National Book Award - Fiction (Awarded by National Book Foundation)

Awards List

2023

Blackouts
(Winner)
Justin Torres

The End of Drum-Time
(Finalist)
Hanna Pylvainen

This Other Eden
(Finalist)
Paul Harding

Chain-Gang All-Stars
(Finalist)
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Temple Folk
(Finalist)
Aaliyah Bilal

Loot
(Longlist)
Tania James

Ponyboy
(Longlist)
Eliot Duncan

A Council of Dolls
(Longlist)
Mona Susan Power

Holler, Child: Stories
(Longlist)
LaToya Watkins

Night Watch
(Longlist)
Jayne Anne Phillips

2022

The Rabbit Hutch
(Winner)
Tess Gunty

The Town of Babylon
(Finalist)
Alejandro Varela

The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
(Finalist)
Jamil Jan Kochai

All This Could Be Different
(Finalist)
Sarah Thankam Mathews

The Birdcatcher
(Finalist)
Gayl Jones

Nobody Gets Out Alive: Stories
(Longlist)
Leigh Newman

Maria, Maria & Other Stories
(Longlist)
Marytza K. Rubio

Shutter
(Longlist)
Ramona Emerson

If I Survive You
(Longlist)
Jonathan Escoffery

When We Were Sisters
(Longlist)
Fatimah Asghar

2021

Hell of a Book
(Winner)
Jason Mott

The Prophets
(Finalist)
Robert Jones Jr.

Zorrie
(Finalist)
Laird Hunt

Matrix
(Finalist)
Lauren Groff

Cloud Cuckoo Land
(Finalist)
Anthony Doerr

Abundance
(Longlist)
Jakob Guanzon

The Souvenir Museum
(Longlist)
Elizabeth McCracken

Intimacies
(Longlist)
Katie Kitamura

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
(Longlist)
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

Bewilderment
(Longlist)
Richard Powers

2020

Interior Chinatown
(Winner)
Charles Yu

Shuggie Bain
(Finalist)
Douglas Stuart

A Children's Bible
(Finalist)
Lydia Millet

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
(Finalist)
Deesha Philyaw

Leave the World Behind
(Finalist)
Rumaan Alam

The Index of Self-Destructive Acts
(Longlist)
Christopher R. Beha

A Burning
(Longlist)
Megha Majumdar

The Vanishing Half
(Longlist)
Brit Bennett

The Great Offshore Grounds
(Longlist)
Vanessa Veselka

If I Had Two Wings
(Longlist)
Randall Kenan

2019

Trust Exercise
(Winner)
Susan Choi

Black Leopard, Red Wolf
(Finalist)
Marlon James

The Other Americans
(Finalist)
Laila Lalami

Sabrina & Corina: Stories
(Finalist)
Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Disappearing Earth
(Finalist)
Julia Phillips

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
(Longlist)
Ocean Vuong

Fleishman Is in Trouble
(Longlist)
Taffy Brodesser-Akner

The Need
(Longlist)
Helen Phillips

The Nickel Boys
(Longlist)
Colson Whitehead

Black Light: Stories
(Longlist)
Kimberly King Parsons

2018

The Friend
(Winner)
Sigrid Nunez

Where the Dead Sit Talking
(Finalist)
Brandon Hobson

A Lucky Man: Stories
(Finalist)
Jamel Brinkley

Florida
(Finalist)
Lauren Groff

The Great Believers
(Finalist)
Rebecca Makkai

An American Marriage
(Longlist)
Tayari Jones

Gun Love
(Longlist)
Jennifer Clement

Heads of the Colored People: Stories
(Longlist)
Nafissa Thompson-Spires

The Boatbuilder
(Longlist)
Daniel Gumbiner

There There
(Longlist)
Tommy Orange

2017

Sing, Unburied, Sing
(Winner)
Jesmyn Ward

Dark at the Crossing
(Finalist)
Elliot Ackerman

Pachinko
(Finalist)
Min Jin Lee

The Leavers
(Finalist)
Lisa Ko

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
(Finalist)
Carmen Maria Machado

Barren Island
(Longlist)
Carol Zoref

Miss Burma
(Longlist)
Charmaine Craig

A Kind of Freedom
(Longlist)
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

Manhattan Beach
(Longlist)
Jennifer Egan

The King Is Always Above the People: Stories
(Longlist)
Daniel Alarcon

2016

The Underground Railroad
(Winner)
Colson Whitehead

The Association of Small Bombs
(Finalist)
Karan Mahajan

The Throwback Special
(Finalist)
Chris Bachelder

Another Brooklyn
(Finalist)
Jacqueline Woodson

News of the World
(Finalist)
Paulette Jiles

The Portable Veblen
(Longlist)
Elizabeth McKenzie

What Belongs to You
(Longlist)
Garth Greenwell

Imagine Me Gone
(Longlist)
Adam Haslett

Sweet Lamb of Heaven
(Longlist)
Lydia Millet

Miss Jane
(Longlist)
Brad Watson

2015

Interesting Facts: Stories
(Winner)
Adam Johnson

Refund: Stories
(Finalist)
Karen E. Bender

A Little Life
(Finalist)
Hanya Yanagihara

The Turner House
(Finalist)
Angela Flournoy

Interesting Facts: Stories
(Finalist)
Adam Johnson

Fates and Furies
(Finalist)
Lauren Groff

Honeydew: Stories
(Longlist)
Edith Pearlman

Refund: Stories
(Longlist)
Karen E. Bender

Welcome to Braggsville
(Longlist)
T. Geronimo Johnson

A Little Life
(Longlist)
Hanya Yanagihara

The Turner House
(Longlist)
Angela Flournoy

Mislaid
(Longlist)
Nell Zink

A Cure for Suicide
(Longlist)
Jesse Ball

Interesting Facts: Stories
(Longlist)
Adam Johnson

Did You Ever Have a Family
(Longlist)
Bill Clegg

Fates and Furies
(Longlist)
Lauren Groff

2014

Redeployment
(Winner)
Phil Klay

All the Light We Cannot See
(Finalist)
Anthony Doerr

Station Eleven
(Finalist)
Emily St. John Mandel

Lila
(Finalist)
Marilynne Robinson

Orfeo
(Longlist)
Richard Powers

The UnAmericans: Stories
(Longlist)
Molly Antopol

Thunderstruck & Other Stories
(Longlist)
Elizabeth McCracken

Wolf in White Van
(Longlist)
John Darnielle

Some Luck
(Longlist)
Jane Smiley

2013

The Good Lord Bird
(Winner)
James McBride

Tenth of December
(Finalist)
George Saunders

The Flamethrowers
(Finalist)
Rachel Kushner

Bleeding Edge
(Finalist)
Thomas Pynchon

The Lowland
(Finalist)
Jhumpa Lahiri

The End of the Point
(Longlist)
Elizabeth Graver

Alt-Country
(Longlist)
Tom Drury

Fools
(Longlist)
Joan Silber

Someone
(Longlist)
Alice McDermott

2012

The Round House
(Winner)
Louise Erdrich

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
(Finalist)
Ben Fountain

A Hologram for the King
(Finalist)
Dave Eggers

This Is How You Lose Her
(Finalist)
Junot Diaz

The Yellow Birds
(Finalist)
Kevin Powers

2011

Salvage the Bones
(Winner)
Jesmyn Ward

Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories
(Finalist)
Edith Pearlman

The Tiger's Wife
(Finalist)
Tea Obreht

The Sojourn
(Finalist)
Andrew Krivak

The Buddha in the Attic
(Finalist)
Julie Otsuka

2010

Lord of Misrule
(Winner)
Jaimy Gordon

I Hotel
(Finalist)
Karen Tei Yamashita

Great House
(Finalist)
Nicole Krauss

2009

Let the Great World Spin
(Winner)
Colum McCann

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
(Finalist)
Daniyal Mueenuddin

2008

Shadow Country
(Winner)
Peter Matthiessen

Home
(Finalist)
Marilynne Robinson

The End
(Finalist)
Salvatore Scibona

2007

Tree of Smoke
(Winner)
Denis Johnson

Then We Came to the End
(Finalist)
Joshua Ferris

Varieties of Disturbance
(Finalist)
Lydia Davis

2006

The Echo Maker
(Winner)
Richard Powers

Only Revolutions
(Finalist)
Mark Z. Danielewski

2004

The News from Paraguay
(Winner)
Lily Tuck

Florida
(Finalist)
Christine Schutt

2003

The Great Fire
(Winner)
Shirley Hazzard

The Known World
(Finalist)
Edward P. Jones

2002

Three Junes
(Winner)
Julia Glass

2001

The Corrections
(Winner)
Jonathan Franzen

2000

In America
(Winner)
Susan Sontag

Blonde
(Longlist)
Joyce Carol Oates

Blue Angel
(Longlist)
Francine Prose

The Feast of Love
(Longlist)
Charles Baxter

The Diagnosis
(Longlist)
Alan Lightman

1999

Waiting
(Winner)
Ha Jin

Plainsong
(Longlist)
Kent Haruf

1998

Charming Billy
(Winner)
Alice McDermott

1997

Cold Mountain
(Winner)
Charles Frazier

Le Divorce
(Longlist)
Diane Johnson

Echo House
(Longlist)
Ward Just

The Puttermesser Papers
(Longlist)
Cynthia Ozick

Underworld
(Longlist)
Don DeLillo

1996

Ship Fever and Other Stories
(Winner)
Andrea Barrett

Atticus
(Longlist)
Ron Hansen

The River Beyond the World
(Longlist)
Janet Peery

1995

Sabbath's Theater
(Winner)
Philip Roth

Krik? Krak!
(Longlist)
Edwidge Danticat

1994

Frolic of His Own
(Winner)
William Gaddis

The Bird Artist
(Longlist)
Howard Norman

1993

The Shipping News
(Winner)
Annie Proulx

Come to Me
(Longlist)
Amy Bloom

Operation Wandering Soul
(Longlist)
Richard Powers

The Pugilist at Rest
(Longlist)
Thom Jones

1992

All the Pretty Horses
(Winner)
Cormac McCarthy

Dreaming In Cuban
(Longlist)
Cristina Garcia

Outerbridge Reach
(Longlist)
Robert Stone

1991

Mating
(Winner)
Norman Rush

The Macguffin
(Longlist)
Stanley Elkin

Wartime Lies
(Longlist)
Louis Begley

1990

Middle Passage
(Winner)
Charles Johnson

Dogeaters
(Longlist)
Jessica Hagedorn

Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart
(Longlist)
Joyce Carol Oates

Chromos
(Longlist)
Felipe Alfau

Paradise
(Longlist)
Elena Castedo

1989

Spartina
(Winner)
John Casey

The Joy Luck Club
(Longlist)
Amy Tan

1988

Paris Trout
(Winner)
Pete Dexter

1987

Paco's Story
(Winner)
Larry Heinemann

1986

World's Fair
(Winner)
E.L. Doctorow

1985

White Noise
(Winner)
Don DeLillo

1984

Victory Over Japan
(Winner)
Ellen Gilchrist
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1979

Going After Cacciato
(Winner)
Tim O'Brien

1977

The Spectator Bird
(Winner)
Wallace Stegner

1975

The Hair of Harold Roux
(Winner)
Thomas Williams
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

Dog Soldiers
(Winner)
Robert Stone
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1974

Gravity's Rainbow
(Winner)
Thomas Pynchon
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1973

Chimera
(Winner)
John Barth

1971

Mr. Sammler's Planet
(Winner)
Saul Bellow

1970

Them
(Winner)
Joyce Carol Oates
  • / Historical Romance
  • Buy Buy

1969

Steps
(Winner)
Jerzy Kosinski
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1968

The Eighth Day
(Winner)
Thornton Wilder

1967

The Fixer
(Winner)
Bernard Malamud
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1966

The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
(Winner)
Katherine Anne Porter
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1965

Herzog
(Winner)
Saul Bellow
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1964

Centaur
(Winner)
John Updike

1962

Moviegoer
(Winner)
Walker Percy

1960

Goodbye, Columbus
(Winner)
Philip Roth
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1959

The Magic Barrel
(Winner)
Bernard Malamud
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1958

The Wapshot Chronicle
(Winner)
John Cheever
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1956

Ten North Frederick
(Winner)
John O'Hara

1955

A Fable
(Winner)
William Faulkner
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1954

The Adventures of Augie March
(Winner)
Saul Bellow

1953

Invisible Man
(Winner)
Ralph Ellison

1952

From Here to Eternity
(Winner)
James Jones
  • / Action Adventure
  • Buy Buy

1950

The Man with the Golden Arm
(Winner)
Nelson Algren
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

Award Categories

Children's

Children's Book: Fiction (hardcover)

Children's Book: Fiction (paperback)

Fiction

Fiction (Hardcover)

Fiction (Paperback)

First Novel

Mystery (hardcover)

Mystery (paperback)

Original Paperback

Picture Book (Hardcover)

Science Fiction (hardcover)

Science Fiction (paperback)

Young People's Literature

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