National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

The National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, established in 1976,^[1] is an annual American literary award presented by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote "the finest books and reviews published in English."^[2]

Books previously published in English are not eligible, such as re-issues and paperback editions. They do consider "translations, short story and essay collections, self published books, and any titles that fall under the general categories."^[3]

The judges are the volunteer directors of the NBCC who are 24 members serving rotating three-year terms, with eight elected annually by the voting members, namely "professional book review editors and book reviewers."^[4] Winners of the awards are announced each year at the NBCC awards ceremony in conjunction with the yearly membership meeting, which takes place in March.^[3]

Recipients

National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction winners and finalists
Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
1975	E. L. Doctorow	Ragtime	Winner	^[5]
1976	John Gardner	October Light	Winner	^[6]
	Cynthia Ozick	Bloodshed and Three Novellas	Finalist	^[6]
	Vladimir Nabokov	Details of a Sunset and Other Stories
	Renata Adler	Speedboat
	Richard Yates	The Easter Parade
1977	Toni Morrison	Song of Solomon	Winner	^[7]
	Joan Didion	A Book of Common Prayer	Finalist	^[7]
	John Cheever	Falconer
	Philip Roth	The Professor of Desire
	John Sayles	Union Dues
1978	John Cheever	The Stories of John Cheever	Winner	^[8]
	Mary Gordon	Final Payments	Finalist	^[8]
	John Updike	The Coup
	John Irving	The World According to Garp
	Charles Simmons	Wrinkles
1979	Thomas Flanagan	The Year of the French	Winner	^[9]
	Leslie Epstein	King of the Jews: A Novel of the Holocaust	Finalist	^[9]
	Elizabeth Hardwick	Sleepless Nights
	William Styron	Sophie's Choice
	Norman Mailer	The Executioner's Song: A True Life Novel
	Philip Roth	The Ghost Writer
1980	Shirley Hazzard	The Transit of Venus	Winner	^[10]
	E. L. Doctorow	Loon Lake	Finalist	^[10]
	Anne Tyler	Morgan's Passing
	William Maxwell	So Long, See You Tomorrow
	Walker Percy	The Second Coming
1981	John Updike	Rabbit Is Rich	Winner	^[11]
	Robert Stone	A Flag for Sunrise	Finalist	^[11]
	Russell Hoban	Riddley Walker
	Donald Barthelme	Sixty Stories
	Leonard Michaels	The Men's Club
1982	Stanley Elkin	George Mills	Winner	^[12]
	Anne Tyler	Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant	Finalist	^[12]
	Cynthia Ozick	Levitation: Five Fictions
	Bobbie Ann Mason	Shiloh and Other Stories
	Alice Walker	The Color Purple
1983	William Kennedy	Ironweed	Winner	^[13]
	Raymond Carver	Cathedral	Finalist	^[13]
	Joan Chase	During the Reign of the Queen of Persia
	Ron Loewinsohn	Magnetic Field (s)
	Philip Roth	The Anatomy Lesson
1984	Louise Erdrich	Love Medicine	Winner	^[14]
	David Leavitt	Family Dancing	Finalist	^[14]
	Alison Lurie	Foreign Affairs
	Jayne Anne Phillips	Machine Dreams
	Harriet Doerr	Stones for Ibarra
1985	Anne Tyler	The Accidental Tourist	Winner	^[15]
	Larry McMurtry	Lonesome Dove	Finalist	^[15]
	Peter Taylor	The Old Forest and Other Stories
	Richard Powers	Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance
	Don DeLillo	White Noise
1986	Reynolds Price	Kate Vaiden	Winner	^[16]
	Peter Taylor	A Summons to Memphis	Finalist	^[16]
	John Updike	Roger's Version
	Louise Erdrich	The Beet Queen
	Thomas Williams	The Moon Pinnacle
1987	Philip Roth	The Counterlife	Winner	^[17]
	Toni Morrison	Beloved	Finalist	^[17]
	Wallace Stegner	Crossing to Safety
	Jane Smiley	The Age of Grief
	Tom Wolfe	The Bonfire of the Vanities
1988	Bharati Mukherjee	The Middleman and Other Stories	Winner	^[18]
	Don DeLillo	Libra	Finalist	^[18]
	Pete Dexter	Paris Trout
	J. F. Powers	Wheat That Springeth Green
	Raymond Carver	Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
1989	E. L. Doctorow	Billy Bathgate	Winner	^[19]
	Jane Smiley	Ordinary Love & Good Will	Finalist	^[19]
	John Casey	Spartina
	Amy Tan	The Joy Luck Club
	Oscar Hijuelos	The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
1990	John Updike	Rabbit at Rest	Winner	^[20]
	Wallace Stegner	Collected Stories	Finalist	^[20]
	Sue Miller	Family Pictures
	Charles Johnson	Middle Passage
	Tim O’Brien	The Things They Carried
1991	Jane Smiley	A Thousand Acres	Winner	^[21]
	Norman Rush	Mating	Finalist	^[21]
	Richard Powers	The Gold Bug Variations
	Gish Jen	Typical American
	Louis Begley	Wartime Lies
1992	Cormac McCarthy	All the Pretty Horses	Winner	^[22]
	Joyce Carol Oates	Black Water	Finalist	^[22]
	Richard Price	Clockers
	Randall Kenan	Let the Dead Bury Their Dead
	Robert Stone	Outerbridge Reach
1993	Ernest J. Gaines	A Lesson Before Dying	Winner	^[23]
	Bobbie Ann Mason	Feather Crowns	Finalist	^[23]
	Rikki Ducornet	The Jade Cabinet
	E. Annie Proulx	The Shipping News
	Frances Sherwood	Vindication
1994	Carol Shields	The Stone Diaries	Winner	^[24]
	William Gaddis	A Frolic of His Own	Finalist	^[24]
	Julius Lester	And All Our Wounds Forgiven
	Julia Alvarez	In the Time of the Butterflies
	Alan Isler	The Prince of West End Avenue
1995	Stanley Elkin	Mrs. Ted Bliss	Winner	^[25]
	Richard Powers	Galatea 2.2	Finalist	^[25]
	Richard Ford	Independence Day
	Jane Smiley	Moo
	Paul West	The Tent of Orange Mist
1996	Gina Berriault	Women in Their Beds	Winner	^[26]
	Louis Begley	About Schmidt	Finalist	^[26]
	Andre Dubus	Dancing After Hours
	Henry Roth	From Bondage
	Jamaica Kincaid	The Autobiography of My Mother
1997	Penelope Fitzgerald	The Blue Flower	Winner	^[27]
	Philip Roth	American Pastoral	Finalist	^[27]
	Charles Frazier	Cold Mountain
	Andrei Makine	Dreams of My Russian Summers
	Don DeLillo	Underworld
1998	Alice Munro	The Love of a Good Woman	Winner	^[28]
	Lorrie Moore	Birds of America	Finalist	^[28]
	Lynne Tillman	No Lease on Life
	David Gates	Preston Falls
	Michael Cunningham	The Hours
1999	Jonathan Lethem	Motherless Brooklyn	Winner	^[29]
	J. M. Coetzee	Disgrace	Finalist	^[29]
	A. Manette Ansay	Midnight Champagne
	Frederick Busch	The Night Inspector
	David Gates	The Wonders of the Invisible World
2000	Jim Crace	Being Dead	Winner	^[30]
	Amy Bloom	A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You	Finalist	^[30]
	David Means	Assorted Fire Events
	Michael Chabon	The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
	Zadie Smith	White Teeth
2001	W.G. Sebald with Anthea Bell (trans.)	Austerlitz	Winner	^[31]
2002	Ian McEwan	Atonement	Winner
2003	Edward P. Jones	The Known World	Winner
2004	Marilynne Robinson	Gilead	Winner
2005	E. L. Doctorow	The March	Winner
2006	Kiran Desai	The Inheritance of Loss	Winner
2007	Junot Diaz	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao	Winner	^[32]^[33]^[34]
	Hisham Matar	In the Country of Men	Finalist	^[33]
	Joyce Carol Oates	The Gravedigger's Daughter
	Marianne Wiggins	The Shadow Catcher
	Vikram Chandra	Sacred Games
2008	Roberto Bolaño with Natasha Wimmer (trans.)	2666	Winner	^[35]^[36]
	Aleksandar Hemon	The Lazarus Project	Finalist	^[37]^[35]
	Elizabeth Strout	Olive Kitteridge
	M. Glenn Taylor	The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart
	Marilynne Robinson	Home
2009	Hilary Mantel	Wolf Hall	Winner	^[38]^[39]^[40]
	Bonnie Jo Campbell	American Salvage	Finalist	^[38]
	Jayne Anne Phillips	Lark and Termite
	Marlon James	The Book of Night Women
	Michelle Huneven	Blame
2010	Jennifer Egan	A Visit from the Goon Squad	Winner	^[41]^[42]
	David Grossman	To The End of the Land	Finalist	^[41]
	Hans Keilson	Comedy in a Minor Key
	Jonathan Franzen	Freedom
	Paul Murray	Skippy Dies
2011	Edith Pearlman	Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories	Winner	^[43]^[44]
	Alan Hollinghurst	The Stranger's Child	Finalist	^[43]^[44]^[45]
	Dana Spiotta	Stone Arabia
	Jeffrey Eugenides	The Marriage Plot
	Teju Cole	Open City
2012	Ben Fountain	Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk	Winner	^[46]^[47]
	Adam Johnson	The Orphan Master's Son	Finalist	^[46]^[48]^[49]
	Laurent Binet with Sam Taylor (trans.)	HHhH
	Lydia Millet	Magnificence
	Zadie Smith	NW
2013	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	Americanah	Winner	^[50]^[51]
	Alice McDermott	Someone	Finalist	^[50]^[52]
	Donna Tartt	The Goldfinch
	Javier Marías with Margaret Jull Costa (trans.)	The Infatuations
	Ruth Ozeki	A Tale for the Time Being
2014	Marilynne Robinson	Lila	Winner	^[53]^[54]
	Chang-rae Lee	On Such a Full Sea	Finalist	^[53]^[55]
	Lily King	Euphoria
	Marlon James	A Brief History of Seven Killings
	Rabih Alameddine	An Unnecessary Woman
2015	Paul Beatty	The Sellout	Winner	^[56]
	Anthony Marra	The Tsar of Love and Techno	Finalist	^[56]
	Lauren Groff	Fates and Furies
	Ottessa Moshfegh	Eileen
	Valeria Luiselli	The Story of My Teeth
2016	Louise Erdrich	LaRose	Winner	^[57]^[58]
	Adam Haslett	Imagine Me Gone	Finalist	^[57]
	Ann Patchett	Commonwealth
	Michael Chabon	Moonglow: A Novel
	Zadie Smith	Swing Time
2017	Joan Silber	Improvement	Winner	^[59]^[60]^[61]^[62]
	Alice McDermott	The Ninth Hour	Finalist	^[59]^[58]
	Arundhati Roy	The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
	Jesmyn Ward	Sing, Unburied, Sing
	Mohsin Hamid	Exit West
2018	Anna Burns	Milkman	Winner	^[63]^[64]^[65]^[66]
	Denis Johnson	The Largesse of the Sea Maiden	Finalist	^[63]
	Luis Alberto Urrea	The House of Broken Angels
	Patrick Chamoiseau with Linda Coverdale (trans.)	Slave Old Man
	Rachel Kushner	The Mars Room
2019	Edwidge Danticat	Everything Inside	Winner	^[67]^[68]
	Ben Lerner	The Topeka School	Finalist	^[67]
	Colson Whitehead	The Nickel Boys
	Myla Goldberg	Feast Your Eyes
	Valeria Luiselli	Lost Children Archive
2020	Maggie O'Farrell	Hamnet	Winner	^[69]^[70]^[71]
	Bryan Washington	Memorial	Finalist	^[70]
	Martin Amis	Inside Story
	Randall Kenan	If I Had Two Wings
	Souvankham Thammavongsa	How to Pronounce Knife
2021	Honorée Fanonne Jeffers	The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois	Winner	^[72]
	Colson Whitehead	Harlem Shuffle	Finalist	^[73]^[74]^[75]
	Joshua Cohen	The Netanyahus
	Rachel Cusk	Second Place
	Sarah Hall	Burntcoat
2022	Ling Ma	Bliss Montage	Winner	^[76]
	Percival Everett	Dr. No	Finalist	^[77]
	Jon Fosse with Damion Searls (trans.)	A New Name
	Mieko Kawakami with Sam Bett and David Boyd (trans.)	All the Lovers in the Night
	Namwali Serpell	The Furrows
2023	Lorrie Moore	I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home	Winner	^[78]
	Teju Cole	Tremor	Finalist	^[79]
	Daniel Mason	North Woods
	Marie NDiaye with Jordan Stump (trans.)	Vengeance Is Mine
	Justin Torres	Blackouts

References

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External links

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[newsletter1976-1] The National Book Critics Circle Journal 2:1, Spring 1976 Archived May 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, NBCC. Retrieved February 2, 2012.

[2] "How We Pick Our Awards". National Book Critics Circle. Archived from the original on June 8, 2020. Retrieved 2022-01-24.

[FAQ-3] "Frequently Asked Questions". National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved 2022-01-24.

[4] "Membership". National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved 2022-01-24.

[5] "1975 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction Winner and Nominees". Awards Archive. 2020-03-28. Retrieved 2022-03-20.

[:16-6] "1976 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction Winner and Nominees". Awards Archive. 2020-03-28. Retrieved 2022-03-20.

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[:18-8] "1978 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction Winner and Nominees". Awards Archive. 2020-03-28. Retrieved 2022-03-20.

[:19-9] "1979 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction Winner and Nominees". Awards Archive. 2020-03-28. Retrieved 2022-03-20.

[:20-10] "1980 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction Winner and Nominees". Awards Archive. 2020-03-28. Retrieved 2022-03-20.

[:21-11] "1981 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction Winner and Nominees". Awards Archive. 2020-03-28. Retrieved 2022-03-20.

[:22-12] "1982 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction Winner and Nominees". Awards Archive. 2020-03-28. Retrieved 2022-03-20.

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[:28-18] "1988 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction Winner and Nominees". Awards Archive. 2020-03-28. Retrieved 2022-03-20.

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[31] Marshall, Alex (19 October 2018). "Anthea Bell, Translator of Freud, Kafka and Comics, Dies at 82". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 21 October 2018. Retrieved 22 March 2023. [Bell] translated hundreds of books — she did not know the exact number — including W. G. Sebald's "Austerlitz," a dreamlike meditation on memory and the Holocaust that won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2012.

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v t e National Book Critics Circle Awards
Book Prizes	Biography Criticism Fiction John Leonard Prize Memoir & Autobiography Nonfiction Poetry
Author Prizes	Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing