1950-2008
The National Book Award is an annual presentation by the National Book Foundation for the best fiction in the United States.
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