Award
National Book Award
87 years tracked (1935–2026), 702 entries total.
The National Book Awards are a set of annual literary awards in the United States, established in 1936 by the American Booksellers Association and re-established in 1950. They are presented to American authors for books published in the United States roughly during the award year. The awards are given at a final ceremony every November by the National Book Foundation.
2026
Nonfiction
A Dead White: An Argument Against White Paint
Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground
Huna: A Memoir of Revolution, Prison, and Becoming
Let the Poets Govern: A Declaration of Freedom
Mother Tongue
Seasons of Fury: Four Families and the Rise of Islamophobia in America
Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood
The Evolution of Fire: Essays on Crisis and Becoming
The Midnight Special: The Secret Prison History of American Music
The War Within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at Home
Fiction
Beginning Middle End
Dèy
Mad Eden
Paradiso 17
Passengers
Pretend You're Dead and I Carry You
Python's Kiss
Red Ants
The Disappearers
The Renovation
Poetry
Bramble
Exhibit G: Poems, Essays, and Photographs of Gaza
Hide
Horses
JOAN
Promise/Threat
Still House in the Desert: An eco-contemplation
The Bronze Arms
Tree of Knowledge
We
Translated Literature
Centroeuropa
Eden at Dawn
My Dreadful Body
Night of a Thousand Hells
Now I Surrender
Pure Men
The Disappearing Act
The School of Night
To the East of the East
Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life: Voices of Survival and Witness in Gaza
Young People's Literature
Clothes to Make You Smile: Patrick Kelly Designs His Dreams
Holloway
Life on the Moon
Shook
That Which Feeds Us: A Hawaiian Gothic
The Celestial Seas
The Fight of Our Lives: AIDS in America
The Free Verse Society
The Moon Without Stars
When Tomorrow Burns
2025
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems
The Teacher of Nomad Land
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
A Guardian and a Thief
North Sun, or, the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther
Palaver
The Antidote
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
1919: The Year That Changed America
Sight Lines
The Memory Police
The Yellow House
Trust Excercise
Trust Exercise
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Disappearing Earth
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Sabrina & Corina
The Nickel Boys
The Other Americans
Thick: And Other Essays
2018
2017
Far from the Tree
Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016.
Her Body and Other Parties
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Pachinko
Sing, Unburied, Sing
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
Dark at the Crossing
Long Way Down
Manhattan Beach
The Hate U Give
The Leavers
2016
Ghost
March: Book Three
Raymie Nightingale
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
The Association of Small Bombs
The Performance Of Becoming Human
The Sun Is Also a Star
The Underground Railroad
When the Sea Turned to Silver
Another Brooklyn
News of the World
Pax
The Throwback Special
When the Moon Was Ours
2015
A Little Life
Between the World and Me
Challenger Deep
Fates and Furies
Fortune Smiles
Voyage Of The Sable Venus
Bone Gap
Did You Ever Have a Family
Nimona
Si
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
The Alchemist
The Thing About Jellyfish
X
2014
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
All the Light We Cannot See
An Unnecessary Woman
Brown Girl Dreaming
Faithful and Virtuous Night
Lila
Noggin
Redeployment
Station Eleven
The Meaning of Human Existence
Orfeo
Skink--No Surrender
The Impossible Knife of Memory
Wolf in White Van
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
Chains
Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems
Fire To Fire: New And Selected Poems
Home
Shadow Country
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
The Spectacular Now
The Underneath
What I Saw and How I Lied
2007
2006
American Born Chinese
Averno
Sold
Splay Anthem
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. I
The Echo Maker
The Pox Party
The Rules of Survival
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
The Zero
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
A Step from Heaven
Carver: A Life in Poems
Look at Me
Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry
Poems Seven: New And Complete Poetry (Vol 7 Of Seven)
The Corrections
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
The Tiger Rising
True Believer
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1994
1993
1992
1990
1989
1988
1987
1986
1985
1984
1983
Other
Country Music: Selected Early Poems
Selected Poems
The Collected Stories Of Eudora Welty
The Red Magician
Fiction (Hardcover)
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
The Color Purple
The Mosquito Coast
Children's Picture Books (Hardcover)
Miss Rumphius
Science (Hardcover)
Subtle Is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein
General Nonfiction (Hardcover)
The Fate of the Earth
Children's Fiction (Hardcover)
The Kestrel
Science (Paperback)
The Medical Detectives
First Novel
The Women of Brewster Place
1982
Fiction (Hardcover) & (Paperback) (1983)
A Flag for Sunrise
Science (Hardcover) (1980) & (Paperback)
Disturbing the Universe
Children's Books, Fiction (Hardcover) (1981) & (Paperback)
Jacob Have I Loved
Fiction (Paperback)
Morgan's Passing
First Novel
Spring Moon: A Novel of China
Science (Hardcover)
The Mismeasure of Man
Fiction (Hardcover) (1981) & (Paperback)
The Second Coming
Fiction (Hardcover) (1982) & (Paperback)
The Transit of Venus
1981
History (Paperback)
A People's History of the United States
General Nonfiction (Hardcover)
China Men
Science (Hardcover)
Cosmos
Other
Plains Song
Plains Song: For Female Voices
Sister Wolf
The Need to Hold Still
The Need To Hold Still: Poems
First Novel
The Clan of the Cave Bear
Fiction (Hardcover)
The Collected Stories
Fiction (Hardcover) (1980) & (Paperback)
The Executioner's Song
Children's Book (1969) & Fiction (Paperback)
The High King
General Nonfiction (Paperback)
The White Album
1980
Children's Books (Paperback)
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Biography and Autobiography (1979) & Biography (Paperback)
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964
Other
Ashes: Poems New And Old
Bendigo Shafter
Jem
Stained Glass
The Complete Directory
The Complete Directory of Prime Time Network TV Shows: 1946–Present
The Green Ripper
Science Fiction (Paperback)
Dreamsnake
Tales of Nevèrÿon
The Book of the Dun Cow
The Persistence of Vision
Mystery (Paperback)
Listening Woman
Science Fiction (Hardcover)
On Wings of Song
Biography and Autobiography
Robert Kennedy and His Times
Children's Literature
The Great Gilly Hopkins
Religion/Inspiration (Paperback)
The Helper
General Nonfiction (Hardcover)
The Right Stuff
Biography (Hardcover)
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Contemporary Thought (1979) & General Nonfiction (Paperback)
The Snow Leopard
1979
1978
1977
Collected Poems, 1930-1976: Including 43 New Poems
Collected Poems, 1930–1976
Letters of E.B. White
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
The Autumn of the Patriarch
The Spectator Bird
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
1976
1975
All the President's Men
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Dog Soldiers
Invisible Cities
Life is Elsewhere
My Life as a Man
Obedience to Authority
Presentation Piece
Something Happened
Sula
The Cyberiad
The Hair Of Harold Roux
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
1974
A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories
Burr
Diving Into the Wreck
Diving Into The Wreck: Poems 1971-1972
Gravity's Rainbow
Nickel Mountain
Pentimento
Points for a Compass Rose
Summer of My German Soldier
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
The Fall Of America: Poems Of These States, 1965-1971
