National Book Awards - Fiction

2009

Let the Great World Spin Winner

Colum McCann (Random House)

American Salvage

Bonnie Jo Campbell (Wayne State University Press)

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

Daniyal Mueenuddin, (W. W. Norton & Co.)

Lark and Termite

Jayne Anne Phillips (Alfred A. Knopf)

Far North

Marcel Theroux (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

2008

Shadow Country Winner

Peter Matthiessen (Modern Library)

The Lazarus Project

Aleksandar Hemon (Riverhead)

Telex from Cuba

Rachel Kushner (Scribner)

Home

Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

The End

Salvatore Scibona (Graywolf Press)

2007

• Tree of Smoke Denis Johnson, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Winner
• Fieldwork Mischa Berlinski (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Varieties of Disturbance Lydia Davis (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Then We Came to the End Joshua Ferris, (Little, Brown)
• Like You'd Understand Anyway Jim Shepard, (Knopf)

• 2006 The Echo Maker Richard Powers
• 2005 Europe Central William Vollmann
• 2004 The News from Paraguay Lily Tuck
• 2003 The Great Fire Shirley Hazzard
• 2002 Three Junes Julia Glass
• 2001 The Corrections Jonathan Franzen
• 2000 In America Susan Sontag
• 1999 Waiting Ha Jin
• 1998 Charming Billy Alice McDermott
• 1997 Cold Mountain Charles Frazier
• 1996 Ship fever and other stories Andrea Barrett
• 1995 Sabbath's Theater Philip Roth
• 1994 A Frolic of his own William Gaddis
• 1993 The Shipping news E. Annie Proulx
• 1992 All the pretty horses Cormac McCarthy
• 1991 Mating Norman Rush
• 1990 Middle Passage Charles Johnson