National Book Award Books: 1995 to 1986
1995 : Sabbath's Theater by Phillip Roth
1994 : A Frolic of his Own by William Gaddis
1993 : The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
1992 : All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
1991 : Mating by Norman Rush
1990 : Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
1989 : Spartina by John Casey
1988 : Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
1987 : Paco's Story by Larry Heinemann
1986 : World's Fair by E. L. Doctorow