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BIOGRAPHY
2017     Henry David Thoreau : a life by Laura Dassow Walls
2016     Hitler : ascent, 1889-1939 by Volker Ullrich
2015     Listening to stone : the art and life of Isamu Noguchi by Hayden Herrera
2014     Napoleon : a life by Andrew Roberts
2013     Bolívar : American liberator by Marie Arana
2012     The years of Lyndon Johnson, v.4 : the passage of power by Robert A. Caro
2011     Clarence Darrow : attorney for the damned by John A. Farrell
2010     Unbroken : a World War II story of survival, resilience and redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
2009     Dorothea Lange : a life beyond limits by Linda Gordon
2008     Ida : a sword among lions : Ida B. Wells and the campaign against lynching by Paula J. Giddings
2007     Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
2006     Walt Disney : the triumph of the American imagination by Neal Gabler
2005     Matisse the master : a life of Henri Matisse, the conquest of colour, 1909-1954 by Hilary Spurling
2004     de Kooning : an American master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
2003     American empire : Roosevelt's geographer and the prelude to globalization by Neil Smith
2002     The years of Lyndon Johnson, vol. 3 : Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
2001     Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
2000     Jefferson Davis, American by William J. Cooper, Jr.
1999     Secrets of the flesh : a life of Colette by Judith Thurman
1998     Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg
1997     Whittaker Chambers : a biography by Sam Tanenhaus
1996     Angela's ashes : a memoir by Frank McCourt
1995     Under my skin : volume one of my autobiography, to 1949 by Doris Lessing
1994     Shot in the heart by Mikal Gilmore
1993     Daniel Boone : the life and legend of an American pioneer by John Mack Faragher
1992     Eleanor Roosevelt, volume one : 1884-1933 by Blanche Wiesen Cook
1991     Righteous pilgrim : the life and times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874-1952 by T.H. Watkins
1990     A first-class temperament : the emergence of Franklin Roosevelt by Geoffrey C. Ward
1989     This boy's life : a memoir by Tobias Wolff
1988     Nora : the real life of Molly Bloom by Brenda Maddox
1987     Hemingway by Kenneth S. Lynn
1986     Alexander Pope : a life by Maynard Mack
1985     Solzhenitsyn : a biography by Michael Scammell
1984     The nightmare of reason : a life of Franz Kafka by Ernst Pawel
1983     The price of power : Kissinger in the Nixon White House by Seymour Hersh
1982     Waldo Emerson : a biography by Gay Wilson Allen
1981     Mornings on horseback by David McCullough
1980     [Biography award concurrent with this year's History award]

The Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose
2017     The hue and cry at our house : a year remembered by Benjamin Taylor
2016     They can't kill us all : Ferguson, Baltimore, and a new era in America's racial justice movement by Wesley Lowery

CURRENT INTEREST
2017     Democracy in chains : the deep history of the radical right's stealth plan for America by Nancy MacLean
2016     Secondhand time : the last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich ; translated by Bela Shayevich
2015     Thieves of state : why corruption threatens global security by Sarah Chayes
2014     The short and tragic Life of Robert Peace : a brilliant young man who left Newark for the Ivy League by Jeff Hobbs
2013     Five days at Memorial : life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital by Sheri Fink
2012     Behind the beautiful forevers by Katherine Boo
2011     Thinking, fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman
2010     The big short : inside the doomsday machine by Michael Lewis
2009     Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
2008     Angler : the Cheney vice presidency by Barton Gellman
2007     Soldier's heart : reading literature through peace and war at West Point by Elizabeth D. Samet
2006     Murder in Amsterdam : the death of Theo van Gogh and the limits of tolerance by Ian Buruma
2005     Night draws near : Iraq's people in the shadow of America's war by Anthony Shadid
2004     Generation kill : Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the new face of American war by Evan Wright
2003     The new Chinese empire : and what it means for the United States by Ross Terrill
2002     Harmful to minors : the perils of protecting children from sex by Judith Levine
2001     Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
2000     Way out there in the blue : Reagan, Star Wars, and the end of the Cold War by Frances FitzGerald
1999     Sidewalk by Mitchell Duneier (with photographs by Ovie Carter)
1998     We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families : stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
1997     The spirit catches you and you fall down : a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures by Anne Fadiman
1996     Love thy neighbor : a story of war by Peter Maass
1995     Life on the color line : the true story of a white boy who discovered he was black by Gregory Howard Williams
1994     Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger
1993     Mexican Americans : the ambivalent minority by Peter Skerry
1992     The end of history and the last man by Francis Fukuyama
1991     Why Americans hate politics : the death of the democratic process by E.J. Dionne, Jr.
1990     Disappearing through the skylight : culture and technology in the twentieth century by O.B. Hardison, Jr.
1989     Parting the waters : America in the King years, 1954-63 by Taylor Branch
1988     Secrets of the temple : how the Federal Reserve runs the country by William Greider
1987     The blind watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
1986     Move your shadow : South Africa, Black and White by Joseph Lelyveld
1985     Habits of the heart : individualism and commitment in American life by Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler and Steven M. Tipton
1984     Cities and the wealth of nations : principles of economic life by Jane Jacobs
1983     Lost in the cosmos : the last self-help book by Walker Percy
1982     The fate of the earth by Jonathan Schell
1981     Prisoner without a name, cell without a number by Jacobo Timerman
1980     Without fear or favor : the New York Times and its times by Harrison Salisbury [Winner of the General Award--no Current Interest Award this year]

FICTION
2017     Exit west : a novel by Mohsin Hamid
2016     Imagine me gone : a novel by Adam Haslett
2015     The story of my teeth by Valeria Luiselli, translated by Christina MacSweeney
2014     The blazing world : a novel by Siri Hustvedt
2013     A tale for the time being by Ruth Ozeki
2012     Billy Lynn's long halftime walk by Ben Fountain
2011     Luminarium by Alex Shakar
2010     A visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
2009     A happy marriage : a novel by Rafael Yglesias
2008     Home by Marilynne Robinson
2007     Be near me by Andrew O'Hagan
2006     A woman in Jerusalem by A. B. Yehoshua ; translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin
2005     Memories of my melancholy whores by Gabriel García Márquez ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
2004     The master : a novel by Colm Tóibín
2003     Train : a novel by Pete Dexter
2002     Atonement : a novel by Ian McEwan
2001     Why did I ever by Mary Robison
2000     Assorted fire events : stories by David Means
1999     Freedom song : three novels by Amit Chaudhuri
1998     The rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald ; translated from the German by Michael Hulse
1997     In the Rogue Blood by James Carlos Blake
1996     A fine balance : a novel by Rohinton Mistry
1995     The blue afternoon by William Boyd
1994     Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
1993     Pigs in heaven : a novel by Barbara Kingsolver
1992     Maus II : a survivor's tale : and here my troubles began by Art Spiegelman
1991     White people by Allan Gurganus
1990     Lantern slides : stories by Edna O'Brien
1989     The heart of the country by Fay Weldon
1988     Love in the time of cholera by Gabriel García Márquez ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
1987     Fools Crow by James Welch
1986     The handmaid's tale by Margaret Atwood
1985     Love medicine : a novel by Louis Erdrich
1984     The unbearable lightness of being by Milan Kundera ; translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim
1983     Schindler's list by Thomas Keneally
1982     A flag for sunrise : a novel by Robert Stone
1981     The white hotel by D. M. Thomas
1980     The second coming by Walker Percy

GRAPHIC NOVEL/COMICS
2017     Present by Leslie Stein
2016     Beverly by Nick Drnaso
2015     Arab of the future : a childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984 : a graphic memoir by Riad Sattouf
2014     The love bunglers by Jaime Hernandez
2013     Today is the last day of the rest of your life by Ulli Lust
2012     Everything together : collected stories by Sammy Harkham
2011     Finder. Voice by Carla Speed McNeil
2010     Duncan the wonder dog [show one] by Adam Hines
2009     Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli

HISTORY
2017     The death and life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
2016     An American genocide : the United States and the California Indian catastrophe, 1846-1873 by Benjamin Madley
2015     Killing a king : the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the remaking of Israel by Dan Ephron
2014     The deluge : the Great War, America and the remaking of the global order, 1916-1931 by Adam Tooze
2013     The sleepwalkers : how Europe went to war in 1914 by Christopher Clark
2012     America's great debate : Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the compromise that preserved the Union by Fergus M. Bordewich
2011     Railroaded : the transcontinentals and the making of modern America by Richard White
2010     The killing of Crazy Horse by Thomas Powers
2009     Golden dreams : California in an age of abundance, 1950–1963 by Kevin Starr
2008     Hitler's empire : how the Nazis ruled Europe by Mark Mazower
2007     Legacy of ashes : the history of the CIA by Tim Weiner
2006     The looming tower : Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
2005     Bury the chains : prophets and rebels in the fight to free an empire’s slaves by Adam Hochschild
2004     Perilous times : free speech in wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the war on terrorism by Geoffrey R. Stone
2003     An imperfect god : George Washington, his slaves, and the creation of America by Henry Wiencek
2002     Six days of war : June 1967 and the making of the modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren
2001     Before the storm : Barry Goldwater and the unmaking of the American consensus by Rick Perlstein
2000     The collaborator : the trial & execution of Robert Brasillach by Alice Kaplan
1999     Embracing defeat : Japan in the wake of World War II by John W. Dower
1998     The greatest benefit to mankind : a medical history of humanity by Roy Porter
1997     A people's tragedy : a history of the Russian Revolution by Orlando Figes
1996     Black Sea by Neal Ascherson
1995     Fables of abundance : a cultural history of advertising in America by Jackson Lears
1994     Gay New York : gender, urban culture, and the makings of the gay male world, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey
1993     New worlds, ancient texts : the power of tradition and the shock of discovery by Anthony Grafton
1992     Benevolence and betrayal : five Italian Jewish families under Fascism by Alexander Stille
1991     The promised land : the great Black migration and how it changed America by Nicholas Lemann
1990     The quest for El Cid by Richard Fletcher
1989     An empire of their own : how the Jews invented Hollywood by Neal Gabler
1988     Reconstruction : America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner
1987     No award in 1987
1986     The first socialist society : a history of the Soviet Union from within by Geoffrey Hosking (2d ed., 1993)
1985     Son of the Morning Star by Evan S. Connell
1984     The great cat massacre and other episodes in French cultural history by Robert Darnton
1983     Civilization and capitalism, 15th-18th century, v. 2 : the wheels of commerce by Fernand Braudel
1982     The Gate of Heavenly Peace : the Chinese and their revolution, 1895-1980 by Jonathan D. Spence
1981     Land of savagery/land of promise : the European image of the American frontier in the nineteenth century by Ray Allen Billington
1980     Walter Lippmann and the American century by Ronald Steel

MYSTERY/THRILLER
2017     A book of American martyrs by Joyce Carol Oates
2016     Dodgers by Bill Beverly
2015     The cartel by Don Winslow
2014     Dry bones in the valley by Tom Bouman
2013     The cuckoo's calling, J.K. Rowling writing as Robert Galbraith
2012     Broken harbor by Tana French
2011     11/22/63 by Stephen King
2010     Crooked letter, crooked letter by Tom Franklin
2009     The ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville
2008     Envy the night by Michael Koryta
2007     The Indian bride by Karin Fossum ; Translated by Charlotte Barslund
2006     Echo Park : a novel by Michael Connelly
2005     Legends : a novel of dissimulation by Robert Littell
2004     Tijuana Straits : a novel by Kem Nunn
2003     Soul circus : a novel by George P. Pelecanos
2002     Hell to pay : a novel by George P. Pelecanos
2001     Silent Joe by T. Jefferson Parker
2000     A place of execution : a novel by Val McDermid

POETRY
2017     Incendiary art : poems by Patricia Smith
2016     Gap gardening : selected poems by Rosmarie Waldrop
2015     From the new world : poems 1976-2014 by Jorie Graham
2014     Citizen : an American lyric by Claudia Rankine
2013     Collected poems by Ron Padgett
2012     Poems, 1962-2012 by Louise Glück
2011     Double shadow : poems by Carl Phillips
2010     Where I live : new & selected poems 1990-2010 by Maxine Kumin
2009     Practical water by Brenda Hillman
2008     Watching the spring festival by Frank Bidart
2007     Old heart : poems by Stanley Plumly
2006     Ooga-booga by Frederick Seidel
2005     Refusing heaven : poems by Jack Gilbert
2004     Inner voices : selected poems, 1963-2003 by Richard Howard
2003     Collected later poems by Anthony Hecht
2002     The watercourse : poems by Cynthia Zarin
2001     The beauty of the husband : a fictional essay in 29 tangos by Anne Carson
2000     The throne of Labdacus by Gjertrud Schnackenberg
1999     Repair by C. K. Williams
1998     Mysteries of small houses by Alice Notley
1997     Black zodiac by Charles Wright
1996     Mixed company by Alan Shapiro
1995     The Inferno of Dante : a new verse translation by Robert Pinsky
1994     The angel of history by Carolyn Forché
1993     My Alexandria : poems by Mark Doty
1992     An atlas of the difficult world : poems, 1988-1991 by Adrienne Rich
1991     What work is : poems by Phillip Levine
1990     The color of Mesabi bones : poems and prose poems by John Caddy
1989     The one day : a poem in three parts by Donald Hall
1988     New and collected poems by Richard Wilbur
1987     Partial accounts : new and selected poems by William Meredith
1986     Collected poems, 1948-1984 by Derek Walcott
1985     Cross ties : selected poems by X. J. Kennedy
1984     The Maximus poems by Charles Olson
1983     The changing light at Sandover by James Merrill
1982     Plutonian Ode : poems, 1977-1980 by Allen Ginsberg
1981     Three pieces by Ntozake Shange
1980     Kill the messenger who brings bad news by Robert Kelly

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
2017     Behave : the biology of humans at our best and worst by Robert M. Sapolsky
2016     Patient H.M. : a story of memory, madness, and family secrets by Luke Dittrich
2015     The invention of nature : Alexander von Humboldt's new world by Andrea Wulf
2014     The sixth extinction : an unnatural history by Elizabeth Kolbert
2013     Countdown : our last, best hope for a future on earth? by Alan Weisman
2012     Breasts : a natural and unnatural history by Florence Williams
2011     Grand pursuit : the story of economic genius by Sylvia Nasar
2010     The price of altruism : George Price and the search for the origins of kindness by Oren Harman
2009     The strangest man : the hidden life of Paul Dirac, mystic of the atom by Graham Farmelo
2008     The black hole war : my battle with Stephen Hawking to make the world safe for quantum mechanics by Leonard Susskind
2007     I am a strange loop by Douglas Hofstadter
2006     In search of memory : the emergence of a new science of mind by Eric R. Kandel
2005     Before the fallout : from Marie Curie to Hiroshima by Diana Preston
2004     The whale and the supercomputer : on the northern front of climate change by Charles Wohlforth
2003     Protecting America's health : the FDA, business, and one hundred years of regulation by Philip J. Hilts
2002     Rosalind Franklin : the dark lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox
2001     The invention of clouds : how an amateur meteorologist forged the language of the skies by Richard Hamblyn
2000     The rise and fall of modern medicine by James Le Fanu, M.D.
1999     Galileo's daughter : a historical memoir of science, faith, and love by Dava Sobel
1998     Blood : an epic history of medicine and commerce by Douglas Starr
1997     How the mind works by Steven Pinker
1996     The demon-haunted world : science as a candle in the dark by Carl Sagan
1995     Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson
1994     The beak of the finch : evolution in real time by Jonathan Weiner
1993     Fuzzy logic by Daniel McNeill and Paul Freiberger
1992     The third chimpanzee : the evolution and future of the human animal by Jared Diamond
1991     The truth about Chernobyl by Grigori Mevedev ; translated from the Russian by David MacRae
1990     Patenting the sun : polio and the Salk vaccine by Jane S. Smith
1989     Peacemaking among primates by Frans de Waal

YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
2017     Long way down by Jason Reynolds
2016     The lie tree by Frances Hardinge
2015     My Seneca village by Marilyn Nelson
2014     The family Romanov : murder, rebellion & the fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming
2013     Boxers and Saints by Gene Luen Yang
2012     Ask the passengers : a novel by A. S. King
2011     The big crunch by Pete Hautman
2010     A conspiracy of kings by Megan Whalen Turner
2009     Marching for freedom : walk together, children, and don't you grow weary by Elizabeth Partridge
2008     Nation by Terry Pratchett
2007     A Darkling Plain (The Hungry City Chronicles) by Philip Reeve
2006     Tyrell by Coe Booth
2005     You & you & you by Per Nilsson ; translated from the Swedish by Tara Chace
2004     Doing it by Melvin Burgess
2003     A northern light by Jennifer Donnelly
2002     Feed by M. T. Anderson
2001     The land by Mildred D. Taylor
2000     Miracle's boys by Jacqueline Woodson
1999     Frenchtown summer by Robert Cormier
1998     Rules of the road by Joan Bauer

THE ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION
2017     Sour heart : stories by Jenny Zhang
2016     The nix by Nathan Hill
2015     The fishermen : a novel by Chigozie Obioma
2014     Faces in the crowd by Valeria Luiselli ; translated by Christina MacSweeney
2013     We need new names : a novel by NoViolet Bulawayo
2012     Seating arrangements by Maggie Shipstead
2011     Shards by Ismet Prcic
2010     The house of tomorrow by Peter Bognanni
2009     American rust by Philipp Meyer
2008     Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris
2007     The beautiful things that heaven bears by Dinaw Mengestu
2006     White ghost girls by Alice Greenway
2005     Beasts of no nation : a novel by Uzodinma Iweala
2004     Harbor by Lorraine Adams
2003     The curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon
2002     Prague : a novel by Arthur Phillips
2001     The dark room by Rachel Seiffert
2000     The romantics : a novel by Pankaj Mishra
1999     Amy and Isabelle : a novel by Elizabeth Strout
1998     Kalimantaan by C. S. Godshalk
1997     Don't erase me : stories by Carolyn Ferrell
1996     The smell of apples by Mark Behr
1995     American studies by Mark Merlis
1994     The year of the frog : a novel by Martin M. Šimecka ; translated by Peter Petro ; foreword by Václav Havel
1993     Love <Enter> by Paul Kafka
1992     High cotton by Darryl Pinckney
1991     Pangs of love : stories by David Wong Louie

THE ROBERT KIRSCH AWARD
2017     John Rechy
2016     Thomas McGuane
2015     Juan Felipe Herrera
2013     Susan Straight
2012     Kevin Starr
2011     Rudolfo Anaya
2010     Beverly Cleary
2009     Evan S. Connell
2008     Robert Alter
2007     Maxine Hong Kingston
2006     William Kittredge
2005     Joan Didion
2004     Tony Hillerman
2003     Ishmael Reed
2001     Tillie Olsen
2000     Lawrence Ferlinghetti
1999     Ursula K. Le Guin
1998     John Sanford
1997     Ray Bradbury
1996     Gary Snyder
1995     Stephen J. Pyne
1994     Brian Moore
1993     Carolyn See
1992     Diane Johnson
1991     Ken Kesey
1990     Czesław Miłosz
1989     Karl Shapiro
1988     Thom Gunn
1987     Paul Horgan
1986     Kay Boyle
1985     Janet Lewis
1984     Christopher Isherwood
1983     M. F. K. Fisher
1982     Ross Macdonald
1981     Wright Morris
1980     Wallace Stegner