Finalist Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart Longlist The Index of Self-Destructive Acts by Christopher Beha The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett If I Had Two Wings by Randall Kenan A Burning by Megha Majumdar The Great Offshore Grounds by Vanessa Veselka
2019 Winner Trust Exercise by Susan Choi Finalists Sabrina & Corina: Stories by Kali Fajardo-Anstine Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James The Other Americans by Laila Lalami Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
Longlist Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner Black Light: Stories by Kimberly King Parsons The Need by Helen Phillips On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
2018 Winner The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
Finalist A Lucky Man by Jamel Brinkley Florida by Lauren Groff Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Longlist Gun Love by Jennifer Clement The Boatbuilder by Daniel Gumbiner An American Marriage by Tayari Jones There There by Tommy Orange Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
2017 Winner Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Finalists Dark at the Crossing by Elliot Ackerman The Leavers by Lisa Ko Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado
Longlist The King Is Always Above the People by Daniel Alarcon Miss Burma by Charmaine Craig Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton Barren Island by Carol Zoref
2016 Winner The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Finalists The Throwback Special by Chris Bachelder News of the World by Paulette Jiles The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
Longlist What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia Millet Miss Jane by Brad Watson
2015 Winner Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson
Finalists Refund: Stories by Karen Bender The Turner House by Angela Flournoy Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Longlist A Cure for Suicide by Jesse Ball Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg Welcome to Braggsville by T Geronimo Johnson Honeydew by Edith Pearlman Mislaid by Nell Zink
2014 Winner Redeployment by Phil Klay
Finalists An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Lila by Marilynne Robinson Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
Longlist The UnAmericans by Molly Antopol Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle Thunderstruck & Other Stories by Elizabeth McCracken Orfeo by Richard Powers Some Luck by Jane Smiley
2013 Winner The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
Finalists The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon Tenth of December by George Saunders
Longlist Pacific by Tom Drury The End of the Point by Elizabeth Graver A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra Someone by Alice McDermott Fools by Joan Silber
2012 Winner The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Finalists This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
2011 Winner Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Finalists The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman
2010 Winner Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
Finalists Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey Great House by Nicole Krauss So Much for That by Lionel Shriver I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita
2009 Winner Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Finalists American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips Far North by Marcel Theroux
2008 Winner Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen
Finalists The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner Home by Marilynne Robinson The End by Salvatore Scibona
2007 Winner Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
Finalists Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski Varieties of Disturbance by Lydia Davis Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris Like You'd Understand, Anyway by Jim Shepard
2006 Winner The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
Finalists Only Revolutions by Mark Danielewski A Disorder Peculiar to the Country by Ken Kalfus Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta The Zero by Jess Walter
2005 Winner Europe Central by William T Vollmann
Finalists The March by EL Doctorow Veronica by Mary Gaitskill Trance by Christopher Sorrentino Holy Skirts by Rene Steinke
2004 Winner The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck
Finalists Florida by Christine Schutt Madeleine is Sleeping by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories by Joan Silber Our Kind by Kate Walbert
2003 Winner The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
Finalists Drop City by TC Boyle The Known World by Edward P Jones A Ship Made of Paper by Scott Spencer Evidence of Things Unseen: A Novel by Marianne Wiggins
2002 Winner Three Junes by Julia Glass
Finalists Big If by Mark Costello You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett Gorgeous Lies by Martha McPhee The Heaven of Mercury by Brad Watson
2000 Winner In America by Susan Sontag
Finalists The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter The Diagnosis by Alan Lightman Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates Blue Angel by Francine Prose
1999 Winner Waiting by Ha Jin
Finalists House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III Plainsong by Kent Haruf Hummingbird House by Patricia Henley Who Do You Love by Jean Thompson
1998 Winner Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
Finalists Kaaterskill Falls by Allegra Goodman The Healing by Gayl Jones Damascus Gate by Robert Stone A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
1997 Winner Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Finalists Underworld by Don DeLillo Le Divorce by Diane Johnson Echo House by Ward Just The Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick
1996 Winner Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett
Finalists Atticus by Ron Hansen The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser The River Beyond the World by Janet Peery
1995 Winner Sabbath's Theatre by Philip Roth
Finalists Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat Interstate by Stephen Dixon The House on the Lagoon by Rosario Ferré All Souls' Rising by Madison Smartt Bell
1994 Winner A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis
Finalists Moses Supposes by Ellen Currie White Man's Grave by Richard Dooling The Bird Artist by Howard Norman The Collected Stories by Grace Paley
1993 Winner The Shipping News by E Annie Proulx
Finalists Come to Me: Stories by Amy Bloom The Pugilist at Rest by Thom Jones Operation Wandering Soul by Richard Powers Swimming in the Volcano by Bob Shacochis
1992 Winner All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Finalists Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia Lost in the City by Edward P Jones Outerbridge Reach by Robert Stone
1991 Winner Mating by Norman Rush
Finalists Wartime Lies by Louis Begley Frog by Stephen Dixon The MacGuffin by Stanley Elkin Beyond Deserving by Sandra Scofield
1990 Winner Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
Finalists Chromos by Felipe Alfau Paradise by Elena Castedo Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart by Joyce Carol Oates
1989 Winner Spartina by John Casey
Finalists Billy Bathgate by EL Doctorow Geek Love by Katherine Dunn The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
1988 Winner Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
Finalists Libra by Don DeLillo Vanished by Mary McGarry Morris Wheat That Springeth Green by JF Powers Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
1987 Winner Paco's Story by Larry Heinemann
Finalists That Night by Alice McDermott Beloved by Toni Morrison The Northern Lights by Howard Norman The Counterlife by Philip Roth
1986 Winner World's Fair by EL Doctorow
Finalists Whites by Norman Rush A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
1985 Winner White Noise by Don DeLillo
Finalists Always Coming Home by Ursula K Le Guin The Tree of Life by Hugh Nissenson
1984 Winner Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories by Ellen Gilchrist
Finalists Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie The Anatomy Lesson by Philip Roth
1983 Paperback Winner The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
Finalists The Chaneysville Incident by David Bradley The Company of Women by Mary Gordon Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone
1983 Hardback Winner The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Finalists A Mother and Two Daughters by Gail Godwin Shiloh and Other Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
1982 Paperback Winner So Long, See you Tomorrow by William Maxwell
Finalists Loon Lake by EL Doctorow The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard The Second Coming by Walker Percy Morgan's Passing by Anne Tyler
1982 Hardback Winner Rabbit is Rich by John Updike
Finalists Ellis Island and Other Stories by Mark Helprin The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone Dad by William Wharton
1981 Paperback Winner The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
Finalists The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan The Executioners Song by Norman Mailer Endless Love by Scott Spencer War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk
1981 Hardback Winner Plains Song by Wright Morris
Finalists The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard So Long, See you Tomorrow by William Maxwell The Second Coming by Walker Percy The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
1980 Paperback Winner The World According to Garp by John Irving
Finalists Collected Stories by Paul Bowles Violet Clay by Gail Godwin Too Far to Go by John Updike Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, Volumes 1 and 2 by Marguerite Young
1980 Hardback Winner Sophie's Choice by William Styron
Finalists Just Above My Head by James Baldwin The Executioners Song by Norman Mailer The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth Endless Love by Scott Spencer
1979 Winner Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
Finalists The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever The World According to Garp by John Irving Lying Low by Diane Johnson The Family by David Plante
1978 Winner Blood Tie by Mary Lee Settle
Finalists The Public Burning by Robert Coover Madder Music by Peter De Vries Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson Union Dues by John Sayles
1977 Winner The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner
Finalists Will You Please be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver The Balloonist by MacDonald Harris Orsinian Tales by Ursula K Le Guin A Fine Romance by Cynthia Propper Seton
1976 Winner JR by William Gaddis
Finalists Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher by Hortense Calisher Other People's Lives by Johanna Kaplan Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories by Vladimir Nabokov Beyond the Bedroom Wall by Larry Woiwode
1975 Winners Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams
Finalists Guilty Pleasures by Donald Barthelme The Odd Woman by Gail Godwin Something Happened by Joseph Heller Sula by Toni Morrison Look at the Harlequins! by Vladimir Nabokov Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley My Life As a Man by Philip Roth The Death of a Detective by Mark Smith
1974 Winners Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Finalists Beasts of the World and Other Stories by Doris Betts The World of Apples by John Cheever Apostles of Light by Ellen Douglas (Eligible Men ) Searches and Seizures by Stanley Elkin Nickel Mountain by John Gardner Black Conceit by John Leonard Ninety-Two in the Shade by Thomas McGuane People Will Always Be Kind by Wilfrid Sheed Burr by Gore Vidal State of Grace by Joy Williams
1973 Winners Chimera by John Barth Augustus by John Williams
Finalists The Late Great Creature by Brock Brower Hermaphrodeity by Alan H Friedman Geronimo Rex by Barry Hannah The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V Higgins The Prince by RM Koster Transparent Things by Vladimir Nabokov Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed The Confessions of a Child of the Century by Thomas Rogers Enemies, a Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
1972 Winner Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Finalists Lion Country by Frederick Buechner The Book of Daniel by EL Doctorow The Dick Gibson Show by Stanley Elkin Farragan's Retreat by Tom McHale Wonderland by Joyce Carol Oates The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories by Cynthia Ozick Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy A Garden of Sand by Earl Thompson Rabbit Redux by John Updike
1971 Winner Mr Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow
Finalists Deliverance by James Dickey The Bay of Noon by Shirley Hazzard Bech: A Book by John Updike Losing Battles by Eudora Welty
1970 Winner Them by Joyce Carol Oates
Finalists Fat City by Leonard Gardner Going Places by Leonard Michaels The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
1969 Winner Steps by Jerzy Kosinski
Finalists Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley Expensive People by Joyce Carol Oates The Pursuit of Happiness by Thomas Rogers
1968 Winner The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder
Finalists Why Are We in Vietnam? by Norman Mailer A Garden of Earthly Delights by Joyce Carol Oates The Chosen by Chaim Potok The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
1967 Winner The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
Finalists The Embezzler by Louis Auchincloss All in the Family by Edwin O'Connor The Last Gentleman by Walker Percy A Dream of Kings by Harry Petrakis Office Politics by Wilfrid Sheed
1966 Winner The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
Finalists The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones by Jesse Hill Ford At Play in the Fields of the Lord by Peter Matthiessen The (Diblos) Notebook by James Merrill Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor Pericles on 31st Street by Harry Petrakis
1965 Winner Herzog by Saul Bellow
Finalists The Rector of Justin by Louis Auchincloss Second Skin by John Hawkes The Martyred by Richard E Kim To an Early Grave by Wallace Markfield The Defense by Vladimir Nabokov Short Friday by Isaac Bashevis Singer
1964 Winner The Centaur by John Updike
Finalists Idiots First by Bernard Malamud The Group by Mary McCarthy V by Thomas Pynchon The Will by Harvey Swados
1963 Winner Morte D'Urban by JF Powers
Finalists Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter The Golden Spur by Dawn Powell Going Away by Clancy Sigal Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories by John Updike
1962 Winner The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Finalists False Entry by Hortense Calisher Among the Dangs by George P Elliott Catch-22 by Joseph Heller A New Life by Bernard Malamud The Chateau by William Maxwell Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger The Spinoza of Market Street and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer The Pawnbroker by Edward Lewis Wallant The Morning and the Evening by Joan Williams Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
1961 Winner The Waters of Kronos by Conrad Richter
Finalists The House of Five Talents by Louis Auchincloss Generation Without Farewell by Kay Boyle The Child Buyer by John Hersey A Separate Peace by John Knowles To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Ceremony in Lone Tree by Wright Morris The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor The Light in the Piazza and Other Italian Tales by Elizabeth Spencer The Christening Party by Francis Steegmuller Rabbit, Run by John Updike The Body of a Young Man by Mildred Walker
1960 Winner Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth
Finalists Pursuit of the Prodigal by Louis Auchincloss The Light Infantry Ball by Hamilton Basso Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow Mrs. Bridge by Evan S Jr Connell The Mansion by William Faulkner Wake Up, Stupid by Mark Harris The War Lover by John Hersey Men Die by HL Humes The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson The Third Choice by Elizabeth Janeway The Pistol by James Jones The Cool World by Warren Miller Malcolm by James Purdy The Return of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N by Leo Rosten The Poorhouse Fair by John Updike The Cave by Robert Penn Warren The Devil's Advocate by Morris West
1959 Winner The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud
Finalists The Ginger Man by JP Donleavy Home from the Hill by William Humphrey Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov From the Terrace by John O'Hara The Lost Country by JR Salamanca The Winthrop Woman by Anya Seton Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver
1958 Winner The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
Finalists A Death in the Family by James Agee By Love Possessed by James Gould Cozzens Something About a Soldier by Mark Harris The Velvet Horn by Andrew Lytle The Assistant by Bernard Malamud Love Among the Cannibals by Wright Morris Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand The Return of Lady Brace by Nancy Wilson Ross The Birth of a Grandfather by July Sarton
1957 Winner The Field of Vision by Wright Morris
Finalists A Walk on the Wild Side by Nelson Algren Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin Seize the Day by Saul Bellow Greenwillow by BJ Chute These Thousand Hills by AB Guthrie Jr A Single Pebble by John Hersey Generations of Men by John Hunt The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor The Presence of Grace by JF Powers The Voice at the Back Door by Elizabeth Spencer Further Fables for Our Time by James Thurber
1956 Winner Ten North Frederick by John O'Hara
Finalists The Spider's House by Paul Bowles The Black Prince, and Other Stories by Shirley Ann Grau Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor Faithful Are the Wounds by June Sarton Band of Angels by Robert Penn Warren The Bride of the Innisfallen by Eudora Welty Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk
1955 Winner A Fable William Faulkner
Finalists The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow The View from Pompey's Head by Hamilton Basso The Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb Pictures from an Institution by Randall Jarrell The Last Hunt by Milton Lott Lord Grizzly by Frederick Manfred The Bad Seed by William March The Huge Season by Wright Morris The Courts of Memory by Frank Rooney Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck
1954 Winner The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow
1953 Winner The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Finalists Many Mansions by Isabel Bolton Winds of Morning by Harold L Davis The Gathering Darkness by Thomas Gallagher The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Jefferson Selleck by Carl Jonas The Landsman by Peter Martin A Shower of Summer Days by May Sarton The Catherine Wheel by Jean Stafford East of Eden by John Steinbeck The Build-Up by William Carlos Williams
1952 Winner From Here to Eternity by James Jones
Finalists The Morning Watch by James Agee The Grass Harp by Truman Capote Requiem for a Nun by William Faulkner The Strange Children by Caroline Gordon The Holy Sinner by Thomas Mann Melville Goodwin USA by John P Marquand The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger Lie Down in Darkness by William Styron The Witch Diggers by Jessamyn West The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
1951 Winner The Collected Stories of William Faulkner by William Faulkner
1950 Winner The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren