National Book Award winners

Based on bookaward
National Book Award
1
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
19,817 members
340 reviews
4.1
3 Members
peterveen, ahef1963, kara.shamy
2
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
16,243 members
212 reviews
4
3 Members
thecoroner, Bretzky1, kara.shamy
3
The Shipping News
by E. Annie Proulx
13,469 members
250 reviews
3.9
3 Members
peterveen, ahef1963, BHEwert
4
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
16,645 members
342 reviews
3.8
2 Members
thecoroner, peterveen
5
The World According to Garp
by John Irving
15,334 members
198 reviews
4.1
2 Members
peterveen, ahef1963
6
The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
9,035 members
455 reviews
4
2 Members
ahef1963, kara.shamy
7
The Flowers of Evil
by Charles Baudelaire
7,606 members
80 reviews
4.2
2 Members
thecoroner, jnsp13
8
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
by Barbara W. Tuchman
7,192 members
123 reviews
4.1
2 Members
peterveen, kara.shamy
9
Herzog
by Saul Bellow
5,214 members
61 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
thecoroner, peterveen
10
Hopscotch
by Julio Cortázar
5,132 members
102 reviews
4.2
2 Members
thecoroner, peterveen
11
Three Junes
by Julia Glass
4,504 members
97 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
ahef1963, kara.shamy
12
Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward
3,984 members
196 reviews
4.1
2 Members
peterveen, kara.shamy
13
The Adventures of Augie March
by Saul Bellow
3,870 members
73 reviews
3.8
2 Members
thecoroner, peterveen
14
Salvage the Bones
by Jesmyn Ward
2,900 members
162 reviews
3.9
2 Members
peterveen, kara.shamy
15
Tree of Smoke
by Denis Johnson
2,417 members
74 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
peterveen, kara.shamy
16
The Women of Brewster Place
by Gloria Naylor
1,793 members
25 reviews
4
2 Members
ahef1963, kara.shamy
17
The Friend
by Sigrid Nunez
1,362 members
91 reviews
3.8
2 Members
peterveen, kara.shamy
18
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
by Madeleine L'Engle
12,094 members
108 reviews
4
Member
kara.shamy
19
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie
11,744 members
798 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
ahef1963
20
All the Pretty Horses
by Cormac McCarthy
10,823 members
253 reviews
4
2 Members
thecoroner, peterveen,kara.shamy
21
Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
10,798 members
141 reviews
4.1
Member
thecoroner
22
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
10,327 members
292 reviews
3.9
Member
ahef1963
23
The Epic of Gilgamesh
by Gilgamesh Poet
9,925 members
120 reviews
3.8
Member
kara.shamy
24
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
by William L. Shirer
7,857 members
96 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
peterveen
25
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
7,811 members
370 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
kara.shamy
26
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
by Nathaniel Philbrick
6,405 members
168 reviews
4.2
Member
ahef1963
27
Sophie's Choice
by William Styron
6,015 members
87 reviews
4.1
Member
thecoroner
28
Just Kids
by Patti Smith
5,528 members
239 reviews
4.1
Member
hipdeep
29
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
by Rachel Joyce
5,346 members
463 reviews
4
Member
ahef1963
30
The Gnostic Gospels
by Elaine Pagels
4,921 members
51 reviews
3.9
Member
kara.shamy
31
The Right Stuff
by Tom Wolfe
4,677 members
73 reviews
4.2
Member
thecoroner
32
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
by Katherine Boo
4,391 members
294 reviews
4.1
Member
ahef1963
34
Waiting
by Ha Jin
4,072 members
81 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
peterveen
35
The Round House
by Louise Erdrich
3,961 members
222 reviews
4
Member
peterveen
36
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
by Stephen Greenblatt
3,614 members
144 reviews
3.9
Member
kara.shamy
37
Doctor De Soto
by William Steig
3,411 members
61 reviews
4.1
Member
ahef1963
38
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
by David McCullough
3,407 members
60 reviews
4.2
Member
kara.shamy
39
Cosmicomics
by Italo Calvino
3,193 members
49 reviews
4.1
Member
thecoroner
40
Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories
by Philip Roth
3,121 members
50 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
peterveen
41
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
by Bruno Bettelheim
3,120 members
30 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ahef1963
43
Master of the Senate
by Robert A. Caro
2,338 members
38 reviews
½ 4.6
Member
kara.shamy
44
The Good Lord Bird
by James McBride
2,088 members
122 reviews
3.9
Member
kara.shamy
45
So Long, See You Tomorrow
by William Maxwell
1,708 members
68 reviews
3.9
Member
peterveen
46
March: Book Three
by John Lewis
1,513 members
95 reviews
½ 4.6
Member
hipdeep
47
Redeployment
by Phil Klay
1,465 members
71 reviews
4
Member
kara.shamy
48
J R
by William Gaddis
1,384 members
19 reviews
4.2
Member
thecoroner
49
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
by George Packer
1,328 members
37 reviews
4
Member
peterveen
50
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
by John W. Dower
1,315 members
14 reviews
4.1
Member
peterveen
51
James Joyce
by Richard Ellmann
1,309 members
12 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
kara.shamy
52
The Sound of the Mountain
by Yasunari Kawabata
1,245 members
19 reviews
4.1
Member
thecoroner
53
The Spectator Bird
by Wallace Stegner
1,070 members
37 reviews
4
Member
ahef1963
54
Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
by Donald C. Johanson
1,066 members
8 reviews
4
Member
ahef1963
55
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
by Masha Gessen
813 members
18 reviews
4.2
Member
peterveen
56
Fortune Smiles: Stories
by Adam Johnson
705 members
44 reviews
4
Member
peterveen
57
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
by Evan Osnos
605 members
21 reviews
4
Member
peterveen
58
The Emissary
by Yōko Tawada
506 members
25 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
kara.shamy
59
Gone with the Wind
154 members
3 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
peterveen
61
The House of the Scorpion
by Nancy Farmer
6,030 members
238 reviews
4.1
62
The Moviegoer
by Walker Percy
4,703 members
93 reviews
½ 3.6
63
Them
by Joyce Carol Oates
1,123 members
21 reviews
½ 3.6
64
Outside Over There
by Maurice Sendak
1,120 members
45 reviews
3.9
65
White Noise
by Don DeLillo
11,045 members
173 reviews
3.8
Member
thecoroner,ahef1963 ,kara.shamy
66
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
23,524 members
443 reviews
½ 4.3
67
The Aeneid
by Virgil
23,018 members
199 reviews
3.9
68
Cold Mountain
by Charles Frazier
13,696 members
201 reviews
3.8
69
Gödel, Escher, Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas Hofstadter
13,675 members
130 reviews
½ 4.3
70
The Farthest Shore
by Ursula K. Le Guin
7,909 members
122 reviews
4
71
Complete Stories
by Flannery O'Connor
6,724 members
68 reviews
½ 4.4
72
Miss Rumphius
by Barbara Cooney
6,433 members
169 reviews
½ 4.4
73
Let the Great World Spin
by Colum McCann
5,974 members
314 reviews
4
74
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
by Jeanne Birdsall
5,564 members
194 reviews
4.1
75
Ramona and Her Mother
by Beverly Cleary
5,294 members
41 reviews
4
76
Inside Out and Back Again
by Thanhhà Lại
4,866 members
558 reviews
½ 4.3
77
The Great Gilly Hopkins
by Katherine Paterson
4,735 members
156 reviews
3.9
78
Brown Girl Dreaming
by Jacqueline Woodson
4,469 members
377 reviews
½ 4.4
79
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
by Edmund Morris
4,073 members
48 reviews
½ 4.4
80
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes
3,549 members
54 reviews
½ 4.5
81
From Beirut to Jerusalem
by Thomas L. Friedman
3,526 members
29 reviews
4
82
The Stories of John Cheever
by John Cheever
3,382 members
36 reviews
4.2
83
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32
by Joan W. Blos
3,147 members
28 reviews
½ 3.5
84
A House Is a House for Me
by Mary Ann Hoberman
3,065 members
24 reviews
4.1
85
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
by Ibram X. Kendi
3,000 members
67 reviews
½ 4.5
87
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
by Joseph J. Ellis
2,810 members
35 reviews
4
88
The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics
by Gary Zukav
2,766 members
33 reviews
½ 3.7
89
The Snow Leopard
by Peter Matthiessen
2,713 members
53 reviews
4
90
The Soul of A New Machine
by Tracy Kidder
2,642 members
53 reviews
4
91
Mockingbird
by Kathryn Erskine
2,638 members
354 reviews
½ 4.3
92
The Echo Maker
by Richard Powers
2,607 members
110 reviews
½ 3.5
93
A Severe Mercy
by Sheldon Vanauken
2,576 members
24 reviews
4.2
94
The Poet X
by Elizabeth Acevedo
2,565 members
167 reviews
½ 4.4
95
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
by Andrew Solomon
2,547 members
37 reviews
4.1
96
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
by Tim Weiner
2,517 members
49 reviews
3.9
97
Rabbit Is Rich
by John Updike
2,479 members
30 reviews
3.9
98
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
by Eudora Welty
2,440 members
15 reviews
4.1
99
M. C. Higgins, the Great
by Virginia Hamilton
2,437 members
26 reviews
½ 3.5
100
Charming Billy
by Alice McDermott
2,364 members
41 reviews
½ 3.4