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National Book Awards - 2005
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

FICTION
Europe Central (Viking)
- William T. Vollmann
E.L. Doctorow, The March (Random House)
Mary Gaitskill, Veronica (Pantheon)
Christopher Sorrentino, Trance (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Renè Steinke, Holy Skirts (William Morrow)

Fiction judges: Andre Dubus III (chair), Rikki Ducornet, Cristina Garcia,
Tom LeClair, Anna Quindlen


NONFICTION
The Year of Magical Thinking (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Joan Didion
Alan Burdick, Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Leo Damrosch, Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius (Houghton Mifflin)
Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn, 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers (Times Books)
Adam Hochschild, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves (Houghton Mifflin)

Nonfiction judges: Brenda Wineapple (chair), Mark Bowden,
Dennis Covington, Dennis Covington, Tony Horwitz, Gregory Wolfe


POETRY
Migration: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press)
- W.S. Merwin
John Ashbery, Where Shall I Wander (Ecco)
Frank Bidart, Star Dust: Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Brendan Galvin, Habitat: New and Selected Poems, 1965-2005
(Louisiana State University Press)
Vern Rutsala, The Moment’s Equation (Ashland Poetry Press)

Poetry judges: Carl Phillips (chair), John Balaban, Carol Frost,
Lawson Fusao Inada, Julie Kane


YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE
The Penderwicks (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Jeanne Birdsall
Adele Griffin, Where I Want to Be (Putnam)
Chris Lynch, Inexcusable (Atheneum)
Walter Dean Myers
, Autobiography of My Dead Brother (HarperTempest)
Deborah Wiles, Each Little Bird That Sings (Harcourt)

Young People's Literature judges:
Liz Rosenberg (chair), Mari Evans, Claudia Mills, Jim Murphy,
Rita Williams-Garcia

 


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