2009 Book Award Winners

Thirteen stories set in the fictional coastal town of Crosby, Maine. In some of them Olive Kitteridge, a retired seventh grade mathematics teacher,...

Thomas Cromwell is a blacksmith's son from Putney who has been a soldier, a merchant and a lawyer, and who arrives at the center of English power...

On the morning of 7 August 1974, a man appears in the sky over lower Manhattan, walking a cable strung between the not yet loved Twin Towers, and...

Glory Boughton, thirty eight, her engagement collapsed and her teaching career with it, has come home to Gilead, Iowa, to keep house for her dying...

Thomas Cromwell is a blacksmith's son from Putney who has been a soldier, a merchant and a lawyer, and who arrives at the center of English power...

Netherland is Joseph O'Neill's third novel, published by Pantheon in May 2008. Its narrator, Hans van den Broek, is a Dutch financial analyst...

Douglas A. Blackmon argues that slavery in the United States did not end with the Civil War but persisted, in a different legal form, well into the...

Annette Gordon-Reed follows four generations of the Hemings family, enslaved at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, from their origins through...

Jon Meacham narrows his focus to Andrew Jackson's eight years in the White House, opening just after the 1828 election victory that was shadowed...

Cornelius Vanderbilt lived from 1794 to 1877, from Washington's presidency to the Gilded Age he did as much as anyone to create, and The First...

Philip Hoare has been afraid of deep water all his life and obsessed with whales almost as long, and this book is the working out of that double...

Holmes's subject is the generation the history of science had filed under prelude: the British science of the Romantic age, between Cook's voyages...

The Shadow of Sirius returns W. S. Merwin to memory, lost dogs, light, and the deepening quiet of late life, written in the unpunctuated lines he...

The Water Table is a book about the Severn estuary, the brown, tide torn water between Wales and England with one of the highest tidal ranges in...

A man named Jack murders a family in their house one night. The toddler, who has climbed out of his cot and wandered off, escapes up the hill and...

Bangkok, in the twenty third century. The oil is gone, the seas have risen, and the city survives behind levees and pumps kept running by a king's...

Audrey Lucas has assembled herself against the odds, out of a vagabond childhood spent managing a mother whose mental illness kept them moving one...

Tender Morsels begins in St. Olafred's, a poor, preindustrial village, with a motherless girl named Liga whose father abuses her. By fifteen she...

The Shadow Year is set on Long Island in the mid 1960s and told by a boy in the sixth grade who never gives his name. His father works three jobs...

Annie Taylor, twelve, takes her little brother William fishing in the North Idaho woods, and they see what children should never see: four men...

A man named Jack murders a family in their house one night. The toddler, who has climbed out of his cot and wandered off, escapes up the hill and...

Susan Marie Swanson's spare, rhythmic text follows a key, a house, a bed, a book, and a bird through a single bedtime sequence, an accumulating...

Leo Auberg is seventeen and lives in Sibiu, in the German speaking Transylvanian minority of Romania, when Soviet forces arrest him in January 1945...