| 2024 |
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Hanif Abdurraqib
Random House / Penguin Random House | A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery
Lawrence Ingrassia
Holt | Kent State: An American Tragedy
Brian VanDeMark
W. W. Norton | The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
Zoë Schlanger
Harper | Slaveroad
John Edgar Wideman
Scribner |
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John Lewis: A Life
David Greenberg
Simon & Schuster | Monet: The Restless Vision
Jackie Wullschläger
Knopf | Reagan: His Life and Legend
Max Boot
Liveright | The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
Adam Shatz
Farrar, Straus and Giroux | True Believer: Hubert Humphrey’s Quest for a More Just America
James Traub
Basic Books |
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Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
Tessa Hulls
MCD | Like a Sky Inside
Jakuta Alikavazovic, translated from the French by Daniel Levin Becker
Fern | Manboobs: A Memoir of Musicals, Visas, Hope, and Cake
Komail Aijazuddin
Abrams Press | My Good Bright Wolf: A Memoir
Sarah Moss
Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Women Surrounded by Water: A Memoir
Patricia Coral
Mad Creek |
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Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
Tiny Reparations Books / Penguin Random House | Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life
Sofia Samatar
Soft Skull | Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
Isabella Hammad
Black Cat | When The Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
John Ganz
Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Write like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals
Ronnie A. Grinberg
Princeton University |
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The Anthropologists
Ay?egül Sava?
Bloomsbury | Colored Television
Danzy Senna
Riverhead | Great Expectations
Vinson Cunningham
Hogarth | Sister Deborah
Scholastique Mukasonga, translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti
Archipelago | Small Rain
Garth Greenwell
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
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Holy Winter 20/21
Maria Stepanova, translated from the Russian by Sasha Dugdale
New Directions | Mourning a Breast
Xi Xi, translated from the Chinese by Jennifer Feeley
New York Review Books | A Muzzle for Witches
Dubravka Ugreši?, translated from the Croatian by Ellen Elias- Bursa?
Open Letter | Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel
Yoko Tawada, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky
New Directions | V13: Chronicle of a Trial
Emmanuel Carrère, translated from the French by John Lambert
Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Like a Sky Inside
Jakuta Alikavazovic, translated from the French by Daniel Levin Becker
Fern |
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| 2025 |
The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story
Brandy Schillace
W. W. Norton | Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Harper | A Return to Self: Excursions in Exile
Aatish Taseer
Catapult | Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness
Michael Koresky
Bloomsbury | Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America
Michael Luo
Doubleday |
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Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America
Sam Tanenhaus
Random House | Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography
Gregory Jusdanis and Peter Jeffreys
Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Sister, Sinner: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson
Claire Hoffman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
Sue Prideaux
W. W. Norton | William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love
Philip Hoare
Pegasus Books |
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Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
Margaret Atwood
Doubleday | The Broken King
Michael Thomas
Grove | I'll Tell You When I'm Home
Hala Alyan
Avid Reader Press | Twice Born: Finding My Father In the Margins of Biography
Hester Kaplan
Catapult | Things in Nature Merely Grow
Yiyun Li
Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers |
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Algorithm of the Night: Film Writing, 2019-2025
A.S. Hamrah
n+1 | Authority: Essays
Andrea Long Chu
Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Dismantling the Master's Clock: On Race, Space, and Time
Rasheedah Phillips
AK Press | Erik Satie Three Piece Suite
Ian Penman
Semiotext(e) | Medium Hot: Images in the Age of Heat
Hito Steyerl
Verso Books |
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The Book of Records
Madeleine Thien
W.W. Norton | Heart the Lover
Lily King
Grove | Long Distance
Ay?egül Sava?
Bloomsbury | Sea, Poison
Caren Beilin
New Directions | The South
Tash Aw
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
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Bodies Found in Various Places
Elvira Hernández, translated from the Spanish by Daniel Borzutzky and Alec Schumacher
Cardboard House | Gaza: The Poem Said Its Piece
Nasser Rabah, translated from the Arabic by Ammiel Alcalay, Emna Zghal and Khaled Al-Hilli
City Lights | The Ruins
Ye Hui, translated from the Chinese by Dong Li
Deep Vellum | Ugliness
Moshtari Hilal, translated from the German by Elisabeth Lauffer
New Vessel Press | Wickerwork
Christian Lehnert, translated from the German by Richard Sieburth
Archipelago | We Do Not Part
Han Kang (Translated from the Korean by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris)
Hogarth / Penguin Random House |
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