| 2022 |
Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch |
John Keene, Punks: New & Selected Poems |
Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon To Understand the Soul of a Nation |
Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage |
| 2021 |
Jason Mott, Hell of a Book |
Martin Espada, Floaters |
Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake |
Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club |
| 2020 |
Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown |
Don Mee Choi, DMZ Colony |
Les Payne and Tamara Payne, The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X |
Kacen Callendar, King and the Dragonflies |
| 2019 |
Susan Choi, Trust Exercise |
Arthur Sze, Sight Lines |
Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House |
Martin W. Sandler, 1919 The Year That Changed America |
| 2018 |
Sigrid Nunez, The Friend |
Justin Phillip Reed, Indecency |
Jeffrey C. Stewart, The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke |
Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X |
| 2017 |
Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing |
Frank Bidart, Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 |
Masha Gessen, The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia |
Robin Benway, Far from the Tree |
| 2016 |
Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad |
Daniel Borzutzky, The Performance of Becoming Human |
Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America |
John Lewis, Nate Powell, March: Book Three |
| 2015 |
Adam Johnson, Fortune Smiles |
Robin Coste Lewis, Voyage of the Sable Venus |
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me |
Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep |
| 2014 |
Phil Klay, Redeployment |
Louise Gluck, Faithful and Virtuous Night |
Evan Osnos, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China |
Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming |
| 2013 |
James McBride, The Good Lord Bird |
Mary Szybist, Incarnadine |
George Packer, The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America |
Cynthia Kadohata, The Thing About Luck |
| 2012 |
Louise Erdrich, The Round House |
David Ferry, Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations |
Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity |
William Alexander, Goblin Secrets |
| 2011 |
Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones |
Nikky Finney, Head Off & Split |
Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern |
Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Again |
| 2010 |
Jaimy Gordon, Lord of Misrule |
Terrance Hayes, Lighthead |
Patti Smith, Just Kids |
Kathryn Erskine, Mockingbird |
| 2009 |
Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin |
Keith Waldrop, Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy |
T.J. Stiles, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt |
Phillip Hoose, Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice |
| 2008 |
Peter Matthiessen, Shadow Country |
Mark Doty, Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems |
Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family |
Judy Blundell, What I Saw and How I Lied |
| 2007 |
Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke |
Robert Hass, Time and Materials: Poems, 1997-2005 |
Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA |
Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian |
| 2006 |
Richard Powers, The Echo Maker |
Nathaniel Mackey, Splay Anthem |
Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl |
M.T. Anderson, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party |
| 2005 |
William T. Vollmann, Europe Central |
W.S. Merwin, Migration: New and Selected Poems |
Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking |
Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks |
| 2004 |
Lily Tuck , The News from Paraguay |
Jean Valentine, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965-2003 |
Kevin Boyle, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age |
Pete Hautman, Godless |
| 2003 |
Shirley Hazzard, The Great Fire |
C.K. Williams , The Singing |
Carlos Eire, Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy |
Polly Horvath, The Canning Season |
| 2002 |
Julia Glass , Three Junes |
Ruth Stone , In the Next Galaxy |
Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson |
Nancy Farmer, The house of the Scorpion |
| 2001 |
Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections |
Alan Dugan, Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry |
Andrew Solomon , The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression |
Virginia Eumer Wollf , True Believer |
| 2000 |
Susan Sontag, In America |
Lucille Clifton, Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 |
Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex |
Gloria Whelan, Homeless Bird |
| 1999 |
Ha Jin, Waiting |
Ai, New and Selected Poems |
John W. Dower , Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II |
Kimberly Willis Holtt, When Zachary Beaver Came to Town |
| 1998 |
Alice McDermott, Charming Billy |
Gerald Stern, The Time: New and Selected Poems |
Edward Ball, Slaves in the Family |
Louis Sachar, Holes |
| 1997 |
Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain |
William Meredith , Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems |
Joseph J. Ellis , American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson |
Han Nolan, Dancing on the Edge |
| 1996 |
Andrea Barrett, Ship Fever and Other Stories |
Hayden Carruth, Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey: Poems 1991-1995 |
James Carroll, An American Requiem: God, My Father and the War That Came Between Us |
Victor Martinez, Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida |
| 1995 |
Philip Roth, Sabbath's Theater |
Stanley Kunitz, Passing Through |
Tina Rosenberg, The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism |
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| 1994 |
William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own |
James Tate, Worshipful Company of Fletchers |
Sherwin B. Nuland , How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter |
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| 1993 |
E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News |
A.R. Ammons, Garbage |
Gore Vidal, United States: Essays 1952-1992 |
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| 1992 |
Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses |
Mary Oliver , New and Selected Poems |
Paul Monette, Becoming a Man: Half a Life |
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| 1991 |
Norman Rush, Mating |
Philip Levine, What Work Is |
Orlando Patterson, Freedom |
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| 1990 |
Charles Johnson, Middle Passage |
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Ron Chernow, The House of Morgan |
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| 1989 |
John Casey, Spartina |
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Thomas L. Friedman , From Beirut to Jerusalem |
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| 1988 |
Pete Dexter, Paris Trout |
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Neil Sheehan, A Bright and Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam |
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| 1987 |
Larry Heinemann, Paco's Story |
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Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atom Bomb |
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| 1986 |
E.L. Doctorow, World's Fair |
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Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams |
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| 1985 |
Don DeLillo, White Noise |
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J. Anthony Lukas , Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families |
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| 1984 |
Ellen Gilchrist, Victory Over Japan |
Charles Wright, Country Music |
Robert V. Remini, Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy, 1833-45 |
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| 1983 |
Alice Walker, The Color Purple |
Galway Kinnell, Selected Poems |
Fox Butterfield, China: Alive in the Bitter Sea |
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| 1982 |
John Updike, Rabbit Is Rich |
William Brook, Life Supports |
Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine |
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| 1981 |
Wright Morris, Plains Song |
Lisel Mueller, The Need to Hold Still |
Maxine Hong Kingston, China Men |
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| 1980 |
William Styron, Sophie's Choice |
Philip Levine, Ashes |
Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff |
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| 1979 |
Tim O'Brien, Going After Cacciato |
James Merrill, Mirabell: Books of Number |
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. , Robert Kennedy and His Times |
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| 1978 |
Mary Lee Settle, Blood Ties |
Howard Nemerov, The Collected Poems |
Walter Jackson Bate, Samuel Johnson |
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| 1977 |
Wallace Stegner, The Spectator Bird |
Richard Eberhart, Collected Poems, 1930-1976 |
Bruno Bettelheim, The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales |
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| 1976 |
William Gaddis, JR |
John Ashbery , Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror |
Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory |
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| 1975 |
Robert Stone, Dog Soldiers & Tomas Williams, The Hair of Harold Roux |
Marilyn Hacker, Presentation Piece |
Richard B. Sewall, The Life of Emily Dickinson & Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell |
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| 1974 |
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow & Isaac Bashevis Singer, A Crown of Feathers & Other Stories |
Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States, 1965-71 & Adrienne Rich, Diving into the Wreck: Poems, 1971-72 |
Pauline Kael, Deeper into the Movies |
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| 1973 |
John Barth, Chimera & John Williams, Augustus |
A.R. Ammons, Collected Poems: 1951-71 |
Frances Fitzgerald , Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam |
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| 1972 |
Flannery O'Connor, The Complete Stories |
Howard Moss, Selected Poems |
Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor and Franklin |
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| 1971 |
Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler's Planet |
Mona Van Duyn , To See, To Take |
James MacGregor Burns, Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom |
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| 1970 |
Joyce Carol Oates, Them |
Elizabeth Bishop, The Complete Poems |
Lillian Hellman , An Unfinished Woman, a Memoir |
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| 1969 |
Jerzy Kosinski, Steps |
John Berryman, His Toy, His Dream, His Rest |
Norman Mailer, The Armies of the Night |
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| 1968 |
Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day |
Robert Bly, The Light Around the Body |
Jonathan Kozol , Death at an Early Age |
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| 1967 |
Bernard Malamud, The Fixer |
James Merrill, Nights and Days |
Justin Kaplan , Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain |
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| 1966 |
Katherine Anne Porter, The Collected Stories |
James Dickey, Buckdancer's Choice |
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. , A Thousand Days: JFK in the White House |
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| 1965 |
Saul Bellow , Herzog |
Theodore Roethke, The Far Field |
Louis Fisher, The Life of Lenin |
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| 1964 |
John Updike, The Centaur |
John Crowe Ransom, Selected Poems |
Aileen Ward, John Keats: The Making of a Poet |
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| 1963 |
J.F. Powers, Morte d'Urban |
William Stafford, Traveling Through the Dark |
Leon Edel, Henry James, vols. 2 and 3 |
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| 1962 |
Walker Percy, The Moviegoer |
Alan Dugan, Poems |
Lewis Mumford , The City in History |
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| 1961 |
Conrad Richter, The Waters of Kronos |
Randall Jarrell, The Woman at the Washington Zoo |
William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich |
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| 1960 |
Philip Roth, Goodbye, Columbus |
Robert J. Lowell , Life Studies |
Richard Ellman , James Joyce |
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| 1959 |
Bernard Malamud, The Magic Barrel |
Theodore Roethke, Words for the Wind |
J. Christopher Herold, Mistress to an Age |
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| 1958 |
John Cheever, The Wapshot Chronicle |
Robert Penn Warren, Promises: Poems, 1954-56 |
Catherine Drinker Bowen, The Lion and the Throne |
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| 1957 |
Wright Morris, Field of Vision |
Richard Wilbur, Things of this World |
George F. Kennan, Russia Leaves the War |
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| 1956 |
John O'Hara, Ten North Frederick |
W.H. Auden , The Shield of Achilles |
Herbert Kubly, An American in Italy |
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| 1955 |
William Faulkner, A Fable |
Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems |
Joseph Wood Krutch, The Measure of Man |
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| 1954 |
Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March |
Conrad Aiken, Collected Poems |
Bruce Catton , A Stillness at Appomattox |
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| 1953 |
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man |
Archibald MacLeish, Collected Poems 1917-52 |
Bernard De Voto, Course of Empire |
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| 1952 |
James Jones, From Here to Eternity |
Marianne Moore , Collected Poems |
Rachel Carson , The Sea Around Us |
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| 1951 |
William Faulkner, The Collected Stories |
Wallace Stevens, The Auroras of Autumn |
Newton Arvin, Herman Melville |
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| 1950 |
Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm |
William Carols Williams, Paterson: Book III and Selected Poems |
Ralph L. Rusk, Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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