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Overview
Each book in this challenge has received the fiction award from the National Book Critics Circle Award, which began in 1975!
The National Book Critics Circle Awards: Fiction
The National Book Critics Circle Awards: Fiction
1975 E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime
1976 John Gardner, October Light
1977 Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
1978 John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever
1979 Thomas Flanagan, The Year of the French
1980 Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus
1981 John Updike, Rabbit Is Rich
1982 Stanley Elkin, George Mills
1983 William Kennedy, Ironweed
1984 Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine
1985 Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist
1986 Reynolds Price, Kate Vaiden
1987 Philip Roth, The Counterlife
1988 Bharati Mukherjee, The Middleman and Other Stories
1989 E.L. Doctorow, Billy Bathgate
1990 John Updike, Rabbit at Rest
1991 Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
1992 Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
1993 Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying
1994 Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
1995 Stanley Elkin, Mrs. Ted Bliss
1996 Gina Berriault, Women in Their Beds
1997 Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower
1998 Alice Munro, The Love of a Good Woman
1999 Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn
2000 Jim Crace, Being Dead
2001 W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz
2002 Ian McEwan, Atonement
2003 Edward P. Jones, The Known World
2004 Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
2005 E.L. Doctorow, The March
2006 Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
2007 Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2008 Roberto Bolaño, 2666
2009 Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
2010 Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
2011 Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision
2012 Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
2013 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
2014 Marilynne Robinson, Lila
2015 Paul Beatty, The Sellout
2016 Louise Erdrich, LaRose
2017 Joan Silber, Improvement
2018 Anna Burns, Milkman
2019 Edwidge Danticat, Everything Inside
2020 Maggie O’Farrell, Hamnet
2021 Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B DuBois
2022 Ling Ma, Bliss Montage: Stories
2023 Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home
Fiction Winners of the National Book Critics Circle Award
2 participants, 49 books
Overview
Each book in this challenge has received the fiction award from the National Book Critics Circle Award, which began in 1975!
The National Book Critics Circle Awards: Fiction
The National Book Critics Circle Awards: Fiction
1975 E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime
1976 John Gardner, October Light
1977 Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
1978 John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever
1979 Thomas Flanagan, The Year of the French
1980 Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus
1981 John Updike, Rabbit Is Rich
1982 Stanley Elkin, George Mills
1983 William Kennedy, Ironweed
1984 Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine
1985 Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist
1986 Reynolds Price, Kate Vaiden
1987 Philip Roth, The Counterlife
1988 Bharati Mukherjee, The Middleman and Other Stories
1989 E.L. Doctorow, Billy Bathgate
1990 John Updike, Rabbit at Rest
1991 Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
1992 Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
1993 Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying
1994 Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
1995 Stanley Elkin, Mrs. Ted Bliss
1996 Gina Berriault, Women in Their Beds
1997 Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower
1998 Alice Munro, The Love of a Good Woman
1999 Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn
2000 Jim Crace, Being Dead
2001 W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz
2002 Ian McEwan, Atonement
2003 Edward P. Jones, The Known World
2004 Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
2005 E.L. Doctorow, The March
2006 Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
2007 Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2008 Roberto Bolaño, 2666
2009 Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
2010 Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
2011 Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision
2012 Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
2013 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
2014 Marilynne Robinson, Lila
2015 Paul Beatty, The Sellout
2016 Louise Erdrich, LaRose
2017 Joan Silber, Improvement
2018 Anna Burns, Milkman
2019 Edwidge Danticat, Everything Inside
2020 Maggie O’Farrell, Hamnet
2021 Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B DuBois
2022 Ling Ma, Bliss Montage: Stories
2023 Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home
