Award Winners

• Academic Association Awards
• Bancroft Prize
• Cookbook Awards
• International Awards and Prizes
• Library Awards
• Lincoln Prize
• Media Awards
• National Book Award
• National Book Critics Circle Award
• National Jewish Book Award
• Nobel Prize
• Other Awards and Honors
• PEN Prizes
• Poetry Awards
• Professional Association Awards
• Pulitzer Prize
• State and Regional Awards
• Translation Awards

National Book Award

1. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

   Stephen Greenblatt

   Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction 
   Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-FictionMore

2. The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

   Annette Gordon-Reed

   Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: “[A] commanding and important book.”—Jill Lepore, The New YorkerMore

3. Garbage: A Poem

   A. R. Ammons

   Winner of the National Book Award.More

4. Collected Poems, 1951-1971

   A. R. Ammons

   A reissue of a body of work spanning two decades from one of our most treasured poets.More

5. Vice: New and Selected Poems

   Ai

   Winner of the 1999 National Book Award for Poetry.More

6. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

   John W. Dower

   Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II.More

7. This Time: New and Selected Poems

   Gerald Stern

   An exhilarating new collection by the poet often acclaimed as the modern Walt Whitman, his "spiritual reincarnation."More

8. Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected

   Stanley Kunitz

   "Winner of the 1995 National Book Award, Passing Through confirms that the venerable doyen of American poetry is still a poet in his prime."—Atlantic MonthlyMore

9. Ship Fever: Stories

   Andrea Barrett

   1996 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.More