2008 Shadow Country: a New Rendering of the Watson Legend, by Peter Matthiessen
The National Book Award for Fiction
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On March 15, 1950, a consortium of book publishing groups sponsored the first annual National Book Awards Ceremony and Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. Their goal was to enhance the public's awareness of exceptional books written by fellow Americans, and to increase the popularity of
reading in general.
Listed here are the winners in the Fiction category.
Other categories include Nonfiction, Poetry, Young People's Literature,and the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
2007 Tree of Smoke,by Denis Johnson
2006 The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
2005 Europe Central by William T. Vollman
2004 The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck
2003 The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
2002 Three Junes by Julia Glass
2001 The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
2000 In America by Susan Sontag
1999 Waiting
by Ha Jin
1998 Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
1997 Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
1996 Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett
1995 Sabbath's Theater by Phillip Roth
1994 A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis
1993 The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
1992 All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
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1991
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Mating by Norman Rush | |
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1990
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Middle Passage by Charles Johnson | |
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1989
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Spartina by John Casey | |
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1988
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Paris Trout by Pete Dexter | |
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1987
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Paco's Story by Larry Heinemann | |
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1986
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World's Fair by E. L. Doctorow | |
| Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez | ||
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1985
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White Noise by Don Delillo | |
| Easy in the Islands by Bob Shacochis (1st Novel Award) | ||
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1984
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Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr (1st Novel Award) | |
| Victory Over Japan by Ellen Gilchrist | ||
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1983
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The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor | |
| The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty | ||
| The Color Purple by Alice Walker | ||
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1982
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Dale Loves Sophie to Death by Robb Forman Dew (1st Novel Award) | |
| Rabbit is Rich by John Updike | ||
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1981
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Plains Song by Wright Morris | |
| Sister Wolf by Ann Aremberg (1st Novel Award) | ||
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1980
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Birdy by William Wharton (1st Novel Award) | |
| Sophie's Choice by William Styron | ||
| The World According to Garp by John Irving | ||
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1979
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Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien | |
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1978
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Blood Ties by Mary Lee Settle | |
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1977
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The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner | |
| Master Rung's Western Chamber Romance by Li Li Chen (No copies available.) | ||
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1976
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JR by William Gaddis | |
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1975
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The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams | |
| Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone | ||
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1974
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Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon | |
| A Crown of Feathers and Other Storiesby Isaac Bashevis Singer | ||
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1973
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Augustus by John Williams | |
| Chimera by John Barth | ||
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1972
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The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor | |
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1971
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Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow | |
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1970
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Them by Joyce Carol Oates | |
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1969
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Steps by Jerzy Kosinski | |
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1968
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The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder | |
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1967
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The Fixer by Bernhard Malamud | |
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1966
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The Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter |
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1965
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Herzog by Saul Bellow | |
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1964
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The Centaur by John Updike | |
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1963
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Morte d'Urban by J. F. Powers | |
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1962
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The Moviegoer by Walker Percy | |
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1961
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The Waters of Kronos by Conrad Richter | |
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1960
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Goodbye Columbus by Philip Roth | |
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1959
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The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud | |
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1958
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Wapshot Chornicle by John Cheever | |
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1957
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The Field of Vision by Wright Morris | |
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1956
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Ten North Frederick by John O'Hara | |
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1955
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A Fable by William Faulkner | |
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1954
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The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow | |
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1953
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Invisible Man by Ralph Elison | |
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1952
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From Here to Eternity by James Jones | |
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1951
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The Collected Stories by William Faulkner | |
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1950
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The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren |