National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction

 Christchurch City Libraries lists literary prize winners and links to catalogue searches, but we may not hold copies of all titles mentioned.

The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC), founded in 1974, consists of nearly 600 active book critics, authors, literary bloggers, book publishing personnel, and student members. The NBCC Awards honour the best literature published in the United States in a number of categories.

See the other National Book Critics Circle Awards category winners and all the other literary prize winners we list.

2023  

• I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home Lorrie Moore Winner
• Tremor Teju Cole
• North Woods Daniel Mason
• Vengeance Is Mine Marie NDiaye, translation by Jordan Stump
• Blackouts Justin Torres

 

2022

• Bliss Montage: Stories Ling Ma Winner
• Dr. No Percival Everett
• A New Name Jon Fosse, trans. by Damion Searls
• All the Lovers in the Night Mieko Kawakami, trans. by Sam Bett and David Boyd
• The Furrows Namwali Serpell

2021

• The Love Songs of W. E. B. DuBois Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Winner
• The Netanyahus Joshua Cohen
• Second Place Rachel Cusk
• Burntcoat Sarah Hall
• Harlem Shuffle Colson Whitehead

2020 

• Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell Winner
• Inside Story Martin Amis
• If I Had Two Wings Randall Kenan
• How to Pronounce Knife Souvankham Thammavongsa
• Memorial Bryan Washington

2019 

• Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat Winner
• Feast Your Eyes by Myla Goldberg
• The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
• Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

2018

• Milkman Anna Burns Winner
• Slave Old Man Patrick Chamoiseau, Translated by Linda Coverdale
• The Largesse of the Sea Maiden Denis Johnson
• The Mars Room Rachel Kushner
• The House of Broken Angels Luis Alberto Urrea 

2017

• Improvement Joan Silber Winner
• Exit West Mohsin Hamid
• The Ninth Hour Alice McDermott
• The Ministry of Utmost Happiness Arundhati Roy
• Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward

2016

• LaRose Louise Erdrich Winner
• Moonglow Michael Chabon
• Imagine me gone Adam Haslett
• Commonwealth Ann Patchett
• Swing time Zadie Smith

2015

• The Sellout Paul Beatty Winner
• Fates and Furies Lauren Groff
• The Story of My Teeth Valeria Luiselli; translated by Christina MacSweeney
• The Tsar of Love and Techno Anthony Marra
• Eileen Ottessa Moshfegh

2014

• Lila Marilynne Robinson Winner
• An unnecessary woman Rabih Alameddine
• A brief history of seven killings Marlon James
• Euphoria Lily King
• On such a full sea Chang-rae Lee

2013

• Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Winner
• Someone Alice McDermott
• The infatuations Javier Marias
• A tale for the time being Ruth Ozeki
• The goldfinch Donna Tartt

2012

• Billy Lynn's long halftime walk Ben Fountain Winner
• HHhH Laurent Binet, translated by Sam Taylor
• The orphan master's son Adam Johnson
• Magnificence Lydia Millet
• NW Zadie Smith

2011

• Binocular vision Edith Pearlman

2010

• A visit from the goon squad Jennifer Egan

2009

• Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel

2008

• 2666 Roberto Bolaño

2007

• The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz

2006

• The inheritance of loss Kiran Desai

2005

• The march E. L. Doctorow

2004

• Gilead Marilynne Robinson

2003

• The known world Edward P. Jones

2002

• Atonement Ian McEwan

2001

• Austerlitz W. G. Sebald

2000

• Being dead Jim Crace

1999

• Motherless Brooklyn Jonathan Lethem

1998

• The love of a good woman Alice Munro

1997

• The blue flower Penelope Fitzgerald

1996

• Women in their beds Gina Berriault

1995

• Mrs. Ted Bliss Stanley Elkin

1994

• The Stone Diaries Carol Shields

1993

• A lesson before dying Ernest J. Gaines

1992

• All the pretty horses Cormac McCarthy

1991

• A thousand acres Jane Smiley

1990

• Rabbit at rest John Updike