Fiction
For a list of winners and finalists, see National Book Award for Fiction.General fiction for adult readers is a National Book Award category continuous from 1950, with multiple awards for a few years beginning 1980. From 1935 to 1941 there were six annual awards for novels or general fiction and the "Bookseller Discovery", the "Most Original Book", or both was sometimes a novel.
1950 | Nelson Algren | The Man with the Golden Arm |
1951 | William Faulkner | The Collected Stories of William Faulkner |
1952 | James Jones | From Here to Eternity |
1953 | Ralph Ellison | Invisible Man |
1954 | Saul Bellow | The Adventures of Augie March |
1955 | William Faulkner | A Fable |
1956 | John O'Hara | Ten North Frederick |
1957 | Wright Morris | The Field of Vision |
1958 | John Cheever | The Wapshot Chronicle |
1959 | Bernard Malamud | The Magic Barrel |
1960 | Philip Roth | Goodbye, Columbus |
1961 | Conrad Richter | The Waters of Kronos |
1962 | Walker Percy | The Moviegoer |
1963 | J. F. Powers | Morte d'Urban |
1964 | John Updike | The Centaur |
1965 | Saul Bellow | Herzog |
1966 | Katherine Anne Porter | The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter |
1967 | Bernard Malamud | The Fixer |
1968 | Thornton Wilder | The Eighth Day |
1969 | Jerzy Kosinski | Steps |
1970 | Joyce Carol Oates | them |
1971 | Saul Bellow | Mr. Sammler's Planet |
1972 | Flannery O'Connor | The Complete Stories |
1973 | John Barth | Chimera |
John Edward Williams | Augustus | |
1974 | Thomas Pynchon | Gravity's Rainbow |
Isaac Bashevis Singer | A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories | |
1975 | Robert Stone | Dog Soldiers |
Thomas Williams | The Hair of Harold Roux | |
1976 | William Gaddis | J R |
1977 | Wallace Stegner | The Spectator Bird |
1978 | Mary Lee Settle | Blood Tie |
1979 | Tim O'Brien | Going After Cacciato |
1980 hard | William Styron | Sophie's Choice |
1980 pb | John Irving | The World According to Garp |
1981 hard | Wright Morris | Plains Song: For Female Voices |
1981 pb | John Cheever | The Stories of John Cheever |
1982 hard | John Updike | Rabbit is Rich |
1982 pb | William Maxwell | So Long, See You Tomorrow |
1983 hard | Alice Walker | The Color Purple |
1983 pb | Eudora Welty | The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty |
1984 | Ellen Gilchrist | Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories |
1985 | Don DeLillo | White Noise |
1986 | E.L. Doctorow | World's Fair |
1987 | Larry Heinemann | Paco's Story |
1988 | Pete Dexter | Paris Trout |
1989 | John Casey | Spartina |
1990 | Charles Johnson | Middle Passage |
1991 | Norman Rush | Mating |
1992 | Cormac McCarthy | All the Pretty Horses |
1993 | E. Annie Proulx | The Shipping News |
1994 | William Gaddis | A Frolic of His Own |
1995 | Philip Roth | Sabbath's Theater |
1996 | Andrea Barrett | Ship Fever and Other Stories |
1997 | Charles Frazier | Cold Mountain |
1998 | Alice McDermott | Charming Billy |
1999 | Ha Jin | Waiting |
2000 | Susan Sontag | In America |
2001 | Jonathan Franzen | The Corrections |
2002 | Julia Glass | Three Junes |
2003 | Shirley Hazzard | The Great Fire |
2004 | Lily Tuck | The News from Paraguay |
2005 | William T. Vollmann | Europe Central |
2006 | Richard Powers | The Echo Maker |
2007 | Denis Johnson | Tree of Smoke |
2008 | Peter Matthiessen | Shadow Country |
2009 | Colum McCann | Let the Great World Spin |
2010 | Jaimy Gordon | Lord of Misrule |
2011 | Jesmyn Ward | Salvage the Bones |
2012 | Louise Erdrich | The Round House |
Read more about this topic: List Of Winners Of The National Book Award, Current Award Categories
Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.”
—Coleman Dowell (19251985)
“The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the readers mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (18961940)
“... any fiction ... is bound to be transposed autobiography.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (18991973)