Young People’s Literature: M.T. Anderson, The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Vol. 1) (Candlewick Press)
Poetry: Nathaniel Mackey, Splay Anthem (New Directions)
Nonfiction: Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Houghton Mifflin)
Fiction: Richard Powers, The Echo Maker: A Novel (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)