2015 Book Award Winners

Marie-Laure LeBlanc is blind, and her father, a locksmith at the Museum of Natural History in Paris, builds her a scale model of their neighborhood...

In December 1976, two days before a free concert intended to calm Jamaica's election violence, seven gunmen walked into Bob Marley's house on Hope...

Six long stories, each built on a premise most writers would flinch from, each carried to its human conclusion with unnerving tenderness. In...

One half of this novel belongs to George, a fiercely clever sixteen year old in Cambridge whose mother has suddenly died, leaving her with a...

The narrator, known as Bonbon, grew up in Dickens, a poor and agricultural corner of Los Angeles, raised by a father who conducted psychological...

Zou Lei is an undocumented immigrant from Xinjiang, in the far west of China, the daughter of a Uighur mother and a Han Chinese father. She comes...

Elizabeth Kolbert argues that the planet is living through a sixth mass extinction, driven this time not by an asteroid or a shift in the climate...

Elizabeth Fenn's Encounters at the Heart of the World tells the history of the Mandan, a Native nation that farmed and traded for centuries along...

David Kertzer builds his account of Pope Pius XI, a former Vatican librarian and expert mountaineer elected pope in 1922, around one of the most...

Between the World and Me is written as a letter from Ta-Nehisi Coates to his fifteen year old son Samori, in the year of Ferguson and the non...

Silberman's history begins with a puzzle from his reporting years: why did Silicon Valley seem to be full of autistic children? The answer he found...

Vince begins with the scientific proposal that gives the book its title: that humanity has ended the Holocene and begun a new geological epoch, the...

Digest takes its title from Gregory Pardlo's own account of the book's method: he began the collection in 2004 as an effort to mesh academic and...

Loop of Jade did something no book had done in the T.S. Eliot Prize's twenty two years: it won as a debut. Sarah Howe was born in Hong Kong to an...

It opens during the Cultural Revolution, with a physicist beaten to death at a struggle session in front of his daughter for teaching relativity....

Every ten years the wizard called the Dragon takes a seventeen year old girl from the valley. She serves in his tower for a decade and comes back...

The Barrett family of Beverly, Massachusetts came apart on television. Fourteen year old Marjorie began to change, voices, threats, blasphemies,...

The Bone Clocks follows Holly Sykes from 1984 to 2043 in six sections told by five narrators. In the first, Holly is fifteen, from Gravesend, and...

In the gray hour before a job fair opens, in a Midwestern city the recession has already beaten, a stolen Mercedes accelerates into the waiting...

Josh Bell is twelve, plays basketball with his twin brother Jordan, and narrates the whole novel in verse. He calls himself Filthy McNasty, he can...

Beekle is born on a distant island where imaginary friends wait, sometimes for a very long time, to be imagined and named by an actual child...

Alexievich spent years interviewing the people the Chernobyl disaster happened to, and then removed herself from the result. What remains is a book...