His short-story collection Tenth of December won the 2013 Story Prize. The collection also won the inaugural Folio Prize in 2014, "the first major English-language book prize open to writers from around the world". The collection was also a finalist for the National Book Award and was named one of the "10 Best Books of 2013" by the editors of the New York Times Book Review. In a January 2013 cover story, The New York Times Magazine called Tenth of December "the best book you'll read this year". One of the stories in the collection, "Home", was a 2011 Bram Stoker Award finalist. In 2017, Saunders published his first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Booker Prize and was a New York Times bestseller. Awards and honors Awards won National Magazine Award for Fiction, 1994 – "The 400-Pound CEO", short story, published in Harper's Magazine National Magazine Award for Fiction, 1996 – "Bounty", short story, published in Harper's Magazine National Magazine Award for Fiction, 2000 – "The Barber's Unhappiness", short story, published in The New Yorker National Magazine Award for Fiction, 2004 – "The Red Bow", short story, published in Esquire Second prize in the 1997 O. Henry Awards – "The Falls", short story, published in The New Yorker (January 22, 1996 issue) Lannan Foundation – Lannan Literary Fellowship, 2001 MacArthur Fellowship, 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship, 2006 American Academy of Arts and Letters, Academy Award, 2009 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story – "CommComm", published in The New Yorker (August 1, 2005 issue) PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, 2013 The Story Prize, 2013 – Tenth of December: Stories Folio Prize, 2014 – Tenth of December: Stories The New York Times Book Review, "10 Best Books of 2013", Tenth of December: Stories American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Elected as Member, 2014 Booker Prize, 2017 – Lincoln in the Bardo American Academy of Arts and Letters, Inducted as Member, 2018 Premio Gregor von Rezzori, 2018 Kulturhuset Stadsteatern International Literary Prize, 2018 Finalist honors PEN/Hemingway Award, 1996 – Finalist – CivilWarLand in Bad Decline The Story Prize, 2006 – Finalist – In Persuasion Nation National Book Award for Fiction, 2014 – Finalist – Tenth of December: Stories Bram Stoker Award, 2011 – Finalist – "Home" (short story) Works Novels Lincoln in the Bardo (2017) Short fiction CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (1996) (short stories and a novella) Pastoralia