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National Book Awards

Currently, awards are presented annually only in the first four categories listed here. Inactive categories are followed by an asterisk (*).
Year Author Book
1950 Nelson Algren The Man with the Golden Arm
1951 William Faulkner The Collected Stories
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
1967 Bernard Malamud The Fixer
1966 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
John Williams
Chimera
Augustus
1974 Thomas Pynchon
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Gravity's Rainbow
A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories
1975 Robert Stone
Thomas Williams
Dog Soldiers
The Hair of Harold Roux
1976 William Gaddis JR
1977 Li-Li Ch'en
Wallace Stegner
Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance: A Chinese Chantefable
The Spectator Bird
1978 Mary Lee Settle Blood Ties
1979 Tim O'Brien Going After Cacciato
1980 John Irving
William Styron
The World According to Garp
Sophie's Choice
1981 Wright Morris Plains Song
1982 William Maxwell
John Updike
So Long, See You Tomorrow
Rabbit Is Rich
1983 Alice Walker
Eudora Welty
The Color Purple
The Collected Stories
1984 Ellen Gilchrist Victory Over Japan
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
Source: The National Book Foundation.