Books

National Book Award (awards)

This award was given to 854 books.


  1. The Sojourn

    by Andrew Krivak

    Year: 2011
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  2. The Tiger's Wife

    by Téa Obreht

    Year: 2011
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  3. The Buddha in the Attic

    by Julie Otsuka

    Year: 2011
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  4. Binocular Vision

    New & Selected Stories

    by Edith Pearlman

    Year: 2011
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  5. Double Shadow

    by Carl Phillips

    Year: 2011
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  6. Salvage the Bones

    by Jesmyn Ward

    Year: 2011
    Category: Fiction
  7. Smarter Branding Without Breaking the Bank

    by Brenda Bence

    Year: 2011
    Category: Marketing and Advertising
    Finalist
  8. The Swerve

    How the World Became Modern

    by Stephen Greenblatt

    Year: 2011
    Category: Nonfiction
  9. The Convert

    A Tale of Exile and Extremism

    by Deborah Baker

    Year: 2011
    Category: Non-fiction
    Finalist
  10. Love and Capital

    Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution

    by Mary Gabriel

    Year: 2011
    Category: Non-fiction
    Finalist
  11. Radioactive

    Marie and Pierre Curie: Tale of Love and Fallout

    by Lauren Redniss

    Year: 2011
    Category: Non-fiction
    Finalist
  12. Malcolm X

    A Life of Reinvention

    by Manning Marable

    Year: 2011
    Category: Non-fiction
    Finalist
  13. The Chameleon Couch

    Poems

    by Yusef Komunyakaa

    Year: 2011
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  14. Tonight No Poetry Will Serve

    Poems 2007-2010

    by Adrienne Rich

    Year: 2011
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  15. Devotions

    by Bruce Smith

    Year: 2011
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  16. Head Off and Split

    Poems

    by Nikky Finney

    Year: 2011
    Category: Poetry
  17. Chime

    by Franny Billingsley

    Year: 2011
    Category: YA
    Finalist
  18. My Name Is Not Easy

    by Debby Dahl Edwardson

    Year: 2011
    Category: Young People's Literature
    Finalist
  19. Flesh and Blood So Cheap

    The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy

    by Albert Marrin

    Year: 2011
    Category: Young People's Literature
    Finalist
  20. Shine

    by Lauren Myracle

    Year: 2011
    Category: Young People's Literature
    Finalist
  21. Okay for Now

    by Gary D. Schmidt

    Year: 2011
    Category: Young People's Literature
    Finalist
  22. Inside Out and Back Again

    by Thanhha Lai

    Year: 2011
    Category: Young People's Literature
  23. my sister copys-secrets

    by lisa twinkkle

    Year: 2010
    Rank: 10
  24. The Many Colors of Friendship

    by Rita Kaye Vetsch

    Year: 2010
    Category: Children's Educational
    Finalist
  25. Lord of Misrule

    by Jaimy Gordon

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  26. Great House

    by Nicole Krauss

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  27. So Much For That

    by Lionel Shriver

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  28. I Hotel

    by Karen Tei Yamashita

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  29. Parrot and Olivier in America

    by Peter Carey

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  30. Just Kids

    by Patti Smith

    Year: 2010
    Category: Nonfiction
  31. Nothing to Envy

    Ordinary Lives in North Korea

    by Barbara Demick

    Year: 2010
    Category: Nonfiction
    Finalist
  32. Cultures of War

    Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq

    by John W. Dower

    Year: 2010
    Category: Nonfiction
    Finalist
  33. Secret Historian

    The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade

    by Justin Spring

    Year: 2010
    Category: Nonfiction
    Finalist
  34. Every Man in This Village Is a Liar

    An Education in War

    by Megan K. Stack

    Year: 2010
    Category: Nonfiction
    Finalist
  35. Lighthead

    by Terrance Hayes

    Year: 2010
    Category: Poetry
  36. The Tram Conductor's Blue Cap

    by Michael Harlow

    Year: 2010
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  37. One Crazy Summer

    by Rita Williams-Garcia

    Year: 2010
    Category: Young People's Literature
    Finalist
  38. Charles and Emma

    The Darwins' Leap of Faith

    by Deborah Heiligman

    Year: 2009
    Finalist
  39. How real birds have beuty

    by Jeanette Baker,Shawn M. Rose,Alan J. Flusser

    Year: 2009
    Category: Birds
    Finalist
  40. Let the Great World Spin

    by Colum McCann

    Year: 2009
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Winner
  41. The First Tycoon

    The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

    by T. J. Stiles

    Year: 2009
    Category: Nonfiction
  42. Transcendental Studies

    A Trilogy

    by Keith Waldrop

    Year: 2009
    Category: Poetry
  43. Claudette Colvin

    Twice Toward Justice

    by Phillip M. Hoose

    Year: 2009
    Category: Young People's Literature
    Rank: Winner
  44. Seeds of America: Book 1

    Chains

    by Laurie Halse Anderson

    Year: 2008
    Finalist
  45. Watson Trilogy

    Shadow Country (collective work)

    A New Rendering of the Watson Legend

    by Peter Matthiessen

    Year: 2008
    Category: Fiction
  46. The Spectacular Now

    by Tim Tharp

    Year: 2008
    Category: Juvenile Fiction
    Finalist
  47. The Hemingses of Monticello

    An American Family

    by Annette Gordon-Reed

    Year: 2008
    Category: Nonfiction

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