National Book Award (Fiction)

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ALL ADULT FICTION WINNERS…NON-GENRE

National Book Award Winners for Hardcover Fiction except:

Paperback Fiction Winners:

The World According to Garp by John Irving
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty

First Novel:

Birdy by William Wharton
Sister Wolf by Ann Arensberg
Dale Loves Sophie to Death by Robb Forman Dew
The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor

First Work of Fiction:

Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr
Easy in the Islands by Bob Shacochis

General Fiction:

China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston

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  1. 1950
    The Man with the Golden Arm ("Rebel Inc." Classics)
    by Nelson Algren

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  2. 1951
    Collected Stories
    by William Faulkner

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  3. 1952
    From Here to Eternity
    by James Jones

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  4. 1953
    Invisible Man (Modern Library)
    by Ralph Ellison

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  5. 1954
    The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  6. 1955
    A Fable
    by William Faulkner

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  7. 1956
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    Ten North Frederick
    by John O'Hara

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  8. 1957
    Field of Vision (Bison Book S.)
    by Wright Morris

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  9. 1958
    The Wapshot Chronicle (Vintage Classics)
    by John Cheever

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  10. 1959
    The Magic Barrel
    by Bernard Malamud

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  11. 1960
    Goodbye, Columbus (Essential.penguin)
    by Philip Roth

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  12. 1961
    The Waters of Kronos
    by Conrad Richter

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  13. 1962
    Moviegoer, The
    by Walker Percy

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  14. 1963
    Morte D'Urban (New York Review Books Classics)
    by J. F. Powers

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  15. 1964
    The Centaur
    by John Updike

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  16. 1965
    Herzog (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  17. 1966
    The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
    by Katherine Anne Porter

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  18. 1967
    The Fixer: A Novel
    by Bernard Malamud

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  19. 1968
    The Eighth Day: A Novel
    by Thornton Wilder

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  20. 1969
    Steps
    by Jerzy Kosinski

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  21. 1970
    Them (Modern Library)
    by Joyce Carol Oates

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  22. 1971
    Mr Sammler's Planet
    by Saul Bellow

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  23. 1972
    The Complete Stories
    by Flannery O'Connor

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  24. 1973
    Chimera
    by John Barth

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  25. 1973
    Augustus: A Novel
    by John Edward Williams

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  26. 1974
    Gravity's Rainbow
    by Thomas Pynchon

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  27. 1974
    A Crown of Feathers
    by Isaac Bashevis Singer

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  28. 1975
    Dog Soldiers
    by Robert Stone

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  29. 1975
    The Hair of Harold Roux
    by Thomas Williams

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  30. 1976
    Jr.
    by William Gaddis

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  31. 1977
    The Spectator Bird (Contemporary American Fiction)
    by Wallace Stegner

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  32. 1978
    Blood Tie (Mary Lee Settle Collection)
    by Mary Lee Settle

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  33. 1979
    Going After Cacciato
    by Tim O'Brien

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  34. 1980
    Sophie's Choice (Vintage Classics)
    by William Styron

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  35. 1980
    The World According to Garp (Modern Library)
    by John Irving

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  36. 1980
    Birdy
    by William Wharton

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  37. 1981
    Plains Song: For Female Voices
    by Wright Morris

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  38. 1981
    The Stories of John Cheever
    by John Cheever

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  39. 1981
    Sister Wolf
    by Ann Arensberg

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  40. 1981
    China Men
    by Maxine Hong Kingston

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  41. 1982
    Rabbit Is Rich
    by John Updike

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  42. 1982
    So Long, See You Tomorrow
    by William Maxwell

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  43. 1982
    Dale Loves Sophie to Death: A Novel
    by Robb Forman Dew

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  44. 1983
    The Color Purple: Tenth Anniversary Editon
    by Alice Walker

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  45. 1983
    The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
    by Eudora Welty

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  46. 1984
    Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories (Back Bay Books)
    by Ellen Gilchrist

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  47. 1984
    Stones for Ibarra (Contemporary American Fiction)
    by Harriet Doerr

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  48. 1985
    White Noise
    by Don Delillo

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  49. 1985
    Easy in the Islands
    by Bob Shacochis

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