National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction

1983 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerIronweedWilliam KennedyThe beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, basis of the film starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. Francis Phelan, ex-big-leaguer, part-time gravedigger, full-time bum with the gift of gab, is back in town. He left Albany twenty-two years earlier after ...Amazon1983 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistCathedralRaymond CarverAmazonDuring the Reign of the QueenJoan ChaseAmazonMagnetic Field (s)Ron LoewinsohnAmazonThe Anatomy LessonPhilip RothAmazon

1984 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerLove MedicineLouise ErdrichThe first of Louise Erdrich’s polysymphonic novels set in North Dakota – a fictional landscape that, in Erdrich’s hands, has become iconic – Love Medicine is the story of three generations of Ojibwe families. Set against the tumultuous politics of the rese...Amazon1984 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistFamily DancingDavid LeavittAmazonForeign AffairsAlison LurieAmazonMachine DreamsJayne Anne PhillipsAmazonStones for IbarraHarriet DoerrAmazon

1985 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerThe Accidental TouristAnne Tyler#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Incandescent, heartbreaking, exhilarating…One cannot reasonably expect fiction to be much better than this.” —The Washington Post In this irresistible novel, Anne Tyler explores the slippery alchemy of attracting opposites, an...Amazon1985 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistLonesome DoveLarry McMurtryAmazonThe Old Forest and Other StoriesPeter TaylorAmazonThree Farmers on Their Way to a DanceRichard PowersAmazonWhite NoiseDon DeLilloAmazon

1975 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerRagtimeE.L. DoctorowWelcome to America at the turn of the twentieth century, where the rhythms of ragtime set the beat. Harry Houdini astonishes audiences with magical feats of escape, the mighty J. P. Morgan dominates the financial world and Henry Ford manufactures cars by m...Amazon

1987 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerThe CounterlifePhilip RothThe Counterlife is a novel unlike any that Philip Roth has written before, a book of astonishing 180-degree turns, a book of conflicting perspectives and points of view, and, by far, Roth's most radical work of fiction. The Counterlife is about people enac...Amazon1987 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistBelovedToni MorrisonAmazonCrossing to SafetyWallace StegnerAmazonThe Age of GriefJane SmileyAmazonThe Bonfire of the VanitiesTom WolfeAmazon

1988 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerThe Middleman and Other StoriesBharati MukherjeeBharati Mukherjee's work illuminates a new world of people in migration that has transformed the meaning of America. Now in a Grove paperback edition, The Middleman and Other Stories is a dazzling display of the vision of this important modern writer. An a...Amazon1988 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistLibraDon DeLilloAmazonParis TroutPete DexterAmazonWheat That Springeth GreenJ.F. PowersAmazonWhere I’m Calling From: New and Selected StoriesRaymond CarverAmazon

1989 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerBilly BathgateE. L. DoctorowI was living in even greater circles of gangsterdom than I had dreamed, latitudes and longitudes of gangsterdom' It's 1930's New York and fifteen-year-old streetkid Billy, who can juggle, somersault and run like the wind, has been taken under the wing of ...Amazon1989 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistOrdinary Love & Good WillJane SmileyAmazonSpartinaJohn CaseyAmazonThe Joy Luck ClubAmy TanAmazonThe Mambo Kings Play Songs of LoveOscar HijuelosAmazon

1990 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerRabbit at RestJohn UpdikeWinner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Howells Medal, and the National Book Critics Circle Award In John Updike’s fourth and final novel about Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, the hero has acquired a Florida condo, a second grandchild, and a troubled, overworked heart....Amazon1990 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistCollected StoriesWallace StegnerAmazonFamily PicturesSue MillerAmazonMiddle PassageCharles JohnsonAmazonThe Things They CarriedTim O’BrienAmazon

1991 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerA Thousand AcresJane SmileyThis powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm between his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will. This sets off a chain of events that ...Amazon1991 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistMatingNorman RushAmazonThe Gold Bug VariationsRichard PowersAmazonTypical AmericanGish JenAmazonWartime LiesLouis BegleyAmazon

1992 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerAll the Pretty HorsesCormac McCarthyAll the Pretty Horses, the first novel of the Border Trilogy, published in 1992, was an international bestseller, winning both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. It tells the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds hi...Amazon1992 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistBlack WaterJoyce Carol OatesAmazonClockersRichard PriceAmazonLet the Dead Bury Their DeadRandall KenanAmazonOuterbridge ReachRobert StoneAmazon