Nat'l Book Critics Circle
2007 - The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
2006 - The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai
2005 - The March, E.L. Doctorow
2004 - Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
2003 - The Known World, Edward P. Jones
2002 - Atonement, Ian McEwan
2001 - Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald
2000 - Being Dead, Jim Crace
1999 - Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem
1998 - The Love of a Good Woman, Alice Munro
1997 - Blue Flower, Penelope Fitzgerald
1996 - Women in Their Beds, Gina Berriault
1995 - Mrs. Ted Bliss, Stanley Elkin
1994 - The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
1993 - A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines
1992 - All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
1991 - A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley
1990 - Rabbit at Rest, John Updike
1989 - Billy Bathgate, E.L. Doctorow
1988 - The Middleman and Other Stories, Bharati Mukherjee
1987 - The Counterlife, Philip Roth
1986 - Kate Vaiden, Reynolds Price
1985 - The Accidental Tourist, Anne Tyler
1984 - Love Medicine, Louise Erdrich
1983 - Ironweed, William Kennedy
1982 - George Mills, Stanley Elkin
1981 - Rabbit is Rich, John Updike
1980 - The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard
1979 - The Year of the French, Thomas Flanagan
1978 - The Stories of John Cheever, John Cheever
1977 - Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
1976 - October Light, John Gardner
1975 - Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow
