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Award Winners in 2017

US

Anthony
A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny (novel)
IQ by Joe Ide (first novel)
Heart of Stone by James Ziskin (paperback original)

Arthur C. Clarke
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers
The Lightkeepers by Abby Geni (fiction)
Evicted by Matthew Desmond (nonfiction)

Boston Globe Horn
Freedom Over Me by Ashley Bryan (picture book)
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (fiction)
Vincent and Theo by Deborah Heiligman (nonficti0n)

Caldecott
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, illustrated and written by Javaka Steptoe

Carnegie
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (fiction)
Evicted by Matthew Desmond (nonfiction)

Center For Fiction First Novel
Mikhail and Margarita by Julie Lekstrom Himes

Dayton Literary Peace Prize
The Veins of the Ocean by Patricia Engel (fiction)
What Have We Done by David Wood (nonfiction)

Edgar
Under the Harrow by Flynn Berry (first novel)
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley (novel)
Rain Dogs by Adrian McKinty (paperback original)
Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse (young adult)

 FT/McKinsey Business Book
Janesville: An American Story by Amy Goldstein

Hugo
The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin

IACP
Deep Run Roots by Vivian Howard

Indies Choice
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (fiction)
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben (nonfiction)
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (debut)
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys (young adult)
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill (middle reader)
Du Iz Tak? by Carson Ellis (picture book)

ITW Thriller
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley (hardcover)
The Drifter by Nicholas Petrie (first novel)
Steeplejack by A. J. Hartley (YA)

James Beard
Victuals by Ronni Lundy

Kirkus
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah (fiction)
The Gulf  by Jack E. Davis (nonfiction)
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline (young readers)

Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction
Denis Johnson

Los Angeles Times
Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett (fiction)
The Nix by Nathan Hill (first fiction)
Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich (current interest)
Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939 by Volker Ullrich (biography)
Dodgers by Bill Beverly (mystery/thriller)
The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge (young adult)

National Book Award
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (fiction)
The Future Is History by Masha Gessen (nonfiction)
Far from the Tree by Robin Benway (young people)
Half-light by Frank Bidart (poetry)

National Book Foundation 5 Under 35
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: Stories by Lesley Nneka Arimah
Jillian by Halle Butler
What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons
When Watched: Stories by Leopoldine Core
Chemistry by Weike Wang

NBCC
LaRose by Louise Erdrich (fiction)
Evicted by Matthew Desmond (nonfiction)
Shirley Jackson by Ruth Franklin (biography)
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren (autobiography)
House of Lords and Commons by Ishion Hutchinson (poetry)
White Rage by Carol Anderson (criticism)

Newbery
The Girl Who Drank the Moon, by Kelly Barnhill

NYPL Young Lions
The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan

PEN/Faulkner
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

PEN/Hemingway
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

PEN/ Jean Stein
The Return by Hisham Matar

PEN/ Robert W. Bingham (debut fiction)
Insurrections by Rion Amilcar Scott

Printz
March: Book Three, written by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, illustrated by Nate Powell

Pulitzer Prize
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (fiction)
Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson (history)
Evicted by Matthew Desmond (nonfiction)
The Return by Hisham Matar (biography)
Olio by Tyehimba Jess (poetry)

Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature
Ways to Disappear by Idra Novey

Story Prize
For a Little While by Rick Bass

Thurber
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

INTERNATIONAL

Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction
How to Survive a Plague by David France

Booker
Lincoln In the Bardo by George Saunders

Booker International
A Horse Walks Into a Bar by David Grossman

Carnegie Medal
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

Costa
Inside the Wave by Helen Dunmore

Folio Prize
The Return by Hisham Matar

Giller
Bellevue Square by Michael Redhill

Governor Generals
We’ll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night by Joel Thomas Hynes (fiction)
The Way of the Strangers by Graeme Wood

Greenaway Medal
There is a Tribe of Kids by Lane Smith

James Tait Black
The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride (fiction)
The Vanishing Man by Laura Cummings (nonfiction)

Nobel Prize in Literature
Kazuo Ishiguro

Stella Prize
The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose

Waterstones
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry

Wellcome Trust
Mend the Living by Maylis de Kerangal

Woman’s Prize
The Power by Naomi Alderman

Writer’s Trust
Brother by David Chariandy (fiction)
Life on the Ground Floor by James Maskalyk (nonfiction)

 

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