| FICTION |
Mischa
Berlinski, Fieldwork (Farrar, Straus
& Giroux)
Lydia
Davis, Varieties of Disturbance (Farrar,
Straus & Giroux)
Joshua
Ferris, Then We Came to the End (Little,
Brown & Company)
Denis
Johnson, Tree of Smoke (Farrar, Straus
& Giroux)
Jim
Shepard, Like You’d Understand, Anyway
(Alfred A. Knopf)
Fiction judges: Francine Prose (chair),
Andrew Sean Greer,
Walter Kirn, David Means, and Joy Williams.
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| NONFICTION |
Edwidge
Danticat, Brother, I’m Dying (Alfred
A. Knopf)
Christopher
Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons
Everything
(Twelve/Hachette Book Group USA)
Woody
Holton, Unruly Americans and the Origins of
the Constitution
(Hill and Wang/Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Arnold
Rampersad, Ralph Ellison: A Biography
(Alfred A. Knopf)
Tim
Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the
CIA (Doubleday)
Nonfiction judges: David Shields
(chair), Deborah Blum,
Caroline Elkins, Annette Gordon-Reed, and James Shapiro.
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| POETRY |
Linda
Gregerson, Magnetic North (Houghton Mifflin
Company)
Robert
Hass, Time and Materials (Ecco/HarperCollins)
David
Kirby, The House on Boulevard St. (Louisiana
State University Press)
Stanley
Plumly, Old Heart (W.W. Norton &
Company)
Ellen
Bryant Voigt, Messenger: New and Selected
Poems 1976-2006
(W.W. Norton & Company)
Poetry Judges: Charles Simic (chair),
Linda Bierds, David St. John,
Vijay Seshadri, and Natasha Trethewey. |
| YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE
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Sherman
Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time
Indian
(Little, Brown & Company)
Kathleen
Duey, Skin Hunger: A Resurrection of Magic,
Book One
(Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
M.
Sindy Felin, Touching Snow (Atheneum
Books for Young Readers)
Brian
Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
(Scholastic Press)
Sara
Zarr, Story of a Girl (Little, Brown
& Company)
Young People’s Literature Judges: Elizabeth
Partridge (chair),
Pete Hautman, James Howe, Patricia McCormick, and
Scott Westerfeld.
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