Novel of the Year
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken by Terry Teachout
The Diary of H.L. Mencken edited by Charles A. Fecher
My Life as Author and Editor by H.L. Mencken, edited and with an introduction by Jonathan Yardley
Disturber of the Peace: The Life of H.L. Mencken by William Manchester
Mencken: A Life by Fred Hobson
In Defense of Marion: The Love of Marion Bloom and H.L. Mencken edited by Edward A. Martin
The Vintage Mencken edited by Alistair Cooke
The Impossible H.L. Mencken: A Selection of His Best Newspaper Stories edited by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
Mencken and Sara: A Life in Letters: The Private Correspondence of H.L. Mencken and Sara Haardt edited by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
Sun Out: Selected Poems, 1952–1954 by Kenneth Koch
A Possible World by Kenneth Koch
Leadership by Rudolph W. Giuliani, with Ken Kurson
The Lost Son: A Life in Pursuit of Justice by Bernard B. Kerik
The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story by Richard Preston
Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus: People, Parasites, Politics by Robert S. Desowitz
Child of My Heart by Alice McDermott
The Heart of Redness by Zakes Mda
Ways of Dying by Zakes Mda
Barnett Newman Catalog of the exhibition edited by Ann Temkin, with essays by Ann Temkin and Richard Shiff, and contributions by Suzanne Penn and Melissa Ho
A Berlin Republic: Writings on Germany by Jürgen Habermas, translated from the German by Steven Rendall, with an introduction by Peter Hohendahl
The Past as Future by Jürgen Habermas, interviewed by Michael Haller, translated from the German and edited by Max Pensky, with an introduction by Peter Hohendahl
The Inclusion of the Other by Jürgen Habermas, edited by Ciaran Cronin and Pablo De Greiff
Knowledge and Human Interests by Jürgen Habermas
Religion and Rationality by Jürgen Habermas, edited and with an introduction by Eduardo Mendieta
Jürgen Habermas: A Philosophical-Political Profile by Martin Beck Matustík
Another Country: German Intellectuals, Unification and National Identity by Jan-Werner Müller
Helen Epstein is Visiting Professor of Human Rights and Global Public Health at Bard. She is the author of Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda, and the War on Terror and The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa. She has served as a consultant for numerous organizations, including UNICEF, the World Bank, and Human Rights Watch. (October 2019)
Norman Rush’s most recent novel is Subtle Bodies. (April 2017)