Winners of the National Book Award for Fiction (known as the American Book Award from 1980-1983).
National Book Award for Fiction Public
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Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
5 stars
In Jesmyn Ward’s first novel since her National Book Award–winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 2017 for Fiction
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When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 2018 for Fiction
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4 stars
In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 2019 for Fiction
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Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he’s merely Generic Asian Man. Sometimes he gets …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 2020 for Fiction
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An astounding work of fiction from New York Times bestselling author Jason Mott, always deeply honest, at times electrically funny, …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 2021 for Fiction
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The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
4 stars
The automobile industry has abandoned Vacca Vale, Indiana, leaving the residents behind, too. In a run-down apartment building on the …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 2022 for Fiction
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4 stars
Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 2023 for Fiction
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James: A Novel by Percival Everett
4 stars
When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 2024 for Fiction
