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| 1950 | The Man With The Golden Arm
Nelson Algren
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph L. Rusk
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| 1951 | The Collected Stories of William Faulkner
William Faulkner
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Herman Melville
Newton Arvin
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| 1952 | From Here to Eternity
James Jones
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The Sea Around Us
Rachel Carson
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| 1953 | Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
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The Course of Empire
Bernard A. De Voto
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| 1954 | The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow
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A Stillness at Appomattox
Bruce Catton
Doubleday |
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| 1955 | A Fable
William Faulkner
Random |
The Measure of Man
Joseph Wood Krutch
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| 1956 | Ten North Frederick
John O'Hara
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An American in Italy
Herbert Kubly
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| 1957 | The Field of Vision
Wright Morris
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Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-192O
George F. Kennan
Princeton Univ. Press |
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| 1958 | The Wapshot Chronicle
John Cheever
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The Lion and the Throne
Catherine Drinker Bowen
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| 1959 | The Magic Barrel
Bernard Malamud
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Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame De Stael
J. Christopher Herold
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| 1960 | Goodbye, Columbus
Philip Roth
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James Joyce
Richard Ellmann
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| 1961 | The Waters of Kronos
Conrad Richter
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
William L. Shirer
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| 1962 | The Moviegoer
Walker Percy
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The City in History: Its Origins, its Transformations and its Prospects
Lewis Mumford
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| 1963 | Morte D'Urban
J. F. Powers
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Henry James, Vol. II: The Conquest of London and Henry James, Vol. III: The Middle Years
Leon Edel
Lippincott |
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| 1964 | The Centaur
John Updike
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| 1965 | Herzog
Saul Bellow
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| 1966 |
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| 1967 | The Fixer
Bernard Malamud
Farrar |
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| 1968 | The Eighth Day
Thornton Wilder
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| Soren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers
Howard & Edna Hong
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| 1969 | Steps
Jerzy Kosinski
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| Calvino's Cosmicomics
William Weaver
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Journey from Peppermint Street
Meindert DeJong
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| Year | Fiction | Nonfiction | Translation | Young People's Literature | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1970 | Them (1970)
Joyce Carol Oates
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| Celine's Castle to Castle
Ralph Manheim
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A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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| 1971 | Mr. Sammler's Planet
Saul Bellow
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The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian
Lloyd Alexander
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| 1972 | The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor
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| Jacques Monod's Chance and Necessity
Austryn Wainhouse
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The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine or The Hithering Thithering Djinn
Donald Barthelme
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| 1973 |
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| The Aeneid of Virgil
Allen Mandelbaum
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The Farthest Shore
Ursula K. LeGuin
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The Court of the Stone Children
Eleanor Cameron
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| 1975 |
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| Miguel D. Unamuno's The Agony of Christianity and Essays on Faith
Anthony Kerrigan
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M. C. Higgins the Great
Virginia Hamilton
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| 1976 | Jr
William Gaddis
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| Bert Breen's Barn
Walter D. Edmonds
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| 1977 | The Spectator Bird
Wallace Stegner
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| Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance
Li-Li Ch'en
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The Master Puppeteer
Katherine Paterson
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| 1978 | Blood Ties
Mary Lee Settle
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| Uwe George's In the Deserts of This Earth
Howard Nemerov
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The View From the Oak
Judith Kohl & Herbert Kohl
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| 1979 | Going After Cacciato
Tim O'Brien
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| Cesar Vallejo's The Complete Posthumous Poetry
Clayton Eshleman & Jose Rubin Barcia (sort as Eshleman)
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The Great Gilly Hopkins
Katherine Paterson
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| Year | Fiction | Nonfiction | Translation | Young People's Literature | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1980 |
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| 1983 |
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| Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal
Richard Howard
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| 1984 |
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Andrew Jackson & the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845
Robert V. Remini
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| 1985 |
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Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
J. Anthony Lukas
Alfred A. Knopf |
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| 1986 | World's Fair
E. L. Doctorow
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Arctic Dreams
Barry Lopez
Scribner's |
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| 1987 | Paco's Story
Larry Heinemann
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes
Simon and Schuster |
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| 1988 | Paris Trout
Pete Dexter
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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
Neil Sheehan
Random House |
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| 1989 | Spartina
John Casey
Knopf |
From Beirut to Jerusalem
Thomas L. Friedman
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| 1990 | Middle Passage
Charles Johnson
Atheneum |
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
Ron Chernow
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| 1991 | Mating
Norman Rush
Knopf |
Freedom
Orlando Patterson
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| 1992 | All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy
Alfred A. Knopf |
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
Paul Monette
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| 1993 | The Shipping News
E. Annie Proulx
Charles Scribner's Sons |
United States: Essays 1952-1992
Gore Vidal
Random House |
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| 1994 | A Frolic of His Own
William Gaddis
Poseidon/Simon & Schuster |
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
Sherwin B. Nuland
Alfred A. Knopf |
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| 1995 | Sabbath's Theater
Philip Roth
Houghton Mifflin |
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
Tina Rosenberg
Random House |
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| 1996 | Ship Fever and Other Stories
Andrea Barrett
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An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us
James Carroll
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Parrott In the Oven: MiVida
Victor Martinez
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| 1997 | Cold Mountain
Charles Frazier
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American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
Joseph J. Ellis
Knopf |
Dancing on the Edge
Han Nolan
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| 1998 | Charming Billy
Alice McDermott
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Slaves in the Family
Edward Ball
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Holes
Louis Sachar
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| 1999 | Waiting
Ha Jin
Pantheon Books |
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
John W. Dower
W.W. Norton & Company/The New Press |
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
Kimberly Willis Holt
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| Year | Fiction | Nonfiction | Translation | Young People's Literature | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2000 | In America
Susan Sontag
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Nathaniel Philbrick
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Homeless Bird
Gloria Whelan
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| 2001 | The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Andrew Solomon
Scribner |
True Believer
Virginia Euwer Wolff
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| 2002 | Three Junes
Julia Glass
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Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Robert A. Caro
Alfred A. Knopf |
The House of the Scorpion
Nancy Farmer
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| 2003 | The Great Fire
Shirley Hazzard
Farrar, Straus & Giroux (US), Virago (UK) |
Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
Carlos Eire
(Free Press/Simon & Schuster, Inc.) |
The Canning Season
Polly Horvath
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux) |
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| 2004 | The News from Paraguay
Lily Tuck
HarperCollinsPublishers |
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
Kevin Boyle
Henry Holt & Company, LLC |
Godless
Pete Hautman
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers |
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| 2005 | Europe Central
William T. Vollmann
Viking |
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion
Alfred A. Knopf |
The Penderwicks
Jeanne Birdsall
Alfred A. Knopf |
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| 2006 | The Echo Maker
Richard Powers
Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Timothy Egan
Houghton Mifflin |
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party
M.T. Anderson
Candlewick Press |
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| 2007 | Tree of Smoke
Denis Johnson
Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Tim Weiner
Doubleday |
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie
Little, Brown & Company |
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| 2008 | Shadow Country
Peter Matthiessen
Modern Library |
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
Annette Gordon-Reed
W.W. Norton & Company |
What I Saw and How I Lied
Judy Blundell
Scholastic |
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| 2009 | Let the Great World Spin
Colum McCann
Random House |
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
T. J. Stiles
Alfred A. Knopf |
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
Phillip Hoose
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
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| 2010 | Lord of Misrule
Jaimy Gordon
McPherson & Co. |
Just Kids
Patti Smith
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers |
Mockingbird
Kathryn Erskine
Philomel Books, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group |
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| 2011 | Salvage the Bones
Jesmyn Ward
Bloomsbury USA |
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Stephen Greenblatt
W. W. Norton & Company |
Inside Out and Back Again
Thanhha Lai
Harper |
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| 2012 | The Round House
Louise Erdrich
Harper |
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Katherine Boo
Random House |
Goblin Secrets
William Alexander
Margaret K. McElderry Books |
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| 2013 | The Good Lord Bird
James McBride
Riverhead Books/Penguin Group USA |
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
George Packer
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
The Thing About Luck
Cynthia Kadohata
Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster |
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| 2014 | Redeployment
Phil Klay
The Penguin Press/ Penguin Group (USA) |
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
Evan Osnos
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Brown Girl Dreaming
Jacqueline Woodson
Nancy Paulsen Books/ Penguin Group (USA) |
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| 2015 | Fortune Smiles: Stories
Adam Johnson
Random House |
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Spiegel & Grau/Penguin Random House |
Challenger Deep
Neal Shusterman
HarperCollins Children's Books |
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| 2016 | The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
Doubleday/Penguin Random House |
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Ibram X. Kendi
Nation Books |
March: Book Three
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin & Nate Powell (Artist)
Top Shelf |
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| 2017 | Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward
Scribner / Simon & Schuster |
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
Masha Gessen
Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House |
Far from the Tree
Robin Benway
HarperTeen / HarperCollinsPublishers |
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| 2018 | The Friend
Sigrid Nunez
Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House |
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
Jeffrey C. Stewart
Oxford University Press |
The Emissary
Yoko Tawada (Translated by Margaret Mitsutani)
New Directions Publishing |
The Poet X
Elizabeth Acevedo
HarperTeen / HarperCollins Publishers |
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| 2019 | Trust Exercise
Susan Choi
Henry Holt & Company / Macmillan Publishers |
The Yellow House
Sarah M. Broom
Grove Press / Grove Atlantic |
Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming
László Krasznahorkai (Translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet)
New Directions |
1919: The Year That Changed America
Martin W. Sandler
Bloomsbury Children’s Books / Bloomsbury Publishing |
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| 2020 | Interior Chinatown
Charles Yu
Pantheon Books / Penguin Random House |
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
Les Payne and Tamara Payne
Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company |
Tokyo Ueno Station
Yu Miri (Translated from the Japanese by Morgan Giles )
Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House |
King and the Dragonflies
Kacen Callender
Scholastic Press / Scholastic Inc. |
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| 2021 | Hell of a Book
Jason Mott
Dutton / Penguin Random House |
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Tiya Miles
Random House / Penguin Random House |
Winter in Sokcho
Elisa Shua Dusapin (Translated from the French by Aneesa Abbas Higgins)
Open Letter |
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Malinda Lo
Dutton Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House |
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| 2022 | The Rabbit Hutch
Tess Gunty
Alfred A. Knopf / Penguin Random House |
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Imani Perry
Ecco / HarperCollins Publishers |
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| 2023 | Blackouts
Justin Torres
Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers |
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
Ned Blackhawk
Yale University Press |
The Words That Remain
Stênio Gardel (Translated from the Portuguese by Bruna Dantas Lobato)
New Vessel Press |
A First Time for Everything
Dan Santat
First Second / Macmillan Publishers |
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| 2024 | James
Percival Everett
Doubleday / Penguin Random House |
Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
Jason De León
Viking Books / Penguin Random House |
Taiwan Travelogue
Yáng Shu?ng-z? (Translated from the Mandarin Chinese by Lin King)
Graywolf Press |
Kareem Between
Shifa Saltagi Safadi
G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House |
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| 2025 | The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
Rabih Alameddine
Grove Press / Grove Atlantic |
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad
Knopf / Penguin Random House |
We Are Green and Trembling
Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (Translated from the Spanish by Robin Myers)
New Directions Publishing |
The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story
Daniel Nayeri
Levine Querido |