1999
The Hours by Michael Cunningham

1998
American Pastoral by Philip Roth

1997
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser

1996
Independence Day by Richard Ford

1995
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

1994
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx

1993
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler

1992
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

1991
Rabbit at Rest by John Updike

1990
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos

1989
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler

1988
Beloved by Toni Morrison

1987
A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor

1986
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

1985
Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie

1984
Ironweed by William Kennedy

1983
The Color Purple by Alice Walker

1982
Rabbit is Rich by John Updike

1981
A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole

1980
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer

1979
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever

1978
Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson

1977
(No Award)

1976
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow

1975
The Killer Angles by Michael Shaara

1974
(No Award)

1973
The Optimists Daughter by Eudora Welty

1972
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

1971
(No Award)

1970
Collected Stories by Jean Stafford

1969
House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday

1968
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron

1967
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud

1966
Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter

1965
The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau

1964
(No Award)

1963
The Reivers by William Faulkner

1962
The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor

1961
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

1960
Advise and Consent by Allen Drury

1959
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor

1958
A Death in the Family by the late James Agee

1957
(No Award)

1956
Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor

1955
A Fable by William Faulkner

1954
(No Award)

1953
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

1952
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk

1951
The Town by Conrad Richter

1950
The Way West by A.B. Guthrie

1949
Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens

1948
Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener

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