National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Winners by the Year

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

2012 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

by Ben Fountain

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2011 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

Binocular Vision

by Edith Pearlman

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Visit From the Goon Squad

2010 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

Visit From the Goon Squad

by Jennifer Egan

Jennifer Egan is the author of The Keep, Look at Me, The Invisible Circus, and the story collection Emerald City. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, GQ, Zoetrope, All-Story, and Ploughshares, and he… read more

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Wolf Hall

2009 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

Wolf Hall

by Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel was born in Glossop, Derbyshire, England in July of 1952. Her novel, Wolf Hall was the winner of the Man Booker prize in 2009. Mantel is a former social worker and film critic who has written short stories, the memoir "Giving up the G… read more

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The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao

2007 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao

by Junot Diaz

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) is a best-selling novel written by Dominican author Junot Díaz. Although a work of fiction, the novel is set in New Jersey where Díaz was raised and deals explicitly with his ancestral homeland's expe… read more

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The Inheritance Of Loss

2006 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

The Inheritance Of Loss

by Kiran Desai

Kiran Desai is an Indian author born in 1971. She is a citizen of India and a permanent resident of the United States . This charming, heartwarming novel, The Inheritance of Loss won the Booker Man prize in 2006. The story is set in the remote p… read more

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The March

2005 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

The March

by E L Doctorow

In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the S… read more

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Gilead

2004 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

Gilead

by Marilynne Robinson

In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames’s life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the son of an Iowan preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young man in Maine, saw a vision of Ch… read more

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The Known World

2003 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

The Known World

by Edward P Jones

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The Great Fire

2003 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

The Great Fire

by Shirley Hazzard

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Atonement

2002 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

Atonement

by Ian McEwan

The novel opens on a sweltering summer day in 1935 at the Tallis family's mansion in the Surrey countryside. Thirteen-year-old Briony has written a play in honor of the visit of her adored older brother Leon; other guests include her three young cou… read more

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Austerlitz

2001 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

Austerlitz

by W G Sebald

W. G. Sebald taught at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, for thirty years, becoming Professor of European Literature in 1987, and from 1989 to 1994 was the first Director of the British Centre for Literary Translation. His three prev… read more

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Being Dead

2000 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

Being Dead

by Jim Crace

Being Dead is a novel by the English writer Jim Crace, published in 1999. Its principal characters are married zoologists Joseph and Celice and their daughter Syl. The story tells of how Joseph and Celice, on a day trip to the dunes where they met as… read more

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The Love Of a Good Woman

1998 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

The Love Of a Good Woman

by Alice Munro

In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes--the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the … read more

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The Blue Flower

1997 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

The Blue Flower

by Penelope Fitzgerald

In eighteenth-century Germany, the impetuous student of philosophy who will later gain fame as the Romantic poet Novalis seeks his father's permission to wed his true philosophy -- a plain, simple child named Sophie. The attachment shocks his family… read more

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Women In Their Beds

1996 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

Women In Their Beds

by Gina Berriault

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Mrs Ted Bliss

1995 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

Mrs Ted Bliss

by Stanley Elkin

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A Lesson Before Dying

1993 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

A Lesson Before Dying

by Ernest J Gaines

A Lesson Before Dying was published in 1993 by author Ernest J. Gaines. This novel provides a glimpse into the Jim Crow South between WWII and leading up to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. Grant is the only formally-educated black man in… read more

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All the Pretty Horses

1992 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

All the Pretty Horses

by Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy is an American novelist and playwright. He has also written plays and screenplays. This novel, All The Pretty Horses , won the National Book Award in 1992. The story reads like a Western novel, but is set in 1949 and revolves around… read more

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A Thousand Acres

1991 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

A Thousand Acres

by Jane Smiley

A Thousand Acres is a 1991 novel by American author Jane Smiley. It won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was adapted to a 1997 film of the same name. The novel is a contemporary deconstruction of Shakespeare's King Lear and is set on a tho… read more

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Rabbit At Rest

1990 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

Rabbit At Rest

by John Updike

Rabbit at Rest is a 1990 novel by John Updike. It is the fourth and final novel in a series beginning with Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, and Rabbit is Rich. There is also a related 2001 novella, Rabbit Remembered. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fi… read more

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Billy Bathgate

1989 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

Billy Bathgate

by E L Doctorow

Billy Bathgate is a 1989 novel by author E. L. Doctorow that won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle award for fiction for 1990 and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was the runner up for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize . The story is told in the fir… read more

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The Middleman

1988 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

The Middleman" and Other Stories

by Bharati Mukherjee

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The Counterlife

1987 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

The Counterlife

by Philip Roth

The Counterlife (1986) is a novel by the American author Philip Roth. It is the fourth full novel to feature the fictional novelist Nathan Zuckerman. However, when The Counterlife was published, Zuckerman had most recently appeared in a novella calle… read more

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Kate Vaiden

1986 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

Kate Vaiden

by Reynolds Price

Kate Vaiden is a novel by Reynolds Price about a white woman from the American South who, after a teenage pregnancy, abandons her son shortly after giving birth to him and who does not get in touch with him for four decades.

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The Accidental Tourist

1985 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

The Accidental Tourist

by Anne Tyler

The Accidental Tourist is a 1985 novel by Anne Tyler that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. The novel was adapted into a 1988 award-winning film starring William Hurt, Kathleen Turner an… read more

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Love Medicine

1984 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

Love Medicine

by Louise Erdrich

Love Medicine is Louise Erdrich’s first novel, published in 1984. Erdrich revised and expanded the novel for an edition issued in 1993, and this version is now considered the definitive edition. Erdrich explores sixty years of a small group of Chip… read more

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Ironweed

1983 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

Ironweed

by William Kennedy

The third novel in William Kennedy’s Albany Cycle series, Ironweed (1983) is set during the Great Depression. It follows Francis Phelan, a drifter from Albany, New York. After a devastating accident where he killed his child, he becomes a wanderin… read more

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George Mills

1982 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

George Mills

by Stanley Elkin

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Rabbit Is Rich

1981 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

Rabbit Is Rich

by John Updike

Rabbit Is Rich is a 1981 novel by John Updike. It is the third novel of the four-part series which begins with Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux, and concludes with Rabbit At Rest. There is also a related 2001 novella, Rabbit Remembered. Rabbit Is Rich wa… read more

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