2009 (Fiction) Elizabeth Strout. Olive Kitteridge Review »		2009 (Nonfiction) Douglas A. Blackmon. Slavery by another name : the re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II Review »		2009 (Biography)) Jon Meacham. American lion : Andrew Jackson in the White House Review »
2008 (Fiction) Junot Diaz The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Review »		2008 (Nonfiction) Saul Friedlander The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945		2008 (Biography) John Matteson Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
2007 (Fiction) Cormac McCarthy The road Review »		2007 (Nonfiction) Lawrence Wright The looming tower Review »		2007 (Biography) Debby Applegate The most famous man in America Review »
2006 (Fiction) Geraldine Brooks March Review »		2006 (Nonfiction) Caroline Elkins Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya Review »		2006 (Biography) Kai Bird American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer Review »
2005 (Fiction) Marilynne Robinson Gilead Review »		2005 (Nonfiction) Steve Coll Ghost Wars		2005 (Biography) Mark Stevens de Kooning: An American Master Review »
2004 (Fiction) Edward P. Jones The Known World		2004 (Nonfiction) Anne Applebaum Gulag: A History Review »		2004 (Biography) William Taubman Khrushchev: The Man and His Era Review »
2003 (Fiction) Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex Review »		2003 (Nonfiction) Samantha Power A Problem From Hell Review »		2003 (Biography) Robert A. Caro Master of the Senate Review »
2002 (Fiction) Richard Russo Empire Falls Review »		2002 (Nonfiction) Diane McWhorter Carry Me Home Review »		2002 (Biography) David McCullough John Adams Review »
2001 (Fiction) Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Review »		2001 (Nonfiction) Herbert Bix Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan		2001 (Biography) David Levering Lewis W.E.B. DuBois Review »
2000 (Fiction) Jhumpa Lahiri Interpreter of Maladies		2000 (Nonfiction) John W. Dower Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II Review »		2000 (Biography) Stacy Schiff Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) Review »
1999 (Fiction) Michael Cunningham The Hours Review »		1999 (Nonfiction) John McPhee Annals of the Former World Review »		1999 (Biography) A. Scott Berg Lindbergh Review »
1998 (Fiction) Philip Roth American Pastoral Review »		1998 (Nonfiction) Jared Diamond Guns, Germs and Steel Review »		1998 (Biography) Katharine Graham Personal History Review »
1997 (Fiction) Steven Millhauser Martin Dressler Review »		1997 (Nonfiction) Richard Kluger Ashes to Ashes Review »		1997 (Biography) Frank McCourt Angela's Ashes Review »
1996 (Fiction) Richard Ford Independence Day Review »		1996 (Nonfiction) Tina Rosenberg The Haunted Land Review »		1996 (Biography) Jack Miles God: A Biography Review »
1995 (Fiction) Carol Shields The Stone Diaries Review »		1995 (Nonfiction) Jonathan Weiner The Beak of the Finch Review »		1995 (Biography) Joan D. Hedrick Harriet Beecher Stowe Review »

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