These are the books we analyzed for our Anatomy of a Prize Winner infographic. They are the winners of the PEN/Faulkner Awards, Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, The Man Booker Prizes, and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Awards from the years 2000-2017.
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