Allison Blakely for Russia and the Negro: Blacks in Russian History and Thought Charles Olson for The Collected Poems of Charles Olson: Excluding the Maximus Poems Daisy Bates for The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir David Halberstam for The Reckoning Edward Sanders for Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century: Poems 1961–1985 Gerald Vizenor for Griever: An American Monkey King in China Jimmy Santiago Baca for Martin & Meditations on the South Valley Kesho Y. Scott, Cherry Muhanji, Egyirba High for Tight Spaces Marlon K. Hom for Songs of Gold Mountain: Cantonese Rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown Benjamin Hoff for The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow: The Mystical Nature Diary of Opal Whiteley[4] Ronald Sukenick for Down and in: Life in the Underground Salvatore La Puma for The Boys of Bensonhurst Toni Morrison for Beloved Wing Tek Lum, Tek Lum Lum for Expounding the Doubtful Points