National Book Critics Circle Award

Given by National Book Critics Circle

Other Names: John Leonard Award, National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

1,270 Works / 1,273 Items 1,598,197 Books 42,845 Reviews ½ 4.0

The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization consisting of more than 900 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating show more with one another about common concerns... The centerpiece of NBCC activities is the annual awards for the best book in six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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Stages:: All, Winner (275), Finalist (1,273)
Categories:: All, Autobiography (52), Autobiography/Memoir (43), Biography (101), Biography/Autobiography (99), Children’s and Young Adult Literature (1), Criticism (235), Fiction (225), General Nonfiction (170), Gregg Barrios Prize (7), John Leonard Prize (34), Nonfiction (72), Poetry (225), No Category (9)
Years:: All, 2023 (42), 2022 (17), 2021 (36), 2020 (37), 2019 (33), 2018 (32), 2017 (31), 2016 (31), 2015 (35), 2014 (31), 2013 (31), 2012 (29), 2011 (29), 2010 (31), 2009 (29), 2008 (30), 2007 (30), 2006 (30), 2005 (30), 2004 (24), 2003 (25), 2002 (25), 2001 (25), 2000 (24), 1999 (25), 1998 (24), 1997 (24), 1996 (25), 1995 (25), 1994 (26), 1993 (19), 1992 (24), 1991 (24), 1990 (24), 1989 (26), 1988 (23), 1987 (26), 1986 (23), 1985 (25), 1984 (25), 1983 (25), 1982 (17), 1981 (20), 1980 (20), 1979 (21), 1978 (25), 1977 (16), 1976 (20), 1975 (4)

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Winner 275

Work	Category	Year
How to Say Babylon: A Memoir by Safiya Sinclair	Autobiography	2023
Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg	Biography	2023
Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression by Tina Post	Criticism	2023
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore	Fiction	2023
Cold Nights of Childhood by Tezer Özlü	Gregg Barrios Prize	2023
Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide by Tahir Hamut Izgil	John Leonard Prize	2023
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian	Nonfiction	2023
Phantom Pain Wings by Hyesoon Kim	Poetry	2023
Stay True by Hua Hsu	Autobiography	2022
G-Man (Pulitzer Prize Winner): J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage	Biography	2022
Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age by Timothy Bewes	Criticism	2022
Bliss Montage: Stories by Ling Ma	Fiction	2022
Grey Bees by Andrej Kurkow	Gregg Barrios Prize	2022
Night of the Living Rez: Stories by Morgan Talty	John Leonard Prize	2022
The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act by Isaac Butler	Nonfiction	2022
Hotel Oblivion by Cynthia Cruz	Poetry	2022
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton Lin	Autobiography	2021
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner	Biography	2021
Girlhood by Melissa Febos	Criticism	2021
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers	Fiction	2021
Afterparties: Stories by Anthony Veasna So	John Leonard Prize	2021
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery across America by Clint Smith	Nonfiction	2021
frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss	Poetry	2021
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong	Autobiography	2020
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World by Amy Stanley	Biography	2020
Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Nicole R. Fleetwood	Criticism	2020
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell	Fiction	2020
Luster by Raven Leilani	John Leonard Prize	2020
Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire by Tom Zoellner	Nonfiction	2020
Here is the Sweet Hand: Poems by francine j harris	Poetry	2020
Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller	Autobiography	2019
The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth by Josh Levin	Biography	2019
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman	Criticism	2019
Everything Inside: Stories by Edwidge Danticat	Fiction	2019
The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom	John Leonard Prize	2019
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe	Nonfiction	2019
Magical Negro by Morgan Parker	Poetry	2019
Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home by Nora Krug	Autobiography	2018
Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous by Christopher Bonanos	Biography	2018
Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith	Criticism	2018
Milkman by Anna Burns	Fiction	2018
There There by Tommy Orange	John Leonard Prize	2018
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Steve Coll	Nonfiction	2018
The Carrying: Poems by Ada Limón	Poetry	2018
Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up by Xiaolu Guo	Autobiography	2017
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser	Biography	2017
You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages by Carina Chocano	Criticism	2017
Improvement by Joan Silber	Fiction	2017
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado	John Leonard Prize	2017
The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances FitzGerald	Nonfiction	2017
WHEREAS: Poems by Layli Long Soldier	Poetry	2017
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren	Autobiography	2016
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin	Biography	2016
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson	Criticism	2016
LaRose by Louise Erdrich	Fiction	2016
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi	John Leonard Prize	2016
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond	Nonfiction	2016
House of Lords and Commons: Poems by Ishion Hutchinson	Poetry	2016
Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson	Autobiography	2015
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon	Biography	2015
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson	Criticism	2015
The Sellout by Paul Beatty	Fiction	2015
Night at the Fiestas: Stories by Kirstin Valdez Quade	John Leonard Prize	2015
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones	Nonfiction	2015
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay	Poetry	2015
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? A Memoir by Roz Chast	Autobiography	2014
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr	Biography	2014
The Essential Ellen Willis by Ellen Willis	Criticism	2014
Lila by Marilynne Robinson	Fiction	2014
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation by David Brion Davis	General Nonfiction	2014
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty	General Nonfiction	2014
Redeployment by Phil Klay	John Leonard Prize	2014
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine	Poetry	2014
Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti by Amy Wilentz	Autobiography	2013
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World by Leo Damrosch	Biography	2013
Distant Reading by Franco Moretti	Criticism	2013
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	Fiction	2013
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra	John Leonard Prize	2013
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink	Nonfiction	2013
Metaphysical Dog: Poems by Frank Bidart	Poetry	2013
Swimming Studies by Leanne Shapton	Autobiography/Memoir	2012
The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro	Biography	2012
Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights by Marina Warner	Criticism	2012
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain	Fiction	2012
Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon	Nonfiction	2012
Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys: Poems by D.A. Powell	Poetry	2012
The Memory Palace by Mira Bartók	Autobiography	2011
George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis	Biography	2011
Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews by Geoff Dyer	Criticism	2011
Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories by Edith Pearlman	Fiction	2011
Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World by Maya Jasanoff	Nonfiction	2011
Space, In Chains by Laura Kasischke	Poetry	2011
Half a Life by Darin Strauss	Autobiography	2010
How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell	Biography	2010
Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West by Clare Cavanagh	Criticism	2010
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan	Fiction	2010
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson	Nonfiction	2010
One With Others: [a little book of her days] by C. D. Wright	Poetry	2010
Somewhere Towards the End: A Memoir by Diana Athill	Autobiography/Memoir	2009
Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey	Biography	2009
Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays by Eula Biss	Criticism	2009
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel	Fiction	2009
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes	Nonfiction	2009
Versed by Rae Armantrout	Poetry	2009
My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq by Ariel Sabar	Autobiography/Memoir	2008
The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French	Biography	2008
Children's Literature: A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter by Seth Lerer	Criticism	2008
2666 by Roberto Bolaño	Fiction	2008
The Forever War by Dexter Filkins	Nonfiction	2008
Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems by Juan Felipe Herrera	Poetry	2008
Sleeping It Off in Rapid City: Poems, New and Selected by August Kleinzahler	Poetry	2008
Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat	Autobiography/Memoir	2007
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal	Biography	2007
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross	Criticism	2007
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz	Fiction	2007
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington	Nonfiction	2007
Elegy: Poems by Mary Jo Bang	Poetry	2007
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn	Autobiography/Memoir	2006
James Tiptree Jr: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips	Biography	2006
Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences by Lawrence Weschler	Criticism	2006
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai	Fiction	2006
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama	General Nonfiction	2006
Tom Thomson In Purgatory by Troy Jollimore	Poetry	2006
Them: A Memoir of Parents by Francine du Plessix Gray	Autobiography/Memoir	2005
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird	Biography	2005
The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin by William Logan	Criticism	2005
The March by E. L. Doctorow	Fiction	2005
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich	General Nonfiction	2005
Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert	Poetry	2005
de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens	Biography/Autobiography	2004
Where You're At by Patrick Neate	Criticism	2004
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson	Fiction	2004
Reformation : Europe's house divided : 1490-1700 by Diarmaid MacCulloch	General Nonfiction	2004
The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004 by Adrienne Rich	Poetry	2004
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman	Biography/Autobiography	2003
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by Rebecca Solnit	Criticism	2003
The Known World by Edward P. Jones	Fiction	2003
Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy by Paul Hendrickson	General Nonfiction	2003
On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection by Susan Stewart	Poetry	2003
Charles Darwin: A Biography: Volume 2: The Power of Place by Janet Browne	Biography/Autobiography	2002
Tests of Time by William H. Gass	Criticism	2002
Atonement by Ian McEwan	Fiction	2002
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power	General Nonfiction	2002
Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest: Poems by B. H. Fairchild	Poetry	2002
Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson by Adam Sisman	Biography/Autobiography	2001
The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 by Martin Amis	Criticism	2001
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald	Fiction	2001
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper by Nicholson Baker	General Nonfiction	2001
Saving Lives: Poems by Albert Goldbarth	Poetry	2001
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix	Biography/Autobiography	2000
Quarrel & Quandary: Essays by Cynthia Ozick	Criticism	2000
Being Dead by Jim Crace	Fiction	2000
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover	General Nonfiction	2000
Carolina Ghost Woods by Judy Jordan	Poetry	2000
The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White by Henry Wiencek	Biography/Autobiography	1999
Selected Non-Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges	Criticism	1999
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem	Fiction	1999
Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior by Jonathan Weiner	General Nonfiction	1999
Ordinary Words by Ruth Stone	Poetry	1999
A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash by Sylvia Nasar	Biography/Autobiography	1998
Visions of Jazz: The First Century by Gary Giddins	Criticism	1998
The Love of a Good Woman: Stories by Alice Munro	Fiction	1998
We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch	General Nonfiction	1998
The Bird Catcher by Marie Ponsot	Poetry	1998
Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II by James Tobin	Biography/Autobiography	1997
Making Waves: Essays by Mario Vargas Llosa	Criticism	1997
The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Helen Vendler	Criticism	1997
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman	General Nonfiction	1997
Black Zodiac: Poems by Charles Wright	Poetry	1997
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald		1997
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt	Biography/Autobiography	1996
Finding a Form: Essays by William H. Gass	Criticism	1996
Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories by Gina Berriault	Fiction	1996
Bad Land: An American Romance by Jonathan Raban	General Nonfiction	1996
Sun Under Wood by Robert Hass	Poetry	1996
Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson by Robert Polito	Biography/Autobiography	1995
The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France by Robert Darnton	Criticism	1995
A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr	General Nonfiction	1995
Time & Money by William Matthews	Poetry	1995
Mrs. Ted Bliss by Stanley Elkin		1995
Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore	Biography/Autobiography	1994
The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture by Gerald Early	Criticism	1994
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields	Fiction	1994
The Rape of Europa : The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War by Lynn H. Nicholas	General Nonfiction	1994
Rider by Mark Rudman	Poetry	1994
Genet by Edmund White		1994
Opera in America: A Cultural History by John Dizikes	Criticism	1993
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines	Fiction	1993
The Land Where the Blues Began by Alan Lomax	General Nonfiction	1993
Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy And Her World by Carol Brightman	Biography/Autobiography	1992
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills	Criticism	1992
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy	Fiction	1992
Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean	General Nonfiction	1992
Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991 by Hayden Carruth	Poetry	1992
Patrimony: A True Story by Philip Roth	Biography/Autobiography	1991
Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory by Lawrence L. Langer	Criticism	1991
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley	Fiction	1991
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi	General Nonfiction	1991
Heaven and earth : a cosmology : poems by Albert Goldbarth	Poetry	1991
Means of Ascent by Robert A. Caro	Biography	1990
Encounters & Reflections: Art in the Historical Present by Arthur C. Danto	Criticism	1990
Rabbit at Rest by John Updike	Fiction	1990
The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America by Shelby Steele	General Nonfiction	1990
Bitter Angel: Poems by Amy Gerstler	Poetry	1990
A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt by Geoffrey C. Ward	Biography/Autobiography	1989
Not By Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History by John Clive	Criticism	1989
Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author by Clifford Geertz	Criticism	1989
Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow	Fiction	1989
The Broken Cord by Michael Dorris	General Nonfiction	1989
2011 Pushcart Prize XXXV: Best of the Small Presses by Bill Henderson	Poetry	1989
Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann	Biography/Autobiography	1988
The Middleman and Other Stories by Bharati Mukherjee	Fiction	1988
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–63 by Taylor Branch	General Nonfiction	1988
The One Day by Donald Hall	Poetry	1988
Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World by Donald R. Howard	Biography/Autobiography	1987
Less Than One: Selected Essays by Joseph Brodsky	Criticism	1987
Dance Writings by Edwin Denby	Criticism	1987
The Counterlife by Philip Roth	Fiction	1987
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes	General Nonfiction	1987
Flesh & Blood: Poems by C. K. Williams	Poetry	1987
The Life of Langston Hughes. Volume 1, 1902–1941, I, Too, Sing America by Arnold Rampersad	Biography/Autobiography	1986
Tombee: Portrait of a cotton planter by Theodore Rosengarten	Biography/Autobiography	1986
Kate Vaiden by Reynolds Price	Fiction	1986
A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor	Fiction	1986
Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez	General Nonfiction	1986
Wild Gratitude by Edward Hirsch	Poetry	1986
Henry James: A Life by Leon Edel	Biography/Autobiography	1985
Habitations of the Word: Essays by William H. Gass	Criticism	1985
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler	Fiction	1985
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas	General Nonfiction	1985
The Triumph of Achilles by Louise Glück	Poetry	1985
Dostoevsky: the years of ordeal 1850-1859 by Joseph Frank	Biography/Autobiography	1984
20th Century Pleasures by Robert Hass	Criticism	1984
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich	Fiction	1984
Weapons and Hope by Freeman Dyson	General Nonfiction	1984
The Dead and the Living by Sharon Olds	Poetry	1984
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir by Joyce Johnson	Biography/Autobiography	1983
Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism by John Updike	Criticism	1983
Ironweed by William Kennedy	Fiction	1983
The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House by Seymour M. Hersh	General Nonfiction	1983
The Changing Light at Sandover by James Merrill	Poetry	1983
The Second American Revolution and Other Essays (1976-1982) by Gore Vidal	Criticism	1982
George Mills by Stanley Elkin	Fiction	1982
The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro	General Nonfiction	1982
Virgil Thomson Reader by Virgil Thomson	Criticism	1981
Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike	Fiction	1981
The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould	General Nonfiction	1981
The Mismeasure of Man [Revised & Expanded] by Stephen Jay Gould	General Nonfiction	1981
A Coast of Trees by A. R. Ammons	Poetry	1981
Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets by Helen Vendler	Criticism	1980
The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard	Fiction	1980
Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel	General Nonfiction	1980
Sunrise by Frederick Seidel	Poetry	1980
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels	Criticism	1979
The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan	Fiction	1979
Munich: The Price of Peace by Telford Taylor	General Nonfiction	1979
7 years from somewhere: Poems by Philip Levine	Poetry	1979
Ashes: Poems new & old by Philip Levine	Poetry	1979
Modern Art: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Meyer Schapiro	Criticism	1978
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever	Fiction	1978
The Facts of Life by Maureen Howard	General Nonfiction	1978
Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence by Garry Wills	General Nonfiction	1978
Hello, darkness : the collected poems of L. E. Sissman by L. E. Sissman	Poetry	1978
On Photography by Susan Sontag	Criticism	1977
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison	Fiction	1977
Samuel Johnson by W. Jackson Bate	General Nonfiction	1977
Day by Day by Robert Lowell	Poetry	1977
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim	Criticism	1976
October Light by John Gardner	Fiction	1976
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston	General Nonfiction	1976
Geography III by Elizabeth Bishop	Poetry	1976
The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell	Criticism	1975
Ragtime: A Novel by E. L. Doctorow	Fiction	1975
Edith Wharton: A Biography by R. W. B. Lewis	General Nonfiction	1975
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery	Poetry	1975

Finalist 1,273

Work	Category	Year
How to Say Babylon: A Memoir by Safiya Sinclair	Autobiography	2023
I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir by Susan Kiyo Ito	Autobiography	2023
Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm by David Mas Masumoto	Autobiography	2023
Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in an Egyptian Prison by Ahmed Naji	Autobiography	2023
Story of a Poem: A Memoir by Matthew Zapruder	Autobiography	2023
Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg	Biography	2023
King: A Life by Jonathan Eig	Biography	2023
The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman's Narrative by Gregg Hecimovich	Biography	2023
Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang	Biography	2023
Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disrupter (Jewish Lives) by Rachel Shteir	Biography	2023
Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression by Tina Post	Criticism	2023
The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century by Nicholas Dames	Criticism	2023
Creep: Accusations and Confessions by Myriam Gurba	Criticism	2023
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein	Criticism	2023
Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques by Grace Elisabeth Lavery	Criticism	2023
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore	Fiction	2023
Tremor by Teju Cole	Fiction	2023
North Woods by Daniel Mason	Fiction	2023
Vengeance Is Mine by Marie NDiaye	Fiction	2023
Blackouts by Justin Torres	Fiction	2023
Cold Nights of Childhood by Tezer Özlü	Gregg Barrios Prize	2023
The last pomegranate tree by Bachtyar Ali Kareem Abdulrahman (Translator)	Gregg Barrios Prize	2023
Phantom Pain Wings by Hyesoon Kim Don Mee Choi (Translator)	Gregg Barrios Prize	2023
Happy Stories, Mostly by Norman Erikson Pasaribu Tiffany Tsao (Translator)	Gregg Barrios Prize	2023
Owlish by Dorothy Tse Natascha Bruce (Translator)	Gregg Barrios Prize	2023
Zakwato & Loglêdou’s Peril by Azo Vauguy Todd Fredson (Translator)	Gregg Barrios Prize	2023
Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide by Tahir Hamut Izgil	John Leonard Prize	2023
Black Pastoral: Poems by Ariana Benson	John Leonard Prize	2023
A Nimble Arc: James Van Der Zee and Photography by Emilie Boone	John Leonard Prize	2023
The Love of Singular Men by Victor Heringer	John Leonard Prize	2023
When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era by Donovan X. Ramsey	John Leonard Prize	2023
Judgment and Mercy: The Turbulent Life and Times of the Judge Who Condemned the Rosenbergs by Martin J. Siegel	John Leonard Prize	2023
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian	Nonfiction	2023
Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State by Kerry Howley	Nonfiction	2023
Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn't Enough by Dina Nayeri	Nonfiction	2023
The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War by Jeff Sharlet	Nonfiction	2023
Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe	Nonfiction	2023
Phantom Pain Wings by Hyesoon Kim	Poetry	2023
All Souls: Poems by Saskia Hamilton	Poetry	2023
The Gathering of Bastards by Romeo Oriogun	Poetry	2023
Information Desk: An Epic by Robyn Schiff	Poetry	2023
Trace Evidence: Poems by Charif Shanahan	Poetry	2023
Stay True by Hua Hsu	Autobiography	2022
G-Man (Pulitzer Prize Winner): J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage	Biography	2022
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family by Kerri K. Greenidge	Biography	2022
Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century by Jennifer Homans	Biography	2022
Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life by Clare Mac Cumhaill	Biography	2022
Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times by Professor Aaron Sachs	Biography	2022
Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age by Timothy Bewes	Criticism	2022
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us by Rachel Aviv	Criticism	2022
Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative by Peter Brooks	Criticism	2022
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson	Criticism	2022
When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold by Alia Trabucco Zerán	Criticism	2022
Bliss Montage: Stories by Ling Ma	Fiction	2022
Grey Bees by Andrej Kurkow	Gregg Barrios Prize	2022
Night of the Living Rez: Stories by Morgan Talty	John Leonard Prize	2022
The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act by Isaac Butler	Nonfiction	2022
Hotel Oblivion by Cynthia Cruz	Poetry	2022
banana [ ] (Pitt Poetry Series) by Paul Hlava Ceballos	Poetry	2022
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton Lin	Autobiography	2021
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib	Autobiography	2021
A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes: A Son's Memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha by Rodrigo García	Autobiography	2021
A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa	Autobiography	2021
Concepcion: An Immigrant Family's Fortunes by Albert Samaha	Autobiography	2021
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner	Biography	2021
Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser by Susan Bernofsky	Biography	2021
Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America by Keisha N. Blain	Biography	2021
Mike Nichols: A Life by Mark Harris	Biography	2021
Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York by Alexander Nemerov	Biography	2021
Girlhood by Melissa Febos	Criticism	2021
Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?: Essays by Jenny Diski	Criticism	2021
Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?: Essays by Jesse McCarthy	Criticism	2021
Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon by Mark McGurl	Criticism	2021
The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan	Criticism	2021
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers	Fiction	2021
The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family by Joshua Cohen	Fiction	2021
Second Place by Rachel Cusk	Fiction	2021
Burntcoat by Sarah Hall	Fiction	2021
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead	Fiction	2021
Afterparties: Stories by Anthony Veasna So	John Leonard Prize	2021
Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir by Ashley C. Ford	John Leonard Prize	2021
My Monticello: Fiction by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson	John Leonard Prize	2021
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters	John Leonard Prize	2021
Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy by Larissa Pham	John Leonard Prize	2021
Philomath: Poems by Devon Walker-Figueroa	John Leonard Prize	2021
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery across America by Clint Smith	Nonfiction	2021
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe	Nonfiction	2021
The Family Roe: An American Story by Joshua Prager	Nonfiction	2021
The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth by Sam Quinones	Nonfiction	2021
Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit	Nonfiction	2021
frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss	Poetry	2021
Ceive by B. K. Fischer	Poetry	2021
The Renunciations: Poems by Donika Kelly	Poetry	2021
Cutlish by Rajiv Mohabir	Poetry	2021
The Rinehart Frames (African Poetry Book) by Cheswayo Mphanza	Poetry	2021
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong	Autobiography	2020
The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s by Maggie Doherty	Autobiography	2020
This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope by Shayla Lawson	Autobiography	2020
Golem Girl: A Memoir by Riva Lehrer	Autobiography	2020
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir by Wayétu Moore	Autobiography	2020
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne	Autobiography	2020
Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco by Alia Volz	Autobiography	2020
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World by Amy Stanley	Biography	2020
The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes by Zachary D. Carter	Biography	2020
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark	Biography	2020
Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Nicole R. Fleetwood	Criticism	2020
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader by Vivian Gornick	Criticism	2020
Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country by Cristina Rivera-Garza	Criticism	2020
Stranger Faces (Undelivered Lectures) by Namwali Serpell	Criticism	2020
Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America by Wendy A. Woloson	Criticism	2020
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell	Fiction	2020
Inside Story: A novel by Martin Amis	Fiction	2020
If I Had Two Wings: Stories by Randall Kenan	Fiction	2020
How to Pronounce Knife: Stories by Souvankham Thammavongsa	Fiction	2020
Memorial by Bryan Washington	Fiction	2020
Luster by Raven Leilani	John Leonard Prize	2020
Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains by Kerri Arsenault	John Leonard Prize	2020
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio	John Leonard Prize	2020
A Burning by Megha Majumdar	John Leonard Prize	2020
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart	John Leonard Prize	2020
Real Life by Brandon Taylor	John Leonard Prize	2020
How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang	John Leonard Prize	2020
Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire by Tom Zoellner	Nonfiction	2020
The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States by Walter Johnson	Nonfiction	2020
Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future by James Shapiro	Nonfiction	2020
She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Sarah Smarsh	Nonfiction	2020
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson	Nonfiction	2020
Here is the Sweet Hand: Poems by francine j harris	Poetry	2020
Obit by Victoria Chang	Poetry	2020
Imperial Liquor: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series) by Amaud Johnson	Poetry	2020
The Shore by Chris Nealon	Poetry	2020
Homie: Poems by Danez Smith	Poetry	2020
Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller	Autobiography	2019
On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons by Laura Cumming	Autobiography	2019
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow	Autobiography	2019
Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman	Autobiography	2019
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob	Autobiography	2019
The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth by Josh Levin	Biography	2019
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century by Charles King	Biography	2019
L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron" by Lucasta Miller	Biography	2019
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer	Biography	2019
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell	Biography	2019
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman	Criticism	2019
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib	Criticism	2019
Essays One by Lydia Davis	Criticism	2019
Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018 by Peter Schjeldahl	Criticism	2019
Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin	Criticism	2019
Everything Inside: Stories by Edwidge Danticat	Fiction	2019
Feast Your Eyes by Myla Goldberg	Fiction	2019
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner	Fiction	2019
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead	Fiction	2019
The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom	John Leonard Prize	2019
The Unpassing by Chia-Chia Lin	John Leonard Prize	2019
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips	John Leonard Prize	2019
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe	Nonfiction	2019
Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future by Kate Brown	Nonfiction	2019
The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution by Peter Hessler	Nonfiction	2019
Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's Lives by Walt Odets	Nonfiction	2019
No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us by Rachel Louise Snyder	Nonfiction	2019
Magical Negro by Morgan Parker	Poetry	2019
The Tradition by Jericho Brown	Poetry	2019
Deaf Republic: Poems by Ilya Kaminsky	Poetry	2019
Dunce by Mary Ruefle	Poetry	2019
Doomstead Days by Brian Teare	Poetry	2019
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli		2019
Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home by Nora Krug	Autobiography	2018
The Day That Went Missing: A Family's Story by Richard Beard	Autobiography	2018
All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir by Nicole Chung	Autobiography	2018
What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth: A Memoir of Brotherhood (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog) by Rigoberto González	Autobiography	2018
Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over by Nell Painter	Autobiography	2018
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover	Autobiography	2018
Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous by Christopher Bonanos	Biography	2018
Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown	Biography	2018
Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang	Biography	2018
The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century by Mark Lamster	Biography	2018
The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created by Jane Leavy	Biography	2018
Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith	Criticism	2018
Is It Still Good to Ya?: Fifty Years of Rock Criticism, 1967-2017 by Robert Christgau	Criticism	2018
Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics by Stephen Greenblatt	Criticism	2018
To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight by Terrance Hayes	Criticism	2018
The Reckonings: Essays by Lacy M. Johnson	Criticism	2018
Milkman by Anna Burns	Fiction	2018
Slave Old Man by Patrick Chamoiseau	Fiction	2018
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories by Denis Johnson	Fiction	2018
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner	Fiction	2018
The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea	Fiction	2018
There There by Tommy Orange	John Leonard Prize	2018
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Steve Coll	Nonfiction	2018
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú	Nonfiction	2018
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff	Nonfiction	2018
We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights by Adam Winkler	Nonfiction	2018
God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State by Lawrence Wright	Nonfiction	2018
The Carrying: Poems by Ada Limón	Poetry	2018
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes	Poetry	2018
Holy Moly Carry Me (American Poets Continuum) by Erika Meitner	Poetry	2018
Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl: Poems by Diane Seuss	Poetry	2018
Asymmetry: Poems by Adam Zagajewski	Poetry	2018
Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up by Xiaolu Guo	Autobiography	2017
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui	Autobiography	2017
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay	Autobiography	2017
Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon by Henry Marsh	Autobiography	2017
The Girl From the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia by Lyudmila Petrushevskaya	Autobiography	2017
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser	Biography	2017
The Invention of Angela Carter : A Biography by Edmund Gordon	Biography	2017
The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek by Howard Markel	Biography	2017
Gorbachev: His Life and Times by William Taubman	Biography	2017
Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times by Kenneth Whyte	Biography	2017
You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages by Carina Chocano	Criticism	2017
The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story by Edwidge Danticat	Criticism	2017
Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History by Camille T. Dungy	Criticism	2017
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions by Valeria Luiselli	Criticism	2017
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News by Kevin Young	Criticism	2017
Improvement by Joan Silber	Fiction	2017
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid	Fiction	2017
The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott	Fiction	2017
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy	Fiction	2017
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado	John Leonard Prize	2017
Marlena by Julie Buntin	John Leonard Prize	2017
The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances FitzGerald	Nonfiction	2017
The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea by Jack E. Davis	Nonfiction	2017
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen	Nonfiction	2017
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova	Nonfiction	2017
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes by Adam Rutherford	Nonfiction	2017
WHEREAS: Poems by Layli Long Soldier	Poetry	2017
Fourth Person Singular (Pavilion Poetry LUP) by Nuar Alsadir	Poetry	2017
The Darkness of Snow by Frank Ormsby	Poetry	2017
Directions for Use by Anna Ristovic	Poetry	2017
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward		2017
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren	Autobiography	2016
The Iceberg by Marion Coutts	Autobiography	2016
In Gratitude by Jenny Diski	Autobiography	2016
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar	Autobiography	2016
The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father by Kao Kalia Yang	Autobiography	2016
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin	Biography	2016
Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story-How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War by Nigel Cliff	Biography	2016
Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary by Joe Jackson	Biography	2016
Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White by Michael Tisserand	Biography	2016
Guilty thing: a life of Thomas De Quincey by Frances Wilson	Biography	2016
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson	Criticism	2016
Against Everything: Essays by Mark Greif	Criticism	2016
Looking for The Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic by Alice Kaplan	Criticism	2016
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing	Criticism	2016
Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live by Peter Orner	Criticism	2016
LaRose by Louise Erdrich	Fiction	2016
Moonglow by Michael Chabon	Fiction	2016
Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett	Fiction	2016
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett	Fiction	2016
Swing Time by Zadie Smith	Fiction	2016
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi	John Leonard Prize	2016
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond	Nonfiction	2016
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi	Nonfiction	2016
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer	Nonfiction	2016
Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War by Viet Thanh Nguyen	Nonfiction	2016
Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File by John Edgar Wideman	Nonfiction	2016
House of Lords and Commons: Poems by Ishion Hutchinson	Poetry	2016
Olio by Tyehimba Jess	Poetry	2016
Works and Days by Bernadette Mayer	Poetry	2016
At the Foundling Hospital: Poems by Robert Pinsky	Poetry	2016
Blackacre: Poems by Monica Youn	Poetry	2016
Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson	Autobiography	2015
The Light of the World: A Memoir by Elizabeth Alexander	Autobiography	2015
The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir by Vivian Gornick	Autobiography	2015
Bettyville: A Memoir by George Hodgman	Autobiography	2015
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald	Autobiography	2015
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon	Biography	2015
Fortune's Fool (Author Unknown) by Terry Alford	Biography	2015
Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T. J. Stiles	Biography	2015
Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan	Biography	2015
Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives by Karin Wieland	Biography	2015
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson	Criticism	2015
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates	Criticism	2015
Eternity's Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake by Leo Damrosch	Criticism	2015
On Elizabeth Bishop by Colm Tóibín	Criticism	2015
The nearest thing to life by James Wood	Criticism	2015
The Sellout by Paul Beatty	Fiction	2015
The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli	Fiction	2015
The Tsar of Love and Techno: Stories by Anthony Marra	Fiction	2015
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh	Fiction	2015
Night at the Fiestas: Stories by Kirstin Valdez Quade	John Leonard Prize	2015
The Star Side of Bird Hill by Naomi Jackson	John Leonard Prize	2015
You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman	John Leonard Prize	2015
The Unfortunates: A Novel by Sophie McManus	John Leonard Prize	2015
Landfalls by Naomi J. Williams	John Leonard Prize	2015
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones	Nonfiction	2015
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard	Nonfiction	2015
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman	Nonfiction	2015
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America by Jill Leovy	Nonfiction	2015
What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing by Brian Seibert	Nonfiction	2015
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay	Poetry	2015
How to Be Drawn (Penguin Poets) by Terrance Hayes	Poetry	2015
Bright Dead Things: Poems by Ada Limón	Poetry	2015
Parallax: And Selected Poems by Sinéad Morrissey	Poetry	2015
What About This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford by Frank Stanford	Poetry	2015
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff		2015
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? A Memoir by Roz Chast	Autobiography	2014
The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait by Blake Bailey	Autobiography	2014
The Other Side: a Memoir by Lacy M. Johnson	Autobiography	2014
Little Failure: A Memoir by Gary Shteyngart	Autobiography	2014
There Was and There Was Not: A Journey Through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and Beyond by Meline Toumani	Autobiography	2014
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr	Biography	2014
William Wells Brown: An African American Life by Ezra Greenspan	Biography	2014
Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson by S. C. Gwynne	Biography	2014
"Literchoor Is My Beat": A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions by Ian S. MacNiven	Biography	2014
The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography by Miriam Pawel	Biography	2014
Storm by Donna Jo Napoli	Children’s and Young Adult Literature	2014
The Essential Ellen Willis by Ellen Willis	Criticism	2014
On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss	Criticism	2014
Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty by Vikram Chandra	Criticism	2014
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine	Criticism	2014
What Would Lynne Tillman Do? by Lynne Tillman	Criticism	2014
Lila by Marilynne Robinson	Fiction	2014
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James	Fiction	2014
On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee	Fiction	2014
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation by David Brion Davis	General Nonfiction	2014
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty	General Nonfiction	2014
The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book by Peter Finn	General Nonfiction	2014
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert	General Nonfiction	2014
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Héctor Tobar	General Nonfiction	2014
Redeployment by Phil Klay	John Leonard Prize	2014
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine	Poetry	2014
Prelude to Bruise by Saeed Jones	Poetry	2014
The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon: Poems (Penguin Poets) by Willie Perdomo	Poetry	2014
Once in the West: Poems by Christian Wiman	Poetry	2014
Abide (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry) by Jake Adam York	Poetry	2014
Euphoria by Lily King		2014
Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti by Amy Wilentz	Autobiography	2013
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala	Autobiography/Memoir	2013
The Book of My Lives {original edition} by Aleksandar Hemon	Autobiography/Memoir	2013
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit	Autobiography/Memoir	2013
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward	Autobiography/Memoir	2013
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World by Leo Damrosch	Biography	2013
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson	Biography	2013
Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven by John Eliot Gardiner	Biography	2013
Holding On Upside Down: The Life And Work of Marianne Moore by Linda Leavell	Biography	2013
Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kis by Mark Thompson	Biography	2013
Distant Reading by Franco Moretti	Criticism	2013
White Girls by Hilton Als	Criticism	2013
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations by Mary Beard	Criticism	2013
The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus by Jonathan Franzen	Criticism	2013
Forty-one False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers by Janet Malcolm	Criticism	2013
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	Fiction	2013
The Infatuations by Javier Marías	Fiction	2013
Someone by Alice McDermott	Fiction	2013
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki	Fiction	2013
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt	Fiction	2013
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra	John Leonard Prize	2013
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink	Nonfiction	2013
Whitey Bulger: America's Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice by Kevin Cullen	Nonfiction	2013
Thank You for Your Service by David Finkel	Nonfiction	2013
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer	Nonfiction	2013
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright	Nonfiction	2013
Metaphysical Dog: Poems by Frank Bidart	Poetry	2013
Stay, Illusion: Poems by Lucie Brock-Broido	Poetry	2013
Blowout (Pitt Poetry Series) by Denise Duhamel	Poetry	2013
Elegy Owed by Bob Hicok	Poetry	2013
Milk and Filth (Camino del Sol) by Carmen Giménez Smith	Poetry	2013
Swimming Studies by Leanne Shapton	Autobiography/Memoir	2012
The Distance Between Us: A Memoir by Reyna Grande	Autobiography/Memoir	2012
My Poets by Maureen N. McLane	Autobiography/Memoir	2012
House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid	Autobiography/Memoir	2012
In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o	Autobiography/Memoir	2012
The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro	Biography	2012
All We Know: Three Lives by Lisa Cohen	Biography	2012
Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece by Michael Gorra	Biography	2012
Robert Duncan: The Ambassador from Venus by Lisa Jarnot	Biography	2012
Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights by Marina Warner	Criticism	2012
Reinventing Bach by Paul Elie	Criticism	2012
Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture by Daniel Mendelsohn	Criticism	2012
Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures by Mary Ruefle	Criticism	2012
The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness by Kevin Young	Criticism	2012
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain	Fiction	2012
HHhH by Laurent Binet	Fiction	2012
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson	Fiction	2012
Magnificence by Lydia Millet	Fiction	2012
NW by Zadie Smith	Fiction	2012
Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon	Nonfiction	2012
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo	Nonfiction	2012
Private Empire : Exxonmobil and American Power by Steve Coll	Nonfiction	2012
Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story by Jim Holt	Nonfiction	2012
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen	Nonfiction	2012
Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys: Poems by D.A. Powell	Poetry	2012
Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations (Phoenix Poets) by David Ferry	Poetry	2012
On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths by Lucia Perillo	Poetry	2012
Fragile Acts (McSweeney's Poetry Series) by Allan Peterson	Poetry	2012
Olives: Poems by A. E. Stallings	Poetry	2012
The Memory Palace by Mira Bartók	Autobiography	2011
One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing by Diane Ackerman	Autobiography/Memoir	2011
Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts	Autobiography/Memoir	2011
It Calls You Back: An Odyssey through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing by Luis J. Rodriguez	Autobiography/Memoir	2011
Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War by Deb Olin Unferth	Autobiography/Memoir	2011
George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis	Biography	2011
Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution by Mary Gabriel	Biography	2011
Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961 by Paul Hendrickson	Biography	2011
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable	Biography	2011
The Black Count: Napoleon's Rival and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas by Tom Reiss	Biography	2011
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel	Biography	2011
Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews by Geoff Dyer	Criticism	2011
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything by David Bellos	Criticism	2011
The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc. by Jonathan Lethem	Criticism	2011
Karaoke Culture by Dubravka Ugrešić	Criticism	2011
Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music by Ellen Willis	Criticism	2011
Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories by Edith Pearlman	Fiction	2011
Open City by Teju Cole	Fiction	2011
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides	Fiction	2011
The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst	Fiction	2011
Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World by Maya Jasanoff	Nonfiction	2011
A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War by Amanda Foreman	Nonfiction	2011
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick	Nonfiction	2011
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 by Adam Hochschild	Nonfiction	2011
Pulphead: Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan	Nonfiction	2011
Space, In Chains by Laura Kasischke	Poetry	2011
Core Samples from the World by Forrest Gander	Poetry	2011
Kingdom Animalia by Aracelis Girmay	Poetry	2011
The Chameleon Couch: Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa	Poetry	2011
Half a Life by Darin Strauss	Autobiography	2010
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978 by Kai Bird	Autobiography/Memoir	2010
The Autobiography of an Execution by David R. Dow	Autobiography/Memoir	2010
Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens	Autobiography/Memoir	2010
Hiroshima in the Morning by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto	Autobiography/Memoir	2010
Just Kids by Patti Smith	Autobiography/Memoir	2010
How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell	Biography	2010
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography by Selina Hastings	Biography	2010
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang	Biography	2010
The Killing of Crazy Horse by Thomas Powers	Biography	2010
Simon Wiesenthal: The Life and Legends by Tom Segev	Biography	2010
Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West by Clare Cavanagh	Criticism	2010
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman	Criticism	2010
The Professor and Other Writings by Terry Castle	Criticism	2010
The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence by Susie Linfield	Criticism	2010
Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir by Ander Monson	Criticism	2010
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan	Fiction	2010
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen	Fiction	2010
To the End of the Land by David Grossman	Fiction	2010
Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson	Fiction	2010
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray	Fiction	2010
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson	Nonfiction	2010
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick	Nonfiction	2010
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S. C. Gwynne	Nonfiction	2010
Apollo's Angels : A History of Ballet by Jennifer Homans	Nonfiction	2010
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee	Nonfiction	2010
One With Others: [a little book of her days] by C. D. Wright	Poetry	2010
Nox by Anne Carson	Poetry	2010
The Eternal City: Poems by Kathleen Graber	Poetry	2010
Lighthead by Terrance Hayes	Poetry	2010
The Best of It: New and Selected Poems by Kay Ryan	Poetry	2010
Somewhere Towards the End: A Memoir by Diana Athill	Autobiography/Memoir	2009
Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love by Debra Gwartney	Autobiography/Memoir	2009
Lit: A Memoir by Mary Karr	Autobiography/Memoir	2009
Enemies of the People by Kati Marton	Autobiography/Memoir	2009
City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s by Edmund White	Autobiography/Memoir	2009
Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey	Biography	2009
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor by Brad Gooch	Biography	2009
Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector by Benjamin Moser	Biography	2009
Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone by Stanislao G. Pugliese	Biography	2009
Passing Strange by Martha A. Sandweiss	Biography	2009
Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays by Eula Biss	Criticism	2009
Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry by Stephen Burt	Criticism	2009
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein	Criticism	2009
Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture by David Hajdu	Criticism	2009
Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music by Greg Milner	Criticism	2009
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel	Fiction	2009
American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell	Fiction	2009
Blame by Michelle Huneven	Fiction	2009
The Book of Night Women by Marlon James	Fiction	2009
Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips	Fiction	2009
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes	Nonfiction	2009
The Hindus: An Alternative History by Wendy Doniger	Nonfiction	2009
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin	Nonfiction	2009
Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder	Nonfiction	2009
Imperial by William T. Vollmann	Nonfiction	2009
Versed by Rae Armantrout	Poetry	2009
A Village Life by Louise Glück	Poetry	2009
Chronic: Poems by D.A. Powell	Poetry	2009
Museum of Accidents by Rachel Zucker	Poetry	2009
My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq by Ariel Sabar	Autobiography/Memoir	2008
Why I Came West by Rick Bass	Autobiography/Memoir	2008
The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood by Helene Cooper	Autobiography/Memoir	2008
The Bishop's Daughter: A Memoir by Honor Moore	Autobiography/Memoir	2008
The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars by Andrew X. Pham	Autobiography/Memoir	2008
The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French	Biography	2008
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century by Steve Coll	Biography	2008
Ida: A Sword Among Lions by Paula J. Giddings	Biography	2008
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed	Biography	2008
White Heat by Brenda Wineapple	Biography	2008
Children's Literature: A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter by Seth Lerer	Criticism	2008
Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard by Richard Brody	Criticism	2008
The Men in My Life by Vivian Gornick	Criticism	2008
Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds by Joel L. Kraemer	Criticism	2008
Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry by Reginald Shepherd	Criticism	2008
2666 by Roberto Bolaño	Fiction	2008
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon	Fiction	2008
Home by Marilynne Robinson	Fiction	2008
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout	Fiction	2008
The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart by M. Glenn Taylor	Fiction	2008
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust	General Nonfiction	2008
From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776 by George C. Herring	General Nonfiction	2008
White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement by Allan J. Lichtman	General Nonfiction	2008
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer	General Nonfiction	2008
The Forever War by Dexter Filkins	Nonfiction	2008
Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems by Juan Felipe Herrera	Poetry	2008
Sleeping It Off in Rapid City: Poems, New and Selected by August Kleinzahler	Poetry	2008
Sources by Devin Johnston	Poetry	2008
The Landscapist: Selected Poems by Pierre Martory	Poetry	2008
Human Dark with Sugar by Brenda Shaughnessy	Poetry	2008
Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat	Autobiography/Memoir	2007
Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone by Joshua Clark	Autobiography/Memoir	2007
The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates 1973-1982 by Joyce Carol Oates	Autobiography/Memoir	2007
Writing in an Age of Silence by Sara Paretsky	Autobiography/Memoir	2007
A Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya	Autobiography/Memoir	2007
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal	Biography	2007
Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee	Biography	2007
Ralph Ellison: A Biography by Arnold Rampersad	Biography	2007
A Life of Picasso, Volume 3: 1917-1932 by John Richardson	Biography	2007
Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin	Biography	2007
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross	Criticism	2007
Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays by Joan Acocella	Criticism	2007
Once Upon a Quinceanera: Coming of Age in the USA by Julia Alvarez	Criticism	2007
The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America by Susan Faludi	Criticism	2007
Coltrane: The Story of a Sound by Ben Ratliff	Criticism	2007
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz	Fiction	2007
Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra	Fiction	2007
In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar	Fiction	2007
The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates	Fiction	2007
The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins	Fiction	2007
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington	Nonfiction	2007
American transcendentalism by Philip F. Gura	Nonfiction	2007
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe	Nonfiction	2007
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner	Nonfiction	2007
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman	Nonfiction	2007
Elegy: Poems by Mary Jo Bang	Poetry	2007
Modern Life: Poems (Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award) by Matthea Harvey	Poetry	2007
Sleeping and Waking by Michael O'Brien	Poetry	2007
Ballad of Jamie Allan by Tom Pickard	Poetry	2007
New Poems by Tadeusz Różewicz	Poetry	2007
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn	Autobiography/Memoir	2006
The Afterlife by Donald Antrim	Autobiography/Memoir	2006
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel	Autobiography/Memoir	2006
Strange Piece of Paradise by Terri Jentz	Autobiography/Memoir	2006
Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters	Autobiography/Memoir	2006
James Tiptree Jr: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips	Biography	2006
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate	Biography	2006
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 by Taylor Branch	Biography	2006
Flaubert: A Biography by Frederick Brown	Biography	2006
A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler by Jason Roberts	Biography	2006
Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences by Lawrence Weschler	Criticism	2006
While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within by Bruce Bawer	Criticism	2006
Follies of the Wise by Frederick Crews	Criticism	2006
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett	Criticism	2006
On Looking: Essays by Lia Purpura	Criticism	2006
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai	Fiction	2006
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	Fiction	2006
What Is the What by Dave Eggers	Fiction	2006
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford	Fiction	2006
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama	General Nonfiction	2006
The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq by Patrick Cockburn	General Nonfiction	2006
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade by Ann Fessler	General Nonfiction	2006
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan	General Nonfiction	2006
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan	General Nonfiction	2006
Tom Thomson In Purgatory by Troy Jollimore	Poetry	2006
My Brother is Getting Arrested Again by Daisy Fried	Poetry	2006
Poems (1945-1971) by Miltos Sachtouris	Poetry	2006
Ooga-Booga: Poems by Frederick Seidel	Poetry	2006
Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems by W. D. Snodgrass	Poetry	2006
The Road by Cormac McCarthy		2006
Them: A Memoir of Parents by Francine du Plessix Gray	Autobiography/Memoir	2005
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion	Autobiography/Memoir	2005
Fat Girl: A True Story by Judith Moore	Autobiography/Memoir	2005
Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk	Autobiography/Memoir	2005
Two Lives by Vikram Seth	Autobiography/Memoir	2005
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird	Biography	2005
Lee Miller: A Life by Carolyn Burke	Biography	2005
Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson by Jonathan Coe	Biography	2005
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin	Biography	2005
Mark Twain: A Life by Ron Powers	Biography	2005
The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin by William Logan	Criticism	2005
Gather At The River: Notes From The Post-millennial South by Hal Crowther	Criticism	2005
Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life by Arthur C. Danto	Criticism	2005
Still Looking: Essays on American Art by John Updike	Criticism	2005
What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles by Eliot Weinberger	Criticism	2005
The March by E. L. Doctorow	Fiction	2005
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill	Fiction	2005
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro	Fiction	2005
Small Island by Andrea Levy	Fiction	2005
Europe Central by William T. Vollmann	Fiction	2005
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich	General Nonfiction	2005
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk	General Nonfiction	2005
Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild by Ellen Meloy	General Nonfiction	2005
Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees by Caroline Moorehead	General Nonfiction	2005
Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War by Anthony Shadid	General Nonfiction	2005
Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert	Poetry	2005
The Shout: Selected Poems by Simon Armitage	Poetry	2005
Bent To The Earth by Blas Manuel De Luna	Poetry	2005
Crush by Richard Siken	Poetry	2005
The Incentive of the Maggot by Ron Slate	Poetry	2005
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow	Biography	2004
Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan	Biography	2004
Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart by John Guy	Biography	2004
de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens	Biography/Autobiography	2004
Where You're At by Patrick Neate	Criticism	2004
Paper Trail: Selected Prose, 1965-2003 by Richard Howard	Criticism	2004
Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century by Graham Robb	Criticism	2004
Sontag and Kael: Opposites Attract Me by Craig Seligman	Criticism	2004
The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel by James Wood	Criticism	2004
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson	Fiction	2004
The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat	Fiction	2004
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst	Fiction	2004
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell	Fiction	2004
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth	Fiction	2004
Reformation : Europe's house divided : 1490-1700 by Diarmaid MacCulloch	General Nonfiction	2004
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle	General Nonfiction	2004
Blue Blood by Edward Conlon	General Nonfiction	2004
The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler	General Nonfiction	2004
Blood Done Sign My Name by Timothy B. Tyson	General Nonfiction	2004
The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004 by Adrienne Rich	Poetry	2004
The Orchard by Brigit Pegeen Kelly	Poetry	2004
Cocktails: Poems by D.A. Powell	Poetry	2004
Interglacial: New and Selected Poems & Aphorisms by James Richardson	Poetry	2004
Danger on Peaks: Poems by Gary Snyder	Poetry	2004
A Tragic Honesty by Blake Bailey	Biography	2003
The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage by Paul Elie	Biography	2003
Jonathan Edwards: A Life by George M. Marsden	Biography	2003
Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake by Carol Loeb Shloss	Biography	2003
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman	Biography/Autobiography	2003
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by Rebecca Solnit	Criticism	2003
Gritos: Essays by Dagoberto Gilb	Criticism	2003
31 Songs by Nick Hornby	Criticism	2003
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling by Ross King	Criticism	2003
Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag	Criticism	2003
The Known World by Edward P. Jones	Fiction	2003
Brick Lane by Monica Ali	Fiction	2003
A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips	Fiction	2003
The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers	Fiction	2003
Old School by Tobias Wolff	Fiction	2003
Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy by Paul Hendrickson	General Nonfiction	2003
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty by Caroline Alexander	General Nonfiction	2003
Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum	General Nonfiction	2003
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc	General Nonfiction	2003
Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means {abridged} by William T. Vollmann	General Nonfiction	2003
On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection by Susan Stewart	Poetry	2003
Blue Hour: Poems by Carolyn Forché	Poetry	2003
What Narcissism Means to Me: Poems by Tony Hoagland	Poetry	2003
Sept pierres pour la femme adultère by Vénus Khoury-Ghata	Poetry	2003
Granted by Mary Szybist	Poetry	2003
Charles Darwin: A Biography: Volume 2: The Power of Place by Janet Browne	Biography/Autobiography	2002
Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro	Biography/Autobiography	2002
The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert	Biography/Autobiography	2002
Benjamin Franklin by Edmund S. Morgan	Biography/Autobiography	2002
Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music by Mark Zwonitzer	Biography/Autobiography	2002
Tests of Time by William H. Gass	Criticism	2002
Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color by Philip Ball	Criticism	2002
Old Man Goya by Julia Blackburn	Criticism	2002
Reviewery by Christopher Ricks	Criticism	2002
Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist by Charles Rosen	Criticism	2002
Atonement by Ian McEwan	Fiction	2002
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides	Fiction	2002
Nowhere Man: The Pronek Fantasies by Aleksandar Hemon	Fiction	2002
Roscoe by William Kennedy	Fiction	2002
The Darts of Cupid: Stories by Edith Templeton	Fiction	2002
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power	General Nonfiction	2002
War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges	General Nonfiction	2002
American Ground by William Langewiesche	General Nonfiction	2002
Brown: The Last Discovery of America by Richard Rodriguez	General Nonfiction	2002
Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life by Gaby Wood	General Nonfiction	2002
Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest: Poems by B. H. Fairchild	Poetry	2002
Leaving Saturn: Poems by Major Jackson	Poetry	2002
Sleeping with the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen	Poetry	2002
The Unswept Room by Sharon Olds	Poetry	2002
Without End: New and Selected Poems by Adam Zagajewski	Poetry	2002
Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson by Adam Sisman	Biography/Autobiography	2001
Borrowed Finery by Paula Fox	Biography/Autobiography	2001
Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina by David Hajdu	Biography/Autobiography	2001
Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on This Planet by Eugene Walter	Biography/Autobiography	2001
The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal by Barry Werth	Biography/Autobiography	2001
The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 by Martin Amis	Criticism	2001
Marginalia by H.J. Jackson	Criticism	2001
De/Compositions: 101 Good Poems Gone Wrong by W. D. Snodgrass	Criticism	2001
As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art by Rebecca Solnit	Criticism	2001
Ill Nature by Joy Williams	Criticism	2001
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald	Fiction	2001
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen	Fiction	2001
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro	Fiction	2001
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett	Fiction	2001
John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead	Fiction	2001
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper by Nicholson Baker	General Nonfiction	2001
The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care by Nina Bernstein	General Nonfiction	2001
Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland by Jan T. Gross	General Nonfiction	2001
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand	General Nonfiction	2001
The Brother: The Untold Story of the Rosenberg Case by Sam Roberts	General Nonfiction	2001
Saving Lives: Poems by Albert Goldbarth	Poetry	2001
The Seven Ages by Louise Glück	Poetry	2001
Insomnia Diary by Bob Hicok	Poetry	2001
Given Sugar, Given Salt: Poems by Jane Hirshfield	Poetry	2001
A Treatise on Poetry by Czesław Miłosz	Poetry	2001
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix	Biography/Autobiography	2000
The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics by Robin Marantz Henig	Biography/Autobiography	2000
I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1933-1941 by Victor Klemperer	Biography/Autobiography	2000
The Chief: the Life of William Randolph Hearst by David Nasaw	Biography/Autobiography	2000
Marcel Proust: A Life by Jean-Yves Tadié	Biography/Autobiography	2000
Quarrel & Quandary: Essays by Cynthia Ozick	Criticism	2000
From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jacques Barzun	Criticism	2000
Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World by Claudia Roth Pierpont	Criticism	2000
Critical Entertainments: Music Old and New by Charles Rosen	Criticism	2000
A Poetry of Two Minds (The Life of Poetry) by Sherod Santos	Criticism	2000
Being Dead by Jim Crace	Fiction	2000
A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You by Amy Bloom	Fiction	2000
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon	Fiction	2000
Assorted Fire Events: Stories by David Means	Fiction	2000
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover	General Nonfiction	2000
Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 by Fred Anderson	General Nonfiction	2000
Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War by Frances FitzGerald	General Nonfiction	2000
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health by Laurie Garrett	General Nonfiction	2000
The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach by Alice Kaplan	General Nonfiction	2000
Carolina Ghost Woods by Judy Jordan	Poetry	2000
Men in the Off Hours by Anne Carson	Poetry	2000
The Ledge: Poems by Michael Collier	Poetry	2000
Talking Dirty to the Gods: Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa	Poetry	2000
Ultima Thule by Davis McCombs	Poetry	2000
The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White by Henry Wiencek	Biography/Autobiography	1999
Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834 by Richard Holmes	Biography/Autobiography	1999
Morgan: American Financier by Jean Strouse	Biography/Autobiography	1999
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman	Biography/Autobiography	1999
The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind the New York Times by Susan E. Tifft	Biography/Autobiography	1999
Selected Non-Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges	Criticism	1999
Film Follies: The Cinema Out of Order by Stuart Klawans	Criticism	1999
Reputations of the Tongue: On Poets and Poetry by William Logan	Criticism	1999
Lives of the Poets by Michael Schmidt	Criticism	1999
Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season by David Shields	Criticism	1999
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem	Fiction	1999
Midnight Champagne by A. Manette Ansay	Fiction	1999
The Night Inspector by Frederick Busch	Fiction	1999
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee	Fiction	1999
The Wonders of the Invisible World by David Gates	Fiction	1999
Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior by Jonathan Weiner	General Nonfiction	1999
Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family History by Jane Brox	General Nonfiction	1999
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower	General Nonfiction	1999
I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory by Patricia Hampl	General Nonfiction	1999
The Dark Room at Longwood: A Voyage to St Helena by Jean-Paul Kauffmann	General Nonfiction	1999
Ordinary Words by Ruth Stone	Poetry	1999
Diva by Rafael Campo	Poetry	1999
HIV, Mon Amour: Poems by Tory Dent	Poetry	1999
On the Bus with Rosa Parks: Poems by Rita Dove	Poetry	1999
Dailies and Rushes: Poems (Grove Press Poetry) by Susan Kinsolving	Poetry	1999
A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash by Sylvia Nasar	Biography/Autobiography	1998
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow	Biography/Autobiography	1998
Rocket Boys by Jr. Homer H. Hickam	Biography/Autobiography	1998
King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero by David Remnick	Biography/Autobiography	1998
Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story by Amanda Vaill	Biography/Autobiography	1998
Visions of Jazz: The First Century by Gary Giddins	Criticism	1998
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom	Criticism	1998
Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence by Geoff Dyer	Criticism	1998
Hip Hop America by Nelson George	Criticism	1998
The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide by Robert Pinsky	Criticism	1998
The Love of a Good Woman: Stories by Alice Munro	Fiction	1998
The Hours by Michael Cunningham	Fiction	1998
Preston Falls by David Gates	Fiction	1998
Birds of America: Stories by Lorrie Moore	Fiction	1998
No Lease on Life: A Novel by Lynne Tillman	Fiction	1998
We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch	General Nonfiction	1998
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin	General Nonfiction	1998
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild	General Nonfiction	1998
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present by Roy Porter	General Nonfiction	1998
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester	General Nonfiction	1998
The Bird Catcher by Marie Ponsot	Poetry	1998
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson	Poetry	1998
Thieves of Paradise by Yusef Komunyakaa	Poetry	1998
Last Chance for the Tarzan Holler: Poems by Thylias Moss	Poetry	1998
Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II by James Tobin	Biography/Autobiography	1997
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis	Biography/Autobiography	1997
Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee	Biography/Autobiography	1997
Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949–1962 by Doris Lessing	Biography/Autobiography	1997
Making Waves: Essays by Mario Vargas Llosa	Criticism	1997
The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Helen Vendler	Criticism	1997
The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century by John Brewer	Criticism	1997
The End of the Novel of Love by Vivian Gornick	Criticism	1997
God and the American Writer by Alfred Kazin	Criticism	1997
The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Helen Vendler	Criticism	1997
Underworld by Don DeLillo	Fiction	1997
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier	Fiction	1997
Le Testament Français by Andreï Makine	Fiction	1997
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman	General Nonfiction	1997
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer	General Nonfiction	1997
The Bible as it was by James L. Kugel	General Nonfiction	1997
American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence by Pauline Maier	General Nonfiction	1997
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker	General Nonfiction	1997
Black Zodiac: Poems by Charles Wright	Poetry	1997
Desire by Frank Bidart	Poetry	1997
Loose Sugar (Wesleyan Poetry) by Brenda Hillman	Poetry	1997
Questions for Ecclesiastes by Mark Jarman	Poetry	1997
Does Your House Have Lions? by Sonia Sanchez	Poetry	1997
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald		1997
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt	Biography/Autobiography	1996
Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography by Peter Conn	Biography/Autobiography	1996
Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn by David Hajdu	Biography/Autobiography	1996
The Last Happy Occasion by Alan Shapiro	Biography/Autobiography	1996
Charles Ives: A Life with Music by Jan Swafford	Biography/Autobiography	1996
Finding a Form: Essays by William H. Gass	Criticism	1996
Art for Art's Sake and Literary Life: How Politics and Markets Helped Shape the Ideology and Culture of Aestheticism, 1790-1990 (Stages) by Gene H. Bell-Villada	Criticism	1996
The True Story of the Novel by Margaret Anne Doody	Criticism	1996
The Love Affair as a Work of Art by Dan Hofstadter	Criticism	1996
Fame & Folly: Essays by Cynthia Ozick	Criticism	1996
Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories by Gina Berriault	Fiction	1996
About Schmidt by Louis Begley	Fiction	1996
Dancing After Hours: Stories by Andre Dubus	Fiction	1996
The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid	Fiction	1996
From Bondage by Henry Roth	Fiction	1996
Bad Land: An American Romance by Jonathan Raban	General Nonfiction	1996
Great Books by David Denby	General Nonfiction	1996
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Goldhagen	General Nonfiction	1996
Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger	General Nonfiction	1996
The Middle East: 2000 Years of History From the Rise of Christianity to the Present Day by Bernard Lewis	General Nonfiction	1996
Sun Under Wood by Robert Hass	Poetry	1996
Loosestrife: Poems by Stephen Dunn	Poetry	1996
Imagine the Angels of Bread: Poems by Martín Espada	Poetry	1996
Music Minus One by Jane Shore	Poetry	1996
The Vigil: Poems by C. K. Williams	Poetry	1996
Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson by Robert Polito	Biography/Autobiography	1995
Moving Violations by John Hockenberry	Biography/Autobiography	1995
Emerson: The Mind on Fire by Robert D. Richardson Jr.	Biography/Autobiography	1995
The Liars' Club: A Memoir by Mary Karr	Biography/Autobiography	1995
Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography by David S. Reynolds	Biography/Autobiography	1995
The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France by Robert Darnton	Criticism	1995
The All-American Skin Game, or Decoy of Race: The Long and the Short of It, 1990-1994 by Stanley Crouch	Criticism	1995
The Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poets, and Poetasters by Thomas M. Disch	Criticism	1995
Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew (Yale Nota Bene) by John Felstiner	Criticism	1995
After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist by Clifford Geertz	Criticism	1995
Independence Day by Richard Ford	Fiction	1995
Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers	Fiction	1995
Moo by Jane Smiley	Fiction	1995
The Tent of Orange Mist by Paul West	Fiction	1995
A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr	General Nonfiction	1995
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books by Nicholas A. Basbanes	General Nonfiction	1995
In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle by Madeleine Blais	General Nonfiction	1995
All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence by Fox Butterfield	General Nonfiction	1995
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology by Lawrence Weschler	General Nonfiction	1995
Time & Money by William Matthews	Poetry	1995
The Only World: Poems by Lynda Hull	Poetry	1995
A Scattering of Salts by James Merrill	Poetry	1995
Cortège: Poems by Carl Phillips	Poetry	1995
Kyrie: Poems by Ellen Bryant Voigt	Poetry	1995
Mrs. Ted Bliss by Stanley Elkin		1995
Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore	Biography/Autobiography	1994
Toulouse-Lautrec: A Life by Julia Frey	Biography/Autobiography	1994
Winchell: Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity by Neal Gabler	Biography/Autobiography	1994
D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage by Brenda Maddox	Biography/Autobiography	1994
Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson	Biography/Autobiography	1994
The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture by Gerald Early	Criticism	1994
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages by Harold Bloom	Criticism	1994
Sex and Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dress (Kodansha Globe) by Anne Hollander	Criticism	1994
Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism by Katha Pollitt	Criticism	1994
Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney by Jahan Ramazani	Criticism	1994
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields	Fiction	1994
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez	Fiction	1994
A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis	Fiction	1994
The Prince of West End Avenue by Alan Isler	Fiction	1994
And All OUr Wounds Forgiven by Julius Lester	Fiction	1994
The Rape of Europa : The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War by Lynn H. Nicholas	General Nonfiction	1994
The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America by John Putnam Demos	General Nonfiction	1994
Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas by Jane Mayer	General Nonfiction	1994
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland	General Nonfiction	1994
My Own Country: A Doctor's Story by Abraham Verghese	General Nonfiction	1994
Rider by Mark Rudman	Poetry	1994
Winter Numbers: Poems by Marilyn Hacker	Poetry	1994
What We Carry (American Poets Continuum) by Dorianne Laux	Poetry	1994
The Simple Truth: Poems by Philip Levine	Poetry	1994
Sunday Skaters by Mary Jo Salter	Poetry	1994
Genet by Edmund White		1994
French Lessons: A Memoir by Alice Kaplan	Biography/Autobiography	1993
W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race by David Levering Lewis	Biography/Autobiography	1993
A Different Person: A Memoir by James Ingram Merrill	Biography/Autobiography	1993
The Passion of Michel Foucault by Jim Miller	Biography/Autobiography	1993
Opera in America: A Cultural History by John Dizikes	Criticism	1993
The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire by Wayne Koestenbaum	Criticism	1993
The Phantom Empire: Movies in the Mind of the 20th Century by Geoffrey O'Brien	Criticism	1993
Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright by Mark Rose	Criticism	1993
United States: Essays 1952-1992 by Gore Vidal	Criticism	1993
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines	Fiction	1993
The Jade Cabinet by Rikki Ducornet	Fiction	1993
Feather Crowns by Bobbie Ann Mason	Fiction	1993
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx	Fiction	1993
Vindication by Frances Sherwood	Fiction	1993
The Land Where the Blues Began by Alan Lomax	General Nonfiction	1993
Whoredom in Kimmage: Irish Women Coming of Age by Rosemary Mahoney	General Nonfiction	1993
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick	General Nonfiction	1993
Genie: A Scientific Tragedy by Russ Rymer	General Nonfiction	1993
The Last Panda by George B. Schaller	General Nonfiction	1993
Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy And Her World by Carol Brightman	Biography/Autobiography	1992
The Rascal King: The Life And Times Of James Michael Curley (1874-1958) by Jack Beatty	Biography/Autobiography	1992
Looking For The Light: The Hidden Life and Art of Marion Post Wolcott by Paul Hendrickson	Biography/Autobiography	1992
Kissinger: A Biography by Walter Isaacson	Biography/Autobiography	1992
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel	Biography/Autobiography	1992
The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson	Biography/Autobiography	1992
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills	Criticism	1992
The Critics Bear it Away: American Fiction and the Academy by Frederick Crews	Criticism	1992
Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture by Dana Gioia	Criticism	1992
A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War by Susan Griffin	Criticism	1992
Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West by Wallace Stegner	Criticism	1992
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy	Fiction	1992
Let the Dead Bury Their Dead by Randall Kenan	Fiction	1992
Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates	Fiction	1992
Clockers by Richard Price	Fiction	1992
Outerbridge Reach by Robert Stone	Fiction	1992
Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean	General Nonfiction	1992
Breaking the Maya Code by Michael D. Coe	General Nonfiction	1992
Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America by Donald R. Katz	General Nonfiction	1992
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil by Nancy Scheper-Hughes	General Nonfiction	1992
Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991 by Hayden Carruth	Poetry	1992
Looking for Luck: Poems by Maxine Kumin	Poetry	1992
The Father by Sharon Olds	Poetry	1992
A Dream of Mind: Poems by C. K. Williams	Poetry	1992
Patrimony: A True Story by Philip Roth	Biography/Autobiography	1991
The Journals of John Cheever by John Cheever	Biography/Autobiography	1991
Anne Sexton: A Biography by Diane Middlebrook	Biography/Autobiography	1991
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman	Biography/Autobiography	1991
Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory by Lawrence L. Langer	Criticism	1991
Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century by Norman Cantor	Criticism	1991
Vulgar Modernism: Writing on Movies and Other Media (Culture and the Moving Image Series) by J. Hoberman	Criticism	1991
Female Perversions by Louise J. Kaplan	Criticism	1991
Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism by John Updike	Criticism	1991
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley	Fiction	1991
Wartime Lies by Louis Begley	Fiction	1991
Typical American by Gish Jen	Fiction	1991
The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers	Fiction	1991
Mating by Norman Rush	Fiction	1991
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi	General Nonfiction	1991
Which Side Are You On?: Trying to Be for Labor When It's Flat on Its Back by Thomas Geoghegan	General Nonfiction	1991
Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction by Melissa Fay Greene	General Nonfiction	1991
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools by Jonathan Kozol	General Nonfiction	1991
Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe by Dennis Overbye	General Nonfiction	1991
Heaven and earth : a cosmology : poems by Albert Goldbarth	Poetry	1991
Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems by Diane Ackerman	Poetry	1991
The Ether Dome and Other Poems (1979-1991) by Allen Grossman	Poetry	1991
What Work Is by Philip Levine	Poetry	1991
An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 by Adrienne Rich	Poetry	1991
Means of Ascent by Robert A. Caro	Biography	1990
Strong Drink, Strong Language by John Espey	Biography/Autobiography	1990
The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880-1918 by Patricia O'Toole	Biography/Autobiography	1990
A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood by Richard Rhodes	Biography/Autobiography	1990
Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874-1952 by T. H. Watkins	Biography/Autobiography	1990
Encounters & Reflections: Art in the Historical Present by Arthur C. Danto	Criticism	1990
Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989 by Stanley Crouch	Criticism	1990
Selected Writings: 1950-1990 by Irving Howe	Criticism	1990
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia	Criticism	1990
Essays In Disguise by Wilfrid Sheed	Criticism	1990
Rabbit at Rest by John Updike	Fiction	1990
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson	Fiction	1990
Family Pictures by Sue Miller	Fiction	1990
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien	Fiction	1990
Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner by Wallace Stegner	Fiction	1990
The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America by Shelby Steele	General Nonfiction	1990
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis	General Nonfiction	1990
Samba by Alma Guillermoprieto	General Nonfiction	1990
Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century by Jr. O. B. Hardison	General Nonfiction	1990
The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath by Kevin P. Phillips	General Nonfiction	1990
Bitter Angel: Poems by Amy Gerstler	Poetry	1990
New Poems: 1980-88 by John Haines	Poetry	1990
The Transparent Man by Anthony Hecht	Poetry	1990
The Book of Gods and Devils by Charles Simic	Poetry	1990
A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt by Geoffrey C. Ward	Biography/Autobiography	1989
Glenn Gould: A Life and Variations by Otto Friedrich	Biography/Autobiography	1989
God Gave Us This Country: Tekamthi and the First American Civil War by Bil Gilbert	Biography/Autobiography	1989
Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician by Roger Morris	Biography/Autobiography	1989
This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff	Biography/Autobiography	1989
Not By Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History by John Clive	Criticism	1989
Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author by Clifford Geertz	Criticism	1989
A choice of inheritance : self and community from Edmund Burke to Robert Frost by David Bromwich	Criticism	1989
Metaphor & memory : essays by Cynthia Ozick	Criticism	1989
Enchanted Drawings: The History of Animation by Charles Solomon	Criticism	1989
America's Rome, Volume 1: Classical Rome by William L. Vance	Criticism	1989
Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow	Fiction	1989
Spartina by John Casey	Fiction	1989
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos	Fiction	1989
Ordinary Love and Good Will by Jane Smiley	Fiction	1989
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan	Fiction	1989
The Broken Cord by Michael Dorris	General Nonfiction	1989
Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class by Barbara Ehrenreich	General Nonfiction	1989
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin	General Nonfiction	1989
Among Schoolchildren by Tracy Kidder	General Nonfiction	1989
The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier by Amy Wilentz	General Nonfiction	1989
2011 Pushcart Prize XXXV: Best of the Small Presses by Bill Henderson	Poetry	1989
Human Wishes by Robert Hass	Poetry	1989
Earthquake Weather by August Kleinzahler	Poetry	1989
Pyramid of Bone (Callaloo Poetry Series) by Thylias Moss	Poetry	1989
Water Walker by Nancy Willard	Poetry	1989
Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann	Biography/Autobiography	1988
The Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Burke and Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1981 by Kenneth Burke	Biography/Autobiography	1988
The Letters of T. S. Eliot; Volume 1: 1898-1922 by T. S. Eliot	Biography/Autobiography	1988
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir by Paul Monette	Biography/Autobiography	1988
Three scientists and their gods by Robert Wright	Biography/Autobiography	1988
The Death of Rhythm and Blues by Nelson George	Criticism	1988
Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language by John Hollander	Criticism	1988
Poetry And The World by Robert Pinsky	Criticism	1988
Law and Literature by Richard A. Posner	Criticism	1988
The Middleman and Other Stories by Bharati Mukherjee	Fiction	1988
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories by Raymond Carver	Fiction	1988
Libra by Don DeLillo	Fiction	1988
Paris Trout by Pete Dexter	Fiction	1988
Wheat that Springeth Green (New York Review Books Classics) by J. F. Powers	Fiction	1988
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–63 by Taylor Branch	General Nonfiction	1988
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner	General Nonfiction	1988
Europeans by Jane Kramer	General Nonfiction	1988
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson	General Nonfiction	1988
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan	General Nonfiction	1988
The One Day by Donald Hall	Poetry	1988
Harp Lake by John Hollander	Poetry	1988
One Thousand Avant-Garde Plays by Kenneth Koch	Poetry	1988
New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur	Poetry	1988
Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World by Donald R. Howard	Biography/Autobiography	1987
An American Childhood by Annie Dillard	Biography/Autobiography	1987
Timebends: A Life by Arthur Miller	Biography/Autobiography	1987
Don't Tread on Me: The Selected Letters of S. J. Perelman by S. J. Perelman	Biography/Autobiography	1987
Private Domain: An Autobiography by Paul Taylor	Biography/Autobiography	1987
Less Than One: Selected Essays by Joseph Brodsky	Criticism	1987
Dance Writings by Edwin Denby	Criticism	1987
Sight Lines by Arlene Croce	Criticism	1987
Every Force Evolves a Form by Guy Davenport	Criticism	1987
Understanding Toscanini by Joseph Horowitz	Criticism	1987
The Collected Prose by Robert Lowell	Criticism	1987
The Counterlife by Philip Roth	Fiction	1987
Beloved by Toni Morrison	Fiction	1987
The Age of Grief by Jane Smiley	Fiction	1987
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Earle Stegner	Fiction	1987
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe	Fiction	1987
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes	General Nonfiction	1987
Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time by Stephen Jay Gould	General Nonfiction	1987
The Genius of the People by Charles L. Mee	General Nonfiction	1987
Democracy Is in the Streets: From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago, With a New Preface by the Author by Jim Miller	General Nonfiction	1987
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts	General Nonfiction	1987
Flesh & Blood: Poems by C. K. Williams	Poetry	1987
April Galleons: Poems by John Ashbery	Poetry	1987
The Sunset Maker by Donald Justice	Poetry	1987
Happy Hour (Phoenix Poets) by Alan Shapiro	Poetry	1987
In Other Words by May Swenson	Poetry	1987
The Life of Langston Hughes. Volume 1, 1902–1941, I, Too, Sing America by Arnold Rampersad	Biography/Autobiography	1986
Tombee: Portrait of a cotton planter by Theodore Rosengarten	Biography/Autobiography	1986
Velazquez: Painter and Courtier by Jonathan Brown	Biography/Autobiography	1986
Dostoevsky: the stir of liberation 1860-1865 by Joseph Frank	Biography/Autobiography	1986
The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History by Leo Braudy	Criticism	1986
The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art by Arthur C. Danto	Criticism	1986
Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830-1930 by Jerrold Seigel	Criticism	1986
English Criticism, 1900-1950 by René Wellek	Criticism	1986
Kate Vaiden by Reynolds Price	Fiction	1986
A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor	Fiction	1986
The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich	Fiction	1986
Roger's Version by John Updike	Fiction	1986
The Moon Pinnace by Thomas Williams	Fiction	1986
Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez	General Nonfiction	1986
Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn	General Nonfiction	1986
War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War by John W. Dower	General Nonfiction	1986
Bird of Life, Bird of Death by Jonathan Evan Maslow	General Nonfiction	1986
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner	General Nonfiction	1986
Wild Gratitude by Edward Hirsch	Poetry	1986
All of Us Here (Poets, Penguin) by Irving Feldman	Poetry	1986
Cats of the temple : poems by Brad Leithauser	Poetry	1986
Sapphics Against Anger and Other Poems by Timothy Steele	Poetry	1986
The Key to the City (Phoenix Poets Series) by Anne Winters	Poetry	1986
Henry James: A Life by Leon Edel	Biography/Autobiography	1985
Brigham Young: American Moses by Leonard J. Arrington	Biography/Autobiography	1985
Louise Bogan: A Portrait by Elizabeth Frank	Biography/Autobiography	1985
Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lesy	Biography/Autobiography	1985
Giacometti: A Biography by James Lord	Biography/Autobiography	1985
Habitations of the Word: Essays by William H. Gass	Criticism	1985
Hard Facts: Setting and Form in the American Novel by Philip Fisher	Criticism	1985
Occasional Prose: Essays by Mary McCarthy	Criticism	1985
Opera and Ideas: From Mozart to Strauss by Paul A. Robinson	Criticism	1985
Pierrots on the Stage of Desire: Nineteenth-Century French Literary Artists and the Comic Pantomime by Robert F. Storey	Criticism	1985
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler	Fiction	1985
White Noise by Don DeLillo	Fiction	1985
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry	Fiction	1985
Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance by Richard Powers	Fiction	1985
The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court : Stories by Peter Taylor	Fiction	1985
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas	General Nonfiction	1985
The Reign of the Phallus: Sexual Politics in Ancient Athens by Eva C. Keuls	General Nonfiction	1985
House by Tracy Kidder	General Nonfiction	1985
Distant Neighbors: A Portrait of the Mexicans by Alan Riding	General Nonfiction	1985
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World by Elaine Scarry	General Nonfiction	1985
The Triumph of Achilles by Louise Glück	Poetry	1985
What the Light Was Like by Amy Clampitt	Poetry	1985
The Past by Galway Kinnell	Poetry	1985
Late Settings by James Merrill	Poetry	1985
The Lamplit Answer by Gjertrud Schnackenberg	Poetry	1985
Dostoevsky: the years of ordeal 1850-1859 by Joseph Frank	Biography/Autobiography	1984
Home Before Dark by Susan Cheever	Biography/Autobiography	1984
Josephine Herbst by Elinor Langer	Biography/Autobiography	1984
One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty	Biography/Autobiography	1984
Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet by Paul Zweig	Biography/Autobiography	1984
20th Century Pleasures by Robert Hass	Criticism	1984
Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic by David Bromwich	Criticism	1984
The Innocent Eye: On Modern Literature and the Arts by Roger Shattuck	Criticism	1984
The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion by Leo Steinberg	Criticism	1984
	Criticism	1984
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich	Fiction	1984
Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr	Fiction	1984
Family Dancing by David Leavitt	Fiction	1984
Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie	Fiction	1984
Machine Dreams by Jayne Anne Phillips	Fiction	1984
Weapons and Hope by Freeman Dyson	General Nonfiction	1984
Son of the Morning Star by Evan S. Connell	General Nonfiction	1984
The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History by Robert Darnton	General Nonfiction	1984
Brothers and Keepers by John Edgar Wideman	General Nonfiction	1984
The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945 by David S. Wyman	General Nonfiction	1984
The Dead and the Living by Sharon Olds	Poetry	1984
Overnight in the Guest House of the Mystic: Poems by Dick Allen	Poetry	1984
A Wave by John Ashbery	Poetry	1984
Ground Work: Before the War by Robert Duncan	Poetry	1984
Other Side of River by Charles Wright	Poetry	1984
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir by Joyce Johnson	Biography/Autobiography	1983
Eleni by Nicholas Gage	Biography/Autobiography	1983
Thomas Carlyle: A Biography by Fred Kaplan	Biography/Autobiography	1983
Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just by Kenneth R. Manning	Biography/Autobiography	1983
The Roots of Treason: Ezra Pound and the Secret of St. Elizabeths by E. Fuller Torrey	Biography/Autobiography	1983
Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism by John Updike	Criticism	1983
The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century by Svetlana Alpers	Criticism	1983
Art and Ardor by Cynthia Ozick	Criticism	1983
All American Music by John Rockwell	Criticism	1983
The Odes of John Keats (Belknap Press) by Helen Vendler	Criticism	1983
Ironweed by William Kennedy	Fiction	1983
Cathedral: Stories by Raymond Carver	Fiction	1983
During the Reign of the Queen of Persia by Joan Chase	Fiction	1983
Magnetic Field(s) by Ron Loewinsohn	Fiction	1983
The Anatomy Lesson by Philip Roth	Fiction	1983
The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House by Seymour M. Hersh	General Nonfiction	1983
Present history by Theodore Draper	General Nonfiction	1983
Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World by David S. Landes	General Nonfiction	1983
Children of War by Roger Rosenblatt	General Nonfiction	1983
Distant Water: The Fate of the North Atlantic Fisherman by William W. Warner	General Nonfiction	1983
The Changing Light at Sandover by James Merrill	Poetry	1983
The Kingfisher by Amy Clampitt	Poetry	1983
Erosion by Jorie Graham	Poetry	1983
Picture Bride (Yale Series of Younger Poets) by Cathy Song	Poetry	1983
Tar by C. K. Williams	Poetry	1983
The Second American Revolution and Other Essays (1976-1982) by Gore Vidal	Criticism	1982
All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity by Marshall Berman	Criticism	1982
Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism by Harold Bloom	Criticism	1982
Going to The Dance by Arlene Croce	Criticism	1982
George Mills by Stanley Elkin	Fiction	1982
Shiloh and Other Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason	Fiction	1982
Levitation by Cynthia Ozick	Fiction	1982
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler	Fiction	1982
The Color Purple by Alice Walker	Fiction	1982
The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro	General Nonfiction	1982
Nuclear Delusion by George F. Kennan	General Nonfiction	1982
Stolen Lightning: The Social Theory of Magic by Daniel Lawrence O'Keefe	General Nonfiction	1982
The Fate of the Earth by Jonathan Schell	General Nonfiction	1982
Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood by Kate Simon	General Nonfiction	1982
Monolithos by Jack Gilbert	Poetry	1982
Hundreds of Fireflies by Brad Leithauser	Poetry	1982
Finding the Islands (Finding the Islands Ppr) by W. S. Merwin	Poetry	1982
Virgil Thomson Reader by Virgil Thomson	Criticism	1981
Boccaccio by Thomas G. Bergin	Criticism	1981
The Geography of the Imagination by Guy Davenport	Criticism	1981
Early Auden by Edward Mendelson	Criticism	1981
Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike	Fiction	1981
Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme	Fiction	1981
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban	Fiction	1981
The Men's Club by Leonard Michaels	Fiction	1981
A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone	Fiction	1981
The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould	General Nonfiction	1981
The Mismeasure of Man [Revised & Expanded] by Stephen Jay Gould	General Nonfiction	1981
National Defense by James Fallows	General Nonfiction	1981
Forms of Talk (Conduct and Communication) by Erving Goffman	General Nonfiction	1981
No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920 by Jackson Lears	General Nonfiction	1981
The Sage of Monticello by Dumas Malone	General Nonfiction	1981
A Coast of Trees by A. R. Ammons	Poetry	1981
The Revisionist by Douglas Crase	Poetry	1981
What manner of beast: Poems by Donald Finkel	Poetry	1981
For the sleepwalkers : poems by Edward Hirsch	Poetry	1981
Brotherly love by Daniel Hoffman	Poetry	1981
Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets by Helen Vendler	Criticism	1980
Henry Adams by R. P. Blackmur	Criticism	1980
Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars by Paul Fussell	Criticism	1980
Lectures on Literature by Vladimir Nabokov	Criticism	1980
Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875 by Barbara Novak	Criticism	1980
The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard	Fiction	1980
Loon Lake by E. L. Doctorow	Fiction	1980
So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell	Fiction	1980
The Second Coming by Walker Percy	Fiction	1980
Morgan's Passing by Anne Tyler	Fiction	1980
Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel	General Nonfiction	1980
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality by John Boswell	General Nonfiction	1980
Walt Whitman: A Life by Justin Kaplan	General Nonfiction	1980
China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston	General Nonfiction	1980
Alice James: A Biography by Jean Strouse	General Nonfiction	1980
Sunrise by Frederick Seidel	Poetry	1980
A Part of Speech by Joseph Brodsky	Poetry	1980
Scripts for the Pageant by James Merrill	Poetry	1980
The Morning of the Poem by James Schuyler	Poetry	1980
Being Here: Poetry by Robert Penn Warren	Poetry	1980
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels	Criticism	1979
A Lion for Love: A Critical Biography of Stendhal by Robert Alter	Criticism	1979
America Revised by Frances FitzGerald	Criticism	1979
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination by Sandra M. Gilbert	Criticism	1979
Decadence: The Strange Life of an Epithet by Richard Gilman	Criticism	1979
The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan	Fiction	1979
King of the Jews by Leslie Epstein	Fiction	1979
Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick	Fiction	1979
The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth	Fiction	1979
Munich: The Price of Peace by Telford Taylor	General Nonfiction	1979
The White Album by Joan Didion	General Nonfiction	1979
African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan by Edward Hoagland	General Nonfiction	1979
Gödel, Escher, Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter	General Nonfiction	1979
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe	General Nonfiction	1979
7 years from somewhere: Poems by Philip Levine	Poetry	1979
Ashes: Poems new & old by Philip Levine	Poetry	1979
The Venetian Vespers: Poems by Anthony Hecht	Poetry	1979
Blue Wine and Other Poems (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction) by John Hollander	Poetry	1979
Notes from the Castle: Poems by Howard Moss	Poetry	1979
Goshawk, Antelope by Dave Smith	Poetry	1979
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer		1979
Modern Art: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Meyer Schapiro	Criticism	1978
And I Worked at the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History, 1918-1978 by Malcolm Cowley	Criticism	1978
The World Within The Word Essays by William H. Gass	Criticism	1978
Orientalism by Edward W. Said	Criticism	1978
The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews by Eudora Welty	Criticism	1978
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever	Fiction	1978
Final Payments by Mary Gordon	Fiction	1978
The World According to Garp by John Irving	Fiction	1978
Wrinkles by Charles Simmons	Fiction	1978
The Coup by John Updike	Fiction	1978
The Facts of Life by Maureen Howard	General Nonfiction	1978
Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence by Garry Wills	General Nonfiction	1978
Max Perkins: Editor of Genius by A. Scott Berg	General Nonfiction	1978
Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life by Sissela Bok	General Nonfiction	1978
Seeing through Clothes by Anne Hollander	General Nonfiction	1978
New York Jew by Alfred Kazin	General Nonfiction	1978
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen	General Nonfiction	1978
Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt by Barrington Moore	General Nonfiction	1978
A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman	General Nonfiction	1978
In Search of History: A Personal Adventure by Theodore H. White	General Nonfiction	1978
Hello, darkness : the collected poems of L. E. Sissman by L. E. Sissman	Poetry	1978
Spectral Emanations: New and Selected Poems by John Hollander	Poetry	1978
The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977 by Adrienne Rich	Poetry	1978
The Late Hour by Mark Strand	Poetry	1978
New and Selected Things Taking Place by May Swenson	Poetry	1978
On Photography by Susan Sontag	Criticism	1977
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison	Fiction	1977
Falconer by John Cheever	Fiction	1977
A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion	Fiction	1977
The Professor of Desire by Philip Roth	Fiction	1977
Union Dues by John Sayles	Fiction	1977
Samuel Johnson by W. Jackson Bate	General Nonfiction	1977
Dispatches by Michael Herr	General Nonfiction	1977
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough	General Nonfiction	1977
Coming into the Country by John McPhee	General Nonfiction	1977
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence by Carl Sagan	General Nonfiction	1977
Day by Day by Robert Lowell	Poetry	1977
Houseboat Days: Poems by John Ashbery	Poetry	1977
Out-Of-The-Body Travel by Stanley Plumly	Poetry	1977
The Fuehrer Bunker: The Complete Cycle (American Poets Continuum) by W. D. Snodgrass	Poetry	1977
Lucky Life (Classic Contemporary) by Gerald Stern	Poetry	1977
Letters of E. B. White by E. B. White	Biography/Autobiography	1976
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim	Criticism	1976
Kicked a building lately? by Ada Louise Huxtable	Criticism	1976
Representations: Essays on literature and society by Steven Marcus	Criticism	1976
Theory Of Harmony by Arnold Shoenberg	Criticism	1976
October Light by John Gardner	Fiction	1976
Speedboat by Renata Adler	Fiction	1976
Details of a Sunset and Other Stories by Vladimir Nabokov	Fiction	1976
Bloodshed and Three Novellas (Library of Modern Jewish Literature) by Cynthia Ozick	Fiction	1976
The Easter Parade by Richard Yates	Fiction	1976
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston	General Nonfiction	1976
Damnable Question: A Study of Anglo-Irish Relations by George Dangerfield	General Nonfiction	1976
Roots by Alex Haley	General Nonfiction	1976
World of Our Fathers by Irving Howe	General Nonfiction	1976
Simple Justice by Richard Kluger	General Nonfiction	1976
Geography III by Elizabeth Bishop	Poetry	1976
The Names of the Lost: Poems by Philip Levine	Poetry	1976
The gates : poems by Muriel Rukeyser	Poetry	1976
Searching for the Ox by Louis Simpson	Poetry	1976
The Mind-Reader by Richard Wilbur	Poetry	1976
The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell	Criticism	1975
Ragtime: A Novel by E. L. Doctorow	Fiction	1975
Edith Wharton: A Biography by R. W. B. Lewis	General Nonfiction	1975
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery	Poetry	1975

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The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization consisting of more than 900 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns... The centerpiece of NBCC activities is the annual awards for the best book in six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization consisting of more than 900 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns... The centerpiece of NBCC activities is the annual awards for the best book in six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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