National Book Award Fiction Winners and Finalists 1975-1992

1.
Sula
Sula 4.05 avg rating — 117,034 ratings
2.
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories 4.01 avg rating — 2,781 ratings
3.
Orsinian Tales
Orsinian Tales 3.66 avg rating — 2,172 ratings
4.
Sophie’s Choice
Sophie’s Choice 4.17 avg rating — 93,613 ratings
5.
Just Above My Head
Just Above My Head 4.44 avg rating — 3,167 ratings
6.
The Collected Stories
The Collected Stories 4.20 avg rating — 8,257 ratings
7.
Morgan's Passing
Morgan's Passing 3.74 avg rating — 5,207 ratings
8.
Dad
Dad 4.20 avg rating — 2,005 ratings
9.
The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating — 737,266 ratings
10.
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant 3.80 avg rating — 33,717 ratings
11.
Always Coming Home
Always Coming Home 4.07 avg rating — 4,430 ratings
12.
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 477,010 ratings
13.
Breathing Lessons
Breathing Lessons 3.66 avg rating — 32,324 ratings
14.
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love 3.66 avg rating — 12,667 ratings
15.
The Joy Luck Club
The Joy Luck Club
by: Amy Tan
3.97 avg rating — 703,430 ratings
16.
Dog Soldiers
Dog Soldiers 3.70 avg rating — 7,339 ratings
17.
Guilty Pleasures
Guilty Pleasures 3.89 avg rating — 129 ratings
17.
Middle Passage
Middle Passage 3.85 avg rating — 5,410 ratings
19.
Something Happened
Something Happened 3.54 avg rating — 8,465 ratings
20.
Look at the Harlequins!
Look at the Harlequins! 3.74 avg rating — 1,701 ratings
21.
Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart
Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart 3.89 avg rating — 3,209 ratings
22.
My Life as a Man
My Life as a Man 3.72 avg rating — 2,616 ratings
23.
The Death of the Detective
The Death of the Detective 3.40 avg rating — 159 ratings
24.
The Hair of Harold Roux
The Hair of Harold Roux 3.67 avg rating — 459 ratings
25.
J R
J R 4.32 avg rating — 3,682 ratings
26.
Humboldt's Gift
Humboldt's Gift 3.84 avg rating — 9,916 ratings
27.
The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher
The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher 3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings
28.
Other people's lives
Other people's lives 2.67 avg rating — 39 ratings
29.
Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories
Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories 4.17 avg rating — 156 ratings
30.
Beyond the Bedroom Wall: A Family Album (Graywolf Rediscovery Series)
Beyond the Bedroom Wall: A Family Album (Graywolf Rediscovery Series) 4.16 avg rating — 213 ratings
31.
The Spectator Bird
The Spectator Bird really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8,582 ratings
32.
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? 4.19 avg rating — 19,021 ratings
33.
The Balloonist: A Novel
The Balloonist: A Novel 3.66 avg rating — 187 ratings
34.
A Fine Romance
A Fine Romance 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
35.
The Public Burning
The Public Burning 4.01 avg rating — 1,465 ratings
36.
Madder Music
Madder Music 3.62 avg rating — 63 ratings
37.
Elbow Room
Elbow Room 3.71 avg rating — 1,818 ratings
38.
Union Dues
Union Dues 3.96 avg rating — 170 ratings
39.
Blood Tie
Blood Tie 3.38 avg rating — 175 ratings
40.
The World According to Garp
The World According to Garp 4.11 avg rating — 235,975 ratings
41.
Going After Cacciato
Going After Cacciato 3.91 avg rating — 14,428 ratings
42.
The Stories of John Cheever
The Stories of John Cheever 4.26 avg rating — 15,587 ratings
43.
Lying Low
Lying Low 3.28 avg rating — 121 ratings
44.
The Family
The Family 3.86 avg rating — 29 ratings
45.
Endless Love
Endless Love 3.56 avg rating — 6,727 ratings
46.
Collected Stories
Collected Stories 4.40 avg rating — 763 ratings
47.
Violet Clay
Violet Clay 3.65 avg rating — 251 ratings
48.
The Executioner's Song
The Executioner's Song 4.05 avg rating — 22,792 ratings
49.
The Ghost Writer (Zuckerman Bound #1)
The Ghost Writer (Zuckerman Bound #1) 3.81 avg rating — 13,594 ratings
50.
Too Far to Go: The Maples Stories
Too Far to Go: The Maples Stories 4.05 avg rating — 461 ratings
51.
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling: Volume One
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling: Volume One 4.28 avg rating — 39 ratings
52.
The Transit of Venus
The Transit of Venus really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,875 ratings
53.
Plains Song
Plains Song 3.70 avg rating — 386 ratings
54.
War and Remembrance (The Henry Family, #2)
War and Remembrance (The Henry Family, #2) 4.43 avg rating — 38,938 ratings
55.
The Year of the French
The Year of the French 4.09 avg rating — 1,173 ratings
56.
So Long, See You Tomorrow
So Long, See You Tomorrow 3.90 avg rating — 14,443 ratings
57.
The Second Coming
The Second Coming 3.92 avg rating — 2,470 ratings
58.
The Hotel New Hampshire
The Hotel New Hampshire 3.93 avg rating — 67,958 ratings
59.
Loon Lake
Loon Lake 3.48 avg rating — 1,639 ratings
60.
Ellis Island And Other Stories
Ellis Island And Other Stories really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 956 ratings
61.
A Flag for Sunrise
A Flag for Sunrise 3.87 avg rating — 1,120 ratings
62.
Rabbit Is Rich (Rabbit Angstrom #3)
Rabbit Is Rich (Rabbit Angstrom #3) 3.93 avg rating — 17,703 ratings
63.
Shiloh and Other Stories
Shiloh and Other Stories 3.91 avg rating — 1,401 ratings
64.
Housekeeping
Housekeeping 3.81 avg rating — 57,356 ratings
65.
The Chaneysville Incident
The Chaneysville Incident really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,235 ratings
66.
A Mother and Two Daughters
A Mother and Two Daughters 3.79 avg rating — 792 ratings
67.
The Company of Women
The Company of Women 3.57 avg rating — 377 ratings
68.
The Mosquito Coast
The Mosquito Coast 3.81 avg rating — 13,612 ratings
69.
Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories
Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories 4.10 avg rating — 2,226 ratings
70.
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs 3.76 avg rating — 12,823 ratings
71.
The Anatomy Lesson
The Anatomy Lesson 3.65 avg rating — 3,704 ratings
72.
White Noise
White Noise 3.86 avg rating — 123,857 ratings
73.
The Tree of Life
The Tree of Life 3.62 avg rating — 86 ratings
74.
World's Fair
World's Fair 3.85 avg rating — 4,865 ratings
75.
Whites
Whites 3.79 avg rating — 516 ratings
76.
A Summons to Memphis
A Summons to Memphis 3.63 avg rating — 6,770 ratings
77.
That Night
That Night 3.63 avg rating — 1,986 ratings
78.
The Northern Lights
The Northern Lights 3.89 avg rating — 359 ratings
79.
Paco's Story
Paco's Story 3.76 avg rating — 984 ratings
80.
The Counterlife
The Counterlife 3.92 avg rating — 5,446 ratings
81.
Paris Trout
Paris Trout 3.88 avg rating — 7,017 ratings
82.
Vanished
Vanished 3.73 avg rating — 1,042 ratings
83.
Libra
Libra 4.05 avg rating — 19,596 ratings
84.
Wheat that Springeth Green (New York Review Books Classics)
Wheat that Springeth Green (New York Review Books Classics) 3.85 avg rating — 320 ratings
85.
Spartina
Spartina 3.80 avg rating — 2,348 ratings
86.
Billy Bathgate
Billy Bathgate 3.82 avg rating — 7,700 ratings
87.
Geek Love
Geek Love 3.95 avg rating — 71,415 ratings
88.
Paradise
Paradise 3.70 avg rating — 54 ratings
89.
Dogeaters
Dogeaters 3.61 avg rating — 3,040 ratings
90.
Chromos
Chromos 3.94 avg rating — 188 ratings
91.
Mating
Mating 3.84 avg rating — 5,079 ratings
92.
Beyond Deserving
Beyond Deserving 3.44 avg rating — 36 ratings
93.
Wartime Lies
Wartime Lies 3.75 avg rating — 1,094 ratings
94.
Frog
Frog 3.88 avg rating — 132 ratings
95.
The MacGuffin
The MacGuffin 3.33 avg rating — 102 ratings
96.
Bastard Out of Carolina
Bastard Out of Carolina 4.14 avg rating — 46,995 ratings
97.
Dreaming in Cuban
Dreaming in Cuban 3.68 avg rating — 12,207 ratings
98.
Lost in the City: Stories
Lost in the City: Stories 4.07 avg rating — 3,483 ratings
99.
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1) 4.05 avg rating — 140,304 ratings
100.
Outerbridge Reach
Outerbridge Reach 3.78 avg rating — 803 ratings