National Book Critics Awards for Literary Fiction

The National Book Critics Awards have been presented each year since 1975.

The National Book Critics Circle consists of members who are book reviewers and book review editors. They give out book awards in six categories.

The Selection Process

The board of directors can nominate books that are published between Jan. 1st and Dec. 31st. The award is open to citizens of all countries ... but the book must be published in the U.S.

Committee members meet in January to determine which books will be short-listed for the National Book Critics Awards. The awards are announced in March of each year.

On Jan 23, 2010 the Fiction shortlist was announced as follows:

Bonnie Jo Campbell	American Salvage	Wayne State University Press
Marlon James	The Book of Night Women	Riverhead
Michelle Huneven	Blame	Sarah Crichton Books/FSG
Hilary Mantel	Wolf Hall	Holt
Jayne Anne Phillips	Lark and Termite	Knopf

The awards will be announced on March 11th.

Here are the awards given for Fiction since 1975:

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

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