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The Nobel Prize for Literature
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Established in 1950, the National Book Awards for Fiction honors American books of the highest literary merit. The purpose of this award, given by the National Book Foundation, is to promote reading and to raise funds for literacy programs. For over four decades, these books have earned a permanent place in world literature.
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Young People's Literature
What I Saw and How I Lied |
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| 2007 | |||
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Nonfiction
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA |
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Poetry
Time and Materials |
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Young People's Literature
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian |
| 2006 | |||
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Nonfiction
Worst Hard Time |
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Poetry
Splay Anthem |
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Young People's Literature
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation |
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Nonfiction
The Year of Magical Thinking |
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Poetry
Migration |
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Young People's Literature
The Penderwicks |
| 2004 | |||
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Nonfiction
Arc of Justice |
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Poetry
Door in the Mountain |
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Young People's Literature
Godless |
| 2003 | |||
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Fiction The Great Fire |
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Nonfiction Waiting for Snow in Havanna |
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Poetry The Singing |
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Young People's Literature Canning Season |
| 2002 | |||
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Fiction Three Junes |
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Nonfiction Master of the Senate |
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Poetry In the Next Galaxy |
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Young People's Literature The House of the Scorpion |
| 2001 | |||
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Fiction The Corrections |
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Nonfiction The Noonday Demon |
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Poetry Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry |
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Young People's Literature True Believer |
| 2000 | |||
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Fiction In America |
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Nonfiction In the Heart of the Sea |
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Poetry Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000 |
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Young People's Literature Homeless Bird |
| 1999 | |||
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Fiction
Waiting |
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Nonfiction Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II |
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Poetry Vice: New and Selected Poems |
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Young People's Literature When Zachary Beaver Came to Town |
| 1998 | |||
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Fiction
Charming Billy |
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Nonfiction Slaves in the Family |
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Poetry This Time: New and Selected Poems |
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Young People's Literature Holes |
| 1997 | |||
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Fiction
Cold Mountain |
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Nonfiction American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson |
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Poetry Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems |
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Young People's Literature Dancing on the Edge |
| 1996 | |||
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Fiction
Ship Fever |
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Nonfiction An American Requiem |
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Poetry Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey |
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Young People's Literature Parrot in the Oven |
| 1995 | |||
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Fiction
Sabbath's Theater |
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Nonfiction The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism |
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Poetry Passing Through |
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| 1994 | |||
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Fiction
A Frolic of His Own |
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Nonfiction How We Die |
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Poetry Worshipful Company of Fletchers |
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Fiction
The Shipping News |
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Nonfiction United States: Essays, 1952-1992 |
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Poetry Garbage |
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| 1992 | |||
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Fiction
All the Pretty Horses |
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Nonfiction Becoming a Man |
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Poetry New and Selected Poems |
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| 1991 | |||
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Fiction
Mating |
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Nonfiction Freedom |
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Poetry What Work Is |
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| 1990 | |||
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Fiction
Middle Passage |
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Nonfiction The House of Morgan |
| 1989 | |||
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Fiction
Spartina |
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Nonfiction From Beirut to Jerusalem |