The National Book Award for Fiction


2007 - Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson*
2006 - The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
2005 - Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
2004 - The News From Paraguay by Lily Tuck
2003 - The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
2002 - Three Junes by Julia Glass
2001 - The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
2000 - In America by Susan Sontag
1999 - Waiting by Ha Jin
1998 - Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
1997 - Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
1996 - Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett
1995 - Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
1994 - A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis
1993 - The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
1992 - All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy****
1991 - Mating by Norman Rush
1990 - Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
1989 - Spartina by John Casey
1988 - Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
1987 - Paco's Story by Larry Heinemann
1986 - World's Fair by E. L. Doctorow
1985 - White Noise by Don DeLillo***
1984 - Victory over Japan: A Book of Stories by Ellen Gilchrist
1983 - The Color Purple by Alice Walker (harcover)
1983 - Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty (paperback)
1982 - Rabbit is Rich by John Updike (harcover)
1982 - So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell (harcover)
1981 - Plains Song by Wright Morris
1981 - The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (paperback)
1980 - Sophie's Choice by William Styron (hardcover)
1980 - The World According to Garp by John Irving (paperback)
1979 - Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
1978 - Blood Ties by Mary Lee Settle
1977 - The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner
1976 - Jr by William Gaddis
1975 - Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
1974 - Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
1973 - Chimera by John Barth
1972 - The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor by Flannery O'Connor
1971 - Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow
1970 - Them by Joyce Carol Oates
1969 - Steps by Jerzy Kosinski
1968 - The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder
1967 - The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
1966 - The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
1965 - Herzog by Saul Bellow*
1964 - The Centaur by John Updike
1963 - Morte D'Urban by J. F. Powers
1962 - The Moviegoer by Walker Percy*
1961 - The Waters of Kronos by Conrad Richter
1960 - Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth
1959 - The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud
1958 - The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
1957 - The Field of Vision by Wright Morris
1956 - Ten North Frederick by John O'Hara
1955 - A Fable by William Faulkner**
1954 - The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
1953 - Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison***
1952 - From Here to Eternity by James Jones
1951 - The Collected Stories of William Faulkner by William Faulkner
1950 - The Man With The Golden Arm by Nelson Algren



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*=suck
**='yeah-ok'
***=not bad, could have been better.
****=well done, a fine book
*****=excellent (rare)



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