Winners of the National Book Award for Fiction (known as the American Book Award from 1980-1983).
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Paco's Story by Larry Heinemann
Paco Sullivan's story commences when his infantry company is sent to a fire base named Harriette, a place with a …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 1987 for Fiction
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The time and place: Cotton Point, a small Georgia town, just after World War II. The event: the murder of …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 1988 for Fiction
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A classic tale of a man, a boat, and a storm, Spartina is the lyrical and compassionate story of Dick …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 1989 for Fiction
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Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
From the beginning of his career, Charles Johnson has been acclaimed for the richness of his imagination, the virtuosity of …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 1990 for Fiction
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Five years after making one of the most auspicious literary debuts of the decade with his story collection, Whites, Norman …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 1991 for Fiction
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All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (The Border Trilogy, #1)
All the Pretty Horses establishes more powerfully than ever before Cormac McCarthy's prominence in contemporary fiction, and indeed his place …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 1992 for Fiction
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The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack with, a head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair … features as bunched …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 1993 for Fiction
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A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis
With the publication of The Recognitions in 1955, William Gaddis was hailed as the American heir to James Joyce. His …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 1994 for Fiction
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Sabbath’s Theater by Philip Roth
As much as he wants to be the Marquis de Sade, he is not.
As much as he wants to …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 1995 for Fiction
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Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett
The elegant short fictions gathered here, often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century, take their impulse from the …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 1996 for Fiction
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Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Cold Mountain is an extraordinary novel about a soldier's perilous journey back to his beloved at the end of the …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 1997 for Fiction
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Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
Everyone loved him. If you knew Billy at all, then you loved him. The late Billy Lynch's family and friends, …
Phil in SF says: Winner, National Book Awards 1998 for Fiction
