National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

year

name

for

1975

E.L. Doctorow

Ragtime

1977

Toni Morrison

Song of Solomon

1978

John Cheever

The Stories of John Cheever

1981

John Updike

Rabbit Is Rich

1987

Philip Roth

The Counterlife

1989

E.L. Doctorow

Billy Bathgate

1990

John Updike

Rabbit at Rest

1992

Cormac McCarthy

All the Pretty Horses

1994

Carol Shields

The Stone Diaries

2002

Ian McEwan

Atonement

2005

E.L. Doctorow

The March

2006

Kiran Desai

The Inheritance of Loss