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Book Awards » National Book Award - Literary Fiction

National Book AwardCategories: Poetry, Young Reader's Literature, General Nonfiction, Literary Fiction
The National Book Awards were first awarded in 1950 by a consortium of American book publishers. The mission of the nonprofit National Book Foundation, which now oversees the awards, is to “celebrate the best of American literature, expand its audience, and to enhance cultural value of good writing in America”. The awards are presented each Fall in 4 genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature. Winners receive a $10,000 cash prize and a crystal sculpture.

2020
Interior Chinatown: A Novel
Interior Chinatown: A Novel
Author: Charles Yu
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
 3

2019
Trust Exercise: A Novel
Trust Exercise: A Novel
Author: Susan Choi
  • Currently 1.9/5 Stars.
 4

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2018
The Friend: A Novel
The Friend: A Novel
Author: Sigrid Nunez
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
 11

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2017
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Bois Sauvage, Bk 2)
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Bois Sauvage, Bk 2)
Author: Jesmyn Ward
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
 26

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2015
Fortune Smiles: Stories
Fortune Smiles: Stories
Author: Adam Johnson
  • Currently 5/5 Stars.
 1

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2014
Redeployment
Redeployment
Author: Phil Klay
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
 10

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2013
The Good Lord Bird
The Good Lord Bird
Author: James McBride
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
 22

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2012
The Round House
The Round House
Author: Louise Erdrich
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
 79

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2011
Salvage the Bones
Salvage the Bones
Author: Jesmyn Ward
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
 27

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2010
Lord of Misrule
Lord of Misrule
Author: Jaimy Gordon
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
 10

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2009
Let the Great World Spin
Let the Great World Spin
Author: Colum McCann
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
 203

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2008
Shadow Country
Shadow Country
Author: Peter Matthiessen
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
 20

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2007
Tree of Smoke
Tree of Smoke
Author: Denis Johnson
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 17

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2006
The Echo Maker
The Echo Maker
Author: Richard Powers
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
 27

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2005
Europe Central
Europe Central
Author: William T. Vollmann
  • Currently 2.8/5 Stars.
 8

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2004
The News From Paraguay
The News From Paraguay
Author: Lily Tuck
  • Currently 2.8/5 Stars.
 38

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2003
The Great Fire
The Great Fire
Author: Shirley Hazzard
  • Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
 54

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2002
Three Junes
Three Junes
Author: Julia Glass
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
 14

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2001
The Corrections
The Corrections
Author: Jonathan Franzen
  • Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
 140

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2000
In America
In America
Author: Susan Sontag
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
 17

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1999
Waiting
Waiting
Author: Ha Jin
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 11

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1998
Charming Billy
Charming Billy
Author: Alice McDermott
  • Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
 178

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1997
Cold Mountain
Cold Mountain
Author: Charles Frazier
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
 733

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1996
Ship Fever and Other Stories
Ship Fever and Other Stories
Author: Andrea Barrett
  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
 4

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1995
Sabbath's Theater
Sabbath's Theater
Author: Philip Roth
  • Currently 3.1/5 Stars.
 16

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1994
A Frolic of His Own
A Frolic of His Own
Author: William Gaddis
  • Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
 15

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1993
The Shipping News
The Shipping News
Author: Annie Proulx
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
 704

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1992
All the Pretty Horses (Border, Bk 1)
All the Pretty Horses (Border, Bk 1)
Author: Cormac McCarthy
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
 379

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1991
Mating
Mating
Author: Norman Rush
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
 27

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1990
Middle Passage
Middle Passage
Author: Charles Johnson
  • Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
 29

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1989
Spartina
Spartina
Author: John Casey
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 17

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1988
Paris Trout
Paris Trout
Author: Pete Dexter
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 52

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1987
Paco's Story
Paco's Story
Author: Larry Heinemann
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
 7

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1986
World's Fair
World's Fair
Author: E. L. Doctorow
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
 25

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1985
White Noise
White Noise
Author: Don DeLillo
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
 157

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1984
Victory Over Japan : A Book of Stories (Back Bay Books)
Victory Over Japan : A Book of Stories (Back Bay Books)
Author: Ellen Gilchrist
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
 16

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1983

 No Award Given

1982

 No Award Given

1981

 No Award Given

1980

 No Award Given

1979
Going After Cacciato
Going After Cacciato
Author: Tim O'Brien
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
 53

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1978
Blood Tie (Mary Lee Settle Collection)
Blood Tie (Mary Lee Settle Collection)
Author: Mary Lee Settle
  • Currently 4.5/5 Stars.
 2

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1977
The Spectator Bird
The Spectator Bird
Author: Wallace Stegner
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
 27

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1976
JR (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
JR (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Author: William Gaddis
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 1

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1975
The Hair of Harold Roux (Hardscrabble Books)
The Hair of Harold Roux (Hardscrabble Books)
Author: Thomas Williams
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1975
Dog Soldiers
Dog Soldiers
Author: Robert Stone
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
 13

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1974
Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Author: Thomas Pynchon
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
 18

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1974
A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories.
A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories.
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
 1

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1973
Chimera
Chimera
Author: John Barth
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
 7

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1973
Augustus : A Novel (Vintage)
Augustus : A Novel (Vintage)
Author: John Edward Williams
  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
 2

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1972
The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
Author: Flannery O'Connor
  • Currently 4.6/5 Stars.
 4

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1971
Mr. Sammler's Planet
Mr. Sammler's Planet
Author: Saul Bellow
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 2

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1970
Them
Them
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
 15

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1969
Steps
Steps
Author: Jerzy Kosinski
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 4

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1968
The Eighth Day
The Eighth Day
Author: Thornton Wilder
  • Currently 5/5 Stars.
 1

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1967
The Fixer (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
The Fixer (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Author: Bernard Malamud
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
 25

1966
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
Author: Katherine Anne Porter
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
 16

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1965
Herzog (Penguin Classics)
Herzog (Penguin Classics)
Author: Saul Bellow
  • Currently 2.9/5 Stars.
 11

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1964
The Centaur
The Centaur
Author: John Updike
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
 2

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1963
Morte D'Urban (New York Review Books Classics)
Morte D'Urban (New York Review Books Classics)
Author: J. F. Powers
  • Currently 2.6/5 Stars.
 5

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1962
The Moviegoer
The Moviegoer
Author: Walker Percy
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
 91

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1961
The Waters of Kronos
The Waters of Kronos
Author: Conrad Richter, Conrad Richter
  • Currently 2.3/5 Stars.
 2

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1960
Goodbye, Columbus : And Five Short Stories (Vintage International)
Goodbye, Columbus : And Five Short Stories (Vintage International)
Author: Philip Roth
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
 30

1959
The Magic Barrel: Stories
The Magic Barrel: Stories
Author: Bernard Malamud
  • Currently 2.5/5 Stars.
 2

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1958
The Wapshot Chronicle (Vintage International)
The Wapshot Chronicle (Vintage International)
Author: John Cheever
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
 6

1957
Field of Vision
Field of Vision
Author: Wright Morris
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1956
Ten North Frederick
Ten North Frederick
Author: John O'Hara
  ?

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1955
A Fable
A Fable
Author: William Faulkner
  • Currently 2.4/5 Stars.
 5

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1954
The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
Author: Saul Bellow
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
 8

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1953
Invisible Man
Invisible Man
Author: Ralph Ellison
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
 314

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1952
From Here to Eternity
From Here to Eternity
Author: James Jones
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
 2

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1951
Collected Stories
Collected Stories
Author: William Faulkner
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
 7

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1950
The Man With the Golden Arm
The Man With the Golden Arm
Author: Nelson Algren
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
 6

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