A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan (Fiction)

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, by Siddhartha Mukherjee (General Nonfiction)

Washington : A Life, by Ron Chernow (Biography)

The Best of It: New and Selected Poems, by Kay Ryan (Poetry)

The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, by Eric Foner (History)

Clybourne Park, by Bruce Norris (Drama)

Tinkers, by Paul Harding (Fiction)

The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy, by David E. Hoffman (Nonfiction)

The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, by T.J. Stiles (Biography)

Versed, by Rae Armantrout (Poetry)

Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, by Liaquat Ahamed (History)

Next to Normal, by Tom Kitt (Drama)

Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout (Fiction)

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, by Douglas A. Blackmon (Nonfiction)

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, by Jon Meacham (Biography)

The Shadow of Sirius, by W.S. Merwin (Poetry)

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, by Annette Gordon-Reed (History)

Ruined, by Lynn Nottage (Drama)

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz (Fiction)

The Years of Extermination, by Saul Friedlander (Nonfiction)

Eden's Outcasts, by John Matteson (Biography)

Time and Materials, by Robert Hass (Poetry)

Failure, by Philip Schultz (Poetry)

What Hath God Wrought, by Daniel Walker Howe (History)

August: Osage County, by Tracy Letts (Drama)

The Road, by Cormac McCarthy (Fiction)

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, by Lawrence Wright (Nonfiction)

The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, by Debby Applegate (Biography)

Native Guard, by Natasha Trethewey (Poetry)

The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation, by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (History)

Rabbit Hole, by David Lindsay-Abaire (Drama)

March: A Novel, by Geraldine Brooks (Fiction)

Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya, by Caroline Elkins (Nonfiction)

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin (Biography)

Late Wife: Poems, by Claudia Emerson (Poetry)

Polio: An American Story, by David M. Oshinsky (History)

No Award (Drama)

Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson (Fiction)

Ghost Wars, by Steve Coll (Nonfiction)

de Kooning: An American Master, by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan (Biography)

Delights & Shadows, by Ted Kooser (Poetry)

Washington's Crossing, by David Hackett Fischer (History)

Doubt, a Parable, by John Patrick Shanley (Drama)

The Known World, by Edward P. Jones (Fiction)

Gulag: A History, by Anne Applebaum ( Nonfiction)

Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, by William Taubman (Biography and Autobiography)

Walking to Martha's Vineyard, by Franz Wright (Poetry)

A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South From Slavery to the Great Migration, by Steven Hahn (History)

I Am My Own Wife, by Doug Wright (Drama)

Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides (Fiction)

A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, by Samantha Power ( Nonfiction)

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

Moy Sand and Gravel, by Paul Muldoon (Poetry)

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, by Rick Atkinson (History)

Anna in the Tropics, by Nilo Cruz (Drama)

Empire Falls, by Richard Russo (Fiction)

Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution, by Diane McWhorter ( Nonfiction)

John Adams, by David McCullough (Biography and Autobiography)

Practical Gods, by Carl Dennis (Poetry)

The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, by Louis Menand (History)

Topdog/Underdog, by Suzan-Lori Parks (Drama)

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon (Fiction)

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, by Herbert P. Bix (Nonfiction)

Different Hours, by Stephen Dunn (Poetry)

W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963, by David Levering Lewis (Biography or Autobiography)

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, by Joseph J. Ellis (History)

Proof, by David Auburn (Drama)

Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri (Fiction)

Embracing Defeat, by John Dower (Nonfiction)

Repair, by C.K. Williams (Poetry)

Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov): Portrait of a Marriage, by Stacy Schiff (Biography or Autobiography)

Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression & War, 1929-1945, by David Kennedy (History)

Dinner with Friends, by Donald Margulies (Drama)

The Hours, by Michael Cunningham (Fiction)

Annals of the Former World, by John McPhee (Nonfiction)

Blizzard of One, by Mark Strand (Poetry)

Lindbergh, by A. Scott Berg (Biography or Autobiography)

Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, by Edwin G. Burrows & Mike Wallace (History)

Wit, by Margaret Edson (Drama)

American Pastoral, by Philip Roth (Fiction)

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, by Jared Diamond (Nonfiction)

Black Zodiac, by Charles Wright (Poetry)

Personal History, by Katharine Graham (Biography or Autobiography)

Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion, by Edward J. Larson (History)

How I Learned to Drive, by Paula Vogel (Drama)

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer, by Steven Millhauser (Fiction)

Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris, by Richard Kluger (Nonfiction)

Alive Together: New and Selected Poems, by Lisel Mueller (Poetry)

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir, by Frank McCourt (Biography or Autobiography)

Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, by Jack N. Rakove (History)

No Award (Drama)

Independence Day, by Richard Ford (Fiction)

The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism, by Tina Rosenberg (Nonfiction)

The Dream of the Unified Field, by Jorie Graham (Poetry)

God: A Biography, by Jack Miles (Biography or Autobiography)

William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic, by Alan Taylor (History)

Rent, by Jonathan Larson (Drama)

The Stone Diaries, by Carol Shields (Fiction)

The Beak of the Finch, by Jonathan Weiner (Nonfiction)

The Simple Truth, by Stanley Kunitz (Poetry)

Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life, by Joan D. Hedrick (Biography or Autobiography)

No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, by Doris Kearns Goodwin (History)

The Young Man From Atlanta, by Horton Foote (Drama)

The Shipping News, by E. Annie Proulx (Fiction)

Lenin's Tomb, by David Remnick (Nonfiction)

Neon Vernacular, by Yusef Komunyakaa (Poetry)

W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, by David Levering Lewis (Biography or Autobiography)

Three Tall Women, by Edward Albee (Drama)

A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, by Robert Olen Butler (Fiction)

Lincoln at Gettysburg, by Garry Wills (Nonfiction)

The Wild Iris, by Louise Gluck (Poetry)

Truman, by David McCullough (Biography or Autobiography)

The Radicalism of the American Revolution, by Gordon S. Wood (History)

Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, by Tony Kushner (Drama)

A Thousand Acres, by Jane Smiley (Fiction)

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power, by Daniel Yergin (Nonfiction)

Selected Poems, by James Tate (Poetry)

Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet, by Lewis B. Puller, Jr. (Biography or Autobiography)

The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties, by Mark E. Neely (History)

The Kentucky Cycle, by Robert Schenkkan (Drama)

Rabbit at Rest, by John Updike (Fiction)

The Ants, by Bert Holldobler & Edward O. Wilson (Nonfiction)

Near Changes, by Mona Van Duyn (Poetry)

Jackson Pollock, by Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith (Biography or Autobiography)

A Midwife's Tale, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (History)

Lost in Yonkers, by Neil Simon (Drama)

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, by Oscar Hijuelos (Fiction)

And Their Children After Them, by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson (Nonfiction)

The World Doesn't End, by Charles Simic (Poetry)

Machiavelli in Hell, by Sebastian De Grazia (Biography or Autobiography)

In Our Image, by Stanley Karnow (History)

The Piano Lesson, by August Wilson (Drama)

Breathing Lessons, by Anne Tyler (Fiction)

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, by Neil Sheehan (Nonfiction)

New and Collected Poems, by Richard Wilbur (Poetry)

Oscar Wilde, by Richard Ellmann (Biography or Autobiography)

Battle Cry of Freedom, by James M. McPherson (History)

The Heidi Chronicles, by Wendy Wasserstein (Drama)

Beloved, by Toni Morrison (Fiction)

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

Partial Accounts, by William Meredith (Poetry)

Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe, by David Herbert Donald (Biography or Autobiography)

The Launching of Modern American Science 1846-1876, by Robert V. Bruce (History)

Driving Miss Daisy, by Alfred Uhry (Drama)

A Summons to Memphis, by Peter Taylor (Fiction)

Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, by David K. Shipler (Nonfiction)

Thomas and Beulah, by Rita Dove (Poetry)

Bearing the Cross, by David J. Garrow (Biography or Autobiography)

Voyagers to the West, by Bernard Bailyn (History)

Fences, by August Wilson (Drama)

Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry (Fiction)

Common Ground, by J. Anthony Lukas (Nonfiction)

The Flying Change, by Henry Taylor (Poetry)

Louise Bogan: A Portrait, by Elizabeth Frank (Biography or Autobiography)

The Heavens and the Earth, by Walter A. McDougall (History)

Foreign Affairs, by Alison Lurie (Fiction)

The Good War, by Studs Terkel (Nonfiction)

Yin, by Carolyn Kizer (Poetry)

The Life and Times of Cotton Mather, by Kenneth Silverman (Biography or Autobiography)

Prophets of Regulation, by Thomas K. McCraw (History)

Sunday in the Park With George, by James Lapine (Drama)

Ironweed, by William Kennedy (Fiction)

The Social Transformation Of American Medicine, by Paul Starr (Nonfiction)

American Primitive, by Mary Oliver (Poetry)

Booker T. Washington, by Louis R. Harlan (Biography or Autobiography)

Glengarry Glen Ross, by David Mamet (Drama)

The Color Purple, by Alice Walker (Fiction)

Is There No Place On Earth For Me?, by Susan Sheehan (Nonfiction)

Selected Poems, by Galway Kinnell (Poetry)

Growing Up, by Russell Baker (Biography or Autobiography)

The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790, by Rhys L. Isaac (History)

Night Mother, by Marsha Norman (Drama)

Rabbit is Rich, by John Updike (Fiction)

The Soul Of A New Machine, by Tracy Kidder (Nonfiction)

The Collected Poems, by Sylvia Plath (Poetry)

Grant: A Biography, by William McFeely (Biography or Autobiography)

Mary Chesnut's Civil War, by C. Vann Woodward (History)

A Soldier's Play, by Charles Fuller (Drama)

A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole (Fiction)

Fin-De Siecle Vienna: Politics And Culture, by Carl E. Schorske (Nonfiction)

The Morning of the Poem, by James Schuyler (Poetry)

Peter the Great: His Life and World, by Robert K. Massie (Biography or Autobiography)

American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876, by Lawrence A. Cremin (History)

Crimes of the Heart, by Beth Henley (Drama)

The Executioner's Song, by Norman Mailer (Fiction)

Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas R. Hofstadter (Nonfiction)

Selected Poems, by Donald Justice (Poetry)

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, by Edmund Morris (Biography or Autobiography)

Been in the Storm So Long, by Leon F. Litwack (History)

Talley's Folly, by Lanford Wilson (Drama)

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

On Human Nature, by Edward O. Wilson (Nonfiction)

Now and Then, by Robert Penn Warren (Poetry)

Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews, by Leonard Baker (Biography or Autobiography)

The Dred Scott Case, by James M. McPherson (History)

Buried Child, by Sam Shepard (Drama)

Elbow Room, by James Alan McPherson (Fiction)

The Dragons Of Eden, by Carl Sagan (Nonfiction)

Collected Poems, by William Meredith (Poetry)

Samuel Johnson, by Walter Jackson Bate (Biography or Autobiography)

The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business, by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (History)

The Gin Game, by Donald L. Coburn (Drama)

No Award (Fiction)

Beautiful Swimmers, by William W. Warner (Nonfiction)

Divine Comedies, by James Merrill (Poetry)

A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T E. Lawrence, by John E. Mack (Biography or Autobiography)

The Impending Crisis, 1841-1867, by David M. Potter (History)

The Shadow Box, by Michael Cristofer (Drama)

Humboldt's Gift, by Saul Bellow (Fiction)

Why Survive? Being Old In America, by J. Anthony Lukas (Nonfiction)

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, by John Ashbery (Poetry)

Edith Wharton: A Biography, by R. W. B. Lewis (Biography or Autobiography)

Lamy of Santa Fe, by Paul Horgan (History)

A Chorus Line, by James Kirkwood & Nicholas Dante (Drama)

The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara (Fiction)

Pilgrim At Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard (Nonfiction)

Turtle Island, by Gary Snyder (Poetry)

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, by Robert Caro (Biography or Autobiography)

Jefferson and His Time, Vols. I-V, by Dumas Malone (History)

Seascape, by Edward Albee (Drama)

No Award (Fiction)

The Denial Of Death, by Ernest Becker (Nonfiction)

The Dolphin, by Robert Lowell (Poetry)

O'Neill, Son and Artist, by Louis Sheaffer (Biography or Autobiography)

The Americans: The Democratic Experience, by Daniel J. Boorstin (History)

No Award (Drama)

The Optimists Daughter, by Eudora Welty (Fiction)

Fire In The Lake: The Vietnamese And The Americans In Vietnam, by Francis FitzGerald (Nonfiction)

Up Country, by Galway Kinnell (Poetry)

Luce and His Empire, by W. A. Swanberg (Biography or Autobiography)

People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of America-an Civilization, by Michael Kammen (History)

That Championship Season, by Jason Miller (Drama)

Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner (Fiction)

Stilwell And The American Experience In China, 1911-1945, by Barbara W. Tuchman (Nonfiction)

Collected Poems, by James Wright (Poetry)

Eleanor and Franklin, by Joseph P. Lash (Biography or Autobiography)

Neither Black Nor White, by Carl N. Degler (History)

No Award (Drama)

No Award (Fiction)

The Rising Sun, by John Toland (Nonfiction)

The Carrier of Ladders, by William S. Merwin (Poetry)

Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915 -1938, by Lawrance Thompson (Biography or Autobiography)

Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom, by James Macgregor Burns (History)

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds, by Paul Zindel (Drama)

Collected Stories, by Jean Stafford (Fiction)

Gandhi's Truth, by Erik H. Erikson (Nonfiction)

Untitled Subjects, by Richard Howard (Poetry)

Huey Long, by T. Harry Williams (Biography or Autobiography)

Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department, by Dean Acheson (History)

No Place To Be Somebody, by Charles Gordone (Drama)