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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James: A Novel by Percival Everett
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim’s point …
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Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 2011 for Fiction
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The Round House by 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 says: Winner, National Book Awards 2012 for Fiction
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The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
From the bestselling author of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, Deacon King Kong (an Oprah Book Club pick) and …
Phil in SF says: 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 says: Winner, National Book Awards 2014 for Fiction
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Fortune Smiles by 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 says: Winner, National Book Awards 2015 for Fiction
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The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 2016 for Fiction
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Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
In Jesmyn Ward’s first novel since her National Book Award–winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 2017 for Fiction
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When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 2018 for Fiction
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In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 2019 for Fiction
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Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he’s merely Generic Asian Man. Sometimes he gets …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 2020 for Fiction
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An astounding work of fiction from New York Times bestselling author Jason Mott, always deeply honest, at times electrically funny, …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 2021 for Fiction
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The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
The automobile industry has abandoned Vacca Vale, Indiana, leaving the residents behind, too. In a run-down apartment building on the …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 2022 for Fiction
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Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 2023 for Fiction
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The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine
In a tiny Beirut apartment, sixty-three-year-old Raja and his mother live side by side. A beloved high school philosophy teacher …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 2025 for Fiction
