Award Winners

Here are the book award winners that I’m collecting categorized by the award-giving bodies that I’m following. Struck items are books that I’ve already read. For the complete list of links to the corresponding book write-ups, please visit The Rhapsodies. (Updated last January 2013)

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:

• 1918: His Family by Ernest Poole
• 1919: The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
• 1920: -
• 1921: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
• 1922: Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
• 1923: One of Ours by Willa Cather
• 1924: The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson
• 1925: So Big by Edna Ferber
• 1926: Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
• 1927: Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield
• 1928: The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
• 1929: Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
• 1930: Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge
• 1931: Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes
• 1932: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
• 1933: The Store by T. S. Stribling
• 1934: Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
• 1935: Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson
• 1936: Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis
• 1937: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• 1938: The Late George Apley by John P. Marquand
• 1939: The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
• 1940: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• 1941: -
• 1942: In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow
• 1943: Dragon’s Teeth by Upton Sinclair
• 1944: Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin
• 1945: A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
• 1946: -
• 1947: All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
• 1948: Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
• 1949: Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
• 1950: The Way West by A. B. Guthrie Jr.
• 1951: The Town by Conrad Richter
• 1952: The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
• 1953: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• 1954: -
• 1955: A Fable by William Faulkner
• 1956: Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
• 1957: -
• 1958: A Death in the Family by James Agee
• 1959: The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
• 1960: Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
• 1961: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• 1962: The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O’Connor
• 1963: The Reivers by William Faulkner
• 1964: -
• 1965: The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
• 1966: The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
• 1967: The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
• 1968: The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
• 1969: House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
• 1970: The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford
• 1971: -
• 1972: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
• 1973: The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
• 1974: -
• 1975: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
• 1976: Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow
• 1977: -
• 1978: Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
• 1979: The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
• 1980: The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
• 1981: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• 1982: Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
• 1983: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• 1984: Ironweed by William Kennedy
• 1985: Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
• 1986: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
• 1987: A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
• 1988: Beloved by Toni Morrison
• 1989: Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
• 1990: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
• 1991: Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
• 1992: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
• 1993: A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
• 1994: The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
• 1995: The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
• 1996: Independence Day by Richard Ford
• 1997: Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
• 1998: American Pastoral by Philip Roth
• 1999: The Hours by Michael Cunningham
• 2000: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
• 2001: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
• 2002: Empire Falls by Richard Russo
• 2003: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• 2004: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
• 2005: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
• 2006: March by Geraldine Brooks
• 2007: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• 2008: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
• 2009: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
• 2010: Tinkers by Paul Harding
• 2011: A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
• 2012: -

National Book Award for Fiction:

• 1950: The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
• 1951: The Collected Stories of William Faulkner by William Faulkner
• 1952: From Here to Eternity by James Jones
• 1953: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• 1954: The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
• 1955: A Fable by William Faulkner
• 1956: Ten North Frederick by John O’Hara
• 1957: The Field of Vision by Wright Morris
• 1958: The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
• 1959: The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud
• 1960: Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth
• 1961: The Waters of Kronos by Conrad Richter
• 1962: The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
• 1963: Morte D’Urban by J. F. Powers
• 1964: The Centaur by John Updike
• 1965: Herzog by Saul Bellow
• 1966: The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
• 1967: The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
• 1968: The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder
• 1969: Steps by Jerzy Kosinski
• 1970: Them by Joyce Carol Oates
• 1971: Mr. Sammler’s Planet by Saul Bellow
• 1972: The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor by Flannery O’Connor
• 1973: Augustus by John Williams
• 1973: Chimera by John Barth
• 1974: A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
• 1974: Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
• 1975: Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
• 1975: The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams
• 1976: JR by William Gaddis
• 1977: The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner
• 1978: Blood Tie by Mary Lee Settle
• 1979: Going After Cacciato by Tim O’Brien
• 1980: Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
• 1980: The World According to Garp by John Irving
• 1981: Plains Song by Wright Morris
• 1981: The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
• 1982: Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
• 1982: So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
• 1983: The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
• 1983: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• 1984: Victory over Japan: A Book of Stories by Ellen Gilchrist
• 1985: White Noise by Don DeLillo
• 1986: World’s Fair by E. L. Doctorow
• 1987: Paco’s Story by Larry Heinemann
• 1988: Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
• 1989: Spartina by John Casey
• 1990: Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
• 1991: Mating by Norman Rush
• 1992: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
• 1993: The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
• 1994: A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis
• 1995: Sabbath’s Theater by Philip Roth
• 1996: Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett
• 1997: Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
• 1998: Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
• 1999: Waiting by Ha Jin
• 2000: In America by Susan Sontag
• 2001: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
• 2002: Three Junes by Julia Glass
• 2003: The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
• 2004: The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck
• 2005: Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
• 2006: The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
• 2007: Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
• 2008: Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen
• 2009: Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
• 2010: Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
• 2011: Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
• 2012: The Round House by Louise Erdrich

Man Booker Prize:

• 1969: Something to Answer For by P. H. Newby
• 1970: The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens
• 1970: Troubles by J. G. Farrell
• 1971: In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul
• 1972: G. by John Berger
• 1973: The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell
• 1974: Holiday by Stanley Middleton
• 1974: The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
• 1975: Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
• 1976: Saville by David Storey
• 1977: Staying On by Paul Scott
• 1978: The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
• 1979: Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
• 1980: Rites of Passage by William Golding
• 1981: Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
• 1982: Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
• 1983: Life and Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee
• 1984: Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
• 1985: The Bone People by Keri Hulme
• 1986: The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
• 1987: Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
• 1988: Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
• 1989: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
• 1990: Possession by A. S. Byatt
• 1991: The Famished Road by Ben Okri
• 1992: Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
• 1992: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
• 1993: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
• 1994: How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman
• 1995: The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
• 1996: Last Orders by Graham Swift
• 1997: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• 1998: Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
• 1999: Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
• 2000: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
• 2001: True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
• 2002: Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• 2003: Vernon God Little by D. B. C. Pierre
• 2004: The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
• 2005: The Sea by John Banville
• 2006: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
• 2007: The Gathering by Anne Enright
• 2008: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
• 2009: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
• 2010: The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
• 2011: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
• 2012: Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction:

• 1975: Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow
• 1976: October Light by John Gardner
• 1977: Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
• 1978: The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
• 1979: The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan
• 1980: The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
• 1981: Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
• 1982: George Mills by Stanley Elkin
• 1983: Ironweed by William Kennedy
• 1984: Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
• 1985: The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
• 1986: Kate Vaiden by Reynolds Price
• 1987: The Counterlife by Philip Roth
• 1988: The Middleman and Other Stories by Bharati Mukherjee
• 1989: Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow
• 1990: Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
• 1991: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
• 1992: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
• 1993: A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
• 1994: The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
• 1995: Mrs. Ted Bliss by Stanley Elkin
• 1996: Women in Their Beds by Gina Berriault
• 1997: The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
• 1998: The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro
• 1999: Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
• 2000: Being Dead by Jim Crace
• 2001: Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
• 2002: Atonement by Ian McEwan
• 2003: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
• 2004: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
• 2005: The March by E. L. Doctorow
• 2006: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
• 2007: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
• 2008: 2666 by Roberto Bolano
• 2009: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
• 2010: A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
• 2011: Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman
• 2012: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award:

• 1996: Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
• 1997: My Heart So White by Javier Marias
• 1998: The Land of Green Plums by Herta Muller
• 1999: Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller
• 2000: Wide Open by Nicola Barker
• 2001: No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod
• 2002: Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
• 2003: My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
• 2004: This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun
• 2005: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
• 2006: The Master by Colm Toibin
• 2007: Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
• 2008: De Niro’s Game by Rawi Hage
• 2009: Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas
• 2010: The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker
• 2011: Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
• 2012: Even the Dogs by Jon McGregor