Circle) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8038 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8038"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345441613.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dan Chaon</div> Highwire Moon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1217558 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1217558"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385722613.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1113629038_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Susan Straight</div> The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse: A Novel (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5825176 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louise Erdrich</div> Three Junes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10560 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10560"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385721420.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114348499_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Julia Glass</div> Big If http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5857522 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5857522"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41HR391XJFL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Costello</div> You Are Not a Stranger Here: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10542 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10542"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0385720726.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056439405_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Adam Haslett</div> Gorgeous Lies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/122409 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/122409"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0156028824.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martha McPhee</div> The Heaven of Mercury: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1562111 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1562111"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0393324656.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114239441_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Brad Watson</div> The Great Fire: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6431 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6431"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312423586.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Shirley Hazzard</div> Drop City http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3639 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3639"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142003808.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by T.C. Boyle</div> The Known World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/341251 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/341251"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061159174.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward P. Jones</div> A Ship Made of Paper: A Novel (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3602216 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3602216"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11TVouI3ZBL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Scott Spencer</div> Evidence of Things Unseen: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21185 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21185"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743258096.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marianne Wiggins</div> The News from Paraguay: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1371 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1371"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060934867.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lily Tuck</div> Madeleine Is Sleeping (Harvest Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/732983 <div id="position">22</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> Florida http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6572909 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christine Schutt</div> Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/607163 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/607163"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/039332687X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joan Silber</div> Our Kind: A Novel in Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/494782 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/494782"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743245601.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kate Walbert</div> Europe Central http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/100677 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/100677"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143036599.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1132268351_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Vollmann</div> The March: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972247 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972247"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812976150.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E.L. Doctorow</div> Veronica http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/122117 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/122117"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/037572785X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Gaitskill</div> Trance: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1011806 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1011806"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0312425317.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1133989148_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christopher Sorrentino</div> Holy Skirts: A Novel of a Flamboyant Woman Who Risked All for Art (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1185192 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1185192"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060778016.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rene Steinke</div> The Echo Maker: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2588086 <div id="position">31</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Powers</div> Only Revolutions: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2664113 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Z. Danielewski</div> Eat the Document - Die perfekte Tarnung http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6426236 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6426236"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HGeQCPcnL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dana Spiotta</div> A Disorder Peculiar to the Country: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2482511 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2482511"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060501413.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ken Kalfus</div> The Zero http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5357964 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5357964"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21q5rkZZjXL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walter Jess</div> Tree of Smoke: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3640159 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Denis Johnson</div> Fieldwork: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3249168 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3249168"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11swY4mJFqL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mischa Berlinski</div> Varieties of Disturbance: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5640777 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5640777"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31OohFqWsqL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lydia Davis</div> Then We Came to the End: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2997779 <div id="position">39</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joshua Ferris</div> Like You'd Understand, Anyway (Vintage Contemporaries) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4564232 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4564232"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519LZLzHYzL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jim Shepard</div> The Lazarus Project http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5708243 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5708243"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41tjX0J3PLL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aleksandar Hemon</div> Shadow Country (Modern Library Paperbacks) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5513464 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5513464"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41IPtcp4GdL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Matthiessen</div> Telex from Cuba: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6495545 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6495545"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ct1d67ibL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rachel Kushner</div> Home: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6543684 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6543684"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51yN4sXk3BL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marilynne Robinson</div> The End: A novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4178654 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4178654"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41BksnZszML._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Salvatore Scibona</div>