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

