Paterson Fiction Prize

92 Works 84,400 Books 3,612 Reviews ½ 3.9
Stages:
All, Winner (16), Finalist (76)
Years:
All, 2017 (3), 2016 (6), 2015 (8), 2014 (6), 2013 (6), 2012 (6), 2011 (7), 2010 (6), 2009 (6), 2008 (6), 2007 (8), 2006 (6), 2005 (8), 2004 (9), 2002 (1)

Winner 16

WorkYear
Swimming in Hong Kong by Stephanie Han2017
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy2016
Lila by Marilynne Robinson2015
Death of the Black-Haired Girl by Robert Stone2014
The Round House by Louise Erdrich2013
God Bless America: Stories by Steve Almond2012
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans2011
Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips2010
Confessions of a Falling Woman and Other Stories by Debra Dean2009
The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta2008
The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer2008
My Latest Grievance by Elinor Lipman2007
Running the Bulls (Hardscrabble Books) by Cathie Pelletier2006
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth2005
Villages by John Updike2005
Love by Toni Morrison2004

Finalist 76

WorkYear
Swallowed by the Cold: Stories by Jensen Beach2017
The Loss of All Lost Things by Amina Gautier2017
After Birth by Elisa Albert2016
The Sellout by Paul Beatty2016
Safekeeping: A Novel by Jessamyn Hope2016
The Education of a Poker Player (American Reader) by James McManus2016
Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese2016
The Snow Queen by Michael Cunningham2015
Eight Mile High by Jim Ray Daniels2015
Inappropriate Behavior: Stories by Murray Farish2015
Strange Love (Made in Michigan Writers Series) by Lisa Lenzo2015
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi2015
The Tao of Humiliation (American Readers Series) by Lee Upton2015
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters2015
Tumbledown by Robert Boswell2014
The Proper Words for Sin by Gary Fincke2014
Sight Reading by Daphne Kalotay2014
See Now Then by Jamaica Kincaid2014
Someone by Alice McDermott2014
The Greatest Show: Stories (Yellow Shoe Fiction) by Michael Downs2013
All That I Am by Anna Funder2013
Girlchild by Tupelo Hassman2013
The Lower River by Paul Theroux2013
Fat Girl, Terrestrial: A Novel by Kellie Wells2013
Mending: New and Selected Stories by Sallie Bingham2012
Sweet Hope (Prose Series) by Mary Bucci Bush2012
Boundaries by Elizabeth Nunez2012
My New American Life by Francine Prose2012
The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer2012
All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost by Lan Samantha Chang2011
The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg by Deborah Eisenberg2011
Vida by Patricia Engel2011
Father of the Rain by Lily King2011
The Surrendered by Chang-Rae Lee2011
Foreign bodies by Cynthia Ozick2011
American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell2010
Irish Girl: Stories (Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction) by Tim Johnston2010
Claiming Kin by Laura Marello2010
Labor Day by Joyce Maynard2010
Picking Bones From Ash by Marie Mutsuki Mockett2010
Blind Speed: A Novel by Josh Barkan2009
She Was by Janis Hallowell2009
Water: Nine Stories (Mary Mccarthy Prize in Short Fiction) by Alyce Miller2009
In the Mouth: Stories and Novellas by Eileen Pollack2009
The Theory of Light and Matter (Vintage Contemporaries) by Andrew Porter2009
What You Have Left by Will Allison2008
The Jew of Home Depot and Other Stories (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction) by Max Apple2008
The American Wife (Michigan Literary Fiction Awards) by Elaine Ford2008
The Animal Girl: Two Novellas and Three Stories (Yellow Shoe Fiction) by John Fulton2008
Spit Baths: Stories (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction) by Greg Downs2007
The Open Curtain by Brian Evenson2007
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen2007
Newsworld (Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize) by Todd James Pierce2007
Do Not Pass Go by Beatriz Rivera2007
Torch by Cheryl Strayed2007
Triangle by Katharine Weber2007
Nice Big American Baby by Judy Budnitz2006
North: A Novel by Frederick Busch2006
How to Fall: Stories by Edith Pearlman2006
Last Night by James Salter2006
This Day in History (Iowa Short Fiction Award) by Anthony Varallo2006
Eve Green by Susan Fletcher2005
Let's Do (Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction) by Rebecca Meacham2005
Runaway by Alice Munro2005
Heir to the Glimmering World by Cynthia Ozick2005
The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler2005
Honored Guest: Stories by Joy Williams2005
Selected Stories by Shirley Ann Grau2004
American Wives (Iowa Short Fiction Award) by Beth Helms2004
Me and Orson Welles: A Novel by Robert Kaplow2004
The Red Passport: Stories by Katherine Shonk2004
Good Faith by Jane Smiley2004
Cities in the Sea (Michigan Literary Fiction Awards) by Maura Stanton2004
The Little Women by Katharine Weber2004
Old School by Tobias Wolff2004
The Secret of Hurricanes by Theresa Williams2002

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