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Literature and Literary Criticism

The Moraine Valley Library has a variety of books that have won awards over the years. You can search by title or author in the catalog search.

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Some Award Winners

James (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by Percival Everett
Call Number: PS3555.V34 J36 2024

ISBN: 9780385550369

Winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction, the 2024 Kirkus Prize, and the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Call Number: PS3561.I496 D46 2022

ISBN: 9780063251922

Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction.
Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
Call Number: PR9440.9.K378 S48 2023

ISBN: 9781324064824

Winner of the 2022 Booker Prize.
What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jiménez
Call Number: PS3610.I474 W53 2023

ISBN: 9781538725962

Winner of the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
Then the War by Carl Phillips
Call Number: PS3566.H476 T47 2022

ISBN: 9780374603762

Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
Call Number: PS3625.U15 I58 2020

ISBN: 9780307907196

Winner of the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction.
The Dead Are Arising by Les Payne; Tamara Payne
Call Number: BP223.Z8 L57655 2020

ISBN: 9781631491665

Winner of the 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction and the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Challenger by Adam Higginbotham
Call Number: TL867 .H54 2024

ISBN: 9781982176617

Winner of the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction and the 2024 Kirkus Nonfiction Prize.

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