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2024

Winner
James by Percival Everett

Finalists
Ghostroots by ‘Pemi Aguda
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
James by Percival Everett
All Fours by Miranda July
My Friends by Hisham Matar

Longlist
The Most by Jessica Anthony
Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
Yr Dead by Sam Sax
Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte

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2023

Winner
Blackouts by Justin Torres

Shortlist
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Temple Folk by Aaliyah Bilal
This Other Eden by Paul Harding
The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylvainen

Longlist
Ponyboy by Eliot Duncan
Loot by Tania James
Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips
A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power
Holler, Child by LaToya Watkins

2022

Winner
The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty

Finalists
The Birdcatcher by Gayl Jones
The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories by Jamil Jan Kochai
All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews
The Town of Babylon by Alejandro Varela

Longlist
When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar
Shutter by Ramona Emerson
If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
Nobody Gets Out Alive by Leigh Newman
Maria, Maria & Other Stories by Marytza K Rubio

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

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

2001

Winner
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Finalists
Among the Missing by Dan Chaon
Look at Me by Jennifer Egan
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
Highwire Moon by Susan Straight

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

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

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

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

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 by 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 by 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

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