2008 (Criticism) Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter (University of Chicago Press)   Seth Lerer	2008 (Criticism) Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter (University of Chicago Press)   Seth Lerer
2008 (Poetry) Sleeping It Off in Rapid City (Farrar, Strauss)   August Kleinzahler	2008 (Poetry) Half the World in Light(University of Arizona Press)   Juan Felipe Herrera
2008 (Autobiography) My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq   Ariel Sabar	2008 (Biography) The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul   Patrick French
2008 (General Nonfiction) The Forever War   Dexter Filkins	2008 (Fiction) 2666   Roberto Bolaño
2008 (Fiction) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao   Junot Diaz	2008 (Nonfiction) Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experiments on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present   Harriet Washington
2008 (Biography) Stanley, the Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer   Tim Jeal	2007 (Fiction) The Inheritance of Loss   Kiran Desai
2007 (Nonfiction) Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution   Simon Schama	2007 (Biography) James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon   Julie Phillips
2006 (Fiction) The March   E. L. Doctorow	2006 (Nonfiction) Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of Nuclear Disaster   Svetlana Alexievich
2006 (Biography) American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer   Kai Bird	2005 (Fiction) Gilead   Marilynne Robinson
2005 (Nonfiction) The Reformation: A History   Diarmaid MacCulloch	2005 (Biography) De Kooning: An American Master   Mark Stevens
2004 (Fiction) The Known World   Edward P. Jones	2004 (Nonfiction) Sons of Mississippi   Paul Hendrickson
2004 (Biography) Khrushchev: The Man and His Era   William Taubman	2003 (Fiction) Atonement   Ian McEwan
2003 (Nonfiction) A Problem From Hell   Samantha Power	2003 (Biography) Charles Darwin   Janet Browne
2002 (Fiction) Austerlitz   W. G. Sebald	2002 (Nonfiction) Double Fold   Nicholson Baker
2002 (Biography) Boswell's Presumptious Task   Adam Sisman	2001 (Fiction) Being Dead   Jim Crace
2001 (Nonfiction) Newjack: Guarding Sing-Sing   Ted Conover	2001 (Biography) Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan   Herbert Bix
2000 (Fiction) Motherless Brooklyn   Jonathan Lethem	2000 (Nonfiction) Time, Love, Memory   Jonathan Weiner
2000 (Biography) The Hairstons   Henry Wiencek	1999 (Fiction) The Love of a Good Woman   Alice Munro
1999 (Nonfiction) We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families   Philip Gourevitch	1999 (Biography) A Beautiful MInd   Sylvia Nasar
1998 (Fiction) The Blue Flower   Penelope Fitzgerald	1998 (Nonfiction) The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down   Anne Fadiman
1998 (Biography) Ernie Pyle's War   James Tobin	1997 (Fiction) Women in their Beds   Gina Berriault
1997 (Nonfiction) Bad Land   Jonathan Raban	1997 (Biography) Angela's Ashes   Frank McCourt
1996 (Fiction) Mrs. Ted Bliss   Stanley Elkin	1996 (Nonfiction) A Civil Action   Jonathan Harr
1996 (Biography) Savage Art   Robert Polito	1995 (Fiction) The Stone Diaries   Carol Shields
1995 (Nonfiction) The Rape of Europa   Lynn Nicholas	1995 (Biography) Shot in the Heart   Mikal Gilmore

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