2024 Book Award Winners

In 1874 a woman and her twelve year old daughter arrive at the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia, delivered there by the...

Six people are aboard the International Space Station for one day. Four astronauts and two cosmonauts, from countries that are not on good terms,...

Everett retells Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the point of view of the man Twain called Jim, and the first thing he changes is the voice. In...

Sashi is sixteen in Jaffna in 1981, and her ambition is simple and enormous: medical school, like her adored eldest brother. The novel gives her...

Khaled Abd al Hady leaves Benghazi in 1983, still in his teens, to study at the University of Edinburgh, and never goes home. At Edinburgh he...

Twelve years ago, thirteen year old Ruthy Ramirez left track practice on Staten Island after an argument with a friend and never came home. Her...

Nathan Thrall builds the book around a single event, a school bus carrying kindergarteners that crashed and burned on a highway outside Jerusalem...

Jacqueline Jones recovers the working lives of Boston's free Black residents in the years before, during and after the Civil War, setting that...

Jonathan Eig follows Martin Luther King Jr. from his birth in Atlanta in January 1929, into a Morehouse College education finished at nineteen, and...

Ilyon Woo follows Ellen and William Craft from slavery in Macon, Georgia, into the escape they planned together over Christmas 1848, one of the...

Soldiers and Kings is a rare book length ethnography of the people who move migrants for money, and it takes readers where no journalist embed had...

The title comes from a Chekhov schoolbook problem that dissolves into absurdity, and Flanagan's book is built the same way: a question, roughly,...

The Weinersmiths began this book as space settlement enthusiasts, intending a cheerful guide to humanity's multiplanetary future, and their...

Tripas listens for the overlapping rhythms of Brandon Som's Mexican and Chinese family histories, set against the labor and language of the...

Fierce Elegy is the distillation of Peter Gizzi's lifelong subject, which is what the lyric poem can do with loss, and its title is an honest...

Kyr has spent her whole life on Gaea Station, a military rock crewed by the last few thousand humans. She is the best cadet of her generation, bred...

Shesheshen is a shapeshifting monster who lives in the ruins under a hill, sleeps through winters, eats the occasional monster hunter, and builds...

Twenty years ago, every soul on one suburban block, Velkwood Street, turned to ghosts in a single night, the dead going on with their routines...

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

Louisiana, autumn 1863: the Mississippi is Union, New Orleans and Baton Rouge occupied, the Confederacy west of the river a rotting apparatus of...

Johannes is a dog who runs free through a park beside the sea, so fast that the humans who visit the park barely register him as he passes, and he...

A young Black girl starts out entirely comfortable in her own body, until the day she gets stuck in a playground swing built for someone smaller...

Yeong-hye is an unremarkable Seoul homemaker who does part time graphic work, by her husband Mr Cheong's own flat, unsentimental account, until a...