National Book Award
2004 |
Fiction | The News from Paraguay | Lily Tuck | |
| Nonfiction | Arc of Justice | Kevin Boyle | ||
| Poetry | Door in the Mountain | Jean Valentine | ||
| Young People's Literature | Godless | Pete Hautman | ||
2003 |
Fiction | The Great Fire | Shirley Hazzard | |
| Nonfiction | Waiting for Snow in Havana | Carlos Eire | ||
2003 |
Poetry | The Singing | C.K. Williams | |
| Young People's Literature | The Canning Season | Polly Horvath | ||
2002 |
Fiction | Three Junes | Julia Glass | |
| Nonfiction | Master of the Senate | Robert Caro | ||
| Poetry | In the Next Galaxy | Ruth Stone | ||
| Young People's Literature | The House of the Scorpion | Nancy Farmer | ||
2001 |
Fiction | The Corrections | Jonathan Franzen | |
| Nonfiction | The Noonday Demon | Andrew Solomon | ||
| Poetry | Poems Seven | Alan Dugan | ||
| Young People's Literature | True Believer | Virginia Euwer Wolff | ||
2000 |
Fiction | In America | Susan Sontag | |
| Nonfiction | In the Heart of the Sea | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| Poetry | Blessing the Boats | Lucille Clifton | ||
| Young People's Literature | Homeless Bird | Gloria Whelan | ||
1999 |
Fiction | Waiting | Ha Jin | |
| Nonfiction | Embracing Defeat | John Dower | ||
| Poetry | Vice | Ai | ||
| Young People's Literature | When Zachary Beaver Came to Town | Kimberly Willis Holt | ||
1998 |
Fiction | Charming Billy | Alice McDermott | |
| Nonfiction | Slaves in the Family | Edward Ball | ||
| Poetry | This Time | Gerald Stern | ||
| Young People's Literature | Holes | Louis Sachar | ||
1997 |
Fiction | Cold Mountain | Charles Frazier | |
| Nonfiction | American Sphinx | Joseph Ellis | ||
| Poetry | Effort at Speech | William Meredith | ||
| Young People's Literature | Dancing on the Edge | Han Nolan | ||
1996 |
Fiction | Ship Fever and Other Stories | Andrea Barrett | |
| Nonfiction | An American Requiem | James Carroll | ||
| Poetry | Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey | Hayden Carruth | ||
| Young People's Literature | Parrott in the Oven: MiVida | Victor Martinez | ||
1995 |
Fiction | Sabbath's Theater | Philip Roth | |
| Nonfiction | The Haunted Land | Tina Rosenberg | ||
| Poetry | Passing Through | Stanley Kunitz | ||
1994 |
Fiction | A Frolic of His Own | William Gaddis | |
| Nonfiction | How We Die | Sherwin Nuland | ||
| Poetry | A Worshipful Company of Fletchers | James Tate | ||
1993 |
Fiction | The Shipping News | E. Annie Proulx | |
| Nonfiction | The United States | Gore Vidal | ||
| Poetry | Garbage | A.R. Ammons | ||
1992 |
Fiction | All the Pretty Horses | Cormac McCarthy | |
| Nonfiction | Becoming a Man | Paul Monette | ||
| Poetry | New and Selected Poems | Mary Oliver | ||
1991 |
Fiction | Mating | Norman Rush | |
| Nonfiction | Freedom | Orlando Patterson | ||
| Poetry | What Work Is | Philip Levine | ||
1990 |
Fiction | Middle Passage | Charles Johnson | |
| Nonfiction | The House of Morgan | Ron Chernow | ||
