(finalist) Servants of the Map: Stories by Andrea Barrett
(finalist) You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett

History
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson

(finalist) At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America by Philip Dray
(finalist) Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth Century America by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz 

Biography/Autobiography
Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro

(finalist) The Fly Swatter by Nicholas Dawidoff
(finalist) Beethoven: The Music and the Life by Lewis Lockwood

Poetry
Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon

(finalist) Music Like Dirt by Frank Bidart
(finalist) Hazmat by J.D. McClatchy

General Non-Fiction
"A Problem From Hell:" America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power

(finalist) The Anthropoligy of Turquoise: Meditations on Landscape, Art, and Spirit by Ellen Meloy
(finalist) The Blank Slate: the Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker

Fiction
Empire Falls by Richard Russo

(finalist) John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead
(finalist) The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

History
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand

(finalist)
Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and the Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation by J. William Harris
(finalist)
Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America by Daniel K. Richter

Biography/Autobiography
John Adams by David McCullough

(finalist) An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood by Jimmy Carter
(finalist) Grant by Jean Edward Smith

Poetry
Practical Gods by Carl Dennis

(finalist) The Seven Ages by Louise Glück
(finalist) The Beforelife by Franz Wright

General Non-Fiction
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter

(finalist) War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals by David Halberstam
(finalist) The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon

Fiction
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

(finalist) The Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams
(finalist) Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates

History
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis

(finalist) Way Out There in the Blue by Frances FitzGerald
(finalist) The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States by Alexander Keyssar

Biography/Autobiography
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 by David Levering Lewis

(finalist) The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by H.W. Brands
(finalist) Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician by Christoph Wolff

Poetry
Different Hours by Stephen Dunn

(finalist) Pursuit of a Wound by Sydney Lea
(finalist) The Other Lover by Bruce Smith

General Non-Fiction
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix

(finalist) Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover
(finalist) A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers 

Fiction
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

(finalist) Waiting by Hai Jin
(finalist) Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx

History
Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy

(finalist) Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier by James H. Merrell
(finalist) The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics and the Triumph of Anglo-America by Kevin Phillips

Biography/Autobiography
Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) by Stacy Schiff

(finalist) Clear Springs: A Memoir by Bobbie Ann Mason
(finalist) Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel

Poetry
Repair by C.K. Williams

(finalist) Elegy for the Southern Drawl byRodney Jones
(finalist) Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998 by Adrienne Rich

General Non-Fiction
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower

(finalist)
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene
(finalist)
Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds by Scott Weidensaul

Fiction
The Hours by Michael Cunningham

(finalist) Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
(finalist) The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

History
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace

(finalist) The New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age by William E. Burrows
(finalist) In a Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and Survival by Paula Mitchell Mark

Biography/Autobiography
Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg

(finalist) At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life by Francine du Plessix Gray
(finalist) A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar

Poetry
Blizzard of One by Mark Strand

(finalist) Mysteries of Small Houses by Alice Notley
(finalist) Going Fast by Frederick Seidel

General Non-Fiction
Annals of the Former World by John McPhee

(finalist) Crime and Punishment in America by Elliott Currie
(finalist) The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do by Judith Rich Harris

Fiction
American Pastoral by Philip Roth

(finalist) Underworld by Don DeLillo
(finalist) Bear and His Daughter: Stories by Robert Stone

History
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson

(finalist)
Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America by J. Anthony Lukas
(finalist)
Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History by Rogers M. Smith

Biography/Autobiography
Personal History by Katharine Graham

(finalist) Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public-Private Life by James H. Jones
(finalist) Whittaker Chambers: A Biography by Sam Tanenhaus

Poetry
Black Zodiac by Charles Wright

(finalist) Desire by Frank Bidart
(finalist) The Vigil by C.K. Williams

General Non-Fiction
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

(finalist) Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
(finalist) How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker

Fiction
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser

(finalist) The Manikin by Joanna Scott
(finalist) Unlocking the Air and Other Stories by Ursula K. LeGuin

History
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove

(finalist) Founding Mothers and Fathers by Mary Beth Norton
(finalist) The Battle for Christmas by Stephen Nissenbaum

Biography/Autobiography
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt

(finalist) In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country by Kim Barnes
(finalist) Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume 1, 1819-1851 by Hershel Parker

Poetry
Alive Together: New and Selected Poems by Lisel Mueller

(finalist) The Figured Wheel by Robert Pinsky
(finalist) The Willow Grove by Laurie Sheck

General Non-Fiction
Ashes To Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, The Public Health, And The Unabashed Triumph Of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger

(finalist)
The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond by Samuel G. Freedman
(finalist) Fame and Folly by Cynthia Ozick

Fiction
Independence Day by Richard Ford

(finalist) Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
(finalist) Mr. Ives' Christmas by Oscar Hijuelos

History
William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor

(finalist)
The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic by Lance Banning
(finalist)
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb by Richard Rhodes

Biography/Autobiography
God: A Biography by Jack Miles

(finalist) John Sloan: Painter and Rebel by John Loughery
(finalist) Mozart: A Life by Maynard Solomon

Poetry
The Dream of the Unified Field by Jorie Graham

(finalist) New and Selected Poems by Donald Justice
(finalist) Chickamauga by Charles Wright

General Non-Fiction
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg

(finalist) Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and The Meanings of Life by Daniel C. Dennett
(finalist) Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence Weschler

Fiction
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

(finalist) What I Lived For by Joyce Carol Oates
(finalist) The Collected Stories by Grace Paley

History
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin

(finalist) Stories of Scottsboro by James Goodman
(finalist) Lincoln in American Memory by Merrill D. Peterson

Biography/Autobiography
Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life by Joan D. Hedrick

(finalist) Hugo Black: A Biography by Roger K. Newman
(finalist) Saint-Exupery: A Biography by Stacy Schiff 

Poetry
The Simple Truth by Philip Levine

(finalist) Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986-1992 by Allen Ginsberg
(finalist) On The Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems 1950-1988 and One Train by Kenneth Koch

General Non-Fiction
The Beak Of The Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time by Jonathan Weiner

(finalist) Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story by John Berendt
(finalist) How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland

Fiction
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx

(finalist) The Collected Stories by Reynolds Price
(finalist) Operation Shylock: A Confession by Philip Roth

History
(No Award)

(finalist) Crime and Punishment in American History by Lawrence M. Friedman
(finalist) Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of  JFK by Gerald Posner
(finalist) William Faulkner and Southern History by Joel Williamson

Biography/Autobiography
W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919 by David Levering Lewis

(finalist) In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding by Deborah Baker
(finalist) Genet: A Biography by Edmund White 

Poetry
Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa

(finalist) Bright Existence by Brenda Hillman
(finalist) The Metamorphoses of Ovid translated by Allen Mandelbaum

General Non-Fiction
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days Of The Soviet Empire by David Remnick

(finalist) The End of the Twentieth Century: And the End of the Modern Age by John Lukacs
(finalist) The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud by Peter Gay

Fiction
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler

(finalist) Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates
(finalist) At Weddings and Wakes by Alice McDermott

History
The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood

(finalist) The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction by Edward L. Ayers
(finalist) Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills

Biography/Autobiography
Truman by David McCullough

(finalist) Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick
(finalist) Kissinger by Walter Isaacson

Poetry
The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck

(finalist) Hotel Lautreamont by John Ashbery
(finalist) Selected Poems 1946-1985 by James Merrill

General Non-Fiction
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills

(finalist) A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War by Susan Griffin
(finalist) Where the Buffalo Roam by Anne Matthews
(finalist) Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father by Richard Rodriguez

Fiction
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

(finalist) Mao II by Don DeLillo
(finalist) Jernigan by David Gates
(finalist) Lila: An Inquiry into Morals by Robert M. Pirsig

History
The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties by Mark E. Neely, Jr.

(finalist) Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon 
(finalist) A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs by Theodore Draper
(finalist) Profits in the Wilderness: Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century by John Frederick Martin
(finalist) The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 by Richard White

Biography/Autobiography
Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet by Lewis B. Puller, Jr.

(finalist) Orwell: The Authorized Biography by Michael Shelden
(finalist) Frederick Douglass by William S. McFeely

Poetry
Selected Poems by James Tate

(finalist) Selected Poems by Robert Creeley
(finalist) An Atlas of the Difficult World by Adrienne Rich

General Non-Fiction
The Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin

(finalist) Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics by Thomas Byrne Edsall and Mary D. Edsall
(finalist) Broken Vessels by Andre Dubus

Fiction
Rabbit At Rest by John Updike

(finalist) Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan
(finalist) The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

History
A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

(finalist) Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 by Lizabeth Cohen
(finalist) The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy by Hugh David Graham
(finalist) America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink by Kenneth M. Stampp

Biography/Autobiography
Jackson Pollock by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith

(finalist) The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends 1880-1918 by Patricia O'Toole
(finalist) Alfred I. Du Pont: The Man and His Family by Joseph Frazier Wall

Poetry
Near Changes by Mona Van Duyn

(finalist) The Transparent Man by Anthony Hecht
(finalist) Leaving Another Kingdom by Gerald Stern

General Non-Fiction
The Ants by Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson

(finalist) River of Traps: A Village Life by William duBuys and Alex Harris
(finalist) Looking for a Ship by John McPhee

Fiction
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos

(finalist) Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow

History
In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines by Stanley Karnow

(finalist) The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I by Hugh Honour
(finalist) American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm 1870-1970 by Thomas P. Hughes

Biography/Autobiography
Machiavelli in Hell by Sebastian de Grazia

(finalist) The Road From Coorain by Jill Ker Conway
(finalist) Clear Pictures: First Loves, First Guides by Reynolds Price
(finalist) A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt by Geoffrey C. Ward

Poetry
The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic

(finalist) Time's Power by Adrienne Rich
(finalist) Selected and Last Poems by the late Paul Zweig

General Non-Fiction
And Their Children After Them by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson

(finalist) A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East 1914-1922 by David Fromkin
(finalist) Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould

Fiction
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler

(finalist) Where I'm Calling From by the late Raymond Carver

History
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson
and
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch

(finalist) Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner
(finalist) A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan

Biography/Autobiography
Oscar Wilde by the late Richard Ellmann

(finalist) Freud: A Life For Our Time by Peter Gay 
(finalist) The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II, 1941-1967: I Dream a World by Arnold Rampersad
(finalist) A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam  by Neil Sheehan

Poetry
New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur

(finalist) The One Day by Donald Hall
(finalist) The River of Heaven by Garrett Hongo

General Non-Fiction
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan

(finalist) Danger and Survival by McGeorge Bundy
(finalist) Coming of Age in the Milky Way by Timothy Ferris
(finalist) The Last Farmer by Howard Kohn

Fiction
Beloved by Toni Morrison

(finalist) Persian Nights by Diane Johnson
(finalist) That Night by Alice McDermott

History
The Launching of Modern American Science 1846-1876 by Robert V. Bruce

(finalist) The Fall of the House of Labor by David Montgomery
(finalist) The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System by Charles E. Rosenberg

Biography/Autobiography
Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe by David Herbert Donald

(finalist) Hemingway by Kenneth S. Lynn
(finalist) George Santayana: A Biography by John McCormick

Poetry
Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems by William Meredith

(finalist) Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 by Lucille Clifton
(finalist) Flesh and Blood by C.K. Williams

General Non-Fiction
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes

(finalist) Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society by Daniel Callahan
(finalist) Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick

Fiction
A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor

(finalist) Whites by Norman Rush
(finalist) Paradise by Donald Barthelme

History
Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn

(finalist) Eisenhower: At War, 1943-1945 by David Eisenhower
(finalist) Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J. Garrow

Biography/Autobiography
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J. Garrow

(finalist) Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865 by Joseph Frank
(finalist) The Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy Adams by Leonard L. Richards
(finalist) Murrow: His Life and Times by A.M. Sperber

Poetry
Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove

(finalist) The Selected Poetry of Hayden Carruth by Hayden Carruth
(finalist) Unending Blues by Charles Simic

General Non-Fiction
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land by David K. Shipler

(finalist) Rain or Shine: A Family Memoir by Cyra McFadden
(finalist) Rising from the Plains by John McPhee

Fiction
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

(finalist) Continental Drift by Russell Banks
(finalist) The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

History
...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age by Walter A. McDougall

(finalist) Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present by Jacqueline Jones
(finalist) Novus Ordo Seclorum: the Intellectual Origins of the Constitution by Forrest McDonald
(finalist) Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America by Kerby A. Miller

Biography/Autobiography
Louise Bogan: A Portrait by Elizabeth Frank

(finalist) George Washington Williams: A Biography by John Hope Franklin
(finalist) A Hidden Childhood: A Jewish Girl's Sanctuary in a French Convent, 1942-1945 by Frida Scheps Weinstein

Poetry
The Flying Change by Henry Taylor

(finalist) Selected Poems, 1963-1983 by Charles Simic
(finalist) Saints and Strangers by Andrew Hudgins

General Non-Fiction
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas
and
Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White by Joseph Lelyveld

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

Fiction
Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie

(finalist) Leaving the Land by Douglas Unger
(finalist) I Wish This War Were Over by Diana O'Hehir

History
Prophets of Regulation by Thomas K. McCraw

(finalist) The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians by Francis Paul Prucha
(finalist) The Crucible of Race by Joel  Williamson

Biography/Autobiography
The Life and Times of Cotton Mather by Kenneth Silverman

(finalist) Becoming William James by Howard M. Feinstein
(finalist) The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton by Michael Mott

Poetry
Yin by Carolyn Kizer

(finalist) Ground Work by Robert Duncan
(finalist) The Other Side of the River by Charles Wright

General Non-Fiction
The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two by Studs Terkel

(finalist) Dawn to the West by Donald Keene 
(finalist) Endless Enemies by Jonathan Kwitny

Fiction
Ironweed by William Kennedy

(finalist) Cathedral by Raymond Carver
(finalist) The Feud by Thomas Berger

History
(No Award)
(no nominated finalists)

Biography/Autobiography
Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 by Louis R. Harlan

(finalist) Thomas Carlyle: A Biography by Fred Kaplan
(finalist) Black Apollo of Science: the Life of Ernest Everett Just by Kenneth Manning

Poetry
American Primitive by Mary Oliver

(finalist) Weather-Fear: New and Selected Poems by John Engels
(finalist) Collected Poems, 1930-1982 by Josephine Miles

General Non-Fiction
The Social Transformation Of American Medicine by Paul Starr

(finalist) Conversations With the Enemy by Winston Groom and Duncan Spencer
(finalist) Wild Justice by Susan Jacoby

Fiction
The Color Purple by Alice Walker

(finalist) Rabbis and Wives by the late Chaim Grade
(finalist) Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler

History
The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 by Rhys L. Isaac

(finalist) The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 by Robert L. Middlekauff 
(finalist) Southern Honor: Ethics & Behavior in the Old South by Bertram Wyatt-Brown

Biography/Autobiography
Growing Up by Russell Baker

(finalist) Churchill: Young Man in a Hurry, 1874-1915 by Ted Morgan
(finalist) Thomas E. Dewey and His Times by Richard Norton Smith

Poetry
Selected Poems by Galway Kinnell

(finalist) Monolithos, Poems, 1962 and 1982 by Jack Gilbert
(finalist) Country Music, Selected Early Poems by Charles Wright

General Non-Fiction
Is There No Place On Earth For Me? by Susan Sheehan

(finalist) Terrorists and Novelists by Diane Johnson 
(finalist) The Fate of the Earth by Jonathan Schell

Fiction
Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike

(finalist) A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone
(finalist) Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

History
Mary Chesnut's Civil War (Yale U. Press) by edited by C. Vann Woodward

(finalist) White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American & South African History by George M. Frederickson
(finalist) Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941-1945 by Akira Iriye

Biography/Autobiography
Grant: A Biography by William McFeely

(finalist) Waldo Emerson by Gay Wilson Allen
(finalist) Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough

Poetry
The Collected Poems by the late Sylvia Plath (a posthumous publication)

(finalist) Dream Flights by Dave Smith
(finalist) The Southern Cross by Charles Wright

General Non-Fiction
The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder

(finalist) Basin and Range by John McPhee
(finalist) Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor by Diana Trilling

Fiction
A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication)

(finalist) Godric by Frederick Buechner
(finalist)  So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell

History
American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876 by Lawrence A. Cremin

(finalist) Over Here: The First World War and American Society by David M. Kennedy
(finalist) A Search for Power: The 'Weaker Sex' in Seventeenth Century New England by Lyle Koehler

Biography/Autobiography
Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie

(finalist) Walt Whitman: A Life by Justin Kaplan
(finalist) Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel

Poetry
The Morning of the Poem by James Schuyler

(finalist) The Right Madness on Skye by Richard Hugo
(finalist) Selected Poems by Mark Strand

General Non-Fiction
Fin-De Siecle Vienna: Politics And Culture by Carl E. Schorske

(finalist) Southerners: A Journalist's Odyssey by Marshall Frady
(finalist) China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston
(finalist) Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War by William Manchester

Fiction
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer

(finalist)  Birdy by William Wharton
(finalist)  The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth

History
Been in the Storm So Long by Leon F. Litwack

(finalist) The Urban Crucible by Gary B. Nash
(finalist) The Plains Across by John B. Unruh

Biography/Autobiography
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

(finalist) Bernard Berenson, The Making of a Connoisseur by Ernest Samuels
(finalist) Being Bernard Berenson by Meryle Secrest
(finalist) The Duke of Deception by Geoffrey Wolff 

Poetry
Selected Poems by Donald Justice

(finalist) Selected Poems by Richard Hugo
(finalist) Goshawk, Antelope by Dave Smith

General Non-Fiction
Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter

(finalist) The Madwoman in the Attic by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
(finalist) The Medusa and the Snail by Lewis Thomas

Fiction
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever

History
The Dred Scott Case by Don E. Fehrenbacher

Biography/Autobiography
Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews by Leonard Baker

Poetry
Now and Then by Robert Penn Warren

General Non-Fiction
On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson

Fiction
Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson

History
The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.

Biography/Autobiography
Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate

Poetry
Collected Poems by Howard Nemerov

General Non-Fiction
The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan

Fiction
(No Award)

History
The Impending Crisis, 1841-1867 by David M. Potter, a posthumous publication. Manuscript finished by Don E. Fehrenbacher

Biography/Autobiography
A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T E. Lawrence by John E. Mack

Poetry
Divine Comedies by James Merrill

General Non-Fiction
Beautiful Swimmers by William W. Warner

Fiction
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow

History
Lamy of Santa Fe by PaulHorgan

Biography/Autobiography
Edith Wharton: A Biography by R. W. B. Lewis

Poetry
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery

General Non-Fiction
Why Survive? Being Old In America by Robert N. Butler

Fiction
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

History
Jefferson and His Time, Vols. I-V by Dumas Malone

Biography/Autobiography
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro

Poetry
Turtle Island by Gary Snyder

General Non-Fiction
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

Fiction
(No Award)

History
The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin

Biography/Autobiography
O'Neill, Son and Artist by Louis Sheaffer

Poetry
The Dolphin by Robert Lowell

General Non-Fiction
The Denial of Death by the late Ernest Becker

Fiction
The Optimists Daughter by Eudora Welty

History
People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization by Michael Kammen

Biography/Autobiography
Luce and His Empire by W. A. Swanberg

Poetry
Up Country by Maxine Kumin

General Non-Fiction
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances Fitzgerald
and
Children of Crisis, Vols. II and III by Robert Coles 

Fiction
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

History
Neither Black Nor White by Carl N. Degler

Biography/Autobiography
Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. Lash

Poetry
Collected Poems by James Wright

General Non-Fiction
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945 by Barbara W. Tuchman

Fiction
(No Award)

History
Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom by James MacGregor Burns

Biography/Autobiography
Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915 -1938 by Lawrance Thompson

Poetry
The Carrier of Ladders by William S. Merwin 

General Non-Fiction
The Rising Sun by John Toland

Fiction
Collected Stories by Jean Stafford 

History
Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department by Dean Acheson

Biography/Autobiography
Huey Long by T. Harry Williams

Poetry
Untitled Subjects by Richard Howard

General Non-Fiction
Gandhi's Truth by Erik H. Erikson

Fiction
House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday

History
Origins of the Fifth Amendment by Leonard W. Levy

Biography/Autobiography
The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends by Benjamin Lawrence Reid 

Poetry
Of Being Numerous by George Oppen 

General Non-Fiction
The Armies Of The Night by Norman Mailer
and
So Human An Animal by Rene Jules Dubos 

Fiction
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron

History
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn

Biography/Autobiography
Memoirs by George E. Kennan

Poetry
The Hard Hours by Anthony Hecht

General Non-Fiction
Rousseau And Revolution, The Tenth And Concluding Volume Of The Story Of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant

Fiction
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud

History
Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in theWinning of the American West by William H. Goetzmann

Biography/Autobiography
Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain by Justin Kaplan

Poetry
Live or Die by Anne Sexton

General Non-Fiction
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis

Fiction
Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter

History
The Life of the Mind in America by the late Perry Miller

Biography/Autobiography
A Thousand Days by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Poetry
Selected Poems by Richard Eberhart

General Non-Fiction
Wandering Through Winter by Edwin Way Teale

Fiction
The Keepers Of The House by Shirley Ann Grau

History
The Greenback Era by Irwin Unger

Biography/Autobiography
Henry Adams, three volumes by Ernest Samuels

Poetry
77 Dream Songs by John Berryman

General Non-Fiction
O Strange New World by Howard Mumford Jones

Fiction
(No Award)

History
Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town by Sumner Chilton Powell

Biography/Autobiography
John Keats by Walter Jackson Bate

Poetry
At The End Of The Open Road by Louis Simpson

General Non-Fiction
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter

Fiction
The Reivers by William Faulkner

History
Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878 by Constance McLaughlin Green

Biography/Autobiography
Henry James by Leon Edel

Poetry
Pictures from Breughel by the late William Carlos Williams

General Non-Fiction
The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman

Fiction
The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor

History
The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West 1763-1766 by Lawrence H. Gipson

Biography/Autobiography
(No Award)

Poetry
Poems by Alan Dugan

General Non-Fiction
The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. White

Fiction
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

History
Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference by Herbert Feis

Biography/Autobiography
Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War by David Donald

Poetry
Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades by Phyllis McGinley

Fiction
Advise and Consent by Allen Drury

History
In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech

Biography/Autobiography
John Paul Jones by Samuel Eliot Morison

Poetry
Heart's Needle by W. D. Snodgrass

Fiction
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor

History
The Republican Era: l869-1901 by Leonard D. White, with the assistance of Miss Jean Schneider

Biography/Autobiography
Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet by Arthur Walworth

Poetry
Selected Poems 1928-1958 by Stanley Kunitz

Fiction
A Death In The Family by the late James Agee (a posthumous publication)

History
Banks and Politics in America by Bray Hammond

Biography/Autobiography
George Washington, Volumes I-VI by Douglas Southall Freeman, and Volume VII, written by John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth after Dr. Freeman's Death in 1953

Poetry
Promises: Poems 1954-1956 by Robert Penn Warren

Fiction
(No Award)

History
Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920 by George F. Kennan

Biography/Autobiography
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy

Poetry
Things of This World by Richard Wilbur

Fiction
Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor

History
The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter

Biography/Autobiography
Benjamin Henry Latrobe by Talbot Faulkner Hamlin

Poetry
Poems - North & South by Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction
A Fable by William Faulkner

History
Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History by Paul Horgan

Biography/Autobiography
The Taft Story by William S.White

Poetry
Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens

Fiction
(No Award)

History
A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton

Biography/Autobiography
The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh

Poetry
The Waking by Theodore Roethke 

Fiction
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

History
The Era of Good Feelings by George Dangerfield

Biography/Autobiography
Edmund Pendleton 1721-1803 by David J. Mays

Poetry
Collected Poems 1917-1952 by Archibald MacLeish

Fiction
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk

History
The Uprooted by Oscar Handlin

Biography/Autobiography
Charles Evans Hughes by Merlo J. Pusey

Poetry
Collected Poems by Marianne Moore

Fiction
The Town by Conrad Richter

History
The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815-1840 by R. Carlyle Buley

Biography/Autobiography
John C. Calhoun: American Portrait by Margaret Louise Coit

Poetry
Complete Poems by Carl Sandburg

Fiction
The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.

History
Art and Life in America by Oliver W. Larkin

Biography/Autobiography
John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy by Samuel Flagg Bemis

Poetry
Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction
Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens

History
The Disruption of American Democracy by Roy Franklin Nichols

Biography/Autobiography
Roosevelt and Hopkins by Robert E. Sherwood

Poetry
Terror and Decorum by Peter Viereck 

Fiction
Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener

History
Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard Devoto

Biography/Autobiography
Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow by Margaret Clapp

Poetry
The Age of Anxiety by W. H. Auden

Novel
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

History
Scientists Against Time by James Phinney Baxter 3rd

Biography/Autobiography
The Autobiography of William Allen White by William Allen White

Poetry
Lord Weary's Castle by Robert Lowell

Novel
(No Award)

History
The Age of Jackson by Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr.

Biography/Autobiography
Son of the Wilderness by Linnie Marsh Wolfe

Poetry
(No Award)

Novel
A Bell for Adano by John Hersey

History
Unfinished Business by Stephen Bonsal

Biography/Autobiography
George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel by Russell Blaine Nye

Poetry
V-Letter and Other Poems by Karl Shapiro

Novel
Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin

History
The Growth of American Thought by Merle Curti

Biography/Autobiography
The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F B. Morse by Carleton Mabee

Poetry
Western Star by the late Stephen Vincent Benet

Novel
Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair

History
Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther Forbes

Biography/Autobiography
Admiral of the Ocean Sea by Samuel Eliot Morison

Poetry
A Witness Tree by Robert Frost

Novel
In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow

History
Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865 by Margaret Leech

Biography/Autobiography
Crusader in Crinoline by Forrest Wilson

Poetry
The Dust Which Is God by William Rose Benet

Novel
(No Award)

History
The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860 by Marcus Lee Hansen

Biography/Autobiography
Jonathan Edward by Ola Elizabeth Winslow

Poetry
Sunderland Capture by Leonard Bacon

Novel
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

History
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years by Carl Sandburg

Biography/Autobiography
Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII by Ray Stannard Baker

Poetry
Collected Poems by Mark Van Doren

Novel
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

History
A History of American Magazines by Frank Luther Mott

Biography/Autobiography
Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren

Poetry
Selected Poems by John Gould Fletcher

Novel
The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand

History
The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900 by Paul Herman Buck

Biography/Autobiography
Andrew Jackson, 2 vols. by Marquis James
          and
Pedlar's Progress by Odell Shepard

Poetry
Cold Morning Sky by Marya Zaturenska

Novel
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

History
The Flowering of New England 1815-1865 by Van Wyck Brooks

Biography/Autobiography
Hamilton Fish by Allan Nevins

Poetry
A Further Range by Robert Frost

Novel
Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis

History
A Constitutional History of the United States by Andrew C. McLaughlin

Biography/Autobiography
The Thought and Character of William James by Ralph Barton

Poetry
Strange Holiness by Robert P. Tristram Coffin

Novel
Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson

History
The Colonial Period of American History by Charles McLean Andrews

Biography/Autobiography
R. E. Lee by Douglas S. Freeman

Poetry
Bright Ambush by Audrey Wurdemann

Novel
Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller

History
The People's Choice by Herbert Agar

Biography/Autobiography
John Hay by Tyler Dennett

Poetry
Collected Verse by Robert Hillyer

Novel
The Store by T. S. Stribling

History
The Significance of Sections in American History by Frederick J. Turner

Biography/Autobiography
Grover Cleveland by Allan Nevins

Poetry
Conquistador by Archibald Macleish

Novel
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

History
My Experiences in the World War by John J. Pershing

Biography/Autobiography
Theodore Roosevelt by Henry F. Pringle

Poetry
The Flowering Stone by George Dillon

Novel
Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes

History
The Coming of the War 1914 by Bernadotte E. Schmitt

Biography/Autobiography
Charles W. Eliot by Henry James

Poetry
Collected Poems by Robert Frost

Novel
Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge

History
The War of Independence by Claude H. Van Tyne

Biography/Autobiography
The Raven by Marquis James

Poetry
Selected Poems by Conrad Aiken

Novel
Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin

History
The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865 by Fred Albert Shannon

Biography/Autobiography
The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page by Burton J. Hendrick

Poetry
John Browns Body by Stephen Vincent Benet

Novel
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

History
Main Currents in American Thought, 2 vols. by Vernon Louis Parrington

Biography/Autobiography
The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas by Charles Edward Russell

Poetry
Tristram by Edwin Arlington Robinson

Novel
Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield

History
Pinckney's Treaty by Samuel Flagg Bemis

Biography/Autobiography
Whitman by Emory Holloway

Poetry
Fiddler's Farewell by Leonora Speyer

Novel
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis

History
A History of the United States by Edward Channing

Biography/Autobiography
The Life of Sir William Osler, 2 vols. by Harvey Cushing

Poetry
What's O'Clock by the late Amy Lowell

Novel
So Big by Edna Ferber

History
History of the American Frontier by Frederic L. Paxson

Biography/Autobiography
Barrett Wendell and His Letters by M. A. Dewolfe Howe

Poetry
The Man Who Died Twice by Edwin Arlington Robinson

Novel
The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson

History
The American Revolution -- A Constitutional Interpretation by Charles Howard McIlwain

Biography/Autobiography
From Immigrant to Inventor by Michael Idvorsky Pupin

Poetry
New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes by Robert Frost 

Novel
One of Ours by Willa Cather

History
The Supreme Court in United States History by Charles Warren

Biography/Autobiography
The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page by Burton J. Hendrick

Poetry
The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. A Miscellany by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Novel
Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington

History
The Founding of New England by James Truslow Adams

Biography/Autobiography
A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

Poetry
Collected Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson 

Novel
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

History
The Victory at Sea by William Sowden Sims in collaboration with Burton J. Hendrick

Biography/Autobiography
The Americanization of Edward Bok by Edward Bok

Novel
(No Award)

History
The War with Mexico, 2 vols. by Justin H. Smith

Biography/Autobiography
The Life of John Marshall, 4 vols. by Albert J. Beveridge

Novel
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington

History
(No Award)

Biography/Autobiography
The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Novel
His Family by Ernest Poole

History
A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 by James Ford Rhodes

Biography/Autobiography
Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed by William Cabell Bruce

Poetry
Sara Teasdale; Love Songs

Novel
(No Award)

History
With Americans of Past and Present Days by His Excellency J.J. Jusserand, Ambassador of France to the United States

Biography/Autobiography
Julia Ward Howe by Laura E. Richards and Maude Howe Elliott assisted by Florence Howe Hall