Nacionalinė knygų premija (angl. National Book Award) buvo įsteigta 1950 metais. Ją įsteigė Amerikos knygų leidėjų taryba, Knygų leidybos institutas ir Amerikos knygų prekybininkų asociacija. 1980–1986 metais buvo vadinama Amerikos knygų premija, 1987 metais premija vėl atgavo pirmykštį pavadinimą. Premijos teikimą nuo 1989 metų perėmė Nacionalinis knygų fondas. Premiją sudaro 10 000 USD. 1964–1980 m. nominacijoms buvo pristatomos trys knygų kategorijos – dalykinė knyga, beletristika, poezija, o vėliau išaugo iki 26. 1984 m. Nacionalinės knygų premijos apdovanojimų skaičius buvo suskirstytas į dvi kategorijas: beletristiką ir dalykinę literatūrą. Poezijos kūriniai vėl pristatomi nominacijai tik nuo 1991 m. Apdovanoti gali būti tik praeitų metų kūriniai, sukurti dar gyvenančiųjų valstybės piliečių. Trijų apdovanojimų – už beletristiką, dalykinę knygą ir poeziją – vertas knygas atrenka trys komisijos nariai.
| National Book Award |
| Remia | Amerikos knygų prekybininkų asociacija |
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| Šalis | JAV |
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| Vedėjas | Nacionalinis knygų fondas |
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| Svetainė | nationalbook.org |
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Knygų kategorijos. Premijos laureatai
Beletristika
| 1950 | Nelson Algren | The Man with the Golden Arm |
| 1951 | William Faulkner | The Collected Stories of William Faulkner |
| 1952 | James Jones | From Here to Eternity |
| 1953 | Ralph Ellison | Invisible Man |
| 1954 | Saul Bellow | The Adventures of Augie March |
| 1955 | William Faulkner | A Fable |
| 1956 | John O'Hara | Ten North Frederick |
| 1957 | Wright Morris | The Field of Vision |
| 1958 | John Cheever | The Wapshot Chronicle |
| 1959 | Bernard Malamud | The Magic Barrel |
| 1960 | Philip Roth | Goodbye, Columbus |
| 1961 | Conrad Richter | The Waters of Kronos |
| 1962 | Walker Percy | The Moviegoer |
| 1963 | J. F. Powers | Morte D'Urban |
| 1964 | John Updike | The Centaur |
| 1965 | Saul Bellow | Herzog |
| 1966 | Katherine Anne Porter | The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter |
| 1967 | Bernard Malamud | The Fixer |
| 1968 | Thornton Wilder | The Eighth Day |
| 1969 | Jerzy Kosinski | Steps |
| 1970 | Joyce Carol Oates | them |
| 1971 | Saul Bellow | Mr. Sammler's Planet |
| 1972 | Flannery O'Connor | The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor |
| 1973 | John Barth | Chimera |
| 1973 | John Edward Williams | Augustus |
| 1974 | Thomas Pynchon | Gravity's Rainbow |
| 1974 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories |
| 1975 | Robert Stone | Dog Soldiers |
| 1975 | Thomas Williams | The Hair of Harold Roux |
| 1976 | William Gaddis | J R |
| 1977 | Wallace Stegner | The Spectator Bird |
| 1978 | Mary Lee Settle | Blood Tie |
| 1979 | Tim O’Brien | Going After Cacciato |
| 1980 | William Styron | Sophie’s Choice |
| 1980 | John Irving | The World According to Garp |
| 1981 | Wright Morris | Plains Song |
| 1981 | John Cheever | The Stories of John Cheever |
| 1982 | John Updike | Rabbit is Rich |
| 1982 | William Maxwell | So Long, See You Tomorrow |
| 1983 | Alice Walker | The Color Purple |
| 1983 | Eudora Welty | Collected Stories of Eudora Welty |
| 1984 | Ellen Gilchrist | Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories |
| 1985 | Don DeLillo | White Noise |
| 1986 | E. L. Doctorow | World’s Fair |
| 1987 | Larry Heinemann | Paco's Story |
| 1988 | Pete Dexter | Paris Trout |
| 1989 | John Casey | Spartina |
| 1990 | Charles Johnson | Middle Passage |
| 1991 | Norman Rush | Mating |
| 1992 | Cormac McCarthy | All the Pretty Horses |
| 1993 | E. Annie Proulx | The Shipping News |
| 1994 | William Gaddis | A Frolic of His Own |
| 1995 | Philip Roth | Sabbath's Theater |
| 1996 | Andrea Barrett | Ship Fever and Other Stories |
| 1997 | Charles Frazier | Cold Mountain |
| 1998 | Alice McDermott | Charming Billy |
| 1999 | Ha Jin | Waiting |
| 2000 | Susan Sontag | In America |
| 2001 | Jonathan Franzen | The Corrections |
| 2002 | Julia Glass | Three Junes |
| 2003 | Shirley Hazzard | The Great Fire |
| 2004 | Lily Tuck | The News from Paraguay |
| 2005 | William Vollmann | Europe Central |
| 2006 | Richard Powers | The Echo Maker |
| 2007 | Denis Johnson | Tree of Smoke |
Dalykinė literatūra
| 1950 | Ralph L. Rusk | Ralph Waldo Emerson (straipsnis apie Ralph Waldo Emerson) |
| 1951 | Newton Arvin | Herman Melville (straipsnis apie Herman Melville) |
| 1952 | Rachel Carson | The Sea Around Us |
| 1953 | Bernard A. De Voto | The Course of Empire |
| 1954 | Bruce Catton | A Stillness at Appomattox |
| 1955 | Joseph Wood Krutch | The Measure of Man |
| 1956 | Herbert Kubly | An American in Italy |
| 1957 | George F. Kennan | Russia Leaves the War |
| 1958 | Catherine Drinker Bowen | The Lion and the Throne (straipsnis apie Edward Coke) |
| 1959 | J. Christopher Herold | Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame De Stael |
| 1960 | Richard Ellmann | James Joyce (straipsnis apie James Joyce} |
| 1961 | William L. Shirer | The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich |
| 1962 | Lewis Mumford | The City in History: Its Origins, its Transformations and its Prospects |
| 1963 | Leon Edel | Henry James, Vol. II: The Conquest of London, Henry James, Vol. III: The Middle Years |
| 1984 | Robert V. Remini | Andrew Jackson & the Course of American Democracy, 1833–1845 (straipsnis apie Andrew Jackson) |
| 1985 | J. Anthony Lukas | Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families |
| 1986 | Barry Lopez | Arctic Dreams |
| 1987 | Richard Rhodes | The Making of the Atomic Bomb |
| 1988 | Neil Sheehan | A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (straipsnis apie John Paul Vann) |
| 1989 | Thomas L. Friedman | From Beirut to Jerusalem |
| 1990 | Ron Chernow | The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance |
| 1991 | Orlando Patterson | Freedom |
| 1992 | Paul Monette | Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story |
| 1993 | Gore Vidal | United States: Essays 1952–1992 |
| 1994 | Sherwin B. Nuland | How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter |
| 1995 | Tina Rosenberg | The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism |
| 1996 | James P. Carroll | An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us |
| 1997 | Joseph J. Ellis | American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson |
| 1998 | Edward Ball | Slaves in the Family |
| 1999 | John W. Dower | Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II |
| 2000 | Nathaniel Philbrick | In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex |
| 2001 | Andrew Solomon | The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression |
| 2002 | Robert A. Caro | Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson |
| 2003 | Carlos Eire | Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy |
| 2004 | Kevin Boyle | Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age |
| 2005 | Joan Didion | The Year of Magical Thinking |
| 2006 | Timothy Egan | The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl |
| 2007 | Tim Weiner | Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA |
Poezija
| 1950 | | William Carlos Williams | Paterson: Book III and Selected Poems |
| 1951 | | Wallace Stevens | The Auroras of Autumn |
| 1952 | | Marianne Moore | Collected Poems |
| 1953 | | Archibald MacLeish | Collected Poems, 1917–1952 |
| 1954 | | Conrad Aiken | Collected Poems |
| 1955 | | Wallace Stevens | The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens |
| 1956 | | W. H. Auden | The Shield of Achilles |
| 1957 | | Richard Wilbur | Things of This World |
| 1958 | | Robert Penn Warren | Promises: Poems, 1954–1956 |
| 1959 | | Theodore Roethke | Words for the Wind |
| 1960 | | Robert Lowell | Life Studies |
| 1961 | | Randall Jarrell | The Woman at the Washington Zoo |
| 1962 | | Alan Dugan | Poems |
| 1963 | | William Stafford | Traveling Through the Dark |
| 1964 | | John Crowe Ransom | Selected Poems |
| 1965 | | Theodore Roethke | The Far Field |
| 1966 | | James Dickey | Buckdancer's Choice |
| 1967 | | James Merrill | Nights and Days |
| 1968 | | Robert Bly | The Light Around the Body |
| 1969 | | John Berryman | His Toy, His Dream, His Rest |
| 1970 | | Elizabeth Bishop | The Complete Poems |
| 1971 | | Mona Van Duyn | To See, To Take |
| 1972 | | Frank O'Hara | The Collected Works of Frank O'Hara |
| 1972 | | Howard Moss | Selected Poems |
| 1973 | | A. R. Ammons | Collected Poems, 1951–1971 |
| 1974 | | Allen Ginsberg | The Fall of America: Poems of these States, 1965–1971 |
| 1974 | | Adrienne Rich | Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971–1972 |
| 1975 | | Marilyn Hacker | Presentation Piece |
| 1976 | | John Ashbery | Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror |
| 1977 | | Richard Eberhart | Collected Poems, 1930–1976 |
| 1978 | | Howard Nemerov | The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov |
| 1979 | | James Merrill | Mirabell: Book of Numbers |
| 1980 | | Philip Levine | Ashes: Poems New and Old |
| 1981 | | Lisel Mueller | The Need to Hold Still |
| 1982 | | William Bronk | Life Supports: New and Collected Poems |
| 1983 | | Galway Kinnell | Selected Poems |
| 1983 | | Charles Wright | Country Music: Selected Early Poems |
| 1985 | | Apdovanojimo nėra |
| 1986 | | Apdovanojimo nėra |
| 987 | | Apdovanojimo nėra |
| 1988 | | Apdovanojimo nėra |
| 1989 | | Apdovanojimo nėra |
| 1990 | | Apdovanojimo nėra |
| 1991 | | Philip Levine | What Work Is |
| 1992 | | Mary Oliver | New & Selected Poems |
| 1993 | | A. R. Ammons | Garbage |
| 1994 | | James Tate | A Worshipful Company of Fletchers |
| 1995 | | Stanley Kunitz | Passing Through: The Later Poems |
| 1996 | | Hayden Carruth | Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey |
| 1997 | | William Morris Meredith, Jr. | Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems |
| 1998 | | Gerald Stern | This Time: New and Selected Poems |
| 1999 | | Ai | Vice: New & Selected Poems |
| 2000 | | Lucille Clifton | Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988–2000 |
| 2001 | | Alan Dugan | Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry |
| 2002 | | Ruth Stone | In the Next Galaxy |
| 2003 | | C. K. Williams | The Singing |
| 2004 | | Jean Valentine | Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965–2003 |
| 2005 | | W. S. Merwin | Migration: New & Selected Poems |
| 2006 | | Nathaniel Mackey | Splay Anthem |
| 2007 | | Robert Hass | Time and Materials: Poems, 1997–2005 |
Jaunų rašytojų literatūra
| 1996 | Victor Martinez | Parrott In the Oven: MiVida |
| 1997 | Han Nolan | Dancing on the Edge |
| 1998 | Louis Sachar | Holes |
| 1999 | Kimberly Willis Holt | When Zachary Beaver Came to Town |
| 2000 | Gloria Whelan | Homeless Bird |
| 2001 | Virginia Euwer Wolff | True Believer |
| 2002 | Nancy Farmer | The House of the Scorpion |
| 2003 | Polly Horvath | The Canning Season |
| 2004 | Pete Hautman | Godless |
| 2005 | Jeanne Birdsall | The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy |
| 2006 | M. T. Anderson | The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. I |
| 2007 | Sherman Alexie | The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian |
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