2005

Philip Roth, The Plot Against America (Houghton Mifflin, 2004)

2003

Kevin Baker, Paradise Alley (HarperCollins, 2002)

2001

Peter Matthiessen, Bone by Bone (Random House, 2000)
Ward Just, A Dangerous Friend (Houghton Mifflin, 1999)

1999

Richard Powers, Gain (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998)

1997

John Edgar Wideman, The Cattle Killing (Houghton Mifflin, 1996)

1995

Tim O'Brien, In the Lake of the Woods (Houghton Mifflin, 1994)

1993

Noah Gordon, Shaman (Penguin/Dutton, 1992)