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