El National Book Award («Premi Nacional del Llibre») és un premi literari dels Estats Units d'Amèrica, un dels més prestigiosos en llengua anglesa. Establert el 1950, aquest guardó recompensa obres literàries publicades durant l'any anterior al de la seva concessió en diferents categories (ficció, no-ficció, poesia, literatura infantil i juvenil i traducció literària). En el passat s'han concedit premis en altres categories que en l'actualitat han desaparegut. Es premien també autors pel conjunt de la seva trajectòria amb els guardons Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters i Book Award.
Els guanyadors de cada categoria són seleccionats per un jurat de cinc membres, i la seva decisió es fa pública durant una cerimònia que es realitza cada any el mes de novembre. El guanyador rep un premi de 10.000 dòlars en metàl·lic, i una escultura de cristall.
Guanyadors del National Book Award Categories actualment existents Ficció 1950Nelson AlgrenThe Man with the Golden Arm1951William FaulknerThe Collected Stories of William Faulkner1952James JonesFrom Here to Eternity1953Ralph EllisonInvisible Man1954Saul BellowThe Adventures of Augie March1955William FaulknerA Fable1956John O'HaraTen North Frederick1957Wright MorrisThe Field of Vision1958John CheeverThe Wapshot Chronicle1959Bernard MalamudThe Magic Barrel1960Philip RothGoodbye, Columbus1961Conrad RichterThe Waters of Kronos1962Walker PercyThe Moviegoer1963J. F. PowersMorte D'Urban1964John UpdikeThe Centaur1965Saul BellowHerzog1966Katherine Anne PorterThe Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter1967Bernard MalamudThe Fixer1968Thornton WilderThe Eighth Day1969Jerzy KosinskiSteps1970Joyce Carol Oatesthem1971Saul BellowMr. Sammler's Planet1972Flannery O'ConnorThe Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor1973John BarthChimera1973John Edward WilliamsAugustus1974Thomas PynchonGravity's Rainbow1974Isaac Bashevis SingerA Crown of Feathers and Other Stories1975Robert StoneDog Soldiers1975Thomas WilliamsThe Hair of Harold Roux1976William GaddisJ R1977Wallace StegnerThe Spectator Bird1978Mary Lee SettleBlood Tie1979Tim O'BrienGoing After Cacciato1980 William StyronSophie's Choice1980 John IrvingThe World According to Garp1981 Wright MorrisPlains Song1981 John CheeverThe Stories of John Cheever1982 John UpdikeRabbit is Rich1982 William MaxwellSota Long, See You Tomorrow1983 Alice WalkerThe Color Purple1983 Eudora WeltyCollected Stories of Eudora Welty1984Ellen GilchristVictory Over Japan: A Book of Stories1985Don DeLilloWhite Noise1986E. L. DoctorowWorld's Fair1987Larry HeinemannPaco's Story1988Pete DexterParis Trout1989John CaseySpartina1990Charles R. JohnsonMiddle Passage1991Norman RushMating1992Cormac McCarthyAll the Pretty Horses1993E. Annie ProulxThe Shipping News1994William GaddisA Frolic of his Own1995Philip RothSabbath's Theater1996Andrea BarrettShip Fever and Other Stories1997Charles FrazierCold Mountain1998Alice McDermottCharming Billy1999Ha JinWaiting2000Susan SontagIn America2001Jonathan FranzenThe Corrections2002Julia GlassThree Junes2003Shirley HazzardThe Great Fire2004Lily TuckThe News from Paraguay2005William T. VollmannEurope Central2006Richard PowersThe Echo Maker2007Denis JohnsonTree of Smoke2008Peter MatthiessenShadow Country2009Colum McCannLet the Great World Spin2010Jaimy GordonLord of Misrule2011Jesmyn WardSalvage the Bones2012Louise ErdrichThe Round House2013James McBrideThe Good Lord Bird2014Phil KlayRedeployment2015Adam JohnsonFortune Smiles2016Colson WhiteheadThe Underground Railroad2017Jesmyn WardSing, Unburied, Sing2018Sigrid NunezThe Friend2019Susan ChoiTrust Exercise2020Charles YuInterior Chinatown2021Jason MottHell of a Book2022Tess GuntyThe Rabbit Hutch2023Justin TorresBlackouts2024Percival EverettJames2025Rabih AlameddineThe True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
No-ficció 1950Ralph L. RuskThe Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson1951Newton ArvinHerman Melville1952Rachel CarsonThe Sea Around Us1953Bernard DeVotoThe Course of Empire1954Bruce CattonA Stillness at Appomattox1955Joseph Wood KrutchThe Measure of Man1956Herbert KublyAn American in Italy1957George F. KennanRussia Leaves the War1958Catherine Drinker BowenThe Lion and the Throne1959J. Christopher HeroldMistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël1960Richard EllmannJames Joyce1961William L. ShirerThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich1962Lewis MumfordThe City in History: Its Origins, its Transformations and its Prospects1963Leon EdelHenry James1969Norman MailerThe Armies of the Night1984Robert V. ReminiAndrew Jackson & the Course of American Democracy, 1833-18451985J. Anthony LukasCommon Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families1986Barry LopezArctic Dreams1987Richard RhodesThe Making of the Atomic Bomb1988Neil SheehanA Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam1989Thomas L. FriedmanFrom Beirut to Jerusalem1990Ron ChernowThe House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance1991Orlando PattersonFreedom1992Paul MonetteBecoming a Man: Half a Life Story1993Gore VidalUnited States: Essays 1952-19921994Sherwin B. NulandHow We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter1995Tina RosenbergThe Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism1996James P. CarrollAn American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us1997Joseph J. EllisAmerican Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson1998Edward BallSlaves in the Family1999John W. DowerEmbracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II2000Nathaniel PhilbrickIn the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex2001Andrew SolomonThe Noonday Demon: An Atles of Depression2002Robert A. CarMaster of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson2003Carlos EireWaiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy2004Kevin BoyleArc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age2005Joan DidionThe Year of Magical Thinking2006Timothy EganThe Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl2007Tim WeinerLegacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA2009T. J. StilesThe First Tycoon2010Patti SmithJust Kids2011Stephen GreenblattThe Swerve: How the World Became Modern2012Katherine BooBehind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity2013George PackerThe Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America2014Evan OsnosAge of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China2015Ta-Nehisi CoatesBetween the World and Me2016Ibram X. KendiStamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America2017Masha GessenThe Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia2018Jeffrey C. StewartThe New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke2019Sarah M. BroomThe Yellow House2020Les Payne i Tamara PayneThe Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X2021Tiya MilesAll That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake2022Imani PerrySouth to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon To Understand the Soul of a Nation2023Ned BlackhawkThe Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of US History2024Jason De LeónSoldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling2025Omar El AkkadOne Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Poesia 1950William Carlos WilliamsPaterson: Book III and Selected Poems1951Wallace StevensThe Auroras of Autumn1952Marianne MooreCollected Poems1953Archibald MacLeishCollected Poems, 1917-19521954Conrad AikenCollected Poems1955Wallace StevensThe Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens1956W.H. AudenThe Shield of Achilles1957Richard WilburThings of This World1958Robert Penn WarrenPromises: Poems, 1954-19561959Theodore RoethkeWords for the Wind1960Robert LowellLife Studies1961Randall JarrellThe Woman at the Washington Zoo1962Alan DuganPoems1963William StaffordTraveling Through the Dark1964John Crowe RansomSelected Poems1965Theodore RoethkeThe Far Field1966James DickeyBuckdancer's Choice1967James MerrillNights and Days1968Robert BlyThe Light Around the Body1969John BerrymanHis Toy, His Dream, His Rest1970Elizabeth BishopThe Complete Poems1971Mona Van DuynTo See, To Take1972Frank O'HaraThe Collected Works of Frank O'Hara1972Howard MossSelected Poems1973A. R. AmmonsCollected Poems, 1951-19711974Allen GinsbergThe Fall of America: Poems of these States, 1965-19711974Adrienne RichDiving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-19721975Marilyn HackerPresentation Piece1976John AshberySelf-portrait in a Convex Mirror1977Richard EberhartCollected Poems, 1930-19761978Howard NemerovThe Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov1979James MerrillMirabell: Book of Numbers1980Philip LevineAshes: Poems New and Old1981Lisel MuellerThe Need to Hold Still1982William BronkLife Supports: New and Collected Poems1983Galway KinnellSelected Poems1984Charles WrightCountry Music: Selected Early Poems1985No es va concedir1986No es va concedir1987No es va concedir1988No es va concedir1989No es va concedir1990No es va concedir1991Philip LevineWhat Work Is1992Mary OliverNew & Selected Poems1993A. R. AmmonsGarbage1994James TateA Worshipful Company of Fletchers1995Stanley KunitzPassing Through: The Later Poems1996Hayden CarruthScrambled Eggs & Whiskey1997William MeredithEffort at Speech: New & Selected Poems1998Gerald SternThis Time: New and Selected Poems1999AiVice: New & Selected Poems2000Lucille CliftonBlessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-20002001Alan DuganPoems Seven: New and Complete Poetry2002Ruth StoneIn the Next Galaxy2003C. K. WilliamsThe Singing2004Jean ValentineDoor in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-20032005W. S. MerwinMigration: New & Selected Poems2006Nathaniel MackeySplay Anthem2007Robert HassTime and Materials: Poems, 1997-20052008Mark DotyFire to Fire: New and Collected Poems2009Keith WaldropTranscendental Studies: A Trilogy2010Terrance HayesLighthead2011Nikky FinneyHead Off & Split2012David FerriBewilderment: New Poems and Translations2013Mary SzybistIncarnadine2014Louise GlückFaithful and Virtuous Night2015Robin Cost LewisVoyage of the Sable Venus2016Daniel BorzutzkyThe Performance of Becoming Human2017Frank BidartHalf-light: Collected Poems 1965-20162018Justin Phillip ReedIndecency2019Arthur SzeSight Lines2020Don Mee ChoiDMZ Colony2021Martín EspadaFloaters2022John KeenePunks: New & Selected Poems2023Craig Santos Perezfrom unincorporated territory [åmot]2024Lena Khalaf TuffahaSomething About Living2025Patricia SmithThe Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems
Literatura infantil i juvenil 1996Victor MartinezParrot in the Oven, Mi Vida1997Han NolanDancing on the Edge1998Louis SacharHoles1999Kimberly Willis HoltWhen Zachary Beaver Came to Town2000Gloria WhelanHomeless Bird2001Virginia Euwer WolffTrue Believer2002Nancy FarmerThe House of the Scorpion2003Polly HorvathThe Canning Season2004Pete HautmanGodless2005Jeanne BirdsallThe Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy2006Matthew Tobin AndersonThe Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party2007Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian2008Judy BlundellWhat I Saw and How I Lied2009Phillip HooseClaudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice2010Kathryn ErskineMockingbird2011Thanhha LaiInside Out & Back Again2012William AlexanderGoblin Secrets2013Cynthia KadohataThe Thing About Luck2014Jacqueline WoodsonBrown Girl Dreaming2015Neal ShustermanChallenger Deep2016John Lewis, Nate Powell, Andrew AydinMarch: Book Three2017Robin BenwayFar from the Tree2018Elizabeth AcevedoThe Poet X2019Martin W. Sandler1919 The Year That Changed America2020Kacen CallenderKing and the Dragonflies2021Malinda LoLast Night at the Telegraph Club2022Sabaa TahirAll My Rage2023Dan SantatA First Time for Everything2024Shifa Saltagi SafadiKareem Between2025Daniel NayeriThe Teacher of Nomad Land
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