| Year | Nonfiction | Fiction | Poetry | Young People's Literature | Translation |
|---|
| 1950 |
The Universe and Dr. Einstein
Lincoln Barnett
| The Mature Mind
H.A. Overstreet
| This I Remember
Eleanor Roosevelt
| Killers of the Dream
Lillian Smith
| Lincoln Finds a General
Kenneth P. Williams
|
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| 1952 |
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
| Life in America
Marshall Davidson
| Henry James (1952)
F.W. DuPee
| Birth of a World
Waldo Frank
| George Washington, Volumes I-VII
Douglas Southall Freeman (I-VI), and John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth (VII after Dr. Freeman's Death in 1953) (Sort as: Douglas Southall Freeman)
Scribner | The Forgotten Language
Erich Fromm
| The Uprooted
Oscar Handlin
Little | A Walker in the City
Walker Kazin
| Jefferson and the Rights of Man
Dumas Malone
| White Collar
C. Wright Mills
| The Far Side of Paradise
Arthur Mizener
| Conduct of Life
Lewis Mumford
| Charles Evans Hughes
Merlo J. Pusey
Macmillan | Thomas Jefferson
Nathan Schachner
| The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams
| Reunion and Reaction
C. Vann Woodward
|
|
The Morning Watch
James Agee
| The Grass Harp
Truman Capote
| Requiem for a Nun
William Faulkner
| The Strange Children
Caroline Gordon
| The Holy Sinner
Thomas Mann
| Melville Goodwin USA
John P. Marquand
| The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger
| Lie Down in the Darkness
William Styron
| The Witch Diggers
Jessamyn West
| The Caine Mutiny
Herman Wouk
Doubleday |
|
Nones
W. H. Auden
| The Spirit of the Scene
William Rose Benèt
| Selected Poems (1952E)
Richard Eberhart
| Selected Poems of Horace Gregory
Horace Gregory
| The Seven-League Crutches
Randall Jarrell
| Praise to the End
Theodore Roethke
| Selected Poems (1952R)
Muriel Rukeyser
| Collected Earlier Poems
William Carlos Williams
| Paterson
William Carlos Williams
|
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| 1953 |
A Declaration of Faith
Herbert Agar
| Ushant
Conrad Aiken
| The Big Change
Frederick L. Allen
| Let There Be Bread
Robert Brittain
| The Confident Years
Van Wyck Brooks
| Witness
Whittaker Chambers
| Rome and a Villa
Eleanor Clark
| Beyond the High Himalayas
William O. Douglas
| George Washington, Volumes I-VII
Douglas Southall Freeman (I-VI), and John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth (VII after Dr. Freeman's Death in 1953) (Sort as: Douglas Southall Freeman)
Scribner | Rendezvous with Destiny
Eric Goldman
| The Spirit of Liberty
Learned Hand
| William Faulkner
Irving Howe
| The Uses of the Past
Herbert Muller
| The Taming of the Nations
F.S.C. Northrup
| The Days Before
Katherine Anne Porter
| Midstream: Lincoln the President
J. G. Randall
| Abraham Lincoln (1953)
Benjamin Thomas
| Sam Clemens of Hannibal
Dixon Wecter
| Lincoln Finds a General, Vol. III
Kenneth P. Williams
| The Shores of Light
Edmund Wilson
|
|
Many Mansions
Isabel Bolton
| Winds of Morning
H.L. Davis
| The Gathering Darkness
Thomas Gallagher
| The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
Scribner | Jefferson Selleck
Carl Jones
| The Landsman
Peter Martin
| A Shower of Summer Days
May Sarton
| The Gathering Wheel
Jean Stafford
| East of Eden
John Steinbeck
| The Build-Up
William Carlos Williams
|
|
Early and Late Testament
Stanley Burnshaw
| New and Selected Poems
Thomas H. Ferril
| The Suburb by the Sea
Robert Hillyer
| Cape Horn and Other Poems
Ernest Kroll
| A Mask for Janus
W. S. Merwin
| A Song of Joy
Byron H. Reece
| Ring Song
Naomi Replansky
| The Dragon and the Unicorn
Kenneth Rexroth
| Kentucky is My Land
Jesse Stuart
| Poems (1953)
Ridgely Torrence
| The First Morning
Peter Viereck
|
|
| |
| 1955 |
Scenes and Portraits
Van Wyck Brooks
| The Challenge of Man's Future
Harrison Brown
| But We Were Born Free
Elmer Davis
| The Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill
Hermann Hagedorn
| Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History
Paul Horgan
Rinehart | The Manner is Ordinary
John La Farge
| Bent's Fort
David Lavender
| Abraham Lincoln (1955)
Carl Sandburg
COMBINECOMBINE | Beyond the Hundredth Meridian
Wallace Stegner
| The Test of Freedom
Norman Thomas
| The Second Tree from the Corner
E.B. White
|
|
The Dollmaker
Harriet Arnow
| The View from Pompey's Head
Hamilton Basso
| The Night of the Hunter
Davis Grubb
| Pictures from an Institution
Randall Jarrell
| The Last Hunt
Milton Lott
| Lord Grizzly
Frederick Manfred
| The Bad Seed
William March
| The Huge Season
Wright Morris
| The Courts of Memory
Frank Rooney
| Sweet Thursday
John Steinbeck
|
|
Poems, 1923-1954
e.e. cummings
| Poems: A Selection
Leonie Adams
| Collected Poems, 1923-1953
Louise Bogan
| Hungerfield and Other Poems
Robinson Jeffers
| Songs for Eve
Archibald MacLeish
| The Love Letters of Phyllis McGinley
Phyllis McGinley
| The Verse Diary of a Psychiatrist
Merrill Moore
| A Character Invented
LeRoy Smith
| Poems in POETS OF TODAY
May Swenson
| The Desert Music and Other Poems
William Carlos Williams
| Selected Poems (1955)
Marya Zaturenska
|
|
| |
| 1956 |
The Solitary Singer
Gay Wilson Allen
| Government by Investigation
Alan Barth
| The Edge of the Sea
Rachel Carson
| The Land They Fought For
Clifford Dowdey
| Inside Africa
John Gunther
| The Age of Reform
Richard Hofstadter
Knopf | Part of Our Time
Murray Kempton
| Gift from the Sea
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
| They Thought They Were Free
Milton Mayer
| Notre Dame of Paris
Allan Temko
| Year of Decisions
Harry S. Truman
| The Scrolls from the Dead Sea
Edmund Wilson
|
|
The Spider's House
Paul Bowles
| The Black Prince
Shirley Ann Grau
| Andersonville
MacKinlay Kantor
World | A Good Man is Hard to Find
Flannery O'Connor
| Faithful Are the Wounds
May Sarton
| Band of Angels
Robert Penn Warren
| The Bride of the Innisfallen
Eudora Welty
| Marjorie Morningstar
Herman Wouk
|
|
Poems - North & South
Elizabeth Bishop
Houghton | As If
John Ciardi
| Birthdays from the Ocean
Isabella Gardner
| Exiles and Marriages
Donald Hall
| Selected Poems (1956)
Randall Jarrell
| The Diamond Cutters
Adrienne Rich
| Journey to Love
William Carlos Williams
|
|
| |
| 1957 |
John Quincy Adams and the Union
Samuel F. Bemis
| Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox
James MacGregor Burns
| This Hallowed Ground
Bruce Catton
| Old Bullion Benton
William Chambers
| Guides to Straight Thinking
Stuart Chase
| The Atomic Quest
Arthur H. Compton
| Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Triumph
Frank Freidel
| The Crucial Decade
Eric Goldman
| The Nun's Story
Kathryn Hulme
| Richard III
Paul Murray Kendall
| Profiles in Courage
John F. Kennedy
Harper | The Revolt of the Moderates
Samuel Lubell
| The Raven and the Whale
Perry Miller
| Transformations of Man
Lewis Mumford
| Autumn Across America
Edwin W. Teale
| Segregation
Robert Penn Warren
| The Organization Man
William Whyte, Jr.
|
|
Walk on the Wild Side
Nelson Algren
| Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin
| Seize the Day
Saul Bellow
| Greenwillow
B.J. Chute
| These Thousand Years
A.B. Guthrie
| A Single Pebble
John Hersey
| Generations of Men
John Hunt
| The Last Hurrah
Edwin O'Connor
| The Presence of Grace
J. F. Powers
| The Voice at the Back Door
Elizabeth Spencer
| Further Fables for Our Time
James Thurber
|
|
The Form of Loss
Edgar Bowers
| This Tilting Dust
Leah B. Drake
| Greenhouse in the Garden
Charles E. Eaton
| New and Selected Poems (1957)
Kenneth Fearing
| In the Rose of Time
Robert Fitzgerald
| Villa Narcisse
Katherine Haskins
| Green Armor on Green Ground
Rolfe Humphries
| Poems in POEMS OF TODAY, III
Joseph Langland
| The Unicorn
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
| Green with Beasts
W. S. Merwin
| Like a Bulwark
Marianne Moore
| Section: Rock Drill
Ezra Pound
| In Defense of the Earth
Kenneth Rexroth
| Poems Old and New
John Hall Wheelock
|
|
| |
| 1958 |
Mr. Baruch
Margaret Coit
| The Reformation
Will Durant
| Alexander Hamilton in the American Tradition
Louis Hacker
| Poets in a Landscape
Gilbert Highet
| Justice Holmes: The Shaping Years, 1841-1870
Mark deWolfe Howe
| Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy
Henry A. Kissinger
| Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
Mary McCarthy
| A Proposal: Key to an Effective Foreign Policy
Max F. Milliken & W. W. Rostow
| The Hidden Persuaders
Vance Packard
| The Twentieth Maine
John Pullen
| As France Goes
David Schoenbrun
| Bridge to the Sun
Gwen Terasaki
| The Citadel
W. S. White
|
|
A Death In The Family
James Agee
McDowell, Obolensky | By Love Possessed
James Gould Cozzens
| Something About a Soldier
Mark Harris
| The Velvet Horn
Andrew Lytle
| The Assistant
Bernard Malamud
| Love Among the Cannibals
Wright Morris
| Pnin
Vladimir Nabokov
| Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
| The Return of Lady Brace
Nancy Wilson Ross
| The Birth of a Grandfather
May Sarton
|
|
Time Without Number
Daniel Berrigan
| Letter from a Distant Land
Philip Booth
| The Arctic Tern
Edwin G. Burrows
| Selected Poems of H.D.
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
| Great Praises
Richard Eberhart
| Poems (1958)
Richmond Lattimore
| Swimmer in the Air
Howard Moss
| In Time Like Air
May Sarton
| Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana
Eli Siegel
| Poems: 1947-1957
William Jay Smith
| Opus Posthumous
Wallace Stevens
| The Green Wall
James Wright
|
|
| |
| 1959 |
The Human Condition
Hannah Arendt
| Private
Lester Atwell
| The Americans
Daniel J. Boorstin
| The Wall Between
Anne Braden
| Naked to Mine Enemies
Charles Ferguson
| The Civil War, Vol. I
Shelby Foote
| The Affluent Society
John Kenneth Galbraith
| Only in America
Harry Golden
| Marlborough's Duchess
Louis Kronenberger
| A Case History of Hope
Flora Lewis
| Journey to the Beginnings
Edgar Snow
| Russia, the Atom and the West
George F. Kennan
|
|
The Ginger Man
J. P. Donleavy
| Home from the Hill
William Humphrey
| Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
| From the Terrace
John O'Hara
| The Lost Country
J.R. Salamanca
| The Winthrop Woman
Anya Seton
| Anatomy of a Murder
Robert Travers
|
|
I Marry You
John Ciardi
| Poems (1959)
e.e. cummings
| Mirrors and Windows
Howard Nemerov
| Collected Poems (1959)
Theodore Roethke
| Poems for a Jew
Karl Shapiro
| A Cage of Spines
May Swenson
| Paterson, Book IV
William Carlos Williams
| J. B.
Archibald Macleish
|
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| Year | Nonfiction | Fiction | Poetry | Young People's Literature | Translation |
|---|
| 1980 |
Autobiography I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can
Barbara Gordon
| Autobiography Front and Center
John Houseman
| Autobiography Obituaries
William Saroyan
| Biography Marquand: An American Life
Millicent Bell
| Biography Bloomsbury: A House of Lions
Leon Edel
| Biography Bernard Berenson, The Making of a Connoisseur
Ernest Samuels
Belknap-Harvard | Biography Samuel Johnson
Walter Jackson Bate
Harcourt | Biography American Caesar
William Manchester
| Biography Robert Kennedy and His Times
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr
|
|
Current Interest Julia Child and More Company
Julia Child
| Current Interest Design for Independent Living: The Environment and Physically Disabled People
Raymond Lifchez and Barbara Winslow
| Current Interest Your Second Life: Vitality and Growth in Middle and Later Years
Gay Gaer Luce
| Current Interest The Pritkin Program for Diet and Exercise
Nathan Pritikin with Patrick M. McGrady, Jr.
| Current Interest Privacy: How to Protect What’s Left of It
Robert Ellis Smith
| Current Interest Babysense: A Practical and Supportive Guide to Baby Care
Frances Wells Burck
| Current Interest The Integral Urban House: Self-Reliant Living in the City
Farallones Institute
| Current Interest Pregnancy and Childbirth
Tracy Hotchner
| Current Interest Alice, Let's Eat
Calvin Trillin
| General Nonfiction America Revised
Frances FitzGerald
Atlantic-Little, Brown | General Nonfiction The Powers That Be
David Halberstam
| General Nonfiction A Nervous Splendor: Vienna, 1888-1889
Frederic Morton
| General Nonfiction The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA
Thomas Powers
| General Nonfiction Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life
Sissela Bok
Pantheon | General Nonfiction Of Wolves and Men
Barry Lopez
| General Reference Books Encyclopedia of China Today
Frederick M. Kaplan, Julian M. Sopin and Stephen Andors (Sort as: Frederick M. Kaplan)
| General Reference Books Arts in America: A Bibliography
Bernard Karpel
| General Reference Books The Encyclopedia of American Religions, Vols. I & II
J. Gordon Melton
| General Reference Books Index to Children's Songs
Carolyn Sue Peterson, ed. And Ann D. Fenton, ed. (Sort as Peterson)
| General Reference Books The Ms. Guide to a Woman's Health
Cynthia W. Cooke, M.D. and Susan Dworkin (Sort as Cooke)
| General Reference Books The Solar Age Resource Book
Editors of Solar Age magazine
| General Reference Books I Hear America Talking: An Illustrated History of American Words and Phrases
Stuart Berg Flexner
| General Reference Books Kids: Day In and Day Out
Elizabeth L. Scharlatt, ed. (Sort as Scharlatt)
|
|
History Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy
Robert Dallek
| History Decline of Bismarck's European Order: Franco-Russian Relations, 1875-1890
George F. Kennan
| History Utopian Thought in the Western World
Frank E. Manuel and Fritzie P. Manuel
| History Munich: The Price of Peace
Telford Taylor
Doubleday | History The Making of Jazz: A Comprehensive History
James Lincoln Collier
| History The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America
Daniel J. Kevles
| History Chambers Case
Allen Weinstein – Perjury: The Hiss
| History In Search of History: A Personal Adventure
Theodore H. White
Harper & Row |
|
Religion/Inspiration The Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious Affirmation
Peter L. Berger
| Religion/Inspiration Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture
Brevard S. Childs
| Religion/Inspiration Love is Stronger than Death
Peter J. Kreeft
| Religion/Inspiration The Authority and Interpretation of the Bible: An Historical Approach
Jack B. Rogers and Donald K. McKim
| Religion/Inspiration Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Richard Bach
| Religion/Inspiration The Helper
Catherine Marshall
| Science Disturbing the Universe
Freeman Dyson
| Science Living Corals
Douglas Faulkner and Richard Chesher
| Science Bumblebee Economics
Bernd Heinrich
| Science The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology
Horace Freeland Judson
| Science Black Holes and Warped Spacetime
William J. Kaufman, III
| Science The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change
Thomas S. Kuhn
| Science The Thin Edge: Coast and Man in Crisis
Anne W. Simon
|
|
| Just Above My Head
James Baldwin
| The Executioner's Song
Norman Mailer
Little, Brown | The Ghost Writer
Philip Roth
Farrar, Straus | Endless Love
Scott Spencer
| Collected Stories (1980)
Paul Bowles
| Violet Clay
Gail Godwin
| Too Far to Go
John Updike
| First Novel Vision Quest
Terry Davis
| First Novel When the Tree Sings
Stratis Haviaras
| First Novel Stealing Home
Philip F. O'Connor
| First Novel Mom Kills Kids and Self
Alan Saperstein
| Mystery Introducing C.G. Greenfield
Lucille Kallen
| Mystery The Rosary Murders
William X. Kienzle
| Mystery The Rheingold Route
Arthur Maling
| Mystery False Front
Lawrence Meyer
| Mystery The Spy Who Sat and Waited
R. Wright Campbell
| Mystery The Kremlin Conspiracy
Sean Flannery
| Mystery Listening Woman
Tony Hillerman
| Mystery The Infernal Device
Michael Kurland
| Science Fiction Engine Summer
John Crowley
| Science Fiction On Wings of Song
Thomas M. Disch
| Science Fiction Janissaries
Jerry Pournelle
| Science Fiction Juniper Time
Kate Wilhelm
| Science Fiction Tales of Neveryon
Samuel R. Delany
| Science Fiction Dreamsnake
Vonda N. McIntyre
| Science Fiction The Star-Spangled Future
Norman Spinrad
| Science Fiction The Persistence of Vision
John Varley
| Western Woman Chief
Benjamin Capps
| Western The High Rocks
Loren D. Estleman
| Western Wild Times
Brian Garfield
| Western My Brother, the Wind
G. Clifton Wisler
|
|
The Poems of Stanley Kunitz
Stanley Kunitz
| In Broken Country
David Wagoner
|
|
The Road from Home
David Kherdian
| Throwing Shadows
E.L. Konigsburg
| Words by Heart
Ouida Sebestyen
| Alan and Naomi
Myron Levoy
| Frog and Toad Are Friends
Arnold Lobel
| The Great Gilly Hopkins
Katherine Paterson
|
|
George Hart’s Poets of the Tamil Anthologies
George L. Hart, III
|
| 1981 |
Biography and Autobiography Peter the Great: His Life and World
Robert K. Massie
Knopf | Biography and Autobiography Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times
James R. Mellow
| Biography and Autobiography Orwell: The Transformation
Peter Stansky and William Abrahams (sort as Peter Stansky)
| Biography and Autobiography Walter Lippmann and the American Century
Ronald Steel
Atlantic-Little, Brown | Biography and Autobiography Willa Cather
E.K. Brown
| Biography and Autobiography Bloomsbury: A House of Lions
Leon Edel
| Biography and Autobiography Facts of Life
Maureen Howard
Little, Brown | Biography and Autobiography Being Bernard Berenson
Meryle Secrest
|
|
General Nonfiction The Dream of the Golden Mountains
Malcolm Cowley
| General Nonfiction From a Limestone Ledge
John Graves
| General Nonfiction Naming Names
Victor S. Navasky
| General Nonfiction American Dreams: Lost and Found
Studs Terkel
| General Nonfiction The White Album
Joan Didion
Simon & Schuster | General Nonfiction The Powers That Be
David Halberstam
| General Nonfiction Merchants of Grain
Dan Morgan
| General Nonfiction The Old Patagonian Express
Paul Theroux
|
|
History Fire in the Minds of Men
James H. Billington
| History The Age of Reform, 1250-1550
Steve Ozmont
| History Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics And Culture
Carl E. Schorske
Knopf | History The Shaping of America
Page Smith
| History Facing West
Richard Drinnon
| History In the Matter of Color
A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
| History Munich: The Price of Peace
Telford Taylor
Doubleday | History A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
|
|
Science The Abyss of Time
Claude C. Albritton, Jr.
| Science The Wooing of Earth
Rene Dubos
| Science Galaxies
Timothy Ferris
| Science Cosmos
Carl Sagan
| Science Broca's Brain
Carl Sagan
| Science The Big Bang
Joseph Silk
| Science Black Holes
Walter Sullivan
|
|
| The Transit of Venus
Shirley Hazzard
Viking | So Long, See You Tomorrow
William Maxwell
Knopf | The Second Coming
Walker Percy
Farrar, Straus & Giroux | The Collected Stories (1981)
Eudora Welty
| The Year of the French
Thomas Flanagan
Holt, Rinehart & Winston | The Executioner's Song
Norman Mailer
Little, Brown | Endless Love
Scott Spencer
| War and Remembrance
Herman Wouk
| First Novel The Clan of the Cave Bear
Jean M. Auel
| First Novel Horn of Africa
Philip Caputo
| First Novel O My America
Johanna Kaplan
| First Novel Rough Strife
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
|
|
Before Sleep
Philip Booth
| That Was Then
Isabella Gardner
| Selected Poems (1981)
Mark Strand
Atheneum | Being Here: Poetry, 1977-1980
Robert Penn Warren
Random House |
|
Fiction A Place Apart
Paula Fox
| Fiction Jacob Have I Loved
Katherine Paterson
| Fiction Far From Home
Ouida Sebestyen
| Fiction The Alfred Summer
Jan Slepian
| Fiction The High King
Lloyd Alexander
| Fiction All Together Now
Sue Ellen Bridgers
| Fiction Tex
S. E. Hinton
| Fiction The Westing Game
Ellen Raskin
| Nonfiction Where Do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus?
Jean Fritz
| Nonfiction The Ballpark
William Jaspersohn
| Nonfiction All Time, All Peoples: A World History of Slavery
Milton Meltzer
| Nonfiction People
Peter Spier
|
|
Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman: Three Lyric Poets of the Seventh Century B.C.
Guy Davenport
| Varlam Shalamov’s Kolyma Tales
John Glad
| Kao Ming’s The Lute
Jean Milligan
|
|
| Year | Nonfiction | Fiction | Poetry | Young People's Literature | Translation |
|---|
| 1990 |
Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students and Their High School
Samuel G. Freedman
| Richard Milhouse Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician
Roger Morris
Henry Holt | Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
Clarkson N. Potter | Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1847-1952
T.H. Watkins
|
|
Chromos
Felipe Alfau
| Paradise (1990)
Elena Castedo
| Dogeaters
Jessica Hagedorn
| Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart
Joyce Carol Oates
|
|
| | |
| 1991 |
Why Americans Hate Politics
E.J. Dionne, Jr.
| Praying for Sheetrock
Melissa Fay Greene
Addison-Wesley | The Jameses: A Family Narrative
R.W.B. Lewis
| Anne Sexton: A Biography
Diane Wood Middlebrook
|
|
Wartime Lies
Louis Begley
Knopf | Frog
Stephen Dixon
| The MacGuffin
Stanley Elkin
| Beyond Deserving
Sandra Scofield
|
|
Ending
Andrew Hudgins – The Never
| Mary
Linda McCarriston – Eva
| The Homeplace
Marilyn Nelson Waniek
| An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991
Adrienne Rich
W.W. Norton & Company |
|
| |
| 1992 |
The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction
Edward L. Ayers
Oxford University Press | Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
James Gleick
Pantheon | Truman
David McCullough
Simon & Schuster | Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
Garry Wills
Simon & Schuster |
|
Bastard out of Carolina
Dorothy Allison
| Dreaming in Cuban
Cristina Garcia
| Lost in the City
Edward P. Jones
| Outerbridge Reach
Robert Stone
Ticknor & Fields |
|
Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991
Hayden Carruth
Copper Canyon Press | The Wild Iris
Louise Gluck
The Ecco Press | Rapture
Susan Mitchell
| No Nature
Gary Snyder
|
|
| |
| 1993 |
Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture
William Leach
| W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919
David Levering Lewis
Henry Holt | Century America
Richard Slotkin – Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth
| Battlefield: Farming a Civil War Battleground
Peter Svenson
|
|
Come to Me
Amy Bloom
| The Pugilist at Rest
Thom Jones
| Operation Wandering Soul
Richard Powers
| Swimming in the Volcano
Bob Shacochis
|
|
My Alexandria
Mark Doty
University of Illinois | The Vigil: A Poem in Four Voices
Margaret Gibson
| The Museum of Clear Ideas
Donald Hall
| What We Don't Know About Each Other
Lawrence Raab
|
|
| |
| 1994 |
The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America
John Demos
Knopf | Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas
Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson (Sort as Jane Mayer)
Houghton Mifflin | Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers, Sons, Race and Society
John Edgar Wideman
| In Pharoah's Army: Memories of the Lost War
Tobias Wolff
|
|
Moses Supposes
Ellen Currie
| White Man's Grave
Richard Dooling
| The Bird Artist
Howard Norman
| The Collected Stories (1995)
Grace Paley
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
|
Like Most Revelations
Richard Howard
| Hinge and Sign: Poems, 1968-1993
Heather McHugh
| An Altogether Different Language
Anne Porter
| A Study for the World's Body
David St. John
|
|
| |
| 1995 |
Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia
Dennis Covington
| Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and The Meanings of Life
Daniel C. Dennett
Simon & Schuster | A Civil Action
Jonathan Harr
Random House | Ghosts of Mississippi
Maryanne Vollers
|
|
All Souls' Rising
Madison Smartt Bell
| Krik? Krak!
Edwidge Danticat
| Interstate
Stephen Dixon
| The House on the Lagoon
Rosario Ferrè
|
|
Collected Poems, 1945-1990
Barbara Howes
| In the Crevice of Time: New and Collected Poems
Josephine Jacobsen
| New and Selected Poems (1995J)
Donald Justice
Alfred A. Knopf | New and Selected Poems (1995S)
Gary Soto
|
|
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| 1996 |
The Temple Bombing
Melissa Fay Greene
| The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War
Paul Hendrickson
| The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds to Conquer, 1908-1958
Cary Reich
| Fruitful: A Real Mother in the Modern World
Anne Roiphe
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Atticus
Ron Hansen
| The Giant's House
Elizabeth McCracken
| Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
Steven Millhauser
Crown | The River Beyond the World
Janet Peery
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The Terrible Stories
Lucille Clifton
| Sun Under Wood
Robert Hass
Ecco Press | The Crack in Everything
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
| Walking the Black Cat
Charles Simic
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What Jamie Saw
Carolyn Coman
| A Girl Named Disaster
Nancy Farmer
| The Long Season of Rain
Helen Kim
| Send Me Down a Miracle
Han Nolan
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| 1997 |
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
David I. Kertzer
| My Brother
Jamaica Kincaid
| The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
Thomas Lynch
| Whittaker Chambers
Sam Tanenhaus
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Underworld
Don DeLillo
Scribner | Le Divorce
Diane Johnson
| Echo House
Ward Just
| The Puttermesser Papers
Cynthia Ozick
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Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New and Selected Poems
John Balaban
| Desire
Frank Bidart
Farrar, Straus & Giroux | Primate Behavior
Sarah Lindsay
| The Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poems
Marilyn Nelson
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The Facts Speak for Themselves
Brock Cole
| Sons of Liberty
Adele Griffin
| Where You Belong
Mary Ann McGuigan
| Mean Margaret
Tor Seidler
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| 1998 |
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
Harold Bloom
Riverhead: Putnam | There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok
Yaffa Eliach
| A Slant of Sun: One Child’s Courage
Beth Kephart
| All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery
Henry Mayer
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Kaaterskill Falls
Allegra Goodman
| The Healing
Gayl Jones
| Damascus Gate
Robert Stone
| A Man in Full
Tom Wolfe
|
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The Art of the Lathe
B.H. Fairchild
| The Little Space: Poems Selected and New, 1968-1998
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
| Carnival Evening: New and Selected Poems 1968-1998
Linda Pastan
| From the Devotions
Carl Phillips
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The Secret Life of Amanda K. Woods
Ann Cameron
| Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
Jack Gantos
| No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War
Anita Lobel
| A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories
Richard Peck
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| 1999 |
Woman: An Intimate Geography
Natalie Angier
| Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
Mark Bowden
| Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation
John Phillip Santos
| Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
Judith Thurman
Knopf |
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House of Sand and Fog
Andre Dubus III
| Plainsong
Kent Haruf
| Hummingbird House
Patricia Henley
| Who Do You Love
Jean Thompson
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Vita Nova
Louise Gluck
| Configurations: New and Selected Poems, 1958-1998
Clarence Major
| The Pilot Star Elegies
Sherod Santos
| Repair
C.K. Williams
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
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Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson
| The Birchbark House
Louise Erdrich
| The Trolls
Polly Horvath
| Monster
Walter Dean Myers
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| Year | Nonfiction | Fiction | Poetry | Young People's Literature | Translation |
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| 2000 |
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
Jacques Barzun
HarperCollins | The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach
Alice Kaplan
Univ. of Chicago | Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon
Patrick Tierney
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The Feast of Love
Charles Baxter
| The Diagnosis
Alan Lightman
| Blue Angel
Francine Prose
| Blonde
Joyce Carol Oates
The Ecco Press/HarperCollins |
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Tell Me
Kim Addonizio
| A New Selected Poems
Galway Kinnell
| New Addresses: Poems
Kenneth Koch
| The Other Lover
Bruce Smith
The University of Chicago Press |
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Forgotten Fire
Adam Bagdasarian
| The Book of the Lion
Michael Cadnum
| Many Stones
Carolyn Coman
| Hurry Freedom: African Americans in Gold Rush California
Jerry Stanley
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| 2001 |
American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood
Marie Arana
| The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care
Nina Bernstein
Pantheon | My Story As Told By Water
David James Duncan
| Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
Jan T. Gross
Princeton University |
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Among the Missing
Dan Chaon
| Look At Me
Jennifer Egan
| The Last Report On the Miracles at Little No Horse
Louis Erdrich
| Highwire Moon
Susan Straight
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Rooms Are Never Finished
Agha Shahid Ali
| Mercurochrome
Wanda Coleman
| Brutal Imagination
Cornelius Eady
| They Can't Take That Away From Me
Gail Mazur
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The Tiger Rising
Kate DiCamillo
| We Were There Too! Young People In U.S. Historyl
Phillip Hoose
| A Step From Heaven
An Na
| Carver: A Life in Poems
Marilyn Nelson
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| 2002 |
When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution
Devra Davis
Basic Books/ Perseus Books Group | The Last American Man
Elizabeth Gilbert
Viking/Penguin Putnam, Inc. | Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Atul Gawande
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company | Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past Through Our Genes
Steve Olson
Houghton Mifflin Company |
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Big If
Mark Costello
W.W. Norton & Company | You Are Not a Stranger Here
Adam Haslett
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday | Gorgeous Lies
Martha McPhee
Harcourt, Inc. | The Heaven of Mercury
Brad Watson
W.W. Norton & Company |
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Sleeping with the Dictionary
Harryette Mullen
University of California Press | The Unswept Room
Sharon Olds
Alfred A. Knopf | The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body
Alberto Ríos
Copper Canyon Press | Shadow of Heaven
Ellen Bryant Voigt
W.W. Norton & Company |
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19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
Naomi Shihab Nye
Greenwillow Books/ HarperCollins Publishers | Hush
Jacqueline Woodson
G.P. Putnam's Sons/ Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers | This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life & Songs of Woody Guthrie
Elizabeth Partridge
Viking/Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers | Feed
M.T. Anderson
Candlewick Press |
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| 2003 |
Gulag: A History
Anne Applebaum
Doubleday/Random House, Inc. | The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home
George Howe Colt
(Scribner/Simon & Schuster, Inc.) | Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
John D'Emilio
(Free Press/Simon & Schuster, Inc.) | The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
Erik Larson
(Crown Publishers/Random House, Inc.) |
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The Known World
Edward P. Jones
Amistad/HarperCollins | Evidence of Things Unseen
Marianne Wiggins
Simon & Schuster | Drop City
T.C. Boyle
(Viking/Penguin Group USA) | A Ship Made of Paper
Scott Spencer
(Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.) |
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Sparrow
Carol Muske-Dukes
(Random House, Inc.) | The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems
Charles Simic
(Harcourt, Inc.) | The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems 1940-2001
Louis Simpson
(BOA Editions, Ltd.) | Jelly Roll: A Blues
Kevin Young
(Alfred A. Knopf / Random House, Inc.) |
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Breakout
Paul Fleischman
(Cricket Books /A Marcato Book/Carus Publishing Company) | An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
Jim Murphy
(Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Company) | The River Between Us
Richard Peck
(Dial Books/Penguin Group USA) | Locomotion
Jacqueline Woodson
(G.P. Putnam's Sons/Penguin Group USA) |
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| 2004 |
Washington's Crossing
David Hackett Fischer
Oxford University Press | Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett
Jennifer Gonnerman
Farrar, Straus & Giroux | Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Stephen Greenblatt
W.W. Norton & Company | The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States — Authorized Edition
The 9/11 Commission
W.W. Norton & Company |
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Madeleine is Sleeping
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Harcourt, Inc. | Florida
Christine Schutt
TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press | Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories
Joan Silber
W.W. Norton & Company | Our Kind
Kate Walbert
Scribner |
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Shoah Train
William Heyen
Etruscan Press | Collected Poems (2004)
Donald Justice
Alfred A. Knopf | The Rest of Love
Carl Phillips
Farrar, Straus & Giroux | Goest
Cole Swensen
Alice James Books |
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Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
Deb Caletti
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | Harlem Stomp!: A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance
Laban Carrick Hill
Megan Tingley Books/Little, Brown & Company | The Legend of Buddy Bush
Shelia P. Moses
Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division | Luna: A Novel
Julie Anne Peters
Megan Tingley Books/Little, Brown & Company |
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| 2005 |
Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion
Alan Burdick
Farrar, Straus & Giroux | Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius
Leo Damrosch
Houghton Mifflin | 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn (Sort as Dwyer)
Times Books | Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves
Adam Hochschild
Houghton Mifflin |
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The March
E.L. Doctorow
Random House | Veronica
Mary Gaitskill
Pantheon | Trance
Christopher Sorrentino
Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Holy Skirts
Renè Steinke
William Morrow |
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Where Shall I Wander
John Ashbery
Ecco | Star Dust: Poems
Frank Bidart
Farrar, Straus & Giroux | Habitat: New and Selected Poems, 1965-2005
Brendan Galvin
Louisiana State University Press | The Moment’s Equation
Vern Rutsala
Ashland Poetry Press |
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Where I Want to Be
Adele Griffin
Putnam | Inexcusable
Chris Lynch
Atheneum | Autobiography of My Dead Brother
Walter Dean Myers
HarperTempest | Each Little Bird That Sings
Deborah Wiles
Harcourt |
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| 2006 |
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68
Taylor Branch
Simon & Schuster | Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Alfred A. Knopf | Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present
Peter Hessler
HarperCollins | The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Lawrence Wright
Alfred A. Knopf |
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Only Revolutions
Mark Z. Danielewski
Pantheon | A Disorder Peculiar to the Country
Ken Kalfus
Ecco/HarperCollins | Eat the Document
Dana Spiotta
Scribner/Simon & Schuster | The Zero
Jess Walter
Judith Regan Books/HarperCollins |
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Averno
Louise Glück
Farrar, Straus & Giroux | Chromatic
H.L. Hix
Etruscan Press | Angle of Yaw
Ben Lerner
Copper Canyon Press | Capacity
James McMichael
Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
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Keturah and Lord Death
Martine Leavitt
Front Street Books/Boyds Mills Press | Sold
Patricia McCormick
Hyperion Books for Children | The Rules of Survival
Nancy Werlin
Dial/Penguin | American Born Chinese
Gene Luen Yang
First Second/Roaring Brook Press/Holtzbrinck |
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| 2007 |
Ralph Ellison: A Biography
Arnold Rampersad
Alfred A. Knopf | Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution
Woody Holton
Hill and Wang/Farrar, Straus & Giroux | God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Christopher Hitchens
Twelve/Hachette Book Group USA | Brother, I'm Dying
Edwidge Danticat
Alfred A. Knopf |
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Like You'd Understand, Anyway
Jim Shepard
Alfred A. Knopf | Then We Came to the End
Joshua Ferris
Little, Brown & Company | Varieties of Disturbance
Lydia Davis
Farrar, Straus & Giroux | Fieldwork
Mischa Berlinski
Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
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Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006
Ellen Bryant Voigt
W.W. Norton & Company | Old Heart
Stanley Plumly
W.W. Norton & Company | The House on Boulevard St.
David Kirby
Louisiana State University Press | Magnetic North
Linda Gregerson
Houghton Mifflin Company |
|
Sara Zarr
Story of a Girl
Little, Brown & Company | The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Brian Selznick
Scholastic Press | Touching Snow
M. Sindy Felin
Atheneum Books for Young Readers | Skin Hunger: A Resurrection of Magic, Book One
Kathleen Duey
Atheneum Books for Young Readers |
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| 2008 |
The Suicide Index: Putting My Father’s Death in Order
Joan Wickersham
Harcourt | Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives
Jim Sheeler
Penguin | The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
Jane Mayer
Doubleday | This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Drew Gilpin Faust
Alfred A. Knopf |
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The Lazarus Project
Aleksandar Hemon
Riverhead | Telex from Cuba
Rachel Kushner
Scribner | Home
Marilynne Robinson
Farrar, Straus & Giroux | The End
Salvatore Scibona
Graywolf Press |
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Blood Dazzler
Patricia Smith
Coffee House Press | Without Saying
Richard Howard
Turtle Point Press | Creatures of a Day
Reginald Gibbons
Louisiana State University Press | Watching the Spring Festival
Frank Bidart
Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
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The Spectacular Now
Tim Tharp
Alfred A. Knopf | The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
E. Lockhart
Hyperion | The Underneath
Kathi Appelt
Atheneum | Chains
Laurie Halse Anderson
Simon & Schuster |
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| 2009 |
Following the Water: A Hydromancer's Notebook
David M. Carroll
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species
Sean B. Carroll
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
Greg Grandin
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt | The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy
Adrienne Mayor
Princeton University Press |
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American Salvage
Bonnie Jo Campbell
Wayne State University Press | In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
Daniyal Mueenuddin
W. W. Norton & Co. | Lark and Termite
Jayne Anne Phillips
Alfred A. Knopf | Far North
Marcel Theroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
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Versed
Rae Armantrout
Wesleyan University Press | Or to Begin Again
Ann Lauterbach
Penguin Books | Speak Low
Carl Phillips
Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Open Interval
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
University of Pittsburgh Press |
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Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith
Deborah Heiligman
Henry Holt | Stitches
David Small
W. W. Norton & Co. | Lips Touch: Three Times
Laini Taylor
Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic | Jumped
Rita Williams-Garcia
HarperTeen/HarperCollins |
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| Year | Nonfiction | Fiction | Poetry | Young People's Literature | Translation |
|---|
| 2010 |
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Barbara Demick
Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group | Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq
John W. Dower
W.W. Norton & Co. | Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward
Justin Spring
Farrar, Straus & Giroux | Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War
Megan K. Stack
Doubleday |
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Parrot and Olivier in America
Peter Carey
Alfred A. Knopf | Great House
Nicole Krauss
W.W. Norton & Co. | So Much for That
Lionel Shriver
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | I Hotel
Karen Tei Yamashita
Coffee House Press | Parrot and Olivier in America
Peter Carey
Faber and Faber |
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The Eternal City
Kathleen Graber
Princeton University Press | By the Numbers
James Richardson
Copper Canyon Press | One with Others
C.D. Wright
Copper Canyon Press | Ignatz
Monica Youn
Four Way Books |
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Ship Breaker
Paolo Bacigalupi
Little, Brown & Co. | Dark Water
Laura McNeal
Alfred A. Knopf | Lockdown
Walter Dean Myers
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | One Crazy Summer
Rita Williams-Garcia
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers |
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| 2011 |
The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism
Deborah Baker
Graywolf Press | Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution
Mary Gabriel
Little, Brown and Company | Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
Manning Marable
Viking Press | Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout
Lauren Redniss
It Books |
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The Sojourn
Andrew Krivak
Bellevue Literary Press | The Tiger's Wife
Téa Obreht
Random House | The Buddha in the Attic
Julie Otsuka
Alfred A. Knopf | Binocular Vision
Edith Pearlman
Lookout Books |
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Head Off & Split
Nikky Finney
TriQuarterly | The Chameleon Couch
Yusef Komunyakaa
Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Double Shadow
Carl Phillips
Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Devotions
Bruce Smith
University of Chicago Press |
|
Chime
Franny Billingsley
Dial | My Name Is Not Easy
Debby Dahl Edwardson
Marshall Cavendish | Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy
Albert Marrin
Alfred A. Knopf | Shine
Lauren Myracle
Amulet Books | Okay for Now
Gary D. Schmidt
Clarion Books |
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| 2012 |
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956
Anne Applebaum
Doubleday | The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 4
Robert A. Caro
Knopf | The Boy Kings of Texas
Domingo Martinez
Lyons Press | House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
Anthony Shadid
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
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This Is How You Lose Her
Junot Díaz
Riverhead Books | A Hologram for the King
Dave Eggers
McSweeney's Books | Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Ben Fountain
Ecco | The Yellow Birds
Kevin Powers
Little, Brown and Company |
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Heavenly Bodies
Cynthia Huntington
Southern Illinois University Press | Fast Animal
Tim Seibles
Etruscan Press | Night of the Republic
Alan Shapiro
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Meme
Susan Wheeler
University of Iowa Press |
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Out of Reach
Carrie Arcos
Simon Pulse | Never Fall Down
Patricia McCormick
Balzer+Bray | Endangered
Eliot Schrefer
Scholastic | Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
Steve Sheinkin
Flash Point |
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| 2013 |
Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
Jill Lepore
Alfred A. Knopf/Random House | Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
Wendy Lower
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
Alan Taylor
W.W. Norton & Company | Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood & the Prison of Belief
Lawrence Wright
Alfred A. Knopf/Random House |
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The Lowland
Jhumpa Lahiri
Bloomsbury | The Flamethrowers
Rachel Kushner
Scribner/Simon & Schuster | Bleeding Edge
Thomas Pynchon
The Penguin Press/Penguin Group USA | Tenth of December
George Saunders
Random House |
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Metaphysical Dog
Frank Bidart
Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Stay, Illusion
Lucie Brock-Broido
Alfred A. Knopf | The Big Smoke
Adrian Matejka
Penguin Poets/Penguin Group, USA | Black Aperture
Matt Rasmussen
Louisiana State University Press |
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Boxers and Saints
Gene Luen Yang
First Second/Macmillan | Picture Me Gone
Meg Rosoff
G.P. Putnam's Sons/Penguin Group USA | Far Far Away
Tom McNeal
Alfred A. Knopf/Random House | The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp
Kathi Appelt
Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster |
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| 2014 |
The Meaning of Human Existence
Edward O. Wilson
Liveright Publishing Corporation/ W.W. Norton & Company | Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
John Lahr
W.W. Norton & Company | No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
Anand Gopal
Metropolitan Books/ Henry Holt and Company | Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Roz Chast
Bloomsbury |
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Lila
Marilynne Robinson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
Alfred A. Knopf/ Random House | All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr,
Scribner/ Simon & Schuster | An Unnecessary Woman
Rabih Alameddine
Grove Press/ Grove/Atlantic |
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Citizen: An American Lyric
Claudia Rankine
Graywolf Press | The Feel Trio
Fred Moten
Letter Machine Editions | This Blue
Maureen N. McLane
Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Second Childhood
Fanny Howe
Graywolf Press |
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Threatened
Eliot Schrefer
Scholastic Press | The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
Steve Sheinkin
Roaring Brook Press/ Macmillan Publishers | Noggin
John Corey Whaley
Atheneum Books for Young Readers/ Simon & Schuster | Revolution: The Sixties Trilogy, Book Two
Deborah Wiles
Scholastic Press |
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| 2015 |
Hold Still
Sally Mann
Little, Brown/Hachette Book Group | If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran
Carla Power
Henry Holt and Company | Ordinary Light
Tracy K. Smith
Alfred A. Knopf | The Soul of an Octopus
Sy Montgomery
Atria/Simon & Schuster |
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A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
Picador | Refund: Stories
Karen E. Bender
Counterpoint Press | Fates and Furies
Lauren Groff
Riverhead Books/Penguin Random House | The Turner House
Angela Flournoy
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
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Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
Ross Gay
University of Pittsburgh Press | How to Be Drawn
Terrance Hayes
Penguin/Penguin Random House | Bright Dead Things
Ada Limón
Milkweed Editions | Elegy for a Broken Machine
Patrick Phillips
Alfred A. Knopf |
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The Thing About Jellyfish
Ali Benjamin
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | Bone Gap
Laura Ruby
Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins Children's Books | Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
Steve Sheinkin
Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan Children's Publishing Group | Nimona
Noelle Stevenson
HarperTeen/HarperCollins Children's Books |
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| 2016 |
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Heather Ann Thompson
Pantheon Books/Penguin Random House) | The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
Andrés Reséndez
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Harvard University Press | Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Arlie Russell Hochschild
The New Press |
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Another Brooklyn
Jacqueline Woodson
Amistad/HarperCollinsPublishers | The Association of Small Bombs
Karan Mahajan
Viking Books/Penguin Random House | News of the World
Paulette Jiles
William Morrow/HarperCollinsPublishers | The Throwback Special
Chris Bachelder
W. W. Norton & Company |
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Look
Solmaz Sharif
Graywolf Press | The Abridged History of Rainfall
Jay Hopler
McSweeney’s | Archeophonics
Peter Gizzi
Wesleyan University Press | Collected Poems 1974 – 2004
Rita Dove
W. W. Norton & Company |
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The Sun Is Also a Star
Nicola Yoon
Delacorte Press/Penguin Random House | Ghost
Jason Reynolds
Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing | When the Sea Turned to Silver
Grace Lin
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | Raymie Nightingale
Kate DiCamillo
Candlewick Press |
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| 2017 |
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America
Nancy MacLean
Viking / Penguin Random House | Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann
Doubleday / Penguin Random House | The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America
Frances FitzGerald
Simon & Schuster | Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Atria / 37 INK / Simon & Schuster |
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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
Carmen Maria Machado
Graywolf Press | Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Book Group | The Leavers
Lisa Ko
Algonquin Books / Workman Publishing | Dark at the Crossing
Elliot Ackerman
Knopf / Penguin Random House |
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Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems
Danez Smith
Graywolf Press | In the Language of My Captor
Shane McCrae
Wesleyan University Press | Whereas
Layli Long Soldier
Graywolf Press | The Book of Endings
Leslie Harrison
University of Akron Press |
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What Girls Are Made Of
Elana K. Arnold
Carolrhoda Lab / Lerner Publishing Group | I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Erika L. Sánchez
Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House | Clayton Byrd Goes Underground
Rita Williams-Garcia
Amistad / HarperCollinsPublishers | American Street
Ibi Zoboi
Balzer + Bray / HarperCollinsPublishers |
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| 2018 |
The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
Colin G. Calloway
Oxford University Press | American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
Victoria Johnson
Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company | Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
Sarah Smarsh
Scribner / Simon & Schuster | We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
Adam Winkler
Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company |
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A Lucky Man
Jamel Brinkley
Graywolf Press | Florida
Lauren Groff
Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House | Where the Dead Sit Talking
Brandon Hobson
Soho Press | The Great Believers
Rebecca Makkai
Viking Books / Penguin Random House |
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Wobble
Rae Armantrout
Wesleyan University Press | American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Terrance Hayes
Penguin Books / Penguin Random House | Ghost Of
Diana Khoi Nguyen
Omnidawn Publishing | Eye Level
Jenny Xie
Graywolf Press |
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The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge
M. T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
Candlewick Press | The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle
Leslie Connor
Katherine Tegen Books / HarperCollins Publishers | The Journey of Little Charlie
Christopher Paul Curtis
Scholastic Press / Scholastic, Inc. | Hey, Kiddo
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Graphix / Scholastic, Inc. |
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Disoriental
Négar Djavadi (Translated by Tina Kover)
Europa Editions | Love
Hanne Ørstavik (Translated by Martin Aitken)
Archipelago Books | Trick
Domenico Starnone (Translated by Jhumpa Lahiri)
Europa Editions | Flights
Olga Tokarczuk (Translated by Jennifer Croft)
Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House |
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| 2019 |
Thick: And Other Essays
Tressie McMillan Cottom
The New Press | What You Have Heard is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
Carolyn Forché
Penguin Press / Penguin Random House | The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
David Treuer
Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House | Solitary
Albert Woodfox with Leslie George
Grove Press / Grove Atlantic |
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Sabrina & Corina: Stories
Kali Fajardo-Anstine
One World / Penguin Random House | Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Marlon James
Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House | The Other Americans
Laila Lalami
Pantheon Books / Penguin Random House | Disappearing Earth
Julia Phillips
Alfred A. Knopf / Penguin Random House |
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The Tradition
Jericho Brown
Copper Canyon Press | "I": New and Selected Poems
Toi Derricotte
University of Pittsburgh Press | Deaf Republic
Ilya Kaminsky
Graywolf Press | Be Recorder
Carmen Giménez Smith
Graywolf Press |
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Pet
Akwaeke Emezi
Make Me a World / Penguin Random House | Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
Jason Reynolds
Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books / Simon & Schuster | Patron Saints of Nothing
Randy Ribay
Kokila / Penguin Random House | Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All
Laura Ruby
Balzer + Bray / HarperCollins Publishers |
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Death is Hard Work
Khaled Khalifa (Translated from the Arabic by Leri Price)
Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers | The Barefoot Woman
Scholastique Mukasonga (Translated from the French by Jordan Stump)
Archipelago Books | The Memory Police
Yoko Ogawa (Translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder)
Pantheon Books / Penguin Random House | Crossing
Pajtim Statovci (Translated from the Finnish by David Hackston)
Pantheon Books / Penguin Random House |
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| Year | Nonfiction | Fiction | Poetry | Young People's Literature | Translation |
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| 2020 |
The Undocumented Americans
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
One World / Penguin Random House | Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
Claudio Saunt
W. W. Norton & Company | My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
Jenn Shapland
Tin House Books | How to Make a Slave and Other Essays
Jerald Walker
Mad Creek Books / The Ohio State University Press |
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Leave the World Behind
Rumaan Alam
Ecco / HarperCollins Publishers | A Children’s Bible
Lydia Millet
W. W. Norton & Company | The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
Deesha Philyaw
West Virginia University Press |
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A Treatise on Stars
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
New Directions | Fantasia for the Man in Blue
Tommye Blount
Four Way Books | Borderland Apocrypha
Anthony Cody
Omnidawn Publishing | Postcolonial Love Poem
Natalie Diaz
Graywolf Press |
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We Are Not Free
Traci Chee
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Every Body Looking
Candice Iloh
Dutton Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House | When Stars Are Scattered
Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed
Dial Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House | The Way Back
Gavriel Savit
Knopf Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House |
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High as the Waters Rise
Anja Kampmann (Translated from the German by Anne Posten)
Catapult | The Family Clause
Jonas Hassen Khemiri (Translated from the Swedish by Alice Menzies)
Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers | The Bitch
Pilar Quintana (Translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman)
World Editions | Minor Detail
Adania Shibli (Translated from the Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette)
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| 2021 |
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Hanif Abdurraqib
Random House / Penguin Random House | Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
Lucas Bessire
Princeton University Press | Tastes Like War: A Memoir
Grace M. Cho
Feminist Press at the City University of New York | Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
Nicole Eustace
Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company |
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Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr
Scribner / Simon & Schuster | Matrix
Lauren Groff
Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House | Zorrie
Laird Hunt
Bloomsbury Publishing | The Prophets
Robert Jones, Jr.
G. P. Putnam’s Sons / Penguin Random House |
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What Noise Against the Cane
Desiree C. Bailey
Yale University Press | Sho
Douglas Kearney
Wave Books | A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
Hoa Nguyen
Wave Books | The Sunflower Cast A Spell To Save Us From The Void
Jackie Wang
Nightboat Books |
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The Legend of Auntie Po
Shing Yin Khor
Kokila / Penguin Random House | Too Bright to See
Kyle Lukoff
Dial Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House | Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People
Kekla Magoon
Candlewick Press | Me (Moth)
Amber McBride
Feiwel and Friends / Macmillan Publishers |
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Peach Blossom Paradise
Ge Fei (Translated from the Chinese by Canaan Morse)
New York Review Books | The Twilight Zone
Nona Fernández (Translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer)
Graywolf Press | When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamín Labatut (Translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West)
New York Review Books | Planet of Clay
Samar Yazbek (Translated from the Arabic by Leri Price)
World Editions |
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| 2022 |
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
Meghan O’Rourke
Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House | Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
David Quammen
Simon & Schuster | The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir
Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Doubleday / Penguin Random House | His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
Viking Books / Penguin Random House |
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The Birdcatcher
Gayl Jones
Beacon Press | The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
Jamil Jan Kochai
Viking Books / Penguin Random House | All This Could Be Different
Sarah Thankam Mathews
Viking Books / Penguin Random House | The Town of Babylon
Alejandro Varela
Astra House / Astra Publishing House |
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| 2023 |
Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice
Cristina Rivera Garza
Hogarth / Penguin Random House | Ordinary Notes
Christina Sharpe
Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers | We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir
Raja Shehadeh
Other Press | Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
John Vaillant
Knopf / Penguin Random House |
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Chain-Gang All-Stars
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Pantheon Books / Penguin Random House | Temple Folk
Aaliyah Bilal
Simon & Schuster | This Other Eden
Paul Harding
W. W. Norton & Company | The End of Drum-Time
Hanna Pylväinen
Henry Holt and Company / Macmillan Publishers |
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How to Communicate
John Lee Clark
W. W. Norton & Company | Tripas
Brandon Som
Georgia Review Books / University of Georgia Press | suddenly we
Evie Shockley
Wesleyan University Press | From From
Monica Youn
Graywolf Press |
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Gather
Kenneth M. Cadow
Candlewick Press | Huda F Cares?
Huda Fahmy
Dial Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House | Big
Vashti Harrison
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers / Hachette Book Group | The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine
Katherine Marsh
Roaring Brook Press / Macmillan Publishers |
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Cursed Bunny
Bora Chung (Translated from the Korean by Anton Hur)
Algonquin Books / Hachette Book Group | Beyond the Door of No Return
David Diop (Translated from the French by Sam Taylor)
Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers | Abyss
Pilar Quintana (Translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman)
World Editions | On a Woman’s Madness
Astrid Roemer (Translated from the Dutch by Lucy Scott)
Two Lines Press |
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| 2024 |
Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church
Eliza Griswold
Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers | Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
Kate Manne
Crown / Penguin Random House | Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Salman Rushdie
Random House / Penguin Random House | Whiskey Tender
Deborah Jackson Taffa
Harper / HarperCollins Publishers |
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Ghostroots
‘Pemi Aguda
Norton / W. W. Norton & Company | Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar
Knopf / Penguin Random House | All Fours
Miranda July
Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House | My Friends
Hisham Matar
Random House / Penguin Random House |
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Wrong Norma
Anne Carson
New Directions Publishing | [...]
Fady Joudah
Milkweed Editions | mother
m.s. RedCherries
Penguin Books / Penguin Random House | Modern Poetry
Diane Seuss
Graywolf Press |
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Buffalo Dreamer
Violet Duncan
Nancy Paulsen Books / Penguin Random House | The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky
Josh Galarza
Henry Holt and Company (BYR) / Macmillan Publishers | The First State of Being
Erin Entrada Kelly
Greenwillow Books / HarperCollins Publishers | The Unboxing of a Black Girl
Angela Shanté
Page Street Publishing |
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The Book Censor’s Library
Bothayna Al-Essa (Translated from the Arabic by Ranya Abdelrahman and Sawad Hussain)
Restless Books | Ædnan
Linnea Axelsson (Translated from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel)
Knopf / Penguin Random House | The Villain's Dance
Fiston Mwanza Mujila (Translated from the French by Roland Glasser)
Deep Vellum / Deep Vellum Publishing | Where the Wind Calls Home
Samar Yazbek (Translated from the Arabic by Leri Price)
World Editions |
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