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: A Novel by Jesmyn Ward
5 stars
A SEARING AND PROFOUND SOUTHERN ODYSSEY BY NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER JESMYN WARD
In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 2017 for Fiction
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5 stars
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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1 star
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
3 stars
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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5 stars
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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Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 2022 for Fiction
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A metafiction narrating the ways bibliophilia, logomania and homosexuality entangle people and organize them into lives.
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 2023 for Fiction
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James: A Novel by Percival Everett
5 stars
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim’s point …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 2024 for Fiction
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The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine
In a tiny Beirut apartment, sixty-three-year-old Raja and his mother live side by side. A beloved high school philosophy teacher …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 2025 for Fiction
