National Book Award winners

Based on bookaward
National Book Award
1
The Color Purple
por Alice Walker
19,720 membros
336 críticas
4.1
3 Members
peterveen, ahef1963, kara.shamy
2
Invisible Man
por Ralph Ellison
16,167 membros
212 críticas
4
3 Members
thecoroner, Bretzky1, kara.shamy
3
The Shipping News
por E. Annie Proulx
13,429 membros
250 críticas
3.9
3 Members
peterveen, ahef1963, BHEwert
4
The Corrections
por Jonathan Franzen
16,585 membros
340 críticas
3.8
2 Members
thecoroner, peterveen
5
The World According to Garp
por John Irving
15,295 membros
196 críticas
4.1
2 Members
peterveen, ahef1963
6
The Underground Railroad
por Colson Whitehead
8,916 membros
453 críticas
4
2 Members
ahef1963, kara.shamy
7
The Flowers of Evil
por Charles Baudelaire
7,574 membros
80 críticas
4.2
2 Members
thecoroner, jnsp13
8
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
por Barbara W. Tuchman
7,158 membros
123 críticas
4.1
2 Members
peterveen, kara.shamy
9
Herzog
por Saul Bellow
5,200 membros
62 críticas
½ 3.7
2 Members
thecoroner, peterveen
10
Hopscotch
por Julio Cortázar
5,110 membros
100 críticas
4.2
2 Members
thecoroner, peterveen
11
Three Junes
por Julia Glass
4,502 membros
97 críticas
½ 3.6
2 Members
ahef1963, kara.shamy
12
Sing, Unburied, Sing
por Jesmyn Ward
3,954 membros
195 críticas
4.1
2 Members
peterveen, kara.shamy
13
The Adventures of Augie March
por Saul Bellow
3,853 membros
73 críticas
3.8
2 Members
thecoroner, peterveen
14
Salvage the Bones
por Jesmyn Ward
2,882 membros
162 críticas
3.9
2 Members
peterveen, kara.shamy
15
Tree of Smoke
por Denis Johnson
2,409 membros
74 críticas
½ 3.5
2 Members
peterveen, kara.shamy
16
The Women of Brewster Place
por Gloria Naylor
1,788 membros
24 críticas
4
2 Members
ahef1963, kara.shamy
17
The Friend
por Sigrid Nunez
1,350 membros
90 críticas
3.8
2 Members
peterveen, kara.shamy
18
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
por Madeleine L'Engle
12,020 membros
108 críticas
4
Member
kara.shamy
19
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
por Sherman Alexie
11,618 membros
797 críticas
½ 4.3
Member
ahef1963
20
All the Pretty Horses
por Cormac McCarthy
10,767 membros
253 críticas
4
2 Members
thecoroner, peterveen,kara.shamy
21
Gravity's Rainbow
por Thomas Pynchon
10,751 membros
142 críticas
4.1
Member
thecoroner
22
The Year of Magical Thinking
por Joan Didion
10,302 membros
290 críticas
3.8
Member
ahef1963
23
The Epic of Gilgamesh
por Gilgamesh Poet
9,871 membros
119 críticas
3.8
Member
kara.shamy
24
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
por William L. Shirer
7,817 membros
93 críticas
½ 4.3
Member
peterveen
25
Between the World and Me
por Ta-Nehisi Coates
7,743 membros
368 críticas
½ 4.4
Member
kara.shamy
26
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
por Nathaniel Philbrick
6,365 membros
167 críticas
4.2
Member
ahef1963
27
Sophie's Choice
por William Styron
5,999 membros
87 críticas
4.1
Member
thecoroner
28
Just Kids
por Patti Smith
5,486 membros
238 críticas
4.1
Member
hipdeep
29
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
por Rachel Joyce
5,312 membros
461 críticas
4
Member
ahef1963
30
The Gnostic Gospels
por Elaine Pagels
4,901 membros
51 críticas
3.9
Member
kara.shamy
31
The Right Stuff
por Tom Wolfe
4,665 membros
72 críticas
4.2
Member
thecoroner
32
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
por Katherine Boo
4,375 membros
292 críticas
4.1
Member
ahef1963
33
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
por Timothy Egan
4,342 membros
197 críticas
4.2
Member
kara.shamy
34
Waiting
por Ha Jin
4,061 membros
81 críticas
½ 3.6
Member
peterveen
35
The Round House
por Louise Erdrich
3,925 membros
222 críticas
4
Member
peterveen
36
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
por Stephen Greenblatt
3,590 membros
142 críticas
3.9
Member
kara.shamy
37
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
por David McCullough
3,390 membros
59 críticas
4.2
Member
kara.shamy
38
Doctor De Soto
por William Steig
3,379 membros
61 críticas
4.1
Member
ahef1963
39
Cosmicomics
por Italo Calvino
3,184 membros
49 críticas
4.1
Member
thecoroner
40
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
por Bruno Bettelheim
3,108 membros
30 críticas
½ 3.7
Member
ahef1963
41
Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories
por Philip Roth
3,101 membros
49 críticas
½ 3.7
Member
peterveen
42
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party
por M. T. Anderson
2,961 membros
160 críticas
3.8
Member
ahef1963
43
Master of the Senate
por Robert A. Caro
2,328 membros
38 críticas
½ 4.6
Member
kara.shamy
44
The Good Lord Bird
por James McBride
2,066 membros
121 críticas
3.9
Member
kara.shamy
45
So Long, See You Tomorrow
por William Maxwell
1,697 membros
67 críticas
3.9
Member
peterveen
46
March: Book Three
por John Lewis
1,500 membros
95 críticas
½ 4.6
Member
hipdeep
47
Redeployment
por Phil Klay
1,458 membros
71 críticas
4
Member
kara.shamy
48
J R
por William Gaddis
1,374 membros
19 críticas
4.2
Member
thecoroner
49
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
por George Packer
1,324 membros
37 críticas
4
Member
peterveen
50
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
por John W. Dower
1,315 membros
14 críticas
4.1
Member
peterveen
51
James Joyce
por Richard Ellmann
1,308 membros
12 críticas
½ 4.4
Member
kara.shamy
52
The Sound of the Mountain
por Yasunari Kawabata
1,234 membros
19 críticas
4.1
Member
thecoroner
53
The Spectator Bird
por Wallace Stegner
1,065 membros
37 críticas
4
Member
ahef1963
54
Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
por Donald C. Johanson
1,064 membros
8 críticas
4
Member
ahef1963
55
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
por Masha Gessen
807 membros
18 críticas
4.2
Member
peterveen
56
Fortune Smiles: Stories
por Adam Johnson
702 membros
43 críticas
4
Member
peterveen
57
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
por Evan Osnos
603 membros
21 críticas
4
Member
peterveen
58
The Emissary
por Yōko Tawada
502 membros
25 críticas
½ 3.5
Member
kara.shamy
59
Gone with the Wind
158 membros
3 críticas
½ 4.5
Member
peterveen
60
La Vida; A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty—San Juan and New York
por Oscar Lewis
143 membros
½ 3.7
Member
peterveen
61
The House of the Scorpion
por Nancy Farmer
5,993 membros
238 críticas
4.1
62
The Moviegoer
por Walker Percy
4,696 membros
93 críticas
½ 3.6
63
Them
por Joyce Carol Oates
1,121 membros
21 críticas
½ 3.6
64
Outside Over There
por Maurice Sendak
1,115 membros
45 críticas
3.9
65
White Noise
por Don DeLillo
11,002 membros
173 críticas
3.8
Member
thecoroner,ahef1963 ,kara.shamy
66
Gone with the Wind
por Margaret Mitchell
23,452 membros
441 críticas
½ 4.3
67
The Aeneid
por Virgil
22,910 membros
198 críticas
3.9
68
Cold Mountain
por Charles Frazier
13,630 membros
201 críticas
3.8
69
Gödel, Escher, Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid
por Douglas Hofstadter
13,628 membros
130 críticas
½ 4.3
70
The Farthest Shore
por Ursula K. Le Guin
7,871 membros
120 críticas
4
71
Complete Stories
por Flannery O'Connor
6,686 membros
68 críticas
½ 4.4
72
Miss Rumphius
por Barbara Cooney
6,366 membros
169 críticas
½ 4.4
73
Let the Great World Spin
por Colum McCann
5,960 membros
314 críticas
4
74
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
por Jeanne Birdsall
5,509 membros
192 críticas
4.1
75
Ramona and Her Mother
por Beverly Cleary
5,252 membros
41 críticas
4
76
Inside Out and Back Again
por Thanhhà Lại
4,812 membros
555 críticas
½ 4.3
77
The Great Gilly Hopkins
por Katherine Paterson
4,711 membros
156 críticas
3.9
78
Brown Girl Dreaming
por Jacqueline Woodson
4,437 membros
374 críticas
½ 4.4
79
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
por Edmund Morris
4,054 membros
49 críticas
½ 4.4
80
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
por Richard Rhodes
3,519 membros
53 críticas
½ 4.5
81
From Beirut to Jerusalem
por Thomas L. Friedman
3,509 membros
29 críticas
4
82
The Stories of John Cheever
por John Cheever
3,374 membros
34 críticas
4.2
83
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32
por Joan W. Blos
3,122 membros
28 críticas
½ 3.5
84
A House Is a House for Me
por Mary Ann Hoberman
3,024 membros
24 críticas
4.1
85
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
por Ibram X. Kendi
2,966 membros
65 críticas
½ 4.5
87
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
por Joseph J. Ellis
2,804 membros
35 críticas
4
88
The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics
por Gary Zukav
2,758 membros
32 críticas
½ 3.7
89
The Snow Leopard
por Peter Matthiessen
2,700 membros
53 críticas
4
90
The Soul of A New Machine
por Tracy Kidder
2,628 membros
52 críticas
4
91
Mockingbird
por Kathryn Erskine
2,626 membros
354 críticas
½ 4.3
92
The Echo Maker
por Richard Powers
2,597 membros
110 críticas
½ 3.6
93
A Severe Mercy
por Sheldon Vanauken
2,557 membros
24 críticas
4.2
94
The Poet X
por Elizabeth Acevedo
2,536 membros
167 críticas
½ 4.4
95
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
por Andrew Solomon
2,530 membros
37 críticas
4.1
96
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
por Tim Weiner
2,500 membros
49 críticas
3.9
97
Rabbit Is Rich
por John Updike
2,473 membros
31 críticas
3.9
98
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
por Eudora Welty
2,437 membros
15 críticas
4.1
99
M. C. Higgins, the Great
por Virginia Hamilton
2,423 membros
26 críticas
½ 3.5
100
Charming Billy
por Alice McDermott
2,355 membros
41 críticas
½ 3.4