The National Book Award is awarded by the National Book Foundation. Listed
here are the winners in the Fiction category. Other categories include Nonfiction,
Poetry, Young
People's Literature, and the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to
American Letters.
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 A
Frolic of His Own by William
Gaddis
1993 The
Shipping News by E.
Annie 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
1986 Arctic
Dreams by Barry
Lopez
1985 White
Noise by Don
Delillo
1985 Easy
in the Islands (1st Novel Award) by Bob
Shacochis
1984 Stones
for Ibarra (1st Novel Award) by Harriet
Doerr
1984 Victory
Over Japan by Ellen
Gilchrist
1983 The
Women of Brewster Place by Gloria
Naylor
1983 The
Collected Stories by Eudora
Welty
1983 The
Color Purple by Alice
Walker
1982 Dale
Loves Sophie to Death (1st Novel Award) by Robb
Forman Dew
1982 Rabbit
is Rich by John
Updike
1981 Plains
Song by Wright
Morris
1981 Sister
Wolf (1st Novel Award) by Ann
Arensberg
1980 Birdy
(1st Novel Award) by William
Wharton
1980 Sophie's
Choice by William
Styron
1980 The
World According to Garp by John
Irving
1979 Going
After Cacciato by Tim
O'Brien
1978 Blood
Ties by Mary
Lee Settle
1977 The
Spectator Bird by Wallace
Stegner
1977 Master
Tung`s Western Chamber Romance by Li
Li Chen
1976 JR
by William
Gaddis
1975 The
Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas
Williams
1975 Dog
Soldiers by Robert
Stone
1974 Gravity's
Ranbow by Thomas
Pynchon
1974 A
Crown of Feathers and Other Stories by Isaac
Bashevis Singer
1973 Augustus
by John
Williams
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 Thornton
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 Goodbye
Columbus by Philip
Roth
1959 The
Magic Barrell by Bernard
Malamud
1958 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