Winner

In America
by Susan Sontag (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Finalists

The Feast of Love
by Charles Baxter (Pantheon Books)

The Diagnosis
by Alan Lightman (Pantheon Books)

Blonde
by Joyce Carol Oates (The Ecco Press/HarperCollins Publishers)

Blue Angel
by Francine Prose (HarperCollins Publishers)

Winner

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
by Nathaniel Philbrick (Viking Penguin)

Finalists

From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 To The Present
by Jacques Barzun (HarperCollins Publishers)

The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach
by Alice Kaplan (The University of Chicago Press)

W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equalty and the American Century, 1919-1963
by David Levering Lewis (Henry Holt & Company)

Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon
by Patrick Tierney (W.W. Norton & Company)

Winner

Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000
by Lucille Clifton (BOA Editions, Ltd.)

Finalists

Tell Me
by Kim Addonizio (BOA Editions, Ltd.)

A New Selected Poems
by Galway Kinnell (Houghton Mifflin Company)

New Addresses
by Kenneth Koch (Alfred A. Knopf)

The Other Lover
by Bruce Smith (The University of Chicago Press)

Winner

Homeless Bird
by Gloria Whelan (HarperCollins Children's Books)

Finalists

Forgotten Fire
by Adam Bagdasarian (A Melanie Kroupa Book, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc.)

The Book of the Lion
by Michael Cadnum (Viking, Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers)

Many Stones
by Carolyn Coman (Front Street)

Hurry Freedom!
by Jerry Stanley (Crown Publishers)