1986
The Accidental Tourist, Anne Tyler (Pulizter nominee)
Always Coming Home, Ursula K. Le Guin (NBA nominee)
Carpenter's Gothic, William Gaddis (PEN nominee)
The Christmas Wife, Helen Norris (PEN nominee) [SHORT STORIES]
Continental Drift, Russel Banks (Pulitzer nominee)
Later the Same Day, Grace Paley (PEN nominee) [SHORT STORIES]
Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurty (Pulitzer winner; PEN nominee)
The Old Forest, Peter Taylor (PEN winner) [SHORT STORIES]
The Tree of Life, Hugh Nissenson (PEN nominee; NBA nominee)
White Noise, Don Delillo (NBA winner)
2012
Binocular Vision, Edith Pearlman (NBA nominee) [SHORT STORIES]
The Sojourn, Andrew Krivak (NBA nominee)
Who Do You Love, Jean Thompson (NBA nominee) [SHORT STORIES]
1994
Swimming in the Volcano, Bob Shacochis (NBA nominee)
2013
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Ben Fountain (NBA Nominee)
Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentycky Club, Benjamin Alire Saenz (PEN Winner)
Hold it 'Till it Hurts, T. Geronimo Johnson (PEN Nominee)
A Hologram for the King, David Eggers (NBA Nominee)
Kind One, Laird Hunt (PEN Nominee)
The Orphan Master's Son, Adam Johnson (Pulitzer Winner)
The Round House, Louise Erdrich (NBA Winner)
The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey (Pulitzer Nominee)
This Is How You Lose Her, Junot Diaz (NBA Nominee)
Threats, Amelia Gray (PEN Nominee)
Watergate, Thomas Mallon (PEN Nominee)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, Nathan Englander (Pulitzer Nominee)
The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers (NBA Nominee)
2011
Alien in the Prime of Their Lives, Brad Watson (PEN nominee)
The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg, Deborah Eisenberg (PEN winner)
Great House, Nicole Krauss (NBA nominee)
Lord of Misrule, Jaimy Gordon (NBA winner; PEN nominee)
I Hotel, Karen Tei Yamashita (NBA nominee)
Model Home, Eric Puchner (PEN nominee)
The Privileges, Jonathan Dee (Pulitzer nominee)
So Much for That, Lionel Shriver (NBA nominee)
The Surrendered, Chang-rae Lee (Pulitzer nominee)
A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan (Pulitzer winner' PEN nominee)
2010
American Salvage, Bonnie Jo Campbell (NBA nominee)
Far North, Marcel Theroux (NBA nominee)
A Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore (PEN nominee)
Homicide Survivors Picnic, Lorraine Lopez (PEN nominee)
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, Daniyal Mueenuddin (Pulitzer nominee; NBA nominee)
The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver (PEN nominee)
Lark and Termite, Jayne Anne Philips (NBA nominee)
Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann (NBA winner)
Love in Infant Monkeys, Lydia Millett (Pulitzer nominee)
Sag Harbor, Colson Whitehead (PEN nominee)
Tinkers, Paul Harding (Pulitzer winner)
War Dances, Sherman Alexie (PEN winner)
2009
All Souls, Christine Schutt (Pulitzer nominee)
The End, Salvatore Scibona (NBA nominee)
Home, Marilynne Robinson (NBA nominee)
The Lazarus Project, Aleksandar Hemon (NBA nominee)
Lush Life, Richard Price (PEN nominee)
Mrs. Hempel Chronicles, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum (PEN nominee)
Netherland, Joseph O'Neill (PEN winner)
Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout (Pulitzer winner)
A Person of Interest, Susan Choi (PEN nominee)
The Plague of Doves, Louise Erdrich (Pulitzer nominee)
Serena, Ron Rash (PEN nominee)
Shadow Country, Peter Matthiessen (NBA winner)
Telex from Cuba, Rachel Kushner (NBA nominee)
2008
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz (Pulitzer winner)
Chemistry and Other Stories, Ron Rash (PEN nominee)
Fieldwork, Mischa Berlinski (NBA nominee)
The Gateway: Stories, T. M. McNally (PEN nominee)
The Great Man, Kate Christensen (PEN winner)
The Indian Clerk, David Leavitt (PEN nominee)
Like You'd Understand, Anyway, Jim Shepard (NBA nominee)
The Maytrees, Annie Dillard (PEN nominee)
Shakespeare's Kitchen, Lore Segal (Pulitzer nominee)
Then We Came to the End, Joshua Ferris (NBA nominee)
Tree of Smoke, Denis Johnson (NBA winner; Pulitzer nominee)
Varieties of Disturbance, Lydia Davis (NBA nominee)
2007
After This, Alice McDermott (Pulitzer nominee)
All Aunt Hagar's Children, Edward P. Jones (PEN nominee)
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, Amy Hempel (PEN nominee)
The Dead Fish Museum, Charles D'Ambrosio (PEN nominee)
A Disorder Peculiar to the Country, Ken Kalfus (NBA nominee)
Eat the Document, Dana Spiotta (NBA nominee)
The Echo Maker, Richard Powers (NBA winner; Pulitzer nominee)
Everyman, Philip Roth (PEN winner)
Only Revolutions, Mark Z. Danielewski (NBA nominee)
The Road, Cormac McCarthy (Pulitzer winner)
Twilight of the Superheroes, Deborah Eisneberg (PEN nominee)
The Zero, Jess Walter (NBA nominee)
2006
The Bright Forever, Lee Martin (Pulitzer nominee)
The Chrysanthemum Palace, Bruce Wagner (PEN nominee)
Europe Central, William T. Vollmann (NBA winner)
Holy Skirts, Rene Steineke (NBA nominee)
I Got Somebody in Staunton, William Henry Lewis (PEN nominee)
Last Night, James Salter (PEN nominee)
March, Geraldine Brooks (Pulitzer winner)
The March, E. L. Doctorow (PEN winner; Pulitzer nominee; NBA nominee)
A Sudden Country, Karen Fisher (PEN nominee)
Trance, Christopher Sorrentino (NBA nominee)
Veronica, Mary Gaitskill (NBA nominee)
2005
The Dew Breaker, Edwidge Danticat (PEN nominee)
Florida, Christine Schutt (NBA nominee)
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson (Pulitzer winner; PEN nominee)
The Green Lantern, Jerome Charyn (PEN nominee)
Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories, Joan Silber (NBA nominee)
Madeline is Sleeping, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum (NBA nominee)
The News from Paraguay, Lily Tuck (NBA winner)
Our Kind, Kate Walbert (NBA nominee)
Prisoners of War, Steve Yarbrough (PEN nominee)
An Unfinished Season, Ward Just (Pulitzer nominee)
War Trash, Ha Jin (PEN winner; Pulitzer nominee)
2004
American Woman, Susan Choi (Pulitzer nominee)
A Distant Shore, Caryl Philips (PEN nominee)
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, ZZ Packer (PEN nominee)
Drop City, T.C. Boyle (NBA nominee)
The Early Stories 1953-1975, John Updike (PEN winner)
Elroy Nights, Frederick Bartheleme (PEN nominee)
Evidence of Things Unseen, Marianne Wiggins (Pulitzer nominee; NBA nominee)
The Great Fire, Shirley Hazzard (NBA winner)
The Known World, Edward P. Jones (Pulitzer winner; NBA nominee)
Old School, Tobias Wolff (PEN nominee)
A Ship made of Paper, Scott Spencer (NBA nominee)
2003
Big If, Mark Costello (NBA nominee)
The Caprices, Sabina Murray (PEN winner)
The City of Your Final Destination, Peter Cameron (PEN nominee)
The Ecstatic, Victor LaValle (PEN nominee)
Gorgeous Lies, Martha McPhee (NBA nominee)
The Heaven of Mercury, Brad Watson (NBA nominee)
Little Casino, Gilbert Sorrentino (PEN nominee)
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides (Pulitzer winner)
Roscoe, William Kennedy (PEN nominee)
Servants of the Map: Stories, Andrea Barrett (Pulitzer nominee)
Three Junes, Julia Glass (NBA winner)
You Are Not a Stranger Here, Adam Haslett (Pulitzer nominee; NBA nominee)
2002
Among the Missing, Dan Chaon (NBA nominee)
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen (NBA winner; Pulitzer nominee; PEN nominee)
The Death of Vishnu, Manil Suri (PEN nominee)
Empire Falls, Richard Russo (Pulitzer winner)
Highwire Moon, Susan Straight (NBA nominee)
The Hunters, Claire Messud (PEN nominee)
John Henry Days, Colson Whitehead (Pulitzer nominee)
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, Louise Erdrich (NBA nominee)
Look at Me, Jennifer Egan (NBA nominee)
Sister Noon, Karen Joy Fowler (PEN nominee)
2001
The Amazing Advenures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon (Pulitzer winner; PEN nominee)
Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates (Pulitzer nominee; NBA nominee)
Blue Angel, Francine Prose (NBA nominee)
The Diagnosis, Alan Lightman (NBA nominee)
The Feast of Love, Charles Baxter (NBA nominee)
Harry Gold, Millicent Dillon (PEN nominee)
The Human Stain, Philip Roth (PEN winner)
In America, Susan Sontag (NBA winner)
The Name of the World, Denis Johnson (PEN nominee)
Off Keck Road, Mona Simpson (PEN nominee)
The Quick and the Dead, Joy Williams (Pulitzer nominee)
1999
Charming Billy, Alice McDermott (NBA winner)
Cloudsplitter, Russell Banks (Pulitzer nominee; PEN nominee)
Damascus Gate, Robert Stone (NBA nominee)
The Doctor Stories, Richard Selzer (PEN nominee)
The Healing, Gayle Jones (NBA nominee)
The Hours, Michael Cunningham (Pulitzer winner; PEN winner)
Kaaterskill Falls, Allegra Godman (NBA winner)
A Man In Full, Tom Wolfe (NBA nominee)
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver (Pulitzer nominee; PEN nominee)*
Starting Out in the Evening, Brian Morton (PEN nominee)
1998
American Pastoral, Philip Roth (Pulitzer winner)
Bear and His Daughter: Stories, Robert Stone (Pulitzer nominee)
The Bear Comes Home, Rafi Zabor (PEN winner)
Because They Wanted To, Mary Gaitskill (PEN nominee)
Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier (NBA winner)
Echo House, Ward Just (NBA nominee)
The Hundred Brothers, Donald Antrim (PEN nominee)
Le Divorce, Diane Johnson (NBA nominee)
The Mercy Seat, Rilla Askew (PEN nominee)
The Ordinary Seaman, Francisco Goldman (PEN nominee)
The Puttermesser Papers, Cynthia Ozick (NBA nominee)
Underworld, Don DeLillo (Pulitzer nominee; NBA nominee)
1997
Atticus, Ron Hansen (PEN nominee; NBA nominee)
The Autobiography of My Mother, Jamaica Kincaid (PEN nominee)
The Book of Mercy, Kathleen Cambor (PEN nominee)
The Giant's House, Elizabeth McCracken (NBA nominee)
The Manikin, Joanna Scott (NBA nominee)
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer, Steven Millhauser (Pulitzer winner; NBA nominee)
The River Beyond the World, Janet Peery (NBA nominee)
St. Burl's Obituary, Daniel Akst (PEN nominee)
Ship Fever and Other Stories, Andrea Barrett (NBA winner)
Unlocking the Air and Other Stories, Ursula K. Le Guin (Pulitzer nominee)
Women in Their Beds, Gina Berriault (PEN winner)
1996
All Souls' Rising, Madison Smart Bell (PEN nominee; NBA nominee)
The Good Negress, A. J. Verdelle (PEN nominee)
The House on the Lagoon, Rosario Ferre (NBA nominee)
Independence Day, Richard Ford (Pulitzer winner; PEN winner)
Interstate, Stephen Dixon (NBA nominee)
Krik? Krak?, Edwidge Danticat (NBA nominee)
Mr. Ives' Christmas, Oscar Hijuelos (Pulitzer nominee)
Sabbath's Theatre, Philip Roth (NBA winner; Pulitzer nominee)
The Tunnel, William Gass (PEN nominee)
When the World Was Steady, Clarie Messud (PEN nominee)
1995
The Bird Artist, Howard Norman (NBA nominee)
The Children in the Woods, Frederich Busch (PEN nominee)
The Collected Stories, Grace Paley (Pulitzer winner; NBA nominee)
A Frolic of His Own, William Gaddis (NBA winner)
Moses Supposes, Ellen Currie (NBA nominee)
Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson (PEN winner)*
The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields (Pulitzer winner)
Stones from the River, Ursula Hegi (PEN nominee)
Various Antidotes, Joanna Scott (PEN nominee)
What I Lived For, Joyce Carol Oates (Pulitzer nominee; PEN nominee)
White Man's Grave, Richard Dooling (NBA nominee)
1993
All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy (NBA winner)
Bastard out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison (NBA nominee)
Black Water, Joyce Carol Oates (Pulitzer nominee)
Dreaming in Cuban, Christina Garcia (NBA nominee)
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, Robert Olen Butler (Pulitzer winner; PEN nominee)
The Long Night of White Chickens, Francisco Goldman (PEN nominee)
Lost in the City, Edward P. Jones (NBA nominee)
Natural History, Maureen Howard (PEN nominee)
Outerbridge Reach, Robert Stone (NBA nominee)
Postcards, E. Annie Proulx (PEN winner)
Talking to the Dead, Sylvia Watanabe (PEN nominee)
At Weddings and Wakes, Alice McDermott (Pulitzer nominee)
1992
The Almanac Branch, Bradford Morrow (PEN nominee)
Beyond Deserving, Sandra Scofield (NBA nominee)
Extraordinary People, Paul Gervais (PEN nominee)
Frog, Stephen Dixon (PEN nominee; NBA nominee)
Jernigan, David Gates (Pulitzer nominee)
Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals, Robert M. Prisig (Pulitzer nominee)
The MacGuffin, Stanley Elkin (NBA nominee)
Mao II, Don Delillo (PEN winner; Pulitzer nominee)
Mating, Norman Rush (NBA winner)
A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley (Pulitzer winner)
Wartime Lies, Louis Begley (NBA nominee)
White People, Allan Gurganus (PEN nominee)
1991
Arrogance, Joanna Scott (PEN nominee)
The Barnum Museum, Steven Millhauser (PEN nominee)
Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart, Joyce Carol Oates (NBA nominee)
Chromos, Felipa Alfau (NBA nominee)
Dogeaters, Jessica Hagedorn (NBA nominee)
The Gentleman's Guite to the Frontier, Joanne Meschery (PEN nominee)
Mean Spirit, Linda Hogan (Pulitzer nominee)
Middle Passage, Charles Johnson (NBA winner)
The Music of Chance, Paul Auster (PEN nominee)
Paradise, Elena Castedo (NBA nominee)
Philadelphia Fire, John Edgar Wideman (PEN winner)
Rabbit at Rest, John Updike (Pulitzer winner)
The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien (Pulitzer nominee)
1990
Affliction, Russel Banks (PEN nominee)
Billy Bathgate, E. L. Doctorow (PEN winner; Pulitzer nominee; NBA nominee)
Geek Love, Katherine Dunn (NBA nominee)
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan (NBA nominee)*
The Jump-Off Creek, Molly Glass (PEN nominee)
Leaving Brooklyn, Lunne Sharon Schwartz (PEN nominee)
Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Oscar Hijuelos (Pulitzer winner; NBA nominee)
On the Island, Josephine Jacobsen (PEN nominee)
Spartina, John Casey (NBA winner)
1989
Breathing Lessons, Anne Tyler (Pulitzer winner; NBA nominee)
The Corner of Rife and Pacific, Thomas Savage (PEN nominee)
The Death of Methuselah, Isaac Bashevis Singer (PEN nominee)
Dusk, James Salter (PEN winner)
Libra, Don DeLillo (NBA nominee)
Paris Trout, Pete Dexter (NBA winner)
Vanished, Mary McGarry Morris (PEN nominee; NBA nominee)
Wheat That Springeth Green, James F. Powers (NBA nominee)
Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories, Raymond Carver (Pulitzer nominee)
1988
Beloved, Toni Morrison (Pulitzer winner; NBA nominee)
The Counterlife, Philip Roth (NBA nominee)
Imagining Argenita, Lawrence Thornton (PEN nominee)
The Messiah of Stockholm, Cynthia Ozick (PEN nominee)
The Northern Lights, Howard Norman (NBA nominee
Paco's Story, Larry Heinemann (NBA winner)
Persian Nights, Diane Johnson (Pulitzer nominee)
Spirits, Richard Bausch (PEN nominee)
That Night, Alice McDermott (Pulitzer nominee; PEN nominee; NBA nominee)
World's End, T. Coraghessan Boyle (PEN winner)
1985
The Anatomy Lesson, Philip Roth (NBA nominee)
The Barracks Thief, Tobias Wolff (PEN nominee)
The Dixie Association, Donald Hays (PEN nominee)
Family Dancing, David Leavitt (PEN nominee)
Foreign Affairs, Alison Lurie (Pulitzer winner; NBA nominee)
On Glory's Courses, James Purdy (PEN nominee)
I Wish This War Were Over, Diana O'Hehir (Pulitzer nominee)
Leaving the Land, Douglas Unger (Pulitzer nominee)
Stones for Ibarra, Harriet Doerr (PEN nominee)
Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories, Ellen Gilchrist (NBA winner)
1984
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Ron Hansen (PEN nominee)
At the Bottom of the River, Jamaica Kincaid (PEN nominee)
Cannibal Galaxy, Cynthia Ozick (PEN nominee)
Cathedral: Stories, Raymond Carver (Pulitzer nominee)
The Feud, Thomas Berger (Pulitzer nominee)
Ironweed, William Kennedy (Pulitzer winner; PEN nominee)
Sent for You Yesterday, John Edgar Wideman (PEN winner)
The Stories of Bernard Malamud, Bernard Malamud (PEN nominee)
1983
Birthplac, William S. Wilson (PEN nominee)
The Color Purple, Alice Walker (Pulitzer winner; NBA winner)*
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Anne Tyler (Pulitzer nominee; PEN nominee; NBA nominee)
Grace Abounding, Maureen Howard (PEN nominee)
The Mosquito Coast, Paul Theroux (NBA nominee)
A Mother and Two Daughters, Gail Godwin (NBA nominee)
The Portage to San Cristobal of A. H., George Steiner (PEN nominee)
Rabbis and Wives, Chaim Grade (Pulitzer nominee)
Seaview, Toby Olson (PEN winner)
Shiloh and Other Stories, Bobbie Ann Mason (PEN nominee; NBA nominee)
1982
The Chaneysville Incident, David Bradley (PEN winner; NBA nominee)
Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, Eudora Welty (NBA winner)
The Company of Women, Mary Gordon (NBA nominee)
Dad, William Wharton (NBA nominee)
Ellis Island and Other Stories, Mark Helprin (PEN nominee; NBA nominee)
A Flag for Sunrise, Robert Stone (Pulitzer nominee; PEN nominee; NBA nominee)
Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson (Pulitzer nominee; PEN nominee; NBA nominee)
The Hotel New Hampshire, John Irving (NBA nominee)
Rabbit is Rich, John Updike (Pulitzer winner; NBA winner)
Sixty Stories, Donald Barthelme (PEN nominee)
Take Me Back, Richard Bausch (PEN nominee)
1981
Aberration of Starlight, Gilbert Sorrentino (PEN nominee)
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole (Pulitzer winner; PEN nominee)
Godric, Frederick Buechner (Pulitzer nominee)
How German Is It?, Walter Abish (PEN winner)
Loon Lake, E. L. Doctorow (NBA nominee)
Morgan's Passing, Anne Tyler (NBA nominee)
Plains Song, Wright Morris (NBA winner)
The Second Coming, Walker Percy (PEN nominee; NBA nominee)
So Long, See You Tomorrow, William Maxwell (NBA winner; Pulitzer nominee)
The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard (PEN nominee; NBA nominee)
