2020 – Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu
2019 – Trust Exercise, Susan Choi
2018 – The Friend, Sigrid Nunez
2017 – Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward
2016 – The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
2015 – Fortune Smiles, Adam Johnson
2014 – Redeployment, Phil Klay
2013 – The Good Lord Bird, James McBridge
2012 – The Round House, Louise Erdrich
2011 – Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward
2010 – Lord of Misrule, Jaimy Gordon
2009 – Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann
2008 – Shadow Country, Peter Matthiessen
2007 – Tree of Smoke, Denis Johnson
2006 – The Echo Maker, Richard Powers
2005 – Europe Central, William T. Vollmann
2004 – The New from Paraguay, Lily Tuck
2003 – The Great Fire, Shirley Hazzard
2002 – Three Junes, Julia Glass
2001 – The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
2000 – In America, Susan Sontag
1999 – Waiting, Ha Jin
1998 – Charming Billy, Alice McDermott
1997 – Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
1996 – Ship Fever and Other Stories, Andrea Barrett
1995 – Sabbath’s Theater, Philip Roth
1994 – A Frolic of his Own, William Gaddis
1993 – The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx
1992 – All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
1991 – Mating, Norman Rush
1990 – Middle Passage, Charles Johnson
1989 – Spartina, John Casey
1988 – Paris Trout, Pete Dexter
1987 – Paco’s Story, Larry Heinemann
1986 – World’s Fair, E.L. Doctorow
1985 – White Noise, Don DeLillo
1984 – Victory over Japan, Ellen Gilchrist
1983 – The Collected Stories, Eudora Welty
1983 – The Color Purple, Alice Walker
1982 – Rabbit is Rich, John Updike
1981 – Plain Song, Wright Morris
1980 – Sophie’s Choice, William Styron
1979 – Going after Cacciato, Tim O’Brien
1978 – Blood Tie, Mary Lee Settle
1977 – The Spectator Bird, Wallace Stegner
1976 – JR, William Gaddis
1975 – The Hair of Harold Roux, Thomas Williams
1975 – Dog Soldiers, Robert Stone
1974 – Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
1974 – A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer
1973 – Augustus, John Williams
1973 – Chimera, John Barth
1972 – The Complete Stories, Flannery O’Connor
1971 – Mr. Sammler’s Planet, Saul Bellow
1970 – Them, Joyce Carol Oates
1969 – Steps, Jerzy Kosinski
1968 – The Eighth Day, Thornton Wilder
1967 – The Fixer, Bernard Malamud
1966 – The Collected Stories, Katherine Anne Porter
1965 – Herzog, Saul Bellow
1964 – The Centaur, John Updike
1963 – Morte D’Urban, J.F. Powers
1962 – The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
1961 – The Waters of Kronos, Conrad Richter
1960 – Goodbye, Columbus, Philip Roth
1959 – The Magic Barrel, Bernard Malamud
1958 – The Wapshot Chronicle, John Cheever
1957 – The Field of Vision, Wright Morris
1956 – Ten North Frederick, John O’Hara
1955 – A Fable, William Faulkner
1954 – The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
1953 – Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
1952 – From Here to Eternity, James Jones
1951 – The Collected Stories, William Faulkner
1950 – The Man with the Golden Arm, Nelson Algren