National Book Award Prize Winners
Here are the books that won the National Book Award, dating back to 1950.
1950 The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
1951 The Collected Stories of William Faulkner by William Faulkner
1952 From Here To Eternity by James Jones
1953 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
1954 The Adventures Of Augie March by Saul Bellow
1955 A Fable by William Faulkner
1956 Ten North Frederick by John O'Hara
1957 The Field of Vision by Wright Morris
1958 The Wapshot Chronicles by John Cheever
1959 The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud
1960 Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth
1961 The Waters of Kronos by Conrad Richter
1962 The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
1963 Morte D'Urban by J. F. Powers
1964 The Centaur by John Updike
1965 Herzog by Saul Bellow
1966 Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
1967 The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
1968 The Eighth Day by Thornton Niven, Wilder
1969 Steps by Jerzy N. Kosinski
1970 Them by Joyce Carol Oates
1971 Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow
1972 The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor by Flannery O'Connor
1973 Chimera by John Barth
1973 Augustus by John Williams
1974 A Crown of Feathers... by Isaac Bashevis Singer
1974 Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
1975 Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
1975 The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams
1976 JR by William Gaddis
1977 The Spectator Bird by Wallace Earle Stegner
1978 Blood Tie by Mary Lee Settle
1979 Going after Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
1980 Sophie's Choice by William Styron
1981 Plain Song by Wright Morris
1982 Rabbit is Rich by John Updike
1983 The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
1984 Victory over Japan by Ellen Gilchrist
1985 White Noise by Don DeLillo
1986 World's Fair by E. L. Doctorow
1987 Paco's Story by Larry Heinemann
1988 Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
1989 Spartina by John Casey
1990 Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
1991 Mating by Norman Rush
1992 All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
1993 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
1994 A Frolic of his Own by William Gaddis
1995 Sabbath's Theater by Phillip Roth
1996 Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett
1997 Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
1998 Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
1999 Waiting by Ha Jin
2000 In America by Susan Sontag
2001 The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
2002 Three Junes by Julia Glass
2003 The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
2004 The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck
Are you astounded by the fact that there's a book on this list that I haven't read?? Email me and if I do read it I'll give you credit for recommending it to me!
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