The Millions' The Prizewinners 2008/2009
The Millions website has finalized their prize winners for this year. This award is made by assigning a weight for winning or appearing as a finalist in various American, British and international English-language literary prizes since 1995 and determining therefrom the most celebrated books (as opposed to authors).
More details of the methodology and the list of the top 65 or so books are shown at the link above. The top five are:
You're more likely to find Philip Roth than Stephen King on this list as all the qualifying prizes are literary prizes.
More details of the methodology and the list of the top 65 or so books are shown at the link above. The top five are:
- The Known World by Edward P. Jones
- The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
- Underworld by Don DeLillio
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
- The March by E.L. Doctorow
- Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
You're more likely to find Philip Roth than Stephen King on this list as all the qualifying prizes are literary prizes.
Labels: literary books, writing awards


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