Salvage the Bones, by Jesmyn Ward (Fiction)

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, by Stephen Greenblatt (Nonfiction)

Head Off & Split, by Nikky Finney (Poetry)

Inside Out & Back Again, by Thanhha Lai (Young People's Literature)

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Splay Anthem , by Nathaniel Mackey (Poetry)

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party , by M.T. Anderson (Young People's Literature)

Europe Central , by William T. Vollmann (Fiction)

The Year of Magical Thinking , by Joan Didion (Nonfiction)

Migration: New and Selected Poems , by W.S. Merwin (Poetry)

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Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965?2003 , by Jean Valentine (Poetry)

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Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson , by Robert A. Caro (Nonfiction)

In the Next Galaxy , by Ruth Stone (Poetry)

The House of the Scorpion , by Nancy Farmer (Young People's Literature)

The Corrections , by Jonathan Franzen (Fiction)

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Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry , by Alan Dugan (Poetry)

True Believer , by Virginia Euwer Wolff (Young People's Literature)

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In the Heart of the Sea , by Nathaniel Philbrick (Nonfiction)

Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000 , by Lucille Clifton (Poetry)

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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II , by John W. Dower (Nonfiction)

Vice: New and Selected Poems , by Ai (Poetry)

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town , by Kimberly Willis Holt (Young People's Literature)

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Slaves in the Family , by Edward Ball (Nonfiction)

This Time: New and Selected Poems , by Gerald Stern (Poetry)

Holes , by Louis Sachar (Young People's Literature)

Cold Mountain , by Charles Frazier (Fiction)

American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson , by Joseph J. Ellis (Nonfiction)

Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems , by William Meredith (Poetry)

Dancing on the Edge , by Han Nolan (Young People's Literature)

Ship Fever and Other Stories , by Andrea Barrett (Fiction)

An American Requiem , by James Carroll (Nonfiction)

Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey , by Hayden Carruth (Poetry)

Parrott In the Oven: Mi Vida , by Victor Martinez (Young People's Literature)

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The Haunted Land , by Tina Rosenberg (Nonfiction)

Passing Through: The Later Poems , by Stanley Kunitz (Poetry)

A Frolic of His Own , by William Gaddis (Fiction)

How We Die , by Sherwin B. Nuland (Nonfiction)

A Worshipful Company of Fletchers , by James Tate (Poetry)

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United States: Essays 1952-1992 , by Gore Vidal (Nonfiction)

Garbage , by A. R. Ammons (Poetry)

All the Pretty Horses , by Cormac McCarthy (Fiction)

Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story , by Paul Monette (Nonfiction)

New & Selected Poems , by Mary Oliver (Poetry)

Mating , by Norman Rush (Fiction)

Freedom , by Orlando Patterson (Nonfiction)

What Work Is , by Philip Levine (Poetry)

Middle Passage , by Charles Johnson (Fiction)

The House of Morgan , by Ron Chernow (Nonfiction)

Spartina , by John Casey (Fiction)

From Beirut to Jerusalem , by Thomas L. Friedman (Nonfiction)

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A Bright Shining Lie , by Neil Sheehan (Nonfiction)

Paco's Story , by Larry Heinemann (Fiction)

The Making of the Atom Bomb , by Richard Rhodes (Nonfiction)

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White Noise , by Don DeLillo (Fiction)

Common Ground , by J. Anthony Lukas (Nonfiction)

Victory over Japan: A Book of Stories , by Ellen Gilchrist (Fiction)

Andrew Jackson & the Course of American Democracy , by Robert V. Remini (Nonfiction)

The Color Purple , by Alice Walker (Fiction - Hardcover)

Collected Stories of Eudora Welty , by Eudora Welty (Fiction - Paperback)

China: Alive in the Bitter Sea , by Fox Butterfield (Nonfiction - Hardcover)

National Defense , by James Fallows (Nonfiction - Paperback)

Rabbit is Rich , by John Updike (Fiction - Hardcover)

So Long, See You Tomorrow , by William Maxwell (Fiction - Paperback)

The Soul of a New Machine , by Tracy Kidder (Nonfiction - Hardcover)

Naming Names , by Victor S. Navasky (Nonfiction - Paperback)

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The Stories of John Cheever , by John Cheever (Fiction - Paperback)

China Men , by Maxine Hong Kingston (Nonfiction - Hardcover)

The Last Cowboy , by Jane Kramer (Nonfiction - Paperback)

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The World According to Garp , by John Irving (Fiction - Paperback)

The Right Stuff , by Tom Wolfe (Nonfiction - Hardcover)

The Snow Leopard , by Peter Matthiessen (Nonfiction - Paperback)

Going After Cacciato , by Tim O'Brien (Fiction)

The Snow Leopard , by Peter Matthiessen (Contemporary Thought)

Mirabell: Book of Numbers , by James Merrill (Poetry)

The Great Gilly Hopkins , by Katherine Paterson (Children's Literature)

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The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov , by Howard Nemerov (Poetry)

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All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw , by Theodore Rosengarten (Contemporary Affairs)

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The Lives of a Cell , by Lewis Thomas (Arts and Letters - tie)

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The Fall of America: Poems of these States , by Allen Ginsberg (Poetry - tie)

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The Farthest Shore , by Ursula K. LeGuin (Children's Literature)

The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor , by Flannery O'Connor (Fiction)

The Last Whole Earth Catalogue edited by Stewart Brand (Contemporary Affairs)

The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven , by Charles Rosen (Arts and Letters)

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The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine or The Hithering Thithering Djinn , by Donald Barthelme (Children's Literature)

Mr. Sammler's Planet , by Saul Bellow (Fiction)

Cocteau: A Biography , by Francis Steegmuller (Arts and Letters)

To See, To Take , by Mona Van Duyn (Poetry)

The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian , by Lloyd Alexander (Children's Literature)

Them , by Joyce Carol Oates (Fiction)

An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir , by Lillian Hellman (Arts and Letters)

The Complete Poems , by Elizabeth Bishop (Poetry)

A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw , by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Children's Literature)