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National Book Award Winners - Fiction

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