National Book Awards
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2006
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| Fiction: The Echo Maker, by
Richard Powers
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| Nonfiction: The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl, by
Timothy Egan
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| Poetry: Splay Anthem, by
Nathaniel Mackey
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| Young People's Literature: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party, by
M.T. Anderson
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2005
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| Fiction: Europe Central, by
William T. Vollmann
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| Nonfiction: The Year of Magical Thinking, by
Joan Didion
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| Poetry: Migration: New and Selected Poems, by
W.S. Merwin
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| Young People's Literature: The Penderwicks, by
Jeanne Birdsall
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2004
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| Fiction: The News from Paraguay, by
Lily Tuck
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| Nonfiction: Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age, by
Kevin Boyle
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| Poetry: Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003, by
Jean Valentine
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| Young People's Literature: Godless, by
Pete Hautman
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2003
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| Fiction: The Great Fire, by
Shirley Hazzard
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| Nonfiction: Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy, by
Carlos Eire
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| Poetry: The Singing, by
C.K. Williams
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| Young People's Literature: The Canning Season, by
Polly Horvath
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2002
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| Fiction: Three Junes, by
Julia Glass
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| Nonfiction: Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, by
Robert A. Caro
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| Poetry: In the Next Galaxy, by
Ruth Stone
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| Young People's Literature: The House of the Scorpion, by
Nancy Farmer
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2001
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| Fiction: The Corrections, by
Jonathan Franzen
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| Nonfiction: The Noonday Demon, by
Andrew Solomon
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| Poetry: Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry, by
Alan Dugan
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| Young People's Literature: True Believer, by
Virginia Euwer Wolff
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2000
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| Fiction: In America, by
Susan Sontag
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| Nonfiction: In the Heart of the Sea, by
Nathaniel Philbrick
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| Poetry: Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000, by
Lucille Clifton
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| Young People's Literature: Homeless Bird, by
Gloria Whelan
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1999
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| Fiction: Waiting, by
Ha Jin
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| Nonfiction: Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, by
John W. Dower
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| Poetry: Vice: New and Selected Poems, by
Ai
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| Young People's Literature: When Zachary Beaver Came to Town, by
Kimberly Willis Holt
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1998
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| Fiction: Charming Billy, by
Alice McDermott
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| Nonfiction: Slaves in the Family, by
Edward Ball
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| Poetry: This Time: New and Selected Poems, by
Gerald Stern
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| Young People's Literature: Holes, by
Louis Sachar
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