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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
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​
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
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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
 
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