The Top Book List

Award year

1951 National Book Award

Sources: official announcement 1, official announcement 2, official announcement 3

Fiction

Winner
The Collected Stories of William Faulkner
William Faulkner
National Book Award Winner

Also recognized

The Trouble of One House by Brendan GillFinalist

Nonfiction

Winner
Herman Melville
Newton Arvin
National Book Award Winner

Poetry

Winner
The Auroras of Autumn
Wallace Stevens
National Book Award Winner

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