National Book Award Winners
This list of National Book Award winners is provided purely for reference. If any of the titles are reviewed on booklitthen the appropriate link to the review will be added.
- 1950: The Man With The Golden Arm, Nelson Algren
- 1951: Collected Stories, William Faulkner
- 1952: From Here To Eternity, James Jones
- 1953: Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
- 1954: The Adventures Of Augie March, Saul Bellow
- 1955: A Fable, William Faulkner
- 1956: Ten North Frederick, John O’Hara
- 1957: The Field Of Vision, Wright Morris
- 1958: The Wapshot Chronicle, John Cheever
- 1959: The Magic Barrel, Bernard Malamud
- 1960: Goodbye, Columbus, Philip Roth
- 1961: The Waters Of Kronos, Conrad Richter
- 1962: The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
- 1963: Morte D’Urban, J.F. Powers
- 1964: The Centaur, John Updike
- 1965: Herzog, Saul Bellow
- 1966: Collected Stories, Katherine Anne Porter
- 1967: The Fixer, Bernard Malamud
- 1968: The Eighth Day, Thornton Wilder
- 1969: Steps, Jerzy Kosinski
- 1970: them, Joyce Carol Oates
- 1971: Mr Sammler’s Planet, Saul Bellow
- 1972: Complete Stories, Flannery O’Connor
- 1973: Chimera, John Barth
- 1973: Augustus, John Edward Williams
- 1974: Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
- 1974: A Crown Of Feathers and Other Stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer
- 1975: Dog Soldiers, Robert Stone
- 1975: The Hair Of Harold Roux, Thomas Williams
- 1976: J R, William Gaddis
- 1977: The Spectator Bird, Wallace Stegner
- 1978: Blood Tie, Mary Lee Settle
- 1979: Going After Cacciato, Tim O’Brien
- 1980: Sophie’s Choice, William Styron
- 1980: The World According To Garp, John Irving
- 1981: Plains Song, Wright Morris
- 1982: The Stories Of…, John Cheever
- 1983: The Color Purple, Alice Walker
- 1983: Collected Stories, Eudora Welty
- 1984: Victory Over Japan, Ellen Gilchrist
- 1985: White Noise, Don DeLillo
- 1986: World’s Fair, E.L. Doctorow
- 1987: Paco’s Story, Larry Heinemann
- 1988: Paris Trout, Pete Dexter
- 1989: Spartina, John Casey
- 1990: Middle Passage, Charles Johnson
- 1991: Mating, Norman Rush
- 1992: All The Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
- 1993: The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx
- 1994: A Frolic Of His Own, William Gaddis
- 1995: Sabbath’s Theater, Philip Roth
- 1996: Ship Fever and Other Stories, Andrea Barrett
- 1997: Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
- 1998: Charming Billy, Alice McDermott
- 1999: Waiting, Ha Jin
- 2000: In America, Susan Sontag
- 2001: The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
- 2002: Three Junes, Julian Glass
- 2003: The Great Fire, Shirley Hazzard
- 2004: The News From Paraguay, Lily Tuck
- 2005: Europe Central, William Vollmann
- 2006: The Echo Maker, Richard Powers
- 2007: Tree Of Smoke, Denis Johnson
- 2008: Shadow Country, Peter Matthiessen
- 2009: Let The Great World Spin, Colum McCann
- 2010: Lord Of Misrule, Jaimy Gordon