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

