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New Fiction Chronicle:
2004
2005
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2007
- Max Apple-The Jew of Home Depot and Other Stories
- Rosalind Belben-Our Horses in Egypt
- Orhan Pamuk
- Zachary Mason-Lost Books of the Odyssey
- Justin Courter-Skunk: A Love Story
- Two Life Stories
- Ian McEwan-On Chesil Beach
- Stephen Marche-Shining at the Bottom of the Sea
- Underground Literary Alliance
- Interfictions
- Joshua Cohen-Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto
- John Sheppard-Small Town Punk
2008
- Steven Millhauser
- Sergio de la Pava-A Naked Singularity
- Disassembling Donald Barthelme--Flying to America
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- Thomas Glavinic-Night Work
- John Barth-The Development
- K.B. Dixon-Andrew (A to Z)
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- Che Elias-West Virginia
- Jackie Corley-The Suburban Swindle
- Jeffrey DeShell-The Trouble With Being Born
- Marissa Silver-The God of War
2009
- Richard Russo
- Lorrie Moore-A Gate at the Stairs
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Elisabeth Sheffield-Fort Da
- Thomas Pynchon-Inherent Vice
- Percival Everett-I Am not Sidney Poitier
- Robert Lopez-Kamby Balongo Mean River
- Zachary German-Eat When You Feel Sad
- Jonathan Littell-The Kindly Ones
- Mary Robison-One D.O.A One on the Way/Why Did I Ever
- Aharon Appelfeld-Laish/All Whom I Have Loved
- Paul Griffiths-Let Me Tell You
2010
- Steve Stern
- Dawn Raffel
- Gilbert Sorrentino-The Abyss of Human Illusion
- Philip Roth-Nemeses:Short Novels
- Topical Satires (Gary Shteyngart/Rick Moody)
- John Cotter-Under the Small Lights
- Georgi Gospodinov-Natural Novel
- Travis Nichols-Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder
- Rebecca Goldstein-36 Arguments for the Existence of God
2011
- Charles Baxter-Gryphon
- Nicholson Baker-House of Holes
- Ishmael Reed-Juice
- Helen DeWitt, Lightning Rods
- Magdalena Tulli-In Red
- Shouting Down the Silence: A Biography of Stanley Elkin
- 30 Under 30: An Anthology of Innovative Fiction by Younger Writers
- Edmond Caldwell-Human Wishes/Enemy Combatant
- Stacey Levine-The Girl With Brown Fur
- Justin Taylor-The Gospel of Anarchy
- Arthur Phillips-The Tragedy of Arthur
2012
- A.M. Homes
- Noy Holland-Swim for the Little One First
- Diane Williams-Vicky Swanky is a Beauty
- Ben Marcus-The Flame Alphabet
- Gary Lutz-Divorcer
- Phillipe Claudel-The Investigation
- The Future is Not Ours: New Latin American Fiction
- Keith Ridgway-Hawthorn and Child
- Zadie Smith-NW
- Richard Ford-Canada
- Anakana Schofield-Malarky
2013
2014
- Peter Handke
- Nell Zink-The Wallcreeper
- Denis Johnson-The Laughing Monsters
- Eimear McBride-A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing
- Gabriel Blackwell-The Natural Dissolution of Fleeting-Improvised-Men
- Davis Schneidermann-[SIC]
- Siri Hustvedt-The Blazing World
- Joshua Ferris-To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
- Joshua Corey-Beautiful Soul
- Kyle Minor-Praying Drunk
2015
- Zachary Thomas Dodson-Bats of the Republic
- John Barth-Collected Stories
- Melanie Rae Thon-Song and Silence
- Joshua Cohen-Book of Numbers
- Harold Jaffe-Induced Coma
- Meredith Quartermain-I, Bartleby
- Steve Tomasula-Once Human
- Tom McCarthy-Satin Island
- Sarah Gerard-Binary Star
- Jeremy Davies-Fancy
- Tom LeClair-Lincoln's Billy
- Julie Reverb-No Moon
2016
2017
- Pamela Ryder-Paradise Field
- Gordon Lish-White Plains - The Reading Experience
- Baret Magarian-The Fabrications
- Joanna Walsh-Worlds from the Word's End
- Rikki Ducornet-Brightfellow
- Joanna Demers-Anatomy of Thought-Fiction: CHS Report 2214
- Edie Meidav-Kingdom of the Young
- Robert Coover-Huck Out West
- Ottessa Moshfegh-Homesick for Another World