NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

Fiction

• 2003 The Great Fire Shirley Hazzard
• 2002 Three Junes Julia Glass
• 2001 The Corrections Jonathan Franzen 
• 2000 In America Susan Sontag
• 1999 Waiting Ha Jin
• 1998 Charming Billy Alice McDermott
• 1997 Cold Mountain Charles Frazier
• 1996 Ship Fever and Other Stories Andrea Barrett
• 1995 Sabbath's Theater Philip Roth
• 1994 A Frolic of His Own William Gaddis
• 1993 The Shipping News E. Annie Proulx
• 1992 All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy
• 1991 Mating Norman Rush
• 1990 Middle Passage Charles Johnson

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Non Fiction

• 2003 Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy Carlos Eire
• 2002 Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson Robert A. Caro
• 2001 The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression Andrew Solomon (616.8527 SOL) 
• 2000 In the Heart of the sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex Nathaniel Philbrick (910.45 PHI)
• 1999 Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II  John W. Dower (952.04 DOW)
• 1998 Slaves in the Family Edward Ball (975.791 BAL)
• 1997 American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson Joseph Ellis
• 1996 An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us James Carroll (813.54 CAR)
• 1995 Facing Europe's Ghosts Tina Rosenberg
• 1994 How We Die Sherwin B. Nuland (616.078 NUL)
• 1993 United States: Essays 1952-1992 Gore Vidal (814.54 VID)
• 1992 Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story Paul Monette (306.7662 MON)
• 1991 Freedom Orlando Patterson
• 1990 The House of Morgan Ron Chernow

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Poetry

• 2003 The Singing C. K. Williams
• 2002 In the Next Galaxy Ruth Stoneoems
• 2001 Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry Alan Dugan
• 2000 Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 Lucille Clifton
• 1999 Vice: New and Selected Poems Ai
• 1998 This Time: New and Selected Poems Gerald Stern
• 1997 Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems William Meredith
• 1996 Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey Hayden Carruth
• 1995 Passing Through Stanley Kunitz
• 1994 Worshipful Company of Fletchers James Tate
• 1993 Garbage A.R. Ammons
• 1992 New and Selected Poems Mary Oliver (811.54 OLI)
• 1991 What Work is Philip Levine

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Young People's Literature

• 2003 The Canning Season Polly Horvath
• 2002 The House of the Scorpions Nancy Farmer
• 2001 True believer: A novel in the Make Lemonade Trilogy Virginia Euwer Wolff
• 2000 Homeless Bird Gloria Whelan
• 1999 When Zachary Beaver Came to Town Kimberly Willis Holt
• 1998 Holes Louis Sachar
• 1997 Dancing at the Edge Han Nolan
• 1996 Parrot in the Oven Victor Martinez