美國國家圖書獎
成立於1950年的美國國家圖書獎，是美國最重要的文學獎，其頒獎典禮與餐會也是美國文壇年度盛事，此獎項的目的是為了提升大眾對優秀美國作品的認識，並在整體上促進閱讀風氣。因此強調的是美國籍作者的英文作品，除了文學性的成就，也往往能在所選的作品中反映出美國的歷史文化和價值觀、認同意識等。 頒發的獎項包括小說（Fiction）、非小說（Nonfiction）、詩（Poetry）、青年文學（Young People's Literature）以及美國文學傑出貢獻獎章（Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters）等，只要是美國的出版商，在前一年12月1日到當年11月30日出版（或預計出版而有完整書稿）的書都可報名。再由.國家圖書基金會（The National Book Foundation）選出五人的評審小組，其中包含一名主席，由他們獨力作業選出各類獎項的得主。四類獎項共有16位決選入圍者，每位可得1000元獎金，最後得獎者每人可獲10000美元（台幣約32萬），與水晶雕像一座。
Fiction
| 年代 | 得獎作品 / 作者 |
| 2010 | Lord of Misrule / Jaimy Gordon |
| 2009 | Let the Great World Spin / Colum McCann |
| 2008 | Shadow Country / Peter Matthiessen |
| 2007 | Tree of Smoke / Denis Johnson |
| 2006 | The Echo Maker / Richard Powers |
| 2005 | Europe Central / William T. Vollmann |
| 2004 | The News from Paraguay / Lily Tuck |
| 2003 | Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy / Carlos Eire |
| 2003 | The Great Fire / Shirley Hazzard |
| 2002 | Three Junes / Julia Glass |
| 2001 | The Corrections / Jonathan Franzen |
| 2001 | True Believer / Virginia Euwer Wolff |
| 2000 | In America / Susan Sontag |
| 1999 | Waiting / Ha Jin |
| 1998 | Charming Billy / Alice McDermott |
| 1997 | Cold Mountain / Charles Frazier |
| 1996 | Ship Fever and Other Stories / Andrea Barrett |
| 1995 | Sabbath's Theater / Philip Roth |
| 1994 | A Frolic of His Own / William Gaddis |
| 1993 | The Shipping News / E. Annie Proulx |
| 1992 | All the Pretty Horses / Cormac McCarthy |
| 1991 | Mating / Norman Rush |
| 1990 | Middle Passage / Charles Johnson |
| 1989 | Spartina / John Casey |
| 1988 | Paris Trout / Pete Dexter |
| 1987 | Paco's Story / Larry Heinemann |
| 1986 | World's Fair / E. L. Doctorow |
| 1985 | White Noise / Don DeLillo |
| 1984 | Victory over Japan: A Book of Stories / Ellen Gilchrist |
| 1983 | (Paperback) Collected Stories of Eudora Welty / Eudora Welty |
| 1983 | (Hardcover) The Color Purple / Alice Walker |
| 1982 | (Paperback) So Long, See You Tomorrow / William Maxwell |
| 1982 | (Hardcover) Rabbit is Rich / John Updike |
| 1981 | (Paperback) The Stories of John Cheever / John Cheever |
| 1981 | (Hardcover) Plains Song / Wright Morris |
| 1980 | (Paperback) The World According to Garp / John Irving |
| 1980 | (Hardcover) Sophie's Choice / William Styron |
| 1979 | Going After Cacciato / Tim O'Brien |
| 1978 | Blood Ties / Mary Lee Settle |
| 1977 | The Spectator Bird / Wallace Stegner |
| 1976 | Jr / William Gaddis |
| 1975 | The Hair of Harold Roux / Thomas Williams |
| 1975 | Dog Soldiers / Robert Stone |
| 1974 | A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories / Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| 1974 | Gravity's Rainbow / Thomas Pynchon |
| 1973 | Chimera / John Barth |
| 1972 | The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor / Flannery O'Connor |
| 1971 | Mr. Sammler's Planet / Saul Bellow |
| 1970 | Them / Joyce Carol Oates |
| 1969 | Steps / Jerzy Kosinski |
| 1968 | The Eighth Day / Thornton Wilder |
| 1967 | The Fixer / Bernard Malamud |
| 1966 | The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter / Katherine Anne Porter |
| 1965 | Herzog / Saul Bellow |
| 1964 | The Centaur / John Updike |
| 1963 | Morte D'Urban / J. F. Powers |
| 1962 | The Moviegoer / Walker Percy |
| 1961 | The Waters of Kronos / Conrad Richter |
| 1960 | Goodbye, Columbus / Philip Roth |
| 1959 | The Magic Barrel / Bernard Malamud |
| 1958 | The Wapshot Chronicle / John Cheever |
| 1957 | The Field of Vision / Wright Morris |
| 1956 | Ten North Frederick / John O'Hara |
| 1955 | A Fable / William Faulkner |
| 1954 | The Adventures of Augie March / Saul Bellow |
| 1953 | Invisible Man / Ralph Ellison |
| 1952 | From Here to Eternity / James Jones |
| 1951 | The Collected Stories of William Faulkner / William Faulkner |
| 1950 | The Man With The Golden Arm / Nelson Algren |
Nonfiction
| 年代 | 得獎作品 / 作者 |
| 2010 | Just Kid / Patti Smith |
| 2009 | The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt / T. J. Stiles |
| 2008 | The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family / Annette Gordon-Reed |
| 2007 | Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA / Tim Weiner |
| 2006 | The Worst Hard Time:The Untold Story od Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl / Timothy Egan |
| 2005 | The Year of Magical Thinking / Joan Didion |
| 2004 | Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age / Kevin Boyle |
| 2002 | Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson / Robert A. Caro |
| 2001 | The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression / Andrew Solomon |
| 2000 | In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex / Nathaniel Philbrick |
| 1999 | Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II / John W. Dower |
| 1998 | Slaves in the Family / Edward Ball |
| 1997 | American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson / Joseph J. Ell |
| 1996 | An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us / James Carroll |
| 1995 | The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism / Tina Rosenberg |
| 1994 | How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter / Sherwin B. Nuland |
| 1993 | United States: Essays 1952-1992 / Gore Vidal |
| 1992 | Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story / Paul Monette |
| 1991 | Freedom / Orlando Patterson |
| 1990 | The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance / Ron Chernow |
| 1989 | From Beirut to Jerusalem / Thomas L. Friedman |
| 1988 | A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam / Neil Sheehan |
| 1987 | The Making of the Atom Bomb / Richard Rhodes |
| 1986 | Arctic Dreams / Barry Lopez |
| 1985 | Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families / J. Anthony Lukas |
| 1984 | Andrew Jackson & the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845 / Robert V. Remini |
| 1983 | (Paperback) National Defense / James Fallows |
| 1983 | (Hardcover) China: Alive in the Bitter Sea / Fox Butterfield |
| 1982 | (Paperback) Naming Names / Victor S. Navasky |
| 1982 | (Hardcover) The Soul of a New Machine / Tracy Kidder |
| 1981 | (Paperback) The Last Cowboy / Jane Kramer |
| 1981 | (Hardcover) China Men / Maxine Hong Kingston |
| 1980 | (Paperback) The Snow Leopard / Peter Matthiessen |
| 1980 | (Hardcover) The Right Stuff / Tom Wolfe |
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| 1963 | Henry James, Vol. II: The Conquest of London, Henry James, Vol. III: The Middle Years / Leon Edel |
| 1962 | The City in History: Its Origins, its Transformations and its Prospects / Lewis Mumford |
| 1961 | The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich / William L. Shirer |
| 1960 | James Joyce / Richard Ellmann |
| 1959 | Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame De Stael / J. Christopher Herold |
| 1958 | The Lion and the Throne / Catherine Drinker Bowen |
| 1957 | Russia Leaves the War / George F. Kennan |
| 1956 | An American in Italy / Herbert Kubly |
| 1955 | The Measure of Man / Joseph Wood Krutch |
| 1954 | A Stillness at Appomattox / Bruce Catton |
| 1953 | The Course of Empire / Bernard A. De Voto |
| 1952 | The Sea Around Us / Rachel Carson |
| 1951 | Herman Melville / Newton Arvin |
| 1950 | Ralph Waldo Emerson / Ralph L. Rusk |
Poetry
| 年代 | 得獎作品 / 作者 |
| 2010 | Lighthead / Terrance Hayes |
| 2009 | Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy / Keith Waldrop |
| 2008 | Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems / Mark Doty |
| 2007 | Time and Materials : poems, 1997-2005 / Robert Hass |
| 2006 | Splay Anthem / Nathaniel Mackey |
| 2005 | Migration:New and Selected Poems / W.S. Merwin |
| 2004 | Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 / Jean Valentine |
| 2003 | The Singing / C. K. Williams |
| 2002 | In the Next Galaxy / Ruth Stone |
| 2001 | Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry / Alan Dugan |
| 2000 | Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 / Lucille Clifton |
| 1999 | Vice: New & Selected Poems / Ai |
| 1998 | This Time: New and Selected Poems / Gerald Stern |
| 1997 | Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems / William Meredith |
| 1996 | Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey / Hayden Carruth |
| 1995 | Passing Through: The Later Poems / Stanley Kunitz |
| 1994 | A Worshipful Company of Fletchers / James Tate |
| 1993 | Garbage / A. R. Ammons |
| 1992 | New & Selected Poems / Mary Oliver |
| 1991 | What Work Is / Philip Levine |
| 1983 | Country Music: Selected Early Poems / Charles Wright |
| 1983 | Selected Poems / Galway Kinnell |
| 1982 | Life Supports: New and Collected Poems / William Bronk |
| 1981 | The Need to Hold Still / Lisel Mueller |
| 1980 | Ashes / Philip Levine |
| 1979 | Mirabell: Book of Numbers / James Merrill |
| 1978 | The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov / Howard Nemerov |
| 1977 | Collected Poems, 1930-1976 / Richard Eberhart |
| 1976 | Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror / John Ashbery |
| 1975 | Presentation Piece / Marilyn Hacker |
| 1974 | Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 / Adrienne Rich |
| 1974 | The Fall of America: Poems of these States, 1965-1971 / Allen Ginsberg |
| 1973 | Collected Poems, 1951-1971 / A. R. Ammons |
| 1972 | The Collected Works of Frank O'Hara / Frank O'Hara |
| 1972 | Selected Poems / Howard Moss |
| 1971 | To See, To Take / Mona Van Duyn |
| 1970 | The Complete Poems / Elizabeth Bishop |
| 1969 | His Toy, His Dream, His Rest / John Berryman |
| 1968 | The Light Around the Body / Robert Bly |
| 1967 | Nights and Days / James Merrill |
| 1966 | Buckdancer's Choice: Poems / James Dickey |
| 1965 | The Far Field / Theodore Roethke |
| 1964 | Selected Poems / John Crowe Ransom |
| 1963 | Traveling Through the Dark / William Stafford |
| 1962 | Poems / Alan Dugan |
| 1961 | The Woman at the Washington Zoo / Randall Jarrell |
| 1960 | Life Studies / Robert Lowell |
| 1959 | Words for the Wind / Theodore Roethke |
| 1958 | Promises: Poems, 1954-1956 / Robert Penn Warren |
| 1957 | Things of the World / Richard Wilbur |
| 1956 | The Shield of Achilles / W.H. Auden |
| 1955 | The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens / Wallace Stevens |
| 1954 | Collected Poems / Conrad Aiken |
| 1953 | Collected Poems, 1917-1952 / Archibald MacLeish |
| 1952 | Collected Poems / Marianne Moore |
| 1951 | The Auroras of Autumn / Wallace Stevens |
| 1951 | The Auroras of Autumn / Wallace Stevens |
| 1950 | Paterson: Book III and Selected Poems / William Carlos Williams |
| 1950 | Paterson: Book III and Selected Poems / William Carlos Williams |
Young People Literature
| 年代 | 得獎作品 / 作者 |
| 2010 | Mockingbird / Kathryn Erskine |
| 2009 | Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice / Phillip Hoose |
| 2008 | What I Saw and How I Lied / Judy Blundell |
| 2007 | The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian / Sherman Alexie |
| 2006 | The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing,Traitor to the Nation,Volume One:The Pox Party / M.T. Anderson |
| 2005 | The Penderwicks(中譯本:夏天的故事) / Jeanne Birdsall |
| 2004 | Godless / Pete Hautman |
| 2003 | The Canning Season / Polly Horvath |
| 2002 | The House of the Scorpion / Nancy Farmer |
| 2000 | Homeless Bird / Gloria Whelan |
| 1999 | When Zachary Beaver Came to Town / Kimberly Willis Holt |
| 1998 | Holes / Louis Sachar |
| 1997 | Dancing on the Edge / Han Nolan |
| 1996 | Parrott In the Oven: MiVida / Victor Martinez |
| 1995 | (No Award) |
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| 1984 | (No Award) |
| 1983 | (hardcover fiction) Westmark / Lloyd Alexander |
| 1983 | (hardcover nonfiction) Chimney Sweeps / James Cross Giblin |
| 1983 | (paperback ficion) Marked by Fire / Joyce Carol Thomas |
| 1983 | (paperback fiction) A Place Apart / Paula Fox |
| 1983 | (hardcover fiction) Homesick: My Own Story / Jean Fritz |
| 1982 | (hardcover fiction) The Night Swimmers / Betsy Byars |
| 1982 | (hardcover nonfiction) A Penguin Year / Susan Bonners |
| 1982 | (paperback fiction) Words by Heart / Ouida Sebestyen |
| 1981 | (hardcover nonfiction) Mali -- Oh, Boy! Babies / Alison Cragin Herzig & Jane Lawrence |
| 1981 | (paperback fiction) Ramona and Her Mother / Beverly Cleary |
| 1980 | (paperback) A Swiftly Tilting Planet / Madeleine L'Engle |
| 1980 | (hardcover) A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal / Joan W. Blos |
| 1979 | The Great Gilly Hopkins / Katherine Paterson |
| 1978 | The View From the Oak / Judith Kohl & Herbert Kohl |
| 1977 | The Master Puppeteer / Katherine Paterson |
| 1976 | Bert Breen's Barn / Walter D. Edmonds |
| 1975 | M. C. Higgins the Great / Virginia Hamilton |
| 1974 | The Court of the Stone Children / Eleanor Cameron |
| 1973 | The Farthest Shore / Ursula K. LeGuin |
| 1972 | The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine or The Hithering Thithering Djinn / Donald Barthelme |
| 1971 | The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian / Lloyd Alexander |
| 1970 | A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw / Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| 1970 | A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw / Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| 1969 | Journey from Peppermint Street / Meindert DeJong |
| 1969 | Journey from Peppermint Street / Meindert DeJong |