National Book Critics Circle Award Winners: 1979 – 2008
The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) is an association of book reviewers in the United States. Founded in 1974, it presents awards for the finest books published in the English language. For more information, visit their site and official blog. Below are the FICTION winners from 1979 through 2007. From 2008 on, I have also included the nominees.
Books I’ve read are highlighted in Blue with links to reviews.
2008
2666, by Roberto Bolaño
Home, by Marilynne Robinson
The Lazarus Project, by Aleksandar Hemon
The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart, by M. Glenn Talyor
Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout (read my review)
2007 – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz
2006 - The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai (read my review)
2005 – The March, by E.L. Doctorow
2004 - Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
2003 – The Known World, by Edward P. Jones
2002 - Atonement, by Ian McEwan (read my review)
2001 – Austerlitz, by W.G. Sebald
2000 – Being Dead, by Jim Crace
1999 – Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem
1998 – The Love of A Good Woman: Stories, by Alice Monroe
1997 – The Blue Flower, by Penelope Fitzgerald
1996 – Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories, by Gina Berriault
1995 – Mrs. Ted Bliss, by Stanley Elkin
1994 – The Stone Diaries, by Carol Shields
1993 – A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest J. Gaines
1992 – All The Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy
1991 – Thousand Acres, by Jane Smiley
1990 – Rabbit At Rest, by John Updike
1989 – Billy Bathgate, by E.L. Doctorow
1988 – The Middleman and Other Stories, by Bharati Mukherjee
1987 – The Counterlife, by Philip Roth
1986 – Kate Vaiden, by Reynolds Price
1985 – The Accidental Tourist, by Anne Tyler
1984 - Love Medicine, by Louise Erdrich (read my review)
1983 – Ironweed, by William J. Kennedy
1982 – George Mills, by Stanley Elkin
1981 – Rabbit Is Rich, by John Updike
1980 – The Transit of Venus, by Shirley Hazzard
1979 – The Year of the French, by Thomas Flanagan
1978 – The Stories of John Cheever, by John Cheever
1977 - Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison (read my review)
1976 – October Light, by John Gardner
1975 – Ragtime, by E.L. Doctorow