National Book Award for Fiction

Winners

2024James ★☆☆☆Percival Everett ★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆
2023Blackouts ☆Justin Torres ★
2022The Rabbit Hutch ☆Tess Gunty ★
2021Hell of a Book ☆Jason Mott ★
2020Interior Chinatown ☆Charles Yu ★
2019Trust Exercise ☆Susan Choi ★★☆
2018The Friend ☆☆Sigrid Nunez ★☆
2017Sing, Unburied, Sing ★☆Jesmyn Ward ★★☆
2016The Underground Railroad ★☆☆☆Colson Whitehead ★★★☆☆☆☆
2015Fortune Smiles ☆Adam Johnson ★★
2014Redeployment ☆Phil Klay ★
2013The Good Lord Bird ☆James McBride ★
2012The Round House ☆Louise Erdrich ★★☆☆☆
2011Salvage the Bones ☆Jesmyn Ward ★★☆
2010Lord of Misrule ☆Jaimy Gordon ★
2009Let the Great World Spin ★☆Colum McCann ★★☆☆☆☆☆
2008Shadow Country ☆Peter Matthiessen ★★★☆☆
2007Tree of Smoke ★☆Denis Johnson ★☆
2006The Echo Maker ★☆Richard Powers ★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
2005Europe Central ☆William T. Vollmann ★
2004The News from Paraguay ☆Lily Tuck ★
2003The Great Fire ★☆☆☆Shirley Hazzard ★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
2002Three Junes ☆Julia Glass ★
2001The Corrections ★☆☆Jonathan Franzen ★☆☆
2000In America ☆Susan Sontag ★☆
1999Waiting ★☆Ha Jin ★☆☆
1998Charming Billy ☆☆Alice McDermott ★☆☆☆☆☆☆
1997Cold Mountain ☆Charles Frazier ★
1996Ship Fever and Other Stories ☆Andrea Barrett ★☆
1995Sabbath's Theater ★☆Philip Roth ★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
1994A Frolic of His Own ☆William Gaddis ★★
1993The Shipping News ★☆E. Annie Proulx ★★
1992All the Pretty Horses ☆Cormac McCarthy ★★☆
1991Mating ☆Norman Rush ★☆☆
1990Middle Passage ☆Charles Johnson ★
1989Spartina ☆John Casey ★
1988Paris Trout ☆Pete Dexter ★
1987Paco's Story ☆Larry Heinemann ★
1986World's Fair ☆E. L. Doctorow ★☆☆☆☆☆
1985White Noise ☆Don DeLillo ★☆☆☆☆☆
1984Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories ☆Ellen Gilchrist ★
1983The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty ☆☆Eudora Welty ★☆☆☆☆☆
1983The Color Purple ★☆Alice Walker ★★
1982So Long, See You Tomorrow ★☆☆William Maxwell ★☆☆☆
1982Rabbit is Rich ★☆John Updike ★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆
1981The Stories of John Cheever ☆☆John Cheever ★★☆☆
1981Plains Song: For Female Voices ☆Wright Morris ★★☆☆☆
1980The World According to Garp ☆☆John Irving ★☆☆
1980Sophie's Choice ☆William Styron ★☆☆
1979Going After Cacciato ☆Tim O'Brien ★☆
1978Blood Tie ☆Mary Lee Settle ★
1977The Spectator Bird ☆Wallace Stegner ★☆
1976J R ☆William Gaddis ★★
1972Dog Soldiers ☆Robert Stone ★☆☆☆☆☆☆
1972Gravity's Rainbow ☆Thomas Pynchon ★☆☆
1972Chimera ☆John Barth ★☆
1972The Complete Stories ☆Flannery O'Connor ★☆☆☆
1971Mr. Sammler's Planet ☆Saul Bellow ★★★★★☆☆☆
1970them ☆Joyce Carol Oates ★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
1969Steps ☆Jerzy Kosiński ★
1968The Eighth Day ☆Thornton Wilder ★
1967The Fixer ☆Bernard Malamud ★★☆☆☆
1966The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter ☆Katherine Anne Porter ★☆
1965Herzog ☆Saul Bellow ★★★★★☆☆☆
1964The Centaur ☆John Updike ★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆
1963Morte d'Urban ☆J. F. Powers ★☆☆
1962The Moviegoer ☆Walker Percy ★☆☆☆☆
1961The Waters of Kronos ☆Conrad Richter ★
1960Goodbye, Columbus ☆Philip Roth ★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
1959The Magic Barrel ☆Bernard Malamud ★★☆☆☆
1958The Wapshot Chronicle ☆John Cheever ★★☆☆
1957The Field of Vision ☆Wright Morris ★★☆☆☆
1956Ten North Frederick ☆John O'Hara ★☆
1955A Fable ☆William Faulkner ★★★★☆☆
1954The Adventures of Augie March ☆Saul Bellow ★★★★★☆☆☆
1953Invisible Man ☆Ralph Ellison ★☆
1952From Here to Eternity ☆James Jones ★☆
1951Collected Stories of William Faulkner ☆William Faulkner ★★★★☆☆
1950The Man with the Golden Arm ☆Nelson Algren ★☆