How many of these PEN/Faulkner Fiction Award winners have YOU read?

The PEN/Faulkner Foundation recently announced in Washington, D.C. that “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves” by Karen Joy Fowler has been selected as the winner of the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

Fowler’s book was selected from among more than 350 nominees by American authors published in the U.S. during the 2013 calendar year. Fowler, 64, is the author of seven novels, including “Sarah Canary” (1991), “The War of the Roses” (1991), “The Sweetheart Season” (1996), “Sister Noon” (2001), “The Jane Austen Book Club” (2004), “Wit’s End” (2009) and “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves” (2013). For more information about Fowler, visit her official Web site at karenjoyfowler.com.

Other finalists for this year’s PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction included:

-         “At Night We Walk in Circles” by Daniel Alarcon

-         “Percival Everett by Virgil Russell” by Percival Everett

-         “Fools” by Joan Silber

-         “Search Party: Stories of Rescue” by Valerie Trueblood

Fowler and the other finalists will be honored at the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Ceremony & Dinner, to be held May 10 at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC.

The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, now in its 34th year, is America’s largest peer-juried prize for fiction. As you might imagine, a host of prestigious authors have won the PEN/Faulkner Award over the years. What follows is a complete list of the all-time winners.

2014 – Karen Joy Fowler for “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”

2013 - Benjamin Alire Sáenz for “Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club”

2012 - Julie Otsuka for “The Buddha in the Attic”

2011 – Deborah Eisenberg for “The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg

2010 – Sherman Alexie for “War Dances”
2009 – Joseph O’Neill for “Netherland”
2008 – Kate Christensen for “The Great Man”
2007 – Philip Roth for “Everyman”
2006 – E.L. Doctorow for “The March”
2005 – Ha Jin for “War Trash”
2004 – John Updike for “The Early Stories: 1953-1975”
2003 – Sabina Murray for “The Caprices”
2002 – Ann Patchett for “Bel Canto”
2001 – Philip Roth for “The Human Stain”

2000 – Ha Jin for “Waiting”
1999 – Michael Cunningham for “The Hours”
1998 – Rafi Zabor for “The Bear Comes Home”
1997 – Gina Berriault for “Women in Their Beds”
1996 – Richard Ford for “Independence Day”
1995 – David Guterson for “Snow Falling on Cedars”
1994 – Philip Roth for “Operation Shylock”
1993 – E. Annie Proulx for “Postcards”
1992 – Don DeLillo for “Mao II”
1991 – John Edgar Wideman for “Philadelphia Fire”

1990 – E.L. Doctorow for “Billy Bathgate”
1989 – James Salter for “Dusk and Other Stories”
1988 – T. Coraghessan Boyle for “World’s End”
1987 – Richard Wiley for “Soldiers in Hiding”
1986 – Peter Taylor for “The Old Forest”
1985 – Tobias Wolff for “The Barracks Thief”
1984 – John Edgar Wideman for “Sent for You Yesterday”
1983 – Toby Olson for “Seaview”
1982 – David Bradley for “The Chaneysville Incident”
1981 – Walter Abish for “How German Is It”

How many of these books have you had a chance to read? What did you think about them? Which did you like, dislike? Which would you recommend and why? Let us know in the comments section below.