Biography
- Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned by John A. Farrell (Doubleday)
- Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable (Viking)
- Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie (Random House)
- Reading My Father: A Memoir by Alexandra Styron (Scribner)
- My Long Trip Home by Mark Whitaker (Simon & Schuster)
Current Interest
- Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything by David Bellos (Faber & Faber/Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency by Ioan Grillo (Bloomsbury Press)
- Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science and Fear by Seth Mnookin (Simon & Schuster)
Fiction
- Ghost Light by Joseph O'Connor (Frances Coady Book/Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje (Knopf)
- The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka (Knopf)
- Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories by Edith Pearlman (Lookout Books/University of North Carolina Wilmington)
- Luminarium by Alex Shakar (SoHo Press)
The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
- The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach (Little, Brown)
- Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson (Ecco/HarperCollins)
- Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner (Coffee House Press)
- Shards by Ismet Prcic (Grove Press, Black Cat)
- The Arriviste by James Wallenstein (Milkweed Editions)
Graphic Novel
- I Will Bite You! And Other Stories by Joseph Lambert (Secret Acres)
- Celluloid by Dave McKean (Fantagraphics)
- Finder: Voice by Carla Speed McNeil (Dark Horse)
- Congress of the Animals by Jim Woodring (Fantagraphics)
- Garden by Yuichi Yokoyama (PictureBox)
History
- The Anatomy of a Moment: Thirty-Five Minutes in History and Imagination by Javier Cercas (Bloomsbury Press)
- 1861: The Civil War Awakening by Adam Goodheart (Knopf)
- To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 by Adam Hochschild (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- Molotov's Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History by Rachel Polonsky (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America by Richard White (W.W. Norton)
Mystery-Thriller
- Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson (Reagan Arthur Books/Hachette Book Group)
- Plugged by Eoin Colfer (Overlook Press)
- 11/22/63 by Stephen King (Scribner)
- Snowdrops: A Novel by A.D. Miller (Doubleday)
- The End of Wasp Season by Denise Mina (Reagan Arthur Books/Hachette Book Group)
Poetry
- Songs of Unreason by Jim Harrison (Copper Canyon Press)
- Discipline by Dawn Lundy Martin (Nightboat Books)
- The Public Gardens by Linda Norton (Pressed Wafer)
- Double Shadow: Poems by Carl Phillips (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Devotions by Bruce Smith (University of Chicago Press)
Science & Technology
- A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: The Race to Kill the BP Oil Gusher by Joel Achenbach (Simon & Schuster)
- The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick (Pantheon)
- Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men by Mara Hvistendahl (PublicAffairs)
- Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius by Sylvia Nasar (Simon & Schuster)
- Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution by Holly Tucker (W.W. Norton)
Young Adult Literature
- Beauty Queens by Libba Bray (Scholastic Press)
- The Big Crunch by Pete Hautman (Scholastic Press)
- A Monster Calls: Inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd by Patrick Ness (Candlewick Press)
- Life: An Exploded Diagram by Mal Peet (Candlewick Press)
- The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic Press)
The Robert Kirsch Award for significant contribution to American letters
- Rudolfo Anaya
The Innovator's Award
- Figment (a collaborative digital writing community for teens)
The awards will be presented on the evening of Friday, April 20th, 2012.
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