The National Book Award winners for fiction are:
- 2000: Susan Sontag, In America.
- 1999: Ha Jin, Waiting.
- 1998: Alice McDermott, Charming Billy.
- 1997: Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain.
- 1996: Andrea Barrett, Ship Fever and Other Stories.
- 1995: Philip Roth, Sabbath's Theater.
- 1994: William Gaddis, A Frolic of his Own.
- 1993: E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News.
- 1992: Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses.
- 1991: Norman Rush, Mating.
- 1990: Charles Johnson, Middle Passage.
- 1989: John Casey, Spartina.
- 1988: Pete Dexter, Paris Trout.
- 1987: Larry Heinemann, Paco's Story.
- 1986: E. L. Doctorow, World's Fair.
- 1985: Don DeLillo, White Noise.
- 1984: Ellen Gilchrist, Victory over Japan.
- 1983: Eudora Welty, The Collected Stories.
- 1983: Alice Walker, The Color Purple.
- 1982: John Updike, Rabbit is Rich.
- 1981: Wright Morris, Plain Song.
- 1980: William Styron, Sophie's Choice.
- 1979: Tim O'Brien, Going after Cacciato.
- 1978: Mary Lee Settle, Blood Tie.
- 1977: Wallace Stegner, The Spectator Bird.
- 1976: William Gaddis, JR.
- 1975: Thomas Williams, The Hair of Harold Roux.
- 1975: Robert Stone, Dog Soldiers.
- 1974: Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow.
- 1974: Isaac Bashevis Singer, A Crown of Feathers ....
- 1973: John Williams, Augustus.
- 1973: John Barth, Chimera.
- 1972: Flannery O'Connor, The Complete Stories.
- 1971: Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler's Planet.
- 1970: Joyce Carol Oates, Them.
- 1969: Jerzy Kosinski, Steps.
- 1968: Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day.
- 1967: Bernard Malamud, The Fixer.
- 1966: Katherine Anne Porter, The Collected Stories.
- 1965: Saul Bellow, Herzog.
- 1964: John Updike, The Centaur.
- 1963: J. F. Powers, Morte D'Urban.
- 1962: Walker Percy, The Moviegoer.
- 1961: Conrad Richter, The Waters of Kronos.
- 1960: Philip Roth, Goodbye, Columbus.
- 1959: Bernard Malamud, The Magic Barrel.
- 1958: John Cheever, The Wapshot Chronicle.
- 1957: Wright Morris, The Field of Vision.
- 1956: John O'Hara, Ten North Frederick.
- 1955: William Faulkner, A Fable.
- 1954: Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March.
- 1953: Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man.
- 1952: James Jones, From Here to Eternity.
- 1951: William Faulkner, The Collected Stories.
- 1950: Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm.
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