Winners of the National Book Award for Fiction (known as the American Book Award from 1980-1983).
National Book Award for Fiction Public
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An astonishing first novel that traces the lives of a Scottish family over a decade as they confront the joys …
Phil in SF a dit : Winner, National Book Awards 2002 for Fiction
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The Great Fire de Shirley Hazzard
A Great Writer's Sweeping Story of Men and Women Struggling to Reclaim Their Lives in The Aftermath of World Conflict …
Phil in SF a dit : Winner, National Book Awards 2003 for Fiction
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The News from Paraguay de Lily Tuck
For him, it began with a bright blue parrot feather that fell from Ella Lynch's hat when she was horseback …
Phil in SF a dit : Winner, National Book Awards 2004 for Fiction
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Europe Central de William T. Vollmann
Audacious. Wildly ambitious. Prolific. All describe William T. Vollmann, author of the seven- volume nonfiction work Rising Up and Rising …
Phil in SF a dit : Winner, National Book Awards 2005 for Fiction
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The Echo Maker de Richard Powers
On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, 27-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near-fatal accident. His …
Phil in SF a dit : Winner, National Book Awards 2006 for Fiction
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Tree of Smoke de Denis Johnson
Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as …
Phil in SF a dit : Winner, National Book Awards 2007 for Fiction
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Shadow Country de Peter Matthiessen
Peter Matthiessen's great American epic—Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man's River and Bone by Bone—was conceived as one …
Phil in SF a dit : Winner, National Book Awards 2008 for Fiction
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Let the Great World Spin de Colum McCann
A rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s. A radical young …
Phil in SF a dit : Winner, National Book Awards 2009 for Fiction
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Lord of Misrule de Jaimy Gordon
At the rock-bottom end of the sport of kings sits the ruthless and often violent world of cheap horse racing, …
Phil in SF a dit : Winner, National Book Awards 2010 for Fiction
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Salvage the Bones de Jesmyn Ward (Bois Sauvage, #1)
They heard it on the radio. A hurricane is coming, threatening the town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi. Esch's hard-drinking father …
Phil in SF a dit : Winner, National Book Awards 2011 for Fiction
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The Round House de Louise Erdrich
One of the most revered novelists of our time—a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life—Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of …
Phil in SF a dit : Winner, National Book Awards 2012 for Fiction
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The Good Lord Bird de James McBride
From the bestselling author of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, Deacon King Kong (an Oprah Book Club pick) and …
Phil in SF a dit : Winner, National Book Awards 2013 for Fiction
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Redeployment takes readers to the front lines of the war in Iraq, asking us to understand what happened there and …
Phil in SF a dit : Winner, National Book Awards 2014 for Fiction
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Fortune Smiles de Adam Johnson
Throughout these six stories, Pulitzer Prize winner Adam Johnson delves deep into love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of …
Phil in SF a dit : Winner, National Book Awards 2015 for Fiction
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The Underground Railroad de Colson Whitehead
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Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad …
Phil in SF a dit : Winner, National Book Awards 2016 for Fiction
