Kirkus Prize - Fiction (Awarded by Kirkus)

Awards List

2023

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
(Winner)
James McBride

Birnam Wood
(Finalist)
Eleanor Catton

White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
(Finalist)
Kelly Link

The Bee Sting
(Finalist)
Paul Murray

Witness: Stories
(Finalist)
Jamel Brinkley

Let Us Descend
(Finalist)
Jesmyn Ward

2022

Trust
(Winner)
Hernan Diaz

The Books of Jacob
(Finalist)
Olga Tokarczuk

Mecca
(Finalist)
Susan Straight

Scattered All Over the Earth
(Finalist)
Yoko Tawada

Scary Monsters
(Finalist)
Michelle de Kretser

God's Children Are Little Broken Things
(Finalist)
Arinze Ifeakandu

2021

Harrow
(Winner)
Joy Williams

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
(Finalist)
Mariana Enriquez

Bolla
(Finalist)
Pajtim Statovci

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
(Finalist)
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

Harlem Shuffle
(Finalist)
Colson Whitehead

My Monticello: Fiction
(Finalist)
Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

2019

The Nickel Boys
(Winner)
Colson Whitehead

Territory of Light
(Finalist)
Yuko Tsushima

Lost Children Archive
(Finalist)
Valeria Luiselli

The Other Americans
(Finalist)
Laila Lalami

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
(Finalist)
Ocean Vuong

Cantoras
(Finalist)
Carolina De Robertis

2018

Severance
(Winner)
Ling Ma

Halsey Street
(Finalist)
Naima Coster

Heads of the Colored People: Stories
(Finalist)
Nafissa Thompson-Spires

Mourning
(Finalist)
Eduardo Halfon

Florida
(Finalist)
Lauren Groff

Tell the Machine Goodnight
(Finalist)
Katie Williams

2017

What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: Stories
(Winner)
Lesley Nneka Arimah

Exit West
(Finalist)
Mohsin Hamid

White Tears
(Finalist)
Hari Kunzru

The Ninth Hour
(Finalist)
Alice McDermott

Sing, Unburied, Sing
(Finalist)
Jesmyn Ward

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
(Finalist)
Carmen Maria Machado

2016

The Sport of Kings
(Winner)
C.E. Morgan

Imagine Me Gone
(Finalist)
Adam Haslett

Barkskins
(Finalist)
Annie Proulx

Carousel Court
(Finalist)
Joe McGinniss Jr.

A Gentleman in Moscow
(Finalist)
Amor Towles

The Underground Railroad
(Finalist)
Colson Whitehead

2015

A Little Life
(Winner)
Hanya Yanagihara

A Little Life
(Finalist)
Hanya Yanagihara

The Book of Aron
(Finalist)
Jim Shepard

The Incarnations
(Finalist)
Susan Barker

A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
(Finalist)
Lucia Berlin

Fates and Furies
(Finalist)
Lauren Groff

The Story of My Teeth
(Finalist)
Valeria Luiselli

2014

Euphoria
(Winner)
Lily King

All Our Names
(Finalist)
Dinaw Mengestu

The Blazing World
(Finalist)
Siri Hustvedt

Florence Gordon
(Finalist)
Brian Morton

The Paying Guests
(Finalist)
Sarah Waters

The Remedy for Love
(Finalist)
Bill Roorbach

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Young Readers

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