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Awards List

2022

Fiona and Jane: Stories
(Winner)
Jean Chen Ho

30 Things I Love About Myself
(*)
Radhika Sanghani

Devil House
(*)
John Darnielle

Good Rich People
(*)
Eliza Jane Brazier

How High We Go in the Dark
(*)
Sequoia Nagamatsu

The School for Good Mothers
(*)
Jessamine Chan

Shit Cassandra Saw
(*)
Gwen E. Kirby

Don't Say We Didn't Warn You
(*)
Ariel Delgado Dixon

Notes on an Execution
(*)
Danya Kukafka

Very Cold People
(*)
Sarah Manguso

Where I Can't Follow
(*)
Ashley Blooms

Disorientation
(*)
Elaine Hsieh Chou

The Last Suspicious Holdout
(*)
Ladee Hubbard

When We Were Birds
(*)
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

The Candy House
(*)
Jennifer Egan

End of the World House
(*)
Adrienne Celt

Nobody Gets Out Alive: Stories
(*)
Leigh Newman

Sea of Tranquility
(*)
Emily St. John Mandel

The Hacienda
(*)
Isabel Canas

Jameela Green Ruins Everything
(*)
Zarqa Nawaz

Remarkably Bright Creatures
(*)
Shelby Van Pelt

This Time Tomorrow
(*)
Emma Straub

Trust
(*)
Hernan Diaz

When We Fell Apart
(*)
Soon Wiley

You Have a Friend in 10A: Stories
(*)
Maggie Shipstead

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
(*)
Akwaeke Emezi

Counterfeit
(*)
Kirstin Chen

Lapvona
(*)
Ottessa Moshfegh

The Latecomer
(*)
Jean Hanff Korelitz

On Rotation
(*)
Shirlene Obuobi

Fire Season
(*)
Leyna Krow

The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
(*)
Jamil Jan Kochai

Human Blues
(*)
Elisa Albert

Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
(*)
Maddie Mortimer

Thrust
(*)
Lidia Yuknavitch

The Last Housewife
(*)
Ashley Winstead

Mika in Real Life
(*)
Emiko Jean

Mother In the Dark
(*)
Kayla Maiuri

Stories from The Tenants Downstairs
(*)
Sidik Fofana

Bliss Montage: Stories
(*)
Ling Ma

Less Is Lost
(*)
Andrew Sean Greer

On the Rooftop
(*)
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

Best of Friends
(*)
Kamila Shamsie

Demon Copperhead
(*)
Barbara Kingsolver

River Woman, River Demon
(*)
Jennifer Givhan

Flight
(*)
Lynn Steger Strong

Now Is Not the Time to Panic
(*)
Kevin Wilson

A Dangerous Business
(*)
Jane Smiley

2021

Sorrow and Bliss
(*)
Meg Mason

Girl A
(*)
Abigail Dean

Klara and the Sun
(*)
Kazuo Ishiguro

The Lamplighters
(*)
Emma Stonex

Early Morning Riser
(*)
Katherine Heiny

The High House
(*)
Jessie Greengrass

Great Circle
(*)
Maggie Shipstead

My Phantoms
(*)
Gwendoline Riley

Second Place
(*)
Rachel Cusk

Unsettled Ground
(*)
Claire Fuller

Still Life
(*)
Sarah Winman

Before You Knew My Name
(*)
Jacqueline Bublitz

I Couldn't Love You More
(*)
Esther Freud

The Paper Palace
(*)
Miranda Cowley Heller

Assembly
(*)
Natasha Brown (1)

Bewilderment
(*)
Richard Powers

Lean Fall Stand
(*)
Jon McGregor

Crossroads
(*)
Jonathan Franzen

Oh William!
(*)
Elizabeth Strout

2020

Dreamland
(*)
Nancy Bilyeau

Little Gods
(*)
Meng Jin

Long Bright River
(*)
Liz Moore

A Long Petal of the Sea
(*)
Isabel Allende

Such a Fun Age
(*)
Kiley Reid

Topics of Conversation
(*)
Miranda Popkey

And I Do Not Forgive You
(*)
Amber Sparks

The Mercies
(*)
Kiran Millwood Hargrave

The Regrets
(*)
Amy Bonnaffons

The Sun Down Motel
(*)
Simone St. James

Weather
(*)
Jenny Offill

Darling Rose Gold
(*)
Stephanie Wrobel

Deacon King Kong
(*)
James McBride

The Glass Hotel
(*)
Emily St. John Mandel

The Herd
(*)
Andrea Bartz

My Dark Vanessa
(*)
Kate Elizabeth Russell

The Night Watchman
(*)
Louise Erdrich

Sharks in the Time of Saviors
(*)
Kawai Strong Washburn

Writers & Lovers
(*)
Lily King

The Book of Longings
(*)
Sue Monk Kidd

Godshot
(*)
Chelsea Bieker

How Much of These Hills Is Gold
(*)
C. Pam Zhang

It's Not All Downhill from Here
(*)
Terry McMillan

The Moment of Tenderness
(*)
Madeleine L'engle

All Adults Here
(*)
Emma Straub

Glorious Boy
(*)
Aimee Liu

Tiny Imperfections
(*)
Alli Frank; Asha Youmans

A Burning
(*)
Megha Majumdar

Death in Her Hands
(*)
Ottessa Moshfegh

The Vanishing Half
(*)
Brit Bennett

You Exist Too Much
(*)
Zaina Arafat

Home Before Dark
(*)
Riley Sager

Every Bone a Prayer
(*)
Ashley Blooms

I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
(*)
Laura Van Den Berg

It Is Wood, It Is Stone
(*)
Gabriella Burnham

Luster
(*)
Raven Leilani

Sisters
(*)
Daisy Johnson

The Lying Life of Adults
(*)
Elena Ferrante

Monogamy
(*)
Sue Miller

Transcendent Kingdom
(*)
Yaa Gyasi

What Are You Going Through
(*)
Sigrid Nunez

When No One Is Watching
(*)
Alyssa Cole

Just Like You
(*)
Nick Hornby

The Return
(*)
Nicholas Sparks

Memorial
(*)
Bryan Washington

The Office of Historical Corrections
(*)
Danielle Evans

2019

Inland
(Winner)
Tea Obreht

As Long as We Both Shall Live
(*)
Joann Chaney

The Water Cure
(*)
Sophie Mackintosh

American Spy
(*)
Lauren Wilkinson

The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
(*)
Anissa Gray

Daisy Jones & The Six
(*)
Taylor Jenkins Reid

My Lovely Wife
(*)
Samantha Downing

Women Talking
(*)
Miriam Toews

City of Girls
(*)
Elizabeth Gilbert

The Testaments
(*)
Margaret Atwood

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