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National Book Awards - 1999
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FICTION
Waiting
- Ha Jin
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Ha Jin – Waiting
Andre Dubus III – House of Sand and Fog
Kent Haruf – Plainsong
Patricia Henley – Hummingbird House
Jean Thompson – Who Do You Love

NONFICTION
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
- John W. Dower
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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

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

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
- Kimberly Willis Holt
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Laurie Halse Anderson – Speak
Louise Erdrich – The Birchbark House
Polly Horvath – The Trolls
Walter Dean Myers – Monster


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