National Book Award winners

Based on bookaward
National Book Award
1
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
22,513 members
369 reviews
4.1
5 Members
Kristelh, peterveen, ahef1963, kara.shamy, jbcthatsme
2
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
18,352 members
230 reviews
4
4 Members
thecoroner, Kristelh, Bretzky1, kara.shamy
3
The World According to Garp
by John Irving
16,377 members
209 reviews
4.1
4 Members
Kristelh, peterveen, ahef1963, jbcthatsme
4
The Shipping News
by Annie Proulx
14,333 members
275 reviews
3.9
4 Members
Kristelh, peterveen, ahef1963, BHEwert
5
The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
11,162 members
496 reviews
4
4 Members
Kristelh, ahef1963, kara.shamy, jbcthatsme
6
Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward
4,964 members
212 reviews
4.1
4 Members
Kristelh, peterveen, kara.shamy, jbcthatsme
7
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
17,831 members
356 reviews
3.8
3 Members
thecoroner, Kristelh, peterveen
8
All the Pretty Horses
by Cormac McCarthy
12,259 members
271 reviews
4
4 Members
thecoroner, Kristelh, peterveen, jbcthatsme,kara.shamy
9
Sophie's Choice
by William Styron
6,553 members
91 reviews
4.1
3 Members
thecoroner, Kristelh, jbcthatsme
10
Herzog
by Saul Bellow
5,691 members
68 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
thecoroner, Kristelh, peterveen
11
Three Junes
by Julia Glass
4,699 members
100 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
ahef1963, kara.shamy, jbcthatsme
12
The Adventures of Augie March
by Saul Bellow
4,233 members
80 reviews
3.8
3 Members
thecoroner, Kristelh, peterveen
13
The Good Lord Bird
by James McBride
2,488 members
138 reviews
3.9
3 Members
Kristelh, kara.shamy, jbcthatsme
14
Gone with the Wind (MIXED WORKS)
190 members
3 reviews
½ 4.5
3 Members
Kristelh, peterveen, jbcthatsme
15
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
by Madeleine L'Engle
13,404 members
114 reviews
4
2 Members
kara.shamy, jbcthatsme
16
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
12,106 members
329 reviews
3.9
2 Members
Kristelh, ahef1963
17
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
9,809 members
402 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
Kristelh, kara.shamy
18
The Flowers of Evil
by Charles Baudelaire
9,008 members
90 reviews
4.2
2 Members
thecoroner, jnsp13
19
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
by Barbara W. Tuchman
8,019 members
135 reviews
4.1
2 Members
peterveen, kara.shamy
20
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
by Rachel Joyce
6,052 members
493 reviews
4
2 Members
Kristelh, ahef1963
21
Hopscotch
by Julio Cortázar
5,967 members
110 reviews
4.2
2 Members
thecoroner, peterveen
23
The Round House
by Louise Erdrich
4,613 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
3,573 members
179 reviews
3.9
2 Members
peterveen, kara.shamy
26
Tree of Smoke: A Novel
by Denis Johnson
2,713 members
77 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
peterveen, kara.shamy
27
The Women of Brewster Place
by Gloria Naylor
1,991 members
27 reviews
4
2 Members
ahef1963, kara.shamy
28
The Friend
by Sigrid Nunez
1,890 members
113 reviews
3.8
2 Members
peterveen, kara.shamy
29
Redeployment
by Phil Klay
1,663 members
73 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
13,230 members
823 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
ahef1963
32
Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
12,090 members
155 reviews
4
Member
thecoroner
33
The Epic of Gilgamesh
by Gilgamesh Poet
10,427 members
132 reviews
3.8
Member
kara.shamy
34
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
by William L. Shirer
9,019 members
118 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
peterveen
35
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
by Nathaniel Philbrick
7,287 members
186 reviews
4.2
Member
ahef1963
36
Just Kids
by Patti Smith
6,643 members
268 reviews
4.1
Member
hipdeep
37
The Gnostic Gospels
by Elaine Pagels
5,452 members
56 reviews
3.9
Member
kara.shamy
38
The Right Stuff
by Tom Wolfe
5,158 members
80 reviews
4.2
Member
thecoroner
39
The Moviegoer
by Walker Percy
5,117 members
101 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
hipdeep
40
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
by Katherine Boo
5,007 members
307 reviews
4.1
Member
ahef1963
41
Doctor De Soto
by William Steig
4,291 members
67 reviews
4.1
Member
ahef1963
42
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
by Stephen Greenblatt
4,165 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
3,915 members
67 reviews
4.1
Member
kara.shamy
44
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
by Bruno Bettelheim
3,509 members
32 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ahef1963
45
Cosmicomics
by Italo Calvino
3,491 members
56 reviews
4.1
Member
thecoroner
46
Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories
by Philip Roth
3,404 members
57 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
peterveen
48
Master of the Senate
by Robert A. Caro
2,698 members
46 reviews
½ 4.6
Member
kara.shamy
49
So Long, See You Tomorrow
by William Maxwell
2,034 members
80 reviews
3.9
Member
peterveen
50
March: Book Three
by John Lewis
1,885 members
100 reviews
½ 4.6
Member
hipdeep
51
J R
by William Gaddis
1,607 members
20 reviews
4.1
Member
thecoroner
52
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
by John W. Dower
1,497 members
15 reviews
4.1
Member
peterveen
53
James Joyce
by Richard Ellmann
1,453 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
1,225 members
24 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
jbcthatsme
56
The Spectator Bird
by Wallace Stegner
1,195 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
1,031 members
24 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
peterveen
59
Fortune Smiles: Stories
by Adam Johnson
789 members
44 reviews
4
Member
peterveen
60
The Emissary
by Yōko Tawada
702 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
701 members
24 reviews
4
Member
peterveen
63
White Noise
by Don DeLillo
12,355 members
182 reviews
3.8
2 Members
thecoroner, Kristelh,ahef1963 ,kara.shamy
64
The House of the Scorpion
by Nancy Farmer
6,826 members
248 reviews
4.1
65
Outside Over There
by Maurice Sendak
1,251 members
47 reviews
3.9
66
The Aeneid (translations)
by Virgil
26,638 members
228 reviews
3.9
67
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
26,017 members
477 reviews
½ 4.3
68
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas Hofstadter
14,899 members
136 reviews
½ 4.3
69
Cold Mountain
by Charles Frazier
14,785 members
207 reviews
3.8
70
The Farthest Shore
by Ursula K. Le Guin
8,930 members
135 reviews
4
71
Miss Rumphius
by Barbara Cooney
7,941 members
178 reviews
½ 4.4
72
Complete Stories
by Flannery O'Connor
7,707 members
74 reviews
½ 4.4
73
The Penderwicks
by Jeanne Birdsall
6,718 members
210 reviews
4.1
74
Let the Great World Spin: A Novel
by Colum McCann
6,550 members
327 reviews
4
75
Ramona and Her Mother
by Beverly Cleary
6,463 members
49 reviews
4
76
Inside Out and Back Again
by Thanhhà Lại
6,220 members
589 reviews
½ 4.3
77
The Great Gilly Hopkins
by Katherine Paterson
5,545 members
164 reviews
3.9
78
Brown Girl Dreaming
by Jacqueline Woodson
5,466 members
416 reviews
½ 4.4
79
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
by Edmund Morris
4,627 members
58 reviews
½ 4.4
80
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes
4,070 members
59 reviews
½ 4.5
81
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
by Ibram X. Kendi
3,989 members
80 reviews
½ 4.5
82
A House Is a House for Me
by Mary Ann Hoberman
3,872 members
27 reviews
4
83
From Beirut to Jerusalem
by Thomas L. Friedman
3,820 members
32 reviews
4
84
The Stories of John Cheever
by John Cheever
3,681 members
46 reviews
4.2
85
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32
by Joan W. Blos
3,620 members
35 reviews
½ 3.5
86
The Poet X
by Elizabeth Acevedo
3,361 members
200 reviews
½ 4.4
88
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
by Joseph J. Ellis
3,098 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
3,050 members
55 reviews
4
91
The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics
by Gary Zukav
2,964 members
33 reviews
½ 3.7
92
A Severe Mercy
by Sheldon Vanauken
2,928 members
25 reviews
4.2
93
The Soul of A New Machine
by Tracy Kidder
2,865 members
55 reviews
4
94
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
by Andrew Solomon
2,860 members
41 reviews
4.1
95
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
by Tim Weiner
2,858 members
57 reviews
3.9
96
M. C. Higgins: The Great
by Virginia Hamilton
2,851 members
31 reviews
½ 3.5
97
The Echo Maker
by Richard Powers
2,799 members
112 reviews
½ 3.5
98
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
by Eudora Welty
2,727 members
16 reviews
4.1
99
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
by Malinda Lo
2,705 members
74 reviews
4.2
100
Rabbit Is Rich
by John Updike
2,690 members
34 reviews
3.9