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FICTION
2010  A Visit From the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan  (announced March 10, 2011)

2009  Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
2008  2666 - Roberto Bolaño
2007  The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao -  Junot Diaz
2006  The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
2005  The March: A Novel - E.L. Doctorow
2004  Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
2003  The Known World - Edward P. Jones
2002  Atonement - Ian McEwan
2001  Austerlitz - W.G. Sebald
2000  Being Dead - Jim Crace

1999  Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem
1998  The Love of a Good Woman - Alice Munro
1997  The Blue Flower - Penelope Fitzgerald
1996  Women in Their Beds - Gina Berriault
1995  Mrs. Ted Bliss - Stanley Elkin
1994  The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
1993  A Lesson Before Dying - Ernest J. Gaines
1992  All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
1991  A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley
1990  Rabbit at Rest - John Updike

1989  Billy Bathgate - E.L. Doctorow
1988  The Middleman and Other Stories - Bharati Mukherjee
1987  The Counterlife - Philip Roth
1986  Kate Vaiden - Reynolds Price
1985  The Accidental Tourist - Anne Tyler
1984  Love Medicine - Louise Erdrich
1983  Ironweed - William Kennedy
1982  George Mills - Stanley Elkin
1981  Rabbit Is Rich - John Updike
1980  The Transit of Venus - Shirley Hazzard

1979  The Year of the French – Thomas Flanagan
1978  The Stories of John Cheever - John Cheever
1977  Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
1976  October Light - John Gardner
1975  Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow

NONFICTION
2010  The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration - Isabel Wilkerson 

2009  The Age of Wonder - Richard Holmes
2008  The Forever War - Dexter Filkins
2007  Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present - Harriet Washington
2006  Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution - Simon Schama
2005  Voices From Chernobyl - Svetlana Alexievich
2004  The Reformation: A History - Diarmaid MacCulloch
2003  Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy - Paul Hendrickson
2002  A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide - Samantha Power
2001  Double Ford: Libraries and the Assault on Paper - Nicholson Baker,
2000  Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing - Ted Conover

1999  Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior - Jonathan Weiner
1998  General Nonfiction: We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda - Philip Gourevitch
1997  The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - Anne Fadiman
1996  Bad Land - Jonathan Raban
1995  A Civil Action - Jonathon Harr
1994  The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War - Lynn H. Nicholas
1993  The Land Where the Blues Began - Alan Lomax
1992  Young Men and Fire - Norman Maclean
1991  Backlash: The Undeclared War Against America Women - Susan Faludi
1990  The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America - Shelby Steele

1989  The Broken Cord - Michael Dorris
1988  Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 - Taylor Branch
1987  The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes
1986  War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War - John W. Dower
1985  Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families - J. Anthony Lukas
1984  Weapons and Hope - Freeman Dyson
1983  The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House - Seymour M. Hersch
1982  The Path of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson - Robert Caro
1981  The Mismeasure of Man - Stephen Jay Gould
1980  Walter Lippman and the American Century - Ronald Steel

1979  Munich: The Price of Peace - Telford Taylor
1978  Facts of Life - Maureen Howard
         Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence - Garry Willis
1977  Samuel Johnson - W. Jackson Bate
1976  The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts - Maxine Hong Kingston
1975  Edith Wharton: A Biography - R.W.B. Lewis

POETRY
2010  One with Others: [a little book of her days] - C.D. Wright 

2009  Versed - Rae Armantrout
2008  Sleeping It Off in Rapid City - August Kleinzahler
         Half the World in Light: New and Selected Poems - Juan Felipe Herrera
2007  Elegy – Mary Jo Bang
2006  Tom Thomson in Purgatory - Troy Jollimore
2005  Refusing Heaven: Poems - Jack Gilbert
2004  The School Among the Ruins - Adrienne Rich
2003  Columbarium - Susan Stewart
2002  Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest - B.H. Fairchild
2001  Saving Lives - Albert Goldbarth
2000  Carolina Ghost Woods - Judy Jordan

1999  Ordinary Works - Ruth Stone
1998  The Bird Catcher - Marie Ponsot
1997  Black Zodiac - Charles Wright
1996  Sun Under Wood - Robert Hass
1995  Time and Money - William Matthews
1994  Rider - Mark Rudman
1993  My Alexandria - Mark Doty
1992  Collected Shorter Poems 1946-1991 - Hayden Carruth
1991  Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology - Albert Goldbarth
1990  Bitter Angel - Amy Gerstler

1989  Transparent Gestures - Rodney Jones
1988  That One Day - Donald Hall
1987  Flesh and Blood - C.K. Williams
1986  Wild Gratitude - Edward Hirsch
1985  The Triumph of Achilles - Louise Gluck
1984  The Dead and the Living - Sharon Olds
1983  The Changing Light at Sandover - James Merrill
1982  Antarctic Traveler - Katha Pollitt
1981  A Coast of Trees - A.R. Ammons
1980  Sunrise - Frederick Seidel

1979  Ashes and 7 Years from Somewhere - Philip Levine
1978  Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems of L.E. Sissman – edited by Peter Davison
1977  Day By Day - Robert Lowell,
1976  Geography III - Elizabeth Bishop
1975  Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror - John Ashbery

CRITICISM
2010  Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West - Clare Cavanagh 

2009  Notes From No Man's Land - Eula Biss
2008  Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History: From Aesop to Harry Potter - Seth Lerer  
2007  The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century - Alex Ross
2006  Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences - Lawrence Weschler
2005  The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin - William Logan
2004  Where You're At: Notes From the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet - Patrick Neate
2003  River of Shadows - Rebecca Solnit
2002  Tests of Time - William H. Gass
2001  The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000 - Martin Amis
2000  Quarrel & Quandary - Cynthia Ozick

1999  Selected Non-Fictions - Jorge Louis Borges
1998  Visions of Jazz: The First Century - Gary Giddons
1997  Making Waves - Mario Vargas Llosa
1996  Finding a Form - William Gass
1995  The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France - Robert Darnton
1994  The Culture of Bruising - Gerald Early
1993  Opera in America: A Cultural History - John Dizikes
1992  Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America - Garry Wills
1991  Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory - Lawrence L. Langer
1990  Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present - Arthur C. Danto

1989  Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History - John Clive
1988  Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author - Clifford Geertz
1987  Dance Writings, Edwin Denby - edited by Robert Cornfield & William MacKay
1986 Less Than One: Selected Essays - Joseph Brodsky
1985  Habitations of the Word: Essays - William H. Gass
1984  Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry - Robert Hass
1983  Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism - John Updike
1982  The Second American Revolution and Other Essays - Gore Vidal
1981  A Virgil Thomson Reader - Virgil Thomson
1980  Part of Nature: Modern American Poets - Helen Vendler

1979  The Gnostic Gospels - Elaine Pagels
1978  Modern Art: 19th & 20th Centuries, Selected Papers - Meyer Schapior
1977  On Photography - Susan Sontag
1976  The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales - Bruno Bettelheim
1975  The Great War and Modern Memory - Paul Fussell