The Goldfinch was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2014.[28]
Amazon selected the novel as the 2013 Best Book of the Year.[29] It was shortlisted for 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award[30] and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.[31] It was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for 2014.[32] The book was selected as one of the 10 Best Books of 2013 by the editors of the New York Times Book Review.[33]
Sales
The novel spent over thirty weeks on the New York Times bestseller list[34] in the U.S. and on the Sunday Times hardcover fiction bestseller list in the UK.[35] It attained the number one position for Editions Plon[16] in France in January 2014,[36] and in Italy the novel reached number ten on the list of bestsellers.[37] It was a number one bestseller in Finland in June 2014[38] and in Germany, The Goldfinch reached number two on the Der Spiegel bestseller list.[39]
