National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
2011 Winner
Binocular Vision: Stories by Edith Pearlman (4 stars)
2011 Finalists
Open City by Teju Cole
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides (4.5 stars)
The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst
Stone Arabia by Dana Spiotta
2010 Winner
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (5 stars)
2010 Finalists
Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson (4.5 stars)
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen (4.5 stars)
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
To the End of the Land by David Grossman
2009 Winner
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
2009 Finalists
American Salvage: Stories by Bonnie Jo Campbell
The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
Blame by Michelle Huneven
Lark & Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
2008 Winner
2666 by Roberto Bolano
2008 Finalists
The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart by M. Glenn Taylor
Home by Marilynne Robinson
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
2007 Winner
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
2007 Finalists
In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates
Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins
2006 Winner
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
2006 Finalists
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
What is the What by Dave Eggers
2005 Winner
The March by E.L. Doctorow
2005 Finalists
Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
2004 Winner
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (2.5 stars)
2004 Finalists
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat
Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
