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The National Book Awards, 2006-1989

The National Book Awards have become the nation's preeminent literary prizes. The Awards are given to recognize achievements in four genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's Literature.

2006

Fiction: The Echo Maker by Richard Powers

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

Poetry: Splay Anthem by Nathaniel Mackey

Young People's Literature: The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Vol. 1) by M.T. Anderson

Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters: Adrienne Rich

2005

Fiction: Europe Central by William T. Vollmann

Nonfiction: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Poetry: Migration by W.S. Merwin

Young People's Literature: The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall

2004

Fiction: The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck

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

Poetry: Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 by Jean Valentine

Young People's Literature: Godless by Pete Hautman

Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters: Judy Blume

2003

Fiction: The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard

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

Poetry: The Singing by C.K. Williams

Young People's Literature: The Canning Season by Polly Horvath

Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters: Stephen King

2002

Fiction: Three Junes by Julia Glass

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

Poetry: In the Next Galaxy by Ruth Stone

Young People's Literature: The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

2001

Fiction: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Nonfiction: The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon

Poetry: Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry by Alan Dugan

Young People's Literature: True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff

2000

Fiction: In America by Susan Sontag

Nonfiction: In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick

Poetry: Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000 by Lucille Clifton

Young People's Literature: Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan

1999

Fiction: Waiting by Ha Jin

Nonfiction: Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower

Poetry: Vice: New and Selected Poems by Ai

Young People's Literature: When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt

1998

Fiction: Charming Billy by Alice McDermott

Nonfiction: Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball

Poetry: This Time: New and Selected Poems by Gerald Stern

Young People's Literature: Holes by Louis Sachar

1997

Fiction: Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

Nonfiction: American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis

Poetry: Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems by William Meredith

Young People's Literature: Dancing on the Edge by Han Nolan

1996

Fiction: Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett

Nonfiction: An American Requiem by James Carroll

Poetry: Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey by Hayden Carruth

Young People's Literature: Parrot in the Oven by Victor Martinez

1995

Fiction: Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth

Nonfiction: The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg

Poetry: Passing Through by Stanley Kunitz

1994

Fiction: A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis

Nonfiction: How We Die by Sherwin B. Nuland

Poetry: Worshipful Company of Fletchers by James Tate

1993

Fiction: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx

Nonfiction: United States: Essays, 1952-1992 by Gore Vidal

Poetry: Garbage by A.R. Ammons

1992

Fiction: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

Nonfiction: Becoming a Man by Paul Monette

Poetry: New and Selected Poems by Mary Oliver

1991

Fiction: Mating by Norman Rush

Nonfiction: Freedom by Orlando Patterson

Poetry: What Work Is by Philip Levine

1990

Fiction: Middle Passage by Charles Johnson

Nonfiction: The House of Morgan by Ron Chernow

1989

Fiction: Spartina by John Casey

Nonfiction: From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman

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