Whittier Public Library

National Book Award
Book Title	Author	Date
Let the Great World Spin	Colum McCann	2009
Shadow Country	Peter Matthiessen	2008
Tree of Smoke	Denis Johnson	2007
The Echo Maker	Richard Powers	2006
Europe Central	William Vollman	2005
The News from Paraguay	Lily Tuck	2004
The Great Fire	Shirley Hazzard	2003
Three Junes	Julia Glass	2002
The Corrections	Jonathan Franzen	2001
In America	Susan Sontag	2000
Waiting	Ha Jin	1999
Charming Billy	Alice McDermott	1998
Cold Mountain	Charles Frazier	1997
Ship Fever and Other Stories	Andrea Barrett	1996
Sabbath's Theater	Philip Roth	1995
A Frolic of His Own	William Gaddis	1994
The Shipping News	E. Annie Proulx	1993
All the Pretty Horses	Cormac McCarthy	1992
Mating	Norman Rush	1991
Middle Passage	Charles Johnson	1990
Spartina	John Casey	1989
Paris Trout	Pete Dexter	1988
Paco's Story	Larry Heinemann	1987
World's Fair	E. L. Doctorow	1986
White Noise	Don DeLillo	1985
Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories	Ellen Gilchrist	1984
Collected Stories of Eudora Welty	Eudora Welty	1983
The Color Purple	Alice Walker	1983
So Long, See You Tomorrow	William Maxwell	1982
Rabbit is Rich	John Updike	1982
The Stories of John Cheever	John Cheever	1981
Plains Song	Wright Morris	1981
The World According to Garp	John Irving	1980
Sophie's Choice	William Styron	1980
Going After Cacciato	Tim O'Brien	1979
Blood Ties	Mary Lee Settle	1978
The Spectator Bird	Wallace Stegner	1977
J R	William Gaddis	1976
The Hair of Harold Roux	Thomas Williams	1975
Dog Soldiers	Robert Stone	1975
A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories	Isaac Bashevis Singer	1974
Gravity's Rainbow	Thomas Pynchon	1974
Augustus	John Edward Williams	1973
Chimera	John Barth	1973
The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor	Flannery O'Connor	1972
Mr. Sammler's Planet	Saul Bellow	1971
them	Joyce Carol Oates	1970
Steps	Jerzy Kosinski	1969
The Eighth Day	Thornton Wilder	1968
The Fixer	Bernard Malamud	1967
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter	Katherine Anne Porter	1966
Herzog	Saul Bellow	1965
The Centaur	John Updike	1964
Morte D'Urban	J. F. Powers	1963
The Moviegoer	Walker Percy	1962
The Waters of Kronos	Conrad Richter	1961
Goodbye, Columbus	Philip Roth	1960
The Magic Barrel	Bernard Malamud	1959
The Wapshot Chronicle	John Cheever	1958
The Field of Vision	Wright Morris	1957
Ten North Frederick	John O'Hara	1956
A Fable	William Faulkner	1955
The Adventures of Augie March	Saul Bellow	1954
Invisible Man	Ralph Ellison	1953
From Here to Eternity	James Jones	1952
The Collected Stories of William Faulkner	William Faulkner	1951
The Man with the Golden Arm	Nelson Algren	1950