National Book Award Winners
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| Title | Author | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The Man with the Golden Arm | Nelson Algren | 1949 |
| Collected Stories | William Faulkner | 1950 |
| From Here to Eternity | James Jones | 1951 |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison | 1952 |
| The Adventures of Augie March | Saul Bellow | 1953 |
| A Fable | William Faulkner | 1954 |
| Ten North Frederick | John O'Hara | 1955 |
| The Field of Vision | Wright Morris | 1956 |
| The Wapshot Chronicle | John Cheever | 1957 |
| The Magic Barrel | Bernard Malamud | 1958 |
| Goodbye, Columbus | Philip Roth | 1959 |
| The Moviegoer | Walker Percy | 1961 |
| The Waters of Kronos | Conrad Richter | 1961 |
| Morte D'Urban | J. F. Powers | 1962 |
| The Centaur | John Updike | 1963 |
| Herzog | Saul Bellow | 1964 |
| The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter | Katherine Anne Porter | 1965 |
| The Fixer | Bernard Malamud | 1966 |
| The Eighth Day | Thornton Wilder | 1967 |
| Steps | Jerzy Kosinski | 1968 |
| Them | Joyce Carol Oates | 1969 |
| Mr. Sammler's Planet | Saul Bellow | 1970 |
| The Complete Stories | Flannery O'Connor | 1971 |
| Chimera | John Barth | 1972 |
| Augustus | John Edward Williams | 1973 |
| Gravity's Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon | 1973 |
| A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories | Isaac Bashevis Singer | 1974 |
| Dog Soldiers | Robert Stone | 1974 |
| The Hair of Harold Roux | Thomas Williams | 1974 |
| J.R. | William Gaddis | 1975 |
| The Spectator Bird | Wallace Stegner | 1976 |
| Blood Tie | Mary Lee Settle | 1977 |
| Going After Cacciato | Tim O'Brien | 1978 |
| Sophie's Choice | William Styron | 1979 |
| Plains Song: For Female Voices | Wright Morris | 1980 |
| Rabbit Is Rich | John Updike | 1981 |
| The Color Purple | Alice Walker | 1982 |
| Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories | Ellen Gilchrist | 1984 |
| White Noise | Don DeLillo | 1985 |
| World's Fair | E. L. Doctorow | 1985 |
| Paco's Story | Larry Heinemann | 1986 |
| Paris Trout | Pete Dexter | 1988 |
| Spartina | John Casey | 1989 |
| Middle Passage | Charles R. Johnson | 1990 |
| Mating | Norman Rush | 1991 |
| All the Pretty Horses | Cormac McCarthy | 1992 |
| The Shipping News | E. Annie Proulx | 1993 |
| A Frolic of His Own | William Gaddis | 1994 |
| Sabbath's Theater | Philip Roth | 1995 |
| Ship Fever and Other Stories | Andrea Barrett | 1996 |
| Cold Mountain | Charles Frazier | 1997 |
| Charming Billy | Alice McDermott | 1998 |
| In America | Susan Sontag | 1999 |
| Waiting | Ha Jin | 1999 |
| The Corrections | Jonathan Franzen | 2001 |
| Three Junes | Julia Glass | 2002 |
| The Great Fire | Shirley Hazzard | 2003 |
| The News from Paraguay | Lily Tuck | 2004 |
| Europe Central | William Vollmann | 2005 |
| The Echo Maker | Richard Powers | 2006 |
| Tree of Smoke | Denis Johnson | 2007 |