SOME AWARD WINNING BOOKS OF 2009-10:

The 2010 Pulitzer Prizes: Paul Harding's debut novel, Tinkers, and T.J. Stiles's Biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt, which also won the National Book Award:

·        Fiction: Tinkers by Paul Harding

·        General Nonfiction: The Dead Hand by David E. Hoffman

·        Biography: The First Tycoon by T.J. Stiles

·        History: Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed

·        Poetry: Versed by Rae Armantrout

·        Drama: Next to Normal by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey

2010 Man Booker Prize:

Howard Jacobson - The Finkler Question.

The rest of the shortlist included:

• Parrot and Olivier in America - Peter Carey
• Room -Emma Donoghue
• In a Strange Room - Damon Galgut
• The Long Song -Andrea Levy
• C - Tom McCarthy

2010 National Book Awards:

·        Fiction: Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon

·        Nonfiction: Just Kids by Patti Smith

·        Poetry: Lighthead by Terrance Hayes

·        Young People's Literature: Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine

2009 National Book Critics Circle Awards:

Booker winner, for The other winners:

·        Fiction: Wolf Hall- Hilary Mantel

·        Nonfiction: The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes

·        Biography: Cheever by Blake Bailey

·        Autobiography: Somewhere Toward the End by Diana Athill

·        Criticism: Notes from No Man's Land by Eula Biss

·        Poetry: Versed by Rae Armantrout