National Book Award Winners, 2000-2009

2000 Click on author's name to see profile; click on book title to purchase.	FICTION In America by Susan Sontag NONFICTION In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick POETRY Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 by Lucille Clifton YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan
2001 Click on author's name to see profile; click on book title to purchase.	FICTION The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen NONFICTION The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon POETRY Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry by Alan Dugan YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff
2002 Click on author's name to see profile; click on book title to purchase.	FICTION Three Junes by Julia Glass NONFICTION Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro POETRY In the Next Galaxy by Ruth Stone YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
2003 Click on author's name to see profile; click on book title to purchase.	FICTION NONFICTION POETRY YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE
2004 Click on author's name to see profile; click on book title to purchase.	FICTION NONFICTION POETRY YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE
2005 Click on author's name to see profile; click on book title to purchase.	FICTION NONFICTION POETRY YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE
2006 Click on author's name to see profile; click on book title to purchase.	FICTION NONFICTION POETRY YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE
2007 Click on author's name to see profile; click on book title to purchase.	FICTION NONFICTION POETRY YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE
2008 Click on author's name to see profile; click on book title to purchase.	FICTION NONFICTION POETRY YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE
2009 Click on author's name to see profile; click on book title to purchase.	Fiction Finalists American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips Far North by Marcel Theroux Nonfiction Finalists Following the Water: A Hydromancer’s Notebook by David M. Carroll Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species by Sean B. Carroll Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome’s Deadliest Enemy by Adrienne Mayor The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T. J. Stiles Poetry Finalists Versed by Rae Armantrout Or to Begin Again by Ann Lauterbach Speak Low: Poems by Carl Phillips Open Interval by Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy by Keith Waldrop Young People’s Literature Finalists Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose Stitches by David Small Lips Touch: Three Times by Laini Taylor Jumped by Rita Williams-Garcia