National Book Award

2012 Fiction Winner

• The Round House by Louise Erdrich

2012 Fiction Finalists

• This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
• A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
• Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain (4 stars)
• The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers (4.5 stars)

2012 5 Under 35

• A Partial History of Lost Causes by Jennifer duBois
• The Book of Life by Stuart Nadler
• Vaclev & Lena by Haley Tanner
• We the Animals by Justin Torres
• Battleborn by Claire Vaye Watkins

2011 Fiction Winner

• Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (4 stars)

2011 Fiction Finalists

• The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak (4 stars)
• The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht (3.5 stars)
• The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka (4.5 stars)
• Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories by Edith Pearlman (4 stars)

2011 5 Under 35

• The People of Forever Are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu (coming 2013)
• Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans
• The Walking People by Mary Beth Keane
• Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories by Melinda Moustakis
• Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley

2010 Fiction Winner

• Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon

2010 Fiction Finalists 

• Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
• Great House by Nicole Krauss
• So Much for That by Lionel Shriver
• I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita

2010 5 Under 35

• The Sweet Relief of Missing Children by Sarah Braunstein
• The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich
• The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obrecht
• How to Escape from a Leper's Colony by Tiphanie Yanique
• Once the Shore by Paul Yoon

2009 Fiction Winner

• Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

2009 Fiction Finalists

• American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell
• In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
• Lark & Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
• Far North by Marcel Theroux