2004 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner

Gilead
Marilynne Robinson
In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames’s life, he begins a letter to his young son, a kind of last testament to his remarkable forebears. ‘It is a book of such meditative calm, such spiritual intensity that is seems miraculous that her silence was o…
2004 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Shortlist

Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell

The Dew Breaker
Edwidge Danticat

The Line of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst
