Pobjednici će biti poznati na svečanosti 19. studenoga, kad će Zaklada dodijeliti odličje za izniman doprinos američkoj književnosti spisatelju Stephenu Kingu ("Zelena milja", "Vreća kostiju", "Rose Madder").
U kategoriji romana, finalisti su:
T.C. Boyle, "Drop City"
Shirley Hazzard, "The Great Fire"
Edward P. Jones, "The Known World"
Scott Spencer, "A Ship Made of Paper" i
Marianne Wiggins, "Evidence of Things Unseen".
U kategoriji publicistike, finalisti su:
Anne Applebaum, "Gulag: A History"
George Howe Colt, "The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home"
John D'Emilio, "Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin" Carlos Eire, "Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy" i
Erik Larson, "The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America".
U kategoriji knjiga za mlade, finalisti su:
Paul Fleischman, "Breakout"
Polly Horvath, "The Canning Season"
Jim Murphy, "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793"
Richard Peck, "The River Between Us" i
Jacqueline Woodson, "Locomotion".
U kategoriji poezije, finalisti su:
Carol Muske-Dukes, "Sparrow: Poems",
Charles Simic, "The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems" Louis Simpson, "The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001"
C.K. Williams, "The Singing: Poems" i
Kevin Young, "Jelly Roll: A Blues".
Dobitnici nagrada prošle su godine bili Julia Glass (roman "Three Junes"), Robert Cato (publicistika - "Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson), Nancy Farmer (roman za mlade "The House of the Scorpion") i Ruth Stone (zbirka pjesama "In the Next Galaxy").