Year |
Category |
Title |
Author |
Result |
2004 |
Adult Fiction |
The Da Vinci Code |
Dan Brown |
Winner |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
Mark Haddon |
Honor |
The Master Butchers Singing Club |
Louise Erdrich |
Mrs. Kimble |
Jennifer Haigh |
The Time Traveler's Wife |
Audrey Niffenegger |
Adult Nonfiction |
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books |
Azar Nafisi |
Winner |
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America |
Erik Larson |
Honor |
Flyboys: A True Story of Courage |
James Bradley |
Michelangelo & The Pope's Ceiling |
Ross King |
Mountains Beyond Mountains |
Tracy Kidder |
Children's Literature |
Eragon |
Christopher Paolini |
Winner |
Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code |
Eoin Colfer |
Honor |
Inkheart |
Cornelia Funke |
The Second Summer of the Sisterhood |
Ann Brashares |
The Tale of Despereaux |
Kate DiCamillo and Timothy Basil Ering (illus.) |
Children's Illustrated |
How I Became a Pirate |
Melinda Long and David Shannon (illus.) |
Winner |
Diary of a Wombat |
Jackie French and Bruce Whatley (illus.) |
Honor |
Diary of a Worm |
Doreen Cronin and Harry Bliss (illus.) |
Old Turtle and the Broken Truth |
Douglas Wood and Jon J. Muth (illus.) |
Olivia ... and the Missing Toy |
Ian Falconer |
Paperback |
The Secret Life of Bees |
Sue Monk Kidd |
Winner |
Atonement |
Ian McEwan |
Honor |
The Dive from Clausen's Pier |
Ann Packer |
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal |
Christopher Moore |
Life of Pi |
Yann Martel |
2005 |
Adult Fiction |
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell |
Susanna Clarke |
Winner |
Eventide |
Kent Haruf |
Honor |
The Birth of Venus |
Sarah Dunant |
The Plot Against America |
Philip Roth |
The Shadow of the Wind |
Carlos Ruiz Zafon |
Adult Nonfiction |
Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II |
Robert Kurson |
Winner |
Candyfreak |
Steve Almond |
Honor |
The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker |
Robert Mankoff (ed.) |
Magical Thinking |
Augusten Burroughs |
Truth & Beauty: A Friendship |
Ann Patchett |
Children's Literature |
Chasing Vermeer |
Blue Balliett and Brett Helquist (Illus.) |
Winner |
Becoming Naomi Leon |
Pam Muñoz Ryan |
Honor |
Ida B ... and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World |
Katherine Hannigan |
Peter and the Starcatchers |
Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson |
The Sea of Trolls |
Nancy Farmer |
Children's Illustrated |
Duck for President |
Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin (Illus.) |
Winner |
Kitten's First Full Moon |
Kevin Henkes |
Honor |
Knuffle Bunny |
Mo Willems |
Mister Seahorse |
Eric Carle |
Wild About Books |
Judy Sierra |
2006 |
Adult Fiction |
The Historian: A Novel |
Elizabeth Kostova |
Winner |
Kafka on the Shore |
Haruki Murakami |
Honor |
The March: A Novel |
E. L. Doctorow |
Saturday |
Ian McEwan |
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan |
Lisa See |
Adult Nonfiction |
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything |
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner |
Winner |
The Glass Castle |
Jeannette Walls |
Honor |
The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece |
Jonathan Harr |
Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog |
John Grogan |
The Tender Bar: A Memoir |
J.R. Moehringer |
Children's Literature |
Inkspell |
Cornelia Funke |
Winner |
A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray |
Ann M. Martin |
Honor |
Eldest |
Christopher Paolini |
Flush |
Carl Hiaasen |
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy |
Jeanne Birdsall |
Children's Illustrated |
Zen Shorts |
Jon J Muth |
Winner |
Diary of a Spider |
Doreen Cronin and Harry Bliss (Illus.) |
Honor |
Leaf Man |
Lois Ehlert |
Leonardo, the Terrible Monster |
Mo Willems |
Seen Art? |
Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith (Illus.) |
2007 |
Adult Fiction |
Water for Elephants |
Sara Gruen |
Winner |
The Brief History of the Dead |
Kevin Brockmeier |
Honor |
The Inheritance of Loss |
Kiran Desai |
The Road |
Cormac McCarthy |
Suite française |
Irène Némirovsky |
Adult Nonfiction |
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman |
Nora Ephron |
Winner |
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid |
Bill Bryson |
Honor |
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War |
Nathaniel Philbrick |
Thunderstruck |
Erik Larson |
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl |
Timothy Egan |
Children's Literature |
The Book Thief |
Markus Zusak |
Winner |
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation, Volume One: The Pox Party |
M. T. Anderson |
Honor |
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference! |
Lynne Truss |
New Moon |
Stephenie Meyer |
Peter and the Shadow Thieves |
Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson |
Children's Illustrated |
Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship |
Paul Kahumbu, Isabella Hatkoff and Dr. Paul Kahumbu |
Winner |
Fancy Nancy |
Jane O'Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser (illus.) |
Honor |
Flotsam |
David Wiesner |
Library Lion |
Michelle Knudsen and Kevin Hawkes (illus.) |
Pirateology: A Pirate Hunter's Companion |
Captain William Lubber and Nghiem Ta (designer) |
2008 |
Adult Fiction |
A Thousand Splendid Suns |
Khaled Hosseini |
Winner |
The Yiddish Policemen's Union |
Michael Chabon |
Honor |
Bridge of Sighs |
Richard Russo |
Away |
Amy Bloom |
Run |
Ann Patchett |
Adult Nonfiction |
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life |
Barbara Kingsolver, with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver |
Winner |
The World Without Us |
Alan Weisman |
Honor |
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life |
Steve Martin |
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War |
David Halberstam |
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible |
A. J. Jacobs |
Children's Literature |
The Invention of Hugo Cabret |
Brian Selznick |
Winner |
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian |
Sherman Alexie |
Honor |
Eclipse |
Stephenie Meyer |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid |
Jeff Kinney |
The Arrival |
Shaun Tan |
Children's Illustrated |
Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity |
Mo Willems |
Winner |
Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy |
Jane O'Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser (Illus.) |
Honor |
Pirates Don't Change Diapers |
Melinda Long and David Shannon (Illus.) |
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain |
Peter Sis |
Llama Llama Mad at Mama |
Anna Dewdney |
2009 |
Best Indie Buzz Book (Fiction) |
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society |
Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows |
Winner |
Best Conversation Starter (Nonfiction) |
The Wordy Shipmates |
Sarah Vowell |
Best Author Discovery |
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle |
David Wroblewski |
Best Indie Young Adult Buzz Book (Fiction) |
The Graveyard Book |
Neil Gaiman |
Best New Picture Book |
Bats at the Library |
Brian Lies |
Most Engaging Author |
Sherman Alexie |
|
2010 |
Adult Fiction |
Cutting for Stone |
Abraham Verghese |
Adult Nonfiction |
The Lost City of Z |
David Grann |
Adult Debut |
The Help |
Kathryn Stockett |
Young Adult |
Catching Fire |
Suzanne Collins |
Middle Reader |
When You Reach Me |
Rebecca Stead |
New Picture Book |
The Lion & the Mouse |
Jerry Pinkney |
Most Engaging Author |
Kate DiCamillo |
|
2011 |
Adult Fiction |
Room |
Emma Donoghue |
Adult Nonfiction |
Unbroken |
Laura Hillenbrand |
Adult Debut |
Matterhorn |
Karl Marlantes |
Young Adult |
Revolution |
Jennifer Donnelly |
2012[1][2] |
Adult Fiction |
The Marriage Plot |
Jeffrey Eugenides |
Adult Nonfiction |
Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef |
Gabrielle Hamilton |
Adult Debut |
The Tiger’s Wife |
Téa Obreht |
Young Adult |
Between Shades of Gray |
Ruta Sepetys |
Most Engaging Author |
Ann Patchett |
|
Middle Reader |
The Apothecary |
Maile Meloy and Ian Schoenherr (Illus.) |
Middle Reader |
Wildwood |
Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis (Illus.) |
Picture Book |
I Want My Hat Back |
Jon Klassen |
2013[3][4] |
Adult Fiction |
The Round House |
Louise Erdrich |
Adult Nonfiction |
Wild |
Cheryl Strayed |
2014[5][6] |
Adult Fiction |
Life After Life |
Kate Atkinson |
Adult Nonfiction |
The Boys in the Boat |
Daniel James Brown |
Adult Debut |
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena |
Anthony Marra |
Young Adult |
Eleanor & Park |
Rainbow Rowell |
Indie Champion |
James Patterson |
|
2015 |
Adult Fiction |
All the Light We Cannot See |
Anthony Doerr |
Adult Nonfuction |
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End |
Atul Gawande |
Adult Debut |
The Martian |
Andy Weir |
Young Adult |
The Darkest Part of the Forest |
Holly Black |
Indie Champion |
Neil Gaiman |
|
Amanda Palmer |
|
2016[7] |
Adult Fiction |
Fates and Furies |
Lauren Groff |
Winner |
City on Fire |
Garth Risk Hallberg |
Honor |
Get in Trouble |
Kelly Link |
A Little Life |
Hanya Yanagihara |
The Sympathizer |
Viet Thanh Nguyen |
Welcome to Braggsville |
T. Geronimo Johnson |
Adult Nonfiction |
Between the World and Me |
Ta-Nehisi Coates |
Winner |
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania |
Erik Larson |
Honor |
Don't Suck, Don't Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt |
Kristin Hersh |
H Is for Hawk |
Helen Macdonald |
Hold Still: A Memoir With Photographs |
Sally Mann |
Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey |
Marie Mutsuki Mockett |
Adult Debut |
Kitchens of the Great Midwest: A Novel |
J. Ryan Stradal |
Winner |
Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen |
Mary Norris |
Honor |
Dragonfish |
Vu Tran |
The Meursault Investigation |
Kamel Daoud |
Our Endless Numbered Days |
Claire Fuller |
The Turner House |
Angela Flournoy |
Young Adult |
Anna and the Swallow Man |
Gavriel Savit |
Winner |
Nimona |
ND Stevenson |
Dumplin’ |
Julie Murphy |
Honor |
More Happy Than Not |
Adam Silvera |
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda |
Becky Albertalli |
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad |
M. T. Anderson |
Indie Champion |
Richard Russo |
|
Winner |
Dave Eggers |
|
Honor |
Louise Erdrich |
|
Loren Long |
|
Celeste Ng |
|
Maggie Stiefvater |