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Fiction |
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| 2013 | THE OPRHAN MASTER’S SON by Adam Johnson (Random House) |
| 2011 | A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD by Jennifer Egan (Knopf) |
| 2009 | OLIVE KITTERIDGE by Elizabeth Strout (Random House) |
| 2008 | THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO by Junot Diaz (Riverhead) |
| 2007 | THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy (Knopf) |
| 2006 | MARCH by Geraldine Brooks (Viking) |
| 2002 | EMPIRE FALLS by Richard Russo (Knopf) |
| 2001 | THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY by Michael Chabon (Random House) |
| 1997 | MARTIN DRESSLER: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) |
| 1996 | INDEPENDENCE DAY by Richard Ford (Knopf) |
| 1995 | THE STONE DIARIES by Carol Shields (Viking) |
| 1992 | A THOUSAND ACRES by Jane Smiley (Knopf) |
| 1991 | RABBIT AT REST by John Updike (Knopf) |
| 1989 | BREATHING LESSONS by Anne Tyler (Knopf) |
| 1988 | BELOVED by Toni Morrison (Knopf) |
| 1987 | A SUMMONS TO MEMPHIS by Peter Taylor (Knopf) |
| 1985 | FOREIGN AFFAIRS by Alison Lurie (Random House) |
| 1984 | IRONWEED by William Kennedy (Viking) |
| 1982 | RABBIT IS RICH by John Updike (Knopf) |
| 1979 | THE STORIES OF JOHN CHEEVER by John Cheever (Knopf) |
| 1976 | HUMBOLDT’S GIFT by Saul Bellow (Viking) |
| 1973 | THE OPTIMIST’S DAUGHTER by Eudora Welty (Random House) |
| 1972 | ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday) |
| 1968 | THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER by William Styron (Random House) |
| 1965 | THE KEEPERS OF THE HOUSE by Shirley Ann Grau (Knopf) |
| 1963 | THE REIVERS by William Faulkner (Random House) |
| 1960 | ADVISE AND CONSENT by Allen Drury (Doubleday) |
| 1959 | TRAVELS OF JAIMIE MCPHEETERS by Robert Lewis Taylor (Doubleday) |
| 1955 | A FABLE by William Faulkner (Random House) |
| 1952 | THE CAINE MUTINY by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) |
| 1951 | THE TOWN by Conrad Richter (Knopf) |
| 1945 | A BELL FOR ADANO by John Hersey (Knopf) |
| 1940 | THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck (Viking) |
| 1933 | THE STORE by T.S. Stribling (Doubleday) |
| 1925 | SO BIG by Edna Ferber (Doubleday) |
| 1923 | ONE OF OURS by Willa Cather (Knopf) |
| 1922 | ALICE ADAMS by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) |
| 1919 | THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) |
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General Nonfiction |
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| 2014 | TOMS RIVER: A Story of Science and Salvation by Dan Fagin (Bantam) |
| 2010 | THE DEAD HAND: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy by David E. Hoffman (Doubleday) |
| 2009 | SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon (Doubleday) |
| 2007 | THE LOOMING TOWER: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by by Lawrence Wright (Knopf) |
| 2005 | GHOST WARS by Steve Coll (Penguin Press) |
| 2004 | GULAG: A History by Anne Applebaum (Doubleday) |
| 1997 | ASHES TO ASHES by Richard Kluger (Knopf) |
| 1996 | THE HAUNTED LAND: Facing Europe’s Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg (Random House) |
| 1995 | THE BEAK OF THE FINCH by Jonathan Weiner (Knopf) |
| 1994 | LENIN’S TOMB by David Remnick (Random House) |
| 1990 | AND THEIR CHILDREN AFTER THEM by Dale Maharidge & Michael Williamson (Pantheon) |
| 1989 | A BRIGHT SHINING LIE by Neil Sheehan (Random House) |
| 1987 | ARAB AND JEW: WOUNDED SPIRITS IN A PROMISED LAND by David K. Shipler (Times Books) |
| 1986 | MOVE YOUR SHADOW by Joseph Lelyveld (Times) |
| 1986 | COMMON GROUND by J. Anthony Lukas (Knopf) |
| 1985 | THE GOOD WAR by Studs Terkel (Pantheon) |
| 1981 | FIN–DE–SIECLE VIENNA by Carl E. Schorske (Knopf) |
| 1978 | THE DRAGONS OF EDEN by Carl Sagan (Random House) |
| 1971 | THE RISING SUN by John Toland (Random House) |
| 1964 | ANTI–INTELLECTUALISM IN AMERICAN LIFE by Richard Hofstadter (Knopf) |
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Biography or Autobiography: |
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| 2013 | THE BLACK COUNT: Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss (Crown) |
| 2012 | GEORGE F. KENNAN: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis (Penguin Press) |
| 2011 | WASHINGTON: A Life by Ron Chernow (Penguin Press) |
| 2010 | THE FIRST TYCOON: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles (Knopf) |
| 2009 | AMERICAN LION: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham (Random House) |
| 2007 | THE MOST FAMOUS MAN IN AMERICA: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate |
| 2006 | AMERICAN PROMETHEUS: Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. |
| 2005 | DE KOONING: AN AMERICAN MASTER by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan (Knopf) |
| 2003 | MASTER OF THE SENATE: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro (Knopf) |
| 2000 | VERA by Stacy Schiff (Random House) |
| 1999 | LINDBERGH by Scott Berg (Putnam) |
| 1998 | PERSONAL HISTORY by Katharine Graham (Knopf) |
| 1996 | GOD: A BIOGRAPHY by Jack Miles (Knopf) |
| 1991 | JACKSON POLLACK by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith (Crown) |
| 1989 | OSCAR WILDE by Richard Ellman (Knopf) |
| 1986 | LOUISE BOGAN: A PORTRAIT by Elizabeth Frank (Knopf) |
| 1981 | PETER THE GREAT by Robert K. Massie (Knopf) |
| 1975 | THE POWER BROKER by Robert A. Caro (Knopf) |
| 1970 | HUEY LONG by T. Harry Williams (Knopf) |
| 1961 | CHARLES SUMNER AND THE COMING OF THE CIVIL WAY by David Donald (Knopf) |
| 1950 | JOHN QUINCY ADAMS & FOUNDATIONS OF AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY by Samuel Flag Bemis (Knopf) |
| 1946 | SON OF THE WILDERNESS by Linny March Wolfe (Knopf) |
| 1945 | GEORGE BANCROFT: BRAHMIN REBEL by Russell Blaine Nye (Knopf) |
| 1944 | THE AMERICAN LEONARDO by Carleton Mabee (Knopf) |
| 1940 | WOODROW WILSON: LIFE AND LETTERS by Ray Stannard Baker (Doubleday) |
| 1928 | THE AMERICAN ORCHESTRA AND THEODORE THOMAS by Charles Edward Russell (Doubleday) |
| 1927 | WHITMAN: AN INTERPRETATION IN NARRATIVE by Emory Holloway (Knopf) |
| 1923 | LIFE & LETTERS OF WALTER H. PAGE by Burton J. Hendrick (Doubleday) |
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History: |
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| 2013 | EMBERS OF WAR: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall (Random House) |
| 2012 | MALCOLM X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable (Viking) |
| 2010 | LORDS OF FINANCE: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed (Penguin Press) |
| 2007 | THE RACE BEAT: The Press, the Civil Rights, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts, Hank Kibanoff (Knopf) |
| 2001 | FOUNDING BROTHERS: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis (Knopf) |
| 1997 | ORIGINAL MEANINGS: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove (Knopf) |
| 1996 | WILLIAM COOPER’S TOWN by Alan Taylor (Knopf) |
| 1993 | THE RADICALISM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION by Gordon S. Wood (Knopf) |
| 1991 | A MIDWIFE’S TALE by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (Knopf) |
| 1990 | IN OUR IMAGE by Stanley Karnow (Random House) |
| 1988 | LAUNCHING OF MODERN AMERICAN SCIENCE by Robert V. Bruce (Knopf) |
| 1987 | VOYAGERS TO THE WEST by Bernard Bailyn (Knopf) |
| 1980 | BEEN IN THE STORM SO LONG by Leon F. Litwack (Knopf) |
| 1976 | SELF-PORTRAIT IN A CONVEX MIRROR by John Ashbery (Penguin) |
| 1974 | THE AMERICANS: THE DEMOCRATIC EXPERIENCE by Daniel J. Boorstin (Random House) |
| 1973 | PEOPLE OF PARADOX by Michael Kammen (Knopf) |
| 1967 | EXPLORATION AND EMPIRE by William H. Goetzmann (Knopf) |
| 1962 | THE TRIUMPHANT EMPIRE by Lawrence H. Gipson (Knopf) |
| 1956 | THE AGE OF REFORM by Richard Hofstadter (Knopf) |
| 1954 | A STILLNESS AT APPOMATTOX by Bruce Catton (Doubleday) |
| 1945 | UNFINISHED BUSINESS by Stephen Bonsal (Doubleday) |
| 1921 | THE VICTORY AT SEA by William Sowden Sims (Doubleday) |
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Poetry: |
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| 2013 | STAG’S LEAP by Sharon Olds (Knopf) |
| 2004 | WALKING TO MARTHA’S VINEYARD by Franz Wright (Knopf) |
| 2002 | PRACTICAL GODS by Carl Dennis (Penguin) |
| 1999 | BLIZZARD OF ONE by Mark Strand (Knopf) |
| 1995 | THE SIMPLE TRUTH by Philip Levine (Knopf) |
| 1991 | NEAR CHANGES by Mona Van Duyn (Knopf) |
| 1988 | PARTIAL ACCOUNTS by William Meredith (Knopf) |
| 1979 | NOW AND THEN: POEMS l976-l978 by Robert Penn Warren (Random House) |
| 1960 | HEART’S NEEDLE by W.D. Snodgrass (Knopf) |
| 1958 | PROMISES: POEMS 1945-56 by Robert Penn Warren (Random House) |
| 1955 | COLLECTED POEMS by Wallace Stevens (Knopf) |
| 1954 | THE WAKING by Theodore Roethke (Doubleday) |
| 1948 | THE AGE OF ANXIETY by W.H. Auden (Random House) |
| 1934 | COLLECTED VERSE by Robert Hillyer (Knopf) |
| 1927 | FIDDLER’S FAREWELL by Leonora Speyer (Knopf) |
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