2017 Book Award Winners

Cora is enslaved on a Georgia cotton plantation, an outcast among the other enslaved people because her mother ran and left her. When Caesar, newly...

In February 1862 Abraham Lincoln's eleven year old son Willie died of typhoid, and Lincoln reportedly returned to the crypt more than once to hold...

Jojo is thirteen, growing up in Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, in the household that actually raises him: Pop, his grandfather, dignity itself,...

Teenage girls discover they can generate electricity from their hands. It hurts, it can kill, and once the older women are woken to it too the...

Reyna is a tattooed white single mother in Harlem with a four year old son, Oliver, and a boyfriend, Boyd, who is serving three months on Rikers...

Jende Jonga, an immigrant from Limbe in Cameroon, has spent years washing dishes and driving livery cabs in New York when, in the fall of 2007, he...

Matthew Desmond spent more than a year living in a trailer park and a rooming house on Milwaukee's poorest blocks to write Evicted, and the book...

Heather Ann Thompson's Blood in the Water reconstructs the Attica Prison uprising from the inside, beginning on September 9, 1971, when roughly...

This is Hisham Matar's own account of returning to Libya in 2012, after decades away, to search for the truth about his father Jaballa Matar, a...

The Future Is History tells how Russia, offered an open future in 1991, closed it again, and Masha Gessen tells it through seven lives instead of a...

France's history of the AIDS activist movement begins where he began, a young gay reporter in New York in 1981, covering a rumor of a new cancer,...

Testosterone Rex is Fine's name for the beast she means to hunt: the familiar story in which testosterone, acting on ancient evolutionary...

Olio constructs a sweeping, polyphonic portrait of Black performers working between the Civil War and the First World War, a period Tyehimba Jess...

Night Sky with Exit Wounds arrived as close to a legend as a poetry debut can: Ocean Vuong was born in Saigon in 1988, carried through a refugee...

Start with the warning that matters most: this is the second book of a trilogy and it makes no concessions to anyone who has not read the first....

The concluding volume of the Broken Earth, and it should not be read first. Essun has crossed a dying continent looking for her daughter and has...

An earthquake and avalanche on Mount Ararat crack open a cave high on the Turkish mountain, and inside is the find of the century: the timbers of...

Hope Arden is forgotten by everyone she meets within a minute or two of their looking away. It began when she was sixteen: her father forgot to...

A private jet lifts off from Martha's Vineyard in night fog with eleven aboard: David Bateman, founder of a combative cable news empire, his wife...

Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave their youngest baby in the forest as a sacrifice to the witch they believe haunts it, certain this...

Javaka Steptoe traces the childhood and early career of the painter Jean Michel Basquiat, from a boy in Brooklyn surrounded by his mother's...

Stevens has been butler at Darlington Hall for thirty years. In 1956, with the house sold to an American and the staff reduced to four, he takes...