National Book Award for Fiction

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National Book Award for Fiction
Awarded forOutstanding literary work by U.S. citizens.
LocationNew York City
First awarded1935
Website National Book Foundation

The National Book Award for Fiction is one of five annual National Book Awards, which recognize outstanding literary work by United States citizens. Since 1987, the awards have been administered and presented by the National Book Foundation, but they are awards "by writers to writers." [1] The panelists are five "writers who are known to be doing great work in their genre or field." [2]

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General fiction was one of four categories when the awards were re-established in 1950. For several years beginning 1980, prior to the Foundation, there were multiple fiction categories: hardcover, paperback, first novel or first work of fiction; from 1981 to 1983 hardcover and paperback children's fiction; and only in 1980 five awards to mystery fiction, science fiction, and western fiction. [3] When the Foundation celebrated the 60th postwar awards in 2009, all but three of the 77 previous winners in fiction categories were in print. [4] The 77 included all eight 1980 winners but excluded the 1981 to 1983 children's fiction winners. [5]

The award recognizes one book written by a U.S. citizen and published in the U.S. from December 1 to November 30. The National Book Foundation accepts nominations from publishers until June 15, requires mailing nominated books to the panelists by August 1, and announces five finalists in October. The winner is announced on the day of the final ceremony in November. The award is $10,000 and a bronze sculpture; other finalists get $1,000, a medal, and a citation written by the panel. [6]

Authors who have won the award more than once include William Faulkner, John Updike, William Gaddis, Jesmyn Ward, and Philip Roth, each having won on two occasions along with numerous other nominations. Saul Bellow won the award in three decades (1954, 1965, 1971) and is the only author to have won the National Book Award for Fiction three times.

National Book Awards for Fiction

From 1935 to 1941, there were six annual awards for general fiction and the "Bookseller Discovery" or "Most Original Book" was sometimes a novel. From 1980 to 1985, there were six annual awards to first novels or first works of fiction. In 1980 there were five awards to mystery, western, or science fiction. There have been many awards to fiction in the Children's or Young People's categories. [3]

Honorees, general fiction

This list covers only the post-war awards (pre-war awards follow) to general fiction for adult readers: one annual winner from 1950 except two undifferentiated winners 1973 to 1975, dual hardcover and paperback winners 1980 to 1983.

For each award, the winner is listed first followed by the finalists. Unless otherwise noted, the year represents the year the award was given for books published in the prior year. Thus, the award year 1950 is for books published in 1949.

1950s

National Book Award for Fiction winners and finalists, 1950-1959
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
1950 Nelson Algren The Man with the Golden Arm Winner [7]
No runners up were recognized. There were five honorable mentions in the non-fiction category only. [8] [9]
1951 William Faulkner Collected Stories of William Faulkner Winner [10]
No runners up were recognized. [11]
1952 James Jones From Here to Eternity Winner [12]
James Agee The Morning Watch Finalist
Truman Capote The Grass Harp Finalist
William Faulkner Requiem for a Nun Finalist
Caroline Gordon The Strange ChildrenFinalist
Thomas Mann The Holy Sinner Finalist
John P. Marquand Melville Goodwin USAFinalist
J. D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye Finalist
William Styron Lie Down in Darkness Finalist
Jessamyn West The Witch DiggersFinalist
Herman Wouk The Caine Mutiny Finalist
1953 Ralph Ellison Invisible Man Winner [13]
Isabel Bolton Many MansionsFinalist
H. L. Davis Winds of MorningFinalist
Thomas Gallagher The Gathering DarknessFinalist
Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea Finalist
Carl Jonas Jefferson SelleckFinalist
Peter MartinThe LandsmanFinalist
May Sarton A Shower of Summer DaysFinalist
Jean Stafford The Catherine WheelFinalist
John Steinbeck East of Eden Finalist
William Carlos Williams The Build-UpFinalist
1954 Saul Bellow The Adventures of Augie March Winner [14]
No runners up were recognized. [15]
1955 William Faulkner A Fable Winner [16]
Harriette Arnow The Dollmaker Finalist
Hamilton Basso The View from Pompey's Head Finalist
Davis Grubb The Night of the Hunter Finalist
Randall Jarrell Pictures from an Institution Finalist
Milton Lott The Last Hunt Finalist
Frederick Manfred Lord Grizzly Finalist
William March The Bad Seed Finalist
Wright Morris The Huge Season Finalist
Frank Rooney The Courts of Memory Finalist
John Steinbeck Sweet Thursday Finalist
1956 John O'Hara Ten North Frederick Winner [17]
Paul Bowles The Spider's House Finalist
Shirley Ann Grau The Black Prince, and Other StoriesFinalist
MacKinlay Kantor Andersonville Finalist
Flannery O'Connor A Good Man is Hard to Find Finalist
May Sarton Faithful Are the WoundsFinalist
Robert Penn Warren Band of Angels Finalist
Eudora Welty The Bride of the InnisfallenFinalist
Herman Wouk Marjorie Morningstar Finalist
1957 Wright Morris The Field of Vision Winner [18]
Nelson Algren A Walk on the Wild Side Finalist
James Baldwin Giovanni's Room Finalist
Saul Bellow Seize the Day Finalist
B. J. Chute GreenwillowFinalist
A. B. Guthrie These Thousand HillsFinalist
John Hersey A Single PebbleFinalist
John HuntGenerations of MenFinalist
Edwin O'Connor The Last Hurrah Finalist
J. F. Powers The Presence of GraceFinalist
Elizabeth Spencer The Voice at the Back DoorFinalist
James Thurber Further Fables for Our TimeFinalist
1958 John Cheever The Wapshot Chronicle Winner [19]
James Agee A Death in the Family Finalist
James Gould Cozzens By Love Possessed Finalist
Mark Harris Something About a Soldier Finalist
Andrew Nelson Lytle The Velvet Horn Finalist
Bernard Malamud The Assistant Finalist
Wright Morris Love Among the CannibalsFinalist
Vladimir Nabokov Pnin Finalist
Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged Finalist
May Sarton The Birth of a GrandfatherFinalist
Nancy Wilson Ross The Return of Lady BraceFinalist
1959 Bernard Malamud The Magic Barrel Winner [20]
J. P. Donleavy The Ginger Man Finalist
William Humphrey Home from the Hill Finalist
Vladimir Nabokov Lolita Finalist
John O'Hara From the TerraceFinalist
J. R. Salamanca The Lost CountryFinalist
Anya Seton The Winthrop Woman Finalist
Robert Traver Anatomy of a MurderFinalist

1960s

National Book Award for Fiction winners and finalists, 1960-1969
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
1960 Philip Roth Goodbye, Columbus Winner [21] [22]
Louis Auchincloss Pursuit of the ProdigalFinalist
Hamilton Basso The Light Infantry BallFinalist
Saul Bellow Henderson the Rain King Finalist
Evan S. Connell, Jr. Mrs. Bridge Finalist
William Faulkner The Mansion Finalist
Mark Harris Wake Up, StupidFinalist
John Hersey The War LoverFinalist
H. L. Humes Men DieFinalist
Shirley Jackson The Haunting of Hill House Finalist
Elizabeth Janeway The Third ChoiceFinalist
James Jones The PistolFinalist
Warren Miller The Cool World Finalist
James Purdy MalcolmFinalist
Leo Rosten The Return of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N Finalist
John Updike The Poorhouse Fair Finalist
Robert Penn Warren The CaveFinalist
Morris West The Devil's Advocate Finalist
1961 Conrad Richter The Waters of Kronos Winner [23]
Louis Auchincloss The House of Five TalentsFinalist
Kay Boyle Generation Without FarewellFinalist
John Hersey The Child Buyer Finalist
John Knowles A Separate Peace Finalist
Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird Finalist
Wright Morris Ceremony in Lone TreeFinalist
Flannery O'Connor The Violent Bear It Away Finalist
Elizabeth Spencer The Light in the Piazza and Other Italian TalesFinalist
Francis Steegmuller The Christening PartyFinalist
John Updike Rabbit, Run Finalist
Mildred Walker The Body of a Young ManFinalist
1962 Walker Percy The Moviegoer Winner [24]
Isaac Bashevis Singer The Spinoza of Market Street and Other StoriesFinalist
Hortense Calisher False EntryFinalist
George P. Elliott Among the DangsFinalist
Joseph Heller Catch-22 Finalist
Bernard Malamud A New Life Finalist
William Keepers Maxwell Jr. The ChateauFinalist
J. D. Salinger Franny and Zooey Finalist
Edward Lewis Wallant The Pawnbroker Finalist
Joan Williams The Morning and the EveningFinalist
Richard Yates Revolutionary Road Finalist
1963 J. F. Powers Morte d'Urban Winner [25]
Vladimir Nabokov Pale Fire Finalist
Katherine Anne Porter Ship of Fools Finalist
Dawn Powell The Golden SpurFinalist
Clancy Sigal Going AwayFinalist
John Updike Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories Finalist
1964 John Updike The Centaur Winner [26]
Bernard Malamud Idiots FirstFinalist
Mary McCarthy The Group Finalist
Thomas Pynchon V. Finalist
Harvey Swados The WillFinalist
1965 Saul Bellow Herzog Winner [27]
Louis Auchincloss The Rector of JustinFinalist
Isaac Bashevis Singer Short FridayFinalist
John Hawkes Second Skin Finalist
Richard E. Kim The Martyred Finalist
Wallace Markfield To an Early GraveFinalist
Vladimir Nabokov The Defense Finalist
1966 Katherine Anne Porter The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter Winner [28]
Jesse Hill Ford The Liberation of Lord Byron JonesFinalist
Peter Matthiessen At Play in the Fields of the Lord Finalist
James Merrill The (Diblos) NotebookFinalist
Flannery O'Connor Everything That Rises Must Converge Finalist
Harry Mark Petrakis Pericles on 31st StreetFinalist
1967 Bernard Malamud The Fixer Winner
Louis Auchincloss The EmbezzlerFinalist
Edwin O'Connor All in the FamilyFinalist
Walker Percy The Last Gentleman Finalist
Harry Mark Petrakis A Dream of KingsFinalist
Wilfrid Sheed Office PoliticsFinalist
1968 Thornton Wilder The Eighth Day Winner [29]
Norman Mailer Why Are We in Vietnam? Finalist
Joyce Carol Oates A Garden of Earthly Delights Finalist
Chaim Potok The Chosen Finalist
William Styron The Confessions of Nat Turner Finalist
1969 Jerzy Kosiński Steps Winner [30]
John Barth Lost in the Funhouse Finalist
Frederick Exley A Fan's Notes Finalist
Joyce Carol Oates Expensive PeopleFinalist
Thomas Rogers The Pursuit of HappinessFinalist

1970s

National Book Award for Fiction winners and finalists, 1970-1979
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
1970 Joyce Carol Oates them Winner [31]
Leonard Gardner Fat City Finalist
Leonard Michaels Going PlacesFinalist
Jean Stafford The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford Finalist
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Slaughterhouse Five or The Children's Crusade Finalist
1971 Saul Bellow Mr. Sammler's Planet Winner [32]
James Dickey Deliverance Finalist
Shirley Hazzard The Bay of Noon Finalist
John Updike Bech: A Book Finalist
Eudora Welty Losing Battles Finalist
1972 Flannery O'Connor The Complete Stories [lower-alpha 1] Winner [33]
Frederick Buechner Lion Country Finalist
E. L. Doctorow The Book of Daniel Finalist
Stanley Elkin The Dick Gibson ShowFinalist
Tom McHale Farragan's RetreatFinalist
Joyce Carol Oates Wonderland Finalist
Cynthia Ozick The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories Finalist
Walker Percy Love in the Ruins Finalist
Earl Thompson A Garden of SandFinalist
John Updike Rabbit Redux Finalist
1973 [lower-alpha 2] John Barth Chimera Winner [34] [35] [36]
John Edward Williams Augustus [37] [36] [35]
Brock Brower The Late Great CreatureFinalist
Alan H. Friedman HermaphrodeityFinalist
Barry Hannah Geronimo RexFinalist
George V. Higgins The Friends of Eddie Coyle Finalist
R. M. Koster The PrinceFinalist
Vladimir Nabokov Transparent Things Finalist
Ishmael Reed Mumbo Jumbo Finalist
Thomas Rogers The Confessions of a Child of the CenturyFinalist
Isaac Bashevis Singer Enemies, A Love Story Finalist
Eudora Welty The Optimist's Daughter Finalist
1974 [lower-alpha 2] Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow Winner [38] [39]
Doris Betts Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories [38] [40] [41] [42]
John Cheever The World of Apples Finalist
Ellen Douglas Apostles of LightFinalist [43]
Stanley Elkin Searches and SeizuresFinalist
John Gardner Nickel MountainFinalist
John Leonard Black ConceitFinalist
Thomas McGuane Ninety-Two in the ShadeFinalist
Wilfrid Sheed People Will Always Be KindFinalist
Isaac Bashevis Singer A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories Finalist
Gore Vidal Burr Finalist
Joy Williams State of GraceFinalist
1975 [lower-alpha 2] Robert Stone Dog Soldiers Winner [44] [45]
Donald Barthelme Guilty Pleasures [45] [46] [47]
Gail Godwin The Odd WomanFinalist
Joseph Heller Something Happened Finalist
Toni Morrison Sula Finalist
Vladimir Nabokov Look at the Harlequins! Finalist
Grace Paley Enormous Changes at the Last MinuteFinalist
Philip Roth My Life As a Man Finalist
Mark Smith The Death of the DetectiveFinalist
Thomas Williams The Hair of Harold Roux Finalist
1976 William Gaddis J R Winner [48]
Saul Bellow Humboldt's Gift Finalist
Hortense Calisher The Collected Stories of Hortense CalisherFinalist
Johanna Kaplan Other People's LivesFinalist
Vladimir Nabokov Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories Finalist
Larry Woiwode Beyond the Bedroom WallFinalist
1977 Wallace Stegner The Spectator Bird Winner [49]
Raymond Carver Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? Finalist
MacDonald Harris The Balloonist Finalist
Ursula K. Le Guin Orsinian Tales Finalist
Cynthia Propper Seton A Fine RomanceFinalist
1978 Mary Lee Settle Blood Tie Winner [50]
Robert Coover The Public Burning Finalist
Peter De Vries Madder MusicFinalist
James Alan McPherson Elbow Room Finalist
John Sayles Union DuesFinalist
1979 Tim O'Brien Going After Cacciato Winner [51]
John Cheever The Stories of John Cheever Finalist
John Irving The World According to Garp Finalist
Diane Johnson Lying LowFinalist
David Plante The FamilyFinalist

1980s

For 1980 to 1983 this list covers the paired "Fiction (hardcover)" and "Fiction (paperback)" awards in that order. Hard and paper editions were distinguished only in these four years; none of the paperback winners were original; in their first editions all had been losing finalists in 1979 or 1981.

From 1980 to 1985 there was also one award for first novel or first work of fiction and in 1980 there were five more awards for mystery, western, and science fiction. [3] None of those are covered here.

1980-1983

National Book Award for Fiction winners and finalists, 1980-1983
YearCategoryAuthorTitleResultRef.
1980Hardcover William Styron Sophie's Choice Winner [52] [53]
James Baldwin Just Above My Head Finalist
Norman Mailer The Executioner's Song Finalist
Philip Roth The Ghost Writer Finalist
Scott Spencer Endless LoveFinalist [54]
Paperback John Irving The World According to Garp Winner [55] [53]
Paul Bowles Collected StoriesFinalist
Gail Godwin Violet ClayFinalist
John Updike Too Far to Go Finalist
Marguerite Young Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, Volumes 1 and 2Finalist
1981Hardcover Wright Morris Plains Song: For Female VoicesWinner [56] [57]
Shirley Hazzard The Transit of Venus Finalist
William Keepers Maxwell Jr. So Long, See You Tomorrow Finalist
Walker Percy The Second Coming Finalist
Eudora Welty The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty Finalist [58]
Paperback John Cheever The Stories of John Cheever Winner [59] [57]
Thomas Flanagan The Year of the FrenchFinalist
Norman Mailer The Executioner's Song Finalist
Scott Spencer Endless LoveFinalist [54]
Herman Wouk War and Remembrance Finalist
1982Hardcover John Updike Rabbit is Rich Winner [60] [61]
Mark Helprin Ellis Island and Other StoriesFinalist
John Irving The Hotel New Hampshire Finalist
Robert Stone A Flag for SunriseFinalist
William Wharton Dad Finalist
Paperback William Maxwell So Long, See You Tomorrow Winner [62] [61]
E. L. Doctorow Loon Lake Finalist
Shirley Hazzard The Transit of Venus Finalist
Walker Percy The Second Coming Finalist
Anne Tyler Morgan's Passing Finalist
1983Hardcover Alice Walker The Color Purple Winner [63] [64]
Gail Godwin A Mother and Two DaughtersFinalist
Bobbie Ann Mason Shiloh and Other Stories Finalist
Paul Theroux The Mosquito Coast Finalist
Anne Tyler Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Finalist
Paperback Eudora Welty The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty Winner [65] [64]
David Bradley The Chaneysville Incident Finalist
Mary Gordon The Company of Women Finalist
Marilynne Robinson Housekeeping Finalist
Robert Stone A Flag for SunriseFinalist

1983 entries were published during 1982; winners in 27 categories were announced April 13 and privately celebrated April 28, 1983. [66]

1984 entries for the "revamped" awards in three categories were published November 1983 to October 1984; eleven finalists were announced October 17. [67] Winners were announced and celebrated November 15, 1984. [68]

1984-1989

National Book Award for Fiction winners and finalists, 1984-1989
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
1984 Ellen Gilchrist Victory Over Japan: A Book of StoriesWinner [69]
Alison Lurie Foreign Affairs Finalist
Philip Roth The Anatomy Lesson Finalist
1985 Don DeLillo White Noise Winner [70] [71]
Ursula K. Le Guin Always Coming Home Finalist
Hugh Nissenson The Tree of LifeFinalist
1986 E. L. Doctorow World's Fair Winner [72]
Norman Rush WhitesFinalist
Peter Taylor A Summons to Memphis Finalist
1987 Larry Heinemann Paco's Story Winner [73] [74]
Alice McDermott That Night Finalist
Toni Morrison Beloved Finalist
Howard Norman The Northern LightsFinalist
Philip Roth The Counterlife Finalist
1988 Pete Dexter Paris Trout Winner [75]
Don DeLillo Libra Finalist
Mary McGarry Morris VanishedFinalist
J. F. Powers Wheat That Springeth Green Finalist
Anne Tyler Breathing Lessons Finalist
1989 John Casey Spartina Winner [76]
E. L. Doctorow Billy Bathgate Finalist
Katherine Dunn Geek Love Finalist [77]
Oscar Hijuelos The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love Finalist
Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club Finalist

1990s

National Book Award for Fiction winners and finalists, 1990-1999
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
1990 Charles Johnson Middle Passage Winner [78] [79]
Felipe Alfau Chromos Finalist
Elena Castedo ParadiseFinalist
Jessica Hagedorn Dogeaters Finalist [80]
Joyce Carol Oates Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart Finalist
1991 Norman Rush Mating Winner [81]
Louis Begley Wartime Lies Finalist
Stephen Dixon FrogFinalist
Stanley Elkin The MacGuffinFinalist
Sandra Scofield Beyond DeservingFinalist
1992 Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses Winner [82]
Dorothy Allison Bastard Out of Carolina Finalist
Cristina García Dreaming in Cuban Finalist
Edward P. Jones Lost in the City Finalist
Robert Stone Outerbridge Reach Finalist
1993 E. Annie Proulx The Shipping News Winner [83]
Amy Bloom Come to Me: StoriesFinalist [84]
Thom Jones The Pugilist at RestFinalist
Richard Powers Operation Wandering Soul Finalist
Bob Shacochis Swimming in the VolcanoFinalist
1994 William Gaddis A Frolic of His Own Winner [85]
Ellen Currie Moses SupposesFinalist
Richard Dooling White Man's GraveFinalist
Howard Norman The Bird ArtistFinalist
Grace Paley The Collected Stories Finalist
1995 Philip Roth Sabbath's Theater Winner [86]
Edwidge Danticat Krik? Krak! Finalist
Stephen Dixon InterstateFinalist
Rosario Ferré The House on the LagoonFinalist
Madison Smartt Bell All Souls' RisingFinalist
1996 Andrea Barrett Ship Fever and Other StoriesWinner [87] [84]
Ron Hansen Atticus Finalist
Elizabeth McCracken The Giant's House Finalist
Steven Millhauser Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer Finalist
Janet Peery The River Beyond the World Finalist
1997 Charles Frazier Cold Mountain Winner [88] [89]
Don DeLillo Underworld Finalist
Diane Johnson Le Divorce Finalist
Ward Just Echo HouseFinalist
Cynthia Ozick The Puttermesser Papers Finalist
1998 Alice McDermott Charming Billy Winner [90]
Allegra Goodman Kaaterskill Falls Finalist
Gayl Jones The HealingFinalist
Robert Stone Damascus GateFinalist
Tom Wolfe A Man in Full Finalist
1999 Ha Jin Waiting Winner [91]
Andre Dubus III House of Sand and Fog Finalist [84]
Kent Haruf Plainsong Finalist [92]
Patricia Henley Hummingbird HouseFinalist
Jean Thompson Who Do You LoveFinalist

2000s

National Book Award for Fiction winners and finalists, 2000-2009
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
2000 Susan Sontag In America Winner [93]
Charles Baxter The Feast of LoveFinalist
Alan Lightman The DiagnosisFinalist
Joyce Carol Oates Blonde Finalist
Francine Prose Blue Angel Finalist
2001 Jonathan Franzen The Corrections Winner [94] [95]
Dan Chaon Among the Missing Finalist
Jennifer Egan Look at Me Finalist [96]
Louise Erdrich The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse Finalist
Susan Straight Highwire MoonFinalist
2002 Julia Glass Three Junes Winner [97]
Mark Costello Big IfFinalist
Adam Haslett You Are Not a Stranger HereFinalist
Martha McPhee Gorgeous Lies Finalist
Brad Watson The Heaven of MercuryFinalist
2003 Shirley Hazzard The Great Fire Winner [98] [99]
T. C. Boyle Drop City Finalist
Edward P. Jones The Known World Finalist
Scott Spencer A Ship Made of PaperFinalist
Marianne Wiggins Evidence of Things UnseenFinalist
2004 Lily Tuck The News from Paraguay Winner [100] [101]
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Madeleine is SleepingFinalist [54]
Christine Schutt FloridaFinalist
Joan Silber Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of StoriesFinalist
Kate Walbert Our KindFinalist [54]
2005 William T. Vollmann Europe Central Winner [102]
E.L. Doctorow The March Finalist
Mary Gaitskill VeronicaFinalist
Christopher Sorrentino TranceFinalist
Rene Steinke Holy SkirtsFinalist
2006 Richard Powers The Echo Maker Winner [103]
Mark Z. Danielewski Only Revolutions Finalist
Ken Kalfus A Disorder Peculiar to the CountryFinalist
Dana Spiotta Eat the Document Finalist
Jess Walter The ZeroFinalist
2007 Denis Johnson Tree of Smoke Winner [104] [105]
Mischa Berlinski Fieldwork Finalist
Lydia Davis Varieties of Disturbance Finalist
Joshua Ferris Then We Came to the End Finalist
Jim Shepard Like You'd Understand, AnywayFinalist
2008 Peter Matthiessen Shadow Country Winner [106]
Aleksandar Hemon The Lazarus Project Finalist [84]
Rachel Kushner Telex from Cuba Finalist
Marilynne Robinson Home Finalist
Salvatore Scibona The EndFinalist
2009 Colum McCann Let the Great World Spin Winner [107] [108] [54]
Bonnie Jo Campbell American SalvageFinalist
Daniyal Mueenuddin In Other Rooms, Other Wonders Finalist
Jayne Anne Phillips Lark and TermiteFinalist [54]
Marcel Theroux Far NorthFinalist

2010s

National Book Award for Fiction winners and finalists, 2010-2019
YearAuthorTitleResult
2010 Jaimy Gordon Lord of Misrule Winner [109] [110]
Peter Carey Parrot and Olivier in America Finalist
Nicole Krauss Great House Finalist
Lionel Shriver So Much for That Finalist
Karen Tei Yamashita I HotelFinalist [84]
2011 Jesmyn Ward Salvage the Bones Winner [111] [112] [113]
Andrew Krivak The Sojourn Finalist [114] [80]
Téa Obreht The Tiger's Wife Finalist [54] [115] [80]
Julie Otsuka The Buddha in the Attic Finalist [80]
Edith Pearlman Binocular VisionFinalist [80]
2012 Louise Erdrich The Round House Winner [116] [117] [118] [119] [113]
Junot Díaz This Is How You Lose Her Finalist [113]
Dave Eggers A Hologram for the King Finalist
Ben Fountain Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Finalist [113]
Kevin Powers The Yellow Birds Finalist [113]
2013 James McBride The Good Lord Bird Winner [120] [121] [122]
Rachel Kushner The Flamethrowers Finalist
Jhumpa Lahiri The Lowland Finalist
Thomas Pynchon Bleeding Edge Finalist
George Saunders Tenth of December: Stories Finalist
2014 Phil Klay Redeployment Winner [123] [124]
Rabih Alameddine An Unnecessary Woman Finalist
Anthony Doerr All the Light We Cannot See Finalist
Marilynne Robinson Lila Finalist
Emily St. John Mandel Station Eleven Finalist
2015 Adam Johnson Fortune Smiles Winner [125]
Karen Bender RefundFinalist
Angela Flournoy The Turner House Finalist
Lauren Groff Fates and Furies Finalist
Hanya Yanagihara A Little Life Finalist
2016 Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad Winner [126]
Chris Bachelder The Throwback SpecialFinalist [127]
Paulette Jiles News of the World Finalist [127]
Karan Mahajan The Association of Small Bombs Finalist [127]
Jacqueline Woodson Another Brooklyn Finalist [127]
2017 Jesmyn Ward Sing, Unburied, Sing Winner [128] [129]
Elliot Ackerman Dark at the CrossingFinalist
Lisa Ko The Leavers Finalist
Min Jin Lee Pachinko Finalist
Carmen Maria Machado Her Body and Other Parties Finalist
2018 Sigrid Nunez The Friend Winner [130] [131]
Jamel Brinkley A Lucky ManFinalist
Lauren Groff FloridaFinalist
Brandon Hobson Where the Dead Sit TalkingFinalist
Rebecca Makkai The Great Believers Finalist
2019 Susan Choi Trust Exercise Winner [132] [133] [134]
Kali Fajardo-Anstine Sabrina & CorinaFinalist
Marlon James Black Leopard, Red Wolf Finalist [134] [135]
Laila Lalami The Other Americans Finalist
Julia Phillips Disappearing Earth Finalist

2020s

National Book Award for Fiction winners and finalists, 2020–present
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
2020 Charles Yu Interior Chinatown Winner [136] [137]
Rumaan Alam Leave the World Behind Finalist
Lydia Millet A Children's Bible Finalist
Deesha Philyaw The Secret Lives of Church Ladies Finalist [138]
Douglas Stuart Shuggie Bain Finalist
2021 Jason Mott Hell of a Book Winner [139] [140] [141]
Anthony Doerr Cloud Cuckoo Land Finalist
Lauren Groff Matrix Finalist
Laird Hunt ZorrieFinalist
Robert Jones Jr. The ProphetsFinalist
2022 Tess Gunty The Rabbit Hutch Winner [142] [143]
Gayl Jones The BirdcatcherFinalist [144]
Jamil Jan Kochai The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other StoriesFinalist [144]
Sarah Thankam Mathews All This Could Be DifferentFinalist [144]
Alejandro Varela The Town of BabylonFinalist [144]
2023 Justin Torres Blackouts Winner [145] [146]
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Chain-Gang All-Stars Finalist [145]
Aaliyah Bilal Temple FolkFinalist [145]
Paul Harding This Other Eden Finalist [145]
Hanna Pylväinen The End of Drum-TimeFinalist [145]

Early awards for fiction

The National Book Awards for 1935 to 1940 annually recognized the "Most Distinguished Novel" (1935–1936) or "Favorite Fiction" (1937–1940). Furthermore, works of fiction were eligible for the "Bookseller Discovery" and "Most Original Book" awards; fiction winners are listed here.

There was only one National Book Award for 1941, the Bookseller Discovery, which recognized the novel Hold Autumn In Your Hand by George Perry; [147] then none until the 1950 revival in three categories including Fiction.

Most Distinguished Novel (1935–1936)

1935: Rachel Field, Time Out of Mind [148]

1936: Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind [149]

Favorite Fiction (1937–1940)

1937: A. J. Cronin, The Citadel [150]

1938: Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca [151]

1939: John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath [152]

1940: Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley [153]

Bookseller Discovery (1936–1941)

1936: Norah Lofts, I Met a Gypsy (short stories) [149]

1937: Lawrence Watkin, On Borrowed Time (novel) [151]

1938: see nonfiction

1939: Elgin Groseclose, Ararat (novel) [152]

1940: see nonfiction

1941: George Sessions Perry, Hold Autumn in Your Hand (novel) [147]

Most Original Book (1935–1939)

1935: Charles G. Finney, The Circus of Dr. Lao (novel) [149]

1936: see nonfiction

1937: see nonfiction

1938: see nonfiction

1939: Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun (novel) [152]

Repeat winners

See Winners of multiple U.S. National Book Awards

Notes

  1. ↑ The Complete Stories was named the "Best of the National Book Awards" as part of the Fiction Award's 60th anniversary celebration in 2009, by internet visitors voting on a ballot of the best six award winners selected by writers associated with the Foundation.
  2. 1 2 3 The Fiction panels split the 1973, 1974, and 1975 awards. Split awards have been prohibited continuously from 1984.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Contemporary coverage by The New York Times lists four "close seconds" for the four awards, three of which were works of fiction. The third listed was nonfiction, but Nonfiction was the second listed award winner, so the allocation of "close seconds" to award categories is uncertain.

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