National Book Critics Circle Award — Fiction

• My Friends by Hisham Matar

  2024NBCCFiction
• I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore

  2023NBCCFiction
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  Bliss Montage by Ling Ma

  2022NBCCFiction
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  The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

  2021NBCCFiction
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  Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

  2020NBCCFiction
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  Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat

  2019NBCCFiction
• Milkman by Anna Burns

  2018NBCCFiction
• Improvement by Joan Silber

  2017NBCCFiction
• LaRose by Louise Erdrich

  2016NBCCFiction
• The Sellout by Paul Beatty

  2015NBCCFiction
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  Lila by Marilynne Robinson

  2014NBCCFiction
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  Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  2013NBCCFiction
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  Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain

  2012NBCCFiction
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  Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories by Edith Pearlman

  2011NBCCFiction
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  A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

  2010NBCCFiction
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

  2009NBCCFiction
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  2666 by Roberto BolañowithNatasha Wimmer(trans.)

  2008NBCCFiction
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  The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

  2007NBCCFiction
• The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

  2006NBCCFiction
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  The March by E. L. Doctorow

  2005NBCCFiction
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  Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

  2004NBCCFiction
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  The Known World by Edward P. Jones

  2003NBCCFiction
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  Atonement by Ian McEwan

  2002NBCCFiction
• Austerlitz by W.G. SebaldwithAnthea Bell(trans.)

  2001NBCCFiction
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  Being Dead by Jim Crace

  2000NBCCFiction
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  Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem

  1999NBCCFiction
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  The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro

  1998NBCCFiction
• The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald

  1997NBCCFiction
• Women in Their Beds by Gina Berriault

  1996NBCCFiction
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  Mrs. Ted Bliss by Stanley Elkin

  1995NBCCFiction
• The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

  1994NBCCFiction
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  A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines

  1993NBCCFiction
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  All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

  1992NBCCFiction
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  A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

  1991NBCCFiction
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  Rabbit at Rest by John Updike

  1990NBCCFiction
• Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow

  1989NBCCFiction
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  The Middleman and Other Stories by Bharati Mukherjee

  1988NBCCFiction
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  The Counterlife by Philip Roth

  1987NBCCFiction
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  Kate Vaiden by Reynolds Price

  1986NBCCFiction
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  The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

  1985NBCCFiction
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  Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

  1984NBCCFiction
• Ironweed by William Kennedy

  1983NBCCFiction
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  George Mills by Stanley Elkin

  1982NBCCFiction
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  Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike

  1981NBCCFiction
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  The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard

  1980NBCCFiction
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  The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan

  1979NBCCFiction
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  The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever

  1978NBCCFiction
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  Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

  1977NBCCFiction
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  October Light by John Gardner

  1976NBCCFiction
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  Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow

  1975NBCCFiction