| Year | Young People's Literature | Poetry | Nonfiction | Fiction | Translation |
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| 2013 |
The Real Boy
Anne Ursu
Walden Pond Press/HarperCollinsPublishers | Two Boys Kissing
David Levithan
Alfred A. Knopf/Random House | The Summer Prince
Alaya Dawn Johnson
Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic | A Tangle of Knots
Lisa Graff
Philomel/Penguin Group USA | Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
Kate DiCamillo
Candlewick Press |
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Bury My Clothes
Roger Bonair-Agard
Haymarket Books | So Recently Rent a World, New and Selected Poems: 1968-2012
Andrei Codrescu
Coffee House Press | Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire
Brenda Hillman
Wesleyan University Press | American Amnesiac
Diane Raptosh
Etruscan Press | Transfer of Qualities
Martha Ronk
Omnidawn Publishing |
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Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami
Gretel Ehrlich
Pantheon Books/Random House | The Wolf and the Watchman: A Father, a Son and the CIA
Scott C. Johnson
W.W. Norton & Company | Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
James Oakes
W.W. Norton & Company | Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington
Terry Teachout
Gotham Books/Penguin Books USA | Finding Florida: The True Story of the Sunshine State
T.D. Allman
Atlantic Monthly Press |
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Pacific
Tom Drury
Grove Press | The End of the Point
Elizabeth Graver
Harper/HarperCollinsPublishers | A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Anthony Marra
Hogarth/Random House | Someone
Alice McDermott
Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Fools
Joan Silber
W.W. Norton & Company |
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| 2014 |
The Impossible Knife of Memory
Laurie Halse Anderson
Viking/ Penguin Group USA | Girls Like Us
Gail Giles
Candlewick Press | Skink-No Surrender
Carl Hiaasen
Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers/ Random House | Greenglass House
Kate Milford
Clarion Books/ Houghton Court Mifflin | 100 Sideways Miles
Andrew Smith
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers/ Simon & Schuster |
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Collected Poems
Mark Strand
Alfred A. Knopf/ Random House | The Road to Emmaus
Spencer Reece
Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Gabriel: A Poem
Edward Hirsch
Alfred A. Knopf/ Random House | A Several World
Brian Blanchfield
Nightboat Books | Roget's Illusion
Linda Bierds
G.P. Putnam's Sons/ Penguin Group (USA) |
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Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic
Matthew Stewart
W.W. Norton & Company | When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944
Ronald C. Rosbottom
Little, Brown and Company/ Hachette Book Group | The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Walter Isaacson
Simon & Schuster | The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941 - 1942
Nigel Hamilton
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic
John Demos
Alfred A. Knopf/ Random House |
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Orfeo
Richard Powers
Atlantic Books | Some Luck
Jane Smiley
Alfred A. Knopf/ Random House | Thunderstruck & Other Stories
Elizabeth McCracken
The Dial Press/ Random House | Wolf in White Van
John Darnielle
Farrar, Straus and Giroux | The UnAmericans
Molly Antopol
W. W. Norton & Company |
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| 2015 |
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Becky Albertalli
Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins Children's Books | Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
M.T. Anderson
Candlewick Press | Walk on Earth a Stranger
Rae Carson
Greenwillow/HarperCollins Children's Books | This Side of Wild: Mutts, Mares, and Laughing Dinosaurs
Gary Paulsen
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing | X: A Novel
Ilyasah Shabazz, with Kekla Magoon
Candlewick Press |
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Scattered at Sea
Amy Gerstler
Penguin/Penguin Random House | A Stranger's Mirror
Marilyn Hacker
W. W. Norton & Company | The Beauty
Jane Hirshfield
Alfred A. Knopf | Heaven
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts
Lawrence Raab
Tupelo Press |
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Rain
Cynthia Barnett
Crown Publishing Group/Penguin Random House | Mourning Lincoln
Martha Hodes
Yale University Press | Paradise of the Pacific
Susanna Moore
Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays
Michael Paterniti
The Dial Press/Penguin Random House | Michael White
Travels in Vermeer: A Memoir
Persea Books |
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Did You Ever Have a Family
Bill Clegg
Jonathan Cape | A Cure for Suicide
Jesse Ball
Pantheon Books | Mislaid
Nell Zink
Ecco/HarperCollins | Honeydew
Edith Pearlman
Little, Brown/Hachette Book Group | Welcome to Braggsville
T. Geronimo Johnson
William Morrow/HarperCollins |
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| 2016 |
Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story
Caren Stelson
Carolrhoda Books/Lerner Publishing Group | Pax
Sara Pennypacker & Jon Klassen (Illustrator)
Balzer & Bray/HarperCollins | Burn Baby Burn
Meg Medina
Candlewick Press | When the Moon Was Ours
Anna-Marie McLemore
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press | Booked
Kwame Alexander
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
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Blue Laws
Kevin Young
Alfred A. Knopf | Blackacre
Monica Youn
Graywolf Press | World of Made and Unmade
Jane Mead
Alice James Books | Bestiary
Donika Kelly
Graywolf Press | The Selected Poems of Donald Hall
Donald Hall
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
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The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition
Manisha Sinha
Yale University Press | Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Cathy O’Neil
Crown Publishing Group/Penguin Random House | Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
Adam Cohen
Penguin Press/Penguin Random House | The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice
Patricia Bell-Scott
Alfred A. Knopf /Penguin Random House) | America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History
Andrew J. Bacevich
Random House/Penguin Random House |
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Miss Jane
Brad Watson
W. W. Norton & Company | Sweet Lamb of Heaven
Lydia Millet
W. W. Norton & Company | The Portable Veblen
Elizabeth McKenzie
Penguin Press/Penguin Random House | Imagine Me Gone
Adam Haslett
Little, Brown and Company/Hachette Book Group | What Belongs to You
Garth Greenwell
Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Macmillan |
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| 2017 |
All the Wind in the World
Samantha Mabry
Algonquin Young Readers / Workman Publishing Company | You Bring the Distant Near
Mitali Perkins
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers / Macmillan Publishers | Long Way Down
Jason Reynolds
Atheneum / Caitlyn Dlouhy Books / Simon & Schuster | Orphan Island
Laurel Snyder
Walden Pond Press / HarperCollinsPublishers | The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas
Balzer + Bray / HarperCollinsPublishers |
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Afterland
Mai Der Vang
Graywolf Press | Square Inch Hours
Sherod Santos
W. W. Norton & Company | Where Now: New and Selected Poems
Laura Kasischke
Copper Canyon Press | Magdalene: Poems
Marie Howe
W. W. Norton & Company | When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
Chen Chen
BOA Editions, Ltd. |
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Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
Kevin Young
Graywolf Press | The Blood of Emmett Till
Timothy B. Tyson
Simon & Schuster | The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein
Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company | No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
Naomi Klein
Haymarket Books | Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
James Forman, Jr.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux / Macmillan Publishers |
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Barren Island
Carol Zoref
New Issues Poetry & Prose | A Kind of Freedom
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Counterpoint Press | Manhattan Beach
Jennifer Egan
Scribner / Simon & Schuster | Miss Burma
Charmaine Craig
Grove Press / Grove Atlantic | The King Is Always Above the People: Stories
Daniel Alarcón
Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House |
|
| 2018 |
We’ll Fly Away
Bryan Bliss
Greenwillow Books / HarperCollins Publishers | A Very Large Expanse of Sea
Tahereh Mafi
HarperTeen / HarperCollins Publishers | Blood Water Paint
Joy McCullough
Dutton Children’s Books / Penguin Random House | Boots on the Ground: America’s War in Vietnam
Elizabeth Partridge
Viking Children’s Books / Penguin Random House | What the Night Sings
Vesper Stamper
Knopf Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House |
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feeld
Jos Charles
Milkweed Editions | Be With
Forrest Gander
New Directions | Museum of the Americas
J. Michael Martinez
Penguin Books / Penguin Random House | lo terciario / the tertiary
Raquel Salas Rivera
Timeless, Infinite Light | Monument: Poems New and Selected
Natasha Trethewey
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
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One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
Carol Anderson
Bloomsbury Publishing | Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Steve Coll
Penguin Press / Penguin Random House | Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War
Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple
One World / Penguin Random House | The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
David Quammen
Simon & Schuster | Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
Rebecca Solnit
Haymarket Books |
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Gun Love
Jennifer Clement
Hogarth / Penguin Random House | The Boatbuilder
Daniel Gumbiner
McSweeney’s | An American Marriage
Tayari Jones
Algonquin Books / Workman Publishing | There There
Tommy Orange
Alfred A. Knopf / Penguin Random House | Heads of the Colored People
Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Atria Books / 37 INK / Simon & Schuster |
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Comemadre
Roque Larraquy (Translated by Heather Cleary)
Coffee House Press | The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq
Dunya Mikhail (Translated by Max Weiss and Dunya Mikhail)
New Directions Publishing | One Part Woman
Perumal Murugan (Translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan)
Black Cat / Grove Atlantic | Wait, Blink: A Perfect Picture of Inner Life
Gunnhild Øyehaug (Translated by Kari Dickson)
Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers | Aetherial Worlds
Tatyana Tolstaya (Translated by Anya Migdal)
Alfred A. Knopf / Penguin Random House |
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| 2019 |
The Undefeated
Kwame Alexander and Kadir Nelson
Versify / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | SHOUT
Laurie Halse Anderson
Viking Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House | A Place to Belong
Cynthia Kadohata
Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books / Simon & Schuster | Out of Salem
Hal Schrieve
Triangle Square / Seven Stories Press | Kiss Number 8
Colleen AF Venable and Ellen T. Crenshaw
First Second Books / Macmillan Publishers |
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Variations on Dawn and Dusk
Dan Beachy-Quick
Omnidawn Publishing | Build Yourself a Boat
Camonghne Felix
Haymarket Books | A Sand Book
Ariana Reines
Tin House Books | Dunce
Mary Ruefle
Wave Books | Doomstead Days
Brian Teare
Nightboat Books |
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Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest
Hanif Abdurraqib
University of Texas Press | The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
Greg Grandin
Metropolitan Books / Macmillan Publishers | Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe
Doubleday / Penguin Random House | Burn the Place: A Memoir
Iliana Regan
Agate Midway / Agate Publishing, Inc. | Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
University of North Carolina Press |
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Fleishman Is in Trouble
Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Random House / Penguin Random House | Black Light: Stories
Kimberly King Parsons
Vintage / Penguin Random House | The Need
Helen Phillips
Simon & Schuster | On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong
Penguin Press / Penguin Random House | The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead
Doubleday / Penguin Random House |
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When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl’s Book
Naja Marie Aidt (Translated from the Danish by Denise Newman )
Coffee House Press | The Collector of Leftover Souls: Field Notes on Brazil’s Everyday Insurrections
Eliane Brum (Translated from the Portuguese by Diane Grosklaus Whitty )
Graywolf Press | Space Invaders
Nona Fernández (Translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer)
Graywolf Press | Will and Testament
Vigdis Hjorth (Translated from the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund)
Verso Fiction / Verso Books | Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk (Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House |
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| Year | Young People's Literature | Poetry | Nonfiction | Fiction | Translation |
|---|
| 2020 |
Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box
Evette Dionne
Viking Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House | Apple (Skin to the Core)
Eric Gansworth
Levine Querido | Trowbridge Road
Marcella Pixley
Candlewick Press | How We Got to the Moon: The People, Technology, and Daring Feats of Science Behind Humanity’s Greatest Adventure
John Rocco
Crown Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House | Cemetery Boys
Aiden Thomas
Swoon Reads / Macmillan Publishers |
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The Galleons
Rick Barot
Milkweed Editions | Travesty Generator
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
Noemi Press | Obit
Victoria Chang
Copper Canyon Press | Guillotine
Eduardo C. Corral
Graywolf Press | The Age of Phillis
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Wesleyan University Press |
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Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto
Michelle Bowdler
Flatiron Books / Macmillan Publishers | If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
Jill Lepore
Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company | Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl
Jonathan C. Slaght
Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers | Afropessimism
Frank B. Wilderson III
Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company | Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson
Random House / Penguin Random House |
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Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart
Picador, Pan Macmillan | The Index of Self-Destructive Acts
Christopher Beha
Tin House Books | The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House | If I Had Two Wings
Randall Kenan
W. W. Norton & Company | A Burning
Megha Majumdar
Alfred A. Knopf / Penguin Random House | The Great Offshore Grounds
Vanessa Veselka
Alfred A. Knopf / Penguin Random House |
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The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
Shokoofeh Azar (Translated from the Persian by Anonymous)
Europa Editions | The Helios Disaster
Linda Boström Knausgård (Translated from the Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles)
World Editions | Hurricane Season
Fernanda Melchor (Translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes)
New Directions | The Story of a Goat
Perumal Murugan (Translated from the Tamil by N. Kalyan Raman)
Black Cat / Grove Atlantic | Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Cho Nam-Joo (Translated from the Korean by Jamie Chang)
Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company |
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| 2021 |
Home Is Not a Country
Safia Elhillo
Make Me a World / Penguin Random House | A Snake Falls to Earth
Darcie Little Badger
Levine Querido | The Mirror Season
Anna-Marie McLemore
Feiwel and Friends / Macmillan Publishers | Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
Carole Boston Weatherford; illustrations by Floyd Cooper
Carolrhoda Books / Lerner Publishing Group | From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement
Paula Yoo
Norton Young Readers / W. W. Norton & Company |
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The Wild Fox of Yemen
Threa Almontaser
Graywolf Press | Ghost Letters
Baba Badji
Parlor Press | Master Suffering
CM Burroughs
Tupelo Press | The Vault
Andrés Cerpa
Alice James Books | Twice Alive
Forrest Gander
New Directions |
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The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice
Scott Ellsworth
Dutton / Penguin Random House | The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Heather McGhee
One World / Penguin Random House | The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Louis Menand
Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers | How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
Clint Smith
Little, Brown and Company / Hachette Book Group | The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship
Deborah Willis
New York University Press |
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Bewilderment
Richard Powers
Hutchinson Heinemann, PRH | Abundance
Jakob Guanzon
Graywolf Press | The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Harper / HarperCollins Publishers | Intimacies
Katie Kitamura
Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House | The Souvenir Museum: Stories
Elizabeth McCracken
Ecco / HarperCollins Publishers |
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Waiting for the Waters to Rise
Maryse Condé (Translated from the French by Richard Philcox)
World Editions | On the Origin of Species and Other Stories
Bo-Young Kim (Translated from the Korean by Joungmin Lee Comfort and Sora Kim-Russell)
Kaya Press | Rabbit Island: Stories
Elvira Navarro (Translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney)
Two Lines Press | An Inventory of Losses
Judith Schalansky (Translated from the German by Jackie Smith)
New Directions | In Memory of Memory
Maria Stepanova (Translated from the Russian by Sasha Dugdale)
New Directions |
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| 2022 |
Still Life
Jay Hopler
McSweeney’s |
Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time
Natalie Hodges
Bellevue Literary Press | Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
Kelly Lytle Hernández
W. W. Norton & Company | Lost & Found: A Memoir
Kathryn Schulz
Random House / Penguin Random House |
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When We Were Sisters
Fatimah Asghar
One World / Penguin Random House | Shutter
Ramona Emerson
Soho Crime / Soho Press | If I Survive You
Jonathan Escoffery
MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers | Nobody Gets Out Alive
Leigh Newman
Scribner / Simon & Schuster | Maria, Maria & Other Stories
Marytza K. Rubio
Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company |
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| 2023 |
Simon Sort of Says
Erin Bow
Disney-Hyperion Books / Disney Publishing Worldwide | Forget Me Not
Alyson Derrick
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers / Simon & Schuster | Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day
Dan Nott
Random House Graphic / Penguin Random House | Parachute Kids
Betty C. Tang
Graphix / Scholastic, Inc. | More Than a Dream: The Radical March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers / Macmillan Publishers |
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The Diaspora Sonnets
Oliver de la Paz
Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company | Vexations
Annelyse Gelman
University of Chicago Press | Promises of Gold
José Olivarez
Henry Holt and Company / Macmillan Publishers | West: A Translation
Paisley Rekdal
Copper Canyon Press | Trace Evidence
Charif Shanahan
Tin House Books |
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King: A Life
Jonathan Eig
Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers | A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Grove Press / Grove Atlantic | When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
Donovan X. Ramsey
One World / Penguin Random House | The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever
Prudence Peiffer
Harper / HarperCollins Publishers | I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction
Kidada E. Williams
Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Ponyboy
Eliot Duncan
W. W. Norton & Company | Loot
Tania James
Knopf / Penguin Random House | Night Watch
Jayne Anne Phillips
Knopf / Penguin Random House | A Council of Dolls
Mona Susan Power
Mariner Books / HarperCollins Publishers | Holler, Child
LaToya Watkins
Tiny Reparations Books / Penguin Random House |
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The Devil of the Provinces
Juan Cárdenas (Translated from the Spanish by Lizzie Davis)
Coffee House Press | Kairos
Jenny Erpenbeck (Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann)
New Directions Publishing | No One Prayed Over Their Graves
Khaled Khalifa (Translated from the Arabic by Leri Price)
Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers | This Is Not Miami
Fernanda Melchor (Translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes)
New Directions Publishing | The Most Secret Memory of Men
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr (Translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud)
Other Press |
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