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Awards List

2021

Cloud Cuckoo Land
(Winner)
Anthony Doerr

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
(*)
Mariana Enriquez

Infinite Country
(*)
Patricia Engel

The Man Who Lived Underground
(*)
Richard Wright

Great Circle
(*)
Maggie Shipstead

The Sweetness of Water
(*)
Nathan Harris

Intimacies
(*)
Katie Kitamura

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

Mrs. March
(*)
Virginia Feito

Bewilderment
(*)
Richard Powers

Harlem Shuffle
(*)
Colson Whitehead

Crossroads
(*)
Jonathan Franzen

The Lincoln Highway
(*)
Amor Towles

New York, My Village
(*)
Uwem Akpan

The Sentence
(*)
Louise Erdrich

2020

A Beautiful Crime
(*)
Christopher Bollen

Deacon King Kong
(*)
James McBride

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

Little Eyes
(*)
Samanta Schweblin

The Boy in the Field
(*)
Margot Livesey

Luster
(*)
Raven Leilani

A Girl Is a Body of Water
(*)
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Homeland Elegies
(*)
Ayad Akhtar

The Lying Life of Adults
(*)
Elena Ferrante

What Are You Going Through
(*)
Sigrid Nunez

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
(*)
V.E. Schwab

Plain Bad Heroines
(*)
Emily M. Danforth

The Cold Millions
(*)
Jess Walter

The Office of Historical Corrections
(*)
Danielle Evans

To Be a Man
(*)
Nicole Krauss

2019

The Water Dancer
(Winner)
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Lost Children Archive
(*)
Valeria Luiselli

Normal People
(*)
Sally Rooney

Rules for Visiting
(*)
Jessica Francis Kane

Patsy
(*)
Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn

Maggie Brown & Others: Stories
(*)
Peter Orner

The Need
(*)
Helen Phillips

Doxology
(*)
Nell Zink

The Dutch House
(*)
Ann Patchett

Red at the Bone
(*)
Jacqueline Woodson

Grand Union: Stories
(*)
Zadie Smith

Olive, Again
(*)
Elizabeth Strout

2018

Asymmetry
(Winner)
Lisa Halliday

Pretend I'm Dead
(*)
Jen Beagin

The Labyrinth of the Spirits
(*)
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Everything Here Is Beautiful
(*)
Mira T. Lee

An American Marriage
(*)
Tayari Jones

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

The Overstory
(*)
Richard Powers

There There
(*)
Tommy Orange

How to Love a Jamaican
(*)
Alexia Arthurs

Clock Dance
(*)
Anne Tyler

Lake Success
(*)
Gary Shteyngart

Unsheltered
(*)
Barbara Kingsolver

The Feral Detective
(*)
Jonathan Lethem

Those Who Knew
(*)
Idra Novey

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