# The National Book Award for Fiction winners of the 2000s

The ten books that won the US National Book Award for Fiction from 2000 to 2009.

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- Feb 22, 2024 · Sean
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## Top 10

1. **In America — Susan Sontag** (18 · ▲19 ▼1) — 2000. A Polish actress emigrates to California in the 1870s.
2. **The Corrections — Jonathan Franzen** (18 · ▲19 ▼1) — 2001. The Lamberts gather for one last Christmas in the Midwest.
3. **Three Junes — Julia Glass** (17 · ▲18 ▼1) — 2002. A Scottish family across three summers.
4. **The Great Fire — Shirley Hazzard** (15 · ▲15 ▼0) — 2003. Love among the ruins of post-war Japan.
5. **Europe Central — William T. Vollmann** (11 · ▲13 ▼2) — 2005. Germany and the Soviet Union in the 20th century, through Shostakovich and others.
6. **The News from Paraguay — Lily Tuck** (9 · ▲12 ▼3) — 2004. Eliza Lynch and the dictator Francisco Solano López.
7. **Let the Great World Spin — Colum McCann** (8 · ▲12 ▼4) — 2009. New York in 1974, the day Philippe Petit walked between the Twin Towers.
8. **The Echo Maker — Richard Powers** (7 · ▲9 ▼2) — 2006. A man who no longer recognises his sister after an accident.
9. **Tree of Smoke — Denis Johnson** (4 · ▲11 ▼7) — 2007. A CIA operation in the Vietnam War.
10. **Shadow Country — Peter Matthiessen** (2 · ▲7 ▼5) — 2008. The legend of a Florida Everglades planter.

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