Adult Fiction
Winner:  The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold 
Nominated Finalists:

• Atonement, by Ian McEwan 
• The Crimson Petal and the White, by Michel Faber 
• Life of Pi, by Yann Martel 
• The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd 

• Blue Latitudes: boldly going where Captain Cook has gone before, by Tony Horwitz 
• My Losing Season, by Pat Conroy 
• Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time, by Michael Perry 
• Running With Scissors, by Augusten Burroughs 

• Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident, by Eoin Colfer 
• Coraline, by Neil Gaiman 
• Hoot, by Carl Hiaasen 
• Summerland, by Michael Chabon 

• Giggle, Giggle, Quack, by Doreen Cronin, Illustrated by Betsy Lewin 
• The Three Questions, by Jon J. Muth 
• The Spider & The Fly, by Mary Howitt, Illustrated by Tony DiTerlizzi 
• Toot & Puddle: Top of the World, by Holly Hobbie 

• Auntie Mame, by Patrick Dennis 
• The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, by Chris Fuhrman 
• Paper Moon, by Joe David Brown 
• The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, by Breece D'J Pancake 

• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, by Sijie Dai 
• The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, by Brady Udall 
• The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, by Alexander McCall Smith 
• Year of Wonders, by Geraldine Brooks 

Adult Fiction
Winner: Peace Like a River, by Leif Enger 
Nominated Finalists:

• Ella Minnow Pea, by Mark Dunn 
• Empire Falls, by Ruchard Russo 
• The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, by Louise Erdrich 
• The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen 

• The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World, by Michael Pollan 
• Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schossler 
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, by Barbara Ehrenreich 
• Ava's Man, by Rick Bragg 

• Love That Dog, by Sharon Creech 
• Witness, by Karen Hesse 
• You Read to Me & I'll Read to You, ed. by Janet Schulman 
• Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging, by Loiuse Rennison 

• Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon, by Patty Lovell, illustrated by David Catrow 
• Take Me Out of the Bathtub, by Alan Katz, illustrated by David Catrow 
• The Water Hole, by Graeme Base 
• The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins, by Barbara Kerley, illustrated by Brain Selznick 

• Freddy The Detective, by Walter Brooks 
• Handling Sin, by Michael Malone 
• Time Stops For No Mouse, by Michael Hoeye 
• Enchantress From the Stars, by Sylvia Louis Engdah 

Adult Fiction
Winner: The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant
Nominated Finalists:

• Bee Season, by Myla Goldberg 
• The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood 
• The Hours, by Michael Cunningham 
• House of Sand & Fog, by Andre Dubus III 

• The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams, by Nasdijj
• Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America With Einstein's Brain, by Michael Paterniti
• The Orchid Thief, by Susan Orlean
• Woman: An Intimate Geography, by Natalie Angier

• The Bad Beginning, by Lemony Snicket 
• The Giggler Treatment, by Roddy Doyle 
• Stargirl, by Jerry Spinelli 
• The Wanderer, by Sharon Creech, David Diaz (Illustrator) 

• Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type, by Doreen Cronin, Betsy Lewin (Illustrator) 
• How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?, by Jane Yolen, Mark Teague (Illustrator)
• I Love You Like Crazy Cakes, by Rose A. Lewis, Jane Dyer (Illustrator)

Stranger in the Woods, by Jean Stoick, Carl R. Sams, II (Illustrator)

Adult Trade
Winner: The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 
Nominated Finalists:

• Ahab's Wife, Sena Jeter Naslund
• Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Susan Vreeland
• Isaac's Storm, Erik Larson
• Plainsong, Kent Haruf

• Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride, Pam Muñoz Ryan, illus. by Brian Selznick
• Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis
• Sector 7, David Wiesner
• The 20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury, edited by Jack Prelutsky, illus. by Meilo So

Adult Trade
Winner: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Honor Books:

• Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel, by Arthur Golden
• The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, by Simon Winchester
• Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson, by Mitch Albom

• If You Give a Pig a Pancake, by Laura Numeroff, illustrated by Felicia Bond
• Look Alikes, by Joan Steiner
• Squids Will Be Squids: Fresh Morals, Beastly Fables, by Jon Scieszka, illustrated by Lane Smith 
• Today I Feel Silly & Other Moods That Make My Day, by Jamie Lee Curtis, illustrated by Laura Cornell

Adult Trade
Winner: Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Honor Books:

• All Over but the Shoutin', by Rick Bragg
• At Home in Mitford, by Jan Karon 
• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster, by Jon Krakauer
• Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel, by Arthur Golden

• The Gardener, by Sarah Stewart, illustrated by David Small
• To Market, To Market, by Anne Miranda, illustrated by Janet Stevens
• Toot & Puddle, by Holly Hobbie
• When Jessie Came Across the Sea, by Amy Hest, illustrated by P. J. Lynch

Adult Trade
Winner: Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
Honor Books:

• At Home in Mitford, by Jan Karon
• A Civil Action, by Jonathan Harr
• The Notebook, by Nicholas Sparks
• Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West, by Stephen E. Ambrose

• Falling Up, by Shel Silverstein
• The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman
• My Many Colored Days, by Dr. Seuss, paintings by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher
• My Very First Mother Goose, edited by Iona Opie, illustrated by Rosemary Wells

Adult Trade
Winner: Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson 
Honor Books:

• At Home in Mitford, by Jan Karon
• The Horse Whisperer, by Nicholas Evans
• The Stone Diaries, by Carol Shields
• Talk Before Sleep, by Elizabeth Berg

• Catherine, Called Birdy, by Karen Cushman
• The Library, by Sarah Stewart, illustrated by David Small 
• Math Curse, by Jon Scieszka, illustrated by Lane Smith
• Miss Spider's Tea Party, by David Kirk

Adult Trade
Winner: Chicken Soup for the Soul: 101 Stories to Open the Heart & Rekindle the Spirit, by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen

Honor Books:

• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, by John Berendt 
• Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, by James F. Garner
• The Shipping News, by E. Annie Proulx
• Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson

• The Bird Artist, by Howard Norman
• Charms for the Easy Life, by Kaye Gibbons
• Corelli's Mandolin, by Louis de Bernières
• Mutant Message Down Under, by Marlo Morgan
• Smilla's Sense of Snow, by Peter Hoeg

• All the Places to Love, by Patricia MacLachlan, illus. by Mike Wimmer
• The Giver, by Lois Lowry
• Miss Spider's Tea Party, by David Kirk
• Penguin Small, by Mick Inkpen
• Pink and Say, by Patricia Polacco
• Red Ranger Came Calling, by Berkeley Breathed
• Ship of Dreams, by Dean Morrissey
• Time for Bed, by Mem Fox, illus. by Jane Dyer
• Town Mouse, Country Mouse, by Jan Brett

Adult Trade
Winner: Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

Honor Books:

• All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy
• Having Our Say, by Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hearth
• Pigs in Heaven, by Barbara Kingsolver
• Smilla's Sense of Snow, by Peter Hoeg

• Charms for the Easy Life, by Kaye Gibbons
• The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje
• The Hidden Life of Dogs, by Elizabeth M. Thomas, illus. by Jared T. Williams
• Mama Makes Up Her Mind, by Bailey White
• To Dance with the White Dog, by Terry Kay

• Emily, by Michael Bedard, illus. by Barbara Cooney
• The Giver, by Lois Lowry
• Mama, Do You Love Me?, by Barbara M. Joosse, illus. by Barbara Lavallee
• The Rainbabies, by Laura Melmed, illus. by Jim LaMarche
• Rainbow Fish, by Marcus Pfister
• Santa Calls, by William Joyce
• The Stinky Cheese Man, by Jon Scieszka, illus. by Lane Smith
• The Three Little Wolves & the Big Bad Pig, by Eugene Trivizas, illus. by Helen Oxenbury
• Time for Bed, by Mem Fox, illus. by Jane Dyer 

Adult Trade
Winner: The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller

Honor Books:

• Animal Dreams, by Barbara Kingsolver
• A River Runs Through It & Other Stories, by Norman Maclean
• A Thousand Acres, by Jane Smiley
• Women Who Run with the Wolves, by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

• All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy
• The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
• Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances & Home, by Laura Esquivel
• The Secret History, by Donna Tartt
• To Dance with the White Dog, by Terry Kay 

• Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time, by James Gurney
• Emily, by Michael Bedard, illus. by Barbara Cooney
• Love You Forever, by Robert Munsch, illus. by Sheila McGraw
• Martha Speaks, by Susan Meddaugh
• On the Day You Were Born, by Debra Frasier
• The Rainbabies, by Laura Melmed, illus. by Jim LaMarche
• The Stinky Cheese Man: And Other Fairly Stupid Tales, by Jon Scieszka, illus. by Lane Smith
• The Trouble with Trolls, by Jan Brett
• The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, by Jon Scieszka, illus. by Lane Smith 

Winner:  Brother Eagle, Sister Sky: A Message from Chief Seattle by Susan Jeffers, illus.

Honor Books:

• The Firm, by John Grisham
• Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, by Fannie Flagg
• Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence, by Nick Bantock
• Life's Little Instruction Book, by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

• Animal Dreams, by Barbara Kingsolver
• Cold Sassy Tree, by Olive Ann Burns
• Possession: A Romance, by A.S. Byatt
• The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro
• A Year in Provence, by Peter Mayle

Winner:  The Education of Little Tree, by Forrest Carter

Honor Books:

• The Civil War: An Illustrated History, by Geoffrey Ward with Ric Burns & Ken Burns
• Cold Sassy Tree, by Olive A. Burns
• The Shell Seekers, by Rosamunde Pilcher
• When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple, by Sandra K. Martz 

• Animal Dreams, by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver
• Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, by Fannie Flagg
• The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Road from Coorain, by Jill Kerr Conway