Book prize

National Book Award for Fiction winners

14 winners and 5 nominees we hold, newest first. A prize can lift demand for a book's first printing, so each entry links to its first edition and the points that identify it.

All prizes

The National Book Award for Fiction has 14 winners we hold, from 1954 to 2024, and 5 nominees. The most recent winner here is Leave the World Behind, first published by Ecco in 2020. Each entry links to the first edition and the points that identify it.

Won

Winners

  1. Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam First edition: Ecco 2020
  2. The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter First edition not yet identified
  3. The Fixer by Bernard Malamud First edition: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1966
  4. 2024 Blackouts by Justin Torres First edition not yet identified
  5. 2024 James by Percival Everett First edition: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2024
  6. 2020 Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu First edition: Pantheon Books 2020
  7. 2019 Trust Exercise by Susan Choi First edition not yet identified
  8. 2011 Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward First edition: Bloomsbury Publishing 2011
  9. 2006 The Echo Maker by Richard Powers First edition: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006
  10. 1993 The Shipping News by Annie Proulx First edition: Scribner 1993
  11. 1992 All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy First edition: Knopf 1992
  12. 1985 White Noise by Don DeLillo First edition: Viking (Elisabeth Sifton Books) 1985
  13. 1974 Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon First edition: The Viking Press 1973
  14. 1954 The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow First edition: Viking 1953
Shortlisted and nominated

Also in the running

  1. 2020 Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart First edition: Grove Press 2020
  2. 2018 There There by Tommy Orange First edition: Knopf 2018
  3. 2017 Pachinko by Min Jin Lee First edition: Grand Central Publishing 2017
  4. 1970 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut First edition: Delacorte Press 1969
  5. 1955 Lord Grizzly by Frederick Manfred First edition: Signet 1954

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