National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

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The National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, established in 1976, [1] is an annual American literary award presented by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote "the finest books and reviews published in English." [2]

Contents

Books previously published in English are not eligible, such as re-issues and paperback editions. They do consider "translations, short story and essay collections, self published books, and any titles that fall under the general categories." [3]

The judges are the volunteer directors of the NBCC who are 24 members serving rotating three-year terms, with eight elected annually by the voting members, namely "professional book review editors and book reviewers." [4] Winners of the awards are announced each year at the NBCC awards ceremony in conjunction with the yearly membership meeting, which takes place in March. [3]

Recipients

National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction winners and finalists
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
1975 E. L. Doctorow Ragtime Winner [5]
1976 John Gardner October Light Winner [6]
Cynthia Ozick Bloodshed and Three NovellasFinalist [6]
Vladimir Nabokov Details of a Sunset and Other Stories
Renata Adler Speedboat
Richard Yates The Easter Parade
1977 Toni Morrison Song of Solomon Winner [7]
Joan Didion A Book of Common Prayer Finalist [7]
John Cheever Falconer
Philip Roth The Professor of Desire
John Sayles Union Dues
1978 John Cheever The Stories of John Cheever Winner [8]
Mary Gordon Final PaymentsFinalist [8]
John Updike The Coup
John Irving The World According to Garp
Charles Simmons Wrinkles
1979 Thomas Flanagan The Year of the French Winner [9]
Leslie Epstein King of the Jews: A Novel of the HolocaustFinalist [9]
Elizabeth Hardwick Sleepless Nights
William Styron Sophie's Choice
Norman Mailer The Executioner's Song: A True Life Novel
Philip Roth The Ghost Writer
1980 Shirley Hazzard The Transit of Venus Winner [10]
E. L. Doctorow Loon Lake Finalist [10]
Anne Tyler Morgan's Passing
William Maxwell So Long, See You Tomorrow
Walker Percy The Second Coming
1981 John Updike Rabbit Is Rich Winner [11]
Robert Stone A Flag for Sunrise Finalist [11]
Russell Hoban Riddley Walker
Donald Barthelme Sixty Stories
Leonard Michaels The Men's Club
1982 Stanley Elkin George Mills Winner [12]
Anne Tyler Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Finalist [12]
Cynthia Ozick Levitation: Five Fictions
Bobbie Ann Mason Shiloh and Other Stories
Alice Walker The Color Purple
1983 William Kennedy Ironweed Winner [13]
Raymond Carver Cathedral Finalist [13]
Joan Chase During the Reign of the Queen of Persia
Ron Loewinsohn Magnetic Field (s)
Philip Roth The Anatomy Lesson
1984 Louise Erdrich Love Medicine Winner [14]
David Leavitt Family DancingFinalist [14]
Alison Lurie Foreign Affairs
Jayne Anne Phillips Machine Dreams
Harriet Doerr Stones for Ibarra
1985 Anne Tyler The Accidental Tourist Winner [15]
Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove Finalist [15]
Peter Taylor The Old Forest and Other Stories
Richard Powers Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance
Don DeLillo White Noise
1986 Reynolds Price Kate Vaiden Winner [16]
Peter Taylor A Summons to Memphis Finalist [16]
John Updike Roger's Version
Louise Erdrich The Beet Queen
Thomas Williams The Moon Pinnacle
1987 Philip Roth The Counterlife Winner [17]
Toni Morrison Beloved Finalist [17]
Wallace Stegner Crossing to Safety
Jane Smiley The Age of Grief
Tom Wolfe The Bonfire of the Vanities
1988 Bharati Mukherjee The Middleman and Other Stories Winner [18]
Don DeLillo Libra Finalist [18]
Pete Dexter Paris Trout
J. F. Powers Wheat That Springeth Green
Raymond Carver Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
1989 E. L. Doctorow Billy Bathgate Winner [19]
Jane Smiley Ordinary Love & Good WillFinalist [19]
John Casey Spartina
Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club
Oscar Hijuelos The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
1990 John Updike Rabbit at Rest Winner [20]
Wallace Stegner Collected StoriesFinalist [20]
Sue Miller Family Pictures
Charles Johnson Middle Passage
Tim O’Brien The Things They Carried
1991 Jane Smiley A Thousand Acres Winner [21]
Norman Rush Mating Finalist [21]
Richard Powers The Gold Bug Variations
Gish Jen Typical American
Louis Begley Wartime Lies
1992 Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses Winner [22]
Joyce Carol Oates Black Water Finalist [22]
Richard Price Clockers
Randall Kenan Let the Dead Bury Their Dead
Robert Stone Outerbridge Reach
1993 Ernest J. Gaines A Lesson Before Dying Winner [23]
Bobbie Ann Mason Feather CrownsFinalist [23]
Rikki Ducornet The Jade Cabinet
E. Annie Proulx The Shipping News
Frances Sherwood Vindication
1994 Carol Shields The Stone Diaries Winner [24]
William Gaddis A Frolic of His Own Finalist [24]
Julius Lester And All Our Wounds Forgiven
Julia Alvarez In the Time of the Butterflies
Alan Isler The Prince of West End Avenue
1995 Stanley Elkin Mrs. Ted Bliss Winner [25]
Richard Powers Galatea 2.2 Finalist [25]
Richard Ford Independence Day
Jane Smiley Moo
Paul West The Tent of Orange Mist
1996 Gina Berriault Women in Their Beds Winner [26]
Louis Begley About SchmidtFinalist [26]
Andre Dubus Dancing After Hours
Henry Roth From Bondage
Jamaica Kincaid The Autobiography of My Mother
1997 Penelope Fitzgerald The Blue Flower Winner [27]
Philip Roth American Pastoral Finalist [27]
Charles Frazier Cold Mountain
Andrei Makine Dreams of My Russian Summers
Don DeLillo Underworld
1998 Alice Munro The Love of a Good Woman Winner [28]
Lorrie Moore Birds of America Finalist [28]
Lynne Tillman No Lease on Life
David Gates Preston Falls
Michael Cunningham The Hours
1999 Jonathan Lethem Motherless Brooklyn Winner [29]
J. M. Coetzee Disgrace Finalist [29]
A. Manette Ansay Midnight Champagne
Frederick Busch The Night Inspector
David Gates The Wonders of the Invisible World
2000 Jim Crace Being Dead Winner [30]
Amy Bloom A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love YouFinalist [30]
David Means Assorted Fire Events
Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Zadie Smith White Teeth
2001 W.G. Sebald with Anthea Bell (trans.) Austerlitz Winner [31]
2002 Ian McEwan Atonement Winner
2003 Edward P. Jones The Known World Winner
2004 Marilynne Robinson Gilead Winner
2005 E. L. Doctorow The March Winner
2006 Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss Winner
2007 Junot Díaz The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Winner [32] [33] [34]
Hisham Matar In the Country of Men

Finalist

 [33]
Joyce Carol Oates The Gravedigger's Daughter
Marianne Wiggins The Shadow Catcher
Vikram Chandra Sacred Games
2008 Roberto Bolaño with Natasha Wimmer (trans.) 2666 Winner [35] [36]
Aleksandar Hemon The Lazarus Project Finalist [37] [35]
Elizabeth Strout Olive Kitteridge
M. Glenn Taylor The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart
Marilynne Robinson Home
2009 Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall Winner [38] [39] [40]
Bonnie Jo Campbell American SalvageFinalist [38]
Jayne Anne Phillips Lark and Termite
Marlon James The Book of Night Women
Michelle Huneven Blame
2010 Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad Winner [41] [42]
David Grossman To The End of the Land Finalist [41]
Hans Keilson Comedy in a Minor Key
Jonathan Franzen Freedom
Paul Murray Skippy Dies
2011 Edith Pearlman Binocular Vision: New and Selected StoriesWinner [43] [44]
Alan Hollinghurst The Stranger's Child Finalist [43] [44] [45]
Dana Spiotta Stone Arabia
Jeffrey Eugenides The Marriage Plot
Teju Cole Open City
2012 Ben Fountain Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Winner [46] [47]
Adam Johnson The Orphan Master's Son

Finalist

 [46] [48] [49]
Laurent Binet with Sam Taylor (trans.) HHhH
Lydia Millet Magnificence
Zadie Smith NW
2013 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Americanah Winner [50] [51]
Alice McDermott Someone

Finalist

 [50] [52]
Donna Tartt The Goldfinch
Javier Marías with Margaret Jull Costa (trans.) The Infatuations
Ruth Ozeki A Tale for the Time Being
2014 Marilynne Robinson Lila Winner [53] [54]
Chang-rae Lee On Such a Full Sea

Finalist

 [53] [55]
Lily King Euphoria
Marlon James A Brief History of Seven Killings
Rabih Alameddine An Unnecessary Woman
2015 Paul Beatty The Sellout Winner [56]
Anthony Marra The Tsar of Love and Techno

Finalist

 [56]
Lauren Groff Fates and Furies
Ottessa Moshfegh Eileen
Valeria Luiselli The Story of My Teeth
2016 Louise Erdrich LaRose Winner [57] [58]
Adam Haslett Imagine Me Gone

Finalist

 [57]
Ann Patchett Commonwealth
Michael Chabon Moonglow: A Novel
Zadie Smith Swing Time
2017 Joan Silber ImprovementWinner [59] [60] [61] [62]
Alice McDermott The Ninth Hour

Finalist

 [59] [58]
Arundhati Roy The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Jesmyn Ward Sing, Unburied, Sing
Mohsin Hamid Exit West
2018 Anna Burns Milkman Winner [63] [64] [65] [66]
Denis Johnson The Largesse of the Sea Maiden Finalist [63]
Luis Alberto Urrea The House of Broken Angels
Patrick Chamoiseau with Linda Coverdale (trans.) Slave Old Man
Rachel Kushner The Mars Room
2019 Edwidge Danticat Everything InsideWinner [67] [68]
Ben Lerner The Topeka School Finalist [67]
Colson Whitehead The Nickel Boys
Myla Goldberg Feast Your Eyes
Valeria Luiselli Lost Children Archive
2020 Maggie O'Farrell Hamnet Winner [69] [70] [71]
Bryan Washington Memorial Finalist [70]
Martin Amis Inside Story
Randall Kenan If I Had Two Wings
Souvankham Thammavongsa How to Pronounce Knife
2021 Honorée Fanonne Jeffers The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois Winner [72]
Colson Whitehead Harlem Shuffle Finalist [73] [74] [75]
Joshua Cohen The Netanyahus
Rachel Cusk Second Place
Sarah Hall Burntcoat
2022 Ling Ma Bliss Montage Winner [76]
Percival Everett Dr. NoFinalist [77]
Jon Fosse with Damion Searls (trans.)A New Name
Mieko Kawakami with Sam Bett and David Boyd (trans.) All the Lovers in the Night
Namwali Serpell The Furrows
2023 Lorrie Moore I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home Winner [78]
Teju Cole TremorFinalist [79]
Daniel Mason North Woods
Marie NDiaye with Jordan Stump (trans.)Vengeance Is Mine
Justin Torres Blackouts

References

  1. ↑ The National Book Critics Circle Journal 2:1, Spring 1976 Archived May 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine , NBCC. Retrieved February 2, 2012.
  2. ↑ "How We Pick Our Awards". National Book Critics Circle. Archived from the original on June 8, 2020. Retrieved 2022-01-24.
  3. 1 2 "Frequently Asked Questions". National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved 2022-01-24.
  4. ↑ "Membership". National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved 2022-01-24.
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