2023 Book Award Winners

Damon Fields, called Demon for his red hair, is born on the floor of a single wide trailer in Lee County, Virginia, to a teenage mother who does...

Trust is four documents that disagree about the same marriage. The first is a novel called Bonds, published in 1937, about a financier of uncanny...

It opens with a knock at the door. Two men from the newly formed secret police want to speak to Eilish Stack's husband, a trade union official. He...

A young man the dying call Nene arrives at the Palace, a crumbling refuge somewhere in the desert, to sit the deathwatch of Juan Gay, an old queer...

Damon Fields, called Demon for his red hair, is born on the floor of a single wide trailer in Lee County, Virginia, to a teenage mother who does...

Finn is a high school teacher, suspended from his job in the Midwest, who comes to a hospice in the Bronx to sit with his older brother Max, who is...

In 1966 Agnès, married to an American named Earl and living in Pennsylvania, learns from a postscript to her mother's letter that her childhood...

Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa set out to write a full biography of a man most of the world knew only from the final minutes of his life,...

Jefferson Cowie tells nearly two centuries of American history through one place, Barbour County, Alabama, tracing how its white residents...

Beverly Gage follows J. Edgar Hoover from his start in the Justice Department in 1917, heading the Alien Enemy Bureau during the First World War,...

The Rediscovery of America is a retelling of five centuries of American history with Native nations restored to the center, and its argument is...

In May 2016 a wildfire walked into Fort McMurray, Alberta, the boomtown capital of the tar sands, and made ninety thousand people run for their...

Every animal lives inside its own sensory bubble, perceiving the slice of reality its equipment reveals and nothing else, a concept, the Umwelt,...

Then the War gathers more than a decade of Carl Phillips's work, drawing selected poems together into a single retrospective volume that lets a...

Self-Portrait as Othello takes Shakespeare's Moor of Venice out of the play and wears him: Jason Allen-Paisant uses Othello as mask, mirror, and...

Marra is the third daughter of a small kingdom that survives because a larger neighbor wants its harbor. Her eldest sister was married to the...

Fetter was raised by his mother to kill his father. She removed his shadow at birth, trained him in the disciplines of assassination, and taught...

Gracetown, Florida, 1950. Robbie Stephens Jr is twelve when he kicks a white teenager for harassing his sister Gloria, and the county's machinery...

Miscellaneous Stones, called Lanie, is the daughter of the Royal Assassin and the Chief Executioner of Liriat, born into a family of assassins and...

Ansel Packer dies on schedule, and the novel opens twelve hours before, inside his countdown: the death row breakfast, the manifesto he believes...

Twelve year old Homer and his younger sister Ada flee an enslaved life on the Southerland plantation, jumping into a river to escape the men...

A red dachshund lives with its owner in a cramped New York City apartment, and on one brutally hot day the two of them head out into the city...

An aging painter named Asle lives alone on the western coast of Norway with his dog, largely cut off from other people, working on an unfinished...