National Book Award for Fiction Public

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Winners of the National Book Award for Fiction (known as the American Book Award from 1980-1983).

  1. them by 

    Loretta Wendell, her daughter Maureen, and her son Jules are "them"— three characters held to-gether by corroding hatred and mute …

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    Winner, National Book Awards 1970 for Fiction

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  2. The Man with the Golden Arm

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    "A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm has been called "Algren's most satisfying work." It describes …

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    Winner, National Book Awards 1950 for Fiction

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  3. Collected Stories of William Faulkner by 

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    Collected Stories of William Faulkner is a short story collection by William Faulkner published by Random House in 1950. It …

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    Winner, National Book Awards 1951 for Fiction

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  4. From here to eternity. by 

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    Winner, National Book Awards 1952 for Fiction

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  5. Invisible Man by 

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    Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man is a monumental novel, one that can well be called an epic of modern American Negro …

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    Winner, National Book Awards 1953 for Fiction

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  6. The adventures of Augie March by 

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    Winner, National Book Awards 1954 for Fiction

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  7. A Fable by 

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    The scene of A Fable is France, the time 1918. World War I is flaming; there is a mutiny in …

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    Winner, National Book Awards 1955 for Fiction

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  8. Ten North Frederick by 

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    Ten North Frederick, John O'Hara's first major novel since A Rage to Live in 1949, is the story of …

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    Winner, National Book Awards 1956 for Fiction

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  9. The Field of Vision by 

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    Of his brilliant new novel, which concerns itself with the affairs of a group of Americans in Mexico and the …

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    Winner, National Book Awards 1957 for Fiction

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  10. The Wapshot Chronicle by 

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    St. Botolphs had been an inland port in the great days of the Massachusetts sailing fleets, and now it was …

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    Winner, National Book Awards 1958 for Fiction

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  11. The Magic Barrel by 

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    In reviewing Barnard Malamud's book, The Assistant, Alfred Kazin wrote: "As one can see in his highly surrealistic baseball …

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    Winner, National Book Awards 1959 for Fiction

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  12. Goodbye, Columbus and five short stories. by 

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    Winner, National Book Awards 1960 for Fiction

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  13. The Waters of Kronos

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    In this haunting, often beautiful novel, Conrad Richter writes of the journey of John Donner, who goes back to the …

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    Winner, National Book Awards 1961 for Fiction

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  14. The moviegoer. by 

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    Winner, National Book Awards 1962 for Fiction

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  15. Morte d'Urban by 

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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 …

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    Winner, National Book Awards 1963 for Fiction

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