WinnerThe Great Fire
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2003 National Book Award
Fiction
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National Book AwardA Ship Made of Paper
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National Book AwardDrop City
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National Book AwardEvidence of Things Unseen
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National Book AwardThe Known World
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Nonfiction
WinnerWaiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
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National Book AwardGulag: A History
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National Book AwardLost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
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National Book AwardThe Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home
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National Book AwardThe Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
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Poetry
WinnerThe Singing
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National Book AwardJelly Roll: a blues
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National Book AwardSparrow
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National Book AwardThe Owner of the House: New Collected Poems 1940-2001
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National Book AwardThe Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems
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Young People's Literature
WinnerThe Canning Season
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National Book AwardAn American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
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National Book AwardBreakout
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National Book AwardLocomotion
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National Book AwardThe River Between Us
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