National Book Award for Fiction
Submitted by jccarter25 on Fri, 08/14/2009 - 10:15
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- 2008 Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend by Peter Matthiessen
- 2007 Tree of Smoke: A Novel 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 Phillip Roth
- 1994 Frolic of His Own by William Gladdis
- 1993 The Shipping News by E. Anne 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 by Ellen Gilchrist
- 1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- 1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
- 1981 Plain Song by Wright Morris
- 1980 Sophie's Choice by William Styron
- 1979 Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
- 1978 Blood Ties by Mary Lee Settle
- 1977 The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner
- 1976 J.R. 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
- 1972 The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
- 1971 Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow
- 1970 Them by Joyce Carol Oates
- 1969 Steps by Jerzy Kosinski
- 1968 The Eighth Day by Thorton Wilder
- 1967 The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
- 1966 The Collected Stories 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 Good-bye, Columbus by Phillip Roth
- 1959 The Magic Barrel 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 by William Faulkner
- 1950 The Man With the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
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The National Book Award is awarded by the National Book Foundation. Listed here are the winners in the Fiction category.
Highlighted books are books I've read.
Bold print is books I own.
http://www.powells.com/prizes/national.html