Winners of the National Book Award for Fiction (known as the American Book Award from 1980-1983).
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The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
4 stars
Nelson Algren is the eloquent and compassionate voice for the meek and the lowly, the lost and the damned of …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 1950 for Fiction
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Collected Stories of William Faulkner by William Faulkner
Collected Stories of William Faulkner is a short story collection by William Faulkner published by Random House in 1950. It …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 1951 for Fiction
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From Here to Eternity by James Jones
The publishers believe that the appearance of this novel is of comparable importance to the publication of This Side of …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 1952 for Fiction
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Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
4 stars
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man is a monumental novel, one that can well be called an epic of modern American Negro …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 1953 for Fiction
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The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March is written on the grand scale, and if a label must be found …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 1954 for Fiction
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The scene of A Fable is France, the time 1918. World War I is flaming; there is a mutiny in …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 1955 for Fiction
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Ten North Frederick by John O'Hara
Ten North Frederick, John O'Hara's first major novel since A Rage to Live in 1949, is the story of …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 1956 for Fiction
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The Field of Vision by Wright Morris
Of his brilliant new novel, which concerns itself with the affairs of a group of Americans in Mexico and the …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 1957 for Fiction
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The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
St. Botolphs had been an inland port in the great days of the Massachusetts sailing fleets, and now it was …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 1958 for Fiction
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The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud
In reviewing Barnard Malamud's book, The Assistant, Alfred Kazin wrote: "As one can see in his highly surrealistic baseball …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 1959 for Fiction
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Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth
Houghton Mifflin Company is proud to present Goodbye, Columbus, for which Philip Roth has been awarded a Houghton Mifflin …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 1960 for Fiction
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The Waters of Kronos by Conrad Richter
In this haunting, often beautiful novel, Conrad Richter writes of the journey of John Donner, who goes back to the …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 1961 for Fiction
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Why is the hero of this novel a moviegoer? Why does an intelligent, successful, young New Orleans businessman go to …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 1962 for Fiction
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Here is the long-awaited novel by the author of PRINCE OF DARKNESS and THE PRESENCE OF GRACE of whom Evelyn …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 1963 for Fiction
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THE CENTAUR
—originally conceived as a contrasting companion to Mr. Updike's previous novel Rabbit, Run — retells the myth of …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 1964 for Fiction
