After 1980 the runners-up are also shown, indented
- 1918: His Family by Ernest Poole
- 1919: The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
- 1921: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- 1922: Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
- 1923: One of Ours by Willa Cather
- 1924: The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson
- 1925: So Big by Edna Ferber
- 1926: Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
- 1927 Early Autumn by Louis Broomfield
- 1928: The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
- 1929: Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
- 1930: Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge
- 1931: Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes
- 1932: The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck
- 1933: The Store by T S Stribling
- 1934 Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
- 1935: Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson
- 1936: Honey in the Horn by Harold L Davis
- 1937: Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- 1938: The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand
- 1939: The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- 1940: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- 1942: In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow
- 1943: Dragon’s Teeth by Upton Sinclair
- 1944: Journey in the Dark by Martin Flave
- 1945: A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
- 1947: All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
- 1948: Tales of the South Pacific by James A Michener
- 1949: Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozens
- 1950: The Way West by A B Guthrie
- 1951: The Town by Conrad Richter
- 1952: The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
- 1953: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- 1955: A Fable by William Faulkner
- 1956: Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
- 1958: A Death in the Family by James Agee
- 1959: The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
- 1960: Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
- 1961: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- 1962: The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O’Connor
- 1963: The Reivers by William Faulkner
- 1965: The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
- 1966: Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter
- 1967: The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
- 1968: The Confession of Nat Turner by William Styron
- 1969: House Made of Dawn by N Scott Momaday
- 1970: Collected Stories by Jean Stafford
- 1972: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
- 1973: The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
- 1975: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
- 1976: Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow
- 1978: Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
- 1979: The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
- 1980:The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
- Birdy by William Wharton
- The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
- 1981: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy O’Toole
- Godric by Ferederick Buechener
- So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
- 1982: Rabbit is Rich by John Updike
- A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone
- Housekeeping by Marilyn Robinson
- 1983: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
- Rabbis and Wives by Chaim Grade
- 1984: Ironweed by William Kennedy
- Cathedral by Raymond Carver
- The Feud by Thomas Berger
- 1985: Foreign Affairs by Alsion Lurie
- I Wish This War Were Over by Diana O’Hehir
- Leaving the Land by Douglas Unger
- 1986: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty
- Continental Drift by Russell Banks
- The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
- 1987: A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
- Paradise by Donald Barthelme
- Whites by Norman Rush
- 1988: Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Persian Nights by Diane Hohnson
- That Night by Alice McDermott
- 1989: Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
- Where I’m Calling From by Raymond Carver
- 1990: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
- Billy Bathgate by E L Doctorow
- 1991: Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
- Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan
- The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
- 1992: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
- Jerrigan by David Gates
- Lila by Robert M Pirsig
- Mao II by Don DeLillo
- 1993: A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
- At Weddings and Wakes by Alice McDermott
- Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates
- 1994: The Shipping News by E Annie Proulx
- Operation Shylock: A Confession by Philip Roth
- The Collected Stories by Reynolds Price
- 1995: The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
- The Collected Stories by Grace Paley
- What I Lived For by Joyce Carol Oates
- 1996: Independence Day by Richard Ford
- Mr Ives’ Christmas by Oscar Hijuelos
- Sabbath’s Theater by Philip Roth
- 1997: Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
- The Manikin by Joanna Scott
- Unlocking the Air and Other Stories by Ursula K LeGuin
- 1998: American Pastoral by Philip Roth
- Bear and His Daughter: Stories by Robert Stone
- Underworld by Don DeLillo
- 1999: The Hours by Michael Cunningham
- Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- 2000: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx
- Waiting by Ha Jin
- 2001: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
- Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
- The Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams
- 2002: Empire Falls by Richard Russo
- John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead
- The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
- 2003: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Servants of the Map: Stories by Andrea Barrett
- You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett
- 2004: The Known World by Edward P Jones
- American Woman by Susan Choi
- Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins
- 2005: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
- An Unfinished Season by Ward Just
- War Trash by Ha Jin
- 2006: March by Geraldine Brooks
- The Bright Forever by Lee Martin
- The March by E L Doctorw
- 2007: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- After This by Alice McDermott
- The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
- 2008: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- Shakespeare’s Kitchen by Lore Segal
- Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
- 2009: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
- All Souls by Christine Schutt
- The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
- 2010: Tinkers by Paul Harding
- In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Dariyal Mueenuddin
- Love in Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet
- 2011: A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egab
- The Privileges by Jonathan Dee
- The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee
- 2012: No winner
- Swamplandial by Karen Russell
- The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
- Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
- 2013: The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
- The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander
- 2014: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
- The Son by Philipp Meyer
- The Woman Who Lost Her Soul by Bob Shacochis
- 2015: All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- Let Me Be Frank With You by Richard Ford
- Lovely, Dark, Deep by Joyce Carol Oates
- The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami
- 2016 The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Get in Trouble: Stories by Kelly Link
- Maud’s Line by Margaret Verble
- 2017: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett
- The Sport of Kings by C E Morgan
- 2018: Less by Andrew Scott Greer
- In the Distance by Hernan Diaz
- The Idiot by Elif Batuman
- 2019: The Overstory by Richard Powers
- The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
- There There by Tommy Orange
- 2020: The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
- The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
- The Topeka School by Ben Lemer
- 2021: The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
- A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth by Daniel Mason
- Telephone by Percival Everett
- 2022: The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen
- Monkey Boy by Francisco Goldman
- Palmares by Gayl Jones
- 2023: Trust by Hernan Diaz
- The Immortal Ki by Vauhini Vara
- 2024:
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