A Visit From the Goon Squad (Jennifer Egan) - FIC EGAN: Winner for Fiction - Awarded to "A Visit From the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan, an inventive investigation of growing up and growing old in the digital age, displaying a big-hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp speed. Check Availability

Also nominated as finalists in this category were: The Privileges by Jonathan Dee (Random House), a contemporary, wide ranging tale about an elite Manhattan family, moral bankruptcy and the long reach of wealth; and The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee (Riverhead Books), a haunting and often heartbreaking epic whose characters explore the deep reverberations of love, devotion and war.

Clybourne Park (Bruce Norris) - 812 NORRIS: Winner for Drama - Awarded to "Clybourne Park" by Bruce Norris, a powerful work whose memorable characters speak in witty and perceptive ways to America's sometimes toxic struggle with race and class consciousness. Check Availability

Also nominated as finalists in this category were: “Detroit” by Lisa D'Amour, a contemporary tragicomic play that depicts a slice of desperate life in a declining inner-ring suburb where hope is in foreclosure' and A Free Man of Color by John Guare, an audacious play spread across a large historical canvas, dealing with serious subjects while retaining a playful intellectual buoyancy. 

The Fiery Trial (Eric Foner) - 973.7092 FONER: Winner for History - Awarded to “The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery,” by Eric Foner (W.W. Norton & Company), a well orchestrated examination of Lincoln’s changing views of slavery, bringing unforeseeable twists and a fresh sense of improbability to a familiar story. Check Availability

Also nominated as finalists in this category were: “Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South,” by Stephanie McCurry (Harvard University Press), an insightful work analyzing the experience of disenfranchised white women and black slaves who were left when Confederate soldiers headed for the battlefield; and “Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston,” by Michael Rawson (Harvard University Press), an impressive selection of case studies that reveal how Boston helped shape the remarkable growth of American cities in the 19th century.

Washington: A Life (Andrew Moore) - BIOGRAPHY WASHINGTON: Winner for Biography or Autobiography - Awarded to “Washington: A Life,” by Ron Chernow (The Penguin Press), a sweeping, authoritative portrait of an iconic leader learning to master his private feelings in order to fulfill his public duties. Check Availability

Also nominated as finalists in this category were: “The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century,” by Alan Brinkley, a fresh, fair minded assessment of a complicated man who transformed the news business and showed busy Americans new ways to see the world; and Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon by Michael O'Brien, a graceful account of a remarkable journey by Louisa Catherine Adams, the wife of a future president, who traveled with a young son across a Europe still reeling from warfare.

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Siddhartha Mukherjee) - 616.994 MUKHERJEE: Winner for General Nonfiction - Awarded to “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer,” by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Scribner), an elegant inquiry, at once clinical and personal, into the long history of an insidious disease that, despite treatment breakthroughs, still bedevils medical science. Check Availability

Also nominated as finalists in this category were: The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr, a thought provoking exploration of the Internet’s physical and cultural consequences, rendering highly technical material intelligible to the general reader; and Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne, a memorable examination of the longest and most brutal of all the wars between European settlers and a single Indian tribe.