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award winning books
Below are list of a variety of award winning books. So browse through them and see if there is anything that interests you. Why not collect all of your favorite award winners?
  

national book critics circle award: fiction

The National Book Critics Circle Award is an annual award given by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote the finest books and reviews published in English.
award category
> fiction
   general nonfiction
   memoir/autobiography
   biography
   poetry
   criticism

award year
   2007
   2006
   2005
   2004
   2003
   2002
   2001
   2000
   1999
   1998
   1997
   1996
   1995
2007 winner
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz - Book
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz +w

Oscar Wao is an overweight Dungeons & Dragons-playing geek living in a Dominican-American...  read more
nominees
In the Country of Men - Hisham Matar +w
Sacred Games - Vikram Chandra +w
Gravedigger's Daughter - Joyce Carol Oates +w
The Shadow Catcher - Marianne Wiggins +w
2006 winner
The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai - Book
The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai +w

Kiran Desai casts an incisive, mournful eye on post-colonialism and the vast...  read more
nominees
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie +w
The Lay of the Land - Richard Ford +w
What Is the What - Dave Eggers +w
The Road - Cormac McCarthy +w
2005 winner
The March - E.L. Doctorow - Book
The March - E.L. Doctorow +w

E. L. Doctorow digs deeply into American history once again in this epic tale...  read more
nominees
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro +w
Small Island - Andrea Levy +w
Europe Central - William T. Vollmann +w
Veronica - Mary Gaitskill +w
2004 winner
Gilead - Marilynne Robinson - Book
Gilead - Marilynne Robinson +w

Marilynne Robinson's long-awaited second novel is named after the town in which...  read more
nominees
The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst +w
The Dew Breaker - Edwidge Danticat +w
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell +w
The Plot Against America - Philip Roth +w
2003 winner
The Known World - Edward P. Jones - Book
The Known World - Edward P. Jones +w

The unusual main characters in this debut novel are a family of freed black...  read more
nominees
The Time of Our Singing - Richard Powers +w
Old School - Tobias Wolff +w
A Distant Shore - Caryl Phillips +w
Brick Lane - Monica Ali +w
2002 winner
Atonement - Ian McEwan - Book
Atonement - Ian McEwan +w

ATONEMENT, which Ian McEwan has called his "Jane Austen novel," is divided...  read more
nominees
Nowhere Man - Aleksandar Hemon +w
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides +w
Roscoe - William Kennedy +w
The Darts of Cupid - Edith Templeton +w
2001 winner
Austerlitz - W. G. Sebald - Book
Austerlitz - W. G. Sebald +w

The narrator of Sebald's fourth novel meets Jacques Austerlitz in a railroad...  read more
nominees
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage - Alice Munro +w
John Henry Days - Colson Whitehead +w
Bel Canto - Ann Patchett +w
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen +w
2000 winner
Being Dead - Jim Crace - Book
Being Dead - Jim Crace +w

In Crace's typically strange and lyrical novel, the lives of a middle-aged...  read more
nominees
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon +w
Assorted Fire Events - David Means +w
White Teeth - Zadie Smith +w
A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You - Amy Bloom +w
1999 winner
Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem - Book
Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem +w

A private detective named Lionel "Freakshow" Essrog, who suffers from Tourette's...  read more
nominees
Midnight Champagne - A. Manette Ansay +w
The Night Inspector - Frederick Busch +w
Disgrace - J. M. Coetzee +w
The Wonders of the Invisible World - David Gates +w
1998 winner
The Love of a Good Woman - Alice Munro - Book
The Love of a Good Woman - Alice Munro +w

A new collection of short stories by the celebrated writer introduces a rich...  read more
nominees
Birds of America - Lorrie Moore +w
The Hours - Michael Cunningham +w
No Lease on Life - Lynne Tillman +w
Preston Falls - David Gates +w
1997 winner
The Blue Flower - Penelope Fitzgerald - Book
The Blue Flower - Penelope Fitzgerald +w

Fitzgerald, a Booker Prize winner in 1979, tells the story of an idealistic...  read more
nominees
Underworld - Don Delillo +w
American Pastoral - Philip Roth +w
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier +w
Dreams of My Russian Summers - Andrei Makine +w
1996 winner
Women in Their Beds - Gina Berriault - Book
Women in Their Beds - Gina Berriault +w

A collection of 35 spare and concise stories, including 10 heretofore uncollected....  read more
nominees
The Autobiography of My Mother - Jamaica Kincaid +w
From Bondage - Henry Roth +w
Dancing After Hours - Andre Dubus +w
About Schmidt - Louis Begley +w
1995 winner
Mrs. Ted Bliss - Stanley Elkin - Book
Mrs. Ted Bliss - Stanley Elkin +w

Dorothy Bliss, having buried her husband Ted, spends her remaining years in...  read more
nominees
Moo - Jane Smiley +w
Galatea 2.2 - Richard Powers +w
Independence Day - Richard Ford +w
The Tent of Orange Mist - Paul West +w
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