• Jung: A Biography, by Deirdre Bair
• Pushkin: A Biography, by T.J. Binyon
• Goya, by Robert Hughes
• River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, by Rebecca Solnit

• Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith, by Jon Krakauer
• Why America Slept: The Failure To Prevent 9/11, by Gerald Posner
• Cut Time: An Education at the Fights, by Carlo Rotella
• Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles, by Anthony Swofford

• Ten Little Indians: Stories, by Sherman Alexie
• Train: A Novel, by Pete Dexter
• Jamesland, by Michelle Huneven
• The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Old School: A Novel, by Tobias Wolff

• Brick Lane: A Novel, by Monica Ali
• Goblin Fruit: Stories, by David Marshall Chan
• A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies: Stories, by John Murray
• There Are Jews in My House, by Lara Vapnyar

• Gulag: A History, by Anne Applebaum
• Homosexuality and Civilization, by Louis Crompton
• They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967, by David Maraniss
• When the King Took Flight, by Timothy Tackett

• The Company You Keep, by Neil Gordon
• The House Sitter, by Peter Lovesey
• The Dogs of Riga: A Kurt Wallander Mystery [translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson], by Henning Mankell
• Death of a Nationalist, by Rebecca Pawel

• Middle Earth, by Henri Cole
• The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late & New Poems, by Charles Simic
• Departure: Poems, by Rosanna Warren
• Jelly Roll: A Blues, by Kevin Young

• The Beast in the Garden: A Modern Parable of Man and Nature, by David Baron
• The Emperor of Scent: A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses, by Chandler Burr
• Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension, by Stephen S. Hall
• Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight, by Paul Hoffman

• True Confessions of a Heartless Girl, by Martha Brooks
• Olive’s Ocean, by Kevin Henkes
• The River Between Us, by Richard Peck
• After, by Francine Prose

BIOGRAPHY

Winner: Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 3, by Robert A. Caro
Finalists: 

• The Country under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War, by Gioconda Belli
• Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers, by Daniel Ellsberg
• Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War, by T.J. Stiles
• Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, by Claire Tomalin

CURRENT INTEREST 

Winner: Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex, by Judith Levine
Finalists: 

• Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril, by Timothy Ferris
• The New Killing Fields: Massacre and the Politics of Intervention, Nicolaus Mills and Kira Brunner (editors)
• Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich, by Kevin Phillips
• “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide, by Samantha Power

FICTION 

Winner: Atonement: A Novel, by Ian McEwan
Finalists: 

• The City of Your Final Destination, by Peter Cameron
• Nowhere Man, by Aleksandar Hemon
• Moral Hazard: A Novel, by Kate Jennings
• Tourmaline: A Novel, by Joanna Scott

HISTORY 

Winner: Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East, by Michael B. Oren
Finalists: 

• At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America, by Philip Dray
• The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade, by Robert Harms
• Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller, by Gregg Herken
• In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692, by Mary Beth Norton

MYSTERY/THRILLER

Winner: Hell to Pay: A Novel, by George P. Pelecanos
Finalists: 

• The Emperor of Ocean Park, by Stephen L. Carter
• Living Dead Girl: A Novel, by Tod Goldberg
• One Step Behind [translated from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg], by Henning Mankell
• Reversible Errors, by Scott Turow

POETRY

Winner: The Watercourse: Poems, by Cynthia Zarin
Finalists: 

• Hip Logic, by Terrance Hayes
• North Point North: New and Selected Poems, by John Koethe
• Hazmat: Poems, by J.D. McClatchy
• Sleeping with the Dictionary, by Harryette Mullen

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 

Winner: Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, by Brenda Maddox
Finalists: 

• Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection, by Deborah Blum
• Of Moths and Men: An Evolutionary Tale, the Untold Story of Science and the Peppered Moth, by Judith Hooper
• Salt: A World History, by Mark Kurlansky
• The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story, by Richard Preston

YOUNG ADULT FICTION

Winner: Feed, by M.T. Anderson
Finalists: 

• Dillon Dillon, by Kate Banks
• This Lullaby: A Novel, by Sarah Dessen
• America: A Novel, by E.R. Frank
• Big Mouth & Ugly Girl, by Joyce Carol Oates

THE ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION 

Winner: Prague: A Novel, by Arthur Phillips
Finalists: 

• The Stars Can Wait: A Novel, by Jay Basu
• Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel, by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Man Walks into a Room, by Nicole Krauss
• The Impressionist, by Hari Kunzru

BIOGRAPHY
Theodore Rex, by Edmund Morris

CURRENT INTEREST 
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, by Barbara Ehrenreich

FICTION 
Why Did I Ever, by Mary Robison

HISTORY 
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, by Rick Perlstein

MYSTERY/THRILLER 
Silent Joe, by T. Jefferson Parker

POETRY
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos, by Anne Carson

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 
The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies, by Richard Hamblyn

YOUNG ADULT FICTION 
The Land, by Mildred D. Taylor

THE ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION 
The Dark Room, by Rachel Seiffert

THE ROBERT KIRSCH AWARD
Tillie Olsen

BIOGRAPHY
Jefferson Davis, American by William J. Cooper, Jr.

CURRENT INTEREST 
Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War by Frances FitzGerald

FICTION 
Assorted Fire Events: Stories by David Means

HISTORY 
The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach by Alice Kaplan 

MYSTERY/THRILLER 
A Place of Execution: A Novel by Val McDermid

POETRY 
The Throne of Labdacus by Gjertrud Schnackenberg

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 
The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine by James Le Fanu, M.D.

YOUNG ADULT FICTION 
Miracle's Boys by Jacqueline Woodson

THE ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION
The Romantics: A Novel by Pankaj Mishra

THE ROBERT KIRSCH AWARD
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

BIOGRAPHY
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman

CURRENT INTEREST 
Sidewalk (with Photographs by Ovie Carter) by Mitchell Duneier

FICTION 
Freedom Song: Three Novels by Amit Chaudhuri 

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

POETRY 
Repair: Poems by C.K. Williams

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel

YOUNG ADULT FICTION 
Frenchtown Summer by Robert Cormier

THE ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION
Amy and Isabelle: A Novel by Elizabeth Strout

THE ROBERT KIRSCH AWARD 
Ursula K. Le Guin

BIOGRAPHY
Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg

CURRENT INTEREST 
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch

FICTION 
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald [Translated from the German by Michael Hulse] 

HISTORY 
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity by Roy Porter 

POETRY 
Mysteries of Small Houses by Alice Notley

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 
Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce by Douglas Starr

YOUNG ADULT FICTION 
Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer

THE ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION
Kalimantaan by C.S. Godshalk

THE ROBERT KIRSCH AWARD
John Sanford

BIOGRAPHY
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography by Sam Tanenhaus

CURRENT INTEREST 
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman 

FICTION 
In the Rogue Blood by James Carlos Blake

HISTORY 
A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution by Orlando Figes

POETRY 
Black Zodiac by Charles Wright

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker

THE ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION 
Don't Erase Me: Stories by Carolyn Ferrell

THE ROBERT KIRSCH AWARD 
Ray Bradbury 

BIOGRAPHY
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt 

CURRENT INTEREST 
Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War by Peter Maass

FICTION 
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

HISTORY 
Black Sea by Neal Ascherson

POETRY 
Mixed Company by Alan Shapiro

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan

THE ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION 
The Smell of Apples by Mark Behr

THE ROBERT KIRSCH AWARD 
Gary Snyder

BIOGRAPHY
Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 by Doris Lessing

CURRENT INTEREST 
Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black by Gregory Howard Williams

FICTION 
The Blue Afternoon by William Boyd

HISTORY 
Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America by Jackson Lears 

POETRY 
The Inferno of Dante by Robert Pinsky

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 
Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson

THE ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION 
American Studies by Mark Merlis

THE ROBERT KIRSCH AWARD 
Stephen J. Pyne 

BIOGRAPHY
Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore

CURRENT INTEREST 
Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger

FICTION 
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf

HISTORY 
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey

POETRY 
The Angel of History by Carolyn Forché 

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner

THE ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION
The Year of the Frog by Martin M. Šimecka

THE ROBERT KIRSCH AWARD 
Brian Moore

BIOGRAPHY
Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer by John Mack Faragher

CURRENT INTEREST 
Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority by Peter Skerry

FICTION 
Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver

HISTORY 
New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery by Anthony Grafton

POETRY 
My Alexandria by Mark Doty

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Fuzzy Logic: The Discovery of a Revolutionary Computer Technology -- and How It Is Changing Our World by Daniel McNeill and Paul Freiberger

THE ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION
Love <Enter> by Paul Kafka

THE ROBERT KIRSCH AWARD
Carolyn See

BIOGRAPHY
Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One 1884-1993 by Blanche Wiesen Cook

CURRENT INTEREST 
The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama

FICTION 
Maus II, A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman

HISTORY 
Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families under Fascism by Alexander Stille

POETRY 
An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 by Adrienne Rich

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared Diamond

THE ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION 
High Cotton by Darryl Pinckney

THE ROBERT KIRSCH AWARD
Diane Johnson 

BIOGRAPHY
Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874-1952 by T.H. Watkins

CURRENT INTEREST 
Why Americans Hate Politics: The Death of the Democratic Process by E.J. Dionne, Jr.

FICTION 
White People by Allan Gurganus

HISTORY 
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America by Nicholas Lemann

POETRY 
What Work Is by Phillip Levine

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
The Truth about Chernobyl by Grigori Medvedev

THE ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION 
Pangs of Love by David Wong Louie

THE ROBERT KIRSCH AWARD
Ken Kesey

BIOGRAPHY
A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt by Geoffrey C. Ward

CURRENT INTEREST 
Disappearing through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century by O.B. Hardison, Jr.

FICTION 
Lantern Slides by Edna O'Brien

HISTORY 
The Quest for El Cid by Richard Fletcher

POETRY 
The Color of Mesabi Bones by John Caddy

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 
Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vaccine by Jane S. Smith

THE ROBERT KIRSCH AWARD 
Czeslaw Milosz

BIOGRAPHY
This Boy's Life: A Memoir by Tobias Wolff

CURRENT INTEREST 
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch

FICTION 
The Heart of the Country by Fay Weldon 

HISTORY 
An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood by Neal Gabler

POETRY 
The One Day: A Poem in Three Parts by Donald Hall 

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 
Peacemaking among Primates by Frans de Waal

THE ROBERT KIRSCH AWARD 
Karl Shapiro 

BIOGRAPHY
Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom by Brenda Maddox

CURRENT INTEREST 
Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country by William Greider

FICTION 
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Marquez

HISTORY 
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner

POETRY 
New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur

THE ROBERT KIRSCH AWARD 
Thom Gunn

BIOGRAPHY
Hemingway by Kenneth S. Lynn 

CURRENT INTEREST 
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design by Richard Dawkins

FICTION 
Fools Crow by James Welch

HISTORY 
[No award in 1987]

POETRY 
Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems by William Meredith

THE ROBERT KIRSCH AWARD 
Paul Horgan

BIOGRAPHY
Alexander Pope: A Life by Maynard Mack

CURRENT INTEREST 
Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White by Joseph Lelyveld

FICTION 
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

HISTORY 
The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within by Geoffrey Hosking

POETRY 
Collected Poems, 1948-1984 by Derek Walcott

THE ROBERT KIRSCH AWARD
Kay Boyle

BIOGRAPHY
Solzhenitsyn by Michael Scammell

CURRENT INTEREST 
Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life by Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler and Steven M. Tipton

FICTION 
Love Medicine by Louis Erdrich 

HISTORY 
Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn by Evan S. Connell

POETRY 
Cross Ties by X.J. Kennedy

THE ROBERT KIRSCH AWARD 
Janet Lewis

BIOGRAPHY
The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka by Ernst Pawel 

CURRENT INTEREST 
Cities and the Wealth of Nations: principles of economic life by Jane Jacobs

FICTION 
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

HISTORY 
The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History by Robert Darnton

POETRY 
The Maximus Poems by Charles Olson

THE ROBERT KIRSCH AWARD 
Christopher Isherwood 

BIOGRAPHY
The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House by Seymour Hersh

CURRENT INTEREST 
Lost in the Cosmos: the last self-help book by Walker Percy

FICTION 
Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally

HISTORY 
The Wheels of Commerce by Fernand Braudel

POETRY 
The Changing Light at Sandover by James Merrill 

THE ROBERT KIRSCH AWARD
M.F.K. Fisher

BIOGRAPHY
Waldo Emerson: A Biography by Gay Wilson Allen

CURRENT INTEREST 
The Fate of the Earth by Jonathan Schell

FICTION 
A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone

HISTORY 
The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution, 1895-1980 by Jonathan D. Spence

POETRY 
Plutonian Ode and Other Poems, 1977-1980 by Allen Ginsberg

THE ROBERT KIRSCH AWARD 
Ross Macdonald

BIOGRAPHY
Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough

CURRENT INTEREST 
Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number by Jacobo Timerman

FICTION 
The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas

HISTORY 
Land of Savagery/Land of Promise: the European image of the American frontier in the nineteenth century by Ray Allen Billington

POETRY 
Three Pieces by Ntozake Shange

THE ROBERT KIRSCH AWARD
Wright Morris

GENERAL AWARD 
Without Fear or Favor: the New York times and its times by Harrison Salisbury

FICTION 
The Second Coming by Walker Percy

HISTORY 
Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel

POETRY 
Kill the Messenger by Robert Kelly

THE ROBERT KIRSCH AWARD 
Wallace Stegner