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Award Winners in 2015

US

Anthony
After I’m Gone by Laura Lippman (novel)
The Black Hour by Lori Rader-Day (first novel)
The Day She Died by Catriona McPherson (paperback original novel)

Arthur C. Clarke
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers
All The Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld (fiction)
Badluck Way by Bryce Andrews (nonfiction)

Boston Globe-Horn Book
Mr. Tiger Goes Wild by Peter Brown (picture book)
Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith (fiction)
The Port Chicago 50 by Steve Sheinkin (nonfiction)

Caldecott
The Adventures of Beekle by Dan Santat

Carnegie
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (fiction)
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (nonfiction)

Center For Fiction First Novel
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Dayton Literary Peace Prize
The Great Glass Sea by Josh Weil (fiction)
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (nonfiction)

Edgar
Dry Bones in the Valley, by Tom Bouman (first novel)
Mr. Mercedes, by Stephen King (novel)
The Secret History of Las Vegas, by Chris Abani (paperback original)
The Art of Secrets by James Klise (young adult)

FT/McKinsey Business Book
The Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford

Guggenheim-Lehman Prize in Military History
Ring of Steel by Alexander Watson

Hayek Book Prize
The Forgotten Depression: 1921: The Crash that Cured Itself by James Grant

Hugo
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

IACP
A New Napa Cuisine by Christopher Kostow

Indie Choice
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (fiction)
The Martian by Andy Weir (debut fiction)
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande (nonfiction)
The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black (young adult)
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (middle grade)
Sam and Dave Dig a Hole by Mac Barnett & Jon Klassen (picture book)

ITW Thriller
The Fever by Megan Abbott (hardcover)
The Weight of Blood by Laura McHugh (first novel)
Nearly Gone by Elle Cosimano (YA)

James Beard
Yucatán by David Sterling (cookbook of the year)

Kirkus
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (fiction)
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (nonfiction)
Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan (children’s)

Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction
Louise Erdrich

Los Angeles Times
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt (fiction)
Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli (first fiction)
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs (current interest)
Napoleon: A  Life by Andrew Roberts (biography)
Dry Bones in the Valley by Tom Bouman (mystery/thriller)
The Family Romanov by Candace Fleming (young adult)

National Book Award
Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson (fiction)
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates (nonfiction)
Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman (young people’s literature)
Voyage of the Sable Venus by Robin Coste Lewis (poetry)

NBCC
Redeployment by Phil Klay (John Leonard Award for outstanding first book)
Lila by Marilynne Robinson (fiction)
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation by David Brion Davis (nonfiction)
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr (biography)
Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast (autobiography)
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine (poetry)
The Essential Ellen Willis by Ellen Willis (criticism)

National Book Foundation 5 Under 35
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
Young Skins by Colin Barrett
The Hopeful by Tracy O’Neill
Call Me Home by Megan Kruse
Fra Keeler by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

Newbery
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander

NYPL Young Lions
The Un-Americans by Molly Antopol

PEN/Faulkner
Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish

PEN/Hemingway
Elegy on Kinderklavier by Arna Bontemps Hemenway

PEN/ Robert W. Bingham (debut fiction)
The Dog by Jack Livings

Printz
I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

Pulitzer Prize
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (fiction)
Encounters at the Heart of the World by Elizabeth A. Fenn (history)
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert (nonfiction)
The Pope and Mussolini by David I. Kertzer (biography)
Digest by Gregory Pardlo (poetry)

Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature
The Best Place on Earth: Stories by Ayelet Tsabari

Story Prize
Thunderstruck by Elizabeth McCracken

Thurber
Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher

INTERNATIONAL

Booker
A Brief History In Seven Killings by Marlon James

Booker International
László Krasznahorkai

Carnegie Medal
Buffalo Soldier by Tanya Landman

Costa
H Is For Hawk by Helen Macdonald

Folio Prize
Family Life by Akhil Sharma

Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize
A Song for Ella Grey by David Almond

Giller
Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis

Governor Generals
Daddy Lenin and Other Stories by Guy Vanderhaeghe (fiction)
Bee Time by Mark L. Winston (nonfiction)

IMPAC
Harvest by Jim Crace

James Tait Black
In the Light of What We Know by Zia Haider Rahman (fiction)
The Valley by Richard Benson (nonfiction)

Kate Greenaway Medal
Shackleton’s Journey by William Grill

Nobel Prize in Literature
Svetlana Alexievich (Belarus)

Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction
Neurotribes by Steve Silberman

Stella Prize
The Stray by Emily Bitto

Waterstones
The Fox and the Star by Coralie Bickford-Smith

Wellcome Trust
The Iceberg by Marion Coutts

Woman’s Prize
How To Be Both by Ali Smith

Writer’s Trust
Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis

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