The Top Book List

Award year

2004 National Book Award

Sources: official announcement 1, official announcement 2, official announcement 3, official announcement 4

Fiction

Winner
The News from Paraguay
Lily Tuck
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Florida
Christine Schutt
National Book Award Finalist
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Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories
Joan Silber
National Book Award Finalist
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Madeleine Is Sleeping
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
National Book Award Finalist
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Our Kind
Kate Walbert
National Book Award Finalist

Nonfiction

Winner
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
Kevin Boyle
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Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett
Jennifer Gonnerman
National Book Award Finalist
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Washington's Crossing
David Hackett Fischer
National Book Award Finalist
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Stephen Greenblatt
National Book Award Finalist

Poetry

Winner
Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003
Jean Valentine
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Collected Poems
Donald Justice
National Book Award Finalist
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Goest
Cole Swensen
National Book Award Finalist
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Shoah Train
William Heyen
National Book Award Finalist
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The Rest of Love
Carl Phillips
National Book Award Finalist

Young People's Literature

Winner
Godless
Pete Hautman
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Harlem Stomp!: A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance
Laban Carrick Hill
National Book Award Finalist
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Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
Deb Caletti
National Book Award Finalist
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Luna: A Novel
Julie Anne Peters
National Book Award Finalist
National Book Award
The Legend of Buddy Bush
Shelia P. Moses
National Book Award Finalist

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