2018 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
Milkman
Anna Burns
2017 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
Improvement
Joan Silber
2016 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
LaRose
Louise Erdrich
2015 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
The Sellout
Paul Beatty
2014 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
Lila
Marilynne Robinson
2013 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2012 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
Ben Fountain
2011 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
Binocular Vision
Edith Pearlman
2010 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan
2009 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
2008 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
2666
Roberto Bolaño
2007 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz
2006 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
The Inheritance of Loss
Kiran Desai
2005 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
The March
E. L. Doctorow
2004 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson
2003 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
The Known World
Edward P. Jones
2002 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
Atonement
Ian McEwan
2001 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
Austerlitz
W.G. Sebald
2000 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
Being Dead
Jim Crace
1999 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
Motherless Brooklyn
Jonathan Lethem
1998 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
The Love of a Good Woman
Alice Munro
1997 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
The Blue Flower
Penelope Fitzgerald
1996 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
Women in Their Beds
Gina Berriault
1995 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
Mrs. Ted Bliss
Stanley Elkin
1994 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
The Stone Diaries
Carol Shields
1993 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
A Lesson Before Dying
Ernest J. Gaines
1992 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy
1991 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
A Thousand Acres
Jane Smiley
1990 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
Rabbit at Rest
John Updike
1989 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
Billy Bathgate
E. L. Doctorow
1988 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
The Middleman and Other Stories
Bharati Mukherjee
1987 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
The Counterlife
Philip Roth
1986 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
Kate Vaiden
Reynolds Price
1985 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
The Accidental Tourist
Anne Tyler
1984 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
Love Medicine
Louise Erdrich
1983 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
Ironweed
William Kennedy
1982 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
George Mills
Stanley Elkin
1981 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
Rabbit is Rich
John Updike
1980 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
The Transit of Venus
Shirley Hazzard
1979 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
The Year of the French
Thomas Flanagan
1978 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
The Stories of John Cheever
John Cheever
1977 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
1976 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
October Light
John Gardner
1975 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction
