National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

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  • 2008 2666 by Roberto BolaƱo
  • 2007 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
  • 2006 The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
  • 2005 The March by E.L. Doctorow
  • 2004 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
  • 2003 The Known World by Edward P. Jones
  • 2002 Atonement by Ian McEwan
  • 2001 Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
  • 2000 Being Dead by Jim Crace
  • 1999 Motherless Brooklyn byJonathan Lethem
  • 1998 The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro
  • 1997 The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
  • 1996 Women in Their Beds by Gina Berriault
  • 1995 Mrs. Ted Bliss by Stanley Elkin
  • 1994 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
  • 1993 A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
  • 1992 All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
  • 1991 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
  • 1990 Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
  • 1989 Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow
  • 1988 The Middleman and Other Stories by Bharati Mukherjee
  • 1987 The Counterlife by Philip Roth
  • 1986 Kate Vaiden by Reynolds Price
  • 1985 The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
  • 1984 Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
  • 1983 Ironweed by William Kennedy
  • 1982 George Mills by Stanley Elkin
  • 1981 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
  • 1980 The Transit Of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
  • 1979 The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan
  • 1978 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
  • 1977 Song Of Solomon by Toni Morrison
  • 1976 October Light by John Gardner
  • 1975 Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
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The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization consisting of more than 900 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns. The centerpiece of NBCC activities is the annual awards for the best book in six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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