National Book Awards - Fiction

2008

Shadow Country Winner

Peter Matthiessen (Modern Library)

The Lazarus Project

Aleksandar Hemon (Riverhead)

Telex from Cuba

Rachel Kushner (Scribner)

Home

Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

The End

Salvatore Scibona (Graywolf Press)

2007

• Tree of Smoke Denis Johnson, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Winner
• Fieldwork Mischa Berlinski (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Varieties of Disturbance Lydia Davis (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Then We Came to the End Joshua Ferris, (Little, Brown)
• Like You'd Understand Anyway Jim Shepard, (Knopf)

• 2006 The Echo Maker Richard Powers
• 2005 Europe Central William Vollmann
• 2004 The News from Paraguay Lily Tuck
• 2003 The Great Fire Shirley Hazzard
• 2002 Three Junes Julia Glass
• 2001 The Corrections Jonathan Franzen
• 2000 In America Susan Sontag
• 1999 Waiting Ha Jin
• 1998 Charming Billy Alice McDermott
• 1997 Cold Mountain Charles Frazier
• 1996 Ship fever and other stories Andrea Barrett
• 1995 Sabbath's Theater Philip Roth
• 1994 A Frolic of his own William Gaddis
• 1993 The Shipping news E. Annie Proulx
• 1992 All the pretty horses Cormac McCarthy
• 1991 Mating Norman Rush
• 1990 Middle Passage Charles Johnson