Award Winning Books by
DON DELILLO

Falling Man by Don DeLillo 86 reviews (2007) (256p) (Amazon) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. First there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that ... more >>

Underworld by Don DeLillo 332 reviews (1997) (832p) (PP) (NBCCA) (NBA) (NYTimes) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Our lives, our half century. Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once, intimately, and they meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life, haunted by the hard logic of loss and by the echo of a gunshot in a basement room. She is an artist who has made a blood struggle for independence. Don DeLillo's mesmerizing novel opens with... more >>

Mao II by Don DeLillo 46 reviews (1991) (256p) (PP) (PF) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Escaping the failed novel he has been working on for years, reclusive writer Bill Gray enters the world of political violence, terrorists, revolutionaries, and modern-day chaos. By the author of Libra. Reprint. NYT. ... more >>

Libra by Don DeLillo 75 reviews (1988) (464p) (NBCCA) (NBA) (NYTimes) (LATimes) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

A gripping, masterful blend of fact and fiction, alive with meticulously portrayed characters both real and created, Libra is a grave, haunting, and brilliant examination of an event that has become an indelible part of the American psyche. In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's ... more >>

White Noise by Don DeLillo 265 reviews (1985) (326p) (NBCCA) (NBA) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Jack Gladney, a professor of Nazi history at a Middle American liberal arts school, and his family try to handle normal family life as a black cloud of lethal gaseous fumes threatens their town.... more >>

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Don DeLillo Award Stats

Major Prize* Nominations 9   Unique Books Nominated for a Major Prize* 4   Pulitzer Prize Wins 0   Pulitzer Prize Nominations 2 Mao II · Underworld ·   National Book Critics Circle Award Wins 0   National Book Critics Circle Award Nominations 3 Libra · Underworld · White Noise ·   National Book Award Wins 1 White Noise ·   National Book Award Nominations 3 Libra · Underworld · White Noise ·   Man Booker Prize Wins 0   Man Booker Prize Nominations 0   PEN/Faulkner Award Wins 1 Mao II ·   PEN/Faulkner Award Nominations 1 Mao II ·

*Major Prize = Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Award, Man Booker Prize, and PEN/Faulkner Award

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