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National Book Awards - 2005
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FICTION
Europe Central (Viking)
- William T. Vollmann
Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog
E.L. Doctorow, The March (Random House)
Mary Gaitskill, Veronica (Pantheon)
Christopher Sorrentino, Trance (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Renè Steinke, Holy Skirts (William Morrow)

Fiction judges: Andre Dubus III (chair), Rikki Ducornet, Cristina Garcia,
Tom LeClair, Anna Quindlen


NONFICTION
The Year of Magical Thinking (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Joan Didion
Alan Burdick, Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Leo Damrosch, Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius (Houghton Mifflin)
Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn, 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers (Times Books)
Adam Hochschild, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves (Houghton Mifflin)

Nonfiction judges: Brenda Wineapple (chair), Mark Bowden,
Dennis Covington, Dennis Covington, Tony Horwitz, Gregory Wolfe


POETRY
Migration: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press)
- W.S. Merwin
Read His Acceptance Speech
NBA Poetry Blog Essay and Archival Material for Merwin
John Ashbery, Where Shall I Wander (Ecco)
Frank Bidart, Star Dust: Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Brendan Galvin, Habitat: New and Selected Poems, 1965-2005
(Louisiana State University Press)
Vern Rutsala, The Moment’s Equation (Ashland Poetry Press)

Poetry judges: Carl Phillips (chair), John Balaban, Carol Frost,
Lawson Fusao Inada, Julie Kane


YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE
The Penderwicks (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Jeanne Birdsall
Adele Griffin, Where I Want to Be (Putnam)
Chris Lynch, Inexcusable (Atheneum)
Walter Dean Myers
, Autobiography of My Dead Brother (HarperTempest)
Deborah Wiles, Each Little Bird That Sings (Harcourt)

Young People's Literature judges:
Liz Rosenberg (chair), Mari Evans, Claudia Mills, Jim Murphy,
Rita Williams-Garcia

 

 



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