National Book Critics Circle Award Fiction Winners — Complete List (1975–2025) Home › National Book Critics Circle Award › Fiction We Do Not Part by Han Kangwith e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris (trans.) 2025NBCCFiction View on Amazon My Friends by Hisham Matar 2024NBCCFiction View on Amazon I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore 2023NBCCFiction View on Amazon Bliss Montage by Ling Ma 2022NBCCFiction View on Amazon The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 2021NBCCFiction View on Amazon Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell 2020NBCCFiction View on Amazon Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat 2019NBCCFiction View on Amazon Milkman by Anna Burns 2018NBCCFiction View on Amazon Improvement by Joan Silber 2017NBCCFiction View on Amazon LaRose by Louise Erdrich 2016NBCCFiction View on Amazon The Sellout by Paul Beatty 2015NBCCFiction View on Amazon Lila by Marilynne Robinson 2014NBCCFiction View on Amazon Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2013NBCCFiction View on Amazon Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain 2012NBCCFiction View on Amazon Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories by Edith Pearlman 2011NBCCFiction View on Amazon A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan 2010NBCCFiction View on Amazon Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel 2009NBCCFiction View on Amazon 2666 by Roberto BolañowithNatasha Wimmer(trans.) 2008NBCCFiction View on Amazon The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz 2007NBCCFiction View on Amazon The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai 2006NBCCFiction View on Amazon The March by E. L. Doctorow 2005NBCCFiction View on Amazon Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 2004NBCCFiction View on Amazon The Known World by Edward P. Jones 2003NBCCFiction View on Amazon Atonement by Ian McEwan 2002NBCCFiction View on Amazon Austerlitz by W.G. SebaldwithAnthea Bell(trans.) 2001NBCCFiction View on Amazon Being Dead by Jim Crace 2000NBCCFiction View on Amazon Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem 1999NBCCFiction View on Amazon The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro 1998NBCCFiction View on Amazon The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald 1997NBCCFiction View on Amazon Women in Their Beds by Gina Berriault 1996NBCCFiction View on Amazon Mrs. Ted Bliss by Stanley Elkin 1995NBCCFiction View on Amazon The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields 1994NBCCFiction View on Amazon A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines 1993NBCCFiction View on Amazon All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy 1992NBCCFiction View on Amazon A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley 1991NBCCFiction View on Amazon Rabbit at Rest by John Updike 1990NBCCFiction View on Amazon Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow 1989NBCCFiction View on Amazon The Middleman and Other Stories by Bharati Mukherjee 1988NBCCFiction View on Amazon The Counterlife by Philip Roth 1987NBCCFiction View on Amazon Kate Vaiden by Reynolds Price 1986NBCCFiction View on Amazon The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler 1985NBCCFiction View on Amazon Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich 1984NBCCFiction View on Amazon Ironweed by William Kennedy 1983NBCCFiction View on Amazon George Mills by Stanley Elkin 1982NBCCFiction View on Amazon Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike 1981NBCCFiction View on Amazon The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard 1980NBCCFiction View on Amazon The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan 1979NBCCFiction View on Amazon The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever 1978NBCCFiction View on Amazon Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison 1977NBCCFiction View on Amazon October Light by John Gardner 1976NBCCFiction View on Amazon Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow 1975NBCCFiction View on Amazon
