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2005

  New York Public Library
New York City

Kevin Boyle, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
Pete Hautman, Godless
Jean Valentine, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003
Lily Tuck, The News from Paraguay
     
  The Princeton Library
Princeton, NJ

Kevin Boyle, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
Pete Hautman, Godless
Jean Valentine, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003
Lily Tuck, The News from Paraguay
 
2004
  New York Public Library
New York City

Carlos Eire, Waiting for Snow in Havana
Shirley Hazzard, The Great Fire
Polly Horvath, The Canning Season
C.K. Williams, The Singing
     
  The Jewish Center
Princeton, NJ

Carlos Eire, Waiting for Snow in Havana
Shirley Hazzard, The Great Fire
Polly Horvath, The Canning Season
C.K. Williams, The Singing

2003
  New York Public Library
New York City

Robert Caro, Master of the Senate
Nancy Farmer, The House of the Scorpion
Julia Glass, Three Junes
Ruth Stone, In the Next Galaxy
     
  The Nassau Presbyterian Church
Princeton, NJ

Robert Caro, Master of the Senate
Nancy Farmer, The House of the Scorpion
Julia Glass, Three Junes
Ruth Stone, In the Next Galaxy
     
  Freer Art Gallery
Washington, D.C.

Julia Glass, Three Junes
     
  The Chicago Public Library
Chicago, IL

Julia Glass, Three Junes
     
  The San Francisco Public Library
San Francisco, CA

Nancy Farmer, House of the Scorpion
     
  Boston Public Library
Boston, MA

Ruth Stone, In the Next Galaxy

2002
  New York Public Library
New York City

Alan Dugan, Poems Seven
David Means (for Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections)
Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon
Virginia Euwer Wolff, True Believer
     
  The Nassau Presbyterian Church
Princeton, NJ

Alan Dugan, Poems Seven
David Means (for Jonathan Franzen, The Correstions)
Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon
Virginia Euwer Wolff, True Believer
     
  Boston Public Library
Boston, MA

Alan Dugan, Poems Seven
     
  San Francisco Public Library
San Francisco, CA

Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon
     
  Freer Art Galary
Washington, D.C.

Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
     
  Chicago Public Library
Chicago, IL

Virginia Euwer Wolff, True Believer

2001
  New York Public Library
New York City

Sharon Olds (for Lucille Clifton, Blessing the Boats)
Nathaniel Philbrick,
In the Heart of the Sea
Roger Straus (for Susan Sontag, In America)
Gloria Whelan, Homeless Bird
     
  The San Francisco Library
San Francisco, CA
Susan Sontag, In America
     
  James Madison Memorial Building
Washington, D.C.

Nathaniel Philbrick,
In the Heart of the Sea
     
  The Chicago Public Library
Chicago, IL
Gloria Whelan, Homeless Bird

2000
  Fashion Institute of Technology
New York City

Ai, Vice
John W. Dower, Embracing Defeat
Kimberly Willis Holt, When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
Ha Jin, Waiting
     
  The University of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Ai, Vice
John W. Dower, Embracing Defeat
Kimberly Willis Holt, When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
Ha Jin, Waiting
     
  The Chicago Public Library
Chicago, IL
Ai, Vice
John W. Dower, Embracing Defeat
Kimberly Willis Holt, When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
Ha Jin, Waiting

The National Book Foundation is grateful to Bloomberg for its support of this unique literary Tour, and to our partners: The New York Public Library, The Princeton Public Library, The Boston Public Library, The Chicago Public Library, The San Francisco Public Library, and the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Photo credits
All Chicago photos, Iwona Bierdermann; all San Francisco, Ruth Morgan; all New York City and Princeton, Sandy Wavrick. 2001: Washington 2001, John Harrington; all Boston, Roger Farrington; Washington 2003, Patricia Fisher.

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