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1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham |
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1998 American Pastoral, by Philip Roth |
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1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer, by Stephen Millhauser |
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1996 Independence Day, by Richard Ford |
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1995 The Stone Diaries, by Carol Shields |
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1994 The Shipping News, by E. Annie Proulx |
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1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, by Robert Olen Butler |
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1992 A Thousand Acres, by Jane Smiley |
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1991 Rabbit at Rest, by John Updike |
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1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, by Oscar Hijuelos |
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1989 Breathing Lessons, by Anne Tyler |
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1988 Beloved, by Toni Morrison |
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1987 A Summons to Memphis, by Peter Taylor |
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1986 Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry |
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1985 Foreign Affairs, by Alison Lurie |
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1984 Ironweed, by William Kennedy |
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1983 The Color Purple, by Alice Walker |
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1982 Rabbit is Rich, by John Updike |
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1981 A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy O’Toole |
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1980 The Executioner’s Song, by Norman Mailer |
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1979 The Stories of John Cheever, by John Cheever |
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1978 Elbow Room, by James Alan McPherson |
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1977 No Award |
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1976 Humboldt’s Gift, by Saul Bellow |
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1975 The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara |
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1974 No Award |
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1973 The Optimist’s Daughter, by Eudora Welty |
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1972 Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner |
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1971 No Award |
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1970 Collected Stories, by Jean Stafford |
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1969 House Made of Dawn, by N. Scott Momaday |
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1968 The Confessions of Nat Turner, by William Styron |
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1967 The Fixer, by Bernard Malamud |
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1966 The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, by Katherine Anne Porter |
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1965 The Keepers of the House, by Shirley Ann Grau |
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1964 No Award |
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1963 The Reivers, by William Faulkner |
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1962 The Edge of Sadness, by Edwin O’Connor |
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1961 To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee |
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1960 Advise and Consent, by Allen Drury |
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1659 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, by Robert Lewis Taylor |
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1958 A Death in the Family, by James Agee |
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1957 No Award |
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1956 Andersonville, by MacKinlay Kantor |
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1955 A Fable, by William Faulkner |
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1954 No Award |
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1953 The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway |
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1952 The Caine Mutiny, by Herman Wouk |
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1951 The Town, by Conrad Richter |
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1950 The Way West, by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. |
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1949 Guard of Hnor, by James Gould Cozzens |
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1948 Tales of the South Pacific, by James A. Michener |
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1947 All the King’s Men, by Robert Penn Warren |
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1946 No Award |
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1945 A Bell for Adano, by John Hersey |
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1944 Journey in the Dark, by Martin Flavin |
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1943 Dragon’s Teeth, by Upton Sinclair |
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1942 In This Our Life, by Ellen Glasgow |
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1941 No Award |
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1940 The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck |
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1939 The Yearling, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
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1938 The Late George Apley, by John Phillips Marquand |
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1937 Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell |
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1936 Honey in the Horn, by Harold L. Davis |
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1935 Now in November, by Josephine Winslow Johnson |
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1934 Lamb in His Bosom, by Caroline Miller |
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1933 The Store, by T. S. Stribling |
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1932 The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck |
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1931 Years of Grace, by Margaret Ayer Barnes |
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1930 Laughing Boy, by Oliver La Farge |
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1929 Scarlet Sister Mary, by Julia Peterkin |
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1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey, by Thornton Wilder |
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1927 Early Autumn, by Louis Bromfield |
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1926 Arrowsmith, by Sinclair Lewis |
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1925 So Big, by Edna Ferber |
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1924 The Able McLaughlins, by Margaret Wilson |
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1923 One of Ours, by Willa Cather |
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1922 Alice Adams, by Booth Tarkington |
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1921 The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton |
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1920 No Award |
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1919 The Magnificent Ambersons, by Booth Tarkington |
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1918 His Family, by Ernest Poole |