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

Award Winners

1. Don't Tell Anyone: Fiction

   Frederick Busch

   An eloquent and poignant work of fiction about the soul of the American family, and about storytelling itself, by one of our country's most important writers.More

2. A Memory of War: A Novel

   Frederick Busch

   "A multilayered love story that affirms Frederick Busch's reputation as a writer of "sublimely dark work of almost unbearable beauty" (Wall Street Journal).More

3. Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas

   Dale Carpenter

   A 2012 New York Times Notable Book
   
   "A real-life detective story that reveals the drama behind the scenes of a great Supreme Court victory for human rights." —Linda GreenhouseMore

4. The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution

   Sean B. Carroll

   DNA evidence not only solves crimes—in Sean Carroll's hands it will now end the Evolution Wars.More

5. Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan

   Paul Celan, John Felstiner

   The most wide-ranging volume of the work of Europe's leading postwar poet, including previously unpublished writings.More

6. Inheritance: A Novel

   Lan Samantha Chang

   A timeless story of familial devotion undermined by deceit and passion and rebuilt by memory.More

7. A Good Indian Wife: A Novel

   Anne Cherian

   “An absorbing tale of contrasts. . . . Cherian tells the story with quiet strength.” —San Francisco ChronicleMore

8. Shots in the Dark: The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine

   Jon Cohen

   "[A]n important book not only for the now but for the future of this epidemic and those to come."—Dr. Robert GalloMore

9. House Lights: A Novel

   Leah Hager Cohen

   “Tantalizing ... captivating ... provocative.”—BooklistMore

10. Jane Cooper

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11. Big If: A Novel

    Mark Costello

    A scary, funny novel—a riff on recent history and the American obsession with assassination.More

12. America's Musical Life: A History

    Richard Crawford

    "A superb, all-encompassing survey of music in America." —Kirkus ReviewsMore

13. Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie

    Ed Cray, Studs Terkel

    The groundbreaking biography, available for the centennial of Woody Guthrie’s birth in July 2012.More

14. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

    William Cronon

    Awarded the 1992 Bancroft Prize and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award for Best Nonfiction Book of 1991.More

15. E. E. Cummings

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