2001 Book Award Winners

In 1939 Josef Kavalier is smuggled out of Prague in a coffin, alongside the Golem, by the escape artist who trained him. He arrives in his aunt's...

Ned Kelly, the Irish Australian bushranger hanged in Melbourne in 1880 at the age of twenty five, tells his own story in thirteen parcels of paper...

Alfred Lambert, retired railroad engineer, upright to the point of cruelty, is coming apart: Parkinson's disease and dementia are dismantling him...

Karakarook, New South Wales, population a few hundred, has one claim on the future: heritage tourism, if it can decide what its heritage is. The...

Jacques Austerlitz, an architectural historian, tells his life story in fragments to an unnamed narrator he keeps meeting by chance in railway...

Coleman Silk is a classics professor and former dean of faculty at Athena College, in western Massachusetts. He calls two students who have never...

Herbert P. Bix sets out to overturn the long standing postwar image of Emperor Hirohito as a passive, largely powerless figurehead who had little...

Ellis takes the American founding apart into six episodes and looks hard at what happened inside each one. Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton meet...

David Levering Lewis closes his two volume life of W. E. B. Du Bois with the decades in which the scholar and activist who helped found the NAACP...

The Noonday Demon calls itself an atlas of depression, and the claim is exact: Andrew Solomon set out to map the whole territory of the illness...

Burleigh's single volume history of Nazi Germany opens with a question the political histories had stopped asking: what did Nazism feel like from...

The deep ocean is the largest habitat on earth and the least examined, and Kunzig's book is the great tour of what the explorers of it had learned...

Different Hours gathers poems that examine a life already well underway, middle age, a long marriage, and the accumulated small compromises a...

The Beauty of the Husband calls itself a fictional essay in twenty nine tangos, and the form is the meaning: the tango is a dance you cannot do...

The fourth book is where the series stops being about school. It opens at the Quidditch World Cup, where masked wizards attack the campsite...

Kamoj Argali governs a small province on Balumil, a backward and increasingly hungry world that lost contact with the rest of human civilization...

Shadow is three days from the end of a prison sentence when he is released early, because his wife has died in a car accident. He learns at the...

Declare is a Cold War spy novel with a secret supernatural front. In 1963 Andrew Hale, a lecturer at Oxford, is called back into a secret branch of...

Galveston is set on the real island city off the Texas coast, in a near future where magic has come back into the world. In 2004 a Flood of magic...

Harry Crane is an old man in a rest home when he tells it, but in 1933 he was eleven, in the East Texas river bottoms, on the day he and his little...

Fifteen year old Mary Alice is sent from Chicago to spend a year with her grandmother in rural Illinois in 1937 and 1938, after her family's...

Judith St. George's text surveys the American presidency itself rather than any single president, gathering trivia and patterns across the 42 men...

Mohun Biswas is born in rural Trinidad under signs his own family reads as bad luck, breech, six fingered, delivered by a midwife who pronounces...