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. |
---|---|---|---|---|
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Winner | [14] | ||
David Leavitt | Family Dancing | Finalist | [14] | |
Alison Lurie | Foreign Affairs | |||
Jayne Anne Phillips | Machine Dreams | |||
Harriet Doerr | Stones for Ibarra | |||
1985 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Winner | [23] | ||
Bobbie Ann Mason | Feather Crowns | Finalist | [23] | |
Rikki Ducornet | The Jade Cabinet | |||
E. Annie Proulx | The Shipping News | |||
Frances Sherwood | Vindication | |||
1994 | 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 | Winner | [27] | ||
Philip Roth | American Pastoral | Finalist | [27] | |
Charles Frazier | Cold Mountain | |||
Andrei Makine | Dreams of My Russian Summers | |||
Don DeLillo | Underworld | |||
1998 | Winner | [28] | ||
Lorrie Moore | Birds of America | Finalist | [28] | |
Lynne Tillman | No Lease on Life | |||
David Gates | Preston Falls | |||
Michael Cunningham | The Hours | |||
1999 | 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 | 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 | Atonement | Winner | ||
2003 | Winner | |||
2004 | Gilead | Winner | ||
2005 | The March | Winner | ||
2006 | Winner | |||
2007 | Winner | [32][33][34] | ||
Finalist | [33] | |||
The Shadow Catcher | ||||
Vikram Chandra | Sacred Games | |||
2008 | Roberto Bolaño with Natasha Wimmer (trans.) | Winner | [35][36] | |
The Lazarus Project | Finalist | [37][35] | ||
M. Glenn Taylor | The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart | |||
Home | ||||
2009 | Winner | [38][39][40] | ||
American Salvage | Finalist | [38] | ||
Lark and Termite | ||||
Marlon James | ||||
Blame | ||||
2010 | Winner | [41][42] | ||
Finalist | [41] | |||
Comedy in a Minor Key | ||||
Freedom | ||||
Paul Murray | ||||
2011 | Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories | Winner | [43][44] | |
Finalist | [43][44][45] | |||
Stone Arabia | ||||
Open City | ||||
2012 | Winner | [46][47] | ||
Adam Johnson | Finalist | [46][48][49] | ||
Laurent Binet with Sam Taylor (trans.) | ||||
Magnificence | ||||
NW | ||||
2013 | Winner | [50][51] | ||
Someone | Finalist | [50][52] | ||
The Goldfinch | ||||
Javier Marías with Margaret Jull Costa (trans.) | ||||
2014 | Lila | Winner | [53][54] | |
Finalist | [53][55] | |||
Euphoria | ||||
Marlon James | ||||
2015 | The Sellout | Winner | [56] | |
The Tsar of Love and Techno | Finalist | [56] | ||
Fates and Furies | ||||
Eileen | ||||
2016 | LaRose | Winner | [57][58] | |
Finalist | [57] | |||
Commonwealth | ||||
Moonglow: A Novel | ||||
Swing Time | ||||
2017 | Improvement | Winner | [59][60][61][62] | |
The Ninth Hour | Finalist | [59][58] | ||
2018 | Milkman | Winner | [63][64][65][66] | |
Finalist | [63] | |||
The House of Broken Angels | ||||
Patrick Chamoiseau with Linda Coverdale (trans.) | ||||
2019 | Everything Inside | Winner | [67][68] | |
Finalist | [67] | |||
Feast Your Eyes | ||||
2020 | Hamnet | Winner | [69][70][71] | |
Memorial | Finalist | [70] | ||
Inside Story | ||||
If I Had Two Wings | ||||
2021 | Winner | [72] | ||
Harlem Shuffle | Finalist | [73][74][75] | ||
Joshua Cohen | ||||
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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