National Book Award

 The books in green are the ones that I have already read.

  • My Reading Stats
    • 2013: 2 of 67 read (2.9%)
    • 2014: 2 of 68 read (2.9%)
    • 2015: 3 of 69 read (4.3%)
    • 2016: 3 of 70 read (4.2%)
    • 2017: 3 of 71 read (4.2%)
    • 2018: 3 of 72 read (4.1%)
    • 2019: 4 of 73 read (5.4%)
    • 2020: 4 of 74 read (5.4%)
    • 2021: 4 of 75 read (5.3%)
    • 2022: 4 of 76 read (5.3%)
  1.  1950: The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
  2. 1951: Collected Stories by William Faulkner
  3. 1952: From Here to Eternity by James Jones
  4. 1953: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  5. 1954: The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
  6. 1955: A Fable by William Faulkner
  7. 1956: Ten North Frederick by John O’ Hara
  8. 1957: Field of Vision by Wright Morris
  9. 1958: The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
  10. 1959: The Magic Barrel: Stories by Bernard Malamud
  11. 1960: Goodbye Columbus by Philip Roth
  12. 1961: The Waters of Kronos by Conrad Richter
  13. 1962: The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
  14. 1963: Morte D’ Urban by J. F. Powers
  15. 1964: Centaur by John Updike
  16. 1965: Herzog by Saul Bellow
  17. 1966: Collected Stories of Katherine Ann Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
  18. 1967: The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
  19. 1968: The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder
  20. 1969: STEPS by Jerzy N. Kosinski
  21. 1970: Them by Joyce Carol Oates
  22. 1971: Mr. Sammler’s Planet by Saul Bellow
  23. 1972: The Complete Stories of Flannery O’ Connor by Flannery O’ Connor
  24. 1973: Chimera by John Barth
  25. 1973: Augustus by John Edward Williams
  26. 1974: Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
  27. 1975: Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
  28. 1975: The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams
  29. 1976: JR by William Gaddis
  30. 1977: The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner
  31. 1978: Blood Tie by Mary Lee Settle
  32. 1979: Going After Cacciato by Tim O’Brien
  33. 1980: Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
  34. 1981: Plains Song for Female Voices by Wright Morris
  35. 1982: Rabbit is Rich by John Updike
  36. 1983: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  37. 1984: Victory over Japan: Book of Stories by Ellen Gilchrist
  38. 1985: White Noise by Don DeLillo
  39. 1986: World’s Fair by E. L. Doctorow
  40. 1987: Paco’s Story by Larry Heinemann
  41. 1988: Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
  42. 1989: Spartina by John Casey
  43. 1990: Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
  44. 1991: Mating by Norman Rush
  45. 1992: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
  46. 1993: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
  47. 1994: A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis
  48. 1995: Sabbath’s Theater by Philip Roth
  49. 1996: Ship Fever and Other Stories Andrea Barrett
  50. 1997: Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
  51. 1998: Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
  52. 1999: Waiting by Ha Jin
  53. 2000: In America by Susan Sontag
  54. 2001: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
  55. 2002: Three Junes by Julia Glass
  56. 2003: The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
  57. 2004: The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck
  58. 2005: Europe Central by William Vollman
  59. 2006: The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
  60. 2007: Tree of Smoke Denis Johnson
  61. 2008: Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen
  62. 2009: Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
  63. 2010: Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
  64. 2011: Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
  65. 2012: The Round House by Louise Erdrich
  66. 2013: The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
  67. 2014: Redeployment by Phil Klay
  68. 2015: Fortune Smiles: Stories by Adam Johnson
  69. 2016: The Underground Railroad by Colson Witehead
  70. 2017: Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
  71. 2018: The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
  72. 2019: Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
  73. 2020: Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

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