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				2004
				Fiction: The News from Paraguay by Lily 
				Tuck (HarperCollins) 
				
				
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				Nonfiction: Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil 
				Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle (Henry 
				Holt) 
				
				
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				Poetry: Door in the Mountain: New and Collected 
				Poems, 1965-2003 by Jean Valentine (Wesleyan University 
				Press) 
				
				
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				Young People's Literature: Godless by Pete 
				Hautman (Simon & Schuster) 
				
				
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				2003
				Fiction: The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
				
				
				
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				Nonfiction: Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions 
				of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire 
				
				
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				Poetry: The Singing by C.K. Williams  
				
				
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				Young People's Literature: The Canning Season 
				by Polly Horvath 
				
				
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				2002
				Fiction: Three Junes by Julia Glass 
				
				
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				Nonfiction: Master of the Senate: The Years of 
				Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro 
				
				
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				Poetry: In the Next Galaxy by Ruth Stone
				
				
				
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				Young People's Literature: The House of the 
				Scorpion by Nancy Farmer 
				
				
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				2001
				Fiction: The Corrections by Jonathan 
				Franzen 
				
				
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				Nonfiction: The Noonday Demon by Andrew 
				Solomon 
				
				
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				Poetry: Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry 
				by Alan Dugan 
				
				
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				Young People's Literature: True Believer by 
				Virginia Euwer Wolff 
				
				
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				2000
				Fiction: In America by Susan Sontag 
				
				
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				Nonfiction: In the Heart of the Sea by 
				Nathaniel Philbrick 
				
				
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				try: Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 
				1988-2000 by Lucille Clifton  
				
				
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				Young People's Literature: Homeless Bird by 
				Gloria Whelan 
				
				
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				1999
				Fiction: Waiting by Ha Jin 
				
				
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				Nonfiction: Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of 
				World War II by John W. Dower 
				
				
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				Poetry: Vice: New and Selected Poems by Ai
				
				
				
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				Young People's Literature: When Zachary Beaver Came 
				to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt 
				
				
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				1998
				Fiction: Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
				
				
				
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				Nonfiction: Slaves in the Family by Edward 
				Ball 
				
				
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				Poetry: This Time: New and Selected Poems 
				by Gerald Stern 
				
				
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				Young People's Literature: Holes by Louis 
				Sachar 
				
				
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				1997
				Fiction:  
				Cold Mountain by 
				Charles Frazier 
				
				
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				Nonfiction: American Sphinx: The Character of 
				Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis 
				
				
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				Poetry: Effort at Speech by William 
				Meredith 
				
				
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				1996
				Fiction: Ship Fever and Other Stories by 
				Andrea Barrett 
				
				
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				Nonfiction: An American Requiem by James 
				Carroll 
				
				
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				Poetry: Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey by Hayden 
				Carruth 
				
				
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				1995
				Fiction: Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
				
				
				
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				1994
				Fiction: Frolic of His Own by William 
				Gaddis 
				
				
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				1993
				Fiction: The Shipping News by E. Annie 
				Prouix 
				
				
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				Nonfiction: United States: Essays 1952-1992 
				by Gore Vidal  
				
				
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				Poetry: Garbage by A. R. Ammons 
				
				
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				1992
				Fiction: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac 
				McCarthy 
				
				
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				Nonfiction: Becoming a Man: Half a Life 
				Story by Paul Monette 
				
				
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				Poetry: New & Selected Poems by Mary Oliver
				
				
				
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				1991
				Fiction: Mating by Norman Rush 
				
				
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				Nonfiction: Freedom by Orlando Patterson
				
				
				
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				Poetry: What Work Is by Philip Levine 
				
				
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				1990
				Nonfiction: The House of Morgan: An American 
				Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ron 
				Chernow 
				
				
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				Fiction: Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
				
				
				
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