National Book Award for Fiction — Complete Winners List

20 years of winners · National Book Foundation · Since 1950 · ← Back to award page


2025	The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)	Rabih Alameddine	Grove Press
2024	Martyr!	Kaveh Akbar	Knopf
2023	Blackouts	Justin Torres	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2022	The Sentence	Louise Erdrich	Harper
2021	Hell of a Book	Jason Mott	Dutton
2020	Interior Chinatown	Charles Yu	Pantheon Books
2019	Trust Exercise	Susan Choi	Henry Holt and Company
2018	The Friend	Sigrid Nunez	Riverhead Books
2017	Sing, Unburied, Sing	Jesmyn Ward	Scribner
2016	The Underground Railroad	Colson Whitehead	Doubleday
2015	A Little Life	Hanya Yanagihara	Doubleday
2014	Redeployment	Phil Klay	Penguin Press
2013	The Good Lord Bird	James McBride	Riverhead Books
2012	The Round House	Louise Erdrich	Harper
2011	Salvage the Bones	Jesmyn Ward	Bloomsbury USA
2010	Lord of Misrule	Jaimy Gordon	McPherson & Company
2009	Let the Great World Spin	Colum McCann	Random House
2008	Shadow Country	Peter Matthiessen	Modern Library
2007	Tree of Smoke	Denis Johnson	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2006	The Echo Maker	Richard Powers	Farrar, Straus and Giroux