LibGuides: National Book Awards: 2000s

2000-2009

2000

Winner

In America by Susan Sontag

In America [Kindle] : a novel by Susan Sontag
Call Number: Kindle-0948
ISBN: 9780374175405
Publication Date: 2000-03-01
In 1876 a group of Poles led by Maryna Zalewska, Poland's greatest actress, travel to California to found a "utopian" commune. Maryna, who has renounced her career, is accompanied by her small son and husband; in her entourage is a rising young writer who is in love with her. The novel portrays a West that is still largely empty, where white settlers confront native Californians and Asian coolies. The image of America, and of California--as fantasy, as escape, as radical simplification--constantly meets a more complex reality. The commune fails and most of the émigrés go home, but Maryna stays and triumphs on the American stage.

Finalists

The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
The Diagnosis by Alan Lightman
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
Blue Angel by Francine Prose

The Diagnosis

The Diagnosis by Alan Lightman
Call Number: Fiction L724d (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780679436157
Publication Date: 2000-09-12
While rushing to his office one warm summer morning, Bill Chalmers, a junior executive, realizes that he cannot remember where he is going or even who he is. All he remembers is the motto of his company: The maximum information in the minimum time. When Bill's memory returns, "his head pounding, remembering too much," a strange numbness afflicts him, beginning as a tingling in his hands and gradually spreading over the rest of his body. As he attempts to find a diagnosis of his illness, he descends into a nightmare, enduring a blizzard of medical tests and specialists without conclusive results, the manic frenzy of his company, and a desperate wife who decides that he must be imagining his deteriorating condition.

Blonde

Blonde : a novel by Joyce Carol Oates; Elaine Showalter (Introduction by)
Call Number: Fiction O11bL (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780060196073
Publication Date: 2000-04-05
In this ambitious book, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker—the child, the woman, the fated celebrity and idolized blonde the world came to know as Marilyn Monroe. In a voice startling, intimate, and rich, Norma Jeane tells her own story, that of an emblematic American artist—intensely conflicted and driven—who has lost her way. A powerful portrait of Hollywood’s myth and an extraordinary woman’s heartbreaking reality, Blonde is a sweeping epic that pays tribute to the elusive magic and devastation behind the creation of the great twentieth-century American star.

Blue Angel

Blue Angel [Kindle] by Francine Prose
Call Number: Kindle-0873 (Ask at Circulation Desk)
ISBN: 9780060832728
Publication Date: 2005-03-01
It has been years since Swenson, a professor in a New England creative writing program, has published a novel. It's been even longer since any of his students have shown promise. Enter Angela Argo, a pierced, tattooed student with a rare talent for writing. Angela is just the thing Swenson needs. And, better yet, she wants his help. But, as we all know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. . . .

Winner

In the Heart of the Sea : the Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick

In the Heart of the Sea: the tragedy of the whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
Call Number: 910 P545i (Adult Non-fiction)
ISBN: 9780670891573
Publication Date: 2000-05-08
In 1820, the whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale, leaving the desperate crew to drift for more than ninety days in three tiny boats. Nathaniel Philbrick uses little-known documents and vivid details about the Nantucket whaling tradition to reveal the chilling facts of this infamous maritime disaster. In the Heart of the Sea—and now, its epic adaptation for the screen—will forever place the Essex tragedy in the American historical canon.

Finalists

From Dawn to Decadence : 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present by Jacques Barzun
The Collaborator : the Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach by Alice Kaplan
W. E. B. Du Bois : the Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 by David Levering Lewis
Darkness in El Dorado : How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon by Patrick Tierney

W. E. B. Du Bois : the Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963

W.E.B. Du Bois : the fight for equality and the American century, 1919-1963 by David Levering Lewis
Call Number: 973.D812L (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780805025347
Publication Date: 2000-10-17
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.
African-Americans -- Biography.
African-Americans -- Civil rights.
African-Americans -- History -- 1877-1964.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History.

Winner

Blessing the Boats : New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 by Lucille Clifton

Finalists

Tell Me by Kim Addonizio
A New Selected Poems by Galway Kinnell
New Addresses : Poems by Kenneth Koch
The Other Lover by Bruce Smith

Winner

Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan

Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan
Call Number: J-Fiction WH (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780060284541
Publication Date: 2000-03-31
When thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage, she must either suffer a destiny dictated by India's tradition or find the courage to oppose it.

Finalists

Forgotten Fire by Adam Bagdasarian
The Book of the Lion by Michael Cadnum
Many Stones by Carolyn Coman
Hurry Freedom : African Americans in Gold Rush California by Jerry Stanley

Many Stones

Many Stones by Carolyn Coman
Call Number: J-Fiction CO (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9781886910553
Publication Date: 2000-10-27
After her sister Laura is murdered in South Africa, Berry and her estranged father travel there to participate in the dedication of a memorial in her name.

2001

Winner

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Call Number: FIC FRANZ JON CO (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780374100124
Publication Date: 2001-09-01
A bold, comic, tragic, deeply moving family drama that stretches from the Midwest at mid-century to Wall Street and Eastern Europe in the age of greed and globalism. Franzen brings an old-time America of freight trains and civic duty, of Cub Scouts and Christmas cookies and sexual inhibitions, into brilliant collision with the modern absurdities of brain science, home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental healthcare, and the anti-gravity New Economy.

Finalists

Among the Missing by Dan Chaon
Look at Me by Jennifer Egan
The Last Report on the Miracle at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
Highwire Moon by Susan Straight

The Last Report on the Miracle at Little No Horse

The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
Call Number: Fiction E66k (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780060187279
Publication Date: 2001-04-03
For more than a half century, Father Damien Modeste has served his beloved Native American tribe, the Ojibwe, on the remote reservation of Little No Horse. Now, nearing the end of his life, Father Damien dreads the discovery of his physical identity, for he is a woman who has lived as a man. To further complicate his quiet existence, a troubled colleague comes to the reservation to investigate the life of the perplexing, possibly false saint Sister Leopolda. Father Damien alone knows the strange truth of Leopolda's piety, but these facts are bound up in his own secret. He is faced with the most difficult decision: Should he tell all and risk everything . . . or manufacture a protective history for Leopolda, though he believes her wonder-working is motivated solely by evil?

Winner

The Noonday Demon : an Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon

The Noonday Demon : an atlas of depression by Andrew Solomon
Call Number: 616.85 S689s (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780684854663
Publication Date: 2001-06-12
Depression, Mental.
Depressed persons -- Case studies.

Finalists

American Chica : Two Worlds, One Childhood by Marie Arana
The Lost Children of Wilder : the Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care by Nin Bernstein
My Story as Told By Water by David James Duncan
Neighbors : the Destructin of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland by Jan T. Gross

Winner

Poems Seven : New and Complete Poetry by Alan Dugan

Finalists

Rooms are Never Finished by Agha Shahid Ali
Mercurochrome by Wanda Coleman
Brutal Imagination by Cornelius Eady
They Can't Take That Away from Me by Gail Mazur

Winner

True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff

True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff
Call Number: J-FIction WO (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780689828270
Publication Date: 2001-02-01
Living in the inner city amidst guns and poverty, fifteen-year-old LaVaughn learns from old and new friends, and inspiring mentors, that life is what you make it--an occasion to rise to.
True Believer [CD] by Virginia Euwer Wolff
Call Number: J-CD Fiction WO (Juvenile Audiobook CD)
ISBN: 9780739382271
Publication Date: 2009-02-24

Finalists

Tiger Rising by Kate Di Camillo
We Were There, Too! : Young People in U.S. History by Phillip Hoose
A Step from Heaven by An Na
Carver : a Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson

Tiger Rising

The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo
Call Number: J-Paperback "D" (Juvenile Paperbacks)
ISBN: 9780763680879
Publication Date: 2015-12-08
Rob, who passes the time in his rural Florida community by wood carving, is drawn by his spunky but angry friend Sistine into a plan to free a caged tiger.

We Were There, Too! : Young People in U.S. History

We Were There, Too! : young people in U.S. history by Phillip Hoose
Call Number: J-973 HOO (Juvenile Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780374382520
Publication Date: 2001-08-08
Children -- Biography.
Youth -- Biography.
United States -- History.

A Step from Heaven

Step from Heaven by An Na
Call Number: J-FIction NA (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9781886910584
Publication Date: 2001-03-27
A young Korean girl and her family find it difficult to learn English and adjust to life in America.

Carver : a Life in Poems

Carver : a life in poems by Marilyn Nelson
Call Number: J-811.54 CAR (Juvenile Non-Fiction)
ISBN: 9781886910539
Publication Date: 2001-05-01
George Washington Carver was born a slave in Missouri about 1864 and was raised by the childless white couple who had owned his mother. In 1877 he left home in search of an education, eventually earning a master's degree. In 1896, Booker T. Washington invited Carver to start the agricultural department at the all-black-staffed Tuskegee Institute, where he spent the rest of his life seeking solutions to the poverty among landless black farmers by developing new uses for soil-replenishing crops such as peanuts, cowpeas, and sweet potatoes. Carver's achievements as a botanist and inventor were balanced by his gifts as a painter, musician, and teacher. This Newbery Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book by Marilyn Nelson provides a compelling and revealing portrait of Carver's complex, richly interior, profoundly devout life.

2002

Winner

Three Junes by Julia Glass

Three Junes by Julia Glass
Call Number: Fiction G5487t (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780375422416
Publication Date: 2002-09-05
In June of 1989 Paul McLeod, a newspaper publisher and recent widower, travels to Greece, where he falls for a young American artist and reflects on the complicated truth about his marriage. . ..Six years later, again in June, Paul’s death draws his three grown sons and their families back to their ancestral home. Fenno, the eldest, a wry, introspective gay man, narrates the events of this unforeseen reunion. Far from his straitlaced expatriate life as a bookseller in Greenwich Village, Fenno is stunned by a series of revelations that threaten his carefully crafted defenses. . .. Four years farther on, in yet another June, a chance meeting on the Long Island shore brings Fenno together with Fern Olitsky, the artist who once captivated his father. Now pregnant, Fern must weigh her guilt about the past against her wishes for the future and decide what family means to her. In prose rich with compassion and wit,

Finalists

Big If by Mark Costello
You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett
Gorgeous Lies by Martha McPhee
The Heaven of Mercy by Brad Wilson

Winner

Master of the Senate : the Years of Lyndon Johnson (V. 4) by Robert A. Caro

The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 3 : Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
Call Number: BIO JOHNS LYN C3 (Adult biography)
ISBN: 9780394528366
Publication Date: 2002-04-23
Traces Johnson's life from his Texas childhood through his rise to political power and his successful 1948 senatorial campaign.
Volume 1: The Path to Power.
Volume 2: Means of Ascent.
Volume 3: Master of the Senate.
Volume 4: The Passage of Power.

Finalists

When Smoke Ran Like Water : Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution by Devra Davis
Complications : a Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert
Mapping Human History : Discovering the Past Through Our Genes by Steve Olson

Winner

In the Next Galaxy by Ruth Stone

Finalists

Sleeping With the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen
The Unswept Room by Sharon Olds
The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body by Alberto Rios
Shadow of Heaven by Ellen Bryant Voigt

Winner

The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Call Number: J-Fiction FA A1 (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780689852220
Publication Date: 2002-09-01
In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patron, the 140-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.
The House of the Scorpion [CD] by Nancy Farmer; Raul Esparza (Read by)
Call Number: J-CD Fiction FA (Juvenile Audiobook CD)
ISBN: 9780743572460
Publication Date: 2008-10-21

Finalists

Feed by M. T. Anderson
19 Varieties of Gazelle : Poems of the Middle East by Naomi Shihab Nye
This Land Was Made for You and Me : the Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie by Elizabeth Partridge
Hush by Jacqueline Woodson

19 Varieties of Gazelle : Poems of the Middle East

19 Varieties of Gazelle : poems of the Middle East by Naomi Shihab Nye
Call Number: J-811 NYE (Juvenile Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780060097653
Publication Date: 2002-04-16
Middle East -- Poetry.

This Land Was Made for You and Me : the Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie

This Land Was Made for You and Me : the life and songs of Woody Guthrie by Elizabeth Partridge (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-784.5 GUT (Juvenile Non-Fiction)
ISBN: 9780670035359
Publication Date: 2002-04-01
A biography of Woody Guthrie, a singer who wrote over 3,000 folk songs and ballads as he traveled around the United States, including "This Land is Your Land" and "So Long It's Been Good to Know Yuh.".

2003

Winner

The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard

The Great Fire [Kindle] by Shirley Hazzard
Call Number: Kindle-0637
ISBN: 9781417592371
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women, still young but veterans of harsh experience, must reinvent their lives and expectations, and learn, from their past, to dream again. Some will fulfill their destinies, others will falter. At the center of the story, a brave and brilliant soldier find that survival and worldly achievement are not enough. His counterpart, a young girl living in occupied Japan and tending her dying brother, falls in love, and in the process discovers herself.

Finalists

Drop City by T. C. Boyle
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
A Ship Made of Paper by Scott Spencer
Evidence of Things Unknown by Marianne Wiggins

The Known World

The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Call Number: FIC JONES EDWP KN (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780060557546
Publication Date: 2003-08-14
The Known World tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in Manchester County, Virginia. Making certain he never circumvents the law, Townsend runs his affairs with unusual discipline. But when death takes him unexpectedly, his widow, Caldonia, can't uphold the estate's order, and chaos ensues.

Winner

Waiting for Snow in Havana : Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire

Finalists

Gulag : a History by Anne Applebaum
The Big House : a Century in the Life of an American Summer Home by George Howe Colt
Lost Prophet : the Life and Times of Bayard Rustinby John D'Emilio
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

The Devil in the White City : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America by Erik Larson
Call Number: 364.15 L318d (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780609608449
Publication Date: 2003-02-11
Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. Daniel Hudson Burnham, a renowned architect, was the brilliant director of works for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor, was the satanic murderer of scores of young women in a torture palace built for the purpose near the fairgrounds.
The Devil in the White City [OverDrive E-Book] : a saga of magic and murder at the fair that changed America by Erik Larson
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9781400076314
Publication Date: 2004
The Devil in the White City [OverDrive Audiobook] : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America by Erik Larson
Call Number: OverDrive Audiobook
ISBN: 9780739353011
Publication Date: 2006

Winner

The Singing by C. K. Williams

Finalists

Sparrow by Carol Muske-Dukes
The Voice at 3:00 A.M. : Selected Late and New Poems by Charles Simic
The Owner of the House : New Collected Poems 1940-2001 by Louis Simpson
Jelly Roll : a Blues by Kevin Young

Winner

The Canning Season by Polly Horvath

Finalists

Breakout by Paul Fleischman
An American Plague : the True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy
The River Between Us by Richard Peck
Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson

An American Plague : the True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

An American Plague : the true and terrifying story of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy
Call Number: Juv 614.5 MUR (Juvenile Non-Fiction)
ISBN: 9780395776087
Publication Date: 2003-06-23
A portrait of the rampant Yellow Fever plague of 1793 that devastated Philadelphia.

Locomotion

Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
Call Number: Juv 811 WOO (Juvenile Non-Fiction
ISBN: 9780399231155
Publication Date: 2003-01-06
In a series of poems, eleven-year-old Lonnie writes about his life, after the death of his parents, separated from his younger sister, living in a foster home, and finding his poetic voice at school.

2004

Winner

The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck

Finalists

Madeleine is Sleeping by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Florida by Christine Schutt
Ideas of Heaven : a Ring of Stories by Joan Silber
Our Kind by Kate Walbert

Winner

Arc of Justice : a Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle

Finalists

The 9/11 Commission Report : Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States - Authorized Edition by The 9/11 Commission
Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
Life on the Outside : the Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett by Jennifer Gonnerman
Will in the World : How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt

The 9/11 Commission Report : Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States

The 9/11 Commission Report : final report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States. by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Staff
Call Number: 363.32 N714 (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780393060416
Publication Date: 2004-10-17
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States.
Qaida (Organization)
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
Terrorism -- Prevention -- United States.
Terrorism -- Government policy -- United States.
National security -- United States.

Washington's Crossing

Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
Call Number: 973.3 W318f (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780195170344
Publication Date: 2004-02-12
Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Headquarters -- Pennsylvania -- Valley Forge.
Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783

Will in the World : How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

Will in the World : how Shakespeare became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
Call Number: BIO SHAKE WIL G (Adult biography)
ISBN: 9780393050578
Publication Date: 2004-09-17
A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life, could have become the world’s greatest playwright.

Winner

Door in the Mountain : New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 by Jean Valentine

Finalists

Shoah Train by William Heyen
Collected Poems by Donald Justice
The Rest of Love by Carl Phillips
Goest by Cole Swenson

Winner

Godless by Pete Hautman

Finalists

Honey, Baby, Sweetheart by Deb Caletti
Harlem Stomp! : a Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance by Laban Carrick Hill
The Legend of Buddy Bush by Shelia P. Moses
Luna : a Novel by Julie Anne Peters

Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

Honey, Baby, Sweetheart by Caletti, Deb
Call Number: YA F CAL-D (Young Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781416957836
Publication Date: 2008-03-25
In the summer of her junior year, sixteen-year-old Ruby McQueen and her mother, both nursing broken hearts, set out on a journey to reunite an elderly woman with her long-lost love and in the process learn many things about "the real ties that bind" people to one another.

The Legend of Buddy Bush

The Legend of Buddy Bush by Shelia P. Moses
Call Number: J-Fiction MO (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780689858390
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
In 1947, twelve-year-old Pattie Mae is sustained by her dreams of escaping Rich Square, North Carolina, and moving to Harlem.

2005

Winner

Europe Central by William T. Vollmann

Europe Central [Kindle] by William T. Vollmann; Ralph Cosham (Narrated by)
Call Number: FIC VOLLM WILT EU Kindle (Request at circulation desk)
ISBN: 9781433243073
Publication Date: 2012-01-20
Vollmann presents a mesmerizing series of intertwined paired stories that compare and contrast the moral decisions made by various figures (some famous, some infamous, some unknown) associated with the warring authoritarian cultures of Germany and the USSR from 1900-1968.

Finalists

The March by E. L. Doctorow
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
Trance by Christopher Sorrentino
Holy Skirts by René Steinke

The March

The March by E. L. Doctorow
Call Number: FIC DOCTOR EL MA (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780375506710
Publication Date: 2005-09-20
In 1864, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman marched his sixty thousand troops through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces, demolished cities, and accumulated a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient life of the dispossessed and the triumphant.
The March [E-Book] by E. L. Doctorow
Call Number: FIC DOCTO EL MA Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9781588365095
Publication Date: 2005-09-20

Winner

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Call Number: BIO DIDIO JOA Y (Adult biography)
ISBN: 9781400043149
Publication Date: 2005-10-04
Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later—the night before New Year’s Eve—the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma. This powerful book is Didion’ s attempt to make sense of the “weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness ... about marriage and children and memory ... about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself.
The Year of Magical Thinking [E-Book] by Joan Didion
Call Number: BIO DIDIO JOA Y Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9780307279729
Publication Date: 2007

Finalists

Out of Eden : an Odyssey of Ecological Invasion by Alan Burdick
Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Restless Genius by Leo Damrosch
102 Minutes : the Untold Story of the Flight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn
Bury the Chains : Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild

102 Minutes : the Untold Story of the Flight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers

102 Minutes : the untold story of the fight to survive inside the Twin Towers by Jim Dwyer; Kevin Flynn
Call Number: 974.7 D993o (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780805076820
Publication Date: 2005-01-12
World Trade Center (New York, N.Y.)
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
Victims of terrorism -- New York (State) -- New York.
Buildings -- Evacuation -- New York (State) -- New York.
Rescue work -- New York (State) -- New York.
Self-preservation -- New York (State) -- New York.

Winner

Migration by W. S. Merwin

Finalists

Where Shall I Wander : New Poems by John Ashbery
Star Dust : Poems by Frank Bidart
Habitat : New and Selected Poems, 1965-2005 by Brendan Galvin
The Moment's Equation by Vern Rutsala

Winner

The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall

The Penderwicks : a summer tale of four sisters, two rabbits, and a very interesting boy by Jeanne Birdsall
Call Number: J-Fiction BI (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780375831430
Publication Date: 2005-06-14
While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four sisters, ages four through twelve, share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother.
The Penderwicks [E-Book] by Jeanne Birdsall
Call Number: J-Fiction BI Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9780307541345
Publication Date: 2009-01-16

Finalists

Where I Want to Be by Adele Griffin
Inexcusable by Chris Lynch
Autobiography of My Dead Brother by Walter Dean Myers
Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

Each Little Bird That Sings

Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
Call Number: J-Fiction WI (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0152051139
Publication Date: 2005-03-01
Ten-year-old Comfort is acquainted with death since her family runs a funeral parlor, but she is unprepared for the series of events that begins with the death of her great-uncle Edisto.

2006

Winner

The Echo Maker by Richard Powers

Finalists

Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski
A Disorder Peculiar to the Country by Ken Kalfus
Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta
The Zero by Jess Walter

Winner

The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan

The Worst Hard Time : the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl by Timothy Egan
Call Number: 978.032 E28w (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780618346974
Publication Date: 2005-12-14
Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939.
Droughts -- Great Plains -- History -- 20th century.
Dust storms -- Great Plains -- History -- 20th century.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Great Plains.
Great Plains -- History -- 20th century.
Great Plains -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
The Worst Hard Time [OverDrive E-Book] : the untold story of thos who survived the great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780547347776
Publication Date: 2006-09-01

Finalists

At Canaan's Edge : America in the King Years, 1965-68 by Taylor Branch
Imperial Life in the Emerald City : Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Oracle Bones : a Journey Between China's Past and Present by Peter Hessler
The Looming Tower : Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright

At Canaan's Edge : America in the King Years, 1965-68

At Canaan's Edge : America in the King years, 1965-68 by Taylor Branch
Call Number: BIO KING MARL B3 (Adult biography)
ISBN: 9780684857121
Publication Date: 2006-01-10
The final volume of Taylor Branch's monumental, much honored, and definitive history of the Civil Rights Movement (America in the King Years), At Canaan's Edge covers the final years of King's struggle to hold his non-violent movement together in the face of factionalism within the Movement, hostility and harassment of the Johnson Administration, the country torn apart by Vietnam, and his own attempt (and failure) to take the Freedom Movement north. At Canaan's Edge traces a seminal era in our defining national story, freedom. The narrative resumes in Selma, crucible of the voting rights struggle for black people across the South. The time is early 1965, when the modern Civil Rights Movement enters its second decade since the Supreme Court's Brown decision declared segregation by race a violation of the Constitution. From Selma, King's non-violent Movement is under threat from competing forces inside and outside. Branch chronicles the dramatic voting rights drives in Mississippi and Alabama, Meredith's murder, the challenge to King from the Johnson Administration and the FBI and other enemies. When King tries to bring his Movement north (to Chicago), he falters. Finally we reach Memphis, the garbage strike, King's assassination.

The Looming Tower : Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

The Looming Tower : Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
Call Number: 973.931 W951L (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780375414862
Publication Date: 2006-08-08
Qaida (Organization)
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
Terrorism -- Government policy -- United States.
Intelligence service -- United States.

CONTENTS: The martyr. -- The sporting club. -- The founder. -- Change. -- The miracles. -- The base. -- Return of the hero. -- Paradise. -- The Silicon Valley. -- Paradise lost. -- The prince of darkness. -- The boy spies. -- Hijira. -- Going operational. -- Bread and water. -- "Now it begins" -- The new millennium. -- Boom. -- The big wedding. -- Revelations. -- Principal characters.

Winner

Splay Anthem by Nathaniel Mackey

Finalists

Averno by Louise Glück
Chromatic by H. L. Hix
Angle of Yaw by Ben Lerner
Capacity by James McMichael

Winner

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party by M. T. Anderson

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation. Volume 1 : The Pox Party by M. T. Anderson
Call Number: J-Fiction AN O1 (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780763624026
Publication Date: 2006-09-12
Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation [CD] . Volume 1 : The Pox Party by M. T. Anderson; Peter Francis James (Read by)
Call Number: J-CD Fiction AN O1 (Juvenile Audiobook CD]
ISBN: 9780739338629
Publication Date: 2007-01-09
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothiner [OverDrive Audiobook] : traitor to the nation. Volume 1, The pox party by M. T. Anderson
Call Number: OverDrive Audiobook
ISBN: 9780739351611
Publication Date: 2007

Finalists

Keturah and Lord Death by Martine Leavitt
Sold by Patricia McCormick
The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

Keturah and Lord Death

Keturah and Lord Death by Martine Leavitt
Call Number: J-Fiction Le (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9781932425291
Publication Date: 2006-11-01
When Lord Death comes to claim sixteen-year-old Keturah while she is lost in the King's Forest, she charms him with her story and is granted a twenty-four hour reprieve in which to seek her one true love.

American Born Chinese

American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang; Lark Pien (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction YA (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9781596432086
Publication Date: 2006-09-05
Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format.

2007

Winner

Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson

Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
Call Number: Fiction J664t (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780374279127
Publication Date: 2007-09-04
This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature.

Finalists

Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski
Varieties of Disturbance : Stories by Lydia Davis
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
Like You'd Understand Anyway : Stories by Jim Shepard

Winner

Legacy of Ashes : the History of the CIA by Tim Weiner

Legacy of Ashes : the history of the CIA by Tim Weiner
Call Number: 327.1273 W428L (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780385514453
Publication Date: 2007-06-28
Here is the hidden history of the CIA: why eleven presidents and three generations of CIA officers have been unable to understand the world; why nearly every CIA director has left the agency in worse shape than he found it; and how these failures have profoundly jeopardized our national security. For sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. Its mission was to know the world--when it did not succeed, it set out to change the world instead. Now Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Weiner offers the first definitive history of the CIA, based on more than 50,000 documents, primarily from the archives of the CIA itself, and hundreds of interviews with CIA veterans, including ten Directors of Central Intelligence.

Finalists

Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat
God Is Not Great : How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution by Woody Holton
Ralph Ellison : a Biography by Arnold Rampersad

Brother, I'm Dying

Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat
Call Number: BIO DANTI EDW B (Adult biography)
ISBN: 9781400041152
Publication Date: 2007-09-04
Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph, a charismatic pastor, as her "second father" when she was placed in his care at age four when her parents left Haiti for America. So she experiences a jumble of emotions when, at twelve, she joins her parents in New York City, whom she struggles to remember--she has left behind Joseph and the only home she's ever known. The story of a new life in a new country while fearing for those still in Haiti soon becomes a terrifying tale of good people caught up in events beyond their control. In 2004, his life threatened by a gang, the frail, 81-year-old Joseph makes his way to Miami, where he thinks he will be safe. Instead, he is detained by the Department of Homeland Security, brutally imprisoned, and dead within days. It was a story that made headlines around the world.
Brother, I'm Dying [E-Book] by Edwidge Danticat
Call Number: BIO DANTI EDW B Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9780307267733
Publication Date: 2007

God Is Not Great : How Religion Poisons Everything

God Is Not Great : how religion poisons everything by Christopher Hitchens
Call Number: 200 H674g (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780446579803
Publication Date: 2007-05-01
Religion -- Controversial literature.
God is not Great [OverDrive E-Book] : how religion poisons everything by Christopher Hitchens
Call Number: OverDrive E-Books
ISBN: 9780446590846
Publication Date: 2007

Winner

Time and Materials by Robert Hass

Finalists

Magnetic North by Linda Gregerson
The House on Boulevard St. by David Kirby
Old Heart by Stanley Plumly
Messenger : New and Selected Poems 1976-2006 by Ellen Bryant Voigt

Winner

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie; Ellen Forney (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction AL (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780316013680
Publication Date: 2007-09-12
Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school.
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian [OverDrive E-Book] by Sherman Alexie
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780316280372
Publication Date: 2012

Finalists

Skin Hunger : a Resurrection of Magic, Book One by Kathleen Duey
Touching Snow by M. Sindy Felin
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

The Invention of Hugo Cabret : a novel in words and pictures by Brian Selznick (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction SE (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780439813785
Publication Date: 2007-03-01
When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.
The Invention of Hugo Cabret [CD] by Brian Selznick (Illustrator); Jeff Woodman (Read by); John Curless (Narrated by)
Call Number: J-CD Fiction SE (Juvenile Audiobook CD)
ISBN: 9780545003636
Publication Date: 2007-03-13

Story of a Girl

Story of a Girl [OverDrive E-Book] by Sara Zarr
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780316140966
Publication Date: 2008
When she is caught in the backseat of a car with her older brother's best friend - Deanna Lambert's teenage life is changed forever. Struggling to overcome the lasting repercussions and the stifling role of "school slut," she longs to escape a life defined by her past. With subtle grace, complicated wisdom and striking emotion, The Story of a Girl reminds us of our human capacity for resilience, epiphany and redemption.

2008

Winner

Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen

Shadow Country [Kindle] by Peter Matthiessen
Call Number: Kindle-0754
ISBN: 9781588368249
Publication Date: 2008
Inspired by a near-mythic event of the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth century, Shadow Country reimagines the legend of the inspired Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson, who drives himself relentlessly toward his own violent end at the hands of neighbors who mostly admired him, in a killing that obsessed his favorite son.

Finalists

The Lazarus Project by Alexsandar Hemon
Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner
Home by Marilynne Robinson
The End by Salvatore Scibona

Winner

The Hemingses of Monticello : an American Family by Annette Gordon Reed

The Hemingses of Monticello : an American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
Call Number: 973.4 H488g (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780393064773
Publication Date: 2008-09-17
Hemings family.
Hemings, Sally -- Family.
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Family.
Slaves -- Virginia -- Albemarle County -- Biography.
African American families.
African Americans -- Biography.
Racially mixed people -- United States -- Biography.
Monticello (Va.) -- Biography.
Albemarle County (Va.) -- Biography.

Finalists

This Republic of Suffering : Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
The Dark Side : the Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer
Final Salute : a Story of Unfinished Lives by Jim Sheeler
The Suicide Index : Putting My Father's Death in Order by Joan Wickersham

This Republic of Suffering : Death and the American Civil War

This Republic of Suffering : death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
Call Number: 973.7 F267t (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780375404047
Publication Date: 2008-01-08
More than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be six million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality.

The Dark Side : the Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals

The Dark Side : the inside story of how the war on terror turned into a war on American ideals by Jane Mayer
Call Number: 973.931 M464d (Adult Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780385526395
Publication Date: 2008-07-15
In the days immediately following September 11th, the most powerful people in the country were panic-stricken. Radical decisions about how to combat terrorists and strengthen national security were made in a state of chaos and fear, but the key players, Vice President Cheney and his powerful, secretive adviser David Addington, used the crisis to further a long-held agenda to enhance presidential powers to a degree never known in U.S. history, and obliterate Constitutional protections that define the very essence of the American experiment. This is a dramatic account of how the United States made terrible decisions in the pursuit of terrorists around the world--decisions that not only violated the Constitution, but also hampered the pursuit of Al Qaeda. Whatever the short-term gains, there were incalculable losses in terms of moral standing, our country's place in the world, and its sense of itself.

Winner

Fire to Fire by Mark Doty

Finalists

Watching the Spring Festival by Frank Bidart
Creatures of a Day by Reginald Gibbons
Without Saying by Richard Howard
Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith

Winner

What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell

What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell
Call Number: J-Fiction BL (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780439903462
Publication Date: 2008-11-01
In 1947, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on her stepfather, finds herself caught in a web of lies whose outcome changes her and her family forever.

Finalists

Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp

Chains

Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
Call Number: YA F AND-LH (Young Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781416905851
Publication Date: 2008-10-21
After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.

The Underneath

The Underneath by Kathi Appelt; David Small (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction AP (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9781416950585
Publication Date: 2008-05-06
An old hound that has been chained up at his hateful owner's run-down shack, and two kittens born underneath the house, endure separation, danger, and many other tribulations in their quest to be reunited and free.

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
Call Number: J-Fiction LO (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780786838189
Publication Date: 2008-03-25
Sophomore Frankie dates senior Matthew Livingston, but when he is quiet about his all-male secret society, Frankie infiltrates the society to enliven their pranks.
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks [OverDrive E-Book] by E. Lockhart
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9781423136132
Publication Date: 2009-09-17

2009

Winner

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

Finalists

American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
Far North by Marcel Theroux

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Call Number: Fictin M945i (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780393068009
Publication Date: 2009-02-01
CONTENTS: Nawabdin electrician -- Saleema -- Provide, provide -- About a burning girl -- In other rooms, other wonders -- Our Lady of Paris -- Lily -- A spoiled man.

Lark and Termite

Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
Call Number: Fiction P560L (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780375401954
Publication Date: 2009-01-06
At its center: Lark and her brother, Termite, a child unable to walk and talk but full of radiance; their mother, Lola; their aunt, Nonie, who raises them; and Termite’s father, Corporal Robert Leavitt, who finds himself caught up in the chaotic early months of the Korean War. Told with enormous imagination and deep feeling, the novel invites us into the hearts and thoughts of each of the leading characters; even into Termite’s intricate, shuttered consciousness. We are with Leavitt, trapped by friendly fire. We see Lark’s hopes for herself and Termite, and how she makes them happen. We learn of Lola’s love for her soldier husband and children, and unravel the mystery of her relationship with Nonie. We discover the lasting connections between past and future on the night the town experiences an overwhelming flood, and we follow Lark and Termite as their lives are changed forever.

Winner

The First Tycoon : the Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T. J. Stiles

Finalists

Remarkable Creatures : Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species by Sean B. Carroll
Following the Water : a Hydromancer's Notebook
Fordlandia : the Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
The Poison King : the Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy by Adrienne Mayor

Winner

Transcendental Studies : a Trilogy by Keith Waldrop

Finalists

Versed by Rae Armantrout
Open Interval by Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
Or to Begin Again by Ann Lauterbach
Speak Low by Carl Phillips

Winner

Claudette Colvin : Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoosel

Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice by Phillip Hoose
Call Number: YA B COL-C (Young adult biography)
ISBN: 9780374313227
Publication Date: 2009-01-20
This fresh take on Montgomery's history-making bus protest introduces a brave teenager who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus.

Finalists

Charles and Emma : the Darwin's Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman
Stitches by David Small
Lips Touch : Three Times by Laini Taylor
Jumped by Rita Williams-Garcia

Charles and Emma : the Darwin's Leap of Faith

Charles and Emma : the Darwins' leap of faith by Deborah Heiligman
Call Number: YA B DAR-C (Young adult biography)
ISBN: 9780805087215
Publication Date: 2009-01-06
The man behind evolutionary theory and how his wife's religious convictions influenced him.

Jumped

Jumped by Rita Williams-Garcia
Call Number: J-Fiction WI (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780060760915
Publication Date: 2009
The lives of Leticia, Dominique, and Trina become intertwined in one day in an urban high school after Leticia overhears Dominique's plans to beat up Trina and must decide whether or not to get involved.

National Book Awards

2000

Winner

In America by Susan Sontag

Finalists

The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter

The Diagnosis by Alan Lightman

Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates

Blue Angel by Francine Prose

The Diagnosis

Blonde

Blue Angel

Winner

In the Heart of the Sea : the Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick

Finalists

From Dawn to Decadence : 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present by Jacques Barzun

The Collaborator : the Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach by Alice Kaplan

W. E. B. Du Bois : the Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 by David Levering Lewis

Darkness in El Dorado : How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon by Patrick Tierney

W. E. B. Du Bois : the Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963

Winner

Blessing the Boats : New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 by Lucille Clifton

Finalists

Tell Me by Kim Addonizio

A New Selected Poems by Galway Kinnell

New Addresses : Poems by Kenneth Koch

The Other Lover by Bruce Smith

Winner

Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan

Finalists

Forgotten Fire by Adam Bagdasarian

The Book of the Lion by Michael Cadnum

Many Stones by Carolyn Coman

Hurry Freedom : African Americans in Gold Rush California by Jerry Stanley

Many Stones

2001

Winner

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Finalists

Among the Missing by Dan Chaon

Look at Me by Jennifer Egan

The Last Report on the Miracle at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich

Highwire Moon by Susan Straight

The Last Report on the Miracle at Little No Horse

Winner

The Noonday Demon : an Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon

Finalists

American Chica : Two Worlds, One Childhood by Marie Arana

The Lost Children of Wilder : the Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care by Nin Bernstein

My Story as Told By Water by David James Duncan

Neighbors : the Destructin of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland by Jan T. Gross

Winner

Poems Seven : New and Complete Poetry by Alan Dugan

Finalists

Rooms are Never Finished by Agha Shahid Ali

Mercurochrome by Wanda Coleman

Brutal Imagination by Cornelius Eady

They Can't Take That Away from Me by Gail Mazur

Winner

True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff

Finalists

Tiger Rising by Kate Di Camillo

We Were There, Too! : Young People in U.S. History by Phillip Hoose

A Step from Heaven by An Na

Carver : a Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson

Tiger Rising

We Were There, Too! : Young People in U.S. History

A Step from Heaven

Carver : a Life in Poems

2002

Winner

Three Junes by Julia Glass

Finalists

Big If by Mark Costello

You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett

Gorgeous Lies by Martha McPhee

The Heaven of Mercy by Brad Wilson

Winner

Master of the Senate : the Years of Lyndon Johnson (V. 4) by Robert A. Caro

Finalists