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National Book Award Winning Books (Fiction)
(As of: 19-Nov-2003)

Started by a consortium of American book publishing groups in 1950, the National Book Awards aim to enhance the public's awareness of exceptional books written by American authors, and to increase the popularity of reading in general. The winners are selected by five-member, independent judging panels for each genre, and receive a $10,000 cash award and a crystal sculpture. Shown below are the winners in the genre of Fiction since 1980.

Source: The National Book Foundation

	Year		Book
	2003		The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard

	2002		Three Junes by Julia Glass

	2001		The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

	2000		In America: A Novel by Susan Sontag

	1999		Waiting by Ha Jin

	1998		Charming Billy by Alice McDermott

	1997		Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

	1996		Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett

	1995		Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth, Phillip Roth

	1994		A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis

	1993		The Shipping News by Annie Proulx, E. Annie Proulx, E. Proulx

	1992		All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

	1991		Mating by Norman Rush

	1990		Middle Passage by Charles Johnson

	1989		Spartina by John Casey

	1988		Paris Trout by Pete Dexter

	1987		Paco's Story by Larry Heinemann

	1986		World's Fair by E.L. Doctorow

	1985		White Noise by Don Delillo

	1984		Victory over Japan by Ellen Gilchrist

	1983		The Color Purple by Alice Walker

	1982		Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike

	1981		Plains Song: For Female Voices by Wright Morris, Charles Baxter (Introduction by)

	1980		Sophie's Choice by William Styron