National Book Awards

 
2002

• Fiction: Three Junes by Julia Glass
• Nonfiction: Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro
• Poetry: In the Next Galaxy by Ruth Stone
• Young People's Literature: The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

2001

• Fiction: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
• Nonfiction: The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon
• Poetry: Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry by Alan Dugan
• Young People's Literature: True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff

2000

• Fiction: In America by Susan Sontag
• Nonfiction: In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
• Poetry: Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000 by Lucille Clifton
• Young People's Literature: Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan

1999

• Fiction: Waiting by Ha Jin
• Nonfiction: Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower
• Poetry: Vice: New and Selected Poems by Ai
• Young People's Literature: When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt

1998

• Fiction: Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
• Nonfiction: Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball
• Poetry: This Time: New and Selected Poems by Gerald Stern
• Young People's Literature: Holes by Louis Sachar

1997

• Fiction: Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
• Nonfiction: American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis
• Poetry: Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems by William Meredith
• Young People's Literature: Dancing on the Edge by Han Nolan

1996

• Fiction: Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett
• Nonfiction: An American Requiem by James Carroll
• Poetry: Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey by Hayden Carruth
• Young People's Literature: Parrot in the Oven by Victor Martinez

1995

• Fiction: Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
• Nonfiction: The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg
• Poetry: Passing Through by Stanley Kunitz

1994

• Fiction: A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis
• Nonfiction: How We Die by Sherwin B. Nuland
• Poetry: Worshipful Company of Fletchers by James Tate

1993

• Fiction: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
• Nonfiction: United States: Essays, 1952-1992 by Gore Vidal
• Poetry: Garbage by A.R. Ammons

1992

• Fiction: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
• Nonfiction: Becoming a Man by Paul Monette
• Poetry: New and Selected Poems by Mary Oliver

1991

• Fiction: Mating by Norman Rush
• Nonfiction: Freedom by Orlando Patterson
• Poetry: What Work Is by Philip Levine

1990

• Fiction: Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
• Nonfiction: The House of Morgan by Ron Chernow

1989

• Fiction: Spartina by John Casey
• Nonfiction: From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman