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National Book Award Winners - Fiction - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 77 times
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- The average score is 37 of 83
Answer Stats
| Year | Author | Title | % Correct |
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| 1983 (HC) | Alice Walker | The Color Purple | 100%
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| 1974 (1) | Thomas Pynchon | Gravity's Rainbow | 86%
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| 1992 | Cormac McCarthy | All the Pretty Horses | 71%
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| 1993 | E. Annie Proulx | The Shipping News | 71%
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| 1973 (2) | John Edward Williams | Augustus | 57%
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| 1953 | Ralph Ellison | Invisible Man | 57%
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| 2024 | Percival Everett | James | 57%
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| 1980 (HC) | William Styron | Sophie's Choice | 57%
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| 2001 | Jonathan Franzen | The Corrections | 57%
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| 1970 | Joyce Carol Oates | them | 57%
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| 2016 | Colson Whitehead | The Underground Railroad | 57%
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| 1985 | Don DeLillo | White Noise | 57%
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| 1955 | William Faulkner | A Fable | 43%
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| 1994 | William Gaddis | A Frolic of His Own | 43%
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| 1974 (2) | Doris Betts | Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories | 43%
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| 2023 | Justin Torres | Blackouts | 43%
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| 1998 | Alice McDermott | Charming Billy | 43%
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| 1973 (1) | John Barth | Chimera | 43%
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| 1997 | Charles Frazier | Cold Mountain | 43%
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| 1983 (PB) | Eudora Welty | Collected Stories of Eudora Welty | 43%
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| 1966 | Katherine Anne Porter | Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter | 43%
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| 1951 | William Faulkner | Collected Stories of William Faulkner | 43%
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| 1975 (1) | Robert Stone | Dog Soldiers | 43%
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| 2005 | William T. Vollman | Europe Central | 43%
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| 2015 | Adam Johnson | Fortune Smiles | 43%
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| 1952 | James Jones | From Here to Eternity | 43%
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| 1979 | Tim O'Brien | Going After Cacciato | 43%
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| 1960 | Philip Roth | Goodbye, Columbus | 43%
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| 2021 | Jason Mott | Hell of a Book | 43%
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| 1965 | Saul Bellow | Herzog | 43%
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| 2000 | Susan Sontag | In America | 43%
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| 2020 | Charles Yu | Interior Chinatown | 43%
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| 2009 | Colum McCann | Let the Great World Spin | 43%
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| 2010 | Jaimy Gordon | Lord of Misrule | 43%
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| 1991 | Norman Rush | Mating | 43%
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| 1990 | Charles Johnson | Middle Passage | 43%
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| 1971 | Saul Bellow | Mr. Sammler's Planet | 43%
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| 1988 | Pete Dexter | Paris Trout | 43%
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| 1982 (HC) | John Updike | Rabbit is Rich | 43%
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| 2014 | Phil Klay | Redeployment | 43%
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| 1995 | Philip Roth | Sabbath's Theater | 43%
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| 2011 | Jesmyn Ward | Salvage the Bones | 43%
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| 2008 | Peter Matthiessen | Shadow Country | 43%
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| 1996 | Andrea Barrett | Ship Fever and Other Stories | 43%
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| 2017 | Jesmyn Ward | Sing, Unburied, Sing | 43%
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| 1982 (PB) | William Maxwell | So Long, See You Tomorrow | 43%
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| 1989 | John Casey | Spartina | 43%
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| 1969 | Jerzy Kosinsky | Steps | 43%
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| 1956 | John O'Hara | Ten North Frederick | 43%
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| 1954 | Saul Bellow | The Adventures of Augie March | 43%
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| 1964 | John Updike | The Centaur | 43%
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| 1972 | Flannery O'Conner | The Complete Stories | 43%
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| 1967 | Bernard Malamud | The Fixer | 43%
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| 2018 | Sigrid Nunez | The Friend | 43%
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| 2013 | James McBride | The Good Lord Bird | 43%
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| 2003 | Shirley Hazzard | The Great Fire | 43%
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| 1959 | Bernard Malamud | The Magic Barrel | 43%
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| 1950 | Nelson Algren | The Man with the Golden Arm | 43%
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| 1962 | Walker Percy | The Moviegoer | 43%
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| 2004 | Lily Tuck | The News from Paraguay | 43%
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| 2022 | Tess Gunty | The Rabbit Hutch | 43%
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| 2012 | Louise Erdrich | The Round House | 43%
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| 1977 | Wallace Stegner | The Spectator Bird | 43%
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| 1981 (PB) | John Cheever | The Stories of John Cheever | 43%
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| 1980 (PB) | John Irving | The World According to Garp | 43%
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| 2002 | Julia Glass | Three Junes | 43%
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| 2007 | Denis Johnson | Tree of Smoke | 43%
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| 2019 | Susan Choi | Trust Exercise | 43%
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| 1984 | Ellen Gilchrist | Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories | 43%
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| 1999 | Ha Jin | Waiting | 43%
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| 1986 | E.L. Doctorow | World's Fair | 43%
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| 1978 | Mary Lee Settle | Blood Tie | 29%
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| 1975 (2) | Donald Barthelme | Guilty Pleasures | 29%
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| 1976 | William Gaddis | J R | 29%
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| 1963 | J.F. Powers | Morte d'Urban | 29%
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| 1987 | Larry Heinemann | Paco's Story | 29%
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| 1981 (HC) | Wright Morris | Plains Song: For Female Voices | 29%
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| 2006 | Richard Powers | The Echo Maker | 29%
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| 1968 | Thornton Wilder | The Eighth Day | 29%
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| 1957 | Wright Morris | The Field of Vision | 29%
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| 2025 | Rabih Alameddine | The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) | 29%
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| 1958 | John Cheever | The Wapshot Chronicle | 29%
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| 1961 | Conrad Richter | The Waters of Kronos | 29%
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