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2016
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
The Throwback Special by Chris Bachelder
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (winner)

2015
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson (winner)
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Refund by Karen E Bender
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy

2014
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Lila by Marilynne Robinson
Redeployment by Phil Klay (winner)
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine

2013
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride (winner)
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
Tenth of December by George Saunders

2012
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
The Round House by Louise Erdrich (winner)
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers

2011
Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (winner)
The Sojourn by Andrew Krivák
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht

2010
Great House by Nicole Krauss
I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita
Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon (winner)
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
So Much for That by Lionel Shriver

2009
American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Far North by Marcel Theroux
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann (winner)

2008
The End by Salvatore Scibona
Home by Marilynne Robinson
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen (winner)
Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner

2007
Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski
Like You'd Understand, Anyway by Jim Shepard
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson (winner)

2006
A Disorder Peculiar to the Country by Ken Kalfus
Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers (winner)
Only Revolutions by Mark Z Danielewski
The Zero by Jess Walter

2005
Holy Skirts by René Steinke
The March by E L Doctorow
Trance by Christopher Sorrentino
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill

2004
Florida by Christine Schutt
Ideas of Heaven by Joan Silber
Madeleine Is Sleeping by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck (winner)
Our Kind by Kate Walbert

2003
Drop City by T C Boyle
Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard (winner)
The Known World by Edward P Jones
A Ship Made of Paper by Scott Spencer

2002
Big If by Mark Costello
Gorgeous Lies by Martha McPhee
The Heaven of Mercury by Brad Watson
Three Junes by Julia Glass (winner)
You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett

2001
Among the Missing by Dan Chaon
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (winner)
Highwire Moon by Susan Straight
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
Look at Me by Jennifer Egan

2000
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
Blue Angel by Francine Prose
The Diagnosis by Alan Lightman
The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
In America by Susan Sontag (winner)

1999
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
The Hummingbird House by Patricia Henley
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Waiting by Ha Jin (winner)
Who Do You Love? by Jean Thompson

1998
Charming Billy by Alice McDermott (winner)
Damascus Gate by Robert Stone
The Healing by Gayl Jones
Kaaterskill Falls by Allegra Goodman
A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe

1997
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (winner)
Echo House by Ward Just
Le Divorce by Diane Johnson
The Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick
Underworld by Don DeLillo

1996
Atticus by Ron Hansen
The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken
Martin Dressler by Steven Millhauser
The River Beyond the World by Janet Peery
Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett (winner)

1995
All Souls' Rising by Mark Mitchell and Madison Smartt Bell
The House On the Lagoon by Rosario Ferré
Interstate by Stephen Dixon
Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat
Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth (winner)

1994
The Bird Artist by Howard Norman
The Collected Stories of Grace Paley by Grace Paley
A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis (winner)
Moses Supposes by Ellen Currie
White Man's Grave by Richard Dooling

1993
Come to Me by Amy Bloom
Operation Wandering Soul by Richard Powers
The Pugilist at Rest by Thom Jones
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx (winner)
Swimming in the Volcano by Bob Shacochis

1992
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (winner)
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina García
Lost in the City by Edward P Jones
Outerbridge Reach by Robert Stone

1991
Beyond Deserving by Sandra Scofield
Frog by Stephen Dixon
The MacGuffin by Stanley Elkin
Mating by Norman Rush (winner)
Wartime Lies by Louis Begley

1990
Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart by Joyce Carol Oates
Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson (winner)
Paradise by Elena Castedo

1989
Billy Bathgate by E L Doctorow
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
Spartina by John Casey (winner)

1988
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
Libra by Don DeLillo
Paris Trout by Pete Dexter (winner)
Vanished by Mary McGarry Morris
Wheat That Springeth Green by J F Powers

1987
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Counterlife by Philip Roth
The Northern Lights by Howard Norman
Paco's Story by Larry Heinemann (winner)
That Night by Alice McDermott

1986
A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
Whites by Norman Rush
World's Fair by E L Doctorow (winner)

1985
Always Coming Home by Ursula K Le Guin
The Tree of Life by Hugh Nissenson
White Noise by Don DeLillo (winner)

1984
The Anatomy Lesson by Philip Roth
Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie

1983
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty (winner)
The Color Purple by Alice Walker (winner)

1982
Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (winner)

1981
Plains Song by Wright Morris (winner)

1980
Sophie's Choice by William Styron (winner)

1979
Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien (winner)

1978
Blood Tie by Mary Lee Settle (winner)

1977
The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner (winner)

1976
JR by William Gaddis (winner)

1975
Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone (winner)
The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams (winner)

1974
A Crown of Feathers by Isaac Bashevis Singer (winner)
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (winner)

1973
Augustus by John Williams (winner)
Chimera by John Barth (winner)

1972
The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor (winner)

1971
Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow (winner)

1970
Them by Joyce Carol Oates (winner)

1969
Steps by Jerzy Kosinski (winner)

1968
The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder (winner)

1967
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (winner)

1966
Collected Short Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (winner)

1965
Herzog by Saul Bellow (winner)

1964
The Centaur by John Updike (winner)

1963
Morte D'Urban by J F Powers (winner)

1962
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy (winner)

1961
The Waters of Kronos by Conrad Richter (winner)

1960
Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth (winner)

1959
The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud (winner)

1958
The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever (winner)

1957
The Field of Vision by Wright Morris (winner)

1956
Ten North Frederick by John O'Hara (winner)

1955
A Fable by William Faulkner (winner)

1954
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (winner)

1953
The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (winner)

1952
From Here to Eternity by James Jones (winner)

1951
Collected Stories of William Faulkner by William Faulkner (winner)

1950
The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren (winner)