| Year | Biography | General Non-Fiction | History | Fiction | Poetry | Music | Drama | Memoir |
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| 1980 |
The Duke of Deception
Geoffrey Wolff
Random House | Being Bernard Berenson
Meryle Secrest
| Bernard Berenson, The Making of a Connoisseur
Ernest Samuels
Belknap-Harvard |
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The Medusa and the Snail
Lewis Thomas
Viking | The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century
Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
Yale |
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The Urban Crucible
Gary B. Nash
Harvard | The Plains Across
John B. Unruh
Illinois |
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Birdy
William Wharton
Knopf | The Ghost Writer
Philip Roth
Farrar, Straus |
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Selected Poems (1980H)
Richard Hugo
Norton | Goshawk, Antelope
Dave Smith
University of Illinois |
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Quintets for Orchestra
Lukas Foss
| After the Butterfly
Morton Subotnick
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| 1981 |
Walt Whitman: A Life
Justin Kaplan
Simon & Schuster | Walter Lippmann and the American Century
Ronald Steel
Atlantic-Little, Brown |
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China Men
Maxine Hong Kingston
Knopf | Southerners: A Journalist's Odyssey
Marshall Frady
New American Library | Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
William Manchester
Little, Brown |
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Over Here: The First World War and American Society
David M. Kennedy
Oxford | A Search for Power: The 'Weaker Sex' in Seventeenth Century New England
Lyle Koehler
Illinois |
|
Godric
Frederick Buechner
Atheneum | So Long, See You Tomorrow
William Maxwell
Knopf |
|
Selected Poems (1981)
Mark Strand
Atheneum | The Right Madness on Skye
Richard Hugo
Norton |
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| 1982 |
Waldo Emerson
Gay Wilson Allen
Viking | Mornings on Horseback
David McCullough
Simon & Schuster |
|
Basin and Range
John McPhee
Farrar, Straus | Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor
Diana Trilling
Harcourt Brace |
|
Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941-1945
Akira Iriye
Harvard University Press | White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American & South African History
George M. Frederickson
Oxford University Press |
|
A Flag for Sunrise
Robert Stone
Knopf | Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson
Farrar, Straus |
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The Southern Cross
Charles Wright
Random House | Dream Flights
Dave Smith
University of Illinois |
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| 1983 |
Thomas E. Dewey and His Times
Richard Norton Smith
Simon & Schuster | Churchill: Young Man in a Hurry, 1874-1915
Ted Morgan
Simon & Schuster |
|
The Fate of the Earth
Jonathan Schell
Knopf | Terrorists and Novelists
Diane Johnson
Knopf |
|
Southern Honor: Ethics & Behavior in the Old South
Bertram Wyatt-Brown
| The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789
Robert L. Middlekauff
Oxford University Press |
|
Rabbis and Wives
Chaim Grade
Knopf | Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Anne Tyler
Knopf |
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Monolithos, Poems, 1962 and 1982
Jack Gilbert
Knopf | Country Music, Selected Early Poems
Charles Wright
Wesleyan University Press |
|
Drama for Orchestra
Vivian Fine
|
True West
Sam Shepard
|
|
| 1984 |
Thomas Carlyle: A Biography
Fred Kaplan
Cornell University Press | Black Apollo of Science: the Life of Ernest Everett Just
Kenneth Manning
Oxford University Press |
|
Wild Justice
Susan Jacoby
Harper & Row | Conversations With the Enemy
Winston Groom and Duncan Spencer
Putnam |
|
| Cathedral
Raymond Carver
Knopf | The Feud
Thomas Berger
Delacorte |
|
Collected Poems, 1930-1982
Josephine Miles
University of Illinois | Weather-Fear: New and Selected Poems
John Engels
University of Georgia |
|
Piano Concerto
Peter Lieberson
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Fool for Love
Sam Shepard
| Painting Churches
Tina Howe
|
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| 1985 |
The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton
Michael Mott
Houghton Mifflin | Becoming William James
Howard M. Feinstein
Cornell University Press |
|
Dawn to the West
Donald Keene
Holt, Rinehart | Endless Enemies
Jonathan Kwitny
Congdon & Weed |
|
The Crucible of Race
Joel Williamson
Oxford University Press | The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians
Francis Paul Prucha
University of Nebraska |
|
Leaving the Land
Douglas Unger
Harper & Row | I Wish This War Were Over
Diana O'Hehir
Atheneum |
|
Ground Work
Robert Duncan
New Directions | The Other Side of the River
Charles Wright
Random House |
|
Songs of Innocence and Experience, a Musical Illumination of the Poems of William Blake
William Bolcom
|
The Dining Room
A.R. Gurney Jr.
| The Gospel at Colonus
by conceived, adapted and directed by Lee Breuer, music composed, arranged and directed by Bob Telson
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| 1986 |
George Washington Williams: A Biography
John Hope Franklin
University of Chicago Press | A Hidden Childhood: A Jewish Girl's Sanctuary in a French Convent, 1942-1945
Frida Scheps Weinstein
Hill and Wang |
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Habits and the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life
Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler and Steven M. Tipton
University of California Press |
Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America
Kerby A. Miller
Oxford University Press | Novus Ordo Seclorum: the Intellectual Origins of the Constitution
Forrest McDonald
University Press of Kentucky | Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present
Jacqueline Jones
Basic Books |
|
Continental Drift
Russell Banks
Harper & Row | The Accidental Tourist
Anne Tyler
Alfred A. Knopf |
|
Saints and Strangers
Andrew Hudgins
Houghton Mifflin | Selected Poems, 1963-1983
Charles Simic
George Braziller |
|
Symphony No. 5
George Rochberg
|
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| 1987 |
Murrow: His Life and Times
A.M. Sperber
Freundlich Books | Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865
Joseph Frank
Princeton University Press | The Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy Adams
Leonard L. Richards
Oxford University Press |
|
Rising from the Plains
John McPhee
Farrar, Straus & Giroux | Rain or Shine: A Family Memoir
Cyra McFadden
Alfred A. Knopf |
|
Eisenhower: At War, 1943-1945
David Eisenhower
Random House | Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
David J. Garrow
William Morrow |
|
Whites
Norman Rush
Alfred A. Knopf | Paradise (1986)
Donald Barthelme
G.P. Putnam's Sons |
|
Unending Blues
Charles Simic
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | The Selected Poetry of Hayden Carruth
Hayden Carruth
Macmillan |
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Flower of the Mountain
Stephen Albert
|
Broadway Bound
Neil Simon
| A Walk in the Woods
Lee Blessing
|
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| 1988 |
Hemingway
Kenneth S. Lynn
Simon and Schuster | George Santayana: A Biography
John McCormick
Alfred a. Knopf |
|
Chaos: Making a New Science
James Gleick
Viking | Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society
Daniel Callahan
Simon and Schuster |
|
The Fall of the House of Labor
David Montgomery
Cambridge University Press | The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System
Charles E. Rosenberg
Basic Books |
|
Persian Nights
Diane Johnson
Alfred A. Knopf | That Night
Alice McDermott
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
|
Flesh and Blood
C.K. Williams
Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980
Lucille Clifton
BOA Editions |
|
Concerto For String Quartet and Orchestra
Gunther Schuller
|
Talk Radio
Eric Bogosian
| Boy's Life
Howard Korder
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|
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| 1989 |
Freud: A Life For Our Time
Peter Gay
W.W. Norton | A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
Neil Sheehan
Random House | The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II, 1941-1967: I Dream a World
Arnold Rampersad
Oxford University Press |
|
The Last Farmer
Howard Kohn
Summit Books | Danger and Survival
McGeorge Bundy
Random House | Coming of Age in the Milky Way
Timothy Ferris
William Morrow and Company |
|
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
Eric Foner
Harper & Row | A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
Neil Sheehan
Random House |
|
Where I'm Calling From
Raymond Carver
Atlantic Monthly |
That One Day
Donald Hall
Ticknor & Fields/Houghton Mifflin | The River of Heaven
Garrett Hongo
Alfred A. Knopf |
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Concerto for Orchestra (1989)
Steven Stucky
| H'un (Lacerations): In Memoriam 1966-1976
Bright Sheng
|
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The Piano Lesson
August Wilson
| M. Butterfly
David Henry Hwang
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| Year | Biography | General Non-Fiction | History | Fiction | Poetry | Music | Drama | Memoir |
|---|
| 1990 |
The Road From Coorain
Jill Ker Conway
Alfred A. Knopf | Clear Pictures: First Loves, First Guides
Reynolds Price
Atheneum | A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt
Geoffrey C. Ward
Harper & Row |
|
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Stephen Jay Gould
W.W. Norton & Company | A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East 1914-1922
David Fromkin
Henry Holt & Company |
|
American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm 1870-1970
Thomas P. Hughes
Viking | The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I
Hugh Honour
Harvard University Press |
|
Billy Bathgate
E.L. Doctorow
Random House |
Time's Power
Adrienne Rich
W.W. Norton & Company | Selected and Last Poems
Paul Zweig
Wesleyan University Press |
|
Concerto for Cello, Piano and String Orchestra
Ralph Shapey
|
Love Letters
A.R. Gurney
| And What of the Night?
Maria Irene Fornes
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| 1991 |
Alfred I. Du Pont: The Man and His Family
Joseph Frazier Wall
| The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends 1880-1918
Patricia O'Toole
Clarkson N. Potter |
|
Looking for a Ship
John McPhee
Farrar Straus Giroux | River of Traps: A Village Life
William duBuys and Alex Harris
University of New Mexico |
|
America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink
Kenneth M. Stampp
Oxford University Press | Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
Lizabeth Cohen
Cambridge University Pres | The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy
Hugh David Graham
Oxford University Press |
|
Mean Spirit
Linda Hogan
Atheneum | The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien
Houghton Mifflin |
|
The Transparent Man
Anthony Hecht
Alfred A. Knopf | Leaving Another Kingdom
Gerald Stern
Harper & Row |
|
Four Movements for Piano
Bright Sheng
| Wilde: A Symphony in Three Movements
Charles Fussell
|
|
Prelude to a Kiss
Craig Lucas
| Six Degrees of Separation
John Guare
|
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| 1992 |
Frederick Douglass
William S. McFeely
W.W. Norton & Company | Orwell: The Authorized Biography
Michael Shelden
HarperCollins |
|
Broken Vessels
Andre Dubus
David R. Godine | Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics
Thomas Byrne Edsall and Mary D. Edsall
W.W. Norton & Company |
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A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs
Theodore Draper
Hill & Wang | Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
William Cronon
W.W. Norton & Company | The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815
Richard White
Cambridge University Press | Profits in the Wilderness: Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century
John Frederick Martin
The University of North Carolina Press |
|
Mao II
Don DeLillo
Viking | Jernigan
David Gates
Alfred A. Knopf | Lila: An Inquiry into Morals
Robert M. Pirsig
Bantam Books |
|
Selected Poems (1992C)
Robert Creeley
University of California Press | An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991
Adrienne Rich
W.W. Norton & Company |
|
Concerto Fantastique
Ralph Shapey
|
Sight Unseen
Donald Margulies
| Miss Evers' Boys
David Feldshuh
| Two Trains Running
August Wilson
| Conversations With My Father
Herb Gardner
|
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| 1993 |
Kissinger
Walter Isaacson
Simon & Schuster | Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
James Gleick
Pantheon |
|
Where the Buffalo Roam
Anne Matthews
Grove Weidenfeld | A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
Susan Griffin
Doubleday | Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father
Richard Rodriguez
Viking |
|
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
Garry Wills
Simon & Schuster | The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction
Edward L. Ayers
Oxford University Press |
|
Black Water
Joyce Carol Oates
Dutton | At Weddings and Wakes
Alice McDermott
Farrar Straus Giroux |
|
Hotel Lautreamont
John Ashbery
Alfred A. Knopf | Selected Poems 1946-1985
James Merrill
Alfred A. Knopf |
|
Violin Concerto
Joan Tower
| Music for Cello and Orchestra
Leon Kirchner
|
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The Destiny of Me
Larry Kramer
| Fires in the Mirror
Anna Deavere Smith
|
|
|
| 1994 |
Genet: A Biography
Edmund White
Alfred A. Knopf | In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding
Deborah Baker
Grove Press |
|
The End of the Twentieth Century: And the End of the Modern Age
John Lukacs
Ticknor & Fields | The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud
Peter Gay
W.W. Norton |
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Crime and Punishment in American History
Lawrence M. Friedman
Basic Books | William Faulkner and Southern History
Joel Williamson
Oxford University Press | Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK
Gerald Posner
Random House |
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The Collected Stories (1994)
Reynolds Price
Atheneum | Operation Shylock: A Confession
Philip Roth
Simon & Schuster |
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid
translated by Allen Mandelbaum
Harcourt Brace & Company | Bright Existence
Brenda Hillman
Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New England |
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Microsymphony
Charles Wuorinen
| Still Movement with Hymn
Aaron Jay Kernis
|
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A Perfect Ganesh
Terrence McNally
| Keely and Du
Jane Martin (a pseudonym)
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| 1995 |
Hugo Black: A Biography
Roger K. Newman
Pantheon | Saint-Exupery: A Biography
Stacy Schiff
Alfred A. Knopf |
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How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
Sherwin B. Nuland
Alfred A. Knopf | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story
John Berendt
Random House |
|
Stories of Scottsboro
James Goodman
Pantheon | Lincoln in American Memory
Merrill D. Peterson
Oxford University Press |
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What I Lived For
Joyce Carol Oates
Dutton | The Collected Stories (1995)
Grace Paley
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
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Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986-1992
Allen Ginsberg
HarperCollins | On The Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems 1950-1988 and One Train
Kenneth Koch
Alfred A. Knopf |
|
Evensong
Donald Erb
| Adam, a cantata for mixed chorus with soprano solo and small orchestra
Andrew Imbrie
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The Cryptogram
David Mamet
| Seven Guitars
August Wilson
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| 1996 |
Mozart: A Life
Maynard Solomon
Alfred A. Knopf | John Sloan: Painter and Rebel
John Loughery
Henry Holt |
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Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder
Lawrence Weschler
Pantheon | Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and The Meanings of Life
Daniel C. Dennett
Simon & Schuster |
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Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
Richard Rhodes
Simon & Schuster | The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic
Lance Banning
Cornell University Press |
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Sabbath's Theater
Philip Roth
Houghton Mifflin | Mr. Ives' Christmas
Oscar Hijuelos
HarperCollins |
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Chickamauga
Charles Wright
Farrar Straus and Giroux | New and Selected Poems (1995J)
Donald Justice
Alfred A. Knopf |
|
Adagio Tenebroso
Elliott Carter
| Variations for Violin and Piano
Peter Lieberson
|
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Old Wicked Songs
Jon Marans
| A Fair Country
Jon Robin Baitz
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| 1997 |
In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country
Kim Barnes
Doubleday | Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume 1, 1819-1851
Hershel Parker
The Johns Hopkins University Press |
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Fame and Folly
Cynthia Ozick
Alfred A. Knopf | The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond
Samuel G. Freedman
Simon & Schuster |
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The Battle for Christmas
Stephen Nissenbaum
Alfred A. Knopf | Founding Mothers and Fathers
Mary Beth Norton
Alfred A. Knopf |
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The Manikin
Joanna Scott
Henry Holt | Unlocking the Air and Other Stories
Ursula K. LeGuin
HarperCollins |
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The Willow Grove
Laurie Sheck
Alfred A. Knopf | The Figured Wheel
Robert Pinsky
Farrar Straus Giroux |
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Dove Sta Amore
John Musto
| Passacaglia Immaginaria
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
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Collected Stories (1997)
Donald Margulies
| The Last Night of Ballyhoo
Alfred Uhry
| Pride's Crossing
Tina Howe
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| 1998 |
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography
Sam Tanenhaus
Random House | Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public-Private Life
James H. Jones
W.W. Norton |
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How the Mind Works
Steven Pinker
W.W. Norton | Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Jon Krakauer
Villard |
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Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History
Rogers M. Smith
Yale University Press | Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America
J. Anthony Lukas
Simon & Schuster |
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Underworld
Don DeLillo
Scribner | Bear and His Daughter: Stories
Robert Stone
Houghton Mifflin |
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Desire
Frank Bidart
Farrar, Straus & Giroux | The Vigil
C.K. Williams
Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
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Horntrio
Yehudi Wyner
| Century Rolls
John Adams
|
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Freedomland
Amy Freed
| Three Days of Rain
Richard Greenberg
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| 1999 |
A Beautiful Mind
Sylvia Nasar
Simon & Schuster | At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life
Francine du Plessix Gray
Simon & Schuster |
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Crime and Punishment in America
Elliott Currie
Metropolitan Books | The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
Judith Rich Harris
Free Press |
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The New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age
William E. Burrows
Random House | In a Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and Survival
Paula Mitchell Marks
William Morrow and Company, Inc. |
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Cloudsplitter
Russell Banks
HarperFlamingo | The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver
HarperFlamingo |
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Mysteries of Small Houses
Alice Notley
Penguin Poets | Going Fast
Frederick Seidel
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
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Persistent Memory
David Rakowski
| Concerto for Orchestra (1999)
Stanislav Skorwaczewski
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Side Man
Warren Leight
| Running Man
Cornelius Eady and Diedre Murray
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| Year | Biography | General Non-Fiction | History | Fiction | Poetry | Music | Drama | Memoir |
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| 2000 |
Clear Springs: A Memoir
Bobbie Ann Mason
Random House | Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
Dava Sobel
Walker & Company |
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Brian Greene
W.W. Norton | Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds
Scott Weidensaul
North Point Press/Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
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Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier
James H. Merrell
W.W. Norton | The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics and the Triumph of Anglo-America
Kevin Phillips
Basic Books |
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Close Range: Wyoming Stories
Annie Proulx
Scribner | Waiting
Ha Jin
Pantheon Books |
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Elegy for the Southern Drawl
Rodney Jones
Houghton Mifflin | Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998
Adrienne Rich
W.W. Norton |
|
Serenata Concertante
Donald Martino
(Premiered on April 19, 1999 at Merkin Concert Hall, New York City) | contes de fees
John Zorn
(Premiered on February 17, 2000 at the Society for Ethical Culture, New York City) |
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King Hedley II
August Wilson
| In the Blood
Suzan-Lori Parks
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| 2001 |
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
H.W. Brands
Doubleday | Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician
Christoph Wolff
W.W. Norton & Company |
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Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
Ted Conover
Random House | A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers
Simon & Schuster |
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Way Out There in the Blue
Frances FitzGerald
Simon & Schuster | The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States
Alexander Keyssar
Basic Books |
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Blonde
Joyce Carol Oates
The Ecco Press/HarperCollins | The Quick and the Dead
Joy Williams
Alfred A. Knopf |
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Pursuit of a Wound
Sydney Lea
University of Illinois Press | The Other Lover
Bruce Smith
The University of Chicago Press |
|
Tituli
Stephen Hartke
(Premiered on January 15, 2001 at Alfred Newman Recital Hall, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.) | Time After Time
Fred Lerdahl
(Premiered on December 12, 2000 at Merkin Hall, New York City.) |
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The Play About the Baby
Edward Albee
| The Waverly Gallery
Kenneth Lonergan
|
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| 2002 |
An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood
Jimmy Carter
Simon & Schuster | Grant
Jean Edward Smith
Simon & Schuster |
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War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals
David Halberstam
Scribner | The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Andrew Solomon
Scribner |
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Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and the Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation
J. William Harris
The Johns Hopkins University Press | Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America
Daniel K. Richter
Harvard University Press |
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The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
Farrar, Straus and Giroux | John Henry Days
Colson Whitehead
Doubleday |
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The Seven Ages
Louise Glück
The ECCO Press/HarperCollins | The Beforelife
Franz Wright
Alfred A. Knopf |
|
Rilke Songs
Peter Lieberson
(Premiered on July 18, 2001, in Santa Fe, NM.) | Ten of a Kind (Symphony No.2)
David Rakowski
(Premiered on May 20, 2001 at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.) |
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The Glory of Living
Rebecca Gilman
| Yellowman
Dael Orlandersmith
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| 2003 |
The Fly Swatter
Nicholas Dawidoff
Pantheon Books | Beethoven: The Music and the Life
Lewis Lockwood
W.W. Norton |
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The Anthropoligy of Turquoise: Meditations on Landscape, Art, and Spirit
Ellen Meloy
Pantheon Books | The Blank Slate: the Modern Denial of Human Nature
Steven Pinker
Viking |
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At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America
Philip Dray
Random House | Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth Century America
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
Alfred A. Knopf |
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You Are Not a Stranger Here
Adam Haslett
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday | Servants of the Map: Stories
Andrea Barrett
W.W. Norton |
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Music Like Dirt
Frank Bidart
Sarabande Books | Hazmat
J. D. McClatchy
Alfred A.Knopf |
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Three Tales
Steve Reich
Boosey & Hawkes (Premiered on May 31, 2002, at the Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston, S.C.) | Camp Songs
Paul Schoenfeld
(Commissioned by Music of Remembrance and premiered on April 7, 2002 at MOR's Holocaust Remembrance concert, Not In Vain!, at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, Wash.) |
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Take Me Out
Richard Greenberg
| The Goat or Who is Sylvia?
Edward Albee
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| 2004 |
Isaac Newton
James Gleick
Pantheon Books | Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work
Hayden Herrera
Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
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Rembrandt's Jews
Steven Nadler
The University of Chicago Press | The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military
Dana Priest
W.W. Norton |
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They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967
David Maraniss
Simon & Schuster | Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center
Daniel Okrent
Viking |
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American Woman
Susan Choi
HarperCollins | Evidence of Things Unseen
Marianne Wiggins
Simon & Schuster |
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Middle Earth
Henri Cole
Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Eyeshot
Heather McHugh
Wesleyan University Press |
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Piano Concerto No. 3
Peter Lieberson
G. Schirmer, Inc. (premiered by the Minnesota Orchestra on November 26, 2003 in Minneapolis, Minn.) | Cello Counterpoint
Steve Reich
Boosey & Hawkes (premiered on October 18, 2003 at The Krannert Center, Champaign-Urbana, Ill.) |
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Man from Nebraska
Tracy Letts
| Omnium Gatherum
Theresa Rebeck and Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros
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| 2005 |
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Stephen Greenblatt
W.W. Norton & Company | Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America
William Souder
North Point Press/Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
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Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
Suketu Mehta
Alfred A. Knopf | The Devil’s Highway: A True Story
Luis Alberto Urrea
Little, Brown and Company |
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Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
Kevin Boyle
Henry Holt & Company, LLC | Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860, volumes 1 & 2
Michael O’Brien
The University of North Carolina Press |
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War Trash
Ha Jin
Pantheon Books | An Unfinished Season
Ward Just
Houghton Mifflin |
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The Orchard
Brigit Pegeen Kelly
BOA Editions | Search Party: Collected Poems
William Matthews
Houghton Mifflin |
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Dialogues
Elliot Carter
Boosey & Hawkes (premiered June 7, 2004 by the Chicago Contemporary Music Ensemble in Chicago, IL.) | You Are (Variations)
Steve Reich
(premiered October 23, 2004 by the Los Angeles Master Chorale at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, CA) |
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Thom Pain (based on nothing)
Will Eno
| The Clean House
Sarah Ruhl
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| 2006 |
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion
Alfred A. Knopf | The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism
Megan Marshall
Houghton Mifflin |
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Tony Judt
The Penguin Press | The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
George Packer
Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
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New York Burning
Jill Lepore
Alfred A. Knopf | The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
Sean Wilentz
W.W. Norton |
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The March
E.L. Doctorow
Random House | The Bright Forever
Lee Martin
Shaye Areheart Books/Crown Publishing |
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American Sublime
Elizabeth Alexander
Graywolf Press | Elegy on Toy Piano
Dean Young
University of Pittsburgh Press |
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Neruda Songs
Peter Lieberson
Associated Music Publishers, Inc. (premiered May 20, 2005 by the Los Angeles Philharmonic) | Si Ji (Four Seasons)
Chen Yi
(Theodore Presser Company (premiered October 13, 2005 by the Cleveland Orchestra) |
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Miss Witherspoon
Christopher Durang
| The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow
Rolin Jones
| Red Light Winter
Adam Rapp
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| 2007 |
John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty
Arthur H. Cash
Yale University Press | Andrew Carnegie
David Nasaw
The Penguin Press |
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Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness
Pete Earley
G.P. Putnam’s Sons | Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
Thomas E. Ricks
The Penguin Press |
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Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005
James T. Campbell
The Penguin Press | Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
Nathaniel Philbrick
Viking |
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The Echo Maker
Richard Powers
Farrar, Straus & Giroux | After This
Alice McDermott
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
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The Republic of Poetry
Martin Espada
W.W. Norton | Interrogation Palace: New & Selected Poems 1982-2004
David Wojahn
University of Pittsburgh Press |
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Grendel
Elliot Goldenthal
(premiered June 8, 2006 by the Los Angeles Opera at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, libretto by Julie Taymor and J.D. McClatchy) | Astral Canticle
Augusta Read Thomas
G. Schirmer, Inc. (premiered June 1, 2006 by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra ) |
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Orpheus X
Rinde Eckert
| Bulrusher
Eisa Davis
| Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue
Quiara Alegría Hudes
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| 2008 |
The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein
Martin Duberman
Alfred A. Knopf | The Life of Kingsley Amis
Zachary Leader
Pantheon |
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
Alex Ross
Farrar, Straus and Giroux | The Cigarette Century
Allan Brandt
Basic Books |
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Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power
Robert Dallek
HarperCollins | The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
David Halberstam
Hyperion |
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Tree of Smoke
Denis Johnson
Farrar, Straus & Giroux | Shakespeare's Kitchen
Lore Segal
The New Press |
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Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006
Ellen Bryant Voigt
W.W. Norton & Company |
Meanwhile
Stephen Hartke
ELR Music Publishing, Inc. (premiered November 7, 2007 at the University of Richmond) | Concerto for Viola
Roberto Sierra
Subito Music Publishing (premiered November 11, 2007 at Barnes Hall, Ithaca, NY) |
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Yellow Face
David Henry Hwang
| Dying City
Christopher Shinn
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| 2009 |
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
H.W. Brands
Doubleday | The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family In An American Century
Steve Coll
Penguin Press |
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Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
Arthur Herman
Bantam Books | The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe
William I. Hitchcock
Free Press |
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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Drew Gilpin Faust
Alfred A. Knopf | The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s
G. Calvin Mackenzie and Robert Weisbrot
The Penguin Press |
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The Plague of Doves
Louise Erdrich
HarperCollins | All Souls
Christine Schutt
Harcourt |
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Watching the Spring Festival
Frank Bidart
Farrar, Straus & Giroux | What Love Comes To: New & Selected Poems
Ruth Stone
Copper Canyon Press |
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7 Etudes for Solo Piano
Don Byron
nottuskegeelike music/BMI | Brion
Harold Meltzer
Urban Scrawl Music Company |
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Becky Shaw
Gina Gionfriddo
| In The Heights
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes (Sort as Miranda)
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| Year | Biography | General Non-Fiction | History | Fiction | Poetry | Music | Drama | Memoir |
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| 2010 |
Woodrow Wilson: A Biography
John Milton Cooper Jr.
Alfred A. Knopf | Cheever: A Life
Blake Bailey
Knopf |
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How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities
John Cassidy
Farrar, Straus and Giroux | The Evolution of God
Robert Wright
Little, Brown and Company |
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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
Greg Grandin
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt | Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
Gordon S. Wood
Oxford University Press |
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Love in Infant Monkeys
Lydia Millet
Soft Skull Press | In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
Daniyal Mueenuddin
W.W. Norton & Company |
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Tryst
Angie Estes
Oberlin College Press | Inseminating the Elephant
Lucia Perillo
Copper Canyon Press |
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Steel Hammer
Julia Wolfe
G. Schirmer, Inc. | String Quartet No. 3
Fred Lerdahl
premiered on December 8, 2009, in Cleveland, Ohio |
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The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
Kristoffer Diaz
| Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Rajiv Joseph
| In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play
Sarah Ruhl
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| 2011 |
The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century
Alan Brinkley
Alfred A. Knopf | Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon
Michael O'Brien
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American
S.C. Gwynne
Scribner | The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brain
Nicholas Carr
W.W. Norton & Company |
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Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South
Stephanie McCurry
Harvard University Press | Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston
Michael Rawson
Harvard University Press |
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The Privileges
Jonathan Dee
Jonathan Dee | The Surrendered
Chang-rae Lee
Riverhead Books |
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The Common Man
Maurice Manning
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Break the Glass
Jean Valentine
Copper Canyon Press |
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Arches
Fred Lerdahl
premiered on November 19, 2010 at Miller Theatre, Columbia University | Comala
Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon
recording released in June, 2010 by Bridge Records |
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A Free Man of Color
John Guare
| Detroit
Lisa D'Amour
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| 2012 |
Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution
Mary Gabriel
Little, Brown and Company |
One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, A Marriage, and the Language of Healing
Diane Ackerman
W.W. Norton | Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men
Mara Hvistendahl
Public Affairs |
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Empires, Nations & Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860
Anne F. Hyde
University of Nebraska Press | The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden
Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan
Ballantine Books | Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
Richard White
W.W. Norton & Company |
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Train Dreams
Denis Johnson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Swamplandia!
Karen Russell
Alfred A. Knopf | The Pale King
David Foster Wallace
Little, Brown and Company |
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Core Samples from the World
Forrest Gander
New Directions | How Long
Ron Padgett
Coffee House Books |
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Death and the Powers
Tod Machover, Libretto by Robert Pinsky
premiered by the Boston Modern Opera Project in Massachusetts on March 18, 2011 (Boosey & Hawkes) | The Companion Guide to Rome
Andrew Norman
premiered on November 13, 2011 in Salt Lake City, Utah(Schott Music) |
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Other Desert Cities
Jon Robin Baitz
| Sons of the Prophet
Stephen Karam
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| 2013 |
Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece
Michael Gorra
A Liveright Book: W. W. Norton | The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
David Nasaw
Penguin |
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Katherine Boo
Random House | The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature
David George Haskell
Viking |
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The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
Bernard Bailyn
Alfred A. Knopf | Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History
John Fabian Witt
Free Press |
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Nathan Englander
Alfred A. Knopf | The Snow Child
Eowyn Ivey
Reagan Arthur/Little, Brown |
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Collected Poems
Jack Gilbert
Alfred A. Knopf | The Abundance of Nothing
Bruce Weigl
TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern |
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Pieces of Winter Sky
Aaron Jay Kernis
Associated Music Publishers, Inc. | Ten Freedom Summers
Wadada Leo Smith
Cuneiform Records |
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Rapture, Blister, Burn
Gina Gionfriddo
| 4000 Miles
Amy Herzog
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| 2014 |
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World
Leo Damrosch
Yale University Press | Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life
Jonathan Sperber
Liveright |
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The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide
Gary J. Bass
Alfred A. Knopf | The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War
Fred Kaplan
Simon & Schuster |
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A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America
Jacqueline Jones
Basic Books | Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident and the Illusion of Safety
Eric Schlosser
The Penguin Press |
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The Son
Philipp Meyer
Ecco | The Woman Who Lost Her Soul
Bob Shacochis
Atlantic Monthly Press |
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The Big Smoke
Adrian Matejka
Penguin Poets/Penguin Group, USA | The Sleep of Reason
Morri Creech
The Waywiser Press |
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The Gospel According to the Other Mary
John Adams
staged version premiered on March 7, 2013 by the Los Angeles Philharmonic (Boosey & Hawkes) | Invisible Cities
Christopher Cerrone
staged version premiered on October 19, 2013 by The Industry and L.A. Dance Project in Union Station, Los Angeles (Outburst-Inburst Musics) |
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The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence
Madeleine George
| Fun Home
Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori
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| 2015 |
Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism
Thomas Brothers
W.W. Norton | Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
Stephen Kotkin
Penguin Press |
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No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
Anand Gopal
Metropolitan Books/ Henry Holt and Company | Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
Evan Osnos
Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Spiegel & Grau/Penguin Random House |
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An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America
Nick Bunker
Alfred A. Knopf | Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Sven Beckert
Alfred A. Knopf |
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Let Me Be Frank with You
Richard Ford
Ecco | The Moor's Account
Laila Lalami
Pantheon | Lovely, Dark, Deep
Joyce Carol Oates
Ecco |
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Reel to Reel
Alan Shapiro
University of Chicago Press | Compass Rose
Arthur Sze
Copper Canyon Press |
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Xiaoxiang
Lei Liang
(premiered on March 28, 2014, in Boston by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project) | The Aristos
John Zorn
(premiered on December 21, 2014, in New York City) |
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Marjorie Prime
Jordan Harrison
| Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2, 3)
Suzan-Lori Parks
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| 2016 |
Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
T.J. Stiles
Alfred A. Knopf | The Light of the World
Elizabeth Alexander
Grand Central Publishing |
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If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran
Carla Power
Henry Holt and Company |
Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
T.J. Stiles
Alfred A. Knopf | Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War
Brian Matthew Jordan
Liveright/Norton | Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor
James M. Scott
W.W. Norton & Company | The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
Annie Jacobsen
Little, Brown & Company |
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Maud's Line
Margaret Verble
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Get in Trouble: Stories
Kelly Link
Random House |
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Alive: New and Selected Poems
Elizabeth Willis
NYRB | Four-Legged Girl
Diane Seuss
Graywolf Press |
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The Blind Banister
Timo Andres
Andres & Sons Bakery | The Mechanics: Six from the Shop Floor
Carter Pann
Blue Griffin |
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Gloria
Brenden Jacobs-Jenkins
| The Humans
Stephen Karam
|
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| 2017 |
In the Darkroom
Susan Faludi
Metropolitan Books | When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
Random House |
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In a Different Key: The Story of Autism
John Donvan and Caren Zucker
Crown | The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery
Micki McElya
Harvard University Press |
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Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It
Larrie D. Ferreiro
Alfred A. Knopf | New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America
Wendy Warren
Liveright/W.W. Norton |
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Imagine Me Gone
Adam Haslett
Little, Brown and Company/Hachette Book Group | Sport of Kings
C. E. Morgan
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
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Collected Poems: 1950-2012
Adrienne Rich
W.W. Norton | XX
Campbell McGrath
Ecco/HarperCollins |
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Bound to the Bone
Ashley Fure
| Ipsa Dixit
Kate Soper
|
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The Wolves
Sarah DeLappe
| A 24-Decade History of Popular Music
Taylor Mac
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| 2018 |
Richard Nixon: The Life
John A. Farrell
Doubleday | Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character
Kay Redfield Jamison
Alfred A. Knopf |
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Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-America World
Suzy Hansen
Farrar, Straus and Giroux | The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—and Us
Richard O. Prum
Doubleday |
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Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
Kim Phillips-Fein
Metropolitan Books | Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America
Steven J. Ross
Bloomsbury |
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In the Distance
Hernan Diaz
Coffee House Press | The Idiot
Elif Batuman
Penguin Press |
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Incendiary Art
Patricia Smith
TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press | semiautomatic
Evie Shockley
Wesleyan University Press |
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Quartet
Michael Gilbertson
| Sound from the Bench,
Ted Hearne
|
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Everybody
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
| The Minutes
Tracy Letts
|
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| 2019 |
Proust's Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siècle Paris
Caroline Weber
Alfred A. Knopf | The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
Max Boot
Liveright/W.W. Norton |
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In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers
Bernice Yeung
The New Press | Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
Elizabeth Rush
Milkweed Editions |
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American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
Victoria Johnson
Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company | Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition
W. Fitzhugh Brundage
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press |
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The Great Believers
Rebecca Makkai
Viking Books / Penguin Random House | There There
Tommy Orange
Alfred A. Knopf / Penguin Random House |
|
feeld
Jos Charles
Milkweed Editions | Like
A. E. Stallings
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
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Still
James Romig
| Sustain
Andrew Norman
|
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Dance Nation
Clare Barron
| What the Constitution Means to Me
Heidi Schreck
|
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| Year | Biography | General Non-Fiction | History | Fiction | Poetry | Music | Drama | Memoir |
|---|
| 2020 |
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
George Packer
Knopf | Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, And Me
Deirdre Bair
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday |
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Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
Louise Aronson
Bloomsbury | Solitary
Albert Woodfox with Leslie George
Grove Press / Grove Atlantic |
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Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
University of North Carolina Press | The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
Greg Grandin
Metropolitan Books / Macmillan Publishers |
|
The Dutch House
Ann Patchett
Harper | The Topeka School
Ben Lerner
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
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Dunce
Mary Ruefle
Wave Books | Only as the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems
Dorianne Laux
W.W. Norton | Sky: Concerto for Violin
Michael Torke
|
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and all the days were purple
Alex Weiser
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Soft Power
David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori
| Heroes of the Fourth Turning
Will Arbery
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| 2021 |
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
Heather Clark
Knopf | Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
Amy Stanley
Scribner |
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Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Cathy Park Hong
One World | Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
Sierra Crane Murdoch
Random House |
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The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
Eric Cervini
Farrar, Straus and Giroux | The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West
Megan Kate Nelson
Scribner |
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A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth
Daniel Mason
Little, Brown and Company | Telephone
Percival Everett
Graywolf Press |
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A Treatise on Stars
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
New Directions | In the Lateness of the World
Carolyn Forché
Penguin Press |
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Data Lords
Maria Schneider
| Place
Ted Hearne
|
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Circle Jerk
Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley
| Stew
Zora Howard
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| 2022 |
Pessoa: A Biography
Richard Zenith
Liveright/Norton | The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
Janice P. Nimura
W. W. Norton & Company |
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The Family Roe: An American Story
Joshua Prager
Norton | Home, Land, Security: Deradicalization and the Journey Back from Extremism
Carla Power
One World/Random House |
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Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
Kate Masur
W. W. Norton & Company |
Monkey Boy
Francisco Goldman
Grove Press | Palmares
Gayl Jones
Beacon Press |
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Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten
Will Alexander
New Directions | Yellow Rain
Mai Der Vang
Graywolf Press |
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Seven Pillars
Andy Akiho
| with eyes the color of time
Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti
|
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Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord
Kristina Wong
| Selling Kabul
Sylvia Khoury
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| 2023 |
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 | Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century
Jennifer Homans
Random House |
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Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
Jing Tsu
Riverhead Books | Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution’s Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction
David George Haskell
Viking | Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
Linda Villarosa
Doubleday |
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Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America
Michael John Witgen
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture/University of North Carolina Press | Watergate: A New History
Garrett M. Graff
Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster |
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The Immortal King Rao
Vauhini Vara
W. W. Norton & Company |
Still Life
Jay Hopler
McSweeney’s | Blood Snow
dg nanouk okpik
Wave Books |
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Monochromatic Light (Afterlife)
Tyshawn Sorey
First premiered on February 19, 2022 at the Rothko Chapel, Houston, Texas | Perspective
Jerrilynn Patton
Recording by Third Coast Percussion released on May 13, 2022 by Cedille Records |
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On Sugarland
Aleshea Harris
| The Far Country
Lloyd Suh
|
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Easy Beauty: A Memoir
Chloé Cooper Jones
Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster | The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir
Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Doubleday / Penguin Random House |
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| 2024 |
Larry McMurtry: A Life
Tracy Daugherty
St. Martin’s Press |
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
John Vaillant
Knopf / Penguin Random House | Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
Siddharth Kara
St. Martin’s Press |
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American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Michael Willrich
Basic Books | Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion
Elliott West
University of Nebraska Press |
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Same Bed Different Dreams
Ed Park
Random House | Wednesday’s Child
Yiyun Li
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
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Information Desk
Robyn Schiff
Penguin Books | To 2040
Jorie Graham
Copper Canyon Press |
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Double Concerto for esperanza spalding, Claire Chase, and large orchestra
Felipe Lara
| Paper Pianos
Mary Kouyoumdjian
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Here There Are Blueberries
Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich
| Public Obscenities
Shayok Misha Chowdhury
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The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
Jonathan Rosen
Penguin Press | The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
Andrew Leland
Penguin Press Memoir |
|
| 2025 |
The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker
Amy Reading
Mariner | John Lewis: A Life
David Greenberg
Simon & Schuster |
|
I Am on the Hit List: A Journalist’s Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India
Rollo Romig
Penguin Press | Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala
Rachel Nolan
Harvard University Press |
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Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery
Seth Rockman
University of Chicago Press |
Headshot
Rita Bullwinkel
| Mice 1961
Stacey Levine
Verse Chorus Press | The Unicorn Woman
Gayl Jones
Beacon Press |
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An Authentic Life
Jennifer Chang
Copper Canyon | Bluff: Poems
Danez Smith
Graywolf Press |
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Jim is Still Crowing
Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson
| The Comet
George Lewis
|
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Oh, Mary!
Cole Escola
| The Ally
Itamar Moses
|
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Fi: A Memoir of My Son
Alexandra Fuller
Grove Press | I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
Lucy Sante
Penguin Press |
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