Read National Book Award Winners in Fiction

The National Book Award, given since 1950, honors the year’s best work in fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Read past winners:

• Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen (2008)
• Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson (2007)
• The Echo Maker by Richard Powers (2006)
• Europe Central by William T. Vollmann (2005)
• The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck  (2004)
• The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard (2003)
• Three Junes by Julia Glass (2002)
• The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (2001)
• In America by Susan Sontag (2000)

Find these titles in the library catalog. Place a hold to have a book delivered to the library nearest you.

Find out more and view book nominees at the National Book Award Website.