Nominees in the Book of the Year category

Nominees in the Book of the Year category
(Click on a book title to read more about that book)

AUDIO BOOK
A Dirty Job Christopher Moore Harper Audio	Manhunt James L. Swanson Harper Audio
Marley and Me John Grogan Harper Audio	Teacher Man Frank McCourt Simon & Schuster Audio
Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin Simon & Schuster Audio
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BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Dispatches from the Edge Anderson Cooper HarperCollins	Marley & Me John Grogan William Morrow
Mockingbird Charles J. Shields Henry Holt & Company	The Tender Bar J. R. Moehringer Hyperion
The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated
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BUSINESS
Bait and Switch Barbara Ehrenreich Henry Holt & Company	The Girl's Guide to Being a Boss (Without Being a Bitch) Caitlin Friedman and Kimberly Yorio Broadway Books
Good to Great and the Social Sectors Jim Collins Collins	The Number Lee Eisenberg Free Press, Simon & Schuster
The Wal-Mart Effect Charles Fishman Penguin Press
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CHILDREN'S CHAPTER BOOK/MIDDLE GRADE
Flush Carl Hiaasen Knopf Books for Young Readers	Inkspell Cornelia Funke Scholastic/Chicken House
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Kate DiCamillo Candlewick Press	The Penultimate Peril Lemony Snicket HarperCollins Publishers
Ptolemy's Gate Jonathan Stroud Miramax Books
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CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED BOOK
Fancy Nancy Jane O'Connor, illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser HarperCollins	If You Give a Pig a Party Laura Joffe Numeroff, illustrated by Felicia Bond HarperCollins/Geringer
John, Paul, George & Ben Lane Smith Hyperion	Walter the Farting Dog Goes on a Cruise William Kotzwinkle, Glenn Murray and Elizabeth Gundy, illustrated by Audrey Colman Dutton
Winter's Tale Robert Sabuda Little Simon
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COOKING
Heat Bill Buford Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated	Julie and Julia Julie Powell Little, Brown & Company
My Life in France Julia Child Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated	Rachael Ray 365: No Repeats Rachael Ray Crown Publishing Group
The Silver Spoon Phaidon Press Editors Phaidon Press
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DEBUT AUTHOR OF THE YEAR
The $64 Tomato William Alexander Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill	Julie and Julia Julie Powell Little, Brown & Company
The Last Templar Raymond Khoury Dutton	The Madonnas of Leningrad Debra Dean William Morrow
The Ride of Our Lives Mike Leonard Ballantine Books
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GENERAL FICTION
Black Swan Green David Mitchell Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group	A Dirty Job Christopher Moore William Morrow
The March E. L. Doctorow Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group	Suite Française Irene Nemirovsky Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated
Water for Elephants Sara Gruen Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
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GRAPHIC NOVEL
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic Alison Bechdel Houghton Mifflin Company	Maximum Fantastic Four Stan Lee Marvel Enterprises, Incorporated
Mom's Cancer Brian Fies Harry N. Abrams , Incorporated	Naruto, Volume 7 Masashi Kishimoto Viz Media
Hellsing, Volume 7 Kohta Hirano Dark Horse Comics/Digital Manga Publishing
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HEALTH/SELF IMPROVEMENT
Healthy Aging Andrew Weil, M.D. Knopf Publishing Group	It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken Greg Behrendt Broadway Books
It's Not Easy Being Green Jim Henson Hyperion	Wisdom of Our Fathers Tim Russert Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group
YOU: The Smart Patient Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz Free Press, Simon & Schuster
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HISTORY/CURRENT EVENTS/POLITICS
An Inconvenient Truth Al Gore Rodale Press, Incorporated	The Lost Painting Jonathan Harr Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group
Manhunt James L. Swanson William Morrow	The River of Doubt Candice Millard Doubleday
Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
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HUMOR
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes Bill Watterson Andrews McMeel Publishing	WINNER Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings Tyler Perry Riverhead
The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Bobby Henderson Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group	A Heckuva Job Calvin Trillin Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group
The Truth (with Jokes) Al Franken Dutton
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MYSTERY/SUSPENSE/THRILLER
The Lincoln Lawyer Michael Connelly Little, Brown & Company	The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels Arthur Conan Doyle W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Promise Me Harlan Coben Dutton	Tomb of the Golden Bird Elizabeth Peters William Morrow
Twelve Sharp Janet Evanovich St. Martin's Press
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POETRY
Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem Maya Angelou Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group	Good Poems for Hard Times Garrison Keillor Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
New and Selected Poems: Volume Two Mary Oliver Beacon Press	Still Another Day Pablo Neruda, translated by William O'Daly Copper Canyon Press
The Trouble with Poetry Billy Collins Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group
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RELIGION/SPIRITUALITY
The Great Transformation Karen Armstrong Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated	Mama Made the Difference T. D. Jakes Putnam
Misquoting Jesus Bart D. Ehrman HarperSanFrancisco	The Narnian Alan Jacobs HarperSanFrancisco
The Universe in a Single Atom Dalai Lama XIV Broadway Books
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