National Book Award Winners for FictionComplete list of National Book Winners For Fiction The National Book Awards are considered by many to be the nation's preeminent literary prizes since its establishment in 1950. The Awards are given to recognize achievements in four genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's Literature. |
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| Year | Author | Title |
| 2012 | Louise Erdrich | The Round House |
| 2011 | Jesmyn Ward | Salvage the Bones |
| 2010 | Jaimy Gordon |
Lord of Misrule |
| 2009 | Colum McCann |
Let The Great World Spin |
| 2008 | Peter Matthiessen | |
| 2007 | Denis Johnson | |
| 2006 | Richard Powers | The Echo Maker |
| 2005 | William T. Vollmann | Europe Central |
| 2004 | Lily Tuck | The News from Paraguay |
| 2003 | Shirley Hazzard | The Great Fire |
| 2002 | Julia Glass | Three Junes |
| 2001 | Jonathan Franzen | The Corrections |
| 2000 | Susan Sontag | In America |
| 1999 | Ha Jin | Waiting |
| 1998 | Alice McDermott | Charming Billy |
| 1997 | Charles Frazier | Cold Mountain |
| 1996 | Andrea Barrett | Ship Fever and Other Stories |
| 1995 | Philip Roth | Sabbath's Theater |
| 1994 | William Gaddis | A Frolic of His Own |
| 1993 | E. Annie Proulx | The Shipping News |
| 1992 | Cormac McCarthy | All the Pretty Horses |
| 1991 | Norman Rush | Mating |
| 1990 | Charles Johnson | Middle Passage |
| 1989 | John Casey | Spartina |
| 1988 | Pete Dexter | Paris Trout |
| 1987 | Larry Heinemann | Paco's Story |
| 1986 | E. L. Doctorow | World's Fair |
| 1985 | Don DeLillo | White Noise |
| 1984 | Ellen Gilchrist | Victory over Japan: A Book of Stories |
| 1983 | Alice Walker | The Color Purple |
| 1982 | John Updike | Rabbit is Rich |
| 1981 | Maxine Hong Kingston | China Men |
| 1980 | William Styron | Sophie's Choice |
| 1979 | Tim O'Brien | Going After Cacciato |
| 1978 | Mary Lee Settle | Blood Ties |
| 1977 | Wallace Stegner | The Spectator Bird |
| 1976 | William Gaddis | JR |
| 1975 (shared) | Robert Stone | Dog Soldiers |
| 1975 (shared) | Thomas Williams | The Hair of Harold Roux |
| 1974 (shared) | Thomas Pynchon | Gravity's Rainbow |
| 1974 (shared) | Isaac Bashevis Singer | A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories |