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Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery by Leon F. Litwack Paperback
Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz Hardcover
The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder Hardcover
The World According to Garp by John Irving Paperback
The Circus of Dr. Lao by Charles G. FinneyMost Original Book, 1935
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell1936
Gone with the WindFiction, 1936
The life of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph L. RuskNonfiction, 1950
The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson AlgrenFiction, 1950
William Carlos Williams: Selected Poems by William Carlos WilliamsPoetry, 1950
The Auroras of Autumn by Wallace StevensPoetry, 1951
Collected Stories of William Faulkner by William FaulknerFiction, 1951
Herman Melville by Newton ArvinNonfiction, 1951
Collected Poems by Marianne MoorePoetry, 1952
From Here to Eternity by James JonesFiction, 1952
The Sea Around Us by Rachel CarsonNonfiction, 1952
The Collected Poems of Archibald MacLeish by Archibald MacLeishPoetry, 1953
The Course of Empire by Bernard DeVotoNonfiction, 1953
Invisible Man by Ralph EllisonFiction, 1953
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul BellowFiction, 1954
Collected poems by Conrad AikenPoetry, 1954
A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce CattonNonfiction, 1954
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens by Wallace StevensPoetry, 1955
A Fable by William FaulknerFiction, 1955
The measure of man: on freedom, human values, survival, and the modern temper by Joseph Wood KrutchNonfiction, 1955
American in Italy by Herbert KublyNonfiction, 1956
The Shield of Achilles by W. H. AudenPoetry, 1956
Ten North Frederick by John O'HaraFiction, 1956
The Field of Vision by Wright MorrisFiction, 1957
Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920, Vol 1 by George F. KennanNonfiction, 1957
Things of This World: Poems by Richard WilburPoetry, 1957
The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke by Catherine Drinker BowenNonfiction, 1958
The Wapshot Chronicle by John CheeverFiction, 1958
The Wapshot Scandal by John CheeverFiction, 1958
The Magic Barrel: Stories by Bernard MalamudFiction, 1959
Mistress to an age : a life of Madame de Staël by J. Christopher HeroldNonfiction, 1959
Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse of Theodore Roethke by Theodore RoethkePoetry, 1959
Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories by Philip RothFiction, 1960
James Joyce by Richard EllmannNonfiction, 1960
Life Studies by Robert LowellPoetry, 1960
The Waters of Kronos by Conrad RichterFiction, 1961
The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Poems and Translations by Randall JarrellPoetry, 1961
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects by Lewis MumfordNonfiction, 1962
The Moviegoer by Walker PercyFiction, 1962
Poems by Alan DuganPoetry, 1962
Henry James: The Conquest of London, 1870-81 by Leon EdelNonfiction, 1963
Henry James: The Middle Years, 1881-95 by Leon EdelNonfiction, 1963
Morte d'Urban by J. F. PowersFiction, 1963
Traveling Through The Dark by William StaffordPoetry, 1963
The Centaur by John UpdikeFiction, 1964
John Keats: The Making of a Poet by Aileen WardArts and Letters, 1964
Man-Made America by Christopher TunnardScience, Philosophy and Religion, 1964
The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community by William H. McNeillHistory or Biography, 1964
Selected Poems by John Crowe RansomPoetry, 1964
The Far Field: The Last Poems of a Major American Poet by Theodore RoethkePoetry, 1965
God and Golem, Inc.: A Comment on Certain Points where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion by Norbert WienerScience, Philosophy and Religion, 1965
Herzog by Saul BellowFiction, 1965
The Life of Lenin by Louis FischerHistory or Biography, 1965
The Oysters of Locmariaquer by Eleanor ClarkArts and Letters, 1965
Buckdancer's Choice: Poems by James DickeyPoetry, 1966
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne PorterFiction, 1966
Paris Journal, 1944-1965 by Janet FlannerArts and Letters, 1966
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.History or Biography, 1966
The Fixer by Bernard MalamudFiction, 1967
Hopscotch by Julio CortázarGregory Rabassa, Translation, 1967
Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography by Justin KaplanArts and Letters, 1967
Nights and Days by James MerrillPoetry, 1967
The Rise of Modern Paganism by Peter GayHistory or Biography, 1967
The Story of My Life by Giacomo Girolamo CasanovaWillard Trask, Translation, 1967
La Vida; A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty—San Juan and New York by Oscar LewisScience, Philosophy and Religion, 1967
Death at an Early Age by Jonathan KozolScience, Philosophy and Religion, 1968
The Eighth Day by Thornton WilderFiction, 1968
The Light Around the Body by Robert BlyPoetry, 1968
Memoirs 1925-1950 by George F. KennanHistory or Biography, 1968
Papers and Journals: A Selection by Søren KierkegaardHoward & Edna Hong, Translation, 1968
Selected essays by William TroyArts and Letters, 1968
The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer1969
Cosmicomics by Italo CalvinoWilliam Weaver, Translation, 1969
Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima by Robert Jay LiftonThe Sciences, 1969
His Toy, His Dream, His Rest: 308 Dream Songs by John BerrymanPoetry, 1969
Journey from Peppermint Street by Meindert DeJongChildren's Literature, 1969
Steps by Jerzy KosińskiFiction, 1969
White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 by Winthrop D. JordanHistory or Biography, 1969
Castle to Castle by Louis-Ferdinand CélineRalph Manheim, Translation, 1970
The complete poems, 1927–1979 by Elizabeth BishopPoetry, 1970
A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw by Isaac Bashevis SingerChildren's Books, 1970
Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence by Erik H. EriksonPhilosophy and Religion, 1970
Huey Long by T. Harry WilliamsHistory or Biography, 1970
Them by Joyce Carol OatesFiction, 1970
An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir by Lillian HellmanArts and Letters, 1970
Cocteau: A Biography by Francis SteegmullerArts and Letters, 1971
The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian by Lloyd AlexanderChildren's Books, 1971
Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul BellowFiction, 1971
Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom, 1940-1945 by James MacGregor BurnsHistory or Biography, 1971
Saint Joan of the Stockyards by Bertolt BrechtFrank Jones, Translation, 1971
Science in the British Colonies of America by Raymond Phineas StearnsThe Sciences, 1971
The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari KawabataEdward G. Seidensticker, Translation, 1971
To see, to take; poems by Mona Van DuynPoetry, 1971
The Blue Whale by George L. SmallThe Sciences, 1972
Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology by Jacques MonodAustryn Wainhouse, Translation, 1972
The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven by Charles RosenArts and Letters, 1972
The collected poems of Frank O'Hara by Frank O'HaraPoetry, 1972
Complete Stories by Flannery O'ConnorFiction, 1972
Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. LashBiography, 1972
The Epic of Gilgamesh by AnonymousTranslation, 1972) (finalist
Ordeal of the Union, Vols. 7-8: The War For The Union, Part II by Allan NevinsHistory, 1972
Righteous empire; the Protestant experience in America by Martin E. MartyPhilosophy and Religion, 1972
Selected poems by Howard MossPoetry, 1972
The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine by Donald BarthelmeChildren's Books, 1972
Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools: Fall 1969 by Portola InstituteContemporary Affairs, 1972
The Aeneid by VirgilAllen Mandelbaum, Translation, 1973
Augustus by John WilliamsFiction, 1973
The Briar Patch by Murray KemptonContemporary Affairs, 1973
Chimera by John BarthFiction, 1973
Collected Poems 1951-1971 by A. R. AmmonsPoetry, 1973
Diderot by Arthur McCandless WilsonArts and Letters, 1973
The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le GuinChildren's Books, 1973
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances FitzGeraldContemporary Affairs, 1973
George Washington, Anguish and Farewell (1793-1799) by James Thomas FlexnerBiography, 1973
Judenrat : the Jewish councils in Eastern Europe under Nazi occupation by Isaiah TrunkHistory, 1973
A Religious History of the American People by Sydney E. AhlstromPhilosophy and Religion, 1973
The Serengeti Lion: A Study of Predator-Prey Relations (Wildlife Behavior and Ecology series) by George B. SchallerThe Sciences, 1973
The Confessions of Lady Nijo by Lady NijoKaren Brazell, Translation, 1974
The Court of the Stone Children by Eleanor CameronChildren's Books, 1974
A Crown of Feathers by Isaac Bashevis SingerFiction, 1974
Deeper into Movies by Pauline KaelArts and Letters, 1974
Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 by Adrienne RichPoetry, 1974
Edmund Husserl: Philosopher of Infinite Tasks by Maurice NatansonPhilosophy and Religion, 1974
The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) by Allen GinsbergPoetry, 1974
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas PynchonFiction, 1974
Howl by Allen Ginsberg1974
Life: The Unfinished Experiment by S. E. LuriaThe Sciences, 1974
Macaulay, the Shaping of the Historian by John Leonard CliveHistory, 1974
Malcolm Lowry: A Biography (Galaxy Book) by Douglas DayBiography, 1974
Monsieur Teste by Paul ValéryJackson Matthews, Translation, 1974
All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw by Theodore RosengartenContemporary Affairs, 1975
Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert NozickPhilosophy and Religion, 1975
Dog Soldiers by Robert StoneFiction, 1975
The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas WilliamsFiction, 1975
Interpretation of Schizophrenia by Silvano ArietiThe Sciences, 1975
The Life of Emily Dickinson by Richard B. SewallBiography, 1975
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis ThomasThe Sciences, 1975
M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia HamiltonChildren's Books, 1975
Marcel Proust by Roger ShattuckArts and Letters, 1975
The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson by Bernard BailynHistory, 1975
Presentation Piece by Marilyn HackerPoetry, 1975
Bert Breen's Barn by Walter D. EdmondsChildren's Literature, 1976
The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul FussellArts and Letters, 1976
J R by William GaddisFiction, 1976
Passage to Ararat by Michael J. ArlenContemporary Affairs, 1976
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 by David Brion DavisHistory or Biography, 1976
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John AshberyPoetry, 1976
The Master Puppeteer by Katherine PatersonChildren's Literature, 1977
Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance by Jieyuan DongLi-Li Ch'en, Translation, 1977
Norman Thomas, the last idealist by W. A. SwanbergBiography and Autobiography, 1977
The Spectator Bird by Wallace StegnerFiction, 1977
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno BettelheimContemporary Thought, 1977
World of Our Fathers by Irving HoweHistory, 1977
Blood Tie by Mary Lee SettleFiction, 1978
The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov by Howard NemerovPoetry, 1978
In the deserts of this Earth by Uwe GeorgeHoward Nemerov, Translation, 1978
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCulloughHistory, 1978
Samuel Johnson by W. Jackson BateBiography and Autobiography, 1978
The View from the Oak: The Private Worlds of Other Creatures by Judith KohlChildren's Literature, 1978
Winners and Losers: Battles, Retreats, Gains, Losses, and Ruins from a Long War by Gloria EmersonContemporary Thought, 1978
The Complete Posthumous Poetry by César VallejoClayton Eshleman & Jose Rubin Barcia, Translation, 1979
Going After Cacciato by Tim O'BrienFiction, 1979
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine PatersonChildren's Literature, 1979
Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585-1763 by Richard Beale DavisHistory, 1979
Mirabell: Books of Number by James Ingram MerrillPoetry, 1979
Robert Kennedy and His Times by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.Biography and Autobiography, 1979
And I Worked at the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History, 1918-1978 by Malcolm CowleyAutobiography (Paperback), 1980
Ashes: Poems new & old by Philip LevinePoetry, 1980
Bendigo Shafter by Louis L'AmourWestern, 1980
Birdy by William WhartonFirst Novel, 1980
The Book of the Dun Cow by Walter Jr. WangerinScience Fiction (Paperback), 1980
By Myself by Lauren Bacall Hardcover, 1980
The collected critical prose and letters by Osip MandelstamJane Gary Harris & Constance Link, Translation, 1980
The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946 - Present, Ninth Edition by Tim BrooksGeneral Reference Books (Paperback), 1980
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations by Christopher LaschCurrent Interest (Paperback), 1980
The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics by Gary ZukavScience (Paperback), 1980
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman Paperback, 1980
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32 by Joan W. BlosChildren's Books (Hardcover), 1980
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine PagelsReligion/Inspiration (Hardcover), 1980
The Green Ripper by John D. MacDonaldMystery (Hardcover), 1980
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. HofstadterScience, 1980
Jem by Frederik PohlScience Fiction (Hardcover), 1980
Julia Child & More Company by Julia ChildCurrent Interest (Hardcover), 1980
Lavorare stanca by Cesare PaveseWilliam Arrowsmith, Translation, 1980
Max Perkins: Editor of Genius by A. Scott BergBiography (Paperback), 1980
The Right Stuff by Tom WolfeGeneral Nonfiction (Hardcover), 1980
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund MorrisBiography (Hardcover),1980
A Severe Mercy by Sheldon VanaukenReligion/Inspiration (Paperback), 1980
The Snow Leopard by Peter MatthiessenGeneral Nonfiction (Paperback), 1980
Sophie's Choice by William StyronFiction (Hardcover), 1980
Stained Glass by William F. Buckley, Jr.Mystery (Paperback), 1980
A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'EngleChildren's Books (Paperback), 1980
White House Years by Henry A. KissingerHistory (Hardcover), 1980
China Men by Maxine Hong KingstonGeneral Nonfiction (Hardcover), 1981
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality by John BoswellHistory (Hardcover), 1981
Evening Edged in Gold by Arno SchmidtJohn E. Woods, Translation, 1981
The Last Cowboy by Jane KramerGeneral Nonfiction (Paperback), 1981
The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857 by Gustave FlaubertFrancis Steegmuller, Translation, 1981
The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis ThomasScience (Paperback), 1981
The Need to Hold Still: Poems by Lisel MuellerPoetry, 1981
The Night Swimmers by Betsy ByarsChildren's Books, Fiction (Hardcover), 1981
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay GouldScience (Hardcover), 1981
Plains Song: For Female Voices by Wright MorrisFiction, 1981
Ramona and Her Mother by Beverly ClearyChildren's Books, Fiction (Paperback), 1981
Samuel Beckett: A Biography by Deirdre BairAutobiography/Biography (Paperback), 1981
Sister Wolf by Ann ArensbergFirst Novel, 1981
The Stories of John Cheever by John CheeverFiction, 1981
Walt Whitman: A Life by Justin KaplanAutobiography/Biography (Hardcover), 1981
Dale Loves Sophie to Death by Robb Forman DewFirst Novel, 1982
The Generation of 1914 by Robert WohlHistory (Paperback), 1982
In the Shade of Spring Leaves by Ichiyô Higuchi1982
Life Supports: New and Collected Poems by William BronkPoetry, 1982
Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind by Donald C. JohansonScience (Hardcover), 1982
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt by David McCulloughAutobiography/Biography (Hardcover), 1982
Naming Names by Victor S. NavaskyGeneral Nonfiction (Paperback), 1982
Noah's Ark by Peter SpierChildren's Books, Picture Books, Paperback, 1982
Outside Over There by Maurice SendakChildren's Books, Picture Books (Hardcover), 1982
A Penguin Year by Susan BonnersChildren's Books, Nonfiction, 1982
People of the Sacred Mountain by Peter J. PowellHistory (Hardcover), 1982
Rabbit Is Rich by John UpdikeFiction (Hardcover), 1982
So Long, See You Tomorrow by William MaxwellFiction (Paperback), 1982
Taking The Quantum Leap: The New Physics For Non-Scientists by Fred Alan WolfScience (Paperback), 1982
Ten Thousand Leaves by AnonymousIan Hideo Levy, Translation, 1982
The Ten Thousand Leaves: A Translation of the Man'yoshu, Japan's Premier Anthology of Classical Poetry, Volume One by Ian Hideo LevyIan Hideo Levy, Translation, 1982
Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald SteelAutobiography/Biography (Paperback), 1982
Westmark by Lloyd AlexanderChildren's Books, Fiction (Hardcover), 1982
Words by Heart by Ouida SebestyenChildren's Books, Fiction (Paperback), 1982
Chimney Sweeps: Yesterday and Today by James Cross GiblinChildren's Books, Nonfiction, 1983
China: Alive in the Bitter Sea by Fox ButterfieldGeneral Nonfiction (Hardcover), 1983
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora WeltyFiction (Paperback), 1983
The Color Purple by Alice WalkerFiction, Paperback, 1983
Country Music: Selected Early Poems by Charles WrightPoetry, 1983
Doctor De Soto by William SteigChildren's Picture Books (Hardcover), 1983
The Flowers of Evil by Charles BaudelaireRichard Howard, Translation, 1983
A House Is a House for Me by Mary Ann HobermanChildren's Picture Books (Paperback), 1983
Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller by Judith ThurmanAutobiography/Biography (Hardcover), 1983
Marked By Fire by Joyce Carol ThomasChildren's Fiction (Paperback), 1983
The Mathematical Experience by Philip J. DavisScience (Paperback), 1983
Miss Rumphius by Barbara CooneyChildren's Picture Books (Hardcover), 1983
Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times by James R. MellowAutobiography/Biography (Paperback), 1983
National Defense by James FallowsGeneral Nonfiction (Paperback), 1983
A Place Apart by Paula FoxChildren's Fiction (Paperback), 1983
The Red Magician by Lisa GoldsteinOriginal Paperback, 1983
Selected Poems: Galway Kinnell by Galway KinnellPoetry, 1983
Subtle Is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein by Abraham PaisScience (Hardcover), 1983
Utopian Thought in the Western World by Frank E. ManuelHistory (Paperback), 1983
Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression by Alan BrinkleyHistory Hardcover, 1983
The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria NaylorFirst Novel, 1983
Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845 by Robert V. ReminiNonfiction, 1984
Stones for Ibarra by Harriet DoerrFirst Work of Fiction, 1984
Victory over Japan: A Book of Stories by Ellen GilchristFiction, 1984
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony LukasNonfiction, 1985
Easy in the Islands by Bob ShacochisFirst Work of Fiction, 1985
White Noise by Don DeLilloFiction, 1985
Arctic Dreams by Barry LopezNonfiction, 1986
World's Fair by E. L. DoctorowFiction, 1986
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard RhodesNonfiction, 1987
Paco's Story by Larry HeinemannFiction, 1987
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil SheehanNonfiction, 1988
Paris Trout by Pete DexterFiction, 1988
From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. FriedmanNonfiction, 1989
Spartina by John CaseyFiction, 1989
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ron ChernowNonfiction, 1990
Middle Passage by Charles JohnsonFiction, 1990
Freedom in the Making of Western Culture by Orlando PattersonNonfiction, 1991
Mating by Norman RushFiction, 1991
What Work Is by Philip LevinePoetry, 1991
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthyFiction, 1992
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story by Paul MonetteNonfiction, 1992
New and Selected Poems by Mary OliverPoetry, 1992
Garbage: A Poem by A. R. AmmonsPoetry, 1993
The Shipping News by E. Annie ProulxFiction, 1993
United States: Essays 1952-1992 by Gore VidalNonfiction, 1993
A Frolic of His Own by William GaddisFiction, 1994
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. NulandNonfiction, 1994
Worshipful Company of Fletchers by James TatePoetry, 1994
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina RosenbergNonfiction, 1995
Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected by Stanley KunitzPoetry, 1995
Sabbath's Theater by Philip RothFiction, 1995
An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us by James CarrollNonfiction, 1996
Parrot in the Oven: Mi vida by Victor MartinezYoung People's Literature, 1996
Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey: Poems, 1991-1995 by Hayden CarruthPoetry, 1996
Ship Fever: Stories by Andrea BarrettFiction, 1996
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. EllisNonfiction, 1997
Cold Mountain by Charles FrazierFiction, 1997
Dancing on the Edge by Han NolanYoung People's Literature, 1997
Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems by William MeredithPoetry, 1997
Charming Billy by Alice McDermottFiction, 1998
Slaves in the Family by Edward BallNonfiction, 1998
This Time: New and Selected Poems by Gerald SternPoetry, 1998
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. DowerNonfiction, 1999
Vice: New and Selected Poems by AiPoetry, 1999
Waiting by Ha JinFiction, 1999
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis HoltYoung People's Literature, 1999
Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 (American Poets Continuum) by Lucille CliftonPoetry, 2000
Homeless Bird by Gloria WhelanYoung People's Literature, 2000
In America by Susan SontagFiction, 2000
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel PhilbrickNonfiction, 2000
The Corrections by Jonathan FranzenFiction, 2001
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew SolomonNonfiction, 2001
Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry by Alan DuganPoetry, 2001
True Believer by Virginia Euwer WolffYoung People's Literature, 2001
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy FarmerYoung People's Literature, 2002
In the Next Galaxy by Ruth StonePoetry, 2002
Master of the Senate by Robert A. CaroNonfiction, 2002
Three Junes by Julia GlassFiction, 2002
The Canning Season by Polly HorvathYoung People's Literature, 2003
The Great Fire by Shirley HazzardFiction, 2003
The Singing: Poems by C. K. WilliamsPoetry, 2003
Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos EireNonfiction, 2003
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin BoyleNonfiction, 2004
Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 by Jean ValentinePoetry, 2004
Godless by Pete HautmanYoung People's Literature, 2004
The News from Paraguay by Lily TuckFiction, 2004
Europe Central by William T. VollmannFiction, 2005
Migration: New & Selected Poems by W. S. MerwinPoetry, 2005
The Penderwicks by Jeanne BirdsallYoung People's Literature, 2005
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan DidionNonfiction, 2005
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party by M. T. AndersonYoung People's Literature, 2006
The Echo Maker by Richard PowersFiction, 2006
Splay Anthem by Nathaniel MackeyPoetry, 2006
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy EganNonfiction, 2006
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman AlexieYoung People's Literature, 2007
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim WeinerNonfiction, 2007
Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 by Robert HassPoetry, 2007
Tree of Smoke by Denis JohnsonFiction, 2007
Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems by Mark DotyPoetry, 2008
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-ReedNonfiction, 2008
Shadow Country by Peter MatthiessenFiction, 2008
What I Saw And How I Lied by Judy BlundellYoung People's Literature, 2008
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip HooseYoung People's Literature, 2009
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T. J. StilesNonfiction, 2009
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCannFiction, 2009
Transcendental studies : a trilogy by Keith WaldropPoetry, 2009
Just Kids by Patti SmithNonfiction, 2010
Lighthead by Terrance HayesPoetry 2010
Lord of Misrule by Jaimy GordonFiction, 2010
Mockingbird by Kathryn ErskineYoung People's Literature, 2010
Head Off & Split: Poems by Nikky FinneyPoetry, 2011
Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha LaiYoung People's Literature, 2011
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn WardFiction, 2011
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen GreenblattNonfiction, 2011
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine BooNonfiction ∙ 2012
Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations (Phoenix Poets) by David FerryPoetry, 2012
Goblin Secrets by William AlexanderYoung People's Literature, 2012
The Round House by Louise ErdrichFiction, 2012
The Good Lord Bird by James McBrideFiction, 2013
Incarnadine: Poems by Mary SzybistPoetry, 2013
The Thing About Luck by Cynthia KadohataYoung People's Literature, 2013
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George PackerNonfiction, 2013
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan OsnosNonfiction, 2014
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline WoodsonYoung People's Literature, 2014
Faithful and Virtuous Night by Louise GlückPoetry, 2014
Redeployment by Phil KlayFiction, 2014
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel JoyceNew Writer of the Year, 2014
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesNonfiction, 2015
Challenger Deep by Neal ShustermanYoung People's Literature, 2015
Fortune Smiles: Stories by Adam JohnsonFiction, 2015
Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems by Robin Coste LewisPoetry, 2015
March: Book Three by John LewisYoung People's Literature, 2016
The Performance of Becoming Human by Daniel BorzutzkyPoetry, 2016
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. KendiNonfiction, 2016
The Underground Railroad by Colson WhiteheadFiction, 2016
Far from the Tree by Robin BenwayYoung People's Literature, 2017
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha GessenNonfiction, 2017
Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 by Frank BidartPoetry, 2017
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn WardFiction, 2017
The Emissary by Yōko TawadaTranslation, 2018
The Friend by Sigrid NunezFiction, 2018
Indecency by Justin Phillip ReedPoetry, 2018
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. StewartNonfiction, 2018
The Poet X by Elizabeth AcevedoYoung People's Literature, 2018
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam KayNon-Fiction Book of the Year, 2018
Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming by Laszlo KrasznahorkaiTranslated Literature, 2019
1919 The Year That Changed America by Martin W. SandlerYoung People's Literature, 2019
Sight Lines by Arthur SzePoetry, 2019
The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom Nonfiction, 2019
Trust Exercise by Susan ChoiFiction, 2019
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne Nonfiction, 2020
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu Fiction, 2020
DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi Poetry, 2020
Tokyo Ueno Station by Miri Yu Translated Literature, 2020
King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender Young People's Literature, 2020
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya MilesNonfiction, 2021
Floaters: Poems by Martín EspadaPoetry, 2021
Hell of a Book by Jason MottFiction, 2021
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda LoYoung People's Literature, 2021
Winter in Sokcho by Élisa Shua DusapinTranslated Literature, 2021
All My Rage by Sabaa TahirYoung People's Literature, 2022
Punks: New & Selected Poems by John KeenePoetry, 2022
The Rabbit Hutch by Tess GuntyFiction, 2022
Seven Empty Houses by Samanta SchweblinTranslated Literature, 2022
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani PerryNonfiction, 2022