National Book Award

This esteemed honor recognizes exceptional literary works across various genres, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people's literature. Awarded annually, it celebrates authors whose writing demonstrates innovation, insight, and a profound connection to the human experience. Receiving this recognition highlights a work's cultural significance and its lasting impact on the literary world.

2024

James: A Novel

2023

Blackouts

2022

The Rabbit Hutch

2021

Hell of a Book

2020

Interior Chinatown

2019

Trust Exercise

2018

The Friend

2017

Sing, Unburied, Sing

2015

Fortune Smiles

2014

Redeployment

2013

The Good Lord Bird

2012

The Round House

2011

Salvage the Bones

2009

2008

Shadow Country

2006

The Echo Maker

2005

2004

The News from Paraguay

2003

The Great Fire

2002

Three Junes

2001

The Corrections

2000

In America

1999

Waiting
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1998

Charming Billy

1997

Cold Mountain

1995

Sabbath's Theater

1994

1993

The Shipping News

1992

1991

Mating

1990

Middle Passage

1989

Spartina

1988

Paris Trout

1987

Paco's Story

1986

World's Fair

1985

White Noise

1984

1981

1980

1979

Going After Cacciato

1978

Blood Tie

1977

1976

J R

1975

Dog Soldiers

1973

Chimera
Augustus

1972

1971

Mr. Sammler's Planet

1969

Steps

1968

The Eighth Day

1967

The Fixer

1965

Herzog

1964

The Centaur

1962

The Moviegoer

1961

1960

Goodbye, Columbus

1959

The Magic Barrel

1958

1957

1956

Ten North Frederick

1955

A Fable

1953

Invisible Man

1952

From Here to Eternity