2023

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2022

"The Netanyahus" by Joshua Cohen

2021

"The Night Watchman" by Louise Erdrich

2020

"The Nickel Boys" by Coleson Whitehead

2019

"The Overstory" by Richard Powers

2018

"Less" by Andrew Sean Greer

2017

"The Underground Railroad" by Coleson Whitehead

2016

"The Sympathizer" by Thanh Nguyen

2015

"All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

2014

"The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt

2013

"The Orphan Master's Son" by Adam Johnson

2012

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2011

"A Visit from the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan

2010

"Tinkers" by Paul Harding

2009

"Olive Kitteridge" by Elizabeth Strout

2008

"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz

2007

"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

2006

"March" by Geraldine Brooks

2005

"Gilead" by Marilynne Robinson

2004

"The Known World" by Edward P. Jones

2003

"Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides

2002

"Empire Falls" by Richard Russo

2001

"The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" by Michael Chabon

2000

"Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

1999

"The Hours" by Michael Cunningham

1998

"American Pastoral" by Philip Roth

1997

"Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer" by Steven Millhauser

1996

"Independence Day" by Richard Ford

1995

"The Stone Diaries" by Carol Shields

1994

"The Shipping News" by E. Annie Proulx

1993

"A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain" by Robert Olen Butler

1992

"A Thousand Acres" by Jane Smiley

1991

"Rabbit At Rest" by John Updike

1990

"The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love" by Oscar Hijuelos

1989

"Breathing Lessons" by Anne Tyler

1988

"Beloved" by Toni Morrison

1987

"A Summons to Memphis" by Peter Taylor

1986

"Lonesome Dove" by Larry McMurtry

1985

"Foreign Affairs" by Alison Lurie

1984

"Ironweed" by William Kennedy

1983

"The Color Purple" by Alice Walker

1982

"Rabbit Is Rich" by John Updike

1981

"A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

1980

"Executioner's Song" by Norman Mailer

1979

"The Stories of John Cheever" by John Cheever

1978

"Elbow Room" by James Alan McPherson

1977

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1976

"Humboldt's Gift" by Saul Bellow

1975

"The Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara

1974

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1973

"The Optimist's Daughter" by Eudora Welty

1972

"Angle of Repose" by Wallace Stegner

1971

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1970

"Collected Stories" by Jean Stafford

1969

"House Made of Dawn" by N. Scott Momaday

1968

"The Confessions of Nat Turner" by William Styron

1967

"The Fixer" by Bernard Malamud

1966

"The Collected Stories of Katherine Ann Porter" by Katherine Anne Porter

1965

“The Keepers of the House” by Shirley Grau.

1964

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1963

"The Reivers" by William Faulkner

1962

"The Edge of Sadness" by Edwin O'Connor

1961

"To Kill A Mockingbird" by Allen Drury

1960

"Advise and Consent" by Allen Drury

1959

"The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters" by Robert Lewis Taylor

1958

"A Death In The Family" by James Agee

1957

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1956

"Andersonville" by MacKinlay Kantor

1955

"A Fable" by William Faulkner

1954

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1953

"The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

1952

"The Caine Mutiny" by Herman Wouk

1951

"The Town" by Conrad Richter

1950

"The Way West" by A. B. Guthrie

1949

"Guard of Honor" by James Gould Cozzens

1948

"Tales of the South Pacific" by James A. Michener