National Book Critics Circle Award

2021

Winner
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

Finalists
The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen
Second Place by Rachel Cusk
Burntcoat by Sarah Hall
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead

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National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize for First Book

2020

Winner
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

Finalists
Inside Story by Martin Amis
If I Had Two Wings by Randall Kenan
How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa
Memorial by Bryan Washington

2019

Winner
Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat

Finalists
Feast Your Eyes by Myla Goldberg
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Winner
Milkman by Anna Burns

Finalists
Slave Old Man by Patrick Chamoiseau
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea

2017

Winner
Improvement by Joan Silber

Finalists
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott
The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

2016

Winner
LaRose by Louise Erdrich

Finalists
Moonglow by Michael Chabon
Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
Swing Time by Zadie Smith

2015

Winner
The Sellout by Paul Beatty

Finalists
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli
The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh

2014

Winner
Lila by Marilynne Robinson

Finalists
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Euphoria by Lily King
On Such a Full Sea by Chang-rae Lee

2013

Winner
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Finalists
The Infatuations by Javier Marías
Someone by Alice McDermott
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth L Ozeki
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

2012

Winner
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain

Finalists
HHhH by Laurent Binet
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
Magnificence by Lydia Millet
NW by Zadie Smith

2011

Winner
Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman

Finalists
Open City by Teju Cole
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst
Stone Arabia by Dana Spiotta

2010

Winner
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

Finalists
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
To the End of the Land by David Grossman
Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray

2009

Winner
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Finalists
American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Blame by Michelle Huneven
The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips

2008

Winner
2666 by Roberto Bolaño

Finalists
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
Home by Marilynne Robinson
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart by M Glenn Taylor

2007

Winner
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

Finalists
Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
In The Country of Men by Hisham Matar
The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates
The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins

2006

Winner
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

Finalists
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
What Is the What by Dave Eggers
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
The Road by Cormac McCarthy

2005

Winner
The March by EL Doctorow

Finalists
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Europe Central by William T Vollmann

2004

Winner
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Finalists
The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

2003

Winner
The Known World by Edward P Jones

Finalists
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips
The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers
Old School by Tobias Wolff

2002

Winner
Atonement by Ian McEwan

Finalists
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Nowhere Man by Aleksandar Hemon
Roscoe by William Kennedy
The Darts of Cupid: And Other Stories by Edith Templeton

2001

Winner
Austerlitz by WG Sebald

Finalists
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead

2000

Winner
Being Dead by Jim Crace

Finalists
A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You by Amy Bloom
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
Assorted Fire Events: Stories by David Means
White Teeth by Zadie Smith

1999

Winner
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem

Finalists
Midnight Champagne by A Manette Ansay
The Night Inspector by Frederick Busch
Disgrace by JM Coetzee
The Wonders of the Invisible World: Stories by David Gates

1998

Winner
The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro

Finalists
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Preston Falls by David Gates
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
No Lease on Life by Lynne Tillman

1997

Winner
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald

Finalists
Underworld by Don DeLillo
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Dreams of My Russian Summers by Andrei Makine
American Pastoral by Philip Roth

1996

Winner
Women in Their Beds by Gina Berriault

Finalists
About Schmidt by Louis Begley
Dancing After Hours by Andre Dubus
The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid
From Bondage by Henry Roth

1995

Winner
Mrs Ted Bliss by Stanley Elkin

Finalists
Independence Day by Richard Ford
Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers
Moo by Jane Smiley
The Tent of Orange Mist by Paul West

1994

Winner
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

Finalists
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis
The Prince of West End Avenue by Alan Isler
And All Our Wounds Forgiven by Julius Lester

1993

Winner
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J Gaines

Finalists
The Jade Cabinet by Rikki Ducornet
Feather Crowns by Bobbie Ann Mason
The Shipping News by E Annie Proulx
Vindication by Frances Sherwood

1992

Winner
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

Finalists
Let the Dead Bury Their Dead by Randall Kenan
Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates
Clockers by Richard Price
Outerbridge Reach by Robert Stone

1991

Winner
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

Finalists
Wartime Lies by Louis Begley
Typical American by Gish Jen
The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers
Mating by Norman Rush

1990

Winner
Rabbit at Rest by John Updike

Finalists
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
Family Pictures by Sue Miller
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Collected Stories by Wallace Stegner

1989

Winner
Billy Bathgate by EL Doctorow

Finalists
Spartina by John Casey
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
Ordinary Love & Good Will by Jane Smiley
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

1988

Winner
The Middleman and Other Stories by Bharati Mukherjee

Finalists
Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver
Libra by Don DeLillo
Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
Wheat That Springeth Green by JF Powers

1987

Winner
The Counterlife by Philip Roth

Finalists
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Age of Grief by Jane Smiley
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe

1986

Winner
Kate Vaiden by Reynolds Price

Finalists
The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich
A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
Roger's Version by John Updike
The Moon Pinnacle by Thomas Williams

1985

Winner
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

Finalists
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance by Richard Powers
The Old Forest by Peter Taylor

1984

Winner
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

Finalists
Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr
Family Dancing by David Leavitt
Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
Machine Dreams by Jayne Anne Phillips

1983

Winner
Ironweed by William Kennedy

Finalists
Cathedral by Raymond Carver
During the Reign of the Queen by Joan Chase
Magnetic Field(s) by Ron Loewinsohn
The Anatomy Lesson by Philip Roth

1982

Winner
George Mills by Stanley Elkin

Finalists
Shiloh and Other Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason
Levitation: Five Fictions by Cynthia Ozick
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
The Color Purple by Alice Walker

1981

Winner
Rabbit is Rich by John Updike

Finalists
Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
The Men's Club by Leonard Michaels
A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone

1980

Winner
The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard

Finalists
Loon Lake by EL Doctorow
So Long, See you Tomorrow by William Maxwell
The Second Coming by Walker Percy
Morgan's Passing by Anne Tyler

1979

Winner
The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan

Finalists
King of the Jews: A Novel of the Holocaust by Leslie Epstein
Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick
The Executioners Song by Norman Mailer
The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
Sophie's Choice by William Styron

National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award

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