National Book Award — fiction
The National Book Award for Fiction, since 1950. One cover per winner in year order, mostly the first edition's; where Open Library has no usable image of it, a later printing stands in.
The Man with the Golden Arm
Nelson Algren
Collected Stories of William Faulkner
William Faulkner
From Here to Eternity
James Jones
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow
A Fable
William Faulkner
Ten North Frederick
John O'Hara
The Field of Vision
Wright Morris
The Wapshot Chronicle
John Cheever
The Magic Barrel
Bernard Malamud
Goodbye, Columbus
Philip Roth
The Waters of Kronos
Conrad Richter
The Moviegoer
Walker Percy
Morte d'Urban
J. F. Powers
The Centaur
John Updike
Herzog
Saul Bellow
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter
The Fixer
Bernard Malamud
The Eighth Day
Thornton Wilder
Steps
Jerzy N. Kosinski
them
Joyce Carol Oates
Mr. Sammler's Planet
Saul Bellow
The Complete Stories
Flannery O'Connor
Chimera
John Barth
Augustus
John Williams
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Dog Soldiers
Robert Stone
The Hair of Harold Roux
Thomas Williams
J R
William Gaddis
The Spectator Bird
Wallace Stegner
Blood Tie
Mary Lee Settle
Going After Cacciato
Tim O'Brien
Sophie's Choice
William Styron
The World According to Garp
John Irving
Plains Song
Wright Morris
The Stories of John Cheever
John Cheever
Rabbit is Rich
John Updike
So Long, See You Tomorrow
William Maxwell
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty
Victory Over Japan
Ellen Gilchrist
White Noise
Don DeLillo
World's Fair
E. L. Doctorow
Paco's Story
Larry Heinemann
Paris Trout
Pete Dexter
Spartina
John Casey
Middle Passage
Charles Richard Johnson
Mating
Norman Rush
All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy
The Shipping News
Annie Proulx
A Frolic of His Own
William Gaddis
Sabbath's Theater
Philip Roth
Ship Fever and Other Stories
Andrea Barrett
Cold Mountain
Charles Frazier
Charming Billy
Alice McDermott
Waiting
Ha Jin
In America
Susan Sontag
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
Three Junes
Julia Glass
The Great Fire
Shirley Hazzard
The News from Paraguay
Lily Tuck
Europe Central
William T. Vollmann
The Echo Maker
Richard Powers
Tree of Smoke
Denis Johnson
Shadow Country
Peter Matthiessen
Let the Great World Spin
Colum McCann
Lord of Misrule
Jaimy Gordon
Salvage the Bones
Jesmyn Ward
The Round House
Louise Erdrich
The Good Lord Bird
James McBride
Redeployment
Phil Klay
Fortune Smiles
Adam Johnson
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward
The Friend
Sigrid Nunez
Trust Exercise
Susan Choi
Interior Chinatown
Charles Yu
Hell of a Book
Jason Mott
The Rabbit Hutch
Tess Gunty
Blackouts
Justin Torres
James
Percival L. Everett
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible
Rabih Alameddine
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