National Book Award Winners - Fiction - Statistics

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  • The average score is 37 of 83
Answer Stats
Year Author Title % Correct
1983 (HC) Alice Walker The Color Purple
100%
1974 (1) Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow
88%
1992 Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses
75%
1993 E. Annie Proulx The Shipping News
75%
1973 (2) John Edward Williams Augustus
63%
1953 Ralph Ellison Invisible Man
63%
2024 Percival Everett James
63%
1980 (HC) William Styron Sophie's Choice
63%
2001 Jonathan Franzen The Corrections
63%
1970 Joyce Carol Oates them
63%
2016 Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad
63%
1985 Don DeLillo White Noise
63%
1955 William Faulkner A Fable
50%
1973 (1) John Barth Chimera
50%
1997 Charles Frazier Cold Mountain
50%
1983 (PB) Eudora Welty Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
50%
1966 Katherine Anne Porter Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
50%
1951 William Faulkner Collected Stories of William Faulkner
50%
1952 James Jones From Here to Eternity
50%
1960 Philip Roth Goodbye, Columbus
50%
1965 Saul Bellow Herzog
50%
1982 (HC) John Updike Rabbit is Rich
50%
1982 (PB) William Maxwell So Long, See You Tomorrow
50%
1956 John O'Hara Ten North Frederick
50%
1954 Saul Bellow The Adventures of Augie March
50%
1964 John Updike The Centaur
50%
1972 Flannery O'Conner The Complete Stories
50%
1967 Bernard Malamud The Fixer
50%
1959 Bernard Malamud The Magic Barrel
50%
1950 Nelson Algren The Man with the Golden Arm
50%
1962 Walker Percy The Moviegoer
50%
1977 Wallace Stegner The Spectator Bird
50%
1981 (PB) John Cheever The Stories of John Cheever
50%
1980 (PB) John Irving The World According to Garp
50%
2007 Denis Johnson Tree of Smoke
50%
1994 William Gaddis A Frolic of His Own
38%
1974 (2) Doris Betts Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories
38%
2023 Justin Torres Blackouts
38%
1998 Alice McDermott Charming Billy
38%
1975 (1) Robert Stone Dog Soldiers
38%
2005 William T. Vollman Europe Central
38%
2015 Adam Johnson Fortune Smiles
38%
1979 Tim O'Brien Going After Cacciato
38%
2021 Jason Mott Hell of a Book
38%
2000 Susan Sontag In America
38%
2020 Charles Yu Interior Chinatown
38%
2009 Colum McCann Let the Great World Spin
38%
2010 Jaimy Gordon Lord of Misrule
38%
1991 Norman Rush Mating
38%
1990 Charles Johnson Middle Passage
38%
1963 J.F. Powers Morte d'Urban
38%
1971 Saul Bellow Mr. Sammler's Planet
38%
1988 Pete Dexter Paris Trout
38%
2014 Phil Klay Redeployment
38%
1995 Philip Roth Sabbath's Theater
38%
2011 Jesmyn Ward Salvage the Bones
38%
2008 Peter Matthiessen Shadow Country
38%
1996 Andrea Barrett Ship Fever and Other Stories
38%
2017 Jesmyn Ward Sing, Unburied, Sing
38%
1989 John Casey Spartina
38%
1969 Jerzy Kosinsky Steps
38%
1968 Thornton Wilder The Eighth Day
38%
1957 Wright Morris The Field of Vision
38%
2018 Sigrid Nunez The Friend
38%
2013 James McBride The Good Lord Bird
38%
2003 Shirley Hazzard The Great Fire
38%
2004 Lily Tuck The News from Paraguay
38%
2022 Tess Gunty The Rabbit Hutch
38%
2012 Louise Erdrich The Round House
38%
1958 John Cheever The Wapshot Chronicle
38%
1961 Conrad Richter The Waters of Kronos
38%
2002 Julia Glass Three Junes
38%
2019 Susan Choi Trust Exercise
38%
1984 Ellen Gilchrist Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories
38%
1999 Ha Jin Waiting
38%
1986 E.L. Doctorow World's Fair
38%
1978 Mary Lee Settle Blood Tie
25%
1975 (2) Donald Barthelme Guilty Pleasures
25%
1976 William Gaddis J R
25%
1987 Larry Heinemann Paco's Story
25%
1981 (HC) Wright Morris Plains Song: For Female Voices
25%
2006 Richard Powers The Echo Maker
25%
2025 Rabih Alameddine The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
25%
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