National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction
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National Book Critics Circle, 50 Books
The National Book Critics Circle Award is an annual award given by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote the finest books and reviews published in English.
This list is a yearly book award, and was added to this site over 12 years ago.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 406 | Ragtime | E. L. Doctorow | 1975 | American | English | |
| 10508 | October Light | John Gardner | 1976 | American | English | |
| 260 | Song of Solomon | Toni Morrison | 1977 | American | English | |
| 680 | The Stories of John Cheever | John Cheever | 1978 | American | English | |
| 14232 | The Year of the French | Thomas Flanagan | 1979 | American | English | |
| 1096 | The Transit of Venus | Shirley Hazzard | 1980 | Australian | English | |
| 686 | Rabbit Is Rich | John Updike | 1981 | American | English | |
| 17152 | George Mills | Stanley Elkin | 1982 | American | English | |
| 2302 | Ironweed | William Kennedy | 1983 | American | English | |
| 1318 | Love Medicine | Louise Erdrich | 1984 | American | English | |
| 2273 | The Accidental Tourist | Anne Tyler | 1985 | American | English | |
| 6002 | Kate Vaiden | Reynolds Price | 1986 | American | English | |
| 2853 | The Counterlife | Philip Roth | 1986 | American | English | |
| 14232 | The Middleman and Other Stories | Bharati Mukherjee | 1988 | Indian | English | |
| 9073 | Billy Bathgate | E. L. Doctorow | 1989 | American | English | |
| 784 | Rabbit at Rest | John Updike | 1990 | American | English | |
| 1000 | A Thousand Acres | Jane Smiley | 1991 | American | English | |
| 751 | All the Pretty Horses | Cormac McCarthy | 1992 | American | English | |
| 2492 | A Lesson Before Dying | Ernest J. Gaines | 1993 | American | English | |
| 1697 | The Stone Diaries | Carol Shields | 1993 | Canadian | English | |
| 574 | The Known World | Edward P. Jones | 2003 | American | English | |
| 475 | Gilead | Marilynne Robinson | 2004 | American | English | |
| 14985 | The March | E. L. Doctorow | 2005 | American | English | |
| 17152 | Mrs. Ted Bliss | Stanley Elkin | 1995 | American | English | |
| 14232 | Women in Their Beds | Gina Berriault | 1996 | American | English | |
| 1099 | The Blue Flower | Penelope Fitzgerald | 1995 | British | English | |
| 9893 | The Love of a Good Woman | Alice Munro | 1998 | Canadian | English | |
| 5353 | Motherless Brooklyn | Jonathan Lethem | 1999 | American | English | |
| 4941 | Being Dead | Jim Crace | 1999 | British | English | |
| 262 | Austerlitz | W. G. Sebald | 2001 | German | German | |
| 248 | Atonement | Ian McEwan | 2001 | British | English | |
| 2958 | The Inheritance of Loss | Kiran Desai | 2006 | Indian | English | |
| 396 | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Diaz | 2007 | Dominican | English | |
| 232 | 2666 | Roberto Bolaño | 2004 | Chilean | Spanish | |
| 397 | Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantel | 2009 | British | English | |
| 421 | A Visit From The Goon Squad | Jennifer Egan | 2010 | American | English | |
| 14985 | Binocular Vision | Edith Pearlman | 2011 | American | English | |
| 3139 | Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk | Ben Fountain | 2012 | American | English | |
| 443 | Americanah | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | 2013 | Nigerian | English | |
| 14985 | Lila | Marilynne Robinson | 2014 | American | English | |
| 837 | The Sellout | Paul Beatty | 2015 | American | English | |
| 14232 | LaRose | Louise Erdrich | 2016 | American | English | |
| 9017 | Improvement | Joan Silber | 2017 | American | English | |
| 2242 | Milkman | Anna Burns | 2018 | Irish | English | |
| 14985 | Everything Inside | Edwidge Danticat | 2019 | Haitian | English | |
| 2589 | Hamnet | Maggie O'Farrell | 2020 | Irish | English | |
| 14985 | Bliss Montage | Ling Ma | 2022 | American | English | |
| 4866 | The Love Songs Of W.E.B. Dubois | Honorée Fanonne Jeffers | 2021 | American | English | |
| 8852 | I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home | Lorrie Moore | 2023 | American | English | |
| 7784 | My Friends | Hisham Matar | 2024 | British | Unknown |