2008 National Book Awards Ceremony
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National Book Award for Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Peter Matthiessen |
Shadow Country
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| Aleksandar Hemon |
The Lazarus Project
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| Rachel Kushner |
Telex from Cuba
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| Marilynne Robinson |
Home
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| Salvatore Scibona |
The End
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National Book Award for Nonfiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Annette Gordon-Reed |
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
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| Drew Gilpin Faust |
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
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| Jane Mayer |
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
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| Jim Sheeler |
Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives
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| Joan Wickersham |
The Suicide Index
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National Book Award for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Mark Doty |
Fire to Fire
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| Frank Bidart |
Watching the Spring Festival
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| Reginald Gibbons |
Creatures of a Day
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| Richard Howard |
Without Saying
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| Patricia Smith |
Blood dazzler
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National Book Award for Young People's Literature
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Judy Blundell |
What I Saw and How I Lied
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| Laurie Halse Anderson |
Chains
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| Kathi Appelt |
The Underneath
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| E. Lockhart |
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
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| Tim Tharp |
The Spectacular Now
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