Everyman , by Philip Roth (Winner)

All Aunt Hagar's Children , by Edward P. Jones

The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel , by Amy Hempel

Twilight of the Superheroes , by Deborah Eisenberg

The Dead Fish Museum , by Charles D'Ambrosio

The March , by E.L. Doctorow (Winner)

A Sudden Country , by Karen Fisher

I Got Somebody in Staunton , by William Henry Lewis

Last Night , by James Salter

The Chrysanthemum Palace , by Bruce Wagner

War Trash , by Ha Jin (Winner)

The Green Lantern , by Jerome Charyn

The Dew Breaker , by Edwidge Danticat

Gilead , by Marilynne Robinson

Prisoners of War , by Steve Yarbrough

Elroy Nights , by Frederick Barthelme

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere , by ZZ Packer

A Distant Shore , by Caryl Phillips

The Early Stories , by John Updike (Winner)

Old School , by Tobias Wolff

The Caprices , by Sabina Murray (Winner)

The City of Your Final Destination , by Peter Cameron

Roscoe , by William Kennedy

The Ecstatic , by Victor LaValle

Little Casino , by Gilbert Sorrentino

Bel Canto , by Ann Patchett (Winner)

Sister Noon , by Karen Joy Fowler

The Corrections , by Jonathan Franzen

The Hunters , by Claire Messud

The Death of Vishnu , by Manil Suri

The Human Stain , by Philip Roth (Winner)

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay , by Michael Chabon

Harry Gold , by Millicent Dillon

The Name of the World , by Denis Johnson

Off Keck Road , by Mona Simpson

Waiting , by Ha Jin (Winner)

The Night Inspector , by Frederick Busch

Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies , by Ken Kalfus

Amy and Isabelle , by Elizabeth Strout

Siam: Or the Woman Who Shot a Man , by Lily Tuck

The Hours , by Michael Cunningham (Winner)

The Poisonwood Bible , by Barbara Kingsolver

Cloudsplitter , by Russell Banks

Starting Out in the Evening , by Brian Morton

The Doctor Stories , by Richard Selzer

The Bear Comes Home , by Rafi Zabor (Winner)

The Mercy Seat , by Rilla Askew

The Hundred Brothers , by Donald Antrim

Because They Wanted To , by Mary Gaitskill

The Ordinary Seaman , by Francisco Goldman

Women in Their Beds , by Gina Berriault (Winner)

St. Burl's Obituary , by Daniel Akst

The Book of Mercy , by Kathleen Cambor

Atticus , by Ron Hansen

Europa , by Tim Parks

The Autobiography of My Mother , by Jamaica Kincaid

Independence Day , by Richard Ford (Winner)

All Soul's Rising , by Madison Smartt Bell

The Tunnel , by William Gass

When the World Was Steady , by Claire Messud

The Good Negress , by A.J. Verdelle

Snow Falling on Cedars , by David Gutterson (Winner)

The Children in the Woods , by Frederick Busch

Stones from the River , by Ursula Hegi

What I Lived For , by Joyce Carol Oates

Various Antidotes , by Joanna Scott

Operation Shylock , by Philip Roth (Winner)

Van Gogh's Room at Arles , by Stanley Elkin

The Magic of Blood , by Dagoberto Gilb

Bone , by Fae Myenne Ng

Not Where I Started From , by Kate Wheeler

Postcards , by E. Annie Proulx (Winner)

A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain , by Robert Olen Butler

The Long Night of White Chickens , by Francisco Goldman

Natural History , by Maureen Howard

Talking to the Dead , by Sylvia Watanabe

Mao II , by Don DeLillo (Winner)

Frog , by Stephen Dixon

Extraordinary People , by Paul Gervais

White People , by Allan Gurganus

The Almanac Branch , by Bradford Morrow

Philadelphia Fire , by John Edgar Wideman (Winner)

The Music of Chance , by Paul Auster

A Gentleman's Guide to the Frontier , by Joanne Meschery

The Barnum Museum , by Steven Millhauser

Arrogance , by Joanna Scott

Billy Bathgate , by E.L. Doctorow (Winner)

Affliction , by Russell Banks

The Jump-Off Creek , by Molly Gloss

On the Island , by Josephine Jacobsen

Leaving Brooklyn , by Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Dusk , by James Salter (Winner)

The Tenants of Time , by Thomas Flanagan

Vanished , by Mary McGarry Morris

The Corner of Rife and Pacific , by Thomas Savage

The Death of Methuselah , by Isaac Bashevis Singer

World's End , by T. Coraghessan Boyle (Winner)

Spirits , by Richard Bausch

That Night , by Alice McDermott

The Messiah of Stockholm , by Cynthia Ozick

Imagining Argentina , by Lawrence Thornton

Soldiers in Hiding , by Richard Wiley (Winner)

The Sportswriter , by Richard Ford

Expensive Habits , by Maureen Howard

The Sorcerer's Apprentice , by Charles Johnson

Collaborators , by Janet Kauffman

The Old Forest , by Peter Taylor (Winner)

Carpenter's Gothic , by William Gaddis

Lonesome Dove , by Larry McMurtry

The Tree of Life , by Hugh Nissenson

The Christmas Wife , by Helen Norris

Later the Same Day , by Grace Palely

The Barracks Thief , by Tobias Wolff (Winner)

Stones for Ibarra , by Harriet Doerr

The Dixie Association , by Donald Hays

Family Dancing , by David Leavitt

On Glory's Course , by James Purdy

Sent for You Yesterday , by John Edgar Wideman (Winner)

The Assassination of Jesse James, by the Coward Robert Ford , by Ron Hansen

Ironweed , by William Kennedy

At the Bottom of the River , by Jamaica Kincaid

The Stories , by Bernard Malamud

Seaview , by Toby Olson (Winner)

Grace Abounding , by Maureen Howard

Shiloh and Other Stories , by Bobbie Ann Mason

The Portage of San Cristobal of A.H. , by George Steiner

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant , by Anne Tyler

Birthplace , by William S. Wilson

The Chaneysville Incident , by David Bradley (Winner)

Sixty Stories , by Donald Barthelme

Take Me Back , by Richard Bausch

Ellis Island and Other Stories , by Mark Helprin

Housekeeping , by Marilynne Robinson

A Flag for Sunrise , by Robert Stone

How German Is It , by Walter Abish (Winner)

The Transit of Venus , by Shirley Hazzard

The Second Coming , by Walker Percy

Aberration of Starlight , by Gilbert Sorrentino

A Confederacy of Dunces , by John Kennedy Toole