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National Book Awards

Since 1950, the National Book Awards have become the nation's preeminent literary prizes. Today, the Awards are given to recognize achievements in four genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's Literature. For more winners, visit the website.

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2012

The Round House by Louise Erdrich

Award category: Fiction

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo

Award category: Non-Fiction

Goblin Secrets by William Alexander

Award category: Young People's Literature

2011

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

Award category: Fiction

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt

Award category: Non-Fiction

Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai

Award category: Young People's Literature

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2010

Lord of Misrule  by Jaimy Gordon

Award category: Fiction

Just Kids by Patti Smith

Award category: Non-Fiction

Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine

Award category: Young People's Literature

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2009

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

Award category: Fiction

The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T. J. Stiles

Award category: Non-Fiction

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose

Award category: Young People's Literature

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2008

Shadow Country  by Peter Matthiessen

Award category: Fiction

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed

Award category: Non-Fiction

What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell

Award category: Young People's Literature

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2007

Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson

Award category: Fiction

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner

Award category: Non-Fiction

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Award category: Young People's Literature

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2006

The Echo Maker by Richard Powers

Award category: Fiction

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan

Award category: Non-Fiction

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson

Award category: Young People's Literature

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2005

Europe Central by William T. Vollmann

Award category: Fiction

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Award category: Non-Fiction

The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall

Award category: Young People's Literature

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2004

The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck

Award category: Fiction

Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle

Award category: Non-Fiction

Godless by Pete Hautman

Award category: Young People's Literature

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2003

The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard

Award category: Fiction

Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire

Award category: Non-Fiction

The Canning Season by Polly Horvath

Award category: Young People's Literature

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2002

Three Junes by Julia Glass

Award category: Fiction

Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro

Award category: Non-Fiction

The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

Award category: Young People's Literature

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