1950

• Nelson Algren - The Man with the Golden Arm

1951

• William Faulkner - The Collected Stories of William Faulkner
• Brendan Gill - The Trouble of One House

1952

• James Jones - From Here to Eternity (No review)
  
• James Agee - The Morning Watch
• Truman Capote - The Grass Harp
• William Faulkner - Requiem for a Nun
• Caroline Gordon - The Strange Children
• Thomas Mann - The Holy Sinner
• John P. Marquand - Melville Goodwin USA
• J. D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye
• William Styron - Lie Down in Darkness
• Jessamyn West - The Witch Diggers
• Herman Wouk - The Caine Mutiny

1953

• Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man
• Isabel Bolton - Many Mansions
• H. L. Davis - Winds of Morning
• Thomas Gallagher - The Gathering Darkness
• Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
• Carl Jones - Jefferson Selleck
• Peter Martin - The Landsman
• John Steinbeck - East of Eden (Read October 15, 2007; rated 5/5; read my review)
  
• William Carlos Williams - The Build Up

1954

• Saul Bellow - The Adventures of Augie March

1955

• William Faulkner - A Fable
• Harriet Arnow - The Dollmaker
• Hamilton Basso - The View from Pompey's Head
• Davis Grubb - The Night of the Hunter
• Randall Jarrell - Pictures from an Institution
• Milton Lott - The Last Hunt
• Frederick Manfred - The Last Grizzly
• William March - The Bad Seed
• Wright Morris - The Huge Season
• Frank Rooney - The Courts of Memory
• John Steinbeck - Sweet Thursday

1956

• John O'Hara - Ten North Frederick
• Paul Bowles - The Spider's House
• Shirley Ann Grau - The Black Prince
• MacKinlay Kantor - Andersonville
• Flannery O'Connor - A Good Man is Hard to Find
• May Sarton - Faithful are the Wounds
• Robert Penn Warren - Band of Angels
• Eudora Welty - The Bride of the Innisfallen
• Herman Wouk - Marjorie Morningstar

1957

• Wright Morris - The Field of Vision
• Nelson Algren - Walk on the Wild Side
• James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room
• Saul Bellow - Seize the Day
• B. J. Chute - Greenwillow
• A. B. Guthrie - These Thousand Years
• John Hersey - A Single Pebble
• John Hunt - Generations of Men
• Edwin O'Connor - The Last Hurrah
• J. F. Powers - The Presence of Grace
• Elizabeth Spencer - The Voice at the Back Door
• James Thurber - Further Fables for Our Time

1958

• John Cheever - The Wapshop Chronicle
• James Agee - A Death in the Family
• James Gould Cozzens - By Love Possessed
• Mark Harris - Something About A Soldier
• Andrew Lytle - The Velvet Horn
• Bernard Malamud - The Assistant
• Wright Morris - Love Among the Cannibals
• Vladimir Nabokov - Pnin
• Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
• Nancy Wilson Ross - The Return of Lady Brace
• May Sarton - The Birth of a Grandfather

1959

• Bernard Malamud - The Magic Barrel
• J. P. Donleavy - The Ginger Man
• William Humphrey - Home from the Hill
• Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
• John O'Hara - From the Terrace
• J. R. Salamanca - The Lost Country
• Anya Seyton - The Winthrop Woman
• Robert Travers - Anatomy of a Murder

1960

• Philip Roth - Goodbye Columbus
• Louis Auchincloss - Pursuit of the Prodigal
• Hamilton Basso - The Light Infantry Ball
• Saul Bellow - Henderson the Rain King
• Evan S. Connell, Jr. - Mrs. Bridge
• William Faulkner - The Mansion
• Mark Harris - Wake Up, Stupid
• John Hersey - The War Lover
• H. L. Humes - Men Die
• Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House (no review)
  
• Elizabeth Janeway - The Third Choice
• James Jones - The Pistol
• Warren Miller - The Cool World
• James Purdy - Malcolm
• Leo Rostyn - The Return of H*Y*M*A*N*K*A*P*L*A*N*
• John Updike - The Poorhouse Fair
• Robert Penn Warren - The Cave
• Morris West - The Devil's Advocate

1961

• Conrad Richter - The Waters of Kronos
• Louis Auchincloss - The House of Five Talents
• Kay Boyle - Generation without Farewell
• John Hersey - The Child Buyer
• John Knowles - A Separate Place (no review)
  
• Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird (Read March 21, 2007; rated 5/5; read my review)
  
• Wright Morris - Ceremony in a Lone Tree
• Flannery O'Connor - The Violent Bear It Away
• Elizabeth Spencer - The Light in the Piazza and Other Italian Tales
• Francis Steegmuller - The Christening Party
• John Updike - Rabbit, Run
• Mildred Walker - The Body of a Young Man

1962

• Walker Percy - The Moviegoer
• Hortense Calisher - False Entry
• George P. Elliott - Among the Dangs
• Joseph Heller -  Catch 22 (DNF)
  
• Bernard Malamud - A New Life
• J. D. Salinger - Franny and Zooey
• Isaac Bashevis Singer - The Spinoza of Market Street and Other Stories
• Edward Lewis Wallant - The Pawnbroker
• Joan Williams - The Morning and the Evening
• Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road

1963

• J. F. Powers - Morte D'Urban
• Vladimir Nabokov - Pale Fire
• Katherine Anne Porter - Ship of Fools
• Dawn Powell - The Golden Spur
• Clancy Sigal - Going Away
• John Updike - Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories

1964

• John Updike - The Centaur
• Bernard Malamud - Idiots First
• Mary McCarthy - The Group
• Thomas Pynchon - V
• Harvey Swados - The Will

1965

• Saul Bellow - Herzog
• Louis Auchincloss - The Rector of Justin
• John Hawkes - Second Skin
• Richard Kim - The Martyred
• Wallace Markfield - To an Early Grave
• Vladimir Nabokov - The Defense
• Isaac Bashevis Singer - Short Friday

1966

• Katherine A. Porter - The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
• Jesse Hill Ford - The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones
• Peter Matthiessen - At Play in the Fields of the Lord
• James Merrill - The (Diblos) Notebook
• Flannery O'Connor - Everything that Rises Must Converge
• Harry Petrakis - Pericles on 31st Street

1967

• Bernard Malamud - The Fixer
• Louis Auchincloss - The Embezzler
• Edwin O'Connor - All in the Family
• Walker Percy - The Last Gentleman
• Harry Petrakis - A Dream of Kings
• Wilfrid Sheeds - Office Politics

1968

• Thornton Wilder - The Eighth Day
• Norman Mailer - Why Are We in Vietnam?
• Joyce Carol Oates - A Garden of Earthly Delights
• Chaim Potok - The Chosen
• William Styron - Confessions of Nat Turner

1969

• Jerzy Kosinski - Steps
• John Barth - Lost in the Funhouse
• Frederick Exley - A Fan's Notes
• Joyce Carol Oates - Expensive People
• Thomas Rogers - The Pursuit of Happiness

1970

• Joyce Carol Oates - Them
• Leonard Gardner - Fat City
• Leonard Michaels - Going Places
• Jean Stafford - The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
• Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five (Read December 2006; rated 4/5; no review)
  

1971

• Saul Bellow - Mr. Sammler's Planet
• James Dickey - Deliverance
• Shirley Hazzard - The Bay of Noon
• John Updike - Bech: A Book
• Eudora Welty - Losing Battles

1972

• Flannery O'Connor - The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
• Frederick Buechner - Lion Country
• E. L. Doctorow - The Book of Daniel
• Stanley Elkin - The Dick Gibson Show
• Tom McHale - Farragan's Retreat
• Joyce Carol Oates - Wonderland
• Cynthia Ozick - The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories
• Walker Percy - Love Among the Ruins
• Earl Thompson - A Garden of Sand
• John Updike - Rabbit Redux

1973

• John Barth - Chimera
• John Williams - Augustus
• Brock Brauer - The Late Great Creature
• Alan Friedman - Hermaphrodeity
• Barry Hannah - Geronimo Rex
• George V. Higgins - The Friends of Eddie Coyle
• R. M. Koster - The Prince
• Vladimir Nabokov - Transparent Things
• Ishmael Reed - Mumbo Jumbo
• Thomas Rogers - The Confession of a Child of the Century
• Isaac Bashevis Singer - Enemies, A Love Story
• Eudora Welty - The Optimist's Daughter

1974

• Thomas Pyncheon - Gravity's Rainbow
• Isaac Bashevis Singer - A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories
• Doris Betts - Beasts of the World and Other Stories
• John Cheever - The World of Apples
• Ellen Douglas - Apostles of Light
• Stanley Elkin - Searches and Seizures
• John Gardner - Nickel Mountain
• Tom McGuane - Ninety-Two in the Shade
• Wilfrid Sheed - People Will Always Be Kind
• Gore Vidal - Burr
• Joy Williams - State of Grace

1975

• Robert Stone - Dog Soldiers
• Thomas Williams - The Hair of Harold Roux
• Donald Barthelme - The Guilty Pleasures
• Gail Godwin - The Odd Woman
• Joseph Heller - Something Happened
• Toni Morrison - Sula
• Vladimir Nabokov - Look at the Harlequins!
• Grace Paley - Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
• Philip Roth - My Life as a Man
• Mark Smith - The Death of a Detective

1976

• Wiliam Gaddis - JR
• Saul Bellow - Humboldt's Gift
• Hortense Calisher - The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher
• Johanna Kaplan - Other People's Lives
• Vladimir Nabokov - Tyrant's Destroyed and Other Stories
• Larry Woiwode - Beyond the Bedroom Wall

1977

• Wallace Stegner - The Spectator Bird
• Raymond Carver - Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
• MacDonald Harris - The Balloonist
• Ursula K. Le Guin - Orsinian Tales
• Cynthia Propper Seton - A Fine Romance

1978

• Mary Lee Settles - Blood Ties
• Robert Coover - The Public Burning
• Peter De Vries - Madder Music
• James Alan McPherson - Elbow Room
• John Sayles - Union Dues

1979

• Tim O'Brien - Going After Cacciato
• John Cheever - The Stories of John Cheever
• John Irving - The World According to Garp (Read multiple times; rated 5/5; no review)
  
• Diane Johnson - Lying Low
• David Plante - The Family

1980

• William Styron - Sophie's Choice
• James Baldwin - Just Above My Head
• Norman Mailer - The Executioner's Song
• Philip Roth - The Ghost Writer
• Scott Spencer - Endless Love

1981

• Wright Morris - Plains Song
• Shirley Hazzard - The Transit of Venus
• William Maxwell - So Long, See  You Tomorrow
• Walker Percy - The Second Coming
• Eudora Welty - The Collected Stories

1982

• John Updike - Rabbit is Rich
• Mark Helprin - Ellis Island and Other Stories
• John Irving - The Hotel New Hampshire (Read multiple times; rated 5/5; no review)
  
• Robert Stone - A Flag for Sunrise
• William Wharton - Dad

1983

• Alice Walker - The Color Purple (Read January 12, 2007; rated 4.25/5; read my review)
  
• Gail Godwin - A Mother and Two Daughters
• Bobbie Ann Mason - Shiloh and Other Stories
• Paul Theroux - The Mosquito Coast
• Anne Tyler - Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (Read January 24, 2007; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
  

1984

• Ellen Gilchrist - Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories
• Alison Lurie - Foreign Affairs
• Philip Roth - The Anatomy Lesson

1985

• Don DeLillo - White Noise
• Ursula K. Le Guin - Always Coming Home
• Hugh Nissenson - The Tree of Life

1986

• E. L. Doctorow - World's Fair
• Norman Rush - Whites
• Peter Taylor - A Summon to Memphis

1987

• Larry Heinemann - Paco's Story
• Alice McDermott - That Night
• Toni Morrison - Beloved
• Howard Norman - The Northern Lights
• Philip Roth - The Counterlife

1988

• Peter Dexter - Paris Trout (no review)
  
• Don DeLillo - Libra
• Mary McGarry Morris - Vanished
• James F. Powers - Wheat That Springeth Green
• Anne Tyler - Breathing Lessons

1989

• John Casey - Spartina
• E. L. Doctorow - Billy Bathgate
• Katherine Dunn - Geek Love
• Oscar Hijuelos - Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
• Amy Tan - The Joy Luck Club

1990

• Charles Johnson - Middle Passage
• Felipe Alfau - Chromos
• Elena Castedo - Paradise
• Jessica Hagedorn - Dogeaters
• Joyce Carol Oates - Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart

1991

• Norman Rush - Mating
• Louis Begley - Wartime Lies
• Stephen Dixon - Frog
• Stanley Elkin - The MacGuffin
• Sandra Scofield - Beyond Deserving

1992

• Cormac McCarthy - All the Pretty Horses
• Dorothy Allison - Bastard Out of Carolina (Read August 1, 2007; rated 3/5; read my review)
  
• Cristina Garcia - Dreaming in Cuban
• Edward P. Jones - Lost in the City
• Robert Stone - Outerbridge Reach

1993

• E. Annie Proulx - The Shipping News (no review)
  
• Amy Bloom - Come to Me
• Thom Jones - The Puligist at Rest
• Richard Powers - Operation Wandering Soul
• Bob Shacochis - Swimming in the Volcano

1994

• William Gaddis - A Frolic of His Own
• Ellen Currie - Moses Supposes
• Richard Dooling - White Man's Grave
• Howard Norman - The Bird Artist
• Grace Paley - The Collected Stories

1995

• Philip Roth - Sabbath's Theater
• Madison Smartt Bell - All Souls' Rising
• Edwidge Danticat - Krik?  Krak!
• Stephen Dixon - Interstate
• Rosario Ferre - The House on the Lagoon

1996

• Andrea Barrett - Ship Fever and Other Stories
• Ron Hansen - Atticus
• Elizabeth McCracken - The Giant's House
• Stephen Millhauser - Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
• Janet Peery - The River Beyond the World

1997

• Charles Frazier - Cold Mountain
• Don DeLillo - Underworld (DNF)
  
• Diane Johnson - Le Divorce
• Ward Just - Echo House
• Cynthia Ozick - The Puttermesser Papers

1998

• Alice McDermott - Charming Billy
• Allegra Goodman - Kaaterskill Falls
• Gayl Jones - The Healing
• Robert Stone - Damascus Gate
• Thomas Wolfe - A Man in Full

1999

• Ha Jin - Waiting
• Andre Dubus III - The House of Sand and Fog
• Kent Haruf - Plainsong
• Patricia Henley - Hummingbird House
• Jean Thompson - Who Do You Love

2000

• Susan Sontag - In America
• Charles Baxter - The Feast of Love
• Alan Lightman - The Diagnosis
• Joyce Carol Oates - Blonde
• Francine Prose - Blue Angel

2001

• Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections
• Dan Chaon - Among the Missing
• Jennifer Egan - Look at Me
• Louise Erdrich - The Last Report on the Miracle at Little No Horse
• Susan Straight - Highwire Moon

2002

• Julia Glass - Three Moons
• Mark Costello - Big If
• Adam Haslett - You Are Not A Stranger Here
• Martha McPhee - Gorgeous Lies
• Brad Watson - The Heaven of Mercury

2003

• Shirley Hazzard - The Great Fire (Read August 9, 2007; rated 4/5; read my review)
  
• T. C. Boyle - Drop City
• Edward P. Jones - The Known World
• Scott Spenser - A Ship Made of Paper
• Marianne Wiggins - Evidence of Things Unseen: A Novel

2004

• Lily Tuck - The News from Paraguay
• Sarah Shun-lien Bynum - Madeleine is Sleeping
• Christine Schutt - Florida
• Joan Silber - Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories
• Kate Walbert - Our Kind

2005

• William T. Vollman - Europe Central
• E. L. Doctorow - The March
• Mary Gaitskill - Veronica
• Christopher Sorrentino - Trance
• Rene Steinke - Holy Skirts

2006

• Richard Powers - The Echo Maker (Read September 6, 2007; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
  
• Mark Z. Danielewski - Only Revolutions (DNF)
  
• Ken Kalfus - A Disorder Peculiar to the Country
• Dana Spiotta - Eat the Document (Read May 22, 2007; rated 3.5/5; read my review)
  
• Jess Walter - The Zero

2007

• Denis Johnson - Tree of Smoke
• Mischa Berlinski - Fieldwork
• Lydia Davis - Varieties of Disturbance
• Joshua Ferris - Then We Came to the End
• Jim Shepard - Like You'd Understand, Anyway