Ha Jin – Waiting
Andre Dubus III – House of Sand and Fog
Kent Haruf – Plainsong
Patricia Henley – Hummingbird House
Jean Thompson – Who Do You Love

John W. Dower – Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
Natalie Angier – Woman: An Intimate Geography
Mark Bowden – Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
John Phillip Santos – Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation
Judith Thurman – Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette

Louise Gluck – Vita Nova
Clarence Major – Configurations: New and Selected Poems, 1958-1998
Sherod Santos – The Pilot Star Elegies
C.K. Williams – Repair

Laurie Halse Anderson – Speak
Louise Erdrich – The Birchbark House
Polly Horvath – The Trolls
Walter Dean Myers – Monster