ShelfEvidentNational Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction) — Complete Winners List
51 years of winners · National Book Critics Circle · Since 1975 · ← Back to award page
| 2024 | Hisham Matar | Viking | |
| 2023 | Lorrie Moore | Knopf | |
| 2022 | Ling Ma | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | |
| 2021 | Honorée Fanonne Jeffers | Harper | |
| 2020 | Maggie O'Farrell | Knopf | |
| 2019 | Edwidge Danticat | Knopf | |
| 2018 | Anna Burns | Faber & Faber | |
| 2017 | Joan Silber | Counterpoint | |
| 2016 | Louise Erdrich | Harper | |
| 2015 | Paul Beatty | Picador | |
| 2014 | Marilynne Robinson | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | |
| 2013 | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Knopf | |
| 2012 | Ben Fountain | Ecco | |
| 2011 | Edith Pearlman | Lookout Books | |
| 2010 | Jennifer Egan | Anchor Books | |
| 2009 | Hilary Mantel | Henry Holt and Co. | |
| 2008 | Roberto Bolaño | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | |
| 2007 | Junot Díaz | Riverhead Books | |
| 2006 | Kiran Desai | Atlantic Monthly Press | |
| 2005 | E. L. Doctorow | — | |
| 2004 | Marilynne Robinson | — | |
| 2003 | Edward P. Jones | — | |
| 2002 | Ian McEwan | — | |
| 2001 | W.G. Sebald | — | |
| 2000 | Jim Crace | — | |
| 1999 | Jonathan Lethem | — | |
| 1998 | Alice Munro | — | |
| 1997 | Penelope Fitzgerald | — | |
| 1996 | Gina Berriault | — | |
| 1995 | Stanley Elkin | — | |
| 1994 | Carol Shields | — | |
| 1993 | Ernest J. Gaines | — | |
| 1992 | Cormac McCarthy | — | |
| 1991 | Jane Smiley | — | |
| 1990 | John Updike | — | |
| 1989 | E. L. Doctorow | — | |
| 1988 | Bharati Mukherjee | — | |
| 1987 | Philip Roth | — | |
| 1986 | Reynolds Price | — | |
| 1985 | Anne Tyler | — | |
| 1984 | Louise Erdrich | — | |
| 1983 | William Kennedy | — | |
| 1982 | Stanley Elkin | — | |
| 1981 | John Updike | — | |
| 1980 | Shirley Hazzard | — | |
| 1979 | Thomas Flanagan | — | |
| 1978 | John Cheever | — | |
| 1977 | Toni Morrison | — | |
| 1976 | John Gardner | — | |
| 1975 | E. L. Doctorow | — |
