2005 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS
Fiction
- Europe Central, by William T. Vollman (Winner!)
- The March, by E.L. Doctorow
- Veronica, by Mary Gaitskill
- Trance, by Chrisopher Sorrentino
- Holy Skirts, by Rene Steinke
Nonfiction
- The Year Of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion (Winner!)
- Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion, by Alan Burdick
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius, by Leo Damrosch
- 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers, by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn
- Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves, by Adam Hochschild
Poetry
- Migration: New & Selected Poems, by W.S. Merwin (Winner!)
- Where Shall I Wander, by John Ashbery
- Star Dust: Poems, by Frank Bidart
- Habitat: New and Selected Poems, by Brendan Galvin
- The Moment’s Equation, by Vern Rutsala
