Letters, Drama and Music Awards
| Fiction | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) |
| Drama | August: Osage County by Tracy Letts (TCG) |
| History | What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848 by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press) |
| Biography | Eden's Outcasts by John Matteson (W.W. Norton) |
| Poetry | Time and Materials by Robert Hass (Ecco/HarperCollins) |
| Poetry | Failure by Philip Schultz (Harcourt) |
| General Nonfiction | The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedländer (HarperCollins) |
| Music | The Little Match Girl Passion by David Lang (G. Schirmer) |
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