National Book Award Winners: Fiction

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On March 15, 1950, a consortium of book publishing groups sponsored the first annual National Book Awards Ceremony and Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. Their goal was to enhance the public’s awareness of exceptional books written by fellow Americans, and to increase the popularity of reading in general.

Since then, The National Book Awards have become the nation’s preeminent literary prizes, and The National Book Awards Ceremony and Dinner the most important event on our literary calendar. The Winners, selected by five-member, independent judging panels for each genre, receive a $10,000 cash award and a crystal sculpture.

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  1. 1997
    Cold Mountain: A Novel
    by Charles Frazier

  2. 1998
    Charming Billy
    by Alice McDermott

  3. 1999
    Waiting: A Novel
    by Ha Jin

  4. 2000
    In America: A Novel
    by Susan Sontag

  5. 2001
    The Corrections: A Novel
    by Jonathan Franzen

  6. 2002
    Three Junes
    by Julia Glass

  7. 2003
    The Great Fire
    by Shirley Hazzard

  8. 2004
    The News from Paraguay: A Novel
    by Lily Tuck

  9. 2005
    Europe Central
    by William Vollmann

  10. 2007
    Tree of Smoke: A Novel
    by Denis Johnson

  11. 2006
    The Echo Maker: A Novel
    by Richard Powers

  12. 2008
    Shadow Country (Modern Library Paperbacks)
    by Peter Matthiessen

  13. 2009
    Let the Great World Spin: A Novel
    by Colum McCann

  14. 2010
    Lord of Misrule
    by Jaimy Gordon

  15. 2011
    Salvage the Bones: A Novel
    by Jesmyn Ward

  16. 2012
    The Round House
    by Louise Erdrich

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