The National Book Award is an annual presentation by the National Book Foundation for the best fiction in the United States. Visit the National Book Foundation website.

2013: To be announced 11/20/13   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 Matthissen – Shadow Country    2007: Denis Johnson - Tree of Smoke    2006: Richard Powers - The Echo Maker    2005: William 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    1983: Eudora Welty - The Collected Stories    1983: Alice Walker - The Color Purple    1982: John Updike - Rabbit is Rich    1981: Wright Morris - Plain Song    1980: William Styron - Sophie's Choice

1979: Tim O'Brien - Going after Cacciato    1978: Mary Lee Settle - Blood Tie    1977: Wallace Stegner - The Spectator Bird    1976: William Gaddis - JR    1975: Thomas Williams - The Hair of Harold Roux    1975: Robert Stone - Dog Soldiers    1974: Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow    1974: Isaac Bashevis Singer - A Crown of Feathers . . .    1973: John Williams - Augustus    1973: John Barth - Chimera    1972: Flannery O'Connor - The Complete Stories    1971: Saul Bellow - Mr. Sammler's Planet    1970: Joyce Carol Oates - Them

1969: Jerzy Kosinski - Steps    1968: Thornton Wilder - The Eighth Day    1967: Bernard Malamud - The Fixer    1966: Katherine Anne Porter - The Collected Stories    1965: Saul Bellow - Herzog    1964: John Updike - The Centaur    1963: J.F. Powers - Morte D'Urban    1962: Walker Percy - The Moviegoer    1961: Conrad Richter - The Waters of Kronos    1960: Philip Roth - Goodbye, Columbus   

1959: Bernard Malamud - The Magic Barrel    1958: John Cheever - The Wapshot Chronicle    1957: Wright Morris - The Field of Vision    1956: John O'Hara - Ten North Frederick    1955: William Faulkner - A Fable    1954: Saul Bellow - The Adventures of Augie March    1953: Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man    1952: James Jones - From Here to Eternity    1951: William Faulkner - The Collected Stories    1950: Nelson Algren - The Man with the Golden Arm