National Book Award winners

Based on bookaward
National Book Award
1
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
22,569 members
369 reviews
4.1
5 Members
Kristelh, peterveen, ahef1963, kara.shamy, jbcthatsme
2
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
18,394 members
231 reviews
4
4 Members
thecoroner, Kristelh, Bretzky1, kara.shamy
3
The World According to Garp
by John Irving
16,399 members
209 reviews
4.1
4 Members
Kristelh, peterveen, ahef1963, jbcthatsme
4
The Shipping News
by Annie Proulx
14,340 members
275 reviews
3.9
4 Members
Kristelh, peterveen, ahef1963, BHEwert
5
The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
11,181 members
494 reviews
4
4 Members
Kristelh, ahef1963, kara.shamy, jbcthatsme
6
Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward
4,987 members
212 reviews
4.1
4 Members
Kristelh, peterveen, kara.shamy, jbcthatsme
7
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
17,861 members
356 reviews
3.8
3 Members
thecoroner, Kristelh, peterveen
8
All the Pretty Horses
by Cormac McCarthy
12,297 members
273 reviews
4
4 Members
thecoroner, Kristelh, peterveen, jbcthatsme,kara.shamy
9
Sophie's Choice
by William Styron
6,563 members
91 reviews
4.1
3 Members
thecoroner, Kristelh, jbcthatsme
10
Herzog
by Saul Bellow
5,694 members
68 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
thecoroner, Kristelh, peterveen
11
Three Junes
by Julia Glass
4,698 members
100 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
ahef1963, kara.shamy, jbcthatsme
12
The Adventures of Augie March
by Saul Bellow
4,234 members
80 reviews
3.8
3 Members
thecoroner, Kristelh, peterveen
13
The Good Lord Bird
by James McBride
2,487 members
138 reviews
3.9
3 Members
Kristelh, kara.shamy, jbcthatsme
14
Gone with the Wind (MIXED WORKS)
191 members
3 reviews
½ 4.5
3 Members
Kristelh, peterveen, jbcthatsme
15
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
by Madeleine L'Engle
13,444 members
114 reviews
4
2 Members
kara.shamy, jbcthatsme
16
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
12,122 members
329 reviews
3.9
2 Members
Kristelh, ahef1963
17
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
9,856 members
402 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
Kristelh, kara.shamy
18
The Flowers of Evil
by Charles Baudelaire
9,027 members
90 reviews
4.2
2 Members
thecoroner, jnsp13
19
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
by Barbara W. Tuchman
8,048 members
135 reviews
4.1
2 Members
peterveen, kara.shamy
20
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
by Rachel Joyce
6,066 members
494 reviews
4
2 Members
Kristelh, ahef1963
21
Hopscotch
by Julio Cortázar
5,997 members
110 reviews
4.2
2 Members
thecoroner, peterveen
23
The Round House
by Louise Erdrich
4,623 members
228 reviews
4
2 Members
Kristelh, peterveen
24
Waiting
by Ha Jin
4,384 members
88 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
peterveen, jbcthatsme
25
Salvage the Bones
by Jesmyn Ward
3,585 members
180 reviews
3.9
2 Members
peterveen, kara.shamy
26
Tree of Smoke: A Novel
by Denis Johnson
2,721 members
77 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
peterveen, kara.shamy
27
The Women of Brewster Place
by Gloria Naylor
1,997 members
27 reviews
4
2 Members
ahef1963, kara.shamy
28
The Friend
by Sigrid Nunez
1,892 members
113 reviews
3.8
2 Members
peterveen, kara.shamy
29
Redeployment
by Phil Klay
1,673 members
72 reviews
4
2 Members
Kristelh, kara.shamy
30
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
by George Packer
1,495 members
38 reviews
4.1
2 Members
Kristelh, peterveen
31
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie
13,217 members
823 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
ahef1963
32
Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
12,115 members
155 reviews
4
Member
thecoroner
33
The Epic of Gilgamesh
by Gilgamesh Poet
10,428 members
133 reviews
3.8
Member
kara.shamy
34
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
by William L. Shirer
9,050 members
117 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
peterveen
35
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
by Nathaniel Philbrick
7,314 members
187 reviews
4.2
Member
ahef1963
36
Just Kids
by Patti Smith
6,638 members
267 reviews
4.1
Member
hipdeep
37
The Gnostic Gospels
by Elaine Pagels
5,469 members
56 reviews
3.9
Member
kara.shamy
38
The Right Stuff
by Tom Wolfe
5,170 members
80 reviews
4.2
Member
thecoroner
39
The Moviegoer
by Walker Percy
5,125 members
101 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
hipdeep
40
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
by Katherine Boo
5,011 members
307 reviews
4.1
Member
ahef1963
41
Doctor De Soto
by William Steig
4,307 members
67 reviews
4.1
Member
ahef1963
42
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
by Stephen Greenblatt
4,169 members
150 reviews
3.9
Member
kara.shamy
43
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
by David McCullough
3,921 members
67 reviews
4.1
Member
kara.shamy
44
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
by Bruno Bettelheim
3,521 members
32 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ahef1963
45
Cosmicomics
by Italo Calvino
3,484 members
56 reviews
4.1
Member
thecoroner
46
Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories
by Philip Roth
3,413 members
57 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
peterveen
48
Master of the Senate
by Robert A. Caro
2,700 members
46 reviews
½ 4.6
Member
kara.shamy
49
So Long, See You Tomorrow
by William Maxwell
2,048 members
81 reviews
3.9
Member
peterveen
50
March: Book Three
by John Lewis
1,894 members
100 reviews
½ 4.6
Member
hipdeep
51
J R
by William Gaddis
1,609 members
20 reviews
4.1
Member
thecoroner
52
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
by John W. Dower
1,504 members
15 reviews
4.1
Member
peterveen
53
James Joyce
by Richard Ellmann
1,458 members
12 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
kara.shamy
54
The Sound of the Mountain
by Yasunari Kawabata
1,436 members
22 reviews
4.1
Member
thecoroner
55
Them
by Joyce Carol Oates
1,226 members
24 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
jbcthatsme
56
The Spectator Bird
by Wallace Stegner
1,200 members
43 reviews
4
Member
ahef1963
57
Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
by Donald C. Johanson
1,162 members
11 reviews
4
Member
ahef1963
58
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
by M. Gessen
1,033 members
24 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
peterveen
59
Fortune Smiles: Stories
by Adam Johnson
792 members
44 reviews
4
Member
peterveen
60
The Emissary
by Yōko Tawada
701 members
30 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
kara.shamy
61
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
by Evan Osnos
699 members
24 reviews
4
Member
peterveen
63
White Noise
by Don DeLillo
12,391 members
182 reviews
3.8
2 Members
thecoroner, Kristelh,ahef1963 ,kara.shamy
64
The House of the Scorpion
by Nancy Farmer
6,828 members
248 reviews
4.1
65
Outside Over There
by Maurice Sendak
1,253 members
47 reviews
3.9
66
The Aeneid (translations)
by Virgil
26,746 members
229 reviews
3.9
67
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
26,013 members
477 reviews
½ 4.3
68
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas Hofstadter
14,933 members
136 reviews
½ 4.3
69
Cold Mountain
by Charles Frazier
14,811 members
207 reviews
3.8
70
The Farthest Shore
by Ursula K. Le Guin
8,947 members
136 reviews
4
71
Miss Rumphius
by Barbara Cooney
7,976 members
178 reviews
½ 4.4
72
Complete Stories
by Flannery O'Connor
7,733 members
74 reviews
½ 4.4
73
The Penderwicks
by Jeanne Birdsall
6,756 members
210 reviews
4.1
74
Let the Great World Spin
by Colum McCann
6,563 members
327 reviews
4
75
Ramona and Her Mother
by Beverly Cleary
6,475 members
49 reviews
4
76
Inside Out and Back Again
by Thanhhà Lại
6,273 members
589 reviews
½ 4.3
77
The Great Gilly Hopkins
by Katherine Paterson
5,544 members
164 reviews
3.9
78
Brown Girl Dreaming
by Jacqueline Woodson
5,489 members
416 reviews
½ 4.4
79
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
by Edmund Morris
4,637 members
58 reviews
½ 4.4
80
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes
4,070 members
60 reviews
½ 4.5
81
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
by Ibram X. Kendi
4,022 members
80 reviews
½ 4.5
82
A House Is a House for Me
by Mary Ann Hoberman
3,887 members
27 reviews
4
83
From Beirut to Jerusalem
by Thomas L. Friedman
3,824 members
32 reviews
4
84
The Stories of John Cheever
by John Cheever
3,687 members
47 reviews
4.2
85
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32
by Joan W. Blos
3,635 members
35 reviews
½ 3.5
86
The Poet X
by Elizabeth Acevedo
3,373 members
200 reviews
½ 4.4
88
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
by Joseph J. Ellis
3,107 members
37 reviews
3.9
89
Mockingbird
by Kathryn Erskine
3,067 members
364 reviews
½ 4.3
90
The Snow Leopard
by Peter Matthiessen
3,066 members
55 reviews
4
91
The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics
by Gary Zukav
2,969 members
33 reviews
½ 3.7
92
A Severe Mercy
by Sheldon Vanauken
2,935 members
25 reviews
4.2
93
The Soul of A New Machine
by Tracy Kidder
2,871 members
55 reviews
4
94
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
by Tim Weiner
2,871 members
57 reviews
3.9
95
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
by Andrew Solomon
2,863 members
41 reviews
4.1
96
M. C. Higgins: The Great
by Virginia Hamilton
2,853 members
31 reviews
½ 3.5
97
The Echo Maker
by Richard Powers
2,801 members
112 reviews
½ 3.5
98
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
by Malinda Lo
2,734 members
76 reviews
4.2
99
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
by Eudora Welty
2,734 members
16 reviews
4.1
100
Rabbit Is Rich
by John Updike
2,691 members
34 reviews
3.9