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Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
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The original goal of the National Book Awards was to enhance America’s awareness of exceptional books written by fellow Americans. For six decades, the National Book Awards, which are organized by the National Book Foundation, has acclaimed the cream of the literary crop  and celebrated its 60th anniversary with a campaign to select the best book from its long list of fiction winners.

The overall winner was The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor following a public vote.The other shortlisted books included:

The National Book Awards began in 1950 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City when The Man With the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren was named America’s premier piece of fiction from the previous year. Today, it’s the most important event on the American literary calendar and continues to recognize the best in American writing. Last year’s winner was Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen and now it sits alongside books like From Here To Eternity, Invisible Man, Herzog, Gravity’s Rainbow, Rabbit is Rich, All The Pretty Horses, Cold Mountain and Tree of Smoke.

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