2024 Countries of Origin by Javier Fuentes
Finalists: Jinwoo Chong - Flux
Miah Jeffra - American Gospel
2023 Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah
Finalists: Lisa Hsiao Chen - Activities of Daily Living
Ramona Emerson - Shutter
Alissa Songsiridej - Little Rabbit
Ryan Lee Wong - Which Side Are You On
2022 Detransition, Baby: A Novel by Torrey Peters
Finalists: Avni Doshi - Burnt Sugar
Carolyn Ferrell - Dear Miss Metropolitan: A Novel
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers - The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Novel
Kirstin Valdez Quade - The Five Wounds: A Novel
2021 Sharks in a Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn
Finalists: Maisy Card - The Ghosts are Family
Raven Leilani - Luster
Douglas Stuart - Shuggie Bain
C. Pam Zhang - How Much of These Hills Is Gold
2020 A Prayer for Travelers by Ruchika Tomar
Runners-up: Madeline ffitch - Stay and Fight and
Regina Porter - The Travelers
2019 There, There by Tommy Orange
Finalists: Akwaeke Emezi - Freshwater and
Ling Ma - Severance
Honorable Mention: Meghan Kenny - The Driest Season and
Nico Walker - Cherry
2018 Chemistry by Weike Wang
Finalists: Lisa Ko (The Leavers) and
Adelia Saunders (Indelible)
Honorable Mention: Ian Bassingthwaighte (Live from Cairo) and
Curtis Dawkins (The Graybar Hotel)
2017 Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Finalists: Bill Beverly (Dodgers) and
Leopoldine Core (When Watched)
Honorable Mention: Callan Wink (Dog Run Moon) and
Melissa Yancy (Dog Years)
2016 Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
Finalists: S.M. Hulse (Black River) and
Margaret Malone (People Like You)
Honorable Mention: Karim Dimechkie (Lifted by the Great Nothing) and
Chigozie Obioma (The Fisherman)
2015 Elegy on Kinderklavier by Arna Bontemps Hemenway
Finalists: Kim Fu (For Today I Am a Boy) and
Atticus Lish (Preparation for the Next Life)
Honorable Mention: Mark Chiusano (Marine Park) and
Diane Cook (Man V. Nature)
2014 We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
Finalists: Mitchell S. Jackson (The Residue Years) and
Anthony Wallace (The Old Priest)
Honorable Mention: Jasmine Beach-Ferrara (Damn Love) and
Kristopher Jansma (The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards) and
Ethan Rutherford (The Peripatetic Coffin)
2013 The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
Finalists: Jennifer duBois (A Partial History of Lost Causes) and
Vaddey Ratner (In the Shadow of the Banyan Tree)
Honorable Mention: Catherine Chung (Forgotten Country) and
Peter M. Wheelwright (As It Is On Earth)
2012 Open City by Teju Cole
Finalists: Amy Waldman (The Submission) and
Stephanie Powell Watts (We Are Taking Only What We Need)
Honorable Mention: Marjorie Hudson (Accidental Birds of the Carolinas) and
Chad Harbach (The Art of Fielding)
2011 The Madonnas of Echo Park by Brando Skyhorse (Simon & Schuster)
Finalists: Patricia Engel (Vida) and
Suzanne Rivecca (Death Is Not An Option)
Honorable Mention: Danielle Evans (Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self)
Helen Simonson (Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand)
2010 A Long Long Time Ago and Essentially True by Brigid Pasulka (Houghton Mifflin)
Finalists: C.E. Morgan (All the Living) and
Abraham Verghese (Cutting for Stone)
Runners-up: Mary Beth Keane (The Walking People) and
Lydia Peelle (Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing)
2009 A Gentleman’s Guide to Graceful Living by Michael Dahlie (Norton)
Finalists: Ed Park (Personal Days) and
Sana Krasikov (One More Year)
Runners-up: Doug Dorst (Alive in Necropolis) and
Matthew Quick (The Silver Linings Playbook)
2008 Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris (Little, Brown)
Finalists: Ravi Howard (Like Trees Walking) and
Rebecca Curtis (Twenty Grand)
Runners-up: Margot Singer (The Pale of Settlement) and
Gary Schanbacher (Migration Patterns)
2007 Brief Encounters With Che Guevara by Ben Fountain (HarperCollins)
Finalists: Rebecca Johns (Icebergs) and
Yvette Christianse (Unconfessed)
Runners-up: Marisha Pessl (The Special Topics in Calamity Physics) and
Janna Levin (A Madman Dreams of Turnning Machines)
2006 A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li (Random House)
Finalists: Daniel Alarcon (War by Candlelight) and
Douglas Trevor (The Thin Year in the Fabric of Space)
Runners-up: Jess Row (The Train to Lo Wu) and
Karen Olsson (Waterloo)
2005 Graceland by Chris Abani (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Finalists: Laurie Lynn Drummond (Anything You Say Can and Will be Used Against You) and
Samina Ali (Madras on Rainy Days)
Runners-up: Jerome Richard (The Kiss of the Prison Dancer) and
Hannah Tinti (Animal Crackers)
2004 Mrs. Kimble by Jennifer Haigh (Morrow)
Finalists: Murad Kalam (Night Journey) and
Z.Z. Packer (Drinking Coffee Elsewhere)
Runners-up: Suki Kim (The Interpreters) and
Ellen Ullman (The Bug)
2003 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W by George Brownstein (Norton)
Finalists: Christie Hodgen (A Jeweler’s Eye for Flaw) and
Gabe Hudson (Dear Mr. President)
Runners-up: Jonathan Tel (Arafat’s Elephant) and
Julia Whitty (A Tortoise for the Queen of Tonga)
2002 Mary and O’Neil by Justin Cronin (Dial)
Finalists: Peter Orner (Esther Stories) and
Manil Suri (The Death of Vishnu)
Runners-up:Carolyn Cooke (The Bostons) and
Micheline Aharonian Marcom (Three Apples Fell From Heaven)
2001 An Obedient Father by Akhil Sharma (FSG)
Finalists: Mohsin Hamid (Moth Smoke) and
Tom Paine (Scar Vegas and other Stories)
Runners-up: Myla Goldberg (Bee Season) and
Elissa Schappell (Use Me)
2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Houghton Mifflin)
1999 Homestead by Rosina Lipini (Delphinium)
Finalists: Michael Byers (The Coast of Good Intentions) and
C.S. Godshalk (Kalimantaan)
Runners-up: Lan Samantha Chang (Hunger) and
Michael Knight (Dogfight & Other Stories)
1998 A Private State by Charlotte Bacon (University of Massachusetts)
1997 Ocean of Words by Ha Jin (Zoland)
1996 Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee (Riverhead)
1995 The Grass Dancer by Susan Power (Putnam)
1994 The Magic of Blood by Dagoberto Gilb (University of New Mexico)
1993 Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones (Morrow)
1992 Wartime Lies by Louis Begley (Knopf)
1991 Maps to Anywhere by Bernard Cooper (University of Georgia)
1990 The Ice at the Bottom of the World by Mark Richard (FSG)
1989 The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton (Ticknor & Fields)
1988 Imagining Argentina by Lawerence Thornton (Doubleday)
1987 Tongues of Flame by Mary Ward Brown (Seymour Lawrence/Dutton)
1986 Lady’s Time by Alan V. Hewat (Harper & Row)
1985 Dreams of Sleep by Josephine Humphreys (Viking)
1984 During the Reign of the Queen of Persia by Joan Chase (Harper & Row)
1983 Shiloh and Other Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason (Harper & Row)
1982 Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (FSG)
1981 Household Words by Joan Silber
1980 Mom Kills Kids and Self by Alan Saperstein (FSG)
1979 Hasen by Reuben Bercovitch (Knopf)
1978 A Way of Life, Like Any Other by Darcy O’Brien (Norton)
1977 Speedboat by Renata Adler (Random House)
1976 Parthian Shot by Loyd Little (Viking)