National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction) — Complete Winners List

20 years of winners · National Book Critics Circle · Since 1975 · ← Back to award page

Year	Title	Author	Publisher
2024	My Friends	Hisham Matar	Viking
2023	I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home	Lorrie Moore	Knopf
2022	Bliss Montage	Ling Ma	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2021	The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois	Honorée Fanonne Jeffers	Harper
2020	Hamnet	Maggie O'Farrell	Knopf
2019	Everything Inside	Edwidge Danticat	Knopf
2018	Milkman	Anna Burns	Faber & Faber
2017	Improvement	Joan Silber	Counterpoint
2016	LaRose	Louise Erdrich	Harper
2015	The Sellout	Paul Beatty	Picador
2014	Lila	Marilynne Robinson	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2013	Americanah	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	Knopf
2012	Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk	Ben Fountain	Ecco
2011	Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories	Edith Pearlman	Lookout Books
2010	A Visit from the Goon Squad	Jennifer Egan	Anchor Books
2009	Wolf Hall	Hilary Mantel	Henry Holt and Co.
2008	2666	Roberto Bolaño	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2007	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao	Junot Díaz	Riverhead Books
2006	The Inheritance of Loss	Kiran Desai	Atlantic Monthly Press