• 2008 National Book Award Winners
• 2008 ALA Notable Book List
• 2007 Edgar Awards
• 2006 National Book Award Winners
• The New York Times Book Review asks "What is the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years?"
• National Book Critics Circle 2006 Award Winners
• National Book Award Recipients for 2005

2008 National Book Award Winners

Fiction: Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen
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Non-Fiction: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
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Poetry: Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems by Mark Doty
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Young People's Literature: What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell
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2008 ALA Notable Book List

Fiction
Englander, Nathan - The Ministry of Special Cases (Is this checked in at the Library?)
Holthe, Tess Uriza - The Five-Forty-Five to Cannes (Is this checked in at the Library?)
Jones, Lloyd - Mister Pip (Is this checked in at the Library?)
McEwan, Ian - On Chesil Beach (Is this checked in at the Library?)
Malouf, David - Complete Stories (Is this checked in at the Library?)
Pettersen, Per - Out Stealing Horses (Is this checked in at the Library?)
Trevor, William - Cheating at Canasta (Is this checked in at the Library?)

Nonfiction
Ackerman, Diane - The Zookeeper’s Wife (Is this checked in at the Library?)
Angier, Natalie - The Canon (Is this checked in at the Library?)
Ayres, Ian - Super Crunchers (Is this checked in at the Library?)
Godwin, Peter - When a Crocodile Eats the Sun (Is this checked in at the Library?)
Groopman, Jerome - How Doctors Think (Is this checked in at the Library?)
Howell, Georgina - Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations (Is this checked in at the Library?)
Isaacson, Walter - Einstein: His Life and Universe (Is this checked in at the Library?)
Kingsolver, Barbara - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Is this checked in at the Library?)
Margonelli, Lisa - Oil on the Brain (Is this checked in at the Library?)
Weisman, Alan - The World Without Us (Is this checked in at the Library?)

Poetry
Bosselaar, Laure-Anne - A New Hunger (Is this checked in at the Library?)
Kennedy, X.J. - In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems (Is this checked in at the Library?)

2007 Edgar Awards

Best Novel: The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin (Is this checked in at the Library?)

Best First Novel By An American Author: The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson (Is this checked in at the Library?)

Best Paperback Original: Snakeskin Shamisen by Naomi Hirahara (Is this checked in at the Library?)

Best Fact Crime: Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase For Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson (Is this checked in at the Library?)

Best Critical/Biographical: The Science Of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall To The Valley Of Fear by E.J. Wagner (Is this checked in at the Library?)

Best Short Story: "The Home Front" – Death Do Us Part by Charles Ardai

Best Juvenile: Room One: A Mystery Or Two by Andrew Clements (Is this checked in at the Library?)

Best Young Adult: Buried by Robin Merrow Maccready (Is this checked in at the Library?)

Best Play: Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure by Steven Dietz

Best Television Episode Teleplay: "Life On Mars" – Episode 1, Teleplay by Matthew Graham

Best Television Feature/Mini-Series Teleplay: "The Wire," Season 4, Teleplays by Ed Burns, Kia Corthron, Dennis Lehane, David Mills, Eric Overmyer, George Pelecanos, Richard Price, David Simon & William F. Zorzi

Best Motion Picture Screenplay: "The Departed," Screenplay by William Monahan (Is this checked in at the Library?)

2006 National Book Award Winners

Fiction: The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
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Poetry: Splay Anthem by Nathaniel Mackey
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Non-Fiction: The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
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Young People's Literature: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume One: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson
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The New York Times Book Review asks "What is the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years?"

To read the A.O. Scott's article "In Search of the Best" (New York Times Book Review, New York: May 21, 2006) click on the article title and login with your library card. Also, view the top titles on display in the Boardman Room.

THE WINNER:
Beloved: A Novel by Toni Morrison (1987)
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THE RUNNERS UP:
American Pastoral by Philip Roth (1997)
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Blood Meridian, or, The Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy (1985)
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Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels by John Updike (1995)
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Underworld by Don DeLillo (1997)
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National Book Critics Circle 2006 Award Winners

Fiction: The March by E.L. Doctorow
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Poetry Collection: Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert

Biography: American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy about J. Robert Oppenheimer," by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin (Is this checked in at the Library?)

Autobiography: Them: A Memoir of Parents by Francine du Plessix Gray
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NonFiction: Voices from Chernobyl, by Svetlana Alexievich
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Criticism: Undiscovered Country by Russell Ferguson

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Poetry: W.S. Merwin, Migration: New and Selected Poems
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Young People's Literature: Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks
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