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.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
417 Ragtime E. L. Doctorow 1975 American English
10480 October Light John Gardner 1976 American English
266 Song of Solomon Toni Morrison 1977 American English
678 The Stories of John Cheever John Cheever 1978 American English
14165 The Year of the French Thomas Flanagan 1979 American English
1094 The Transit of Venus Shirley Hazzard 1980 Australian English
684 Rabbit Is Rich John Updike 1981 American English
17008 George Mills Stanley Elkin 1982 American English
2295 Ironweed William Kennedy 1983 American English
1316 Love Medicine Louise Erdrich 1984 American English
2264 The Accidental Tourist Anne Tyler 1985 American English
5993 Kate Vaiden Reynolds Price 1986 American English
2846 The Counterlife Philip Roth 1986 American English
14165 The Middleman and Other Stories Bharati Mukherjee 1988 Indian English
9053 Billy Bathgate E. L. Doctorow 1989 American English
783 Rabbit at Rest John Updike 1990 American English
999 A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley 1991 American English
750 All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy 1992 American English
2487 A Lesson Before Dying Ernest J. Gaines 1993 American English
1695 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
14901 The March E. L. Doctorow 2005 American English
17008 Mrs. Ted Bliss Stanley Elkin 1995 American English
14165 Women in Their Beds Gina Berriault 1996 American English
1097 The Blue Flower Penelope Fitzgerald 1995 British English
9874 The Love of a Good Woman Alice Munro 1998 Canadian English
5344 Motherless Brooklyn Jonathan Lethem 1999 American English
4932 Being Dead Jim Crace 1999 British English
261 Austerlitz W. G. Sebald 2001 German German
248 Atonement Ian McEwan 2001 British English
2950 The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai 2006 Indian English
395 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz 2007 Dominican English
232 2666 Roberto Bolaño 2004 Chilean Spanish
402 Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel 2009 British English
419 A Visit From The Goon Squad Jennifer Egan 2010 American English
14901 Binocular Vision Edith Pearlman 2011 American English
3134 Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Ben Fountain 2012 American English
441 Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2013 Nigerian English
14901 Lila Marilynne Robinson 2014 American English
858 The Sellout Paul Beatty 2015 American English
14165 LaRose Louise Erdrich 2016 American English
9001 Improvement Joan Silber 2017 American English
2311 Milkman Anna Burns 2018 Irish English
14901 Everything Inside Edwidge Danticat 2019 Haitian English
2586 Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell 2020 Irish English
14901 Bliss Montage Ling Ma 2022 American English
4857 The Love Songs Of W.E.B. Dubois Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 2021 American English
8836 I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home Lorrie Moore 2023 American English
7767 My Friends Hisham Matar 2024 British Unknown