October Book Awards

Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2010
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson


The Nobel Prize for Literature 2010

Mario Vargas Llosa

The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa

Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa

The Language of Passion by Mario Vargas Llosa

The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto by Mario Vargas Llosa

The Way to Paradise by Mario Vargas Llosa


National Book Award Finalists 2010

Parrot and Olivier in America: A Novel by Peter Carey

Great House by Nicole Krauss

So Much for That by Lionel Shriver

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick

Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor–Hiroshima–9-11–Iraq by John W. Dower

Just Kids by Patti Smith