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National Book Award for Fiction

Order these winners by the year each won. Place all 35 cards on one timeline, one at a time — three wrong guesses and the run is over.

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How National Book Award for Fiction is played

Every card in this deck carries a hidden value on the same scale — release years and dates — and the run is one long sorting problem. The first card is dealt face up. Each card after it goes into the gap where you think it belongs, and the value only shows once it lands. Get it wrong three times and the run ends with whatever you had placed.

This deck can also be shuffled together with any other deck measured in release years and dates — tick several on the deck tree to build one longer timeline out of them.

What's in the deck

28 of the 35 cards you could be dealt, plus 7 more. The 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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