Year
|
Author
|
Title
|
Result
|
Ref.
|
1980
|
Walker Percy
|
The Second Coming
|
Winner
|
[1]
|
Joyce Carol Oates
|
Bellefleur
|
Finalist
|
[1]
|
John Kennedy Toole
|
A Confederacy of Dunces
|
William Golding
|
Darkness Visible
|
John le Carré
|
Smiley's People
|
1981
|
D. M. Thomas
|
The White Hotel
|
Winner
|
[2]
|
William Wharton
|
Dad
|
Finalist
|
[2]
|
Elizabeth Bowen
|
The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen
|
Mark Helprin
|
Ellis Island and Other Stories
|
Ray Bradbury
|
The Stories of Ray Bradbury
|
Philip Roth
|
Zuckerman Unbound
|
1982
|
Robert Stone
|
A Flag for Sunrise
|
Winner
|
[3]
|
Isaac Bashevis Singer
|
The Collected Stories
|
Finalist
|
[3]
|
Saul Bellow
|
The Dean's December
|
Anne Tyler
|
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
|
Donald Barthelme
|
Sixty Stories
|
1983
|
Thomas Keneally
|
Schindler's Ark
|
Winner
|
[4]
|
Gabriel García Márquez
|
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
|
Finalist
|
[4]
|
John le Carré
|
The Little Drummer Girl
|
Umberto Eco
|
The Name of the Rose
|
Iris Murdoch
|
The Philosopher's Pupil
|
1984
|
Milan Kundera
|
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
|
Winner
|
[5]
|
Joan Didion
|
Democracy
|
Finalist
|
[5]
|
Saul Bellow
|
Him With His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories
|
Harriet Doerr
|
Stones for Ibarra
|
John Updike
|
The Witches of Eastwick
|
1985
|
Louise Erdrich
|
Love Medicine
|
Winner
|
[6]
|
Jamaica Kincaid
|
Annie John
|
Finalist
|
[6]
|
J. G. Ballard
|
Empire of the Sun
|
Anita Brookner
|
Hotel du Lac
|
Elizabeth Benedict
|
Slow Dancing
|
1986
|
Margaret Atwood
|
The Handmaid's Tale
|
Winner
|
[7]
|
Anne Tyler
|
The Accidental Tourist
|
Finalist
|
[7]
|
Vikram Seth
|
The Golden Gate
|
Garrison Keillor
|
Lake Wobegon Days
|
Carlos Fuentes
|
The Old Gringo
|
John le Carré
|
A Perfect Spy
|
1987
|
James Welch
|
Fools Crow
|
Winner
|
[8]
|
Isabel Allende
|
Of Love and Shadows
|
Finalist
|
[8]
|
Peter Taylor
|
A Summons to Memphis
|
Alice McDermott
|
That Night
|
Joyce Carol Oates
|
You Must Remember This
|
1988
|
Gabriel García Marquez
|
Love in the Time of Cholera
|
Winner
|
[9]
|
Doris May Lessing
|
The Fifth Child
|
Finalist
|
[9]
|
Don DeLillo
|
Libra
|
Penelope Lively
|
Moon Tiger
|
Jorge Amado
|
Showdown
|
1989
|
Fay Weldon
|
The Heart of the Country
|
Winner
|
[10]
|
Eduardo Mendoza and Bernard Molloy
|
The City of Marvels
|
Finalist
|
[10]
|
Amy Tan
|
The Joy Luck Club
|
Bette Pesetsky
|
Midnight Sweets
|
Elaine Feinstein
|
Mother's Girl
|
1990
|
Edna O'Brien
|
Lantern Slides
|
Winner
|
[11]
|
Anyi Wang and Martha Avery
|
Baotown
|
Finalist
|
[11]
|
Alice Munro
|
Friend of My Youth
|
Jane Smiley
|
Ordinary Love and Good Will: Two Novellas
|
Thea Astley
|
Reaching Tin River
|
1991
|
Allan Gurganus
|
White People
|
Winner
|
[12]
|
Claude Simon
|
The Acacia
|
Finalist
|
[12]
|
J. M. Coetzee
|
Age of Iron
|
Annie Ernaux
|
A Woman’s Story
|
Sandra Cisneros
|
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
|
1992
|
Art Spiegelman
|
Maus II, A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
|
Winner
|
[13]
|
Jane Smiley
|
A Thousand Acres
|
Finalist
|
[13]
|
Paule Marshall
|
Daughters
|
Randall Kenan
|
Let the Dead Bury Their Dead: Stories
|
Edna O’Brien
|
Time and Tide
|
1993
|
Barbara Kingsolver
|
Pigs in Heaven
|
Winner
|
[14]
|
Sue Miller
|
For Love
|
Finalist
|
[14]
|
Cathleen Schine
|
Rameau's Niece
|
Helen Norris
|
The Burning Glass: Stories
|
William Trevor
|
William Trevor: The Collected Stories
|
1994
|
David Malouf
|
Remembering Babylon
|
Winner
|
[15]
|
Bharati Mukherjee
|
Holder of the World
|
Finalist
|
[15]
|
William T. Vollmann
|
The Rifles: Volume 6 of the Seven Dreams sequence
|
Mark Salzman
|
The Soloist
|
David Leavitt
|
While England Sleeps
|
1995
|
William Boyd
|
The Blue Afternoon
|
Winner
|
[16]
|
Kate Grenville
|
Albion's Story
|
Finalist
|
[16]
|
William Trevor
|
Felicia's Journey
|
Alice Munro
|
Open Secrets: Stories
|
Bradford Morrow
|
Trinity Fields
|
1996
|
Rohinton Mistry
|
A Fine Balance
|
Winner
|
[17]
|
Louis Begley
|
About Schmidt
|
Finalist
|
[17]
|
Beryl Bainbridge
|
Every Man for Himself
|
A.B. Yehoshua
|
Open Heart
|
Tomás Eloy Martínez
|
Santa Evita
|
Andrea Barrett
|
Ship Fever and Other Stories
|
Pat Barker
|
The Ghost Road
|
R.C. Binstock
|
Tree of Heaven
|
1997
|
James Carlos Blake
|
In the Rogue Blood
|
Winner
|
[18]
|
Louis B. Jones
|
California's Over
|
Finalist
|
[18]
|
Seamus Deane
|
Reading in the Dark
|
Francisco Goldman
|
The Ordinary Seaman
|
Bernhard Schlink and Carol Brown Janeway
|
The Reader
|
1998
|
W. G. Sebald with Michael Hulse (trans.)
|
The Rings of Saturn
|
Winner
|
[19]
|
William Trevor
|
Death in Summer
|
Finalist
|
[19]
|
Susan Minot
|
Evening
|
Richard Price
|
Freedomland
|
Philip Roth
|
I Married a Communist
|
1999
|
Amit Chaudhuri
|
Freedom Song: Three Novels
|
Winner
|
[20]
|
Annie Proulx
|
Close Range: Wyoming Stories
|
Finalist
|
[20]
|
Andre Dubus III
|
House of Sand and Fog
|
Kent Haruf
|
Plainsong
|
Ha Jin
|
Waiting
|
2000
|
David Means
|
Assorted Fire Events
|
Winner
|
[21]
|
Peter Ho Davies
|
Equal Love
|
Finalist
|
[21]
|
Michael Chabon
|
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
|
Philip Roth
|
The Human Stain
|
Joy Williams
|
The Quick and the Dead
|
2001
|
Mary Robison
|
Why Did I Ever
|
Winner
|
[22]
|
Abdulrazak Gurnah
|
By the Sea
|
Finalist
|
[22]
|
Alice Munro
|
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
|
Colson Whitehead
|
John Henry Days
|
Jonathan Franzen
|
The Corrections
|
2002
|
Ian McEwan
|
Atonement
|
Winner
|
[23]
|
Peter Cameron
|
The City of Your Final Destination
|
Finalist
|
[23]
|
Kate Jennings
|
Moral Hazard
|
Aleksandar Hemon
|
Nowhere Man
|
Joanna Scott
|
Tourmaline
|
2003
|
Pete Dexter
|
Train
|
Winner
|
[24]
|
Michelle Huneven
|
Jamesland
|
Finalist
|
[24]
|
Tobias Wolff
|
Old School
|
Jhumpa Lahiri
|
The Namesake
|
Sherman Alexie
|
Ten Little Indians
|
2004
|
Colm Tóibín
|
The Master
|
Winner
|
[25]
|
Russell Banks
|
The Darling
|
Finalist
|
[25]
|
Marilynne Robinson
|
Gilead
|
Chris Abani
|
GraceLand
|
Joy Williams
|
Honored Guest: Stories
|
2005
|
Gabriel García Márquez with Edith Grossman (trans.)
|
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
|
Winner
|
[26]
|
Haruki Murakami
|
Kafka on the Shore
|
Finalist
|
[26]
|
Nick Hornby
|
A Long Way Down
|
E.L. Doctorow
|
The March
|
Mary Gaitskill
|
Veronica
|
2006
|
A. B. Yehoshua with Hillel Halkin (trans.)
|
A Woman in Jerusalem
|
Winner
|
[27][28]
|
David Mitchell
|
Black Swan Green
|
Finalist
|
[27]
|
Susan Straight
|
A Million Nightingales
|
Peter Orner
|
The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo
|
Daniel Woodrell
|
Winter's Bone
|
2007
|
Andrew O'Hagan
|
Be Near Me
|
Winner
|
[29]
|
Junot Díaz
|
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
|
Finalist
|
[29]
|
Stewart O’Nan
|
Last Night at the Lobster
|
Per Petterson
|
Out Stealing Horses
|
Marianne Wiggins
|
The Shadow Catcher
|
2008
|
Marilynne Robinson
|
Home
|
Winner
|
[30][31][32]
|
Richard Price
|
Lush Life
|
Finalist
|
[33]
|
Marisa Silver
|
The God of War
|
Sebastian Barry
|
The Secret Scripture
|
Joan Silber
|
The Size of the World
|
2009
|
Rafael Yglesias
|
A Happy Marriage
|
Winner
|
[34]
|
Michelle Huneven
|
Blame
|
Finalist
|
[34]
|
Jill Ciment
|
Heroic Measures
|
Jane Gardam
|
The Man in the Wooden Hat
|
Kate Walbert
|
A Short History of Women
|
2010
|
Jennifer Egan
|
A Visit from the Goon Squad
|
Winner
|
[35]
|
Frederick Reiken
|
Day for Night
|
Finalist
|
[35]
|
Jonathan Franzen
|
Freedom
|
Rick Bass
|
Nashville Chrome
|
Richard Bausch
|
Something Is Out There: Stories
|
2011
|
Alex Shakar
|
Luminarium
|
Winner
|
[36][37]
|
Edith Pearlman
|
Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories
|
Finalist
|
[38]
|
Julie Otsuka
|
The Buddha in the Attic
|
Michael Ondaatje
|
The Cat's Table
|
Joseph O'Connor
|
Ghost Light
|
2012
|
Ben Fountain
|
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
|
Winner
|
[39][40]
|
Lauren Groff
|
Arcadia
|
Finalist
|
[41]
|
Lydia Millet
|
Magnificence
|
Jami Attenberg
|
The Middlesteins
|
Michael Chabon
|
Telegraph Avenue
|
2013
|
Ruth Ozeki
|
A Tale for the Time Being
|
Winner
|
[42]
|
Daniel Woodrell
|
The Maid’s Version
|
Finalist
|
[43]
|
Percival Everett
|
Percival Everett by Virgil Russell
|
Susan Steinberg
|
Spectacle: Stories
|
Claire Messud
|
The Woman Upstairs
|
2014
|
Siri Hustvedt
|
The Blazing World
|
Winner
|
[44]
|
Helen Oyeyemi
|
Boy, Snow, Bird
|
Finalist
|
[45]
|
Jenny Offill
|
Dept. of Speculation
|
Donald Antrim
|
The Emerald Light in the Air: Stories
|
Jesse Ball
|
Silence Once Begun
|
2015
|
Valeria Luiselli
|
The Story of My Teeth
|
Winner
|
[46]
|
Helen Phillips
|
Beautiful Bureaucrat
|
Finalist
|
[46]
|
James Hannaham
|
Delicious Foods
|
Adam Johnson
|
Fortune Smiles
|
Anne Enright
|
The Green Road
|
2016
|
Adam Haslett
|
Imagine Me Gone
|
Winner
|
[47]
|
Dana Spiotta
|
Innocents and Others
|
Finalist
|
[48]
|
Lydia Millet
|
Sweet Lamb of Heaven
|
Zadie Smith
|
Swing Time
|
Garth Greenwell
|
What Belongs to You
|
2017
|
Mohsin Hamid
|
Exit West
|
Winner
|
[49]
|
Claire Messud
|
The Burning Girl
|
Finalist
|
[50]
|
Victor LaValle
|
The Changeling
|
Vivek Shanbhag with Srinath Perur (trans.)
|
Ghachar Ghochar
|
Jesmyn Ward
|
Sing, Unburied, Sing
|
2018
|
Rebecca Makkai
|
The Great Believers
|
Winner
|
[51]
|
Tayari Jones
|
An American Marriage
|
Finalist
|
[51]
|
Michael Ondaatje
|
Warlight
|
Esi Edugyan
|
Washington Black
|
Abby Geni
|
The Wildlands
|
2019
|
Ben Lerner
|
The Topeka School
|
Winner
|
[52][53][54]
|
Colson Whitehead
|
The Nickel Boys
|
Finalist
|
[53][55]
|
Maaza Mengiste
|
The Shadow King
|
Madeline Ffitch
|
Stay and Fight
|
Tash Aw
|
We, the Survivors
|
2020
|
David Diop with Anna Moschovakis (trans.)
|
At Night All Blood Is Black
|
Winner
|
[56][57]
|
Akwaeke Emezi
|
The Death of Vivek Oji
|
Finalist
|
[58][59]
|
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
|
Likes
|
Danielle Evans
|
The Office of Historical Corrections
|
Peter Cameron
|
What Happens at Night
|
2021
|
Véronique Tadjo
|
In the Company of Men
|
Winner
|
[60][61]
|
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
|
American Estrangement
|
Finalist
|
[61]
|
Mariana Enríquez with Megan McDowell (trans.)
|
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
|
Joy Williams
|
Harrow
|
Claire Vaye Watkins
|
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
|
2022
|
Mircea Cărtărescu with Sean Cotter (trans.)
|
Solenoid
|
Winner
|
[62]
|
Anna Dorn
|
Exalted
|
Finalist
|
[63]
|
James Hannaham
|
Didn't Nobody Give a S— What Happened to Carlotta
|
Jamil Jan Kochai
|
The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
|
Fernanda Melchor (trans. by Sophie Hughes)
|
Paradais
|
2023
|
Ed Park
|
Same Bed Different Dreams
|
Winner
|
[64]
|
Susie Boyt
|
Loved and Missed
|
Finalist
|
[65]
|
Yiyun Li
|
Wednesday's Child
|
Elizabeth McKenzie
|
The Dog of the North
|
Justin Torres
|
Blackouts
|