National Book Critics Circle Award

Organizer: National Book Critics Circle
Why it counts: Presented annually since 1976 (for 1975 publications) by the National Book Critics Circle, a nonprofit of professional book reviewers and editors
Held: annual, mid-to-late March, evening ET, at The New School in New York City

Reigning winners

Fiction · 2023

Lorrie Moore — I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home source 1 · source 2

Year	Fiction
2023	Lorrie Moore — I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home
2022	Ling Ma — Bliss Montage
2021	Honorée Fanonne Jeffers — The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
2020	Maggie O'Farrell — Hamnet
2019	Edwidge Danticat
2018	Anna Burns — Milkman
2017	Joan Silber
2016	Louise Erdrich — LaRose
2015	Paul Beatty — The Sellout
2014	Marilynne Robinson — Lila
2013	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — Americanah
2012	Ben Fountain — Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
2011	Edith Pearlman
2010	Jennifer Egan — A Visit from the Goon Squad
2009	Hilary Mantel — Wolf Hall
2007	Junot Díaz — 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
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
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
1983	William Kennedy
1982	Stanley Elkin — George Mills
1981	John Updike — Rabbit Is Rich
1980	Shirley Hazzard — The Transit of Venus
1979	Thomas Flanagan
1978	John Cheever — The Stories of John Cheever
1977	Toni Morrison — Song of Solomon
1976	John Gardner
1975	E. L. Doctorow — Ragtime