Clone of National Book Award for Fiction

  1. 2008 Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend by Peter Matthiessen
  2. 2007 Tree of Smoke: A Novel by Denis Johnson
  3. 2006 The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
  4. 2005 Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
  5. 2004 The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck
  6. 2003 The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
  7. 2002 Three Junes by Julia Glass
  8. 2001 The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
  9. 2000 In America by Susan Sontag
  10. 1999 Waiting by Ha Jin
  11. 1998 Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
  12. 1997 Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
  13. 1996 Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett
  14. 1995 Sabbath's Theater by Phillip Roth
  15. 1994 Frolic of His Own by William Gladdis
  16. 1993 The Shipping News by E. Anne Proulx
  17. 1992 All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
  18. 1991 Mating by Norman Rush
  19. 1990 Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
  20. 1989 Spartina by John Casey
  21. 1988 Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
  22. 1987 Paco's Story by Larry Heinemann
  23. 1986 World's Fair by E.L. Doctorow
  24. 1985 White Noise by Don DeLillo
  25. 1984 Victory Over Japan by Ellen Gilchrist
  26. 1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  27. 1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
  28. 1981 Plains Song by Wright Morris
  29. 1980 Sophie's Choice by William Styron
  30. 1979 Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
  31. 1978 Blood Ties by Mary Lee Settle
  32. 1977 The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner
  33. 1976 J.R. by William Gaddis
  34. 1975 Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
  35. 1975 The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams
  36. 1974 Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
  37. 1974 A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
  38. 1973 Chimera by John Barth
  39. 1972 The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
  40. 1971 Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow
  41. 1970 Them by Joyce Carol Oates
  42. 1969 Steps by Jerzy Kosinski
  43. 1968 The Eighth Day by Thorton Wilder
  44. 1967 The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
  45. 1966 The Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter
  46. 1965 Herzog by Saul Bellow
  47. 1964 The Centaur by John Updike
  48. 1963 Morte D'Urban by J.F. Powers
  49. 1962 The Movie Goer by Walker Percy
  50. 1961 The Waters of Kronos by Conrad Richter
  51. 1960 Good-bye, Columbus by Phillip Roth
  52. 1959 The Magis Barrel by Bernard Malamud
  53. 1958 The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
  54. 1957 The Field of Vision by Wright Morris
  55. 1956 Ten North Frederick by John O'Hara
  56. 1955 A Fable by William Faulkner
  57. 1954 The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
  58. 1953 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  59. 1952 From Here to Eternity by James Jones
  60. 1951 The Collected Stories by William Faulkner
  61. 1950 The Man With the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
Author Comments: 

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