The 2007-2008 New York City Book Awards

The awards presentation, hosted by Laurence Bergreen, took place May 14, 2008.

Covers of the 2007-2008 NYC Book Awards winners

Award for Photography

New York Rises: Photographs by Eugene de Salignac by Michael Lorenzini and Kevin Moore (Aperture)

Award for History

Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature by D. Graham Burnett (Princeton University Press)

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