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National Book Award Finalists - Fiction

Description: The books that didn’t win. Hardcover only ‘80 - ‘84.

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Rank Title Author Added

1

To Kill a Mockingbird

78,947 members

1,434 reviews

½ 4.4

8 Members: hipdeep, dylan555, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

2

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

69,843 members

1,086 reviews

3.8

8 Members: dylan555, gypsysmom, nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

3

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

44,217 members

709 reviews

4.1

8 Members: hipdeep, dylan555, gypsysmom, nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

4

A Separate Peace

by John Knowles

12,829 members

191 reviews

½ 3.6

7 Members: hipdeep, dylan555, gypsysmom, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

5

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

30,882 members

508 reviews

3.8

6 Members: dylan555, gypsysmom, nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963, skavlanj, steller0707

6

by Toni Morrison

23,016 members

409 reviews

3.9

6 Members: proserpinarex, gypsysmom, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

7

by Joseph Heller

40,182 members

529 reviews

4.1

5 Members: hipdeep, elkiedee, gypsysmom, nagasravika.bodapati, skavlanj

8

The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

9,856 members

433 reviews

3.9

5 Members: nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

9

by Emily St. John Mandel

11,845 members

786 reviews

4.1

5 Members: gypsysmom, nagasravika.bodapati, ahef1963, kara.shamy, steller0707

10

The Tiger's Wife

5,417 members

337 reviews

½ 3.5

5 Members: dylan555, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, steller0707

11

by Vladimir Nabokov

31,847 members

565 reviews

4.1

5 Members: dylan555, kara.shamy, skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

12

All the Light We Cannot See

by Anthony Doerr

18,960 members

887 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: dylan555, gypsysmom, nagasravika.bodapati, kara.shamy, steller0707

13

by Toni Morrison

7,722 members

98 reviews

3.8

4 Members: proserpinarex, dylan555, kara.shamy, steller0707

14

by Robert Jones Jr.

835 members

26 reviews

4.2

4 Members: dylan555, gypsysmom, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

15

The World According to Garp

15,345 members

198 reviews

4.1

4 Members: gypsysmom, ahef1963, skavlanj, steller0707

16

The Confessions of Nat Turner

by William Styron

2,737 members

39 reviews

3.9

4 Members: proserpinarex, dylan555, kara.shamy, skavlanj

17

Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories

by Flannery O'Connor

2,384 members

53 reviews

4.2

4 Members: proserpinarex, dylan555, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

18

A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

by Flannery O'Connor

4,098 members

98 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, dylan555, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

19

2,377 members

52 reviews

3.9

3 Members: proserpinarex, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

20

6,162 members

111 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: proserpinarex, dylan555, gypsysmom, skavlanj,ManWithAnAgenda

21

by Ursula K. Le Guin

1,577 members

22 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: dylan555, ManWithAnAgenda

22

Breathing Lessons

4,264 members

74 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: elkiedee, skavlanj, steller0707

23

by Bernard Malamud

1,577 members

29 reviews

3.9

3 Members: dylan555, gypsysmom, skavlanj

24

The Known World

by Edward P. Jones

6,886 members

163 reviews

3.8

3 Members: proserpinarex, dylan555, gypsysmom

25

by Marilynne Robinson

3,823 members

150 reviews

4

3 Members: kara.shamy, skavlanj, steller0707

26

Fates and Furies

by Lauren Groff

3,801 members

216 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: dylan555, kara.shamy, steller0707

27

Franny and Zooey

by J. D. Salinger

14,889 members

171 reviews

4

3 Members: dylan555, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

28

by Hanya Yanagihara

7,685 members

332 reviews

4.1

3 Members: dylan555, kara.shamy, steller0707

29

Black Leopard, Red Wolf

by Marlon James

2,731 members

59 reviews

½ 3.3

3 Members: proserpinarex, dylan555, kara.shamy

30

The Association of Small Bombs

by Karan Mahajan

840 members

43 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: dylan555, kara.shamy, steller0707

31

6,576 members

284 reviews

4.1

3 Members: dylan555, kara.shamy, steller0707

32

The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

by Louise Erdrich

1,999 members

64 reviews

4.1

3 Members: proserpinarex, dylan555, gypsysmom

33

1,436 members

59 reviews

3.8

3 Members: dylan555, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

34

by Jhumpa Lahiri

3,337 members

178 reviews

3.9

3 Members: dylan555, gypsysmom, steller0707

35

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

by Deesha Philyaw

569 members

32 reviews

4.2

3 Members: dylan555, kara.shamy, steller0707

36

The Violent Bear It Away

by Flannery O'Connor

1,777 members

45 reviews

4

3 Members: dylan555, kara.shamy, steller0707

37

Disappearing Earth

by Julia Phillips

1,288 members

66 reviews

3.9

3 Members: dylan555, kara.shamy, steller0707

38

by John Steinbeck

2,867 members

46 reviews

4

2 Members: skavlanj, ManWithAnAgenda

39

The Great Believers

by Rebecca Makkai

2,014 members

110 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: dylan555, gypsysmom, kara.shamy

40

A Death in the Family

3,066 members

68 reviews

3.9

2 Members: skavlanj, steller0707

41

Interior Chinatown

1,423 members

87 reviews

3.9

2 Members: elkiedee, steller0707

42

Tenth of December: Stories

by George Saunders

3,842 members

185 reviews

4

2 Members: kara.shamy, steller0707

43

by John Steinbeck

23,547 members

425 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: skavlanj, steller0707

44

Revolutionary Road

by Richard Yates

6,817 members

247 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, skavlanj

45

The Joy Luck Club

17,667 members

199 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

46

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

by Steven Millhauser

1,678 members

57 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: dylan555, ahef1963

47

An Unnecessary Woman

by Rabih Alameddine

1,258 members

85 reviews

4

2 Members: kara.shamy, steller0707

48

The Caine Mutiny

3,316 members

59 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: hipdeep, dylan555

49

A Summons to Memphis

by Peter Taylor

1,032 members

28 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: ahef1963, skavlanj

50

8,004 members

85 reviews

3.9

2 Members: proserpinarex, dylan555

51

6,614 members

93 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, steller0707

52

The Collected Stories

950 members

14 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: proserpinarex, dylan555

53

by Marilynne Robinson

2,535 members

114 reviews

4.1

2 Members: kara.shamy, steller0707

54

A Flag for Sunrise

by Robert Stone

560 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dylan555, skavlanj

55

This Is How You Lose Her

2,924 members

122 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: dylan555, steller0707

56

Giovanni's Room

by James Baldwin

5,593 members

126 reviews

4.2

2 Members: gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

57

by E. L. Doctorow

2,284 members

31 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dylan555, skavlanj

58

The Optimist's Daughter

by Eudora Welty

2,650 members

92 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: proserpinarex, dylan555

59

Foreign Affairs

by Alison Lurie

1,461 members

35 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dylan555, steller0707

60

by MacKinlay Kantor

1,206 members

19 reviews

4.1

2 Members: dylan555, kara.shamy

61

2,490 members

41 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dylan555, skavlanj

62

Another Brooklyn

by Jacqueline Woodson

1,370 members

101 reviews

4

2 Members: gypsysmom, steller0707

63

Lie Down in Darkness

by William Styron

946 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: proserpinarex, dylan555

64

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

by Oscar Hijuelos

1,965 members

31 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: dylan555, ahef1963

65

by Douglas Stuart

2,514 members

128 reviews

4.2

3 Members: dylan555, gypsysmom, kara.shamy,ahef1963

66

by Thomas Pynchon

1,641 members

55 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: proserpinarex, dylan555

67

The Heaven of Mercury

336 members

10 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: dylan555

68

by E. L. Doctorow

3,025 members

87 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dylan555, kara.shamy

69

The Buddha in the Attic

by Julie Otsuka

2,635 members

206 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dylan555, steller0707

70

The Turner House

by Angela Flournoy

988 members

56 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dylan555, kara.shamy

71

by Lauren Groff

1,668 members

91 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dylan555, kara.shamy

72

Cloud Cuckoo Land

by Anthony Doerr

3,834 members

175 reviews

4.2

2 Members: dylan555, steller0707

73

A Lucky Man: Stories

by Jamel Brinkley

165 members

11 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dylan555, kara.shamy

74

by Lauren Groff

1,157 members

61 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dylan555, kara.shamy

75

The Other Americans: A Novel

by Laila Lalami

650 members

39 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dylan555, kara.shamy

76

A Hologram for the King

1,702 members

70 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: dylan555, steller0707

77

The Ghost Writer

1,900 members

35 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dylan555

78

5,607 members

207 reviews

4

2 Members: dylan555, steller0707

79

So Long, See You Tomorrow

by William Maxwell

1,711 members

69 reviews

3.9

Member: dylan555

80

by Frederick Exley

1,113 members

14 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

81

Then We Came to the End

by Joshua Ferris

4,541 members

222 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

82

Humboldt's Gift

3,004 members

39 reviews

3.8

Member: dylan555

83

Further Fables for Our Time

by James Thurber

212 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

84

by J. P. Donleavy

1,876 members

34 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: skavlanj

85

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

by Daniyal Mueenuddin

1,070 members

50 reviews

3.8

Member: dylan555

86

A Children's Bible

by Lydia Millet

878 members

45 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

87

Evidence of Things Unseen

by Marianne Wiggins

589 members

16 reviews

4.1

Member: dylan555

88

by Thomas Pynchon

5,221 members

36 reviews

4

Member: proserpinarex

89

Henderson the Rain King

2,882 members

54 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: skavlanj

90

by Leonard Gardner

496 members

18 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

91

by Alice McDermott

433 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dylan555

92

The Stories of John Cheever

by John Cheever

3,386 members

37 reviews

4.2

Member: proserpinarex

93

The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford

by Jean Stafford

367 members

9 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: dylan555

94

The Executioner's Song

by Norman Mailer

2,906 members

50 reviews

4

Member: proserpinarex

95

220 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: dylan555

96

by Jessica Hagedorn

503 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: proserpinarex

97

by James Alan McPherson

333 members

3 reviews

3.2

Member: dylan555

98

by Joyce Carol Oates

2,154 members

63 reviews

4

Member: dylan555

99

Just Above My Head

by James Baldwin

701 members

6 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: proserpinarex

100

by Eudora Welty

701 members

10 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: proserpinarex

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