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National Book Award (awards)

This award was given to 865 books.

  1. Chains
    Seeds of America: Book 1

    Chains

    by Laurie Halse Anderson

    Year: 2008
    Finalist
  2. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

    The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

    by E. Lockhart

    Year: 2008
  3. Shadow Country
    Watson Trilogy

    Shadow Country (collective work)

    A New Rendering of the Watson Legend

    by Peter Matthiessen

    Year: 2008
    Category: Fiction
  4. The Spectacular Now

    The Spectacular Now

    by Tim Tharp

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

    The Hemingses of Monticello

    An American Family

    by Annette Gordon-Reed

    Year: 2008
    Category: Nonfiction
  6. Fire to Fire

    Fire to Fire

    New and Selected Poems

    by Mark Doty

    Year: 2008
    Category: Poetry
  7. The Underneath

    The Underneath

    by Kathi Appelt

    Year: 2008
    Category: Young People’s Literature
    Finalist
  8. What I Saw and How I Lied

    What I Saw and How I Lied

    by Judy Blundell

    Year: 2008
    Category: Young People's Literature
  9. Story of a Girl

    Story of a Girl

    by Sara Zarr

    Year: 2007
    Finalist
  10. Sold

    Sold

    by Patricia McCormick

    Year: 2007
    Finalist
  11. Skin Hunger
    A Resurrection of Magic: Book 1

    Skin Hunger

    by Kathleen Duey

    Year: 2007
    Finalist
  12. American Born Chinese

    American Born Chinese

    by Gene Luen Yang

    Year: 2007
    Finalist
  13. Tree of Smoke

    Tree of Smoke

    by Denis Johnson

    Year: 2007
    Category: Fiction
  14. Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution

    Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution

    by Woody Holton

    Year: 2007
    Category: Nonfiction
    Finalist
  15. Legacy of Ashes

    Legacy of Ashes

    The History of the CIA

    by Tim Weiner

    Year: 2007
    Category: Nonfiction
  16. Time and Materials

    Time and Materials

    Poems, 1997-2005

    by Robert Hass

    Year: 2007
    Category: Poetry
  17. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

    The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

    by Sherman Alexie

    Year: 2007
    Category: Young People's Literature
    Rank: 1
  18. The Echo Maker

    The Echo Maker

    by Richard Powers

    Year: 2006
    Category: Fiction
  19. Only Revolutions

    Only Revolutions

    by Mark Z. Danielewski

    Year: 2006
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  20. A Disorder Peculiar to the Country

    A Disorder Peculiar to the Country

    by Ken Kalfus

    Year: 2006
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  21. Eat the Document

    Eat the Document

    by Dana Spiotta

    Year: 2006
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  22. The Zero

    The Zero

    by Jess Walter

    Year: 2006
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  23. The Worst Hard Time

    The Worst Hard Time

    The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

    by Timothy Egan

    Year: 2006
    Category: Nonfiction
  24. Imperial Life in the Emerald City

    Imperial Life in the Emerald City

    Inside Iraq's Green Zone

    by Rajiv Chandrasekaran

    Year: 2006
    Category: Non-Fiction
    Finalist
  25. Splay Anthem

    Splay Anthem

    by Nathaniel MacKey

    Year: 2006
    Category: Poetry
  26. The Pox Party
    The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Book 1

    The Pox Party

    by M. T. Anderson

    Year: 2006
    Category: Young People's Literature
  27. Inexcusable

    Inexcusable

    by Chris Lynch

    Year: 2005
    Finalist
  28. Europe Central

    Europe Central

    by William T. Vollmann

    Year: 2005
    Category: Fiction
  29. The Year of Magical Thinking

    The Year of Magical Thinking

    by Joan Didion

    Year: 2005
    Category: Nonfiction
  30. Migration

    Migration

    New & Selected Poems

    by W. S. Merwin

    Year: 2005
    Category: Poetry
  31. The Penderwicks
    The Penderwicks: Book 1

    The Penderwicks

    A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy

    by Jeanne Birdsall

    Year: 2005
    Category: Young People's Literature
  32. Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

    Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

    by Deb Caletti

    Year: 2004
    Finalist
  33. The News from Paraguay

    The News from Paraguay

    by Lily Tuck

    Year: 2004
    Category: Fiction
  34. Textual knowledge: teaching the Bible in theory and in practice

    Textual knowledge: teaching the Bible in theory and in practice

    by Barry W. Holtz

    Year: 2004
    Category: Jewish Education
  35. Arc of Justice
    Gracious Michigan Living

    Arc of Justice

    A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

    by Kevin Boyle

    Year: 2004
    Category: Nonfiction
  36. Door in the Mountain

    Door in the Mountain

    New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003

    by Jean Valentine

    Year: 2004
    Category: Poetry
  37. Godless

    Godless

    by Pete Hautman

    Year: 2004
    Category: Young People's Literature
  38. The Great Fire

    The Great Fire

    by Shirley Hazzard

    Year: 2003
    Category: Fiction
  39. The Diagnosis: A Novel

    The Diagnosis: A Novel

    by Alan Lightman

    Year: 2003
    Category: FICTION
    Finalist
  40. The Devil in the White City

    The Devil in the White City

    Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

    by Erik Larson

    Year: 2003
    Category: Nonfiction
    Finalist
  41. Waiting for Snow in Havana

    Waiting for Snow in Havana

    Confessions of a Cuban Boy

    by Carlos M. N. Eire

    Year: 2003
    Category: Nonfiction
  42. The Singing

    The Singing

    Poems

    by C. K. Williams

    Year: 2003
    Category: Poetry
  43. An American Plague

    An American Plague

    The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

    by Jim Murphy

    Year: 2003
    Category: Young People's Literature
    Finalist
  44. The Canning Season

    The Canning Season

    by Polly Horvath

    Year: 2003
    Category: Young People's Literature
  45. Feed

    Feed

    by M. T. Anderson

    Year: 2002
    Finalist
  46. Three Junes

    Three Junes

    by Julia Glass

    Year: 2002
    Category: Fiction
  47. Master of the Senate
    The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Book 3

    Master of the Senate

    by Robert A. Caro

    Year: 2002
    Category: Nonfiction
  48. In the Next Galaxy

    In the Next Galaxy

    by Ruth Stone

    Year: 2002
    Category: Poetry
  49. The House of the Scorpion

    The House of the Scorpion

    by Nancy Farmer

    Year: 2002
    Category: Young People's Literature
  50. 19 Varieties of Gazelle

    19 Varieties of Gazelle

    Poems of the Middle East

    by Naomi Shihab Nye

    Year: 2002
    Category: Young People's Literature
    Finalist

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