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2021
Winner
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw

Finalists
Disappear Doppelganger Disappear by Matthew Salesses
The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe
Mother Daughter Widow Wife by Robin Wasserman
Scattered Lights by Steve Wiegenstein
 
Longlist
Nine Shiny Objects by Brian Castleberry
Bestiary by K-Ming Chang
The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories by Danielle Evans
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Dear Ann by Bobbie Ann Mason
2020
Winner
Sea Monsters by Chloe Arijdis

Finalists
Where Reasons End by Yiyun Li
Night Swimmers by Peter Rock
We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Longlist
Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Sing to It by Amy Hempel
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
A People’s History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian
The Bird King by G Willow Wilson
2019
Winner
Call Me Zebra by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
 
Finalists
Tomb of the Unknown Racist by Blanche McCrary Boyd
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Love War Stories by Ivelisse Rodriguez
Don’t Skip Out on Me by Willy Vlautin
2018
Winner
Improvement by Joan Silber
 
Shortlist
In the Distance by Hernán Diaz
The Dark Dark by Samantha Hunt
The Tower of the Antilles by Achy Obejas
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
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2017
Winner
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
 
Finalists
After Disasters by Viet Dinh
LaRose by Louise Erdrich
What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapa
 
2016
Winner
Delicious Foods by James Hannaham
 
Finalists
Mr. and Mrs. Doctor by Julie Iromuanya
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Mendocino Fire by Elizabeth Tallent
The Water Museum by Luis Alberto Urrea
 
2015
Winner
Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish
 
Finalists
Song of the Shank by Jeffery Renard Allen
Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
 
2014
Winner
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
 
Finalists
At Night We Walk in Circles by Daniel Alarcón
Percival Everett by Virgil Russell by Percival Everett
Fools by Joan Silber
Search Party: Stories of Rescue by Valerie Trueblood
 
2013
Winner
Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
 
Finalists
Threats by Amelia Gray
Kind One by Laird Hunt
Hold it ‘Til It Hurts by T Geronimo Johnson
Watergate by Thomas Mallon
 
2012
Winner
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
 
Finalists
Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks
The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories by Don DeLillo
The Artist of Disappearance by Anita Desai
We Others: New and Selected Stories by Steven Millhauser
 
2011
Winner
The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg by Deborah Eisenberg
 
Finalists
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
Model Home by Eric Puchner
Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives by Brad Watson
 
2010
Winner
War Dances by Sherman Alexie
 
Finalists
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Homicide Survivors Picnic by Lorraine Lopéz
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
 
2009
Winner
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
 
Finalists
A Person of Interest by Susan Choi
Lush Life by Richard Price
Serena by Ron Rash
Ms. Hempel Chronicles by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
 
2008
Winner
The Great Man by Kate Christensen
 
Finalists
The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt
The Gateway: Stories by TM McNally
Chemistry and Other Stories by Ron Rash
 
2007
Winner
Everyman by Philip Roth
 
Finalists
The Dead Fish Museum by Charles D'Ambrosio
Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel by Amy Hempel
All Aunt Hagar’s Children by Edward P Jones
 
2006
Winner
The March by EL Doctorow
 
Finalists
A Sudden Country by Karen Fisher
I Got Somebody in Staunton by William Henry Lewis
Last Night by James Salter
The Chrysanthemum Place by Bruce Wagner
 
2005
Winner
War Trash by Ha Jin
 
Finalists
The Green Lantern by Jerome Charyn
The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Prisoners of War by Steve Yarbrough
 
2004
Winner
The Early Stories by John Updike
 
Finalists
Elroy Nights by Frederick Barthelme
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer
A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips
Old School by Tobias Wolff
 
2003
Winner
The Caprices by Sabina Murray
 
Finalists
The City of Your Final Destination by Peter Cameron
Roscoe by William Kennedy
The Ecstatic by Victor LaValle
Little Casino by Gilbert Sorrentino
 
2002
Winner
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
 
Finalists
Sister Noon by Karen Joy Fowler
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The Hunters by Claire Messud
The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
 
2001
Winner
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
 
Finalists
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
Harry Gold by Millicent Dillon
The Name of the World by Denis Johnson
Off Keck Road by Mona Simpson
 
2000
Winner
Waiting by Ha Jin
 
Finalists
The Night Inspector by Frederick Busch
Pu-239 And Other Russian Fantasies by Ken Kalfus
Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
Siam, or the Woman Who Shot a Man by Lily Tuck
 
1999
Winner
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
 
Finalists
Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Starting Out in the Evening by Brian Morton
The Doctor Stories by Richard Selzer
 
1998
Winner
The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zabor
 
Finalists
The Hundred Brothers by Donald Antrim
The Mercy Seat by Rilla Askew
Because They Wanted To by Mary Gaitskill
The Ordinary Seaman by Francisco Goldman
 
1997
Winner
Women in Their Beds by Gina Berriault
 
Finalists
St. Burl’s Obituary by Daniel Akst
The Book of Mercy by Kathleen Cambor
Atticus by Ron Hansen
The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid
 
1996
Winner
Independence Day by Richard Ford
 
Finalists
The Tunnel by William H Gass
When the World Was Steady by Claire Messud
All Souls' Rising by Madison Smartt Bell
The Good Negress by AJ Verdelle
 
1995
Winner
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
 
Finalists
The Children in the Woods by Frederick Busch
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
What I Lived For by Joyce Carol Oates
Various Antidotes by Joanna Scott
 
1994
Winner
Operation Shylock by Philip Roth
 
Finalists
Van Gogh’s Room at Arles by Stanley Elkin
The Magic of Blood by Dagoberto Gilb
Bone by Fae Myenne Ng
Not Where I Started From by Kate Wheeler
 
1993
Winner
Postcards by E Annie Proulx
 
Finalists
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
The Long Night of White Chickens by Francisco Goldman
Natural History by Maureen Howard
Talking to the Dead by Sylvia Watanabe
 
1992
Winner
Mao II by Don DeLillo
 
Finalists
Frog by Stephen Dixon
Extraordinary People by Paul Gervais
White People by Allan Gurganus
The Almanac Branch by Bradford Morrow
 
1991
Winner
Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman
 
Finalists
The Music of Chance by Paul Auster
A Gentleman”s Guide to the Frontier by Joanne Meschery
The Barnum Museum by Steven Millhauser
Arrogance by Joanna Scott
 
1990
Winner
Billy Bathgate by EL Doctorow
 
Finalists
Affliction by Russell Banks
The Jump-Off Creek by Molly Gloss
On the Island by Josephine Jacobsen
Leaving Brooklyn by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
 
1989
Winner
Dusk by James Salter
 
Finalists
Vanished by Mary McGarry Morris
The Corner of Rife and Pacific by Thomas Savage
The Death of Methuselah by Isaac Bashevis Singer
 
1988
Winner
World's End by TC Boyle
 
Finalists
Spirits by Richard Bausch
That Night by Alice McDermott
The Messiah of Stockholm by Cynthia Ozick
Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thornton
 
1987
Winner
Soldiers in Hiding by Richard Wiley
 
Finalists
The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
Expensive Habits by Maureen Howard
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice by Charles Johnson
Collaborators by Janet Kauffman
 
1986
Winner
The Old Forest by Peter Taylor
 
Finalists
Carpenter’s Gothic by William Gaddis
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
The Tree of Life by Hugh Nissenson
The Christmas Wife by Helen Norris
Later the Same Day by Grace Paley
 
1985
Winner
The Barracks Thief by Tobias Wolff
 
 
Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr
The Dixie Association by Donald Hays
Family Dancing by David Leavitt
On Glory’s Courses by James Purdy
 
1984
Winner
Sent for You Yesterday by John Edgar Wideman
 
Finalists
The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Ron Hansen
Ironweed by William Kennedy
At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid
The Stories by Bernard Malamud
The Cannibal Galaxy by Cynthia Ozick
 
1983
Winner
Seaview by Toby Olson
 
Finalists
Grace Abounding by Maureen Howard
Shiloh and Other Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason
The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. by George Steiner
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
Birthplace by William S Wilson
 
1982
Winner
The Chaneysville Incident by David Bradley
 
Finalists
Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme
Take Me Back by Richard Bausch
Ellis Island and Other Stories by Mark Helprin
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone
 
1981
Winner
How German Is It by Walter Abish
 
Finalists
The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
The Second Coming by Walker Percy
Aberration of Starlight by Gilbert Sorrentino
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
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