Click National Book Critics Circle Award Winners
2010 – Jennifer Egan: A Visit from the Goon Squad
2009 – Hilary Mantel: Wolf Hall
2008 – Roberto Bolaño: 2666
2007 – Junot Diaz: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2006 – Kiran Desai: The Inheritance of Loss
2005 – E.L. Doctorow: The March
2004 – Marilynne Robinson: Gilead
2003 – Edward P. Jones: The Known World
2002 – Ian McEwan: Atonement
2001 – W.G. Sebald: Austerlitz
2000 – Jim Crace: Being Dead
1999 – Jonathan Lethem: Motherless Brooklyn
1998 – Alice Munro: The Love of a Good Woman
1997 – Penelope Fitzgerald: The Blue Flower
1996 – Gina Berriault: Women in Their Beds
1995 – Stanley Elkin: Mrs. Ted Bliss
1994 – Carol Shields: The Stone Diaries
1993 – Ernest J. Gaines: A Lesson Before Dying
1992 – Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses
1991 – Jane Smiley: A Thousand Acres
1990 – John Updike: Rabbit at Rest
1989 – E.L. Doctorow: Billy Bathgate
1988 – Bharati Mukherjee: The Middleman and Other Stories
1987 – Philip Roth: The Counterlife
1986 – Reynolds Price: Kate Vaiden
1985 – Anne Tyler: The Accidental Tourist
1984 – Louise Erdich: Love Medicine
1983 – William Kennedy: Ironweed
1982 – Stanley Elkin: George Mills
1981 – John Updike: Rabbit Is Rich
1980 – Shirley Hazzard: The Transit of Venus
1979 – Thomas Flanagan: The Year of the French
1978 – John Cheever: The Stories of John Cheever
1977 – Toni Morrison: Song of Solomon
1976 – John Gardner: October Light
1975 – E.L. Doctorow: Ragtime
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