The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg, by Deborah Eisenberg (Winner)

A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan

Lord of Misrule, by Jaimy Gordon

Model Home, by Eric Puchner

Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives, by Brad Watson

War Dances, by Sherman Alexie (Winner)

The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver

Homicide Survivors Picnic and Other Stories, by Lorraine M. Lopez

A Gate at the Stairs, by Lorrie Moore

Sag Harbor, by Colson Whitehead

Netherland, by Joseph O'Neill (Winner)

Ms. Hempel Chronicles, by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum

A Person of Interest , by Susan Choi

Lush Life, by Richard Price

Serena, by Ron Rash

The Great Man , by Kate Christensen (Winner)

The Maytrees , by Annie Dillard

The Indian Clerk , by David Leavitt

The Gateway: Stories , by T.M. McNally

Chemistry and Other Stories , by Ron Rash

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