National Book Critics Circle Award Fiction Books: 1994 to 1985
1994 : The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
1993 : A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
1992 : All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
1991 : A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
1990 : Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
1989 : Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow
1988 : The Middleman and Other Stories by Bharati Mukherjee
1987 : The Counterlife by Phillip Roth
1986 : Kate Vaiden by Reynolds Price
1985 : The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
