The Mookse and the Gripes

2011 – Jesmyn Ward: Salvage the Bones
2010 – Jaimy Gordon: Lord of Misrule
2009 – Colum McCann: Let the Great World Spin
2008 – Peter Matthiessen: Shadow Country
2007 – Denis Johnson: Tree of Smoke
2006 – Richard Powers: The Echo Maker
2005 – William Vollman: Europe Central
2004 – Lily Tuck: The News from Paraguay
2003 – Shirley Hazzard: The Great Fire
2002 – Julia Glass: Three Junes
2001 – Jonathan Franzen: The Corrections
2000 – Susan Sontag: In America
1999 – Ha Jin: Waiting
1998 – Alice McDermott: Charming Billy
1997 – Charles Frazier: Cold Mountain
1996 – Andrea Barrett: Ship Fever and Other Stories
1995 – Pilip Roth: Sabbath’s Theater
1994 – William Gaddis: A Frolic of His Own
1993 – Annie Proulx: The Shipping News
1992 – Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses
1991 – Norman Rush: Mating
1990 – Charles Johnson: Middle Passage
1989 – John Casey: Spartina
1988 – Pete Dexter: Paris Trout
1987 – Larry Heinemann: Paco’s Story
1986 – E.L. Doctorow: World’s Fair
1985 – Don DeLillo: White Noise
1984 – Ellen Gilchrist: Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories
1983 – Eudora Welty: Collected Stories of Eudora Welty; Alice Walker: The Color Purple
1982 – John Updike: Rabbit Is Rich; William Maxwell: So Long, See You Tomorrow
1981 - John Cheever: The Stories of John Cheever; Wright Morris: Plains Song
1980 – John Irving: The World According to Garp; William Styron: Sophie’s Choice
1979 – Tim O’Brien: Going After Cacciato
1978 – Mary Lee Settle: Blood Tie
1977 – Wallace Stegner: The Spectator Bird
1976 – William Gaddis: JR
1975 – Thomas Williams: The Hair of Harold Roux; Robert Stone: Dog Soldiers
1974 – Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories; Thomas Pynchon: Gravity’s Rainbow
1973 – John Edward Williams: Augustus; John Barth: Chimera
1972 – Flannery O’Connor: The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor
1971 – Saul Bellow: Mr. Sammler’s Planet
1970 – Joyce Carol Oates: them
1969 – Jerzy Kosinski: Steps
1968 – Thornton Wilder: The Eighth Day
1967 – Bernard Malamud: The Fixer
1966 – Katherine Anne Porter: The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
1965 – Saul Bellow: Herzog
1964 – John Updike: The Centaur
1963 – J.F. Powers: Morte D’Urban
1962 – Walker Percy: The Moviegoer
1961 – Conrad Richter: The Waters of Kronos
1960 – Philip Roth: Goodbye, Columbus
1959 – Bernard Malamud: The Magic Barrel
1958 – John Cheever: The Wapshot Chronicle
1957 – Wright Morris: The Field of Vision
1956 – John O’Hara: Ten North Frederick
1955 – William Faulkner: A Fable
1954 – Saul Bellow: The Adventures of Augie March
1953 – Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
1952 – James Jones: From Here to Eternity
1951 – William Faulkner: The Collected Stories of William Faulkner
1950 – Nelson Algren: The Man with the Golden Arm