National Book Critics Circle Award
Fiction

National Book Critics Circle Award

Section Title: Fiction
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Published

2018	Anna Burns	Milkman

2017	Joan Silber	Improvement

2016	Louise Erdrich	LaRose

2015	Paul Beatty	The Sellout

2014	Marilynne Robinson	Lila

2013	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	Americanah

2012	Ben Fountain	Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

2011	Edith Pearlman	Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories

2010	Jennifer Egan	A Visit from the Goon Squad

2009	Hilary Mantel	Wolf Hall

2008	Roberto Bolaño	2666

2007	Junot Diaz	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

2006	Kiran Desai	The Inheritance of Loss

2005	E.L. Doctorow	The March

2004	Marilynne Robinson	Gilead

2003	Edward P. Jones	The Known World

2002	Ian McEwan	Atonement

2001	W.G. Sebald	Austerlitz

2000	Jim Crace	Being Dead

1999	Jonathan Lethem	Motherless Brooklyn

1998	Alice Munro	The Love of a Good Woman

1997	Penelope Fitzgerald	The Blue Flower

1996	Gina Berriault	Women in Their Beds

1995	Stanley Elkin	Mrs. Ted Bliss

1994	Carol Shields	The Stone Diaries

1993	Ernest J. Gaines	A Lesson Before Dying

1992	Cormac McCarthy	All the Pretty Horses

1991	Jane Smiley	A Thousand Acres

1990	John Updike	Rabbit at Rest

1989	E.L. Doctorow	Billy Bathgate

1988	Bharati Mukherjee	The Middleman and Other Stories

1987	Philip Roth	The Counterlife

1986	Reynolds Price	Kate Vaiden

1985	Anne Tyler	The Accidental Tourist

1984	Louise Erdrich	Love Medicine

1983	William Kennedy	Ironweed

1982	Stanley Elkin	George Mills

1981	John Updike	Rabbit Is Rich

1980	Shirley Hazzard	The Transit of Venus

1979	Thomas Flanagan	The Year of the French

1978	John Cheever	The Stories of John Cheever

1977	Toni Morrison	Song of Solomon

1976	John Gardner	October Light

1975	E.L. Doctorow	Ragtime

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Roberto Bolaño was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award for 2666.

final_sentence: Roberto Bolaño was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award for 2666.