2005 National Book Award Finalists

FICTION

* E.L. Doctorow, The March (Random House), ISBN# 0375506713
* Mary Gaitskill, Veronica (Pantheon), ISBN# 0375421459
* Christopher Sorrentino, Trance (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), ISBN# 0374278644
* Renè Steinke, Holy Skirts (William Morrow), ISBN# 0688176941
* William T. Vollmann, Europe Central (Viking), ISBN# 0670033928

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NONFICTION

* Alan Burdick, Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), ISBN# 0374219737
* Leo Damrosch, Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius (Houghton Mifflin), ISBN # 0618446966
* Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking (Alfred A. Knopf), ISBN# 140004314x
* Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn, 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers (Times Books), ISBN# 0805076824
* Adam Hochschild, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves (Houghton Mifflin), ISBN# 0618104690

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POETRY

* John Ashbery, Where Shall I Wander (Ecco), ISBN# 0060765291
* Frank Bidart, Star Dust: Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), ISBN# 0374269734
* Brendan Galvin, Habitat: New and Selected Poems, 1965-2005 (Louisiana State University Press), ISBN# 0807130478
* W.S. Merwin, Migration: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press), ISBN# 1556592183
* Vern Rutsala, The Moment's Equation (Ashland Poetry Press), ISBN# 0912592540

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YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE

* Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks (Alfred A. Knopf), ISBN# 0375831436
* Adele Griffin, Where I Want to Be (Putnam), ISBN# 0399237836
* Chris Lynch, Inexcusable (Atheneum), ISBN# 0689847890
* Walter Dean Myers, Autobiography of My Dead Brother (HarperTempest), ISBN# 006058291x
* Deborah Wiles, Each Little Bird That Sings (Harcourt), ISBN# 0152051139