Books

American Book Award (awards)

This award was given to 415 books.


  1. Digging

    The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music

    by Imamu Amiri Baraka

    Year: 2010
  2. Flood Song

    by Sherwin Bitsui

    Year: 2010
  3. A New Language, A New World

    Italian Immigrants in the United States, 1890-1945

    by Nancy C. Carnevale

    Year: 2010
  4. Crazy Love

    by Pamela Uschuk

    Year: 2010
  5. Zeitoun

    by Dave Eggers

    Year: 2010
  6. Black, Brown, and Beige

    Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora

    by Franklin Rosemont, Robin D.G. Kelley

    Year: 2010
  7. Poems for the Millennium, Volume Three

    The University of California Book of Romantic and Post-romantic Poetry

    by Jerome Rothenberg, Jeffrey C. Robinson

    Year: 2010
  8. Pacific Raven

    Hawai'i Poems

    by Kathryn Waddell Takara

    Year: 2010
  9. Betrayal

    How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era

    by Houston A. Baker

    Year: 2009
  10. Ask for a Convertible

    Stories

    by Danit Brown

    Year: 2009
  11. Please

    by Jericho Brown

    Year: 2009
  12. The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes

    Selected Works of José Antonio Burciaga

    by José Antonio Burciaga

    Year: 2009
  13. Uncertain Peril

    Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds

    by Claire Hope Cummings

    Year: 2009
  14. All of It Singing

    New and Selected Poems

    by Linda Gregg

    Year: 2009
  15. The Age of Wonder

    How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

    by Richard Holmes

    Year: 2009
  16. A Power Stronger than Itself

    The AACM and American Experimental Music

    by George Lewis

    Year: 2009
  17. My Vocabulary Did This to Me

    The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer

    by Jack Spicer

    Year: 2009
  18. How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?

    Being Young and Arab in America

    by Moustafa Bayoumi

    Year: 2008
  19. Slavery by Another Name

    The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

    by Douglas A. Blackmon

    Year: 2008
  20. Doing Nothing

    A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America

    by Tom Lutz

    Year: 2008
  21. Don't Deny My Name

    Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition

    by Lorenzo Thomas

    Year: 2008
  22. Incognegro

    A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid

    by Frank B. Wilderson

    Year: 2008
  23. Al' America

    Travels Through America's Arab and Islamic Roots

    by Jonathan Curiel

    Year: 2008
  24. How the Irish Invented Slang

    The Secret Language of the Crossroads

    by Daniel Cassidy

    Year: 2007
  25. Come Hell or High Water

    Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster

    by Michael Eric Dyson

    Year: 2007
  26. Butterfly Boy

    Memories of a Chicano Mariposa

    by Rigoberto González

    Year: 2007
  27. The Earth Knows My Name

    Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic America

    by Patricia Klindienst

    Year: 2007

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