National Book Award for FictionCheck all the winners of National Book Award for Fiction. |
| Year | Winner | Winner Work | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 |
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James McBride | The Good Lord Bird |
| 2012 |
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Louise Erdrich | The Round House |
| 2011 |
|
Jesmyn Ward | Salvage the Bones |
| 2010 |
|
Jaimy Gordon | Lord of Misrule |
| 2009 |
|
Colum McCann | Let the Great World Spin |
| 2008 |
|
Peter Matthiessen | Shadow Country |
| 2007 |
|
Denis Johnson | Tree of Smoke |
| 2006 |
|
Richard Powers | The Echo Maker |
| 2005 |
|
William T. Vollmann | Europe Central |
| 2004 |
|
Lily Tuck | The News from Paraguay |
| 2003 |
|
Shirley Hazzard | The Great Fire |
| 2002 |
|
Julia Glass | Three Junes |
| 2001 |
|
Jonathan Franzen | The Corrections |
| 2000 |
|
Susan Sontag | In America |
| 1999 |
|
Ha Jin | Waiting: A Novel |
| 1998 |
|
Alice McDermott | Charming Billy |
| 1997 |
|
Charles Frazier | Cold Mountain |
| 1996 |
|
Andrea Barrett | Ship Fever |
| 1995 |
|
Philip Roth | Sabbath's Theater |
| 1994 |
|
William Gaddis | A Frolic of His Own |
| 1993 |
|
E. Annie Proulx | The Shipping News |
| 1992 |
|
Cormac McCarthy | All the Pretty Horses |
| 1991 |
|
Norman Rush | Mating |
| 1990 |
|
Charles R. Johnson | Middle Passage |
| 1989 |
|
John Casey | Spartina |
| 1988 |
|
Pete Dexter | Paris Trout |
| 1987 |
|
Larry Heinemann | Paco's Story |
| 1986 |
|
E. L. Doctorow | World's Fair |
| 1985 |
|
Don DeLillo | White Noise |
| 1984 |
|
Ellen Gilchrist | Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories |
| 1979 |
|
Tim O'Brien | Going After Cacciato |
| 1978 |
|
Mary Lee Settle | Blood Tie |
| 1977 |
|
Wallace Stegner | The Spectator Bird |
| 1976 |
|
William Gaddis | J R |
| 1975 |
|
Robert Stone | Dog Soldiers |
| 1975 |
|
Thomas Williams | The Hair of Harold Roux |
| 1974 |
|
Thomas Pynchon | Gravity's Rainbow |
| 1974 |
|
Isaac Bashevis Singer | A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories |
| 1973 |
|
John Barth | Chimera |
| 1973 |
|
John Edward Williams | Augustus |
| 1972 |
|
Flannery O'Connor | The Complete Stories |
| 1971 |
|
Saul Bellow | Mr. Sammler's Planet |
| 1970 |
|
Joyce Carol Oates | Them |
| 1969 |
|
Jerzy Kosi?ski | Steps |
| 1968 |
|
Thornton Wilder | The Eighth Day |
| 1967 |
|
Bernard Malamud | The Fixer |
| 1966 |
|
Katherine Anne Porter | The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter |
| 1965 |
|
Saul Bellow | Herzog |
| 1964 |
|
John Updike | The Centaur |
| 1963 |
|
J. F. Powers | Morte D'Urban |
| 1962 |
|
Walker Percy | The Moviegoer |
| 1961 |
|
Conrad Richter | The Waters of Kronos |
| 1960 |
|
Philip Roth | Goodbye, Columbus |
| 1959 |
|
Bernard Malamud | The Magic Barrel |
| 1958 |
|
John Cheever | The Wapshot Chronicle |
| 1957 |
|
Wright Morris | The Field of Vision |
| 1956 |
|
John O'Hara | Ten North Frederick |
| 1955 |
|
William Faulkner | A Fable |
| 1954 |
|
Saul Bellow | The Adventures of Augie March |
| 1953 |
|
Ralph Ellison | Invisible Man |
| 1952 |
|
James Jones | From Here to Eternity |
| 1951 |
|
William Faulkner | The Collected Stories of William Faulkner |
| 1950 |
|
Nelson Algren | The Man with the Golden Arm |
| 1940 |
|
Richard Llewellyn | How Green Was My Valley |
| 1939 |
|
John Steinbeck | The Grapes of Wrath |
| 1938 |
|
Daphne du Maurier | Rebecca |
| 1937 |
|
A. J. Cronin | The Citadel |
