• The Truth About Celia, by Kevin Brockmeier
• Christopher: A Tale of Seduction, by Allison Burnett
• The Master Butchers Singing Club, by Louise Erdrich
• Evidence of Things Unseen, by Marianne Wiggins

• Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America, by Firoozeh Dumas
• Searching for God in Godforsaken Times and Places: Reflections on the Holocaust, Racism, and Death, by Hubert G. Locke
• Seattle and the Demons of Ambition: A Love Story, by Fred Moody
• Outside Language: Essays, by Robert Stewart

• Bering: The Russian Discovery of America, by Orcutt Frost
• School of Dreams: Making the Grade at a Top American High School, by Edward Humes
• A Hundred Little Hitlers: The Death of a Black Man, the Trial of a White Racist, and the Rise of the Neo-Nazi Movement in America, by Elinor Langer
• Curative Powers: Medicine and Empire in Stalin’s Central Asia, by Paula A. Michaels

• Trembling Air, by Michelle Boisseau
• Notes from the Divided Country, by Suji Kwock Kim
• Saying the World, by Peter Pereira
• Embers, by Terry Wolverton

• The Tale of Despereaux, by Kate DiCamillo
• Almost to Freedom, by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
• Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story, by Lisa Westberg Peters
• Words West: Voices of Young Pioneers, by Ginger Wadsworth

• Head Above Water, by Stefano Bortolussi, translated by Anne Milano Appel
• Willenbrock, by Christoph Hein, translated by Philip Boehm
• This America of Ours: The Letters of Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Campo, translated by Elizabeth Horan and Doris Meyer
• Poems of the Masters: China’s Classic Anthology of T’ang and Sung Dynasty Verse, translated by Red Pine

• “The Rising: How Disney Hall Redeemed Frank Gehry”, by Dave Gardetta (Los Angeles)
• “The Unwanted”, by Edward Humes (Los Angeles)
• “McCoy’s Marines: Darkside Toward Baghdad”, by John Koopman (The San Francisco Chronicle)
• “Mortal Wounds: The Untold Agony of Black on Black Murder”, by Jill Leovy (Los Angeles Times)

• Letters to Montgomery Clift, by Noel Alumit
• The Memory Room, by Mary Rakow
• Douglass’ Women, by Jewell Parker Rhodes
• I’ll Let You Go, by Bruce Wagner

• Season of the Body, by Brenda Miller
• No Heroes: A Memoir of Coming Home, by Chris Offutt
• Pharmako/Dynamis: Stimulating Plants, Potions & Herbcraft, by Dale Pendell
• A Single Square Picture: A Korean Adoptee’s Search for Her Roots, by Katy Robinson

• Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana, by Ann Louise Bardach
• Red Delta: Fighting for Life at the End of the Colorado River, by Charles Bergman
• Down By the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family, by Charles Bowden
• Reluctant Saint: The Life of Francis of Assisi, by Donald Spoto

• Miniatures and Other Poems, by Barbara Guest
• Treadwinds: poems and intermedia texts, by Walter K. Lew
• Rumors of Buildings to Live In, by Keith Shein
• Selected Poems 1950–2000, by Nathaniel Tarn

• If We Must Die, by Pat Carr
• Charlotte’s Rose, by A. E. Cannon
• Together Apart, by Dianne E. Gray
• The Red Rose Box, by Brenda Woods

• The Prone Gunman by Jean-Patrick Manchette, translated by James Brook
• Tales of Protection by Erik Fosnes Hansen, translated by Nadia Christensen
• Engravings Torn From Insomnia by Olga Orozco, translated by Mary Crow
• Sappho: Poems and Fragments, translated by Stanley Lombardo

• “Cruz Control”, by  Harrison Fletcher (Westword)
• “Chasing Hope”, by  David Hafetz (Austin American-Statesman)
• “Pool Man”, by Alan Rifkin (LA Weekly)
• “Riot Baby”, by  Daniel Voll (Esquire Magazine) 

Fiction:  Hell's Bottom, Colorado--Laura Pritchett

Creative Nonfiction:  Many Circles: New & Selected Essays--Albert Goldbarth

Research Nonfiction:
Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission --Hampton Sides

Poetry:  The Mercy Seat: Collected & New Poems 1967-2001--Norman Dubie

Children's Literature:  The Land--Mildred D. Taylor

Translation:  Antilyrik and Other Poems--Vitezslav Nezval

Fiction:  Spontaneous--Diana Wagman

Creative Nonfiction:
And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City High School Students--Miles Corwin

Research Nonfiction:  Our Vietnam: The War, 1954-1975--A.J. Langguth

Poetry:  The Cartographer's Tongue: Poems of the World--Susan Rich

Children's Literature:  Iris and Walter--Elissa Haden Guest; Christine Davenier

Translation:  Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan--Paul Celan 

Fiction:  Village of a Million Spirits: A Novel of the Treblinka Uprising--Ian MacMillan

Creative Nonfiction:
The Kid (What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant): An Adoption Story--Dan Savage

Research Nonfiction:
The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War--Eileen Welsome

Poetry:  Garden of Exile--Aleida Rodriguez

Children's Literature:  Weslandia--Paul Fleischman; Kevin Hawkes

Translation:  The Diaries of Nikolay Punin 1904-1953--Jennifer Greene Krupala 

Fiction:  Tomato Red--Daniel Woodrell

Creative Nonfiction:  Red Star Sister: Between Madness and Utopia--Leslie Brody

Research Nonfiction:  The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado--Elliott West

Poetry:  The Art of the Lathe: Poems--B.H. Fairchild

Children's Literature:  Petty Crimes--Gary Soto

Translation:  No Award Given

Fiction:  The Dazzle of Day--Molly Gloss

Creative Nonfiction:  Burning the Days: Recollection--James Salter

Research Nonfiction:  Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery in Nature--Harry W. Greene

Poetry:  The Profile Makers--Linda Bierds

Children's Literature:  James Printer: A Novel of Rebellion--Paul Samuel Jacobs

Translation:  A Bohemian Youth--Josef Hirsal 

Fiction:  The Atlas--William T. Vollmann

Creative Nonfiction:  Bad Land: An American Romance--Jonathan Raban

Research Nonfiction:  No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court--Edward Humes

Poetry:  Cranial Guitar--Bob Kaufman; Gerald Nicosia

Children's Literature:  Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio--Peg Kehret

Translation:  Kangaroo Notebook--Kobo Abe

Fiction:  The Paperboy--Pete Dexter

Nonfiction:  Drowning in the Sea of Love: Musical Memoirs--Al Young

Poetry:  Poems 1923-1941--Carl Rakosi

Children's Literature:  The Van Gogh Cafe--Cynthia Rylant

Translation:  Guide to Capturing a Plum Blossom--Sung Po-jen

Fiction:  Living to Be 100--Robert Boswell

Nonfiction:  Toulouse-Lautrec: A Life--Julia Frey

Poetry:  The Great Fires: Poems 1982-1992--Jack Gilbert

Children's Literature:  Coyote: A Trickster Tale from the American Southwest--Gerald McDermott

Translation:  Collected Novellas of Arno Schmidt--Arno Schmidt

Fiction:  My Horse and Other Stories--Stacey Levine

Nonfiction:  President Kennedy: Profile of Power--Richard Reeves

Poetry:  Sesame--Jack Marshall

Children's Literature:
Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought) --Kathleen Krull; Kathryn Hewitt

Translation:  Poems, Performance Pieces, Proses, Plays, Poetics--Kurt Schwitters

Fiction:  Albuquerque--Rudolfo Anaya

Nonfiction:  Hole in the Sky: A Memoir--William Kittridge

Poetry:  The Man with Night Sweats--Thom Gunn

Children's Literature:  Is Kissing a Girl Who Smokes Like Licking an Ashtray?--Randy Powell

Translation:  Still Life and Other Stories--Junzo Shono

Fiction:  Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories--Sandra Cisneros

Nonfiction:  J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets--Curt Gentry

Poetry:  Provinces--Czeslaw Milosz

Children's Literature:  Tree of Cranes--Allen Say

Translation:  Early Writings--Gustave Flaubert

Fiction:  Animal Dreams: A Novel--Barbara Kingsolver

Nonfiction:  Bravo 20: The Bombing of the American West--Richard Misrach; Myriam Weisang Misrach

Poetry:  New Dark Ages--Donald Revell

Children's Literature:  The Dragon's Robe--Deborah Nourse Lattimore

Translation:  Niels Lyhne--Jens Peter Jacobsen

Fiction:  Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book--Maxine Hong Kingston

Short Stories:  If the River Was Whiskey: Stories--T. Coraghessan Boyle

Nonfiction:
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace --Le Ly Hayslip; Jay Wurts

Poetry:  Empathy--Mei-Mei Berseenbrugge

Young Adult:  The Forty-Third War--Louise Moeri

Middle Grade:  Five Finger Discount--Barthe DeClements

Translation:  Adventures of a Photographer in La Plata--Adolfo Bioy Casares

Fiction:  Paris Trout--Pete Dexter

Short Stories:  A Boy Like Astrid's Mother--Mae Briskin

Nonfiction:  Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir--Paul Monette

Poetry:  Sun--Michael Palmer

Young Adult:  Probably Still Nick Swansen--Virginia Euwer Wolff

Middle Grade:  Her Own Song--Ellen Howard; Ronald Himler

Fiction:  Imagining Argentina--Lawrence Thornton

Best First Novel:  Postcards from the Edge--Carrie Fisher

Nonfiction:  The Other Side of Time: A Combat Surgeon in World War II--Brendan Phibbs

Poetry:  Evening Wind--Robert Mezey

Young Adult:  (tie)  Street Family: A Novel--Adrienne Jones and The Return--Sonia Levitin

Fiction:  The Life of Helen Alone--Karen Lawrence

Best First Book:  Monster Seaweeds: The Story of the Giant Kelps--Mary Daegling

Short Stories:  Fair Augusto and Other Stories--Laura Kalpakian

Nonfiction:  Israel--Helen Hinckley Jones

Poetry:  Sapphics Against Anger--Timothy Steele

Children's Literature:  The Girl--Robbie Branscum; Deborah Howland

Fiction:  Red Baker--Robert Ward

Nonfiction:  The Color of the Air--John Sanford

Poetry:  Taking to Water--Roberta Spear

Children's Literature (older):  Top Secret--John Reynolds Gardiner; Marc Simont

Children's Literature (younger):  King Bidgood's in the Bathtub--Audrey Wood; Don Wood

Fiction:  Stones for Ibarra--Harriet Doerr

Nonfiction:  The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer--Jackson Benson

Poetry:  Tuning--David Antin

Children's Literature:  The Butter Battle Book--Dr. Seuss

No Awards Given

Outstanding First Book of Fiction:  False Match--Harry Bean

Nonfiction:  Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People--Tim Reiterman; John Jacobs

Poetry:  The Passages of Joy--Thom Gunn

Young People:  (tie)  Birds of Summer--Zilpha Keatley Snyder and Ratha's Creature--Clare Bell

Best First Published Work of Fiction:  Windowlight--Anne Nietzke