Homepage awardsarchive_e47t1f National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Milkman Anna Burns Amazon 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Improvement Joan Silber Amazon 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction LaRose Louise Erdrich Amazon 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction The Sellout Paul Beatty Amazon 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Lila Marilynne Robinson Amazon 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Amazon 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk Ben Fountain Amazon 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Binocular Vision Edith Pearlman Amazon 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction A Visit from the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan Amazon 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel Amazon 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction 2666 Roberto Bolaño Amazon 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz Amazon 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai Amazon 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction The March E. L. Doctorow Amazon 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Gilead Marilynne Robinson Amazon 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction The Known World Edward P. Jones Amazon 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Atonement Ian McEwan Amazon 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Austerlitz W.G. Sebald Amazon 2000 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Being Dead Jim Crace Amazon 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Motherless Brooklyn Jonathan Lethem Amazon 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction The Love of a Good Woman Alice Munro Amazon 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction The Blue Flower Penelope Fitzgerald Amazon 1996 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Women in Their Beds Gina Berriault Amazon 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Mrs. Ted Bliss Stanley Elkin Amazon 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction The Stone Diaries Carol Shields Amazon 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction A Lesson Before Dying Ernest J. Gaines Amazon 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy Amazon 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley Amazon 1990 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Rabbit at Rest John Updike Amazon 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Billy Bathgate E. L. Doctorow Amazon 1988 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction The Middleman and Other Stories Bharati Mukherjee Amazon 1987 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction The Counterlife Philip Roth Amazon 1986 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Kate Vaiden Reynolds Price Amazon 1985 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction The Accidental Tourist Anne Tyler Amazon 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Love Medicine Louise Erdrich Amazon 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Ironweed William Kennedy Amazon 1982 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction George Mills Stanley Elkin Amazon 1981 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Rabbit is Rich John Updike Amazon 1980 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction The Transit of Venus Shirley Hazzard Amazon 1979 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction The Year of the French Thomas Flanagan Amazon 1978 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction The Stories of John Cheever John Cheever Amazon 1977 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Song of Solomon Toni Morrison Amazon 1976 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction October Light John Gardner Amazon 1975 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Ragtime E.L. Doctorow Amazon