* Fiction: The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
* General Nonfiction: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
* History: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
* Biography: God: A Biography by Jack Miles
* Poetry: Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey
* Drama: Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire
2008
* Fiction: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
* General Nonfiction: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
* History: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
* Biography: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
* Poetry: Failbetter by Philip Schultz
* Drama: August: Osage County by Tracy Letts