2018 Book Award Winners

Arthur Less is a novelist of modest reputation about to turn fifty. His partner of nine years has become engaged to someone else and has sent an...

An eighteen year old woman, named only as middle sister, walks around reading nineteenth century novels and is noticed by a much older paramilitary...

A writer's oldest friend, her teacher and lifelong complicated love, kills himself, and among the things he leaves unresolved is Apollo, a...

Isma Pasha has spent her twenties raising her twin siblings in Wembley after their mother's death, their jihadi father having died en route to...

An eighteen year old woman, named only as middle sister, walks around reading nineteenth century novels and is noticed by a much older paramilitary...

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...

James Forman Jr. spent years as a public defender in Washington, D.C. before writing Locking Up Our Own, and the book grew directly out of a...

Jack E. Davis writes an environmental history of the Gulf of Mexico that begins with its geological formation and carries the story to the present...

Caroline Fraser follows Laura Ingalls Wilder from a pioneer childhood far harder than the Little House books ever let on, a family that moved...

The New Negro is Jeffrey C. Stewart's monumental biography of Alain Locke, the philosopher who midwifed the Harlem Renaissance, and it restores to...

At 1.23 in the morning of 26 April 1986, during a safety test run behind schedule and against protocol, reactor number four at the Chernobyl...

Blakemore's opening move is to take the most mocked demographic on earth and declare the mockery a scientific error. The teenage brain is not a...

This collected volume gathers Frank Bidart's work across five decades, from 1965 to 2016, into a single career spanning book that lets a reader...

Three Poems is exactly what its title says, and the plainness is the provocation: Hannah Sullivan's debut consists of three long poems, each...

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...

On a cold morning in March 1952 a meteorite hits the water off the coast of Maryland and destroys Washington and most of the eastern seaboard. Elma...

Seven year old Wen is catching grasshoppers in front of a remote New Hampshire lake cabin while her fathers, Eric and Andrew, relax inside, when a...

Jade City is a gangster novel set in Janloon, the capital of Kekon, an island nation in an invented world with cars, televisions and guns. Kekon is...

Apollo Kagwa is a rare book dealer in New York, whose own father disappeared when he was a boy. He marries Emma Valentine, a librarian, and their...

Darren Mathews is a Black Texas Ranger raised by twin uncles who embodied the region's two answers to being a Black man in law country, one a...

Four middle schoolers whose lives would otherwise never intersect converge over a single day in this novel, which moves between their perspectives...

A young girl walking home through a heavy snowstorm becomes separated from her family at the same time that a wolf cub loses track of its own pack...

Flights has no single story to follow. Olga Tokarczuk builds the novel out of roughly a hundred fragments, some no longer than a paragraph, others...