The Mookse and the Gripes

2010 – Brando Skyhorse: The Madonnas of Echo Park
2009 – Brigid Pasulka: A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True
2008 – Michael Dahlie: A Gentleman’s Guide to Graceful Living
2007 – Joshua Ferris: Then We Came to the End
2006 – Ben Fountain: Brief Encounters with Che Guervara
2005 – Yiyun Li: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
2004 – Chris Abani: Graceland
2003 – Jennifer Haigh: Mrs. Kimble
2002 – Gabriel Brownstein: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W
2001 – Justin Cronin: Mary and O’Neill
2000 – Akhil Sharma: An Obedient Father
1999 – Jhumpa Lahiri: Interpreter of Maladies
1998 – Rosina Lippi: Homestead
1997 – Charlotte Bacon: A Private State
1996 – Ha Jin: Ocean of Words
1995 – Chang-Rae Lee: Native Speaker
1994 – Susan Power: The Grass Dancer
1993 – Dagoberto Gilb: The Magic of Blood
1992 – Edward P. Jones: Lost in the City
1991 – Louis Begley: Wartime Lies
1990 – Bernard Cooper: Maps to Anywhere
1989 – Mark Richard: The Ice at the Bottom of the World
1988 – Jane Hamilton: The Book of Ruth
1987 – Lawrence Thornton: Imagining Argentina
1986 – Mary Ward Brown: Tongues of Flame
1985 – Alan V. Hewar: Lady’s Time
1984 – Josephine Humphreys: Dreams of Sleep
1983 – Joan Chase: During the Reign of the Queen of Sheba
1982 – Bobbie Ann Mason: Shiloh and Other Stories
1981 – Marilynne Robinson: Housekeeping
1980 – Joan Silber: Household Words
1979 – Alan Saperstein: Mom Kills Kids and Self
1978 – Reuben Bercovitch: Hasen
1977 – Darcy O’Brien: A Way of Life, Like Any Other
1976 – Renata Adler: Speedboat
1975 – Loyd Little: Parthian Shot