National Book Awards

A complete list of all winners and finalists in fiction; with those completed highlighted in gold and starred. Those on my shelves tbr are in blue.

2009
Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann (Winner)
American Salvage - Bonnie Jo Campbell,
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders - Daniyal Mueenuddin
Lark and Termite - Jayne Anne Phillips
Far North - Marcel Theroux
2008
Shadow Country - Peter Matthiessen (Winner)
The Lazarus - Project Aleksandar Hemon,
Telex from - Cuba Rachel Kushner
Home***** - Marilynne Robinson
The End - Salvatore Scibona
2007
Tree of Smoke - Denis Johnson (Winner)
Fieldwork - Mischa Berlinski
Varieties of Disturbance - Lydia Davis
Then We Came to the End - Joshua Ferris,
Like You’d Understand, Anyway - Jim Shepard
2006
The Echo Maker****+ - Richard Powers (Winner)
Only Revolutions - Mark Z. Danielewski
A Disorder Peculiar to the Country - Ken Kalfus
Eat the Document - Dana Spiotta
The Zero - Jess Walter
2005
Europe Central- William T. Vollmann (Winner)
The March - E.L. Doctorow
Veronica - Mary Gaitskill
Trance by Christopher Sorrentino
Holy Skirts - Renè Steinke
2004
The News from Paraguay - Lily Tuck (Winner)
Madeleine is Sleeping - Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Florida - Christine Schutt
Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories by Joan Silber
Our Kind - Kate Walbert
2003
The Great Fire - Shirley Hazzard (Winner)
Drop City - T.C Boyle
The Known World - Edward P. Jones
A Ship Made of Paper - Scott Spencer
Evidence of Things Unseen - Marianne Wiggins
2002
Three Junes - Julia Glass (Winner)
Big If - Mark Costello
You Are Not a Stranger Here - Adam Haslett
Gorgeous Lies - Martha McPhee
The Heaven of Mercury - Brad Watson
2001
The Corrections** - Jonathan Franzen
Among the Missing - Dan Chaon
Look at Me - Jennifer Egan
The Last Report on the Miracle at Little No Horse - Louise Erdrich
Highwire Moon by - Susan Straight
2000
In America - Susan Sontag (Winner)
The Feast of Love - Charles Baxter
The Diagnosis - Alan Lightman
Blonde - Joyce Carol Oates
Blue Angel - Francine Prose
1999
Waiting - Ha Jin (Winner)
House of Sand and Fog - Andre Dubus III
Plainsong - Kent Haruf
Hummingbird House - Patricia Henley
Who Do You Love - Jean Thompson
1998
Charming Billy***** - Alice McDermott (Winner)
Kaaterskill Falls - Allegra Goodman
The Healing - Gayl Jones
Damascus Gate - Robert Stone
A Man in Full - Tom Wolfe
1997
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier (Winner)
Underworld - Don DeLillo
Le Divorce - Diane Johnson
Echo House - Ward Just
1996 
The Puttermesser Papers***** - Cynthia Ozick
Ship Fever and Other Stories - Andrea Barrett (Winner)
Atticus - Ron Hansen
The Giant's House - Elizabeth McCracken
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer - Steven Millhauser
The River Beyond the World - Janet Peery
1995
Sabbath's Theater - Philip Roth (Winner)
All Souls' Rising - Madison Smartt Bell
Krik? Krak! - Edwidge Danticat
Interstate - Stephen Dixon
The House on the Lagoon - Rosario Ferrè
1994
A Frolic of His Own - William Gaddis (Winner)
Moses Supposes - Ellen Currie
White Man's Grave - Richard Dooling
The Bird Artist**** - Howard Norman
The Collected Stories - Grace Paley
1993
The Shipping News- E. Annie Proulx (Winner)
United States: Essays 1952-1992***** - Gore Vidal (Winner Nonfiction)
Come to Me - Amy Bloom
The Pugilist at Rest - Thom Jones
Operation Wandering Soul - Richard Powers
Swimming in the Volcano - Bob Shacochis
1992
All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy (Winner)
Bastard out of Carolina - Dorothy Allison
Dreaming in Cuban - Cristina Garcia
Lost in the City - Edward P. Jones
Outerbridge Reach - Robert Stone
1991
Mating - Norman Rush (Winner)
Wartime Lies - Louis Begley
Frog - Stephen Dixon
The MacGuffin - Stanley Elkin
Beyond Deserving - Sandra Scofield
1990
Middle Passage***** - Charles Johnson (Winner)
Chromos - Felipe Alfau
Paradise - Elena Castedo
Dogeaters - Jessica Hagedorn
Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart - Joyce Carol Oates
1989
Spartina - John Casey (Winner)
Billy Bathgate - E.L. Doctorow
Geek Love - Katherine Dunn
Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love - Oscar Hijuelos
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63***** - Taylor Branch (Nonfiction Finalist)
1988
Paris Trout - Pete Dexter (Winner)
Libra - Don DeLillo
Vanished - Mary McGarry Morris
Wheat That Springeth Green - James F. Powers
Breathing Lessons - Anne Tyler
1987
Paco's Story - Larry Heinemann (Winner)
That Night - Alice McDermott
Beloved**** - Toni Morrison
The Northern Lights - Howard Norman
The Counterlife - Philip Roth
1986
World's Fair - E. L. Doctorow
Whites - Norman Rush
A Summons to Memphis - Peter Taylor
1985
White Noise - Don DeLillo
Always Coming Home - Ursula K. Le Guin
The Tree of Life - Hugh Nissenson
Easy in the Islands - Bob Shacochis (Winner First Novel)
1984
Victory over Japan: A Book of Stories - Ellen Gilchrist
Foreign Affairs - Alison Lurie
The Anatomy Lesson - Philip Roth
Stones for Ibarra - Harriet Doerr (Winner First Novel)
One Writer's Beginnings***** - Eudora Welty (Nonfiction Finalist)
1983
The Color Purple***** - Alice Walker (Winner Hardcover)
Collected Stories of Eudora Welty - Eudora Welty (Winner Paperback)
The Women of Brewster Place**** - Gloria Naylor (Winner First Novel)
A Mother and Two Daughters    Gail Godwin
Shiloh and Other Stories - Bobbie Ann Mason
The Mosquito Coast - Paul Theroux
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant - Anne Tyler
The Chaneysville Incident - David Bradley
The Company of Women - Mary Gordon
Housekeeping***** - Marilynne Robinson
A Flag for Sunrise - Robert Stone
Matters of Chance - Gail Albert
The 13th Valley - John M. Del Vecchio
My Old Sweetheart - Susanna Moore
Almost Famous - David Small
1982
Rabbit is Rich - John Updike (Winner Hardcover)
So Long, See You Tomorrow - William Maxwell (Winner Paperback)
Dale Loves Sophie to Death - Robb Forman Dew (Winner First Novel)  
Mark Helprin - Ellis Island and Other Stories
The Hotel New Hampshire - John Irving

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