2003 Book Award Winners

Cal Stephanides, forty one and working for the American diplomatic service in Berlin, sets out to explain how he came to be born a girl and to...

Vernon Gregory Little is fifteen and lives in Martirio, Texas, the barbecue sauce capital of central Texas, where his best friend Jesus has just...

Occupied Japan, 1947. Aldred Leith is thirty two, a British officer decorated in the war and the son of a famous novelist, and he has come east to...

Manon Gaudet narrates, and Manon Gaudet is the experiment: a novel of slavery told entirely from inside the head of a slaveholding woman, without a...

Henry Townsend is a Black farmer and bootmaker in Manchester County, Virginia, in the years before the Civil War. He was born enslaved. His father...

The Caprices is Sabina Murray's first collection of stories, nine of them, published by Houghton Mifflin in 2002. All nine turn on the Second World...

Samantha Power built the book from a paper she first wrote in law school, and it grew into a full survey of how the United States responded, or...

Rick Atkinson opens the Liberation Trilogy with An Army at Dawn, following the American and British armies as they invade French North Africa in...

Robert Caro devotes the third volume of his life of Lyndon Johnson entirely to the years Johnson spent inside the United States Senate, opening...

Waiting for Snow in Havana is Carlos Eire's memoir of a Havana boyhood ended by revolution, and it reads like nothing else in the literature of...

Alexander Pushkin is the writer Russians put where the English put Shakespeare, and Binyon's biography opens with the problem that position...

Why is the heart on the left? Why are most people right handed, in every culture and as far back as the tools and cave stencils go, and why, if...

Moy Sand and Gravel takes its title from a business that once operated near The Moy, the small County Armagh townland where Paul Muldoon grew up on...

Paterson is a Dundee poet who was a working jazz guitarist before he was anything else, and the ear shows on every page. Landing Light is the...

In a parallel world, Neanderthals became the dominant human species and Homo sapiens died out. Their civilization has no agriculture as we would...

Lou Arrendale is autistic, works in a bioinformatics division where a whole unit of autistic employees is employed for pattern recognition nobody...

A week after Nancy Underhill, a Millhaven wife and mother, kills herself for no reason anyone can name, her fifteen year old son Mark vanishes...

Ombria in Shadow is a standalone novel set in Ombria, an old, decaying city state with another city lying under it like a reflection. When Royce...

The Facts of Life is a family novel set in Coventry in the years after the Second World War, with the supernatural woven into it lightly. Martha...

The call comes to Bill Smith at two in the morning, from an NYPD lockup: a fifteen year old picked up for helping street kids roll a drunk has...

In an English village in 1377, a thirteen year old peasant boy known only as Asta's son loses his mother and, within days, finds himself falsely...

Mouse lends his new toy airplane to his best friend Rabbit, and within moments Rabbit has managed to fly it straight into the top of a tree, out of...

David Lurie is fifty two, twice divorced, and teaching communications at a Cape Town technical university where the Romantic poetry he cares about...