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The library collection was started through a donation of books from England in the wake of the 1871 Great Chicago Fire.

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PREVIOUS NOMINATIONS

2025

Justin Torres

Blackouts

2012

Jill Paton Walsh

The Attenbury Emeralds

2012

Emma Donoghue

Room

2012

Michael Cunningham

By Nightfall

2005

Monique Truong

The Book of Salt

2005

Patrick Gale

A Sweet Obscurity

2005

Mark Haddon

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

2008

Geoff Rymann

The King’s Last Song

2008

Verlyn Klinkenborg

Timothy, or, Notes of an Abject Reptile

2008

Kiran Desai

The Inheritance of Loss

2007

Kazuo Ishiguro

Never Let Me Go

2007

Neil Gaiman

Anansi Boys

2007

Patrick Gale

Friendly Fire

2006

Geoff Ryman

Air (or, Have not Have)

2006

David Mitchell

Cloud Atlas

2006

Péter Esterházy

Celestial Harmonies

2009

Salley Vickers

Where Three Roads Meet

2009

Patrick Gale

Notes from an Exhibition

2009

Andre Aciman

Call Me By Your Name

2010

Walter Mosley

Diablerie

2010

Ursula Le Guin

Lavinia

2010

Jeffrey Ford

The Shadow Year

2011

Sarah Waters

The Little Stranger

2011

Kim Stanley Robinson

Galileo’s Dream

2024

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Chain-Gang All-Stars

2023

Claire Keegan

Small Things Like These

2022

Megan Nolan

Acts of Desperation

2021

Maurice Ruffin

We Cast a Shadow

2020

Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Fruit of the Drunken Tree

2020

Lisa Halliday

Asymmetry

2020

Akwaeke Emezi

Freshwater

2019

Samanta Schweblin

Fever Dream

2019

Hernan Diaz

In the Distance

2018

Brad Watson

Miss Jane

2017

Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Sympathizer

2017

James Hannaham

Delicious Foods

2016

Rene Denfeld

The Enchanted

2015

Mahi Binebine

Horses of God

2014

Patrick Somerville

This Bright River

2014

Peter Heller

The Dog Stars

2011

Colm Tóibín

Brooklyn

2006

Marilynne Robinson

Gilead

2004

Michel Faber

The Crimson Petal and the White

2004

Jeffrey Eugenides

Middlesex

2003

Alan Bennett

The Laying on of Hands

2003

Richard Russo

Empire Falls

2003

Jonathan Franzen

The Corrections

2002

Ursula Le Guin

The Telling

2002

Patrick Gale

Rough Music

2002

A.S. Byatt

The Biographer’s Tale

2000

Michael Cunningham

The Hours

2000

Louise Erdrich

The Antelope Wife

1998

Margaret Atwood

Alias Grace

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