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C. Max Magee (editor of The Millions, not to be confused with  the former Packer tight-end) has compiled an interesting list of literary prizewinners based on aggregated awards. His methodology:

I looked at these six awards from 1995 to the present, awarding three points for winning an award and two points for an appearance on a shortlist or as a finalist. Here’s the key that goes with the list: B=Booker Prize, C=National Book Critics Circle Award, I=International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, N=National Book Award, P=Pulitzer Prize, W=Costa Book Award [formerly the Whitbread] bold=winner, red=New to the list or moved up* the list since last year’s “Prizewinners” post

And the winners are:

• 11, 2003, The Known World by Edward P. Jones – C, I, N, P
• 9, 2001, The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen – C, I, N, P
• 8, 2009, Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel – B, C, W
• 8, 2007, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz – C, P, I
• 8, 1997, Underworld by Don DeLillo – C, I, N, P
• 7, 2005, The March by E.L. Doctorow – C, N, P
• 7, 2004, Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst – B, C, W
• 7, 2002, Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides – I, N, P
• 7, 2001, Atonement by Ian McEwan – B, C, W
• 7, 1998, The Hours by Michael Cunningham – C, I, P
• 7, 1997, Last Orders by Graham Swift – B, I, W
• 7, 1997, Quarantine by Jim Crace – B, I, W
• 6, 2009, Home by Marilynn Robinson – C, N, I
• 6, 2005, The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai – B, C
• 6, 2004, Gilead by Marilynn Robinson – C, P
• 5, 2008, The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry – B, W
• 5, 2008, Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout – C, P
• 5, 2007, Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson – N, P
• 5, 2006, The Road by Cormac McCarthy – C, P
• 5, 2006, The Echo Maker by Richard Powers – N, P
• 5, 2005, Europe Central by William T. Vollmann – C, N
• 5, 2005, The Accidental by Ali Smith – B, W
• 5, 2004, The Master by Colm Toibin – B, I
• 5, 2003, The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard – I, N
• 5, 2001, True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey – B, I
• 5, 2000, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon – C, P
• 5, 2000, The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood – B, I
• 5, 1999, Waiting by Ha Jin – N, P
• 5, 1999, Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee – B, C
• 5, 1999, Being Dead by Jim Crace – C, W
• 5, 1998, Charming Billy by Alice McDermott – I, N
• 5, 1997, American Pastoral by Philip Roth – C, P
• 5, 1996, Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge – B, W
• 5, 1996, Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser – N, P
• 5, 1995, The Moor’s Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie – B, W
• 5, 1995, The Ghost Road by Pat Barker – B, W
• 5, 1995, Independence Day by Richard Ford – C, P
• 5, 1995, Sabbath’s Theater by Philip Roth – N, P