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
2018 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 1978 Winner The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever Finalists Final Payments by Mary Gordon The World According to Garp by John Irving Wrinkles by Charles Simmons The Coup by John Updike 1977 Winner Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison Finalists Falconer by John Cheever A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion The Professor of Desire by Philip Roth Union Dues by John Sayles 1976 Winner October Light by John Gardner Finalists Speedboat by Renata Adler Details of a Sunset and Other Stories by Vladimir Nabokov Bloodshed and Three Novellas by Cynthia Ozick The Easter Parade by Richard Yates