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National Book Award Winners: Fiction

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.

(found at: http://www.nationalbook.org/nba.html)

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1. The Man with the Golden Arm (50th anniv.)
by Nelson Algren
  
2. Collected Stories
by William Faulkner
  
3. From Here to Eternity
by James Jones
  
4. Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
  
5. The Adventures of Augie March (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Saul Bellow
  
6. A Fable
by William Faulkner
  
7.
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 Ten North Frederick
by John O'hara
  
9. Field of Vision (Bison Book S.)
by Wright Morris
  
10. The Wapshot Chronicle (Perennial Classics)
by John Cheever
  
11. The Magic Barrel: Stories
by Bernard Malamud
  
12. Goodbye, Columbus : And Five Short Stories (Vintage International)
by Philip Roth
  
13. The Waters of Kronos
by Conrad Richter
  
14. The Moviegoer
by Walker Percy
  
15. Morte D'Urban (New York Review Books Classics)
by J. F. Powers
  
16. Centaur
by John Updike
  
17. Herzog (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
  
18. The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
by Katherine Anne Porter
  
19. The Fixer (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Bernard Malamud
  
20. The Eighth Day: A Novel
by Thornton Wilder
  
21. STEPS
by Jerzy N. Kosinski
  
22. Them (Modern Library)
by Joyce Carol Oates
  
23. Mr. Sammler's Planet (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
by Saul Bellow
  
24. The Complete Stories
by Flannery O'Connor
  
25. Chimera
by John Barth
  
26. Augustus: A Novel
by John Edward Williams
  
27. A Crown of Feathers
by Isaac Bashevis Singer
  
28. Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Thomas Pynchon
  
29. Dog Soldiers
by Robert Stone
  
30.
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 The Hair of Harold Roux (Hardscrabble Books)
by Thomas Williams
  
31. JR (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by William Gaddis
  
32. The Spectator Bird (Contemporary American Fiction)
by Wallace Stegner
  
33. Blood Tie (Mary Lee Settle Collection)
by Mary Lee Settle
  
34. Going After Cacciato
by Tim O'Brien
  
35. Sophie's Choice
by WILLIAM STYRON
  
36. Plains Song: For Female Voices
by Wright Morris
  
37. Rabbit Is Rich
by John Updike
  
38. The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
  
39. Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories (Back Bay Books)
by Ellen Gilchrist
  
40. White Noise (Contemporary American Fiction)
by Don DeLillo
  
41. World's Fair: A Novel
by E.L. Doctorow
  
42. Paco's Story (Contemporary American Fiction)
by Larry Heinemann
  
43. Paris Trout (Contemporary American Fiction)
by Pete Dexter
  
44. Spartina
by John Casey
  
45. Middle Passage
by Charles Johnson
  
46. Mating: A Novel
by Norman Rush
  
47. All the Pretty Horses (Vintage International)
by Cormac Mccarthy
  
48. The Shipping News
by E. Annie Proulx
  
49. A Frolic of His Own
by William Gaddis
  
50. Sabbath's Theater
by Philip Roth
  
51. Ship Fever and Other Stories
by Andrea Barrett
  
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