The Mookse and the Gripes

2011 – Deborah Eisenberg: The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg
2010 – Sherman Alexie: War Dances
2009 – Joseph O’Neill: Netherland
2008 – Kate Christensen: The Great Man
2007 – Philip Roth: Everyman
2006 – E.L. Doctorow: The March
2005 – Ha Jin: War Trash
2004 – John Updike: The Early Stories
2003 – Sabina Murray: The Caprices
2002 – Anne Patchett: Bel Canto
2001 – Philip Roth: The Human Stain
2000 – Ha Jin: Waiting
1999 – Michael Cunningham: The Hours
1998 – Rafi Zabor: The Bear Comes Home
1997 – Gina Berriault: Women in Their Beds
1996 – Richard Ford: Independence Day
1995 – David Guterson: Snow Falling on Cedars
1994 – Philip Roth: Operation Shylock
1993 – Annie Proulx: Postcards
1992 – Don DeLillo: Mao II
1991 – John Edgar Wideman: Philadelphia Fire
1990 – E.L. Doctorow: Billy Bathgate
1989 – James Salter: Dusk
1988 – T. Coraghessan Boyle: World’s End
1987 – Richard Wiley: Soldiers in Hiding
1986 – Peter Taylor: The Old Forest
1985 – Tobias Wolff: The Barracks Thief
1984 – John Edgar Wideman: Sent for You Yesterday
1983 – Toby Olson: Seaview
1982 – David Bradley: The Chaneysville Incident
1981 – Walter Abish: How German Is It