National Book Award for Fiction National Book Award for FictionUnited States citizens . Since 1987 the awards have been administered and presented by the National Book Foundation , but they are awards "by writers to writers". The panelists are five "writers who are known to be doing great work in their genre or field".children's fiction ; and only in 1980 five awards to mystery fiction , science fiction , and western fiction . When the Foundation celebrated the 60th postwar awards in 2009, all but three of the 77 previous winners in fiction categories were in print. The 77 included all eight 1980 winners but excluded the 1981 to 1983 children's fiction winners.The National Book Foundation accepts nominations from publishers until June 15, requires mailing nominated books to the panelists by August 1, and announces five finalists in October. The winner is announced on the day of the final ceremony in November. The award is $10,000 and a bronze sculpture; other finalists get $1000, a medal, and a citation written by the panel.William Faulkner , John Updike , William Gaddis , Jesmyn Ward , and Philip Roth , each having won the award on two occasions along with numerous other nominations. Saul Bellow won the award in three different decades and is the only author to have won the National Book Award for Fiction three times.National Book Awards for Fiction From 1935 to 1941 there were six annual awards for general fiction and the "Bookseller Discovery" or "Most Original Book" was sometimes a novel. From 1980 to 1985 there were six annual awards to first novels or first works of fiction . In 1980 there were five awards to mystery, western, or science fiction . There have been many awards to fiction in the Children's or Young People's categories.Finalists, general fiction This list covers only the post-war awards to general fiction for adult readers: one annual winner from 1950 except two undifferentiated winners 1973 to 1975, dual hardcover and paperback winners 1980 to 1983.1950 to 1959 1950 : Nelson Algren — The Man with the Golden Arm : William Faulkner — Collected Stories of William Faulkner1952 : James Jones — From Here to Eternity The Morning WatchTruman Capote — William Faulkner — Caroline Gordon — Thomas Mann — John P. Marquand — J.D. Salinger — Catcher in the Rye William Styron — Jessamyn West — Herman Wouk — : Ralph Ellison — Invisible ManIsabel Bolton — Many Mansions H.L. Davis — Winds of Morning Thomas Gallagher — The Gathering Darkness Ernest Hemingway — The Old Man and the Sea Carl Jonas — Jefferson Selleck Peter Martin — The Landsman May Sarton — A Shower of Summer Days Jean Stafford — The Catherine Wheel John Steinbeck — East of Eden William Carlos Williams — The Build-Up 1954 : Saul Bellow — The Adventures of Augie March 1955: William Faulkner — A FableHarriette Arnow — The Dollmaker Hamilton Basso — The View from Pompey's Head Davis Grubb — The Night of the Hunter Randall Jarrell — Pictures from an Institution Milton Lott — The Last Hunt Frederick Manfred — Lord Grizzly William March — The Bad Seed Wright Morris — The Huge Season Frank Rooney — The Courts of Memory John Steinbeck — Sweet Thursday 1956 : John O'Hara — Ten North Frederick The Spider's HouseShirley Ann Grau — MacKinlay Kantor — Flannery O'Connor — May Sarton — Robert Penn Warren — Eudora Welty — Herman Wouk — : Wright Morris — The Field of Vision Nelson Algren — A Walk on the Wild Side James Baldwin — Giovanni's Room Saul Bellow — Seize the Day B.J. Chute — Greenwillow A.B. Guthrie — These Thousand Hills John Hersey — A Single Pebble John Hunt — Generations of Men Edwin O'Connor — The Last Hurrah J. F. Powers — The Presence of Grace Elizabeth Spencer — The Voice at the Back Door James Thurber — Further Fables for Our Time 1958 : John Cheever — The Wapshot Chronicle A Death in the Family James Gould Cozzens — Mark Harris — Andrew Lytle — Bernard Malamud — Wright Morris — Vladimir Nabokov — Ayn Rand — Nancy Wilson Ross — May Sarton — : Bernard Malamud — The Magic BarrelJ.P. Donleavy — The Ginger Man William Humphrey — Home from the Hill Vladimir Nabokov — Lolita John O'Hara — From the Terrace J.R. Salamanca — The Lost Country Anya Seton — The Winthrop Woman Robert Traver — Anatomy of a Murder 1960 to 1969 1960 : Philip Roth — Goodbye, Columbus Pursuit of the ProdigalHamilton Basso — Saul Bellow — Evan S. Connell, Jr. — William Faulkner — Mark Harris — John Hersey — H.L. Humes — Shirley Jackson — Haunting of Hill House Elizabeth Janeway — James Jones — Warren Miller — James Purdy — Leo Rosten — John Updike — The Poorhouse FairRobert Penn Warren — Morris West — 1961: Conrad Richter — The Waters of KronosLouis Auchincloss — The House of Five Talents Kay Boyle — Generation Without Farewell John Hersey — The Child Buyer John Knowles — A Separate Peace Harper Lee — To Kill a Mockingbird Wright Morris — Ceremony in Lone Tree Flannery O'Connor — The Violent Bear It Away Elizabeth Spencer — The Light in the Piazza and Other Italian Tales Francis Steegmuller — The Christening Party John Updike — Rabbit, Run Mildred Walker — The Body of a Young Man 1962 : Walker Percy — The Moviegoer False EntryGeorge P. Elliott — Joseph Heller — Bernard Malamud — William Maxwell — J. D. Salinger — Isaac Bashevis Singer — Edward Lewis Wallant — Joan Williams — Richard Yates — : J. F. Powers — Morte d'UrbanVladimir Nabokov — Pale Fire Katherine Anne Porter — Ship of Fools Dawn Powell — The Golden Spur Clancy Sigal — Going Away John Updike — Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories 1964 : John Updike — The Centaur Idiots FirstMary McCarthy — Thomas Pynchon — Harvey Swados — 1965: Saul Bellow — HerzogLouis Auchincloss — The Rector of Justin John Hawkes — Second Skin Richard E. Kim — The Martyred Wallace Markfield — To an Early Grave Vladimir Nabokov — The Defense Isaac Bashevis Singer — Short Friday 1966 : Katherine Anne Porter — The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne PorterThe Liberation of Lord Byron JonesPeter Matthiessen — James Merrill — Flannery O'Connor — Harry Mark Petrakis — : Bernard Malamud — The FixerLouis Auchincloss — The Embezzler Edwin O'Connor — All in the Family Walker Percy — The Last Gentleman Harry Mark Petrakis — A Dream of Kings Wilfrid Sheed — Office Politics 1968 : Thornton Wilder — The Eighth Day Why Are We in Vietnam?Joyce Carol Oates — Garden of Earthly Delights Chaim Potok — William Styron — : Jerzy Kosiński — StepsJohn Barth — Lost in the Funhouse Frederick Exley — A Fan's Notes Joyce Carol Oates — Expensive People Thomas Rogers — The Pursuit of Happiness 1970 to 1979 1970 : Joyce Carol Oates — them Fat CityLeonard Michaels — Jean Stafford — Jean Stafford Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. — : Saul Bellow — Mr. Sammler's PlanetJames Dickey — Deliverance Shirley Hazzard — The Bay of Noon John Updike — ' Eudora Welty — Losing Battles : Flannery O'Connor — The Complete Stories Lion Country E.L. Doctorow — Stanley Elkin — Tom McHale — Joyce Carol Oates — Cynthia Ozick — Walker Percy — Earl Thompson — John Updike — 1973 : John Barth — : John Edward Williams — Augustus The Late Great CreatureAlan H. Friedman — Barry Hannah — George V. Higgins — R.M. Koster — Vladimir Nabokov — Ishmael Reed — Thomas Rogers — Isaac Bashevis Singer — A Love Story Eudora Welty — 1974 : Thomas Pynchon — : Isaac Bashevis Singer — A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other StoriesJohn Cheever — Ellen Douglas — Stanley Elkin — John Gardner — John Leonard — Thomas McGuane — Wilfrid Sheed — Gore Vidal — Joy Williams — 1975 : Robert Stone — : Thomas Williams — The Hair of Harold Roux Guilty PleasuresGail Godwin — Joseph Heller — Toni Morrison — Vladimir Nabokov — Grace Paley — Philip Roth — Mark Smith — 1976 : William Gaddis — Saul Bellow — Humboldt's Gift Hortense Calisher — The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher Johanna Kaplan — Other People's Lives Vladimir Nabokov — Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories Larry Woiwode — Beyond the Bedroom Wall : Wallace Stegner — The Spectator Bird Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?MacDonald Harris — Ursula K. Le Guin — Cynthia Propper Seton — 1978 : Mary Lee Settle — Robert Coover — The Public Burning Peter De Vries — Madder Music James Alan McPherson — Elbow Room John Sayles — Union Dues : Tim O'Brien — Going After Cacciato ' The Stories of John CheeverJohn Irving — World According to Garp Diane Johnson — David Plante — 1980 to 1989 For 1980 to 1983 this list covers the paired "Fiction " and "Fiction " awards in that order. Hard and paper editions were distinguished only in these four years; none of the paperback winners were original ; in their first editions all had been losing finalists in 1979 or 1981.1980 hardcover: William Styron — Sophie's Choice James Baldwin — Just Above My Head Norman Mailer — The Executioner's Song Philip Roth — The Ghost Writer Scott Spencer — Endless Love 1980 paperback: John Irving — The World According to Garp Paul Bowles — Collected Stories Gail Godwin — Violet Clay John Updike — Too Far to Go Marguerite Young — Miss MacIntosh, My Darling , Volumes 1 and 2 1981 hardcover: Wright Morris — Plains Song: For Female Voices The Transit of VenusWilliam Maxwell — Walker Percy — Eudora Welty — Eudora Welty 1981 paperback: John Cheever — The Stories of John CheeverYear of the French Norman Mailer — Scott Spencer — Herman Wouk — 1982 hardcover: John Updike — Rabbit is RichMark Helprin — Ellis Island and Other Stories John Irving — The Hotel New Hampshire Robert Stone — A Flag for Sunrise William Wharton — Dad 1982 paperback: William Maxwell — So Long, See You Tomorrow E.L. Doctorow — Loon Lake Shirley Hazzard — The Transit of Venus Walker Percy — The Second Coming Anne Tyler — Morgan's Passing 1983 hardcover: Alice Walker — The Color Purple A Mother and Two DaughtersBobbie Ann Mason — Paul Theroux — Anne Tyler — paperback: Eudora Welty — The Collected Stories of Eudora WeltyMary Gordon — Marilynne Robinson — Robert Stone — 1983 entries were published during 1982; winners in 27 categories were announced April 13 and privately celebrated April 28, 1983. 1984: Ellen Gilchrist — Alison Lurie — Foreign Affairs Philip Roth — The Anatomy Lesson 1985 : Don DeLillo — White Noise Always Coming HomeHugh Nissenson — Tree of Life : E. L. Doctorow — World's FairNorman Rush — Whites Peter Taylor — A Summons to Memphis 1987 : Larry Heinemann — Paco's Story That NightToni Morrison — Howard Norman — Philip Roth — : Pete Dexter — Paris TroutDon DeLillo — Libra Mary McGarry Morris — Vanished J. F. Powers — Wheat That Springeth Green Anne Tyler — Breathing Lessons 1989 : John Casey — Spartina E.L. Doctorow — Billy Bathgate Katherine Dunn — Geek Love Oscar Hijuelos — Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love Amy Tan — The Joy Luck Club 1990 to 1999 1990 : Charles Johnson — Middle Passage ChromosElena Castedo — Jessica Hagedorn — Joyce Carol Oates — : Norman Rush — MatingLouis Begley — Wartime Lies Stephen Dixon — Frog Stanley Elkin — The MacGuffin Sandra Scofield — Beyond Deserving 1992 : Cormac McCarthy — All the Pretty Horses Bastard Out of CarolinaCristina García — Edward P. Jones — Robert Stone — : E. Annie Proulx — The Shipping NewsAmy Bloom — ' Thom Jones — The Pugilist at Rest Richard Powers — Operation Wandering Soul Bob Shacochis — Swimming in the Volcano : William Gaddis — A Frolic of His Own Moses SupposesRichard Dooling — Howard Norman — Grace Paley — 1995 : Philip Roth — Madison Smartt Bell — All Souls' Rising Edwidge Danticat — Krik? Krak! Stephen Dixon — Interstate Rosario Ferré — The House on the Lagoon : Andrea Barrett — Ship Fever and Other Stories AtticusElizabeth McCracken — Steven Millhauser — ' Janet Peery — 1997: Charles Frazier — Cold MountainDon DeLillo — Underworld Diane Johnson — Le Divorce Ward Just — Echo House Cynthia Ozick — The Puttermesser Papers 1998 : Alice McDermott — Charming Billy Kaaterskill FallsGayl Jones — Robert Stone — Tom Wolfe — : Ha Jin — WaitingAndre Dubus III — House of Sand and Fog Kent Haruf — Plainsong Patricia Henley — Hummingbird House Jean Thompson — Who Do You Love 2000 to 2009 2000 : Susan Sontag — In America The Feast of LoveAlan Lightman — Joyce Carol Oates — Francine Prose — : Jonathan Franzen — The Corrections2002 : Julia Glass — Three Junes Big IfAdam Haslett — Martha McPhee — Brad Watson — : Shirley Hazzard — The Great FireT.C. Boyle — Drop City Edward P. Jones — The Known World Scott Spencer — A Ship Made of Paper Marianne Wiggins — ' : Lily Tuck — The News from Paraguay Madeleine is SleepingChristine Schutt — Joan Silber — ' Kate Walbert — 2005: William T. Vollmann — Europe CentralE.L. Doctorow — The March Mary Gaitskill — Veronica Christopher Sorrentino — Trance Rene Steinke — Holy Skirts 2006 : Richard Powers — The Echo Maker Only RevolutionsKen Kalfus — Dana Spiotta — Jess Walter — : Denis Johnson — Tree of SmokeMischa Berlinski — Fieldwork Lydia Davis — Varieties of Disturbance Joshua Ferris — Then We Came to the End Jim Shepard — Like You'd Understand, Anyway 2008 : Peter Matthiessen — Shadow Country The Lazarus ProjectRachel Kushner — Marilynne Robinson — Salvatore Scibona — : Colum McCann — Let the Great World SpinBonnie Jo Campbell — American Salvage Daniyal Mueenuddin — In Other Rooms, Other Wonders Jayne Anne Phillips — Lark and Termite Marcel Theroux — Far North 2010 to date 2010 : Jaimy Gordon — Lord of Misrule Parrot and Olivier in AmericaNicole Krauss — Lionel Shriver — Karen Tei Yamashita — : Jesmyn Ward — Salvage the BonesAndrew Krivak — The Sojourn Téa Obreht — The Tiger's Wife Julie Otsuka — The Buddha in the Attic Edith Pearlman — Binocular Vision 2012 : Louise Erdrich — The Round House This Is How You Lose Her Dave Eggers — Ben Fountain — Kevin Powers — : James McBride — The Good Lord BirdRachel Kushner — The Flamethrowers Jhumpa Lahiri — The Lowland Thomas Pynchon — Bleeding Edge George Saunders — ' : Phil Klay — Redeployment An Unnecessary WomanAnthony Doerr — Emily St. John Mandel — Marilynne Robinson — Lila2015: Adam Johnson — Fortune SmilesKaren Bender — Refund: Stories Lauren Groff — Fates and Furies Angela Flournoy — The Turner House Hanya Yanagihara — A Little Life 2016 : Colson Whitehead — The Underground Railroad Chris Bachelder — The Throwback Special Paulette Jiles — News of the World Karan Mahajan — The Association of Small Bombs Jacqueline Woodson — Another Brooklyn 2017 : Jesmyn Ward — Sing, Unburied, Sing 2018 : Sigrid Nunez, The Friend Jamel Brinkley — A Lucky Man Lauren Groff — Florida Brandon Hobson — Where the Dead Sit Talking Rebecca Makkai — The Great Believers Susan Choi , Trust Exercise Kali Fajardo-Anstine — Sabrina & Corina: Stories Marlon James — Black Leopard, Red Wolf Laila Lalami — The Other Americans Julia Phillips — Disappearing Earth''Early awards for fiction Hold Autumn In Your Hand by George Perry; then none until the 1950 revival in three categories including Fiction.Most Distinguished Novel (1935-1936) 1935: Rachel Field, Time Out of Mind Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the WindFavorite Fiction (1937-1940) 1937: A. J. Cronin, The Citadel Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca John Steinbeck , The Grapes of Wrath Bookseller Discovery (1936 to 1941) 1936: Norah Lofts, I Met a Gypsy Lawrence Watkin, On Borrowed Time nonfiction Elgin Groseclose, Ararat George Sessions Perry, Hold Autumn in Your HandMost Original Book (1935 to 1939) 1935: Charles G. Finney, The Circus of Dr. Lao Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His GunRepeat winners
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