National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

2007

The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao

Junot Diaz

Sacred Games

Vikram Chandra

In The Country of Men

Hisham Matar

The Gravediggers Daughter

Joyce Carol Oates

The Shadow Catcher

Marianne Wiggins

2006

 

The Inheritance of Loss Winner

Kiran Desai

Half of a Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

What is the What

Dave Eggers

The Lay of the Land

Richard Ford

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

2005

The March Winner

E.L. Doctorow

Veronica

Mary Gaitskill

Small Island

Andrea Levy

Never let me go

Kazuo Ishiguro

Europe Central

William Vollmann

2004

• Gilead Marilynne Robinson Winner
• The Dew Breaker Edwidge Danticat
• The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst
• Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
• The Plot Against America Philip Roth

2003

• The Known World Edward P. Jones Winner
• Brick Lane Monica Ali
• A Distant shore Caryl Phillips
• The Time of our singing Richard Powers
• Old School Tobias Wolff

2002

• Atonement Ian McEwan Winner
• Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
• Nowhere Man Alexander Hemon
• Roscoe William Kennedy
• The Darts of Cupid and other stories Edith Templeton

2001

• Austerlitz W.G. Sebald Winner
• The Corrections Jonathan Franzen,
• Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage: stories Alice Munro
• Bel Canto Ann Patchett,
• John Henry Days Colson Whitehead

• 2000 Being Dead Jim Crace
• 1999 Motherless Brooklyn Jonathan Lethem
• 1998 The Love of a good woman Alice Munro
• 1997 The Blue flower Penelope Fitzgerald
• 1996 Women in their beds Gina Berriault
• 1995 Mrs. Ted Bliss Stanley Elkin
• 1994 The Stone diaries Carol Shields
• 1993 A Lesson before dying Ernest J Gaines
• 1992 All the pretty horses Cormac McCarthy
• 1991 A Thousand acres Jane Smiley
• 1990 Rabbit at rest John Updike