National Book Award Winners
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Salvage the Bones
by Jesmyn Ward    3.84 avg rating — 2,377 ratings
National Book Award for Fiction (2011)
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Inside Out and Back Again
by Thanhha Lai  4.08 avg rating — 3,355 ratings
National Book Award for Young People's Literature (2011)
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Head Off and Split
by Nikky Finney 4.07 avg rating — 137 ratings
National Book Award for Poetry (2011)
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
by Stephen Greenblatt 3.79 avg rating — 2,153 ratings
National Book Award for Nonfiction (2011)
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One with Others: [a little book of her days]
by C.D. Wright 4.27 avg rating — 85 ratings
National Book Award for Poetry (2010)
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Lighthead
by Terrance Hayes 4.11 avg rating — 289 ratings
National Book Award for Poetry (2010)
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Just Kids
by Patti Smith 4.13 avg rating — 22,300 ratings
National Book Award for Nonfiction (2010)
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Lord of Misrule
by Jaimy Gordon 3.24 avg rating — 1,212 ratings
National Book Award for Fiction (2010)
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Mockingbird
by Kathryn Erskine 4.15 avg rating — 4,865 ratings
National Book Award for Young People's Literature (2010)
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The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
by T.J. Stiles 3.81 avg rating — 750 ratings
National Book Award for Non-Fiction (2009)
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Let the Great World Spin
by Colum McCann (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 27,611 ratings
National Book Award for Fiction (2009)
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Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy
by Keith Waldrop 4.08 avg rating — 49 ratings
National Book Award for Poetry (2009)
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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
by Phillip M. Hoose 4.12 avg rating — 1,099 ratings
National Book Award for Young People's Literature (2009)
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What I Saw and How I Lied
by Judy Blundell 3.55 avg rating — 5,282 ratings
National Book Award for Young People's Literature (2008)
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Shadow Country
by Peter Matthiessen 3.95 avg rating — 1,009 ratings
National Book Award for Fiction (2008)
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The Hemingses of Monticello
by Annette Gordon-Reed 3.74 avg rating — 1,010 ratings
National Book Award for Non-Fiction (2008)
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Fire to Fire
by Mark Doty 4.18 avg rating — 285 ratings
National Book Award for Poetry (2008)
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Time and Materials
by Robert Hass 3.92 avg rating — 731 ratings
National Book Award for Poetry (2007)
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
by Tim Weiner (Goodreads Author) 3.81 avg rating — 2,382 ratings
National Book Award for Non-Fiction (2007)
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Tree of Smoke
by Denis Johnson 3.54 avg rating — 3,627 ratings
National Book Award for Fiction (2007)
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie 4.17 avg rating — 35,520 ratings
National Book Award for Young People's Literature (2007)
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
by Timothy Egan 4.01 avg rating — 8,783 ratings
National Book Award for Nonfiction (2006)
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The Pox Party
by M.T. Anderson 3.56 avg rating — 5,444 ratings
National Book Award for Young People's Literature (2006)
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Splay Anthem
by Nathaniel Mackey 4.25 avg rating — 112 ratings
National Book Award for Poetry (2006)
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The Echo Maker
by Richard Powers 3.30 avg rating — 3,535 ratings
National Book Award for Fiction (2006)
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Migration: New & Selected Poems
by W.S. Merwin 4.30 avg rating — 194 ratings
National Book Award for Poetry (2005)
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Europe Central
by William T. Vollmann 3.95 avg rating — 655 ratings
National Book Award for Fiction (2005)
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The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion 3.76 avg rating — 34,680 ratings
National Book Award for Nonfiction (2005)
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The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
by Jeanne Birdsall 4.07 avg rating — 9,548 ratings
National Book Award for Young People's Literature (2005)
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Godless
by Pete Hautman 3.57 avg rating — 1,827 ratings
National Book Award for Young People's Literature (2004)
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