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National Book Award for Fiction

Best Book Awards

2007
Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson (winner)
Like You'd Understand, Anyway by Jim Shepard

2006
Only Revolutions by Mark Z Danielewski
A Disorder Peculiar to the Country by Ken Kalfus
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers (winner)
Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta
The Zero by Jess Walter

2005
The March by E L Doctorow
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
Trance by Christopher Sorrentino
Holy Skirts by René Steinke
Europe Central by William T Vollmann (winner)

2004
Madeleine Is Sleeping by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Florida by Christine Schutt
Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories by Joan Silber
The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck (winner)
Our Kind: A Novel in Stories by Kate Walbert

2003
Drop City by T C Boyle
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard (winner)
The Known World by Edward P Jones
A Ship Made of Paper by Scott Spencer
Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins

2002
Three Junes by Julia Glass (winner)

2001
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (winner)

2000
In America by Susan Sontag (winner)

1999
Waiting by Ha Jin (winner)

1998
Charming Billy by Alice McDermott (winner)

1997
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (winner)

1996
Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett (winner)

1995
Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth (winner)

1994
A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis (winner)

1993
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx (winner)

1992
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (winner)

1991
Mating by Norman Rush (winner)

1990
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson (winner)

1989
Spartina by John Casey (winner)

1988
Paris Trout by Pete Dexter (winner)

1987
Paco's Story by Larry Heinemann (winner)

1986
World's Fair by E L Doctorow (winner)

1985
White Noise by Don DeLillo (winner)

1984
Victory Over Japan by Ellen Gilchrist (winner)

1983
The Color Purple by Alice Walker (winner)
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty (winner)

1982
Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (winner)

1981
Plains Song by Wright Morris (winner)

1980
Sophie's Choice by William Styron (winner)

1979
Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien (winner)

1978
Blood Tie by Mary Lee Settle (winner)

1977
The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner (winner)

1976
JR by William Gaddis (winner)

1975
Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone (winner)
The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams (winner)

1974
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (winner)
A Crown of Feathers: And Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer (winner)

1973
Chimera by John Barth (winner)
Augustus by John Williams (winner)

1972
The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor (winner)

1971
Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow (winner)

1970
Them by Joyce Carol Oates (winner)

1969
Steps by Jerzy Kosinski (winner)

1968
The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder (winner)

1967
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (winner)

1966
Collected Short Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (winner)

1965
Herzog by Saul Bellow (winner)

1964
The Centaur by John Updike (winner)

1963
Morte D'Urban by J F Powers (winner)

1962
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy (winner)

1961
The Waters of Kronos by Conrad Richter (winner)

1960
Goodbye, Columbus: And Five Short Stories by Philip Roth (winner)

1959
The Magic Barrel: And Other Stories by Bernard Malamud (winner)

1958
The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever (winner)

1957
The Field of Vision by Wright Morris (winner)

1956
Ten North Frederick by John O'Hara (winner)

1955
A Fable by William Faulkner (winner)

1954
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (winner)

1953
The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (winner)

1952
From Here to Eternity by James Jones (winner)

1951
Collected Stories of William Faulkner by William Faulkner (winner)

1950
The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren (winner)

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