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National Book Award Finalists - Fiction

Description: The books that didn’t win. Hardcover only ‘80 - ‘84.

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1

To Kill a Mockingbird

76,591 members

1,420 reviews

½ 4.4

8 Members: hipdeep, dylan555, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

2

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

68,201 members

1,065 reviews

3.8

8 Members: dylan555, gypsysmom, nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

3

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

43,166 members

690 reviews

4.1

8 Members: hipdeep, dylan555, gypsysmom, nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

4

A Separate Peace

by John Knowles

12,562 members

188 reviews

½ 3.6

7 Members: hipdeep, dylan555, gypsysmom, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

5

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

29,896 members

494 reviews

3.8

6 Members: dylan555, gypsysmom, nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963, skavlanj, steller0707

6

by Toni Morrison

22,264 members

397 reviews

3.9

6 Members: proserpinarex, gypsysmom, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

7

by Joseph Heller

39,208 members

514 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, elkiedee, gypsysmom, nagasravika.bodapati, skavlanj

8

The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

9,247 members

425 reviews

3.9

5 Members: nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

9

by Emily St. John Mandel

11,048 members

756 reviews

4.1

5 Members: gypsysmom, nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963, kara.shamy, steller0707

10

The Tiger's Wife

5,229 members

331 reviews

½ 3.5

5 Members: dylan555, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, steller0707

11

by Robert Jones Jr.

758 members

26 reviews

4.1

5 Members: dylan555, gypsysmom, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

12

by Vladimir Nabokov

31,154 members

546 reviews

4.1

5 Members: dylan555, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

13

All the Light We Cannot See

by Anthony Doerr

17,564 members

854 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: dylan555, gypsysmom, nagasravika.bodapati, kara.shamy, steller0707

14

by Toni Morrison

7,438 members

96 reviews

3.8

4 Members: proserpinarex, dylan555, kara.shamy, steller0707

15

The World According to Garp

15,103 members

193 reviews

4.1

4 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, skavlanj, steller0707

16

Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories

by Flannery O'Connor

2,315 members

53 reviews

4.2

4 Members: proserpinarex, dylan555, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

17

A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

by Flannery O'Connor

3,947 members

95 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, dylan555, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

18

2,333 members

52 reviews

3.9

3 Members: proserpinarex, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

19

6,026 members

109 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: proserpinarex, dylan555, gypsysmom, skavlanj,ManWithAnAgenda

20

by Ursula K. Le Guin

1,533 members

23 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: dylan555, ManWithAnAgenda

21

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

by Deesha Philyaw

508 members

32 reviews

4.2

4 Members: dylan555, kara.shamy, skavlanj, steller0707

22

Breathing Lessons

4,204 members

71 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: elkiedee, skavlanj, steller0707

23

The Confessions of Nat Turner

by William Styron

2,666 members

36 reviews

3.9

3 Members: proserpinarex, dylan555, kara.shamy

24

The Known World

by Edward P. Jones

6,759 members

158 reviews

3.8

3 Members: proserpinarex, dylan555, gypsysmom

25

Fates and Furies

by Lauren Groff

3,612 members

199 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: dylan555, kara.shamy, steller0707

26

Franny and Zooey

by J. D. Salinger

14,590 members

168 reviews

4

3 Members: dylan555, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

27

by Hanya Yanagihara

6,797 members

315 reviews

4.1

3 Members: dylan555, kara.shamy, steller0707

28

Black Leopard, Red Wolf

by Marlon James

2,534 members

56 reviews

½ 3.3

3 Members: proserpinarex, dylan555, kara.shamy

29

The Association of Small Bombs

by Karan Mahajan

812 members

42 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: dylan555, kara.shamy, steller0707

30

5,993 members

269 reviews

4.1

3 Members: dylan555, kara.shamy, steller0707

31

The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

by Louise Erdrich

1,949 members

62 reviews

4.1

3 Members: proserpinarex, dylan555, gypsysmom

32

1,369 members

57 reviews

3.8

3 Members: dylan555, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

33

by Jhumpa Lahiri

3,220 members

174 reviews

3.9

3 Members: dylan555, gypsysmom, steller0707

34

The Violent Bear It Away

by Flannery O'Connor

1,725 members

45 reviews

4

3 Members: dylan555, kara.shamy, steller0707

35

Disappearing Earth

by Julia Phillips

1,218 members

64 reviews

3.9

3 Members: dylan555, kara.shamy, steller0707

36

by Douglas Stuart

2,250 members

116 reviews

4.2

4 Members: dylan555, gypsysmom, kara.shamy, skavlanj,ahef1963

37

by John Steinbeck

2,780 members

47 reviews

4

2 Members: skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

38

by Lauren Groff

1,444 members

76 reviews

3.9

3 Members: dylan555, kara.shamy, skavlanj

39

The Great Believers

by Rebecca Makkai

1,866 members

107 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: dylan555, gypsysmom, kara.shamy

40

Cloud Cuckoo Land

by Anthony Doerr

3,294 members

151 reviews

4.2

3 Members: dylan555, skavlanj, steller0707

41

A Death in the Family

2,991 members

65 reviews

3.9

2 Members: skavlanj, steller0707

42

Interior Chinatown

1,302 members

79 reviews

3.9

2 Members: elkiedee, steller0707

43

Tenth of December: Stories

by George Saunders

3,712 members

179 reviews

4

2 Members: kara.shamy, steller0707

44

by John Steinbeck

22,701 members

412 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: skavlanj, steller0707

45

Revolutionary Road

by Richard Yates

6,689 members

241 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, skavlanj

46

by Bernard Malamud

1,554 members

28 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dylan555, gypsysmom

47

The Joy Luck Club

17,348 members

198 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

48

by Marilynne Robinson

3,685 members

146 reviews

4

2 Members: kara.shamy, steller0707

49

A Children's Bible

by Lydia Millet

823 members

43 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: kara.shamy, skavlanj

50

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

by Steven Millhauser

1,634 members

55 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: dylan555, ahef1963

51

An Unnecessary Woman

by Rabih Alameddine

1,205 members

84 reviews

4

2 Members: kara.shamy, steller0707

52

The Caine Mutiny

3,225 members

58 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: hipdeep, dylan555

53

A Summons to Memphis

by Peter Taylor

1,015 members

28 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: ahef1963, skavlanj

54

7,848 members

85 reviews

3.9

2 Members: proserpinarex, dylan555

55

6,534 members

93 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, steller0707

56

The Collected Stories

927 members

14 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: proserpinarex, dylan555

57

by Marilynne Robinson

2,424 members

111 reviews

4

2 Members: kara.shamy, steller0707

58

A Flag for Sunrise

by Robert Stone

552 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dylan555, skavlanj

59

This Is How You Lose Her

2,846 members

121 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dylan555, steller0707

60

Giovanni's Room

by James Baldwin

5,254 members

122 reviews

4.2

2 Members: gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

61

by E. L. Doctorow

2,251 members

31 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dylan555, skavlanj

62

The Optimist's Daughter

by Eudora Welty

2,584 members

91 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: proserpinarex, dylan555

63

Foreign Affairs

by Alison Lurie

1,429 members

33 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dylan555, steller0707

64

by MacKinlay Kantor

1,186 members

18 reviews

4.1

2 Members: dylan555, kara.shamy

65

2,428 members

42 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dylan555, skavlanj

66

Another Brooklyn

by Jacqueline Woodson

1,301 members

95 reviews

4

2 Members: gypsysmom, steller0707

67

Lie Down in Darkness

by William Styron

926 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: proserpinarex, dylan555

68

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

by Oscar Hijuelos

1,933 members

31 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: dylan555, ahef1963

69

by Thomas Pynchon

1,566 members

53 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: proserpinarex, dylan555

70

The Heaven of Mercury

332 members

10 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: dylan555

71

Leave the World Behind

1,945 members

117 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: skavlanj, steller0707

72

by E. L. Doctorow

2,973 members

83 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dylan555, kara.shamy

73

The Buddha in the Attic

by Julie Otsuka

2,556 members

203 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dylan555, steller0707

74

The Turner House

by Angela Flournoy

953 members

54 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dylan555, kara.shamy

75

A Lucky Man: Stories

by Jamel Brinkley

152 members

11 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dylan555, kara.shamy

76

by Lauren Groff

1,076 members

60 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dylan555, kara.shamy

77

255 members

22 reviews

4

2 Members: dylan555, skavlanj

78

The Other Americans

by Laila Lalami

612 members

37 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dylan555, kara.shamy

79

A Hologram for the King

1,648 members

66 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: dylan555, steller0707

80

The Ghost Writer

1,861 members

34 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dylan555

81

5,474 members

207 reviews

4

2 Members: dylan555, steller0707

82

So Long, See You Tomorrow

by William Maxwell

1,655 members

65 reviews

3.9

Member: dylan555

83

by Frederick Exley

1,102 members

15 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

84

Then We Came to the End

by Joshua Ferris

4,466 members

219 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

85

Humboldt's Gift

2,934 members

38 reviews

3.8

Member: dylan555

86

Further Fables for Our Time

by James Thurber

209 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

87

by J. P. Donleavy

1,843 members

32 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: skavlanj

88

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

by Daniyal Mueenuddin

1,057 members

50 reviews

3.8

Member: dylan555

89

Evidence of Things Unseen

by Marianne Wiggins

582 members

16 reviews

4.1

Member: dylan555

90

by Thomas Pynchon

5,101 members

34 reviews

4

Member: proserpinarex

91

Henderson the Rain King

2,822 members

54 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: skavlanj

92

by Leonard Gardner

473 members

18 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

93

by Alice McDermott

421 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dylan555

94

The Stories of John Cheever

by John Cheever

3,309 members

34 reviews

4.2

Member: proserpinarex

95

The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford

by Jean Stafford

359 members

9 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: dylan555

96

The Executioner's Song

by Norman Mailer

2,840 members

50 reviews

4

Member: proserpinarex

97

217 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: dylan555

98

by Jessica Hagedorn

494 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: proserpinarex

99

by James Alan McPherson

320 members

3 reviews

3.2

Member: dylan555

100

by Joyce Carol Oates

2,091 members

62 reviews

4

Member: dylan555

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