National Book Awards
What are the National Book Awards?
"The mission of the National Book Foundation is to celebrate the best literature in America, expand its audience, and ensure that books have a prominent place in American culture."
Winners are announced each November.
NBA Fiction Winners by Year
Shadow Country : a new rendering of the Watson legend by Call Number: PS3563.A8584 S53 20082008 winner
NBA Fiction Winners by Year
Frolic of His Own by 1994 winner
Birdy by 1980 winner (First Novel)
The Green Ripper by 1980 winner (Mystery, Hardcover)
Stained Glass by 1980 winner (Mystery, Paperback)
Jem by 1980 winner (Science Fiction, Hardcover)
The Book of the Dun Cow by 1980 winner (Science Fiction, Paperback)
Bendigo Shafter by 1980 winner (Western)- Sister Wolf by1981 winner (First Novel)
So Long, See You Tomorrow by 1982 winner (Paperback)
Dale Loves Sophie to Death by 1982 winner (First Novel)
The Red Magician by 1983 winner (Original Paperback)
Stones for Ibarra by 1984 winner (First Work of Fiction)
Easy in the Islands by 1985 winner (First Work of Fiction)
World's Fair by 1986 winner
Spartina by 1989 winner
Slaughterhouse-Five, or, the children's crusade : a duty-dance with death by Call Number: PS3572.O5 S6 19881970 winner
Mr. Sammler's Planet by 1971 winner
Augustus by 1973 winner
A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories by 1974 winner
The Hair of Harold Roux by 1975 winner
The Spectator Bird by 1977 winner- Blood Tie by1978 winner
The Waters of Kronos by 1961 winner
Morte D'Urban by 1963 winner
Steps by 1969 winner
The Magic Barrel by 1959 winner
NBA Nonfiction Winners by Year
South to America : A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Call Number: F216.2 .P47 20222022 winner
The rediscovery of America : native peoples and the unmaking of U.S. history by Call Number: ebook2023 winner
Just Kids by 2010 winner
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by 2012 winner
Age of Ambition : chasing fortune, truth, and faith in the new China by 2014 winner
Stamped from the Beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America by Call Number: ebook and E185.61 .K358 20162016 winner
The Future Is History : how totalitarianism reclaimed Russia by Call Number: DK510.763 .G48 20172017 winner
In the Heart of the Sea : the tragedy of the whaleship Essex by Call Number: G530.E77 P45 20002000 winner
The Noonday Demon by 2001 winner
Arc of Justice : a saga of race, civil rights, and murder in the Jazz Age by Call Number: KF224.S8 B69 20052004 winner
The Worst Hard Time : the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl by Call Number: F595 .E38 20062006 winner
The First Tycoon : the epic life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by Call Number: CT 275 .V23 S85 20092009 winner
NBA Nonfiction and General Nonfiction Winners by Year
The House of Morgan : an American banking dynasty and the rise of modern finance by Call Number: HG2613.N54 M6613 19901990 winner
Freedom by 1991 winner- United States : Essays, 1952-1992 by1993 winner
The Haunted Land : Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by 1995 winner
An American Requiem : God, my father, and the war that came between us by Call Number: PS3553.A764 Z464 19961996 winner
- The Last Cowboy by1981 winner (Paperback)
Naming Names by 1982 winner (Paperback)- National Defense by1983 winner (Paperback)
- Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy 1833-1845 by1984 winner
Common Ground : a turbulent decade in the lives of three American families by Call Number: F73.9.A1 L85 19851985 winner
A Bright Shining Lie : John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Call Number: DS558 .S47 19881988 winner
James Joyce by 1960 winner- The City in History : its origins, its transformations, and its prospects byCall Number: HT111 .M81962 winner
- Henry James, Vol. II: The Conquest of London, Henry James, Vol. III: The Middle Years by1963 winner
- The Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson by1950 winner
The Course of Empire by 1953 winner- The Measure of Man by1955 winner
- An American in Italy by1956 winner
Russia Leaves the War by 1957 winner- The Lion and the Throne by1958 winner
Mistress to an Age by 1959 winner
NBA Poetry Winners by Year
Blessing the Boats : new and selected poems, 1988-2000 by Call Number: PS3553 .L45 B58 20002000 winner
In the Next Galaxy by 2002 winner
The Singing by 2003 winner
Migration : new & selected poems by 2005 winner
Splay Anthem by 2006 winner
Time and Materials by 2007 winner
Fire to Fire by 2008 winner
NBA Poetry Winners by Year
What Work Is by 1991 winner
Garbage : a Poem by 1993 winner
Worshipful Company of Fletchers by 1994 winner
Passing Through : the later poems by 1995 winner
Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey : poems, 1991-1995 by 1996 winner
Effort at Speech : new and selected poems by 1997 winner
This Time : New and Selected Poems by 1998 winner
- Ashes by1980 winner
The Need to Hold Still by 1981 winner
Life Supports by 1982 winner
- To See, To Take by1971 winner
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara by 1972 winner
Collected Poems, 1951-1971 by 1973 winner- Presentation Piece by1975 winner
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by 1976 winner- Collected Poems, 1930-1976 by1977 winner
The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov by 1978 winner- Mirabell : books of number by1979 winner
- Poems by1962 winner
- Traveling through the Dark by1963 winner
- Nights and Days by1967 winner
- The Light Around the Body by1968 winner
- His Toy, His Dream, His Rest by1969 winner
- William Carlos Williams - Selected Poems by1950 winner
- The Auroras of Autumn by1951 winner
- Collected Poems by1952 winner
- Collected Poems, 1917-1952 by1953 winner
- The shield of Achilles by1956 winner
- Things of This World by1957 winner
- Promises: Poems 1954-1956 by1958 winner
- Words for the Wind by1959 winner
NBA Young People's Literature Winners by Year
Mockingbird by 2010 winner
Homeless Bird by 2000 winner
True Believer by 2001 winner
The House of the Scorpion by 2002 winner
The Canning Season by 2003 winner
Godless by 2004 winner
The Penderwicks by 2005 winner
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I by Call Number: PZ7.A54395 Ast 20062006 winner
What I Saw and How I Lied by 2008 winner
Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice by 2009 winner
NBA Children's Books and Young People's Literature Winners by Year
Parrot in the Oven : Mi Vida by 1996 winner
Dancing on the Edge by 1997 winner
Holes by 1998 winner
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by 1999 winner
A Gathering of Days : a New England girl's journal, 1830-32 : a novel by Call Number: PZ7.B6237 Gat 19791980 winner (Hardcover)- The Night Swimmers by1981 winner (Fiction, Hardcover)
- Oh, Boy! Babies by1981 winner (Nonfiction, Hardcover)
Westmark by 1982 winner (Fiction, Hardcover)
Words by Heart by 1982 winner (Fiction, Paperback)- A Penguin Year by1982 winner (Nonfiction)
Marked by Fire by 1983 winner (Fiction, Paperback)- Chimney Sweeps by1983 winner (Nonfiction)
A House Is a House for Me by 1983 winner (Picture books, Paperback)
A Day of Pleasure by 1970 winner- The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian : grand extravaganza, including a performance by the entire cast of the Gallimaufry-Theatricus byCall Number: PZ7.A3774 Mar1971 winner
The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine : Or, the Hithering Thithering Djinn by 1972 winner
The Court of Stone Children by 1974 winner
Bert Breen's Barn by 1976 winner
The Master Puppeteer by 1977 winner
The View from the Oak : The Private Worlds of Other Creatures by ISBN: 97815658463641978 winner
The Great Gilly Hopkins by 1979 winner
NBA Translation Winners by Year
Seven Empty Houses by 2022 winner
The Emissary by 2018 winner
- Complete Critical Prose and Letters by1980 winner
- Evening Edged in Gold by1981 winner
- In the Shade of Spring Leaves : the life and writings of Higuchi Ichiyō, a woman of letters in Meiji Japan by1982 winner
Les Fleurs du Mal by 1983 winner
Chance and Necessity by 1972 winner- The Aeneid by1973 winner
Monsieur Teste by 1974 winner
The Agony of Christianity and Essays on Faith by 1975 winner- Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance by1977 winner
- In the Deserts of This Earth by1978 winner
The Complete Posthumous Poetry by 1979 winner
Cosmicomics by ISBN: 97805445778791969 winner
NBA Arts and Letters Winners by Year
Cocteau : A Biography by 1971 winner- Diderot by1973 winner
- Deeper into Movies by1974 winner
The Oysters of Locmariaquer by 1965 winner- Selected Letters by1968 winner
The Armies of the Night : history as a novel, the novel as history by Call Number: PS3525.A4152 A81969 winner
NBA History and Biography Winners by Year
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 by Call Number: ebook and HT867 .D38 19751976 winner
White over Black : American attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812 by Call Number: ebook and E185 .J691969 winner
NBA Science, Philosophy and Religion Winners by Year
- Man-made America by1964 winner
God and Golem, Inc : A Comment on Certain Points where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion by 1965 winner- La vida : a Puerto Rican family in the culture of poverty--San Juan and New York byCall Number: F128.9.P8 L41967 winner
Death at an Early Age : the destruction of the hearts and minds of Negro children in the Boston public schools by Call Number: LC2803.B7 K6 19851968 winner
NBA Religion / Inspiration Winners by Year
A Severe Mercy by 1980 winner (Paperback)
NBA Philosophy and Religion Winners by Year
Gandhi's Truth : on the origins of militant nonviolence by 1970 winner- Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America by1972 winner
- Edmund Husserl: Philosopher of Infinite Tasks by1974 winner
Anarchy, State, and Utopia by 1975 winner
NBA The Sciences Winners by Year
- Science in the British Colonies of America by1971 winner
The Blue Whale by 1972 winner
The Serengeti Lion : a study of predator-prey relations by Call Number: ebook and QL737.C23 S2981973 winner- Life: The Unfinished Experiment by1974 winner
- Interpretation of Schizophrenia by1975 winner
NBA Science Winners by Year
Godel, Escher, Bach : an eternal golden braid by Call Number: QA9.8 .H63 19801980 winner (Hardcover)
The Dancing Wu Li Master : an overview of the new physics by 1980 winner (Paperback)
The Medusa and the Snail by 1981 winner (Paperback)
Taking the Quantum Leap : the new physics for nonscientists by Call Number: QC174.12 .W64 19891982 winner (Paperback)
'Subtle Is the Lord' the science and the life of Albert Einstein by Call Number: ebook1983 winner (Hardcover)
The Mathematical Experience by 1983 winner (Paperback)
NBA Biography and Autobiography Winners by Year
- Lauren Bacall : By myself by1980 winner (Autobiography, Hardcover)
- And I Worked at the Writer's Trade : Chapters of Literary History, 1918-1978 by1980 winner (Autobiography, Paperback)
Max Perkins : Editor of Genius by 1980 winner (Biography, Paperback)
Walter Lippmann and the American Century by 1982 winner (Paperback)- Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times by1983 winner (Paperback)
Eleanor and Franklin : the story of their relationship, based on Eleanor Roosevelt's private papers by 1972 winner
George Washington: Anguish and Farewell 1793-1799 - Volume IV by Call Number: E312.29 .F561973 winner- Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian by1974 winner
The Life of Emily Dickinson by 1975 winner- Norman Thomas : the last idealist by1977 winner
Robert Kennedy and His Times by 1979 winner
NBA Contemporary Affairs / Thought Winners by Year
- The Last Whole Earth Catalog by1972 winner
Fire in the Lake : the Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam. by Publication Date: 1989-07-171973 winner- The Briar Patch by1974 winner
The Uses of Enchantment : the meaning and importance of fairy tales by Call Number: GR550 .B47 19761977 winner
Winners and Losers : battles, retreats, gains, losses, and ruins from the Vietnam war by Call Number: DS558.2 .E46 19781978 winner
NBA Current Interest Winners by Year
Julia Child and More Company by 1980 winner (Hardcover)
The Culture of Narcissism : American life in an age of diminishing expectations by Call Number: HN65 .L331980 winner (Paperback)
NBA History Winners by Year
A Distant Mirror : the calamitous 14th century by Call Number: DC97.5 .T82 19781980 winner (Paperback)
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality by Call Number: HQ76.3.E8 B67 19811981 winner (Hardcover)
Been in the Storm So Long : the aftermath of slavery by 1981 winner (Paperback)- People of the Sacred Mountain: A History of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies, 1830-1879 by1982 winner (Hardcover)
The Generation of 1914 by 1982 winner (Paperback)
Voices of Protest : Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression by Call Number: E806 .B75 19831983 winner (Hardcover)
- Ordeal of the Union, Vols. VII & VIII: The Organized War, 1863-1864 and The Organized War to Victory by1972 winner
Judenrat by 1973 winner- Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian by1974 winner
World of Our Fathers by 1977 winner
Path Between the Seas : the creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by Call Number: F1569.C2 M331978 winner
