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2003 National Book Awards
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FICTION
The Great Fire
- Shirley Hazzard
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T.C Boyle – Drop City
Edward P. Jones – The Known World
Scott Spencer – A Ship Made of Paper
Marianne Wiggins – Evidence of Things Unseen: A Novel

NONFICTION
Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
- Carlos Eire
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Anne Applebaum – Gulag: A History
George Howe Colt – The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home
John D'Emilio – Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
Erik Larson – The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America

POETRY
The Singing
- C.K. Williams
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Carol Muske-Dukes – Sparrow: Poems
Charles Simic – The Voice at 3:00 AM: Selected Late and New Poems
Louis Simpson – The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems 1940-2001
Kevin Young – Jelly Roll: A Blues

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE
The Canning Season
- Polly Horvath
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Paul Fleischman – Breakout
Jim Murphy – An American Plague: The Time and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
Richard Peck – The River Between Us
Jacqueline Woodson – Locomotion


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