National Book Award for Fiction
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National Book Award for Fiction
Order these winners by the year each won. You place all 35 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.
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How the National Book Award for Fiction timeline works
The cards are winners of the National Book Award for Fiction, each with the author printed below, and you sort them by the year they won. One winner opens the timeline with the year visible. Each new card goes into a gap you choose among the books already down. Nail the gap and the year is revealed; a wrong one moves the book to its true spot and costs you one of your three lives.
The winners run from postwar American fiction through experimental and postmodern novels to story collections and contemporary work. Several writers won more than once, sometimes far apart. Big postmodern doorstops and quiet domestic novels came out side by side, so style is a weak clue. Short story collections count too, and they're easy to overlook when you're thinking in novels.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 35 cards you might be dealt, with 7 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow
- A Fable William Faulkner
- The Wapshot Chronicle John Cheever
- The Magic Barrel Bernard Malamud
- The Centaur John Updike
- Herzog Saul Bellow
- The Fixer Bernard Malamud
- them Joyce Carol Oates
- Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon
- JR William Gaddis
- Going After Cacciato Tim O'Brien
- The Color Purple Alice Walker
- World's Fair E.L. Doctorow
- Paris Trout Pete Dexter
- Middle Passage Charles Johnson
- All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy
- Sabbath's Theater Philip Roth
- Ship Fever Andrea Barrett
- Cold Mountain Charles Frazier
- Waiting Ha Jin
- The Great Fire Shirley Hazzard
- Europe Central William T. Vollmann
- The Echo Maker Richard Powers
- Tree of Smoke Denis Johnson
- Salvage the Bones Jesmyn Ward
- The Good Lord Bird James McBride
- The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead
- Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward
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