Award Winners
The best of the best in literature.
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National Book Award
2007: Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
2006: The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
2005: Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
2004: The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck
2003: The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
2002: Three Junes by Julia Glass
2001: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
2000: In America by Susan Sontag
1999: Waiting by Ha Jin
1998: Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
1997: Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
1996: Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett
1995: Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
1994: A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis
1993: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
1992: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
1991: Mating by Norman Rush
1990: Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
1989: Spartina by John Casey
1988: Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
1987: Paco's Story by Larry Heinemann
1986: World's Fair by E.L. Doctorow
1985: White Noise by Don DeLillo
1984: Victory over Japan: A Book of Stories by Ellen Gilchrist
1983: (HC) The Color Purple by Alice Walker
1983: (PB) Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
1982: (HC) Rabbit is Rich by John Updike
1982: (PB) So Long See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
1981: (HC) Plains Song by Wright Morris
1981: (PB) The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
1980: (HC) Sophie's Choice by William Styron
1980: (PB) The World According to Garp by John Irving
1979: Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
1978: Blood Ties by Mary Lee Settle
1977: The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner
1976: Jr by William Gaddis
1975: Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
1975: The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams
1974: Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
1974: A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
1973: Chimera by John Barth
1973: Augustus by John Williams
1972: The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor by Flannery O'Connor
1971: Mr Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow
1970: Them by Joyce Carol Oates
1969: Steps by Jerry Kosinski
1968: The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder
1967: The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
1966: The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
1965: Herzog by Saul Bellow
1964: The Centaur by John Updike
1963: Morte D'Urban by J.F. Powers
1962: The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
1961: The Waters of Kronos by Conrad Richter
1960: Goodbye, Columbus by Richard Roth
1959: The Magic Barrell by Bernard Malamud
1958: The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
1957: The Field of Vision by Wright Morris
1956: Ten North Frederick by John O'Hara
1955: A Fable by William Faulkner
1954: The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
1953: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
1952: From Here to Eternity by James Jones
1951: The Collected Stories of William Faulkner by William Faulkner
1950: The Man With The Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
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