Book prize

National Book Award winners

9 winners and 1 nominee 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
Won

Winners

  1. The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder First edition: Longmans 1967
  2. 2018 The Friend by Sigrid Nunez First edition: Riverhead Books 2018
  3. 2011 The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt First edition: Norton 2011
  4. 1998 Holes by Louis Sachar First edition: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1998
  5. 1981 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever First edition: Knopf 1978
  6. 1980 Jem by Frederik Pohl First edition not yet identified
  7. 1975 Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick First edition not yet identified
  8. 1973 The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin First edition: Atheneum 1972 £38 to £47
  9. 1951 Collected Stories of William Faulkner by William Faulkner First edition: Random House 1950
Shortlisted and nominated

Also in the running

  1. Most Dangerous by Steve Sheinkin First edition: Roaring Brook Press 2015

Prize records from Wikidata (CC0). Only books in our catalogue are listed.

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