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National Book Award for Fiction

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One of the most prestigious American literary awards, presented annually by the National Book Foundation to honor an outstanding work of fiction by a U.S. citizen, judged by a panel of writers and literary professionals.

Search through 6,630 awarded or nominated books

2025

  1. The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)

    Rabih Alameddine

    Won
  2. A Guardian and a Thief

    Megha Majumdar

    Shortlisted
  3. North Sun, or, the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther

    Ethan Rutherford

    Shortlisted
  4. Palaver

    Bryan Washington

    Shortlisted
  5. The Antidote

    Karen Russell

    Shortlisted

2024

  1. James

    Percival Everett

    Won
  2. All Fours

    Miranda July

    Shortlisted
  3. Ghostroots

    'Pemi Aguda

    Shortlisted
  4. Martyr!

    Kaveh Akbar

    Shortlisted
  5. My Friends

    Hisham Matar

    Shortlisted

2023

  1. Blackouts

    Justin Torres

    Won
  2. Chain-Gang All-Stars

    Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

    Shortlisted
  3. Temple Folk

    Aaliyah Bilal

    Shortlisted
  4. The End of Drum-Time

    Hanna Pylväinen

    Shortlisted
  5. This Other Eden

    Paul Harding

    Shortlisted

2022

  1. The Rabbit Hutch

    Tess Gunty

    Won
  2. All This Could Be Different

    Sarah Thankam Mathews

    Shortlisted
  3. The Birdcatcher

    Gayl Jones

    Shortlisted
  4. The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories

    Jamil Jan Kochai

    Shortlisted
  5. The Town of Babylon

    Alejandro Varela

    Shortlisted

2021

  1. Hell of a Book

    Jason Mott

    Won
  2. Cloud Cuckoo Land

    Anthony Doerr

    Shortlisted
  3. Matrix

    Lauren Groff

    Shortlisted
  4. The Prophets

    Robert Jones Jr.

    Shortlisted
  5. Zorrie

    Laird Hunt

    Shortlisted

2020

  1. Interior Chinatown

    Charles Yu

    Won
  2. A Children's Bible

    Lydia Millet

    Shortlisted
  3. Leave the World Behind

    Rumaan Alam

    Shortlisted
  4. Shuggie Bain

    Douglas Stuart

    Shortlisted
  5. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

    Deesha Philyaw

    Shortlisted

2019

  1. Trust Exercise

    Susan Choi

    Won
  2. Black Leopard, Red Wolf

    Marlon James

    Shortlisted
  3. Disappearing Earth

    Julia Phillips

    Shortlisted
  4. Sabrina and Corina

    Kali Fajardo-Anstine

    Shortlisted
  5. The Other Americans

    Laila Lalami

    Shortlisted

2018

  1. The Friend

    Sigrid Nunez

    Won
  2. A Lucky Man

    Jamel Brinkley

    Shortlisted
  3. Florida

    Lauren Groff

    Shortlisted
  4. The Great Believers

    Rebecca Makkai

    Shortlisted
  5. Where the Dead Sit Talking

    Brandon Hobson

    Shortlisted

2017

  1. Sing, Unburied, Sing

    Jesmyn Ward

    Won
  2. Dark at the Crossing

    Elliot Ackerman

    Shortlisted
  3. Her Body and Other Parties

    Carmen Maria Machado

    Shortlisted
  4. Pachinko

    Min Jin Lee

    Shortlisted
  5. The Leavers

    Lisa Ko

    Shortlisted

2016

  1. The Underground Railroad

    Colson Whitehead

    Won
  2. Another Brooklyn

    Jacqueline Woodson

    Shortlisted
  3. News of the World

    Paulette Jiles

    Shortlisted
  4. The Association of Small Bombs

    Karan Mahajan

    Shortlisted
  5. The Throwback Special

    Chris Bachelder

    Shortlisted

2015

  1. Fortune Smiles

    Adam Johnson

    Won
  2. A Little Life

    Hanya Yanagihara

    Shortlisted
  3. Fates and Furies

    Lauren Groff

    Shortlisted
  4. Refund

    Karen Bender

    Shortlisted
  5. The Turner House

    Angela Flournoy

    Shortlisted

2014

  1. Redeployment

    Phil Klay

    Won
  2. All the Light We Cannot See

    Anthony Doerr

    Shortlisted
  3. An Unnecessary Woman

    Rabih Alameddine

    Shortlisted
  4. Lila

    Marilynne Robinson

    Shortlisted
  5. Station Eleven

    Emily St. John Mandel

    Shortlisted

2013

  1. The Good Lord Bird

    James McBride

    Won
  2. Bleeding Edge

    Thomas Pynchon

    Shortlisted
  3. Tenth of December: Stories

    George Saunders

    Shortlisted
  4. The Flamethrowers

    Rachel Kushner

    Shortlisted
  5. The Lowland

    Jhumpa Lahiri

    Shortlisted

2012

  1. The Round House

    Louise Erdrich

    Won
  2. A Hologram for the King

    Dave Eggers

    Shortlisted
  3. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

    Ben Fountain

    Shortlisted
  4. The Yellow Birds

    Kevin Powers

    Shortlisted
  5. This Is How You Lose Her

    Junot Díaz

    Shortlisted

2011

  1. Salvage the Bones

    Jesmyn Ward

    Won
  2. Binocular Vision

    Edith Pearlman

    Shortlisted
  3. The Buddha in the Attic

    Julie Otsuka

    Shortlisted
  4. The Sojourn

    Andrew Krivak

    Shortlisted
  5. The Tiger's Wife

    Téa Obreht

    Shortlisted

2010

  1. Lord of Misrule

    Jaimy Gordon

    Won
  2. Great House

    Nicole Krauss

    Shortlisted
  3. I Hotel

    Karen Tei Yamashita

    Shortlisted
  4. Parrot and Olivier in America

    Peter Carey

    Shortlisted
  5. So Much for That

    Lionel Shriver

    Shortlisted

2009

  1. Let the Great World Spin

    Colum McCann

    Won
  2. American Salvage

    Bonnie Jo Campbell

    Shortlisted
  3. Far North

    Marcel Theroux

    Shortlisted
  4. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

    Daniyal Mueenuddin

    Shortlisted
  5. Lark and Termite

    Jayne Anne Phillips

    Shortlisted

2008

  1. Shadow Country

    Peter Matthiessen

    Won
  2. Home

    Marilynne Robinson

    Shortlisted
  3. Telex from Cuba

    Rachel Kushner

    Shortlisted
  4. The End

    Salvatore Scibona

    Shortlisted
  5. The Lazarus Project

    Aleksandar Hemon

    Shortlisted

2007

  1. Tree of Smoke

    Denis Johnson

    Won
  2. Fieldwork

    Mischa Berlinski

    Shortlisted
  3. Like You'd Understand, Anyway

    Jim Shepard

    Shortlisted
  4. Then We Came to the End

    Joshua Ferris

    Shortlisted
  5. Varieties of Disturbance

    Lydia Davis

    Shortlisted

2006

  1. The Echo Maker

    Richard Powers

    Won
  2. A Disorder Peculiar to the Country

    Ken Kalfus

    Shortlisted
  3. Eat the Document

    Dana Spiotta

    Shortlisted
  4. Only Revolutions

    Mark Z. Danielewski

    Shortlisted
  5. The Zero

    Jess Walter

    Shortlisted

2005

  1. Europe Central

    William T. Vollmann

    Won
  2. Holy Skirts

    René Steinke

    Shortlisted
  3. The March

    E. L. Doctorow

    Shortlisted
  4. Trance

    Christopher Sorrentino

    Shortlisted
  5. Veronica

    Mary Gaitskill

    Shortlisted

2004

  1. The News from Paraguay

    Lily Tuck

    Won
  2. Florida

    Christine Schutt

    Shortlisted
  3. Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories

    Joan Silber

    Shortlisted
  4. Madeleine is Sleeping

    Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

    Shortlisted
  5. Our Kind

    Kate Walbert

    Shortlisted

2003

  1. The Great Fire

    Shirley Hazzard

    Won
  2. A Ship Made of Paper

    Scott Spencer

    Shortlisted
  3. Drop City

    T. C. Boyle

    Shortlisted
  4. Evidence of Things Unseen

    Marianne Wiggins

    Shortlisted
  5. The Known World

    Edward P. Jones

    Shortlisted

2002

  1. Three Junes

    Julia Glass

    Won
  2. Big If

    Mark Costello

    Shortlisted
  3. Gorgeous Lies

    Martha McPhee

    Shortlisted
  4. The Heaven of Mercury

    Brad Watson

    Shortlisted
  5. You Are Not a Stranger Here

    Adam Haslett

    Shortlisted

2001

  1. The Corrections

    Jonathan Franzen

    Won
  2. Among the Missing

    Dan Chaon

    Shortlisted
  3. Highwire Moon

    Susan Straight

    Shortlisted
  4. Look at Me

    Jennifer Egan

    Shortlisted
  5. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

    Louise Erdrich

    Shortlisted

2000

  1. In America

    Susan Sontag

    Won
  2. Blonde

    Joyce Carol Oates

    Shortlisted
  3. Blue Angel

    Francine Prose

    Shortlisted
  4. The Diagnosis

    Alan Lightman

    Shortlisted
  5. The Feast of Love

    Charles Baxter

    Shortlisted

1999

  1. Waiting

    Ha Jin

    Won
  2. House of Sand and Fog

    Andre Dubus III

    Shortlisted
  3. Hummingbird House

    Patricia Henley

    Shortlisted
  4. Plainsong

    Kent Haruf

    Shortlisted
  5. Who Do You Love

    Jean Thompson

    Shortlisted

1998

  1. Charming Billy

    Alice McDermott

    Won
  2. A Man in Full

    Tom Wolfe

    Shortlisted
  3. Damascus Gate

    Robert Stone

    Shortlisted
  4. Kaaterskill Falls

    Allegra Goodman

    Shortlisted
  5. The Healing

    Gayl Jones

    Shortlisted

1997

  1. Cold Mountain

    Charles Frazier

    Won
  2. Echo House

    Ward Just

    Shortlisted
  3. Le Divorce

    Diane Johnson

    Shortlisted
  4. The Puttermesser Papers

    Cynthia Ozick

    Shortlisted
  5. Underworld

    Don DeLillo

    Shortlisted

1996

  1. Ship Fever and Other Stories

    Andrea Barrett

    Won
  2. Atticus

    Ron Hansen

    Shortlisted
  3. Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

    Steven Millhauser

    Shortlisted
  4. The Giant's House

    Elizabeth McCracken

    Shortlisted
  5. The River Beyond the World

    Janet Peery

    Shortlisted

1995

  1. Sabbath's Theater

    Philip Roth

    Won
  2. All Souls' Rising

    Madison Smartt Bell

    Shortlisted
  3. Interstate

    Stephen Dixon

    Shortlisted
  4. Krik? Krak!

    Edwidge Danticat

    Shortlisted
  5. The House on the Lagoon

    Rosario Ferré

    Shortlisted

1994

  1. A Frolic of His Own

    William Gaddis

    Won
  2. Moses Supposes

    Ellen Currie

    Shortlisted
  3. The Bird Artist

    Howard Norman

    Shortlisted
  4. The Collected Stories

    Grace Paley

    Shortlisted
  5. White Man's Grave

    Richard Dooling

    Shortlisted

1993

  1. The Shipping News

    E. Annie Proulx

    Won
  2. Come to Me: Stories

    Amy Bloom

    Shortlisted
  3. Operation Wandering Soul

    Richard Powers

    Shortlisted
  4. Swimming in the Volcano

    Bob Shacochis

    Shortlisted
  5. The Pugilist at Rest

    Thom Jones

    Shortlisted

1992

  1. All the Pretty Horses

    Cormac McCarthy

    Won
  2. Bastard Out of Carolina

    Dorothy Allison

    Shortlisted
  3. Dreaming in Cuban

    Cristina García

    Shortlisted
  4. Lost in the City

    Edward P. Jones

    Shortlisted
  5. Outerbridge Reach

    Robert Stone

    Shortlisted

1991

  1. Mating

    Norman Rush

    Won
  2. Beyond Deserving

    Sandra Scofield

    Shortlisted
  3. Frog

    Stephen Dixon

    Shortlisted
  4. The MacGuffin

    Stanley Elkin

    Shortlisted
  5. Wartime Lies

    Louis Begley

    Shortlisted

1990

  1. Middle Passage

    Charles Johnson

    Won
  2. Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart

    Joyce Carol Oates

    Shortlisted
  3. Chromos

    Felipe Alfau

    Shortlisted
  4. Dogeaters

    Jessica Hagedorn

    Shortlisted
  5. Paradise

    Elena Castedo

    Shortlisted

1989

  1. Spartina

    John Casey

    Won
  2. Geek Love

    Katherine Dunn

    Shortlisted
  3. The Joy Luck Club

    Amy Tan

    Shortlisted

1988

  1. Paris Trout

    Pete Dexter

    Won
  2. Breathing Lessons

    Anne Tyler

    Shortlisted
  3. Libra

    Don DeLillo

    Shortlisted
  4. Vanished

    Mary McGarry Morris

    Shortlisted
  5. Wheat That Springeth Green

    J. F. Powers

    Shortlisted

1987

  1. Paco's Story

    Larry Heinemann

    Won
  2. Beloved

    Toni Morrison

    Shortlisted
  3. That Night

    Alice McDermott

    Shortlisted
  4. The Counterlife

    Philip Roth

    Shortlisted
  5. The Northern Lights

    Howard Norman

    Shortlisted

1986

  1. World's Fair

    E. L. Doctorow

    Won
  2. A Summons to Memphis

    Peter Taylor

    Shortlisted
  3. Whites

    Norman Rush

    Shortlisted

1985

  1. White Noise

    Don DeLillo

    Won
  2. Always Coming Home

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    Shortlisted
  3. The Tree of Life

    Hugh Nissenson

    Shortlisted

1984

  1. Victory Over Japan

    Ellen Gilchrist

    Won
  2. Foreign Affairs

    Alison Lurie

    Shortlisted
  3. The Anatomy Lesson

    Philip Roth

    Shortlisted

1983

  1. Alice Walker

    Hardcover

    Shortlisted

  2. Anne Tyler

    Hardcover

    Shortlisted

  3. Bobbie Ann Mason

    Hardcover

    Shortlisted

  4. David Bradley

    Paperback

    Shortlisted

  5. Eudora Welty

    Paperback

    Shortlisted

  6. Gail Godwin

    Hardcover

    Shortlisted

  7. Marilynne Robinson

    Paperback

    Shortlisted

  8. Mary Gordon

    Paperback

    Shortlisted

  9. Paul Theroux

    Hardcover

    Shortlisted

  10. Robert Stone

    Paperback

    Shortlisted

1982

  1. Anne Tyler

    Paperback

    Shortlisted

  2. E. L. Doctorow

    Paperback

    Shortlisted

  3. John Irving

    Hardcover

    Shortlisted

  4. John Updike

    Hardcover

    Shortlisted

  5. Mark Helprin

    Hardcover

    Shortlisted

  6. Robert Stone

    Hardcover

    Shortlisted

  7. Shirley Hazzard

    Paperback

    Shortlisted

  8. Walker Percy

    Paperback

    Shortlisted

  9. William Maxwell

    Paperback

    Shortlisted

  10. William Wharton

    Hardcover

    Shortlisted

1981

  1. Eudora Welty

    Hardcover

    Shortlisted

  2. Herman Wouk

    Paperback

    Shortlisted

  3. John Cheever

    Paperback

    Shortlisted

  4. Norman Mailer

    Paperback

    Shortlisted

  5. Scott Spencer

    Paperback

    Shortlisted

  6. Shirley Hazzard

    Hardcover

    Shortlisted

  7. Thomas Flanagan

    Paperback

    Shortlisted

  8. Walker Percy

    Hardcover

    Shortlisted

  9. William Maxwell

    Hardcover

    Shortlisted

  10. Wright Morris

    Hardcover

    Shortlisted

1980

  1. Gail Godwin

    Paperback

    Shortlisted

  2. James Baldwin

    Hardcover

    Shortlisted

  3. John Irving

    Paperback

    Shortlisted

  4. John Updike

    Paperback

    Shortlisted

  5. Marguerite Young

    Paperback

    Shortlisted

  6. Norman Mailer

    Hardcover

    Shortlisted

  7. Paul Bowles

    Paperback

    Shortlisted

  8. Philip Roth

    Hardcover

    Shortlisted

  9. Scott Spencer

    Hardcover

    Shortlisted

  10. William Styron

    Hardcover

    Shortlisted

1979

  1. Going After Cacciato

    Tim O'Brien

    Won
  2. Lying Low

    Diane Johnson

    Shortlisted
  3. The Family

    David Plante

    Shortlisted
  4. The Stories of John Cheever

    John Cheever

    Shortlisted
  5. The World According to Garp

    John Irving

    Shortlisted

1978

  1. Blood Tie

    Mary Lee Settle

    Won
  2. Elbow Room

    James Alan McPherson

    Shortlisted

  3. Madder Music

    Peter De Vries

    Shortlisted
  4. The Public Burning

    Robert Coover

    Shortlisted
  5. Union Dues

    John Sayles

    Shortlisted

1977

  1. The Spectator Bird

    Wallace Stegner

    Won
  2. A Fine Romance

    Cynthia Propper Seton

    Shortlisted
  3. Orsinian Tales

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    Shortlisted
  4. The Balloonist

    MacDonald Harris

    Shortlisted
  5. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

    Raymond Carver

    Shortlisted

1976

  1. J R

    William Gaddis

    Won
  2. Beyond the Bedroom Wall

    Larry Woiwode

    Shortlisted
  3. Humboldt's Gift

    Saul Bellow

    Shortlisted
  4. Other People's Lives

    Johanna Kaplan

    Shortlisted
  5. The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher

    Hortense Calisher

    Shortlisted
  6. Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories

    Vladimir Nabokov

    Shortlisted

1975

  1. Dog Soldiers

    Robert Stone

    Won
  2. The Hair of Harold Roux

    Thomas Williams

    Won
  3. Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

    Grace Paley

    Shortlisted

  4. Guilty Pleasures

    Donald Barthelme

    Shortlisted
  5. Look at the Harlequins!

    Vladimir Nabokov

    Shortlisted
  6. My Life as a Man

    Philip Roth

    Shortlisted
  7. Something Happened

    Joseph Heller

    Shortlisted
  8. Sula

    Toni Morrison

    Shortlisted
  9. The Death of the Detective

    Mark Smith

    Shortlisted
  10. The Odd Woman

    Gail Godwin

    Shortlisted

1974

  1. A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories

    Isaac Bashevis Singer

    Won
  2. Gravity's Rainbow

    Thomas Pynchon

    Won
  3. Apostles of Light

    Ellen Douglas

    Shortlisted
  4. Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories

    Doris Betts

    Shortlisted
  5. Black Conceit

    John Leonard

    Shortlisted
  6. Burr

    Gore Vidal

    Shortlisted
  7. Nickel Mountain

    John Gardner

    Shortlisted
  8. Ninety-Two in the Shade

    Thomas McGuane

    Shortlisted
  9. People Will Always Be Kind

    Wilfrid Sheed

    Shortlisted

  10. Searches and Seizures

    Stanley Elkin

    Shortlisted
  11. State of Grace

    Joy Williams

    Shortlisted
  12. The World of Apples

    John Cheever

    Shortlisted

1973

  1. Augustus

    John Williams

    Won
  2. Chimera

    John Barth

    Won
  3. Enemies, A Love Story

    Isaac Bashevis Singer

    Shortlisted
  4. Geronimo Rex

    Barry Hannah

    Shortlisted
  5. Hermaphrodeity

    Alan H. Friedman

    Shortlisted
  6. Mumbo Jumbo

    Ishmael Reed

    Shortlisted
  7. The Confessions of a Child of the Century

    Thomas Rogers

    Shortlisted
  8. The Friends of Eddie Coyle

    George V. Higgins

    Shortlisted
  9. The Late Great Creature

    Brock Brower

    Shortlisted
  10. The Optimist's Daughter

    Eudora Welty

    Shortlisted
  11. The Prince

    R. M. Koster

    Shortlisted
  12. Transparent Things

    Vladimir Nabokov

    Shortlisted

1972

  1. The Complete Stories

    Flannery O'Connor

    Won
  2. A Garden of Sand

    Earl Thompson

    Shortlisted
  3. Farragan's Retreat

    Tom McHale

    Shortlisted

  4. Lion Country

    Frederick Buechner

    Shortlisted
  5. Love in the Ruins

    Walker Percy

    Shortlisted
  6. Rabbit Redux

    John Updike

    Shortlisted
  7. The Book of Daniel

    E. L. Doctorow

    Shortlisted
  8. The Dick Gibson Show

    Stanley Elkin

    Shortlisted
  9. The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories

    Cynthia Ozick

    Shortlisted
  10. Wonderland

    Joyce Carol Oates

    Shortlisted

1971

  1. Mr. Sammler's Planet

    Saul Bellow

    Won
  2. Bech: A Book

    John Updike

    Shortlisted
  3. Deliverance

    James Dickey

    Shortlisted
  4. Losing Battles

    Eudora Welty

    Shortlisted
  5. The Bay of Noon

    Shirley Hazzard

    Shortlisted

1970

  1. them

    Joyce Carol Oates

    Won
  2. Fat City

    Leonard Gardner

    Shortlisted

  3. Going Places

    Leonard Michaels

    Shortlisted
  4. Slaughterhouse-Five

    Kurt Vonnegut

    Shortlisted
  5. The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford

    Jean Stafford

    Shortlisted

1969

  1. Steps

    Jerzy Kosiński

    Won
  2. A Fan's Notes

    Frederick Exley

    Shortlisted
  3. Expensive People

    Joyce Carol Oates

    Shortlisted
  4. Lost in the Funhouse

    John Barth

    Shortlisted
  5. The Pursuit of Happiness

    Thomas Rogers

    Shortlisted

1968

  1. The Eighth Day

    Thornton Wilder

    Won
  2. A Garden of Earthly Delights

    Joyce Carol Oates

    Shortlisted
  3. The Chosen

    Chaim Potok

    Shortlisted
  4. The Confessions of Nat Turner

    William Styron

    Shortlisted
  5. Why Are We in Vietnam?

    Norman Mailer

    Shortlisted

1967

  1. The Fixer

    Bernard Malamud

    Won
  2. A Dream of Kings

    Harry Mark Petrakis

    Shortlisted
  3. All in the Family

    Edwin O'Connor

    Shortlisted
  4. Office Politics

    Wilfrid Sheed

    Shortlisted
  5. The Embezzler

    Louis Auchincloss

    Shortlisted
  6. The Last Gentleman

    Walker Percy

    Shortlisted

1966

  1. The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

    Katherine Anne Porter

    Won
  2. At Play in the Fields of the Lord

    Peter Matthiessen

    Shortlisted
  3. Everything That Rises Must Converge

    Flannery O'Connor

    Shortlisted
  4. Pericles on 31st Street

    Harry Mark Petrakis

    Shortlisted
  5. The (Diblos) Notebook

    James Merrill

    Shortlisted
  6. The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones

    Jesse Hill Ford

    Shortlisted

1965

  1. Herzog

    Saul Bellow

    Won
  2. Rector of Justin

    Louis Auchincloss

    Shortlisted
  3. Second Skin

    John Hawkes

    Shortlisted
  4. Short Friday and Other Stories

    Isaac Bashevis Singer

    Shortlisted
  5. The Defense

    Vladimir Nabokov

    Shortlisted
  6. The Martyred

    Richard E. Kim

    Shortlisted
  7. To an Early Grave

    Wallace Markfield

    Shortlisted

1964

  1. The Centaur

    John Updike

    Won
  2. Idiots First

    Bernard Malamud

    Shortlisted
  3. The Group

    Mary McCarthy

    Shortlisted
  4. The Will

    Harvey Swados

    Shortlisted
  5. V.

    Thomas Pynchon

    Shortlisted

1963

  1. Morte d'Urban

    J. F. Powers

    Won
  2. Pale Fire

    Vladimir Nabokov

    Shortlisted
  3. Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories

    John Updike

    Shortlisted
  4. Ship of Fools

    Katherine Anne Porter

    Shortlisted
  5. The Golden Spur

    Dawn Powell

    Shortlisted

1962

  1. The Moviegoer

    Walker Percy

    Won
  2. A New Life

    Bernard Malamud

    Shortlisted
  3. Among the Dangs

    George P. Elliott

    Shortlisted
  4. Catch-22

    Joseph Heller

    Shortlisted
  5. False Entry

    Hortense Calisher

    Shortlisted
  6. Franny and Zooey

    J. D. Salinger

    Shortlisted
  7. Revolutionary Road

    Richard Yates

    Shortlisted
  8. The Chateau

    William Maxwell

    Shortlisted
  9. The Morning and the Evening

    Joan Williams

    Shortlisted
  10. The Pawnbroker

    Edward Lewis Wallant

    Shortlisted
  11. The Spinoza of Market Street and Other Stories

    Isaac Bashevis Singer

    Shortlisted

1961

  1. The Waters of Kronos

    Conrad Richter

    Won
  2. A Separate Peace

    John Knowles

    Shortlisted
  3. Ceremony in Lone Tree

    Wright Morris

    Shortlisted
  4. Generation Without Farewell

    Kay Boyle

    Shortlisted
  5. Rabbit, Run

    John Updike

    Shortlisted
  6. The Body of a Young Man

    Mildred Walker

    Shortlisted
  7. The Child Buyer

    John Hersey

    Shortlisted
  8. The Christening Party

    Francis Steegmuller

    Shortlisted
  9. The House of Five Talents

    Louis Auchincloss

    Shortlisted
  10. The Light in the Piazza and Other Italian Tales

    Elizabeth Spencer

    Shortlisted
  11. The Violent Bear It Away

    Flannery O'Connor

    Shortlisted
  12. To Kill a Mockingbird

    Harper Lee

    Shortlisted

1960

  1. Goodbye, Columbus

    Philip Roth

    Won
  2. Henderson the Rain King

    Saul Bellow

    Shortlisted
  3. Malcolm

    James Purdy

    Shortlisted
  4. Men Die

    H. L. Humes

    Shortlisted
  5. Mrs. Bridge

    Evan S. Connell

    Shortlisted
  6. Pursuit of the Prodigal

    Louis Auchincloss

    Shortlisted
  7. The Cave

    Robert Penn Warren

    Shortlisted
  8. The Cool World

    Warren Miller

    Shortlisted
  9. The Devil's Advocate

    Morris West

    Shortlisted
  10. The Haunting of Hill House

    Shirley Jackson

    Shortlisted
  11. The Light Infantry Ball

    Hamilton Basso

    Shortlisted
  12. The Mansion

    William Faulkner

    Shortlisted
  13. The Pistol

    James Jones

    Shortlisted
  14. The Poorhouse Fair

    John Updike

    Shortlisted
  15. The Return of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N

    Leo Rosten

    Shortlisted
  16. The Third Choice

    Elizabeth Janeway

    Shortlisted
  17. The War Lover

    John Hersey

    Shortlisted
  18. Wake Up, Stupid

    Mark Harris

    Shortlisted

1959

  1. The Magic Barrel

    Bernard Malamud

    Won
  2. Anatomy of a Murder

    Robert Traver

    Shortlisted
  3. From the Terrace

    John O'Hara

    Shortlisted
  4. Home from the Hill

    William Humphrey

    Shortlisted
  5. Lolita

    Vladimir Nabokov

    Shortlisted
  6. The Ginger Man

    J. P. Donleavy

    Shortlisted
  7. The Lost Country

    J. R. Salamanca

    Shortlisted
  8. The Winthrop Woman

    Anya Seton

    Shortlisted

1958

  1. The Wapshot Chronicle

    John Cheever

    Won
  2. A Death in the Family

    James Agee

    Shortlisted
  3. Atlas Shrugged

    Ayn Rand

    Shortlisted
  4. By Love Possessed

    James Gould Cozzens

    Shortlisted
  5. Love Among the Cannibals

    Wright Morris

    Shortlisted
  6. Pnin

    Vladimir Nabokov

    Shortlisted
  7. Something About a Soldier

    Mark Harris

    Shortlisted
  8. The Assistant

    Bernard Malamud

    Shortlisted
  9. The Birth of a Grandfather

    May Sarton

    Shortlisted
  10. The Return of Lady Brace

    Nancy Wilson Ross

    Shortlisted
  11. The Velvet Horn

    Andrew Nelson Lytle

    Shortlisted

1957

  1. The Field of Vision

    Wright Morris

    Won
  2. A Single Pebble

    John Hersey

    Shortlisted
  3. A Walk on the Wild Side

    Nelson Algren

    Shortlisted
  4. Further Fables for Our Time

    James Thurber

    Shortlisted
  5. Generations of Men

    John Clinton Hunt

    Shortlisted
  6. Giovanni's Room

    James Baldwin

    Shortlisted
  7. Greenwillow

    B. J. Chute

    Shortlisted
  8. Seize the Day

    Saul Bellow

    Shortlisted
  9. The Last Hurrah

    Edwin O'Connor

    Shortlisted
  10. The Presence of Grace

    J. F. Powers

    Shortlisted
  11. The Voice at the Back Door

    Elizabeth Spencer

    Shortlisted

  12. These Thousand Hills

    A. B. Guthrie

    Shortlisted

1956

  1. Ten North Frederick

    John O'Hara

    Won
  2. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

    Flannery O'Connor

    Shortlisted
  3. Andersonville

    MacKinlay Kantor

    Shortlisted
  4. Band of Angels

    Robert Penn Warren

    Shortlisted
  5. Faithful Are the Wounds

    May Sarton

    Shortlisted
  6. Marjorie Morningstar

    Herman Wouk

    Shortlisted
  7. The Black Prince, and Other Stories

    Shirley Ann Grau

    Shortlisted
  8. The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories

    Eudora Welty

    Shortlisted
  9. The Spider's House

    Paul Bowles

    Shortlisted

1955

  1. A Fable

    William Faulkner

    Won
  2. Lord Grizzly

    Frederick Manfred

    Shortlisted
  3. Pictures from an Institution

    Randall Jarrell

    Shortlisted
  4. Sweet Thursday

    John Steinbeck

    Shortlisted
  5. The Bad Seed

    William March

    Shortlisted

  6. The Courts of Memory

    Frank Rooney

    Shortlisted
  7. The Dollmaker

    Harriette Arnow

    Shortlisted
  8. The Huge Season

    Wright Morris

    Shortlisted
  9. The Last Hunt

    Milton Lott

    Shortlisted
  10. The Night of the Hunter

    Davis Grubb

    Shortlisted
  11. The View from Pompey's Head

    Hamilton Basso

    Shortlisted

1954

  1. The Adventures of Augie March

    Saul Bellow

    Won

1953

  1. Invisible Man

    Ralph Ellison

    Won
  2. A Shower of Summer Days

    May Sarton

    Shortlisted
  3. East of Eden

    John Steinbeck

    Shortlisted
  4. Jefferson Selleck

    Carl Jonas

    Shortlisted
  5. Many Mansions

    Isabel Bolton

    Shortlisted
  6. The Build-Up

    William Carlos Williams

    Shortlisted
  7. The Catherine Wheel

    Jean Stafford

    Shortlisted
  8. The Gathering Darkness

    Thomas Gallagher

    Shortlisted
  9. The Landsmen

    Peter Martin

    Shortlisted
  10. The Old Man and the Sea

    Ernest Hemingway

    Shortlisted
  11. Winds of Morning

    H. L. Davis

    Shortlisted

1952

  1. From Here to Eternity

    James Jones

    Won
  2. Lie Down in Darkness

    William Styron

    Shortlisted
  3. Melville Goodwin, USA

    John P. Marquand

    Shortlisted
  4. Requiem for a Nun

    William Faulkner

    Shortlisted
  5. The Caine Mutiny

    Herman Wouk

    Shortlisted
  6. The Catcher in the Rye

    J. D. Salinger

    Shortlisted
  7. The Grass Harp

    Truman Capote

    Shortlisted
  8. The Holy Sinner

    Thomas Mann

    Shortlisted
  9. The Morning Watch

    James Agee

    Shortlisted
  10. The Strange Children

    Caroline Gordon

    Shortlisted
  11. The Witch Diggers

    Jessamyn West

    Shortlisted

1951

  1. Collected Stories of William Faulkner

    William Faulkner

    Won
  2. The Trouble of One House

    Brendan Gill

    Shortlisted