Award
National Book Award
85 years tracked (1936–2025), 542 entries total.
The National Book Award is a set of annual U.S. literary prizes established in 1936, awarded by the National Book Foundation to recognize outstanding books in categories including Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's Literature. It is one of the most prestigious American literary honors.
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Ghost
Raymie Nightingale
The Association of Small Bombs
The Performance Of Becoming Human
The Sun Is Also a Star
The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad
When the Sea Turned to Silver
Another Brooklyn
News of the World
Pax
The Throwback Special
When the Moon Was Ours
2015
A Little Life
Between the World and Me
Challenger Deep
Fates and Furies
Fortune Smiles
Voyage Of The Sable Venus
Bone Gap
Did You Ever Have a Family
Nimona
Si
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
The Alchemist
The Thing About Jellyfish
X
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
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2001
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1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1994
1992
1989
1987
1984
1983
Fiction (Hardcover)
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
The Color Purple
The Mosquito Coast
Children's Picture Books (Hardcover)
Miss Rumphius
Science (Hardcover)
Subtle Is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein
Fiction
The Color Purple
General Nonfiction (Hardcover)
The Fate of the Earth
Children's Fiction (Hardcover)
The Kestrel
Science (Paperback)
The Medical Detectives
First Novel
The Women of Brewster Place
1982
Fiction (Hardcover) & (Paperback) (1983)
A Flag for Sunrise
Science (Hardcover) (1980) & (Paperback)
Disturbing the Universe
Children's Books, Fiction (Hardcover) (1981) & (Paperback)
Jacob Have I Loved
Fiction (Paperback)
Morgan's Passing
First Novel
Spring Moon: A Novel of China
Science (Hardcover)
The Mismeasure of Man
Fiction (Hardcover) (1981) & (Paperback)
The Second Coming
Fiction (Hardcover) (1982) & (Paperback)
The Transit of Venus
1981
History (Paperback)
A People's History of the United States
General Nonfiction (Hardcover)
China Men
Science (Hardcover)
Cosmos
First Novel
The Clan of the Cave Bear
Fiction (Hardcover)
The Collected Stories
Fiction (Hardcover) (1980) & (Paperback)
The Executioner's Song
Children's Book (1969) & Fiction (Paperback)
The High King
General Nonfiction (Paperback)
The White Album
1980
Children's Books (Paperback)
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Biography and Autobiography (1979) & Biography (Paperback)
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964
Science Fiction (Paperback)
Dreamsnake
Tales of Nevèrÿon
The Book of the Dun Cow
The Persistence of Vision
Mystery (Paperback)
Listening Woman
Science Fiction (Hardcover)
On Wings of Song
Biography and Autobiography
Robert Kennedy and His Times
Children's Literature
The Great Gilly Hopkins
Religion/Inspiration (Paperback)
The Helper
General Nonfiction (Hardcover)
The Right Stuff
Biography (Hardcover)
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Contemporary Thought (1979) & General Nonfiction (Paperback)
The Snow Leopard
1978
1977
Collected Poems, 1930-1976: Including 43 New Poems
Letters of E.B. White
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
The Autumn of the Patriarch
The Spectator Bird
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
1976
1975
All the President's Men
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Dog Soldiers
Invisible Cities
Life is Elsewhere
My Life as a Man
Obedience to Authority
Presentation Piece
Something Happened
Sula
The Cyberiad
The Hair Of Harold Roux
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
1974
A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories
Burr
Diving Into the Wreck
Diving Into The Wreck: Poems 1971-1972
Gravity's Rainbow
Nickel Mountain
Pentimento
Points for a Compass Rose
Summer of My German Soldier
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
The Fall Of America: Poems Of These States, 1965-1971
