National Book Awards
Administered by the National Book Foundation. Winners chosen by five-member panels.
2004
Fiction: The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck
Poetry: Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 by Jean Valentine
2003
Fiction: The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
Poetry: The Singing by C.K. Williams
2002
Fiction: Three Junes by Julia Glass
Poetry: In the Next Galaxy by Ruth Stone
2001
Fiction: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Poetry: Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry by Alan Dugan
2000
Fiction: In America by Susan Sontag
Poetry: Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 by Lucille Clifton
1999
Fiction: Waiting by Ha Jin
Poetry: Vice: New and Selected Poems by Ai
1998
Fiction: Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
Poetry: This Time: New and Selected Poems by Gerald Stern
1997
Fiction: Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Poetry: Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems by William Meredith
1996
Fiction: Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett
Poetry: Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey by Hayden Carruth
1995
Fiction: Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
Poetry: Passing Through: The Later Poems by Stanley Kunitz
1994
Fiction: A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis
Poetry: A Worshipful Company of Fletchers by James Tate
1993
Fiction: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
Poetry: Garbage by A.R. Ammons
1992
Fiction: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Poetry: New and Selected Poems by Mary Oliver
1991
Fiction: Mating by Norman Rush
Poetry: What Work Is by Philip Levine
1990
Fiction: Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
1989
Fiction: Spartina by John Casey
1988
Fiction: Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
1987
Fiction: Paco's Story by Larry Heinemann
1986
Fiction: World's Fair by E.L. Doctorow
1985
Fiction: White Noise by Don DeLillo
1984
Fiction: Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories by Ellen Gilchrist
1983
Fiction (hardcover): The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Fiction (paperback): The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
Poetry: Selected Poems by Galway Kinnell; Country Music: Selected Early Poems by Charles Wright
1982
Fiction (hardcover): Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
Fiction (paperback): So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
Poetry: Life Supports: New and Collected Poems by William Bronk
1981
Fiction (hardcover): Plains Song by Wright Morris
Fiction (paperback): The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
1980
Fiction (hardcover): Sophie's Choice by William Styron
Fiction (paperback): The World According to Garp by John Irving
Poetry: Ashes by Philip Levine
1979
Fiction: Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brian
Poetry: Mirabell: Books of Number by James Merrill; Vallejo's The Complete Posthumous Poetry by Clayton Eshleman and Jose Rubin Barcia
1978
Fiction: Blood Ties by Mary Lee Settle
Poetry: The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov by Howard Nemerov
1977
Fiction: The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner
Poetry: Collected Poems, 1930-1976 by Richard Eberhart
1976
Fiction: Jr by William Gaddis
Poetry: Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery
1975
Fiction: Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone; The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams
Poetry: Presentation Piece by Marilyn Hacker
1974
Fiction: A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer; Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Poetry: Diving into the Wreck: Poems, 1971-72 by Adrienne Rich; The Fall of America: Poems of These States by Allen Ginsberg
1973
Fiction: Chimera by John Barth; Augustus by John Williams
Poetry: Collected Poems: 1951-1971 by A.R. Ammons
1972
Fiction: The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor by Flannery O'Connor
Poetry: The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara by Frank O'Hara; Selected Poems by Howard Moss
1971
Fiction: Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow
Poetry: To See, To Take by Mona Van Duyn
1970
Fiction: Them by Joyce Carol Oates
Poetry: The Complete Poems by Elizabeth Bishop
1969
Fiction: Steps by Jerzy Kosinski
Poetry: His Toy, His Dream, His Rest by John Berryman
1968
Fiction: The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder
Poetry: The Light Around the Body by Robert Bly
1967
Fiction: The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
Poetry: Nights and Days by James Merrill
1966
Fiction: The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
Poetry: Buckdancer's Choice: Poems by James Dickey
1965
Fiction: Herzog by Saul Bellow
Poetry: The Far Field by Theodore Roethke
1964
Fiction: The Centaur by John Updike
Poetry: Selected Poems by John Crowe Ransom
1963
Fiction: Morte d'Urban by J.F. Powers
Poetry: Traveling Through the Dark by William Stafford
1962
Fiction: The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Poetry: Poems by Alan Dugan
1961
Fiction: The Waters of Kronos by Conrad Richter
Poetry: The Woman at the Washington Zoo by Randall Jarrell
1960
Fiction: Goodbye Columbus by Philip Roth
Poetry: Life Studies by Robert Lowell
1959
Fiction: The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud
Poetry: Words for the Wind by Theodore Roethke
1958
Fiction: The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
Poetry: Promises: Poems, 1954-1956 by Robert Penn Warren
1957
Fiction: The Field of Vision by Wright Morris
Poetry: Things of the World by Richard Wilbur
1956
Fiction: Ten North Frederick by John O'Hara
Poetry: The Shield of Achilles by W.H. Auden
1955
Fiction: A Fable by William Faulkner
Poetry: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens
1954
Fiction: The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
Poetry: Collected Poems by Conrad Aiken
1953
Fiction: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Poetry: Collected Poems, 1917-1952 by Archibald MacLeish
1952
Fiction: From Here to Eternity by James Jones
Poetry: Collected Poems by Marianne Moore
1951
Fiction: The Collected Stories of William Faulkner by William Faulkner
Poetry: The Auroras of Autumn by Wallace Stevens
1950
Fiction: The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
Poetry: Paterson: Book III and Selected Poems, by William Carlos Williams
2004
Fiction: The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck
Poetry: Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 by Jean Valentine
2003
Fiction: The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
Poetry: The Singing by C.K. Williams
2002
Fiction: Three Junes by Julia Glass
Poetry: In the Next Galaxy by Ruth Stone
2001
Fiction: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Poetry: Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry by Alan Dugan
2000
Fiction: In America by Susan Sontag
Poetry: Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 by Lucille Clifton
1999
Fiction: Waiting by Ha Jin
Poetry: Vice: New and Selected Poems by Ai
1998
Fiction: Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
Poetry: This Time: New and Selected Poems by Gerald Stern
1997
Fiction: Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Poetry: Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems by William Meredith
1996
Fiction: Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett
Poetry: Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey by Hayden Carruth
1995
Fiction: Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
Poetry: Passing Through: The Later Poems by Stanley Kunitz
1994
Fiction: A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis
Poetry: A Worshipful Company of Fletchers by James Tate
1993
Fiction: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
Poetry: Garbage by A.R. Ammons
1992
Fiction: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Poetry: New and Selected Poems by Mary Oliver
1991
Fiction: Mating by Norman Rush
Poetry: What Work Is by Philip Levine
1990
Fiction: Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
1989
Fiction: Spartina by John Casey
1988
Fiction: Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
1987
Fiction: Paco's Story by Larry Heinemann
1986
Fiction: World's Fair by E.L. Doctorow
1985
Fiction: White Noise by Don DeLillo
1984
Fiction: Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories by Ellen Gilchrist
1983
Fiction (hardcover): The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Fiction (paperback): The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
Poetry: Selected Poems by Galway Kinnell; Country Music: Selected Early Poems by Charles Wright
1982
Fiction (hardcover): Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
Fiction (paperback): So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
Poetry: Life Supports: New and Collected Poems by William Bronk
1981
Fiction (hardcover): Plains Song by Wright Morris
Fiction (paperback): The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
1980
Fiction (hardcover): Sophie's Choice by William Styron
Fiction (paperback): The World According to Garp by John Irving
Poetry: Ashes by Philip Levine
1979
Fiction: Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brian
Poetry: Mirabell: Books of Number by James Merrill; Vallejo's The Complete Posthumous Poetry by Clayton Eshleman and Jose Rubin Barcia
1978
Fiction: Blood Ties by Mary Lee Settle
Poetry: The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov by Howard Nemerov
1977
Fiction: The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner
Poetry: Collected Poems, 1930-1976 by Richard Eberhart
1976
Fiction: Jr by William Gaddis
Poetry: Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery
1975
Fiction: Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone; The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams
Poetry: Presentation Piece by Marilyn Hacker
1974
Fiction: A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer; Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Poetry: Diving into the Wreck: Poems, 1971-72 by Adrienne Rich; The Fall of America: Poems of These States by Allen Ginsberg
1973
Fiction: Chimera by John Barth; Augustus by John Williams
Poetry: Collected Poems: 1951-1971 by A.R. Ammons
1972
Fiction: The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor by Flannery O'Connor
Poetry: The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara by Frank O'Hara; Selected Poems by Howard Moss
1971
Fiction: Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow
Poetry: To See, To Take by Mona Van Duyn
1970
Fiction: Them by Joyce Carol Oates
Poetry: The Complete Poems by Elizabeth Bishop
1969
Fiction: Steps by Jerzy Kosinski
Poetry: His Toy, His Dream, His Rest by John Berryman
1968
Fiction: The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder
Poetry: The Light Around the Body by Robert Bly
1967
Fiction: The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
Poetry: Nights and Days by James Merrill
1966
Fiction: The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
Poetry: Buckdancer's Choice: Poems by James Dickey
1965
Fiction: Herzog by Saul Bellow
Poetry: The Far Field by Theodore Roethke
1964
Fiction: The Centaur by John Updike
Poetry: Selected Poems by John Crowe Ransom
1963
Fiction: Morte d'Urban by J.F. Powers
Poetry: Traveling Through the Dark by William Stafford
1962
Fiction: The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Poetry: Poems by Alan Dugan
1961
Fiction: The Waters of Kronos by Conrad Richter
Poetry: The Woman at the Washington Zoo by Randall Jarrell
1960
Fiction: Goodbye Columbus by Philip Roth
Poetry: Life Studies by Robert Lowell
1959
Fiction: The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud
Poetry: Words for the Wind by Theodore Roethke
1958
Fiction: The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
Poetry: Promises: Poems, 1954-1956 by Robert Penn Warren
1957
Fiction: The Field of Vision by Wright Morris
Poetry: Things of the World by Richard Wilbur
1956
Fiction: Ten North Frederick by John O'Hara
Poetry: The Shield of Achilles by W.H. Auden
1955
Fiction: A Fable by William Faulkner
Poetry: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens
1954
Fiction: The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
Poetry: Collected Poems by Conrad Aiken
1953
Fiction: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Poetry: Collected Poems, 1917-1952 by Archibald MacLeish
1952
Fiction: From Here to Eternity by James Jones
Poetry: Collected Poems by Marianne Moore
1951
Fiction: The Collected Stories of William Faulkner by William Faulkner
Poetry: The Auroras of Autumn by Wallace Stevens
1950
Fiction: The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
Poetry: Paterson: Book III and Selected Poems, by William Carlos Williams