National (US) Book Critics Circle Award winners and finalists 1975-2008

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  1. 1975 Winners
  2. Fiction:
  3. E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime
  4. General Nonfiction:
  5. R.W.B. Lewis, Edith Wharton: A Biography
  6. Poetry:
  7. John Ashbery, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
  8. Criticism:
  9. Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory
  11. 1976 Awards
  12. Fiction
  13. John Gardner, October Light (Winner)
  14. Renata Adler, Speedboat
  15. Vladimir Nabokov, Details of a Sunset and Other Stories
  16. Cynthia Ozick, Bloodshed and Three Novellas
  17. Richard Yates, The Easter Parade
  18. General Nonfiction
  19. Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Winner)
  20. George Dangerfield, The Damnable Question: A Study in Anglo-Irish Relations
  21. Alex Haley, Roots
  22. Irving Howe with Kenneth Libo, World of Our Fathers
  23. Richard Kluger, Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
  24. Poetry
  25. Elizabeth Bishop, Geography III (Winner)
  26. Philip Levine, The Names of the Lost
  27. Muriel Rukeyser, The Gates
  28. Louis Simpson, Searching for the Ox
  29. Richard Wilbur, The Mind-Reader
  30. Criticism
  31. Bruno Bettelheim, The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Winner)
  32. Ada Louise Huxtable, Kicked a Building Lately?
  33. Steven Marcus, Representations: Essays on Literature and Society
  34. Charles Rosen, Arnold Shoenberg
  35. E.B. White, ed. by Dorothy Lobrano Guth, Letters of E.B. White
  37. 1977 Awards
  38. Fiction
  39. Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon (Winner)
  40. John Cheever, Falconer
  41. Joan Didion, A Book of Common Prayer
  42. Philip Roth, The Professor of Desire
  43. John Sayles, Union Dues
  44. General Nonfiction
  45. W. Jackson Bate, Samuel Johnson (Winner)
  46. Michael Herr, Dispatches
  47. David McCullough, The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
  48. John McPhee, Coming into the Country
  49. Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
  50. Poetry
  51. Robert Lowell, Day By Day (Winner)
  52. John Ashbery, Houseboat Days
  53. Stanley Plumly, Out-of-the-Body Travel
  54. W.D. Snodgrass, The Fuhrer Bunker: A Cycle of Poems in Progress
  55. Gerald Stern, Lucky Life
  56. Criticism
  57. Susan Sontag, On Photography (Winner)
  58. Arlene Croce, Afterimages
  59. Morris Dickstein, Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties
  60. Richard Poirier, Robert Frost: The Work of Knowing
  61. Gore Vidal, Matters of Fact and of Fiction: Essays, 1973-1976
  63. 1978 Awards
  64. Fiction
  65. John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever (Winner)
  66. John Updike, The Coup
  67. Mary Gordon, Final Payments
  68. John Irving, The World According to Garp
  69. Charles Simmons, Wrinkles
  70. General Nonfiction
  71. Maureen Howard, Facts of Life (Winner - tie)
  72. Garry Willis, Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence (Winner - tie)
  73. Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
  74. Theodore H. White, In Search of History: A Personal Adventure
  75. Barrington Moore, Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt
  76. Sissela Bok, Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life
  77. A. Scott Berg, Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
  78. Alfred Kazin, New York Jew
  79. Anne Hollander, Seeing Through Clothes
  80. Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard
  81. Poetry
  82. Peter Davison, ed., Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems of L.E. Sissman (Winner)
  83. Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language: Poems, 1974-1977
  84. Mark Strand, The Late Hour
  85. May Swenson, New & Selected Things Taking Place
  86. John Hollander, Spectral Emanations: New and Selected Poems
  87. Criticism
  88. Meyer Schapior, Modern Art: 19th & 20th Centuries, Selected Papers (Winner)
  89. Malcolm Cowley, And I Worked at the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History, 1918-1978
  90. Eudora Welty, The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews
  91. Edward W. Said, Orientalism
  92. William H. Gass, The World Within the Word: Essays
  94. 1979 Awards
  95. Fiction
  96. Thomas Flanagan, The Year of the French (Winner)
  97. Philip Roth, The Ghost Writer
  98. William Styron, Sophie's Choice
  99. Norman Mailer, The Executioner's Song: A True Life Novel
  100. Elizabeth Hardwick, Sleepless Nights
  101. Leslie Epstein, King of the Jews: A Novel of the Holocaust
  102. General Nonfiction
  103. Telford Taylor, Munich: The Price of Peace (Winner)
  104. Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff
  105. Joan Didion, White Album
  106. Edward Hoagland, African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan
  107. Douglas Hofstadter, Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Brain
  108. Poetry
  109. Philip Levine, Ashes and 7 Years from Somewhere (Winner)
  110. Anthony Hecht, The Venetian Vespers
  111. John Hollander, Blue Wine and Other Poems
  112. David Smith, Goshawk, Antelope
  113. Howard Moss, Notes from the Castle
  114. Criticism
  115. Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels (Winner)
  116. Frances FitzGerald, America Revised: History Schoolbooks in the Twentieth Century
  117. Richard Gilman, Decadence: The Strange Life of an Epithet
  118. Sandra M. Gilbert & Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
  119. Robert Alter with Carol Cosman, A Lion for Love: A Critical Biography of Stendhal
  121. 1980 Awards
  122. Fiction
  123. Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus (Winner)
  124. E.L. Doctorow, Loon Lake
  125. Anne Tyler, Morgan's Passing
  126. Walker Percy, The Second Coming
  127. William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow
  128. General Nonfiction
  129. Ronald Steel, Walter Lippman and the American Century (Winner)
  130. Jean Strouse, Alice James: A Biography
  131. Maxine Hong Kingston, China Men
  132. John Boswell, Christianity, Socail Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the 14th Century
  133. Justin D. Kaplan, Walt Whitman: A Life
  134. Poetry
  135. Frederick Seidel, Sunrise (Winner)
  136. Joseph Brodsky, A Part of Speech
  137. Robert Penn Warren, Being Here: Poetry, 1977-1980
  138. James Schuyler, The Morning of the Poem
  139. James Merrill, Scripts for the Pageant
  140. Criticism
  141. Helen Vendler, Part of Nature: Modern American Poets (Winner)
  142. Paul Fussell, Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars
  143. R.P. Blackmur, ed. by Veronica A. Makowsky, Henry Adams
  144. Vladimir Nabokov, ed. by Fredson Bowers, Lectures on Literature
  145. Barbara Novak, Nature and Culture: American Landscape Painting, 1825-1875
  147. 1981 Awards
  148. Fiction
  149. John Updike, Rabbit Is Rich (Winner)
  150. Robert Stone, A Flag for Sunrise
  151. Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker
  152. Donald Barthelme, Sixty Stories
  153. Leonard Michaels, The Men's Club
  154. General Nonfiction
  155. Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of a Man (Winner)
  156. James Fallows, National Defense
  157. T.J. Jackson Lears, No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920
  158. Dumas Malone, The Sage of Monticello: Jefferson and His Time, Volume Six
  159. Erving Goffman, Forms of Talk
  160. Poetry
  161. A.R. Ammons, A Coast of Trees (Winner)
  162. Douglas Crase, The Revisionist
  163. Daniel Hoffman, Brotherly Love
  164. Donald Finkel, What Manner of Beast
  165. Edward Hirsch, The Sleepwalkers
  166. Criticism
  167. Virgil Thomson, A Virgil Thomson Reader (Winner)
  168. Guy Davenport, The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays
  169. Martin Gardner, Science: Good, Bad and Bogus
  170. Edward Mendelson, Early Auden
  171. Thomas G. Bergin, Boccaccio
  173. 1982 Awards
  174. Fiction
  175. Stanley Elkin, George Mills (Winner)
  176. Cynthia Ozick, Levitation: Five Fictions
  177. Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
  178. Alice Walker, The Color Purple
  179. Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh and Other Stories
  180. General Nonfiction
  181. Robert A. Caro, The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Winner)
  182. The Nuclear Delusion: Soviet-American Relations in the Atomic Age, George F. Keenan
  183. Jonathan Schell, The Fate of the Earth
  184. Daniel Lawrence O'Keefe, Stolen Lightning
  185. Kate Simon, Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood
  186. Poetry
  187. Katha Pollitt, Antarctic Traveller (Winner)
  188. Jack Gilbert, Monoliths: Poems, 1962 and 1982
  189. Brad Leithauser, Hundreds of Fireflies
  190. Phyllis Janowitz, Visiting Rites
  191. W.S. Merwin, Finding the Islands
  192. Criticism
  193. Gore Vidal, The Second American Revolution and Other Essays, 1976-82 (Winner)
  194. Arlene Croce, Going to the Dance
  195. Marshall Berman, All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity
  196. Harold Bloom, Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism
  197. Nina Auerbach, Women and the Demon
  199. 1983 Awards
  200. Fiction
  201. William Kennedy, Ironweed (Winner)
  202. Philip Roth, The Anatomy of a Lesson
  203. Raymond Carver, Cathedral
  204. Joan Chase, During the Reign of the Queen
  205. Ron Loewinsohn, Magnetic Field(s)
  206. General Nonfiction
  207. Seymour M. Hersh, The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House (Winner)
  208. Roger Rosenblatt, The Price of Power
  209. William W. Warner, Distant Water: The Fate of the North Atlantic Fisherman
  210. Theodore Draper, Present History: On Nuclear War, D?nte and Other Controversies
  211. David S. Landes, Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World
  212. Biography/Autobiography
  213. Joyce Johnson, Minor Characters (Winner)
  214. Kenneth R. Manning, Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just
  215. Nicholas Gage, Eleni
  216. E. Fuller Torrey, The Roots of Treason: Ezra Pound and the Secret of St. Elizabeth's
  217. Fred Kaplan, Thomas Carlyle
  218. Poetry
  219. James Merrill, The Changing Light at Sandover (Winner)
  220. Jorie Graham, Erosion
  221. Amy Clampitt, The Kingfisher
  222. Cathy Song, Picture Bride
  223. C.K. Williams, Tar
  224. Criticism
  225. John Updike, Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism (Winner)
  226. John Rockwell, All American Music
  227. Cynthia Ozick, Art and Ardor: Essays
  228. Svetlana Alpers, The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century
  229. Helen Vendler, The Odes of John Keats
  231. 1984 Awards
  232. Fiction
  233. Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine
  234. David Leavitt, Family Dancing
  235. Alison Lurie, Foreign Affairs
  236. Jayne Anne Phillips, Machine Dreams
  237. Harriet Doerr, Stones for Ibarra
  238. General Nonfiction
  239. Freeman Dyson, Weapons and Hope (Winner)
  240. David Wyman, The Abandonment of the Jews
  241. John Edgar Wideman, Brothers and Keepers
  242. Robert Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History
  243. Evan Connell, Son of the Morning Star
  244. Biography/Autobiography
  245. Joseph Frank, Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-59 (Winner)
  246. Susan Cheever, Home Before Dark
  247. Elinor Langer, Josephine Herbst
  248. Eudora Welty, One Writer's Beginnings
  249. Paul Zweig, Walt Whitman: The Making of a Poet
  250. Poetry
  251. Sharon Olds, The Dead and the Living (Winner)
  252. Robert Duncan, Ground Work: Before the War
  253. Charles Wright, The Other Side of the River
  254. Dick Allen, Overnight in the Guest House of the Mystic
  255. John Ashbery, A Wave
  256. Criticism
  257. Robert Hass, Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry (Winner)
  258. Donald Keene, Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era
  259. David Bromwich, Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic
  260. Roger Shattuck, The Innocent Eye
  261. Leo Steinberg, The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion
  263. 1985 Awards
  264. Fiction
  265. Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist (Winner)
  266. Don DeLillo, White Noise
  267. Peter Taylor, The Old Forest and Other Stories
  268. Richard Powers, Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance
  269. Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
  270. General Nonfiction
  271. J. Anthony Lukas, Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (Winner)
  272. Tracy Kidder, House
  273. Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
  274. Alan Riding, Distant Neighbors: The Portrait of the Mexicans
  275. Eva Keuls, The Reign of the Phallus: Sexual Politics in Ancient Athens
  276. Biography/Autobiography
  277. Leon Edel, Henry James: A Life (Winner) (most of it!)
  278. Elizabeth Frank, Louise Bogan
  279. James Lord, Giacometti: A Biography
  280. Leonard Arrington, Brigham Young: American Moses
  281. Michael Lesy, Visible Light: Four Creative Biographies
  282. Poetry
  283. Louise Gluck, The Triumph of Achilles (Winner)
  284. Amy Clampitt, What the Light was Like
  285. Gjertude Schnackenberg, The Lamplit Answer
  286. Galway Kinnell, The Past
  287. James Merrill, Late Settings
  288. Criticism
  289. William Gass, Habitations of the World (Winner)
  290. Paul Robinson, Opera and Ideas: From Mozart to Strauss
  291. Robert Storey, Pierrots on the Stage of Desire: 19th Century French Literary Artistis and Comic Pantomine
  292. Phillip Fisher, Hard Facts: Setting and Form in the AmericanNovel
  293. Mary McCarthy, Occasional Prose: Essays
  295. 1986 Awards
  296. Fiction
  297. Peter Taylor, A Summons to Memphis (Winner)
  298. Louise Erdrich, The Best Queen
  299. Reynolds Price, Kate Vaiden
  300. Thomas Williams, The Moon Pinnace
  301. John Updike, Roger's Version
  302. General Nonfiction
  303. Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams (Winner)
  304. Bernard Bailyn, Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
  305. Jonathan Evan Maslow, Bird of Life, Bird of Death: A Naturalist's Journey Through a Land of Political Turmoil
  306. John W. Dower, War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
  307. Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water
  308. Biography/Autobiography
  309. Arnold Rampersad, The Life of Langston Hughes, Vol. I: 1902-1941 (Winner)
  310. Jonathan Brown, Velazquez: Painter and Courtier
  311. Theodore Rosengarten, Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter
  312. Art Spiegelman, Maus: A Survivor's Tale
  313. Joseph Frank, Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865
  314. Poetry
  315. Edward Hirsch, Wild Gratitude (Winner)
  316. Irving Feldman, All of Us Here and Other Poems
  317. Brad Leithauser, Cats of the Temple
  318. Timothy Steele, Sapphics Against Anger
  319. Anne Winters, The Key to the City
  320. Criticism
  321. Joseph Brodsky, Less Than One: Selected Essays (Winner)
  322. Rene Wellek, A History of Modern Criticism: 1750-1950: Vols. 5 & 6
  323. Jerrold Siegel, Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics and Boundaries of Bourgeois Life
  324. Leo Braudy, The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History
  325. Arthur Danto, The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art (Columbia University Press)
  327. 1987 Awards
  328. Fiction
  329. Philip Roth, The Counterlife (Winner)
  330. Jane Smiley, The Age of Grief
  331. Toni Morrison, Beloved
  332. Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
  333. Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety
  334. General Nonfiction
  335. Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Winner)
  336. Randy Shilts, And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic
  337. James Miller, "Democracy Is in the Streets,"
  338. Charles Mee, The Genius of the People
  339. Stephen Jay Gould, Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle
  340. Biography/Autobiography
  341. Donald Howard, Chaucer: His Life, His Work, His World (Winner)
  342. Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
  343. Prudence Crowther, ed., Don't Tread on Me: The Selected Letters of S.J. Perelman
  344. Paul Taylor, Private Domain
  345. Arthur Miller, Timebends: A Life
  346. Poetry
  347. C.K. Williams, Flesh and Blood (Winner)
  348. John Ashbery, April Galleons
  349. Alan Shapiro, Happy Hour
  350. May Swenson, In Other Words
  351. Donald Justice, The Sunset Maker
  352. Criticism
  353. Edwin Denby, Dance Writings (Winner)
  354. Robert Lowell, Collected Prose
  355. Guy Davenport, Every Force Evolves a Form
  356. Arlene Croce, Sight Lines
  357. Josephn Horowitz, Understanding Toscanini
  359. 1988 Awards
  360. Fiction
  361. Bharati Mukherjee, The Middleman and Other Stories (Winner)
  362. Don DeLillo, Libra
  363. Pete Dexter, Paris Trout
  364. J.F. Powers, Wheat That Springeth Green
  365. Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
  366. General Nonfiction
  367. Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 (Winner)
  368. James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
  369. Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
  370. Jane Kramer, Europeans
  371. Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
  372. Biography/Autobiography
  373. Richard Ellman, Oscar Wilde (Winner)
  374. Paul Monette, Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
  375. Valerie Eliot, ed., The Letters of T.S. Eliot, 1909-1922
  376. Paul Jay, ed., The Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Burke and Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1981
  377. Robert Wright, Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information
  378. Poetry
  379. Donald Hall, The One Day (Winner)
  380. Richard Wilbur, New and Collected Poems
  381. John Hollander, Harp Lake
  382. Kenneth Koch, One Thousand Avant-Garde Plays
  383. Thomas McGrath, Selected Poems, 1938-1988
  384. Criticism
  385. Clifford Geertz, Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author (Winner)
  386. Nelson George, The Death of Rhythm and Blues
  387. Richard A. Posner, Law and Literature: A Misunderstood Relation
  388. John Hollander, Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language
  389. Robert Pinsky, Poetry and the World
  391. 1989 Awards
  392. Fiction
  393. E.L. Doctorow, Billy Bathgate (Winner)
  394. Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
  395. Oscar Hijeulos, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
  396. Jane Smiley, Ordinary Love & Good Will
  397. John Casey, Spartina
  398. General Nonfiction
  399. Michael Dorris, The Broken Cord (Winner)
  400. Tracy Kidder, Among Schoolchildren
  401. Barbara Ehrenreich, Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class
  402. David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914-1922
  403. Amy Wilentz, The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier
  404. Biography/Autobiography
  405. Geoffrey C. Ward, A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt (Winner)
  406. Bil Gilbert, And God Gave Us This Country: Tekamthi and the First American Civil War
  407. Otto Friedrich, Glenn Gould: A Life and Variations
  408. Roger Moris, Richard Milhouse Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician
  409. Tobias Wolff, This Boy's Life: A Memoir
  410. Poetry
  411. Rodney Jones, Transparent Gestures (Winner)
  412. August Kleinzahler, Earthquake Weather
  413. Robert Hass, Human Wishes
  414. Thylias Moss, Pyramid of Bone
  415. Nancy Willard, Water Walker
  416. Criticism
  417. John Clive, Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History (Winner)
  418. William L. Vance, America's Rome
  419. David Bromwich, A Choice of Inheritance: Self and Community from Edmund Burke to Robert Frost
  420. Charles Solomon, Enchanted Drawings: The History of Animation
  421. Cynthia Ozick, Metaphor & Memory: Essays
  423. 1990 Awards
  424. Fiction
  425. John Updike, Rabbit at Rest (Winner)
  426. Charles Johnson, Middle Passage
  427. Sue Miller, Family Pictures
  428. Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
  429. Wallace Stegner, Collected Stories
  430. General Nonfiction
  431. Shelby Steele, The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America (Winner)
  432. Mike Davis, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
  433. Alma Guillermoprieto, Samba
  434. O.B. Hardison, Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the 20th Century
  435. Kevin Phillips, The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Regan Aftermath
  436. Biography/Autobiography
  437. Robert Caro, Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Winner)
  438. John Espey, Strong Drink, Strong Language
  439. Patricia O'Toole, The Five of Hearts: an Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880-1918
  440. Richard Rhodes, A Hole in the World
  441. T.H. Watkins, Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes
  442. Poetry
  443. Amy Gerstler, Bitter Angel (Winner)
  444. Frank Bidart, In the Western Night
  445. John Haines, New Poems, 1980-88
  446. Anthony Hecht, The Transparent Man
  447. Charles Simic, The Book of Gods and Devils
  448. Criticism
  449. Arthur Danto, Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present (Winner)
  450. Stanley Crouch, Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989
  451. Irving Howe, Selected Writings, 1950-1990
  452. Camille Paglia, Emily Dickinson
  453. Wilfrid Sheed, Essays in Disguise
  455. 1991 Awards
  456. Fiction
  457. Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres (Winner)
  458. Louis Begley, Wartime Lies
  459. Gish Jen, Typical American
  460. Richard Powers, The Gold Bug Variations
  461. Norman Rush, Making
  462. General Nonfiction
  463. Susan Faludi, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (Winner)
  464. Thomas Geoghegan, Which Side Are You on? Trying to Be for Labor When It's Flat on Its Back
  465. Melissa Fay Greene, Praying for Sheetrock
  466. Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
  467. Dennis Overbye, Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe
  468. Biography/Autobiography
  469. Philip Roth, Patrimony: A True Story (Winner)
  470. John Cheever, The Journals of John Cheever
  471. Robert Kanigel, The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
  472. Diane Middlebrook, Anne Sexton: A Biography
  473. Art Spiegelman, Maus II
  474. Poetry
  475. Albert Goldbarth, Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology (Winner)
  476. Diane Ackerman, Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New & Selected Poems
  477. Allen Grossman, The Ether Dome and Other Poems: New & Selected (1979-1991)
  478. Philip Levine, What Work Is
  479. Adrienne Rich, An Atlas of the Difficult World
  480. Criticism
  481. Lawrence L. Langer, Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory (Winner)
  482. Norman F. Cantor, Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works & Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century
  483. J. Hoberman, Vulgar Modernism: Writing on Movies and Other Media
  484. Louise J. Kaplan, Female Perversions: The Temptations of Emma Bovary
  485. John Updike, Old Jobs
  487. 1992 Awards
  488. Fiction
  489. Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses (Winner)
  490. Randall Kenan, Let the Dead Bury Their Dead
  491. Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water
  492. Richard Price, Clockers
  493. Robert Stone, Outerbridge Reach
  494. General Nonfiction
  495. Norman Maclean, Young Men and Fire (Winner)
  496. Michael D. Coe, Breaking the Maya Code
  497. Donald Katz, Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America
  498. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyay Life in Brazil
  499. Edward O. Wilson, The Diversity of Life
  500. Biography/Autobiography
  501. Carol Brightman, Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World (Winner)
  502. Jack Beatty, The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874-1958
  503. Paul Hendrickson, Looking for the Light: The Hidden Life and Art of Marion Post Wolcott
  504. Walter Isaacson, Kissinger
  505. Edward O. Wilson, The Diversity of Life
  506. Poetry
  507. Hayden Carruth, Collected Shorter Poems 1946-1991 (Winner)
  508. David Ferry, Gilgamesh
  509. Maxine Kumin, Looking for Luck
  510. Sharon Olds, The Father
  511. K.C. Williams, A Dream of Mine
  512. Criticism
  513. Garry Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remand America (Winner)
  514. Frederick Crews, The Critics Bear It Away: American Fiction and the Academy
  515. Dana Gioia, Can Poetry Matter? Essays on Poetry and American Culture
  516. Susan Griffin, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
  517. Wallace Stegner, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West
  519. 1993 Awards
  520. Fiction
  521. Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying (Winner)
  522. E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
  523. Bobbi Ann Mason, Feather Crowns
  524. Frances Sherwood, Vindication
  525. Rikki Ducornet, The Jade Cabinet
  526. General Nonfiction
  527. Alan Lomax, The Land Where the Blues Began (Winner)
  528. Rosemary Mahoney, Whoredom in Kimmage: Irish Women Coming of Age
  529. George B. Schaller, The Last Panda
  530. Russ Rymer, Genie: An Abused Child's Flight From Silence
  531. David Remnick, Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
  532. Biography/Autobiography
  533. Edmund White, Genet (Winner)
  534. James Merrill, A Different Person
  535. James Miller, The Passion of Michael Foucault
  536. Alice Kaplan, French Lessons
  537. David Levering Lewis, DuBois: Biography of a Race
  538. Criticism
  539. John Dizikes, Opera in America: A Cultural History (Winner)
  540. Wayne Koestenbaum, The Queen's Throat
  541. Geoffrey O'Brien, The Phantom Empire
  542. Mark Rose, Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright
  543. Gore Vidal, United States: Essays 1952-1992
  545. 1994 Awards
  546. Fiction
  547. Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries (Winner)
  548. Alan Isler, The Prince of West End Avenue
  549. Julius Lester, And All Our Wounds Forgiven
  550. William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own
  551. Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies
  552. General Nonfiction
  553. Lynn Nicholas, The Rape of Europa (Winner)
  554. Jane Mayer & Jill Abramson, Strange Justice
  555. Abraham Verghese, My Own Country
  556. Sherwin Nuland, How We Die
  557. John Demos, The Unredeemed Captive
  558. Biography/Autobiography
  559. Mikal Gilmore, Shot in the Heart (Winner)
  560. Julia Frey, Toulouse-Lautrec
  561. Brenda Maddox, D.H. Lawrence
  562. Edward O. Wilson, Naturalist
  563. Neal Gabler, Winchell
  564. Poetry
  565. Mark Rudman, Rider (Winner)
  566. Dorianne Laux, What We Carry
  567. Marilyn Hacker, Winter Numbers
  568. Philip Levine, The Simple Truth
  569. Mary Jo Salter, Sunday Skaters
  570. Criticism
  571. Gerald Early, The Culture of Bruising (Winner)
  572. Jahan Ramazani, Poetry of Mourning
  573. Harold Bloom, The Western Canon
  574. Katha Pollitt, Reasonable Creatures
  575. Anne Hollander, Sex and Suits
  577. 1995 Awards
  578. Fiction
  579. Stanley Elkin, Mrs. Ted Bliss (Winner)
  580. Richard Ford, Independence Day
  581. Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2
  582. Jane Smiley, Moo
  583. Paul West, The Tent of Orange Mist
  584. General Nonfiction
  585. Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action (Winner)
  586. Nicholas Basbanes, A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books
  587. Madeleine Blais, In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle
  588. Fox Butterfield, All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence
  589. Lawrence Weschler, Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder
  590. Biography/Autobiography
  591. Robert Polito, Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson (Winner)
  592. John Hockenberry, Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs and Declarations of Independence
  593. Mary Karr, The Liars' Club
  594. David S. Reynolds, Walt Whitman's America
  595. Robert Richardson Jr., Emerson: The Mind on Fire
  596. Poetry
  597. William Matthews, Time & Money (Winner)
  598. Lynda Hull, The Only World
  599. James Merrill, A Scattering of Salts
  600. Carl Phillips, Cortege
  601. Ellen Bryant Voigt, Kyrie
  602. Criticism
  603. Robert Darnton, The Forbidden Bestsellers of Pre-Revolution France (Winner)
  604. Stanley Crouch, The All-American Skin Game, or The Decoy of Race: The Long and the Short of It, 1990-1994
  605. Thomas M. Disch, The Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poest and Poetasters
  606. John Felstiner, Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew
  607. Clifford Geertz, After the Fact
  609. 1996 Awards
  610. Fiction
  611. Gina Berriault, Women in Their Beds (Winner)
  612. Louis Begley, About Schmidt
  613. Andre Dubus, Dancing After Hours
  614. Jamaica Kincaid, The Autobiography of My Mother
  615. Henry Roth, From Bondage
  616. General Nonfiction
  617. Jonathan Raban, Bad Land (Winner)
  618. David Denby, The Great Books
  619. Daniel Goldhagen, Hitler's Willing Executioners
  620. Richard Kluger, Ashes to Ashes
  621. Bernard Lewis, The Middle East
  622. Biography/Autobiography
  623. Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes (Winner)
  624. Peter Conn, Pear S. Buck: A Cultural Biography
  625. David Hajdu, Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn
  626. Alan Shapiro, The Last Happy Occasion
  627. Jan Swafford, Charles Ives: A Life in Music
  628. Poetry
  629. Robert Hass, Sun Under Wood (Winner)
  630. Stephen Dunn, Loosestrife
  631. Martin Espada, Imagine the Angels of Bread
  632. Jane Shore, Music Minus One
  633. C.K. Williams, The Vigil
  634. Criticism
  635. William Gass, Finding a Form (Winner)
  636. Gene H. Bell-Villada, Art for Art's Sake and Literary Life
  637. Margaret Anne Doody, The True Story of the Novel
  638. Dan Hofstadter, The Love Affair as a Work of Art
  639. Cynthia Ozick, Fame and Folly
  641. 1997 Awards
  642. Fiction
  643. Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower (Winner)
  644. Don DeLillo, Underworld
  645. Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
  646. Andrei Makine, Dreams of My Russian Summers
  647. Philip Roth, American Pastoral
  648. General Nonfiction
  649. Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (Winner)
  650. Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air
  651. James Kugel, The Bible as It Was
  652. Pauline Maier, American Scripture
  653. Stephen Pinker, How the Mind Works
  654. Biography/Autobiography
  655. James Tobin, Ernie Pyle's War (Winner)
  656. Joseph Ellis, American Sphinx
  657. Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf
  658. Doris Lessing, Walking in the Shade
  659. Poetry
  660. Charles Wright, Black Zodiac (Winner)
  661. Frank Bidart, Desire
  662. Brenda Hillman, Loose Sugar
  663. Mark Jarman, Questions for Ecclesiastes
  664. Sonya Sanchez, Does Your House Have Lions?
  665. Criticism
  666. Mario Vargas Llosa, Making Waves (Winner)
  667. John Brewer, The Pleasures of the Imagination
  668. Vivian Gornick, The End of the Novel of Love
  669. Alfred Kazin, God and the American Writer
  670. Helen Vendler, The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets
  672. 1998 Awards
  673. Fiction Winner
  674. Alice Munro, The Love of a Good Woman (Winner)
  675. Michael Cunningham, The Hours
  676. David Gates, Preston Falls
  677. Lorrie Moore, Birds of America
  678. Lynne Tillman, No Lease on Life
  679. General Nonfiction
  680. Philip Gourevtich, We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Out Families: Stories from Rwanda (Winner)
  681. Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost
  682. Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
  683. Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity
  684. Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford Engligh Dictionary
  685. Biography/Autobiography
  686. Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind (Winner)
  687. Ron Chernow, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
  688. Homer H. Hickman Jr., Rocket Boys: A Memoir
  689. David Remnick, King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero
  690. Amanda Vaill, Everbody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story
  691. Poetry
  692. Marie Ponsot, The Bird Catcher (Winner)
  693. Pamela White Hadas, Self-Evidence
  694. Thylias Moss, Last Chance for the Tarzan Holler
  695. Ann Carson, The Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
  696. Yusef Komunyakaa, Thieves of Paradise
  697. Criticism
  698. Gary Giddins, Visions of Jazz: The First Century (Winner)
  699. Geoff Dyer, Out of Sheer Rage
  700. Nelson George, Hip Hop America
  701. Harold Bloom, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
  702. Robert Pinsky, The Sounds of Poetry
  704. 1999 Awards
  705. Fiction
  706. Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn (Winner)
  707. A. Manette Ansay, Midnight Champagne
  708. Frederick Busch, The Night Inspector
  709. J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace
  710. David Gates, The Wonders of the Invisible World: Stories
  711. General Nonfiction
  712. Jonathan Weiner, Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior (Winner)
  713. Jane Brox, Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family History
  714. John W. Dower, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
  715. Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory
  716. Jean-Paul Kauffmann, The Black Room at Longwood: Napoleon's Exile on Saint Helena
  717. Bigoraphy/Autobiography
  718. Henry Wiencek, The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White (Winner)
  719. Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Vol. II: Darker Reflections
  720. Jean Strouse, Morgan: American Financier
  721. Judith Thurman, Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
  722. Susan E. Tifft & Alex S. Jones, The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind the New York Times
  723. Poetry
  724. Ruth Stone, Ordinary Words (Winner)
  725. Rafael Campo, Diva
  726. Tory Dent, HIV, Mon Amour
  727. Rita Dove, On the Bus with Rosa Parks
  728. Susan Kingsolving, Dailies & Rushes
  729. Criticism
  730. Jorge Louis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions (Winner)
  731. Stuart Klawans, Film Follies: The Cinema Out of Order
  732. William Logan, Reputations of the Tongue: On Poets and Poetry
  733. Michael Schmidt, Lives of the Poets
  734. David Shields, Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season
  736. 2000 Awards
  737. Fiction Winner
  738. Jim Crace, Being Dead (Winner)
  739. Amy Bloom, A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You
  740. Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
  741. David Means, Assorted Fire Events: Stories
  742. Zadie Smith, White Teeth
  743. General Nonfiction
  744. Ted Conover, Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (Winner)
  745. Fred Anderson, Crucible of War
  746. Frances Fitzgerald, Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War
  747. Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
  748. Alice Kaplan, The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach
  749. Biography/Autobiography
  750. Herbert P. Bix, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (Winner)
  751. Robin Marantz Henig, The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics
  752. Victor Kemplerer, I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1942-1945
  753. David Nasaw, The Chief: The Life of William Randolf Hearst
  754. Jean-Yves Tadie, Marcel Proust: A Life
  755. Poetry
  756. Judy Jordan, Carolina Ghost Woods (Winner)
  757. Michael Collier, The Ledge
  758. Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours
  759. Yusef Komunyakaa, Talking Dirty to the Gods
  760. Davis McCombs, Ultima Thule
  761. Criticism
  762. Cynthia Ozick, Quarrel & Quandary (Winner)
  763. Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to Present
  764. Claudia Roth Pierpont, Passionate Minds
  765. Charles Rosen, Critical Entertainments: Music Old and New
  766. Sherod Santos, A Poetry of Two Minds
  768. 2001 Awards
  769. Fiction
  770. W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz (Winner)
  771. Fiction
  772. Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
  773. Alice Munro, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
  774. Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
  775. Colson Whitehead, John Henry Days
  776. General Nonfiction
  777. Nicholson Baker, Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper (Winner)
  778. Nina Bernstein, The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care
  779. Jan T. Gross, Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
  780. Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend
  781. Sam Roberts, The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric Chair
  782. Biography/Autobiography
  783. Adam Sisman, Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson (Winner)
  784. Paula Fox, Borrowed Finery: A Memoir
  785. David Hajdu, Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina
  786. Katherine Clark, Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on this Planet
  787. Barry Werth, The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal
  788. Poetry
  789. Albert Goldbarth, Saving Lives (Winner)
  790. Louise Gluck, The Seven Ages
  791. Bob Hicok, Animal Soul
  792. Jane Hirshfield, Given Sugar, Given Salt
  793. Czeslaw Milosz, A Treatise on Poetry
  794. Criticism
  795. Martin Amis, The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000 (Winner)
  796. H.J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books
  797. W.D. Snodgrass, De/Compositions: 101 Good Poems Gone Wrong
  798. Rebecca Solnit, As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art
  799. Joy Williams, Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals
  801. 2002 Awards
  802. Fiction
  803. Ian McEwan, Atonement (Winner)
  804. Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
  805. Aleksandar Hemon, Nowhere Man
  806. William Kennedy, Roscoe
  807. Edith Templeton, The Darts of Cupid: An Other Stories
  808. General Nonfiction
  809. Samantha Power, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (Winner)
  810. Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
  811. William Langewiesche, American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center
  812. Richard Rodriguez, Brown: The Last Discovery of America
  813. Gaby Wood, Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life
  814. Biography/Autobiography
  815. Janet Browne, Charles Darwin: The Power of Place (Winner)
  816. Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
  817. Elizabeth Gilbert, The Last American Man
  818. Edmund S. Morgan, Benjamin Franklin
  819. Mark Zwonitzer with Charles Hirshberg, Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music
  820. Poetry
  821. B.H. Fairchild, Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest (Winner)
  822. Major Jackson, Leaving Saturn
  823. Harryette Mullen, Sleeping with the Dictionary
  824. Sharon Olds, The Unswept Room
  825. Adam Zagajewski, Without End: New and Selected Poems
  826. Criticism
  827. William H. Gass, Tests of Time (Winner)
  828. Philip Ball, Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color
  829. Julia Blackburn, Old Man Goya
  830. Christopher Ricks, Reviewery
  831. Charles Rosen, Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist
  833. 2003 Awards
  834. Fiction
  835. Edward P. Jones, The Known World (Winner)
  836. Monica Ali, Brick Lane
  837. Richard Powers, The Time of Our Singing
  838. Tobias Wolff, Old School
  839. Caryl Phillips, A Distant Shore
  840. General Nonfiction
  841. Paul Hendrickson, Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy (Winner)
  842. Caroline Alexander, The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
  843. Anne Applebaum, Gulag
  844. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
  845. William T. Vollmann, Rising Up and Rising Down
  846. Biography Winner
  847. William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (Winner)
  848. Paul Elie, The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage
  849. Blake Bailey, A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates
  850. George Marsden, Jonathan Edwards: A Life
  851. Carol Loeb Shloss, Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake
  852. Poetry
  853. Susan Stewart, Columbarium (Winner)
  854. Carolyn Forch, Blue Hour
  855. Tony Hoagland, What Narcissism Means to Me
  856. Vénus Khoury-Ghata, translated by Marilyn Hacker, She Says
  857. Mary Szybist, Granted
  858. Criticism
  859. Rebecca Solnit, River of Shadows (Winner)
  860. Dagoberto Gilb, Gritos
  861. Nick Hornby, Songbook
  862. Ross King, Michelangelo & the Pope’s Ceiling
  863. Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
  865. 2004 Awards
  866. Fiction
  867. Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Winner)
  868. Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker
  869. Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty
  870. David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
  871. Philip Roth, The Plot Against America
  872. General Nonfiction
  873. Diarmaid MacCulloch, The Reformation: A History (Winner)
  874. Kevin Boyle, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age
  875. Edward Conlon, Blue Blood
  876. David Shipler, The Working Poor: Invisible in America
  877. Timothy Tyson, Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story
  878. Biography
  879. Mark Stevens & Annalyn Swan, De Kooning: An American Master (Winner)
  880. Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton
  881. Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Vol. 1
  882. Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
  883. John Guy, Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart
  884. Poetry
  885. Adrienne Rich, The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004 (Winner)
  886. Brigit Pegeen Kelly, The Orchard
  887. D.A. Powell, Cocktails
  888. James Richardson, Interglacial
  889. Gary Snyder, Danger on Peaks
  890. Criticism
  891. Patrick Neate, Where You’re At: Notes From the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet (Winner)
  892. Richard Howard, Paper Trail: Selected Prose, 1965-2003
  893. Graham Robb, Strangers: Homosexual Love in the 19th Century
  894. Craig Seligman, Sontag & Kael: Opposites Attract Me
  895. James Wood, The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel
  897. 2005 Awards
  898. Fiction
  899. E.L. Doctorow, The March (Winner)
  900. Mary Gaitskill, Veronica
  901. Andrea Levy, Small Island
  902. Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
  903. William T. Vollmann, Europe Central
  904. General Nonfiction
  905. Svetlana Alexievich, Voices From Chernobyl: The Oral History of Nuclear Disaster (Winner)
  906. Robert Fisk, The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
  907. Ellen Meloy, Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild
  908. Caroline Moorehead, Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees
  909. Anthony Shadid, Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War
  910. Biography
  911. Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Winner)
  912. Carolyn Burke, Lee Miller: A Life
  913. Jonathan Coe, Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson
  914. Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
  915. Ron Powers, Mark Twain: A Life
  916. Autobiography/Memoir
  917. Francine du Plessix Gray, Them: A Memoir of Parents (Winner)
  918. Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
  919. Judith Moore, Fat Girl: A True Story
  920. Orhan Pamuk, Istanbul: Memories and the City
  921. Vikram Seth, Two Lives
  922. Poetry
  923. Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven (Winner)
  924. Simon Armitage, The Shout
  925. Blas Manuel de Luna, Bent to the Earth
  926. Richard Siken, Crush
  927. Ron Slate, The Incentive of the Maggot
  928. Criticism
  929. William Logan, The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin (Winner)
  930. Hal Crowther, Gather at the River: Notes From the Post-millennial South
  931. Arthur Danto, Unnatural Wonders
  932. John Updike, Still Looking: Essays on American Ar
  933. Eliot Weinberger, What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles
  935. 2006 Awards
  936. Fiction
  937. Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss (Winner)
  938. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun
  939. Dave Eggers, What is the What
  940. Richard Ford, The Lay of the Land
  941. Cormac McCarthy, The Road
  942. General Nonfiction
  943. Simon Schama, Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution (Winner)
  944. Patrick Cockburn, The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq
  945. Anne Fessler, The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade
  946. Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
  947. Sandy Tolan, The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew and the Heart of the Middle East
  948. Biography
  949. Julie Phillips, James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon (Winner)
  950. Debby Applegate, The Most Famous Man in Amerca: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
  951. Taylor Branch, At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968
  952. Frederick Brown, Flaubert: A Biography
  953. Jason Roberts, A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler
  954. Autobiography/Memoir
  955. Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (Winner)
  956. Donald Antrim, The Afterlife
  957. Alison Bechdel, Fun Home
  958. Alexander Masters, Stuart: A Life Backwards
  959. Teri Jentz, Strange Piece of Paradise
  960. Poetry
  961. Troy Jollimore, Tom Thomson in Purgatory. (Winner)
  962. Daisy Fried, My Brother is Getting Arrested Again.
  963. Miltos Sachtouris, Poems (1945-1971)
  964. Frederick Seidel, Ooga-Booga
  965. W.D. Snodgrass, Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems
  966. Criticism
  967. Lawrence Weschler, Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences (Winner)
  968. Bruce Bawer: While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West From Within
  969. Frederick Crews, Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays
  970. Daniel Dennett, Breaking the Spell: Religion As A Natural Phenomenon
  971. Lia Purpura, On Looking: Essays
  973. 2007 Awards
  974. Fiction
  975. Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao(Winner)
  976. Vikram Chandra, Sacred Games
  977. Hisham Matar, In the Country of Men
  978. Joyce Carol Oates, The Gravedigger's Daughter
  979. Marianne Wiggins, The Shadowcatcher
  980. General Nonfiction
  981. Harriet Washington, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present(Winner)
  982. Philip Gura, American Transcendentalism
  983. Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America 1815-1848
  984. Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA
  985. Alan Weisman, The World Without Us
  986. Biography
  987. Tim Jeal, Stanley: The Impossible Life Of Africa’s Greatest Explorer (Winner)
  988. Hermione Lee, Edith Wharton
  989. Arnold Rampersad, Ralph Ellison
  990. John Richardson, The Life Of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932
  991. Claire Tomalin, Thomas Hardy
  992. Autobiography/Memoir
  993. Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I'm Dying (Winner)
  994. Joshua Clark, Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone
  995. Joyce Carol Oates, The Journals of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973–1982
  996. Sara Paretsky, Writing in an Age of Silence
  997. Anna Politkovskaya, Russian Diary: A Journalist’s Final Account of Life, Corruption and Death in Putin’s Russia
  998. Poetry
  999. Mary Jo Bang, Elegy (Winner)
  1000. Matthea Harvey, Modern Life
  1001. Michael O'Brien, Sleeping and Waking
  1002. Tom Pickard, The Ballad of Jamie Allan
  1003. Tadeusz Rozewicz, New Poems
  1004. Criticism
  1005. Alex Ross, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Winner)
  1006. Joan Acocella, Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints
  1007. Julia Alvarez, Once Upon a Quinceanera
  1008. Susan Faludi, The Terror Dream
  1009. Ben Ratliff, Coltrane: The Story of a Sound
  1011. 2008 Awards
  1012. Fiction
  1013. Roberto Bolaño, 2666 (Winner)
  1014. Marilynne Robinson, Home
  1015. Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project
  1016. M. Glenn Taylor, The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart
  1017. Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kittredge
  1018. General Nonfiction
  1019. Dexter Filkins, The Forever War
  1020. Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the Civil War
  1021. Jane Mayer, The Dark Side
  1022. Allan Lichtman, White Protestant Nation
  1023. George C. Herring, From Colony to Superpower: US Foreign Relations Since 1776
  1024. Biography
  1025. Paula J. Giddings, Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching
  1026. Steve Coll, The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family In An American Century
  1027. Patrick French, The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul (Winner)
  1028. Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
  1029. Brenda Wineapple, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  1030. Autobiography/Memoir
  1031. Rick Bass, Why I Came West
  1032. Helene Cooper, The House On Sugar Beach
  1033. Honor Moore, The Bishop’s Daughter
  1034. Andrew X. Pham, The Eaves Of Heaven
  1035. Ariel Sabar, My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq (Winner)
  1036. Poetry
  1037. August Kleinzahler, Sleeping It Off in Rapid City (Joint Winner)
  1038. Juan Felipe Herrera, Half the World in Light (Joint Winner)
  1039. Devin Johnston, Sources
  1040. Pierre Martory (trans. John Ashbery), The Landscapist
  1041. Brenda Shaughnessy, Human Dark with Sugar
  1042. Criticism
  1043. Richard Brody, Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life Of Jean-Luc Godard
  1044. Vivian Gornick, The Men in My Life
  1045. Joel L. Kraemer, Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization’s Greatest Minds
  1046. Reginald Shepherd, Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry
  1047. Seth Lerer, Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History: Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter (Winner)
Author Comments: 

Updated 5/19/09: added 2008 winners

As I went through this, I realized how many books there were in this list that I wanted to read!