National Book Award for Fiction

Given by the National Book Foundation since 1950 as part of its efforts in promoting reading and raising funds for literacy programs.

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 & Other Stories by Andrea Barrett
1995: Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
1994: Frolic of his Own by William Gaddis
1993: The Shipping News by E. Anne Proulx
1992: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
1991: Mating by Norman Rush
1990: Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
1989: Spartina by John Casey
1988: Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
1987: Pacos Story by Larry Heinemann
1986: Worlds Fair by E.L. Doctorow
1985: White Noise by Don DeLillo
1984: Victory Over Japan by Ellen Gilchrist
1983: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
1982: Rabbit is Rich by John Updike
1981: Plains Song by Wright Morris
1980: Sophie's Choice by William Styron
1979: Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
1978: Blood Ties by Mary Lee Settle
1977: The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner
1976: J.R. by William Gaddis
1975: Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone and The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams
1974: Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon and A Crown of Feathers by Issac Bashevis Singer
1973: Chimera by John Barth
1972: The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
1971: Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow
1970: Them by Joyce Carol Oates
1969: Steps by Jerzy Kosinski
1968: The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder
1967: The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
1966: The Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter
1965: Herzog by Saul Bellow
1964: The Centaur by John Updike
1963: Morte D'Urban by J.F. Powers
1962: The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
1961: The Waters of Kronos by Conrad Richter
1960: Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth
1959: The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud
1958: The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
1957: Field of Vision by Wright Morris
1956: Ten North Federick by John O'Hara
1955: A Fable by William Faulkner
1954: The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
1953: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
1952: From Here to Eternity by James Jones
1951: Collected Stories by William Faulkner
1950: The Man With the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren

The National Book Award for Young People's Literature recognizes outstanding contributions to children's literature. The Young People's category was added to the National Book Awards in 1996. A Children's Books category had previously existed in the National Book Award/American Book Awards program from 1969 to 1983.

2002: The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
2001: True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff
2000: Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan
1999: When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt
1998: Holes by Louis Sachar
1997: Dancing on the Edgeby Han Nolan
1996: Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida by Victor Martinez
1983: Hardcover Fiction: Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz
    Paperback Fiction: Marked by Fire by Joyce Carol Thomas and A Place Apart by Paula Fox
    Nonfiction: Chimney Sweeps by James Cross Giblin
    Hardcover Picture Book: Doctor De Soto by William Steig and Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
    Paperback Picture Book: A House is a House for Me by Mary Ann Hoberman, ill. by Betty Fraser
1982: Hardcover Fiction: Westmark by Lloyd Alexander
    Paperback Fiction: Words by Heart by Ouida Sebestyen
    Nonfiction: A Penguin Year by Susan Bonners
    Hardcover Picture Book: Outside Over There by Maurice Sendak
    Paperback Picture Book: Noah's Ark by Peter Spier
1981: Hardcover Fiction: The Night Swimmers by Betsy Byars
    Paperback Fiction: Ramona and her Mother by Beverly Cleary
    Nonfiction: Oh, Boy! Babies by Alison Cragin Herzig and Jane Lawrence Mali
1980: Hardcover Fiction: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journey, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos
    Paperback Fiction: A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle
1979: The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
1978: The View From the Oak by Judith and Herbert Kohl
1977: The Master Puppeteer by Katherine Paterson
1976: Bert Breen's Barn by Walter D. Edmonds
1975: M.C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
1974: The Court of the Stone Children by Eleanor Cameron
1973: The Farthest Shore by Ursula Le Guin
1972: The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine by Donald Barthelme
1971: The Marvellous Misadventures of Sebastian by Lloyd Alexander
1970: A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw by Isaac Bashevis Singer
1969: Journey From Peppermint Street by Meindert DeJong