National Book Award Winners - Fiction

The Great Fire
by Shirley Hazzard
• 2012 - The Round House by Louise Erdich
• 2011 - Salvage the Bones by Jessamyn Ward
• 2010 - Lord of Misrule by Jamie Gordon
• 2009 - Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
• 2008 - Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen
• 2007 - Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
• 2006 - The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
• 2005 - Europe Central by William Vollmann
• 2004 - The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck
• 2003 - The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
• 2002 - Three Junes by Julia Glass
• 2001 - The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
• 2000 - In America by Susan Sontag
• 1999 - Waiting by Ha Jin
• 1998 - Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
• 1997 - Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
• 1996 - Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett
• 1995 - Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
• 1994 - A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis
• 1993 - The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
• 1992 - All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
• 1991 - Mating by Norman Rush
• 1990 - Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
• 1989 - Spartina by John Casey

This list can be viewed at the National Book Awards website.