E.L. Doctorow, The March (Random House)

Mary Gaitskill, Veronica (Pantheon)

Christopher Sorrentino, Trance
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Renè Steinke, Holy Skirts (William Morrow)

Nonfiction

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)

Poetry

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)

Young People's Literature

Adele Griffin, Where I Want to Be (G. P. Putnam's Sons, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group)

Chris Lynch, Inexcusable (Ginee Seo Books/Atheneum Books for Young Readers)

Walter Dean Myers, Autobiography of My Dead Brother (HarperTempest Amistad)

Deborah Wiles, Each Little Bird That Sings (Harcourt)