Outstanding NonFiction:

® Agent Zigzag:  A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal.  By Ben Macintyre.

® American Creation:  Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic.By Joseph Ellis.

® Amerigo:  The Man Who Gave His Name to America.  By Felipe Fernandez-Armesto.

® Born on a Blue Day:  Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant.  By Daniel Tammet.

® Circling My Mother.  By Mary Gordon.

® The Coldest Winter:  America and the Korean War.  By David Halberstam.

® Cultural Amnesia:  Necessary Memories from History and the Arts.  By Clive James.

® Due Considerations:  Essays and Criticism.  By John Updike.

® Edith Wharton.  By Hermione Lee.

® Einstein:  His Life and Universe.

® The Father of All Things:  A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam.  By Tom Bissell.

® The Florist's Daughter.  By Patricia  Hampl

® How Doctors Think.  By Jerome Groopman.

® Imperial Life in the Emerald City:  Inside Iraq's Green Zone.  By Rajiv Chandrasekaran.

® In Europe:  Travels Through the Twentieth Century.  By Geert Mak.

® The Invisible Cure:  Africa, the West, and the Fight Against Aids.  By Helen Epstein.

® Legacy of Ashes:  The History of the CIA.  By Tim Weiner.

® Leni:  The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl.  By Steven Bach.

® A life of Picasso:  The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932.  By John Richardson.

® Long Way Gone:  Memoirs of a Boy Soldier.  By Ishmael Beah.

® The Nine:  Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court.  By Jeffrey Toobin.

® Overtreated:  Why Too Much Medicine is Making us Sicker and Poorer.  By Shannon Brownlee.

® Ralph Ellison:  A Biography.  By Arnold Rampersad.

® The Rest is Noise:  Listening to the Twentieth Century.  By Alex Ross.

® Terra:  Our 100-Million-Year-Old Ecosystem and the Threats That Now Put It at Risk.  By Michael Novacek.

® Thomas Hardy.  By Claire Tomalin.

® Too Close to the Sun:  The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton.  By Sara Wheeler.

Outstanding Fiction:

® The Abstinence Teacher.  By Tom Perrotta.

® After Dark.  By Haruki Murakami.

® The Bad Girl.  By Mario Vargas LLosa.

® Bridge of Sighs.  By Richard Russo

® The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.  By Junot Diaz.

® Divisadero.  By Michael Ondaatje.

® Exit Ghost.  By Philip Roth.

® Falling Man.  By Don DeLillo.

® A Free Life.  By Ha Jin.

® The Gathering.  By Anne Enright.

® Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.  By J.K. Rowling.

® House of Meetings.  By Martin Amis.

® In The Country of Men.  By Hisham Matar.

® Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name.  By Vendela Veda.

® Matrimony.  By Joshua Henkin.

® The Maytrees.  By Annie Dillard.

® A Miracle of Catfish.  By Larry Brown.

® New England White.  By Stephen Carter.

® On Chesil Beach.  By Ian McEwan.

® Orpheus Lost.  By Janette Turner Hospital.

® The Reluctant Fundamentalist.  By Mohsin Hamid.

® The Savage Detectives.  By Roberto Bolano.

® Skylark Farm.  By Antonia Arslan.

® The Septembers of Shiraz.  By Dalia Sofer.

® Strange as this Weather Has Been.  By Ann Pancake.

® Then We Came to the End.  By Joshua Ferris.

® A Thousand Splendid Suns.  By Khaled Hosseini.

® Throw Like A Girl:  Stories.  By Jean Thompson.

® Tree of Smoke.  By Denis Johnson.

® The View from Castle Rock:  Stories.  By Alice Munro.

® What is the What.  The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng:  A Novel by Dave Eggers.

® The Yiddish Policemen's Union.  By Michael Chabon.