National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionCheck all the winners of National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. |
| Year | Winner | Winner Work | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 |
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Hilary Mantel | Wolf Hall |
| 2008 |
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Roberto Bolaño | 2666 |
| 2007 |
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Junot Díaz | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao |
| 2006 |
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Kiran Desai | The Inheritance of Loss |
| 2005 |
|
E. L. Doctorow | The March |
| 2004 |
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Marilynne Robinson | Gilead |
| 2003 |
|
Edward P. Jones | The Known World |
| 2002 |
|
Ian McEwan | Atonement |
| 2001 |
|
W. G. Sebald | Austerlitz |
| 2000 |
|
Jim Crace | Being Dead |
| 1999 |
|
Jonathan Lethem | Motherless Brooklyn |
| 1998 |
|
Alice Munro | The Love of a Good Woman: Stories |
| 1997 |
|
Penelope Fitzgerald | The Blue Flower |
| 1996 |
|
Gina Berriault | Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories |
| 1995 |
|
Stanley Elkin | Mrs. Ted Bliss |
| 1994 |
|
Carol Shields | The Stone Diaries |
| 1993 |
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Ernest J. Gaines | A Lesson Before Dying |
| 1992 |
|
Cormac McCarthy | All the Pretty Horses |
| 1991 |
|
Jane Smiley | A Thousand Acres |
| 1990 |
|
John Updike | Rabbit at Rest |
| 1989 |
|
E. L. Doctorow | Billy Bathgate |
| 1988 |
|
Bharati Mukherjee | The Middleman and Other Stories |
| 1987 |
|
Philip Roth | The Counterlife |
| 1986 |
|
Reynolds Price | Kate Vaiden |
| 1985 |
|
Anne Tyler | The Accidental Tourist |
| 1984 |
|
Louise Erdrich | Love Medicine |
| 1983 |
|
William Kennedy | Ironweed |
| 1982 |
|
Stanley Elkin | George Mills |
| 1981 |
|
John Updike | Rabbit Is Rich |
| 1980 |
|
Shirley Hazzard | The Transit Of Venus |
| 1979 |
|
Thomas Flanagan | The Year of the French |
| 1978 |
|
John Cheever | The Stories of John Cheever |
| 1977 |
|
Toni Morrison | Song of Solomon |
| 1976 |
|
John Gardner | October Light |
| 1975 |
|
E. L. Doctorow | Ragtime |
