The American novels that should have won the Booker prize

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The Guardian asked writers and critics which novels should have won if US writers were eligible.
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Plainsong
by Kent Haruf
6,107 members
227 reviews
4
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2
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
26,406 members
447 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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3
Infinite Jest
by David Foster Wallace
14,956 members
269 reviews
4.2
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4
Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
13,367 members
416 reviews
3.9
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5
White Noise
by Don DeLillo
12,343 members
182 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Mason & Dixon: A Novel
by Thomas Pynchon
5,110 members
50 reviews
4
2 Members
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Love Medicine
by Louise Erdrich
4,382 members
82 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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8
Humboldt's Gift
by Saul Bellow
3,267 members
42 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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9
The Executioner's Song
by Norman Mailer
3,189 members
50 reviews
4
2 Members
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10
Canada
by Richard Ford
2,484 members
140 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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Train Dreams
by Denis Johnson
2,246 members
127 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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12
The Ghost Writer
by Philip Roth
2,080 members
39 reviews
½ 3.7
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13
Rum Punch
by Elmore Leonard
1,675 members
18 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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14
The Names
by Don DeLillo
1,519 members
14 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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15
The Easter Parade
by Richard Yates
1,324 members
58 reviews
4
2 Members
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Cartwheel
by Jennifer DuBois
468 members
90 reviews
3.2
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