National Book Award winners

Based on bookaward
National Book Award
1
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
19,778 members
335 reviews
4.1
3 Members
peterveen, ahef1963, kara.shamy
2
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
16,211 members
212 reviews
4
3 Members
thecoroner, Bretzky1, kara.shamy
3
The Shipping News
by E. Annie Proulx
13,440 members
250 reviews
3.9
3 Members
peterveen, ahef1963, BHEwert
4
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
16,615 members
341 reviews
3.8
2 Members
thecoroner, peterveen
5
The World According to Garp
by John Irving
15,311 members
196 reviews
4.1
2 Members
peterveen, ahef1963
6
The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
8,976 members
454 reviews
4
2 Members
ahef1963, kara.shamy
7
The Flowers of Evil
by Charles Baudelaire
7,581 members
80 reviews
4.2
2 Members
thecoroner, jnsp13
8
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
by Barbara W. Tuchman
7,172 members
123 reviews
4.1
2 Members
peterveen, kara.shamy
9
Herzog
by Saul Bellow
5,207 members
61 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
thecoroner, peterveen
10
Hopscotch
by Julio Cortázar
5,121 members
101 reviews
4.2
2 Members
thecoroner, peterveen
11
Three Junes
by Julia Glass
4,500 members
97 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
ahef1963, kara.shamy
12
Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward
3,973 members
195 reviews
4.1
2 Members
peterveen, kara.shamy
13
The Adventures of Augie March
by Saul Bellow
3,863 members
73 reviews
3.8
2 Members
thecoroner, peterveen
14
Salvage the Bones
by Jesmyn Ward
2,890 members
162 reviews
3.9
2 Members
peterveen, kara.shamy
15
Tree of Smoke
by Denis Johnson
2,414 members
74 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
peterveen, kara.shamy
16
The Women of Brewster Place
by Gloria Naylor
1,790 members
25 reviews
4
2 Members
ahef1963, kara.shamy
17
The Friend
by Sigrid Nunez
1,352 members
91 reviews
3.8
2 Members
peterveen, kara.shamy
18
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
by Madeleine L'Engle
12,059 members
108 reviews
4
Member
kara.shamy
19
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie
11,711 members
797 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
ahef1963
20
All the Pretty Horses
by Cormac McCarthy
10,791 members
253 reviews
4
2 Members
thecoroner, peterveen,kara.shamy
21
Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
10,773 members
141 reviews
4.1
Member
thecoroner
22
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
10,313 members
291 reviews
3.8
Member
ahef1963
23
The Epic of Gilgamesh
by Gilgamesh Poet
9,898 members
119 reviews
3.8
Member
kara.shamy
24
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
by William L. Shirer
7,835 members
94 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
peterveen
25
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
7,775 members
369 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
kara.shamy
26
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
by Nathaniel Philbrick
6,384 members
167 reviews
4.2
Member
ahef1963
27
Sophie's Choice
by William Styron
6,005 members
87 reviews
4.1
Member
thecoroner
28
Just Kids
by Patti Smith
5,503 members
239 reviews
4.1
Member
hipdeep
29
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
by Rachel Joyce
5,319 members
461 reviews
4
Member
ahef1963
30
The Gnostic Gospels
by Elaine Pagels
4,918 members
51 reviews
3.9
Member
kara.shamy
31
The Right Stuff
by Tom Wolfe
4,672 members
73 reviews
4.2
Member
thecoroner
32
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
by Katherine Boo
4,383 members
293 reviews
4.1
Member
ahef1963
34
Waiting
by Ha Jin
4,063 members
81 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
peterveen
35
The Round House
by Louise Erdrich
3,952 members
222 reviews
4
Member
peterveen
36
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
by Stephen Greenblatt
3,603 members
142 reviews
3.9
Member
kara.shamy
37
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
by David McCullough
3,403 members
59 reviews
4.2
Member
kara.shamy
38
Doctor De Soto
by William Steig
3,391 members
61 reviews
4.1
Member
ahef1963
39
Cosmicomics
by Italo Calvino
3,187 members
49 reviews
4.1
Member
thecoroner
40
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
by Bruno Bettelheim
3,115 members
30 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ahef1963
41
Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories
by Philip Roth
3,110 members
49 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
peterveen
43
Master of the Senate
by Robert A. Caro
2,331 members
38 reviews
½ 4.6
Member
kara.shamy
44
The Good Lord Bird
by James McBride
2,076 members
121 reviews
3.9
Member
kara.shamy
45
So Long, See You Tomorrow
by William Maxwell
1,706 members
68 reviews
3.9
Member
peterveen
46
March: Book Three
by John Lewis
1,508 members
95 reviews
½ 4.6
Member
hipdeep
47
Redeployment
by Phil Klay
1,458 members
71 reviews
4
Member
kara.shamy
48
J R
by William Gaddis
1,382 members
19 reviews
4.2
Member
thecoroner
49
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
by George Packer
1,324 members
37 reviews
4
Member
peterveen
50
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
by John W. Dower
1,314 members
14 reviews
4.1
Member
peterveen
51
James Joyce
by Richard Ellmann
1,310 members
12 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
kara.shamy
52
The Sound of the Mountain
by Yasunari Kawabata
1,238 members
19 reviews
4.1
Member
thecoroner
53
The Spectator Bird
by Wallace Stegner
1,068 members
37 reviews
4
Member
ahef1963
54
Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
by Donald C. Johanson
1,065 members
8 reviews
4
Member
ahef1963
55
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
by Masha Gessen
810 members
18 reviews
4.2
Member
peterveen
56
Fortune Smiles: Stories
by Adam Johnson
703 members
44 reviews
4
Member
peterveen
57
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
by Evan Osnos
603 members
21 reviews
4
Member
peterveen
58
The Emissary
by Yōko Tawada
504 members
25 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
kara.shamy
59
Gone with the Wind
156 members
3 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
peterveen
61
The House of the Scorpion
by Nancy Farmer
6,014 members
238 reviews
4.1
62
The Moviegoer
by Walker Percy
4,700 members
93 reviews
½ 3.6
63
Them
by Joyce Carol Oates
1,120 members
21 reviews
½ 3.6
64
Outside Over There
by Maurice Sendak
1,118 members
45 reviews
3.9
65
White Noise
by Don DeLillo
11,009 members
173 reviews
3.8
Member
thecoroner,ahef1963 ,kara.shamy
66
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
23,510 members
441 reviews
½ 4.3
67
The Aeneid
by Virgil
22,977 members
198 reviews
3.9
68
Cold Mountain
by Charles Frazier
13,657 members
201 reviews
3.8
69
Gödel, Escher, Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas Hofstadter
13,645 members
130 reviews
½ 4.3
70
The Farthest Shore
by Ursula K. Le Guin
7,886 members
121 reviews
4
71
Complete Stories
by Flannery O'Connor
6,700 members
68 reviews
½ 4.4
72
Miss Rumphius
by Barbara Cooney
6,403 members
169 reviews
½ 4.4
73
Let the Great World Spin
by Colum McCann
5,968 members
314 reviews
4
74
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
by Jeanne Birdsall
5,533 members
192 reviews
4.1
75
Ramona and Her Mother
by Beverly Cleary
5,273 members
41 reviews
4
76
Inside Out and Back Again
by Thanhhà Lại
4,844 members
558 reviews
½ 4.3
77
The Great Gilly Hopkins
by Katherine Paterson
4,726 members
156 reviews
3.9
78
Brown Girl Dreaming
by Jacqueline Woodson
4,449 members
376 reviews
½ 4.4
79
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
by Edmund Morris
4,064 members
48 reviews
½ 4.4
80
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes
3,530 members
53 reviews
½ 4.5
81
From Beirut to Jerusalem
by Thomas L. Friedman
3,522 members
29 reviews
4
82
The Stories of John Cheever
by John Cheever
3,376 members
35 reviews
4.2
83
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32
by Joan W. Blos
3,131 members
28 reviews
½ 3.5
84
A House Is a House for Me
by Mary Ann Hoberman
3,044 members
24 reviews
4.1
85
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
by Ibram X. Kendi
2,981 members
67 reviews
½ 4.5
87
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
by Joseph J. Ellis
2,804 members
35 reviews
4
88
The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics
by Gary Zukav
2,760 members
32 reviews
½ 3.7
89
The Snow Leopard
by Peter Matthiessen
2,706 members
53 reviews
4
90
The Soul of A New Machine
by Tracy Kidder
2,639 members
52 reviews
4
91
Mockingbird
by Kathryn Erskine
2,631 members
354 reviews
½ 4.3
92
The Echo Maker
by Richard Powers
2,601 members
110 reviews
½ 3.5
93
A Severe Mercy
by Sheldon Vanauken
2,568 members
24 reviews
4.2
94
The Poet X
by Elizabeth Acevedo
2,551 members
167 reviews
½ 4.4
95
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
by Andrew Solomon
2,536 members
37 reviews
4.1
96
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
by Tim Weiner
2,514 members
49 reviews
3.9
97
Rabbit Is Rich
by John Updike
2,476 members
30 reviews
3.9
98
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
by Eudora Welty
2,437 members
15 reviews
4.1
99
M. C. Higgins, the Great
by Virginia Hamilton
2,433 members
26 reviews
½ 3.5
100
Charming Billy
by Alice McDermott
2,358 members
41 reviews
½ 3.4