The National Book awards have been given since 1950 in the categories of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and children’s literature. They are awarded by the National Book Foundation.

2010
WINNER – Lord of misrule, by Jaimy Gordon
FINALIST – Parrot and Olivier in America, by Peter Carey
FINALIST – Great house, by Nicole Krauss
FINALIST – So much for that, by Lionel Shriver
FINALIST – I hotel, by Karen Tei Yamashita

2009
WINNER – Let the great world spin, by Colum McCann
FINALIST – American salvage, by Bonnie Jo Campbell
FINALIST – In other rooms, other wonders, by Daniyal Mueenuddin
FINALIST – Lark and termite, by Jayne Anne Phillips
FINALIST – Far north, by Marcel Theroux

2008
WINNER – Shadow country, by Peter Matthiessen
FINALIST – The Lazarus project, by Aleksandar Hemon
FINALIST – Telex from Cuba, by Rachel Kushner
FINALIST – Home, by Marilynne Robinson
FINALIST – The end, by Salvatore Scibona

2007
WINNER – Tree of smoke, by Denis Johnson
FINALIST – Fieldwork, by Mischa Berlinski
FINALIST – Varieties of disturbance : stories, by Lydia Davis
FINALIST – Then we came to the end, by Joshua Ferris
FINALIST – Like you’d understand, anyway, by Jim Shepard

2006
WINNER – The echo maker, by Richard Powers
FINALIST – Only revolutions, by Mark Z. Danielewski
FINALIST – A disorder peculiar to the country, by Ken Kalfus
FINALIST – Eat the document, by Dana Spiotta
FINALIST – The zero, by Jess Walter

2005
WINNER – Europe central, by William T. Vollman
FINALIST – The march, by E.L. Doctorow
FINALIST – Veronica, by Mary Gaitskill
FINALIST – Trance, by Christopher Sorrentino
FINALIST – Holy skirts, by Renh Steinke

2004
WINNER – News from Paraguay, by Lily Tuck
FINALIST – Madeleine is sleeping, by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
FINALIST – Florida, by Christine Schutt
FINALIST – Ideas of heaven : a ring of stories, by Joan Silber
FINALIST – Our kind, by Kate Walbert

2003
WINNER – The great fire, by Shirley Hazzard
FINALIST – Drop city, by T.C. Boyle
FINALIST – The known world, by Edward P. Jones
FINALIST – A ship made of paper, by Scott Spencer
FINALIST – Evidence of things unseen, by Marianne Wiggins

2002
WINNER – Three Junes, by Julia Glass
FINALIST – Big if, by Mark Costello
FINALIST – You are not a stranger here, by Adam Haslett
FINALIST – Gorgeous lies, by Martha McPhee
FINALIST – The heaven of Mercury, by Brad Watson

2001
WINNER – The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen
FINALIST – Among the missing, by Dan Chaon
FINALIST – Look at me : a novel, by Jennifer Egan
FINALIST – The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, by Louise Erdrich
FINALIST – Highwire moon : a novel, by Susan Straight

2000
WINNER – In America : a novel, by Susan Sontag
FINALIST – The feast of love, by Charles Baxter
FINALIST – The diagnosis, by Alan Lightman
FINALIST – Blonde : a novel, Joyce Carol Oates
FINALIST – Blue angel : a novel, by Francine Prose

1999
WINNER – Waiting, by Ha Jin
FINALIST – House of sand and fog, by Andre Dubus III
FINALIST – Plainsong, by Kent Haruf
FINALIST – Hummingbird house, Patricia Henley
FINALIST – Who do you love : stories , by Jean Thompson

1998
WINNER – Charming Billy, by Alice McDermott
FINALIST – Kaaterskill Falls, by Allegra Goodman
FINALIST – The healing, by Gayl Jones
FINALIST – The Damascus gate, by Robert Stone
FINALIST – A man in full , by Tom Wolfe

1997
WINNER – Cold mountain, by Charles Frazier
FINALIST – Echo house, by Ward Just
FINALIST – The Puttermesser papers, by Cynthia Ozick
FINALIST – Le divorce, by Diane Johnson
FINALIST – Underworld , by Don DeLillo

1996
WINNER – Ship fever and other stories, by Andrea Barrett
FINALIST – Atticus : a novel, by Ron Hansen
FINALIST – The giant’s house : a romance, by Elizabeth McCracken
FINALIST – Martin Dressler : the tale of an American dreamer r, by Steven Millhauser
FINALIST – The river beyond the world , by Janet Peery

1995
WINNER – Sabbath’s theater, by Philip Roth
FINALIST – All soul’s rising, by Madison Smartt Bell
FINALIST – krik? krak!, by Edwidge Danticat
FINALIST – Interstate, by Stephen Dixon
FINALIST – The house on the lagoon , by Rosario Ferre

1994
WINNER – A frolic of his own, by William Gaddis
FINALIST – Moses supposes, by Ellen Currie
FINALIST – White man’s grave, by Richard Dooling
FINALIST – The bird artist, by Howard Norman
FINALIST – The collected stories , by Grace Paley

1993
WINNER – The shipping news, by E. Annie Proulx
FINALIST – Come to me : stories, by Amy Bloom
FINALIST – The pugilist at rest : stories, by Thom Jones
FINALIST – Operation wandering soul, by Richard Powers
FINALIST – Swimming in the volcano : a novel , by Bob Shacochis

1992
WINNER – All the pretty horses, by Cormac McCarthy
FINALIST – Bastard out of Carolina, by Dorothy Allison
FINALIST – Dreaming in Cuban, by Cristina Garcia
FINALIST – Lost in the city : stories, by Edward P. Jones
FINALIST – Outerbridge reach , by Robert Stone

1991
WINNER – Mating, by Norman Rush
FINALIST – Wartime lies, by Louis Begley
FINALIST – Frog, by Stephen Dixon
FINALIST – The MacGuffin, by Stanley Elkin
FINALIST – Beyond deserving : a novel , by Sandra Scofield

1990
WINNER – Middle passage, by Charles Johnson
FINALIST – Chromos, by Felipe Alfau
FINALIST – Paradise, by Elena Castedo
FINALIST – Dogeaters, by Jessica Hagedorn
FINALIST – Because it is bitter, and because it is my heart , by Joyce Carol Oates

1989
WINNER – Spartina, by John Casey
FINALIST – Billy Bathgate, by E.L. Doctorow
FINALIST – Geek love, by Katherine Dunn
FINALIST – The mambo kings play songs of love, by Oscar Hijuelos
FINALIST – The joy luck club , by Amy Tan

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