The National Book Award for Fiction winning works — one of the 5 annual American National Book Award categories.

National Book Award for Fiction

1950–1974

The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren (1950)
Collected Stories of William Faulkner by William Faulkner (1951)
From Here to Eternity by James Jones (1952)
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1953)
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (1954)
A Fable by William Faulkner (1955)
Ten North Frederick by John O'Hara (1956)
The Field of Vision by Wright Morris (1957)
The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever (1958)
The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud (1959)
Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth (1960)
The Waters of Kronos by Conrad Richter (1961)
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy (1962)
Morte d'Urban by J. F. Powers (1963)
The Centaur by John Updike (1964)
Herzog by Saul Bellow (1965)
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter (1966)
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (1967)
The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder (1968)
Steps by Jerzy Kosiński (1969)
them by Joyce Carol Oates (1970)
Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow (1971)
The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor (1972)
Chimera by John Barth (1973)
Augustus by John Williams (1973)
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1974)
A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1974)

1975–1999

Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone (1975)
The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams (1975)
J R by William Gaddis (1976)
The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner (1977)
Blood Tie by Mary Lee Settle (1978)
Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien (1979)
Sophie's Choice by William Styron (1980)
The World According to Garp by John Irving (1980)
Plains Song: For Female Voices by Wright Morris (1981)
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (1981)
Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (1982)
So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell (1982)
The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1983)
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty (1983)
Victory Over Japan by Ellen Gilchrist (1984)
White Noise by Don DeLillo (1985)
World's Fair by E. L. Doctorow (1986)
Paco's Story by Larry Heinemann (1987)
Paris Trout by Pete Dexter (1988)
Spartina by John Casey (1989)
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson (1990)
Mating by Norman Rush (1991)
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (1992)
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (1993)
A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis (1994)
Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth (1995)
Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett (1996)
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (1997)
Charming Billy by Alice McDermott (1998)
Waiting by Ha Jin (1999)

2000–2024

In America by Susan Sontag (2000)
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (2001)
Three Junes by Julia Glass (2002)
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard (2003)
The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck (2004)
Europe Central by William T. Vollmann (2005)
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers (2006)
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson (2007)
Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen (2008)
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann (2009)
Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon (2010)
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (2011)
The Round House by Louise Erdrich (2012)
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride (2013)
Redeployment by Phil Klay (2014)
Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson (2015)
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (2016)
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (2017)
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez (2018)
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi (2019)
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu (2020)
Hell of a Book by Jason Mott (2021)
The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty (2022)

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