Fiction: Bombingham, by Anthony Grooms
Nonfiction:
Getting Right with God: Southern Baptists and Desegregation, 1945-1995, by Mark Newman
Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health, by Keith Wailoo
Special Award: Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South, edited by William H. Chafe, Raymond Gavins, and Robert Korstad with Paul Ortiz, Robert Parrish, Jennifer Ritterhouse, Keisha Roberts

Fiction: So Far Back, by Pam Durban
Commentary: Cathedrals of Kudzu: A Personal Landscape of the South, by Hal Crowther
Poetry: Domestic Work, by Natasha Trethewey
Special Award: Radical Equations: Math Literacy and Civil Rights, by Bob Moses and Charles E. Cobb, Jr.

Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle, by Michael Keith Honey
A Fire You Can't Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, by Andrew M. Manis
Troubled Memory: Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana, by Lawrence N. Powell

Colorblind Injustice: Minority Voting Rights and the Undoing of the Second Reconstruction, by J. Morgan Kousser
A Clashing of the Soul: John Hope and the Dilemma of African -American Leadership and Black Higher Education in the Early Twentieth Century, by Leroy Davis

Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement, by John Lewis with Michael D'Orso
Night Talk, by Elizabeth Cox

The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, by John M. Barry
Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier

Like Judgment Day: The Ruin and Redemption of a Town Called Rosewood, by Michael D'Orso
Silver Rights, by Constance Curry
Trouble No More, by Anthony Grooms

I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, by Charles M. Payne
Race & Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972, by Adam Fairclough
Choices, by Mary Lee Settle

Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, by John Gregory Brown
Colored People : A Memoir, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi, by John Dittmer

Outside Agitator: Jon Daniels and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, by Charles W. Eagles
The Hard To Catch Mercy, by William Baldwin
How Am I To Be Heard? Letters of Lillian Smith, by Margaret Rose Gladney

The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours, by Marian Wright Edelman
Praying for Sheetrock, by Melissa Fay Greene
The Unquiet Earth, by Denise Giardina

Black in Selma: The Uncommon Life of J.L. Chestnut, Jr., Politics and Power in a Small American Town, by J.L. Chestnut Jr., and Julia Cass
Tongues of Flame, by Mary Ward Brown

Poor But Proud: Alabama's Poor Whites, by Wayne Flynt
Clover: A Novel, by Dori Sanders

Even Mississippi, by Melany Nielson
Soldier's Joy, by Madison Smartt Bell
Mama Day, by Gloria Naylor

Separate Pasts: Growing Up White in the Segregated South, by Melton A. McLaurin
The Avenue: Clayton City, by C. Eric Lincoln

A True Likeness: The Black South of Richard Samuel Roberts, 1920-1936, by Thomas L. Johnson, and Phillip C. Dunn (ed.), 
Song in a Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage, by Pauli Murray
And Venus is Blue: Stories, by Mary Hood

Blessed Assurance: At Home with the Bomb in Amarillo, Texas, by A.J. Mojtabai

Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement, by James Farmer
The Old Forest and Other Stories, by Peter Taylor

Generations: An American Family, by John Egerton
In Search of Our Mother's Gardens: Womanist Prose, by Alice Walker

South-Watching: Selected Essays by Gerald W. Johnson, by Fred Hobson
Almost Family, by Roy Hoffman

Hearts and Minds: The Anatomy of Racism from Roosevelt to Reagan, by Harry S. Ashmore
The Winter People, by John Ehle

Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley, by John Gaventa
The Lords of Discipline, by Pat Conroy

Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women's Campaign Against Lynching, by 
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
Suttree, by Cormac McCarthy

Human Rights Odyssey, by Marion Wright and Arnold Shankman
In My Father's House, by Ernest J. Gaines

Brother to a Dragonfly, by Will D. Campbell
The Shad Treatment: A Novel, by Garrett Epps

Roots, by Alex Haley
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality, by Richard Kluger

Mississippi: Conflict and Change, by James Loewen
The Surface of Earth, by Reynolds Price 

No Award Given

The Strange Career of Jim Crow, by C. Vann Woodward
Train Whistle Guitar, by Albert Murray

Ralph McGill, Reporter, by Harold Martin
Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems, by Alice Walker

Children of Crisis, vol. II: Migrants Sharecroppers, and Mountaineers; and vol. III: The South Goes North, by Robert Coles

Our Land, Too, by Anthony Dunbar

The New South Creed: A Study in Southern Mythmaking, by Paul M. Gaston

Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South, by Dan T. Carter

The Emergence of the New South: 1913-1945, by George B. Tindall