Fiction:
First Place: Brick Lane,
by Monica Ali
Second Place: What Was
She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal, by Zoe Heller
Third Place: How to
Breathe Underwater: Stories, by Julie Orringer
Nonfiction:
First Place: A
Sideways Look at Time, by Jay Griffiths
Second Place: The
Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan,
by Christina Lamb
Third Place: In the
Shadow of Memory, by Floyd Skloot
Fiction:
First Place: The Shell Collector: Stories, by Anthony
Doerr
Second Place: When the Emperor Was Divine, by Julie Otsuka
Third Place: The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold
Honorable Mentions:
Sons of
Heaven, by Terrence Cheng
Q Road, by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Life at These Speeds, by Jeremy Jackson
Nonfiction:
First Place: A Death in Texas: A Story of Race, Murder and
a Small Town's Struggle for Redemption, by Dina Temple-Raston
Second Place: Diamond: A Journey to the Heart of an Obsession,
by Matthew Hart
Third Place: Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps,
by Ted Kooser
Fiction:
First
Place: The Death of Vishnu, by Manil Suri
Second Place: Peace
like a River, by Leif Enger
Third Place: Observatory
Mansions, by Edward Carey
Nonfiction:
First
Place: Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War
II's Most Dramatic
Mission, by Hampton Sides
Second Place: Seabiscuit
: An American Legend, by Laura Hillenbrand
Third Place: River
Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, by Peter Hessler
Girl
with
a Pearl Earring, by Tracy Chevalier
The
Pleasing
Hour, by Lily King
Rose's
Garden,
by Carrie Brown
The
Light
of Falling Stars, by J. Robert Lennon
The
Giant's
House, by Elizabeth McCracken
Native
Speaker,
by Chang-rae Lee
Snow
Falling
on Cedars, by David Guterson
A
Place Where
the Sea Remembers, by Sandra Benitez
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