National Book Award for Fiction: every winner 1950–2024, on audiobook
The National Book Award for Fiction is one of the most prestigious American literary honors, awarded annually by the National Book Foundation since 1950. Its winners are among the most-produced and most-listened literary-fiction audiobooks.
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Every National Book Award for Fiction winner, 1950–2024
| Year | Winning novel | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | James | Percival Everett |
| 2023 | Blackouts | Justin Torres |
| 2022 | The Rabbit Hutch | Tess Gunty |
| 2021 | Hell of a Book | Jason Mott |
| 2020 | Interior Chinatown | Charles Yu |
| 2019 | Trust Exercise | Susan Choi |
| 2018 | The Friend | Sigrid Nunez |
| 2017 | Sing, Unburied, Sing | Jesmyn Ward |
| 2016 | The Underground Railroad | Colson Whitehead |
| 2015 | Fortune Smiles | Adam Johnson |
| 2014 | Redeployment | Phil Klay |
| 2013 | The Good Lord Bird | James McBride |
| 2012 | The Round House | Louise Erdrich |
| 2011 | Salvage the Bones | Jesmyn Ward |
| 2010 | Lord of Misrule | Jaimy Gordon |
| 2009 | Let the Great World Spin | Colum McCann |
| 2008 | Shadow Country | Peter Matthiessen |
| 2007 | Tree of Smoke | Denis Johnson |
| 2006 | The Echo Maker | Richard Powers |
| 2005 | Europe Central | William T. 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 |
| 1989 | Spartina | John Casey |
| 1988 | Paris Trout | Pete Dexter |
| 1987 | Paco's Story | Larry Heinemann |
| 1986 | World's Fair | E. L. Doctorow |
| 1985 | White Noise | Don DeLillo |
| 1984 | Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories | Ellen Gilchrist |
| 1983 | The Color Purple | Alice Walker |
| 1982 | Rabbit is Rich | John Updike |
| 1981 | Plains Song: For Female Voices | Wright Morris |
| 1980 | Sophie's Choice | William Styron |
| 1979 | Going After Cacciato | Tim O'Brien |
| 1978 | Blood Tie | Mary Lee Settle |
| 1977 | The Spectator Bird | Wallace Stegner |
| 1976 | J R | William Gaddis |
| 1975 | Dog Soldiers | Robert Stone |
| 1974 | Gravity's Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon |
| 1973 | Chimera | John Barth |
| 1973 | Augustus | John Williams |
| 1972 | The Complete Stories | Flannery O'Connor |
| 1971 | Mr. Sammler's Planet | Saul Bellow |
| 1970 | them | Joyce Carol Oates |
| 1969 | Steps | Jerzy Kosinski |
| 1968 | The Eighth Day | Thornton Wilder |
| 1967 | The Fixer | Bernard Malamud |
| 1966 | The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter | Katherine Anne Porter |
| 1965 | Herzog | Saul Bellow |
| 1964 | The Centaur | John Updike |
| 1963 | Morte d'Urban | J. F. Powers |
| 1962 | The Moviegoer | Walker Percy |
| 1961 | The Waters of Kronos | Conrad Richter |
| 1960 | Goodbye, Columbus | Philip Roth |
| 1959 | The Magic Barrel | Bernard Malamud |
| 1958 | The Wapshot Chronicle | John Cheever |
| 1957 | The Field of Vision | Wright Morris |
| 1956 | Ten North Frederick | John O'Hara |
| 1955 | A Fable | William Faulkner |
| 1954 | The Adventures of Augie March | Saul Bellow |
| 1953 | Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| 1952 | From Here to Eternity | James Jones |
| 1951 | Collected Stories of William Faulkner | William Faulkner |
| 1950 | The Man with the Golden Arm | Nelson Algren |
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