Year Author Title Result Ref. 1980 Walker Percy The Second Coming Winner [ 1] Joyce Carol Oates Bellefleur Finalist [ 1] John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces William Golding Darkness Visible John le Carré Smiley's People 1981 D. M. Thomas The White Hotel Winner [ 2] William Wharton Dad Finalist [ 2] Elizabeth Bowen The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen Mark Helprin Ellis Island and Other Stories Ray Bradbury The Stories of Ray Bradbury Philip Roth Zuckerman Unbound 1982 Robert Stone A Flag for Sunrise Winner [ 3] Isaac Bashevis Singer The Collected Stories Finalist [ 3] Saul Bellow The Dean's December Anne Tyler Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Donald Barthelme Sixty Stories 1983 Thomas Keneally Schindler's Ark Winner [ 4] Gabriel García Márquez Chronicle of a Death Foretold Finalist [ 4] John le Carré The Little Drummer Girl Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose Iris Murdoch The Philosopher's Pupil 1984 Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being Winner [ 5] Joan Didion Democracy Finalist [ 5] Saul Bellow Him With His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories Harriet Doerr Stones for Ibarra John Updike The Witches of Eastwick 1985 Louise Erdrich Love Medicine Winner [ 6] Jamaica Kincaid Annie John Finalist [ 6] J. G. Ballard Empire of the Sun Anita Brookner Hotel du Lac Elizabeth Benedict Slow Dancing 1986 Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale Winner [ 7] Anne Tyler The Accidental Tourist Finalist [ 7] Vikram Seth The Golden Gate Garrison Keillor Lake Wobegon Days Carlos Fuentes The Old Gringo John le Carré A Perfect Spy 1987 James Welch Fools Crow Winner [ 8] Isabel Allende Of Love and Shadows Finalist [ 8] Peter Taylor A Summons to Memphis Alice McDermott That Night Joyce Carol Oates You Must Remember This 1988 Gabriel García Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera Winner [ 9] Doris May Lessing The Fifth Child Finalist [ 9] Don DeLillo Libra Penelope Lively Moon Tiger Jorge Amado Showdown 1989 Fay Weldon The Heart of the Country Winner [ 10] Eduardo Mendoza The City of Marvels Finalist [ 10] Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club Bette Pesetsky Midnight Sweets Elaine Feinstein Mother's Girl 1990 Edna O'Brien Lantern Slides Winner [ 11] Anyi Wang Baotown Finalist [ 11] Alice Munro Friend of My Youth Jane Smiley Ordinary Love and Good Will: Two Novellas Thea Astley Reaching Tin River 1991 Allan Gurganus White People Winner [ 12] Claude Simon The Acacia Finalist [ 12] J. M. Coetzee Age of Iron Annie Ernaux A Woman’s Story Sandra Cisneros Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories 1992 Art Spiegelman Maus II, A Survivor's Tale : And Here My Troubles Began Winner [ 13] Jane Smiley A Thousand Acres Finalist [ 13] Paule Marshall Daughters Randall Kenan Let the Dead Bury Their Dead: Stories Edna O’Brien Time and Tide 1993 Barbara Kingsolver Pigs in Heaven Winner [ 14] Sue Miller For Love Finalist [ 14] Cathleen Schine Rameau's Niece Helen Norris The Burning Glass: Stories William Trevor William Trevor: The Collected Stories 1994 David Malouf Remembering Babylon Winner [ 15] Bharati Mukherjee Holder of the World Finalist [ 15] William T. Vollmann The Rifles : Volume 6 of the Seven Dreams sequence Mark Salzman The Soloist David Leavitt While England Sleeps 1995 William Boyd The Blue Afternoon Winner [ 16] Kate Grenville Albion's Story Finalist [ 16] William Trevor Felicia's Journey Alice Munro Open Secrets: Stories Bradford Morrow Trinity Fields 1996 Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance Winner [ 17] Louis Begley About Schmidt Finalist [ 17] Beryl Bainbridge Every Man for Himself A.B. Yehoshua Open Heart Tomás Eloy Martínez Santa Evita Andrea Barrett Ship Fever and Other Stories Pat Barker The Ghost Road R.C. Binstock Tree of Heaven 1997 James Carlos Blake In the Rogue Blood Winner [ 18] Louis B. Jones California's Over Finalist [ 18] Seamus Deane Reading in the Dark Francisco Goldman The Ordinary Seaman Bernhard Schlink and Carol Brown Janeway The Reader 1998 W. G. Sebald Michael Hulse (trans. ) The Rings of Saturn Winner [ 19] William Trevor Death in Summer Finalist [ 19] Susan Minot Evening Richard Price Freedomland Philip Roth I Married a Communist 1999 Amit Chaudhuri Freedom Song: Three Novels Winner [ 20] Annie Proulx Close Range: Wyoming Stories Finalist [ 20] Andre Dubus III House of Sand and Fog Kent Haruf Plainsong Ha Jin Waiting 2000 David Means Assorted Fire Events Winner [ 21] Peter Ho Davies Equal Love Finalist [ 21] Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Philip Roth The Human Stain Joy Williams The Quick and the Dead 2001 Mary Robison Why Did I Ever Winner [ 22] Abdulrazak Gurnah By the Sea Finalist [ 22] Alice Munro Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories Colson Whitehead John Henry Days Jonathan Franzen The Corrections 2002 Ian McEwan Atonement Winner [ 23] Peter Cameron The City of Your Final Destination Finalist [ 23] Kate Jennings Moral Hazard Aleksandar Hemon Nowhere Man Joanna Scott Tourmaline 2003 Pete Dexter Train Winner [ 24] Michelle Huneven Jamesland Finalist [ 24] Tobias Wolff Old School Jhumpa Lahiri The Namesake Sherman Alexie Ten Little Indians 2004 Colm Tóibín The Master Winner [ 25] Russell Banks The Darling Finalist [ 25] Marilynne Robinson Gilead Chris Abani GraceLand Joy Williams Honored Guest: Stories 2005 Gabriel García Márquez Edith Grossman (trans. ) Memories of My Melancholy Whores Winner [ 26] Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore Finalist [ 26] Nick Hornby A Long Way Down E.L. Doctorow The March Mary Gaitskill Veronica 2006 A. B. Yehoshua Hillel Halkin (trans. )A Woman in Jerusalem Winner [ 27] [ 28] David Mitchell Black Swan Green Finalist [ 27] Susan Straight A Million Nightingales Peter Orner The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo Daniel Woodrell Winter's Bone 2007 Andrew O'Hagan Be Near Me Winner [ 29] Junot Díaz The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Finalist [ 29] Stewart O’Nan Last Night at the Lobster Per Petterson Out Stealing Horses Marianne Wiggins The Shadow Catcher 2008 Marilynne Robinson Home Winner [ 30] [ 31] [ 32] Richard Price Lush Life Finalist [ 33] Marisa Silver The God of War Sebastian Barry The Secret Scripture Joan Silber The Size of the World 2009 Rafael Yglesias A Happy Marriage Winner [ 34] Michelle Huneven Blame Finalist [ 34] Jill Ciment Heroic Measures Jane Gardam The Man in the Wooden Hat Kate Walbert A Short History of Women 2010 Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad Winner [ 35] Frederick Reiken Day for Night Finalist [ 35] Jonathan Franzen Freedom Rick Bass Nashville Chrome Richard Bausch Something Is Out There: Stories 2011 Alex Shakar Luminarium Winner [ 36] [ 37] Edith Pearlman Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories Finalist [ 38] Julie Otsuka The Buddha in the Attic Michael Ondaatje The Cat's Table Joseph O'Connor Ghost Light 2012 Ben Fountain Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Winner [ 39] [ 40] Lauren Groff Arcadia Finalist [ 41] Lydia Millet Magnificence Jami Attenberg The Middlesteins Michael Chabon Telegraph Avenue 2013 Ruth Ozeki A Tale for the Time Being Winner [ 42] Daniel Woodrell The Maid’s Version Finalist [ 43] Percival Everett Percival Everett by Virgil Russell Susan Steinberg Spectacle: Stories Claire Messud The Woman Upstairs 2014 Siri Hustvedt The Blazing World Winner [ 44] Helen Oyeyemi Boy, Snow, Bird Finalist [ 45] Jenny Offill Dept. of Speculation Donald Antrim The Emerald Light in the Air: Stories Jesse Ball Silence Once Begun 2015 Valeria Luiselli The Story of My Teeth Winner [ 46] Helen Phillips Beautiful Bureaucrat Finalist [ 46] James Hannaham Delicious Foods Adam Johnson Fortune Smiles Anne Enright The Green Road 2016 Adam Haslett Imagine Me Gone Winner [ 47] Dana Spiotta Innocents and Others Finalist [ 48] Lydia Millet Sweet Lamb of Heaven Zadie Smith Swing Time Garth Greenwell What Belongs to You 2017 Mohsin Hamid Exit West Winner [ 49] Claire Messud The Burning Girl Finalist [ 50] Victor LaValle The Changeling Vivek Shanbhag trans. ) Ghachar Ghochar Jesmyn Ward Sing, Unburied, Sing 2018 Rebecca Makkai The Great Believers Winner [ 51] Tayari Jones An American Marriage Finalist [ 51] Michael Ondaatje Warlight Esi Edugyan Washington Black Abby Geni The Wildlands 2019 Ben Lerner The Topeka School Winner [ 52] [ 53] [ 54] Colson Whitehead The Nickel Boys Finalist [ 53] [ 55] Maaza Mengiste The Shadow King Madeline Ffitch Stay and Fight Tash Aw We, the Survivors 2020 David Diop Anna Moschovakis (trans. ) At Night All Blood Is Black Winner [ 56] [ 57] Akwaeke Emezi The Death of Vivek Oji Finalist [ 58] [ 59] Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Likes Danielle Evans The Office of Historical Corrections Peter Cameron What Happens at Night 2021 Véronique Tadjo In the Company of Men Winner [ 60] [ 61] Saïd Sayrafiezadeh American Estrangement Finalist [ 61] Mariana Enríquez Megan McDowell (trans. )The Dangers of Smoking in Bed Joy Williams Harrow Claire Vaye Watkins I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness 2022 Mircea Cărtărescu trans. )Solenoid Winner [ 62] Anna Dorn Exalted Finalist [ 63] James Hannaham Didn't Nobody Give a S— What Happened to Carlotta Jamil Jan Kochai The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories Fernanda Melchor trans. by Sophie Hughes)Paradais 2023 Ed Park Same Bed Different Dreams Winner [ 64] Susie Boyt Loved and Missed Finalist [ 65] Yiyun Li Wednesday's Child Elizabeth McKenzie The Dog of the North Justin Torres Blackouts