2004 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner
![Gilead](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580858127-59831-image-3.jpg)
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson
In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames’s life, he begins a letter to his young son, a kind of last testament to his remarkable forebears. ‘It is a book of such meditative calm, such spiritual intensity that is seems miraculous that her silence was o…
2004 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Shortlist
![Cloud Atlas](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580866917-323-image-3.jpg)
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell
![The Dew Breaker](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581027229-6084-image-3.jpg)
The Dew Breaker
Edwidge Danticat
![The Line of Beauty](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580854737-59550-image-3.jpg)
The Line of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst
![The Plot Against America](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580850907-59236-image-3.jpg)