O National Book Award (em português Prêmio Nacional do Livro) é - juntamente com o Neustadt International Prize for Literature e o Prémio Pulitzer - um dos mais importantes prêmios literários dos Estados Unidos da América, dado anualmente aos melhores livros escritos por cidadãos norte-americanos vivos. O prêmio é entregue desde 1950 em ao menos uma categoria. Atualmente, existem quatro categorias: ficção, não-ficção, poesia e literatura juvenil. Os vencedores, selecionados em cada categoria por cinco membros - painéis de julgamento independentes - recebem US$ 10,000 e uma escultura de cristal. O prêmio é administrado pela Fundação National Book.
Vencedores do National Book Award Atuais categorias Ficção 1950 Nelson AlgrenThe Man with the Golden Arm1951 William Faulkner The Collected Stories of William Faulkner1952 James Jones From Here to Eternity1953 Ralph EllisonInvisible Man1954 Saul Bellow The Adventures of Augie March1955 William Faulkner A Fable1956 John O'Hara Ten North Frederick1957 Wright Morris The Field of Vision1958 John Cheever The Wapshot Chronicle1959 Bernard Malamud The Magic Barrel1960Philip RothGoodbye, Columbus1961Conrad RichterThe Waters of Kronos1962Walker PercyThe Moviegoer1963J. F. PowersMorte D'Urban1964John UpdikeThe Centaur1965Saul BellowHerzog1966Katherine Anne PorterThe Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter1967Bernard MalamudThe Fixer1968Thornton WilderThe Eighth Day1969Jerzy KosinskiSteps1970Joyce Carol OatesThem1971Saul BellowMr. Sammler's Planet1972Flannery O'ConnorThe Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor1973John BarthChimera1973John WilliamsAugustus1974Thomas PynchonGravity's Rainbow1974Isaac Bashevis SingerA Crown of Feathers and Other Stories1975Robert StoneDog Soldiers1975Thomas WilliamsThe Hair of Harold Roux1976William GaddisJR1977Wallace StegnerThe Spectator Bird1978Mary Lee SettleBlood Ties1979Tim O'BrienGoing After Cacciato1980 Capa duraWilliam StyronSophie's Choice1980 BrochuraJohn IrvingThe World According to Garp1981 Capa duraWright MorrisPlains Song1981 BrochuraJohn CheeverThe Stories of John Cheever1982 Capa duraJohn UpdikeRabbit is Rich1982 BrochuraWilliam Keepers Maxwell Jr.So Long, See You Tomorrow1983 Capa duraAlice WalkerThe Color Purple1983 BrochuraEudora WeltyCollected Stories of Eudora Welty1984Ellen GilchristVictory Over Japan: A Book of Stories1985Don DeLilloWhite Noise1986E.L. DoctorowWorld's Fair1987Larry HeinemannPaco's Story1988Pete DexterParis Trout1989John CaseySpartina1990Charles JohnsonMiddle Passage1991Norman RushMating1992Cormac McCarthyAll the Pretty Horses1993E. Annie ProulxThe Shipping News1994William GaddisA Frolic of His Own1995Philip RothSabbath's Theater1996Andrea BarrettShip Fever and Other Stories1997Charles FrazierCold Mountain1998Alice McDermottCharming Billy1999Ha JinWaiting2000Susan SontagIn America2001Jonathan FranzenThe Corrections2002Julia GlassThree Junes2003Shirley HazzardThe Great Fire2004Lily TuckThe News from Paraguay2005 William Vollmann Europe Central2006 Richard Powers The Echo Maker2007 Denis Johnson Tree of Smoke2008 Peter Matthiessen Shadow Country2009 Colum McCann Let the Great World Spin2010 Jaimy Gordon Lord of Misrule2011 Jesmyn Ward Salvage the Bones2012 Louise Erdrich The Round House2013 James McBride The Good Lord Bird2014 Phil Klay Redeployment2015 Adam Johnson Fortune smiles2016 Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad2017 Jesmyn Ward Sing, Unburied, Sing2018 Sigrid Nunez The Friend2019Susan ChoiTrust Exercise2020Charles YuInterior Chinatown2021Jason MottHell of a Book2022Tess GuntyThe Rabbit Hutch2023Justin TorresBlackouts2024Percival EverettJames
Não-ficção 1950Ralph L. RuskRalph Waldo Emerson (artigo sobre Ralph Waldo Emerson)1951Newton ArvinHerman Melville (artigo sobre Herman Melville)1952Rachel CarsonThe Sea Around Us1953Bernard A. De VotoThe Course of Empire1954Bruce CattonA Stillness at Appomattox1955Joseph Wood KrutchThe Measure of Man1956Herbert KublyAn American in Italy1957George F. KennanRussia Leaves the War1958Catherine Drinker BowenThe Lion and the Throne (artigo sobre Edward Coke)1959J. Christopher HeroldMistress to an Age: A Life of Madame De Stael1960Richard EllmannJames Joyce (artigo sobre James Joyce}1961William L. ShirerThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich1962Lewis MumfordThe City in History: Its Origins, its Transformations and its Prospects1963Leon EdelHenry James, Vol. II: The Conquest of London, Henry James, Vol. III: The Middle Years1984Robert V. ReminiAndrew Jackson & the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845 (artigo sobre Andrew Jackson)1985J. Anthony LukasCommon Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families1986Barry LopezArctic Dreams1987Richard RhodesThe Making of the Atom Bomb1988Neil SheehanA Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (article on John Paul Vann)1989Thomas L. FriedmanFrom Beirut to Jerusalem1990Ron ChernowThe House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance1991Orlando PattersonFreedom1992Paul MonetteBecoming a Man: Half a Life Story1993Gore VidalUnited States: Essays 1952-19921994Sherwin B. NulandHow We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter1995Tina RosenbergThe Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism1996James CarrollAn American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us1997Joseph J. EllisAmerican Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson1998Edward BallSlaves in the Family1999John W. DowerEmbracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II2000Nathaniel PhilbrickIn the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex2001Andrew SolomonThe Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression2002Robert A. CaroMaster of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson2003Carlos EireWaiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy2004Kevin BoyleArc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age2005Joan DidionThe Year of Magical Thinking2006Timothy EganThe Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl2007Tim WeinerLegacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA2008Annette Gordon-ReedThe Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family2009T.J. StilesThe First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt 2010 Patti SmithJust Kids2011 Stephen GreenblattThe Swerve: How the World Became Modern2012 Katherine BooBehind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity[2013 George PackerThe Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America2014 Evan OsnosAge of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China2015 Ta-Nehisi CoatesBetween the World and Me2016 Ibram X. KendiStamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America2017 Masha GessenThe Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia2018 Jeffrey C. StewartThe New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
Poesia 1950William Carlos WilliamsPaterson: Book III and Selected Poems1951Wallace StevensThe Auroras of Autumn1952Marianne MooreCollected Poems1953Archibald MacLeishCollected Poems, 1917-19521954Conrad AikenCollected Poems1955Wallace StevensThe Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens1956W.H. AudenThe Shield of Achilles1957Richard WilburThings of This World1958Robert Penn WarrenPromises: Poems, 1954-19561959Theodore RoethkeWords for the Wind1960Robert LowellLife Studies1961Randall JarrellThe Woman at the Washington Zoo1962Alan DuganPoems1963William StaffordTraveling Through the Dark1964John Crowe RansomSelected Poems1965Theodore RoethkeThe Far Field1966James DickeyBuckdancer's Choice: Poems1967James MerrillNights and Days1968Robert BlyThe Light Around the Body1969John BerrymanHis Toy, His Dream, His Rest1970Elizabeth BishopThe Complete Poems1971Mona Van DuynTo See, To Take1972Howard MossSelected Poems1972Frank O'HaraThe Collected Works of Frank O'Hara1973A. R. AmmonsCollected Poems, 1951-19711974Allen GinsbergThe Fall of America: Poems of these States, 1965-19711974Adrienne RichDiving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-19721975Marilyn HackerPresentation Piece1976John AshberySelf-portrait in a Convex Mirror1977Richard EberhartCollected Poems, 1930-19761978Howard NemerovThe Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov1979James MerrillMirabell: Book of Numbers1980Philip LevineAshes1981Lisel MuellerThe Need to Hold Still1982William BronkLife Supports: New and Collected Poems1983Galway KinnellSelected Poems1983Charles WrightCountry Music: Selected Early Poems1991Philip LevineWhat Work Is1992Mary OliverNew & Selected Poems1993A. R. AmmonsGarbage1994James TateA Worshipful Company of Fletchers1995Stanley KunitzPassing Through: The Later Poems1996Hayden CarruthScrambled Eggs & Whiskey1997William MeredithEffort at Speech: New & Selected Poems1998Gerald SternThis Time: New and Selected Poems1999AiVice: New & Selected Poems2000Lucille CliftonPoems Seven: New and Complete Poetry2001Alan DuganBlessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-20002002Ruth StoneIn the Next Galaxy2003C.K. WilliamsThe Singing2004Jean ValentineDoor in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-20032005W. S. MerwinMigration: New & Selected Poems2005W. S. MerwinMigration: New & Selected Poems2006Nathaniel MackeySplay Anthem2007Robert HassTime and Materials: Poems, 1997–20052008Mark DotyFire to Fire: New and Selected Poems2009Keith WaldropTranscendental Studies: A Trilogy2010Terrance HayesLighthead2011Nikky FinneyHead Off & Split: Poems2012David FerryBewilderment: New Poems and Translations2013Mary SzybistIncarnadine2014Louise GluckFaithful and Virtuous Night2015Robin Coste LewisVoyage of the Sable Venus2016Daniel BorzutzkyThe Performance of Becoming Human2017Frank BidartHalf-light: Collected Poems 1965-20162018Justin Phillip ReedIndecency
Literatura Juvenil 1996Victor MartinezParrott In the Oven: MiVida1997Han NolanDancing on the Edge1998Louis SacharHoles1999Kimberly Willis HoltWhen Zachary Beaver Came to Town2000Gloria WhelanHomeless Bird2001Virginia Euwer WolffTrue Believer2002Nancy FarmerThe House of the Scorpion2003Polly HorvathThe Canning Season2004Pete HautmanGodless2005Jeanne BirdsallThe Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy2006M. T. Anderson,The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party2007Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian2008Judy BlundelllWhat I Saw and How I Lied2009Phillip HooseClaudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice2010Kathryn ErskineMockingbird2011Thanhha LaiInside Out and Back Again2012William AlexanderGoblin Secrets2013Cynthia KadohataThe Thing About Luck2014Jacqueline WoodsonBrown Girl Dreaming2015Neal ShustermanChallenger Deep2016John Lewis, Andrew Aydin e Nate PowellMarch: Book Three2017 Robin BenwayFar from the Tree2018 Elizabeth AcevedoThe Poet X
Categorias anteriores Em 1964, as categorias Artes e Letras, História e Biografia e Ciência, Filosofia e Religião receberam o adendo Não-ficção.
Em 1981, Literatura Infantil, Ficção se transformou, em 1983, em Ficção Infantil''.
Primeiro romance 1980William WhartonBirdy1981Ann ArensbergSister Wolf1982Robb Forman DewDale Loves Sophie to Death1983Gloria NaylorThe Women of Brewster Place
Primeiro trabalho de ficção 1984Harriet DoerrStones for Ibarra1985Bob ShacochisEasy in the Islands
Ficção Científica 1980 HardcoverFrederik PohlJem1980 PaperbackWalter Wangerin, Jr.The Book of the Dun Cow
Mistério 1980 HardcoverJohn D. MacDonaldThe Green Ripper
Western 1980Louis L'AmourBendigo Shafter
Paperback Original 1983Lisa GoldsteinThe Red Magician
Não ficção geral 1980 Capa duraTom WolfeThe Right Stuff1980 BrochuraPeter MatthiessenThe Snow Leopard1981 Capa duraMaxine Hong KingstonChina Men1981 BrochuraJane KramerThe Last Cowboy1982 Capa duraTracy KidderThe Soul of a New Machine1982 BrochuraVictor S. NavaskyNaming Names1983 Capa duraFox ButterfieldChina: Alive in the Bitter Sea1983 BrochuraJames FallowsNational Defense
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