National Book Award — Fiction

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  The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud

  1959NBAFiction
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  The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever

  1958NBAFiction
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  The Field of Vision by Wright Morris

  1957NBAFiction
• Ten North Frederick by John O'Hara

  1956NBAFiction
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  A Fable by William Faulkner

  1955NBAFiction
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  The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow

  1954NBAFiction
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  Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

  1953NBAFiction
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  From Here to Eternity by James Jones

  1952NBAFiction
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  Collected Stories of William Faulkner by William Faulkner

  1951NBAFiction
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  The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren

  1950NBAFiction