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2021
Winner
Hell of a Book by Jason Mott

Finalists
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
Matrix by Lauren Groff
Zorrie by Laird Hunt
The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr

Longlist
Abundance by Jakob Guanzon
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
Intimacies by Katie Kitamura
The Souvenir Museum: Stories by Elizabeth McCracken
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
2020
Winner
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

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
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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