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Fiction
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)
General Nonfiction
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)
Biography or Autobiography:
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)
History:
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)
Poetry:
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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