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[]
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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1975 |
E. L. Doctorow |
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 |
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 |
Winner |
[8] | |
Mary Gordon | Final Payments | Finalist | [8] | |
John Updike | The Coup | |||
John Irving | The World According to Garp | |||
Charles Simmons | Wrinkles | |||
1979 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Winner |
[20] | |
Wallace Stegner | Collected Stories | Finalist | [20] | |
Sue Miller | Family Pictures | |||
Charles Johnson | Middle Passage | |||
Tim O’Brien | The Things They Carried | |||
1991 |
Winner |
[21] | ||
Norman Rush | Mating | Finalist | [21] | |
Richard Powers | The Gold Bug Variations | |||
Gish Jen | Typical American | |||
Louis Begley | Wartime Lies | |||
1992 |
Cormac McCarthy |
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 |
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 |
Winner |
[25] | ||
Richard Powers | Galatea 2.2 | Finalist | [25] | |
Richard Ford | Independence Day | |||
Jane Smiley | Moo | |||
Paul West | The Tent of Orange Mist | |||
1996 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Winner |
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2002 |
Ian McEwan |
Winner |
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2003 |
Winner |
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2004 |
Marilynne Robinson |
Winner |
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2005 |
E. L. Doctorow |
The March |
Winner |
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2006 |
Winner |
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2007 |
Junot Diaz |
Winner |
[31][32][33] | |
Hisham Matar |
Finalist |
[32] | ||
Joyce Carol Oates |
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The Shadow Catcher | ||||
2008 |
Winner |
[34] | ||
Aleksandar Hemon |
Finalist |
[35][34] | ||
Elizabeth Strout |
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The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart | |||
Marilynne Robinson |
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2009 |
Hilary Mantel |
Winner |
[36][37][38] | |
American Salvage |
Finalist |
[36] | ||
Jayne Anne Phillips |
Lark and Termite | |||
Marlon James |
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Blame | ||||
2010 |
Jennifer Egan |
Winner |
[39][40] | |
David Grossman |
Finalist |
[39] | ||
Hans Keilson |
Comedy in a Minor Key | |||
Jonathan Franzen |
Freedom | |||
2011 |
Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories |
Winner |
[41][42] | |
Alan Hollinghurst |
Finalist |
[41][42][43] | ||
Stone Arabia | ||||
Jeffrey Eugenides |
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Teju Cole |
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2012 |
Ben Fountain |
Winner |
[44][45] | |
Adam Johnson |
Finalist |
[44][46][47] | ||
HHhH tr. by Sam Taylor | ||||
Lydia Millet |
Magnificence | |||
Zadie Smith |
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2013 |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
Winner |
[48][49] | |
Someone |
Finalist |
[48][50] | ||
Donna Tartt |
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Javier Marías with Margaret Jull Costa (trans.) |
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Ruth Ozeki |
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2014 |
Marilynne Robinson |
Lila |
Winner |
[51][52] |
Chang-rae Lee |
Finalist |
[51][53] | ||
Euphoria | ||||
Marlon James |
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2015 |
Winner |
[54] | ||
The Tsar of Love and Techno |
Finalist |
[54] | ||
Lauren Groff |
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Ottessa Moshfegh |
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Valeria Luiselli |
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2016 |
Louise Erdrich |
Winner |
[55][56] | |
Finalist |
[55] | |||
Ann Patchett |
Commonwealth | |||
Michael Chabon |
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Zadie Smith |
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2017 |
Improvement |
Winner |
[57][58][59][60] | |
The Ninth Hour |
Finalist |
[57][56] | ||
Arundhati Roy |
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Jesmyn Ward |
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Mohsin Hamid |
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2018 |
Milkman |
Winner |
[61][62][63][64] | |
Denis Johnson |
Finalist |
[61] | ||
Luis Alberto Urrea |
The House of Broken Angels | |||
Patrick Chamoiseau with Linda Coverdale (trans.) |
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Rachel Kushner |
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2019 |
Edwidge Danticat |
Everything Inside |
Winner |
[65][66] |
Ben Lerner |
Finalist |
[65] | ||
Colson Whitehead |
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Feast Your Eyes | ||||
Valeria Luiselli |
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2020 |
Winner |
[67][68][69] | ||
Finalist |
[68] | |||
Martin Amis |
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If I Had Two Wings | ||||
Souvankham Thammavongsa |
How to Pronounce Knife | |||
2021 | Winner | [70] | ||
Colson Whitehead |
Finalist |
[71][72][73] | ||
Joshua Cohen |
The Netanyahus | |||
Rachel Cusk |
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Burntcoat |
References[]
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- ^ a b "Frequently Asked Questions". National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved 2022-01-24.
- ^ "Membership". National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved 2022-01-24.
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External links[]
- Awards established in 1976
- American literary awards
- 20th-century literary awards
- 21st-century literary awards
- English-language literary awards