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Award Winners in 2018

US

Anthony
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke (novel)
Hollywood Homicide by Kellye Garrett (first novel)
The Day I Died by Lori Rader-Day

Arthur C. Clarke
Dreams Before the Start of Time by Anne Charnock

Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers
Sorry to Disrupt the Peace by Patty Yumi Cottrell (fiction)
Nomadland by Jessica Bruder (nonfiction)

Boston Globe – Horn Book
They Say Blue by Jillian Tamaki (picture book)
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (fiction)
Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide by Isabel Quintero (nonfiction)

Caldecott
Wolf in the Snow by Matthew Cordell

Carnegie
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan (fiction)
You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie (nonfiction)

Center For Fiction First Novel
There There by Tommy Orange

Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Salt Houses by Hala Alyan (fiction)
We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates (nonfiction)

Edgar
She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper (first novel)
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke (novel)
The Unseeing by Anna Mazzola (paperback original)
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (young adult)

FT/McKinsey Business Book
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

Hugo
The Stone Sky, by N.K. Jemisin

Indies Choice
Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward (fiction)
Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann (nonfiction)
Her Body and Other Parties, by Carmen Maria Machado (debut)
The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas (young adult)
Wishtree, by Katherine Applegate (middle reader)
The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse, by Mac Barnett, Jon Klassen (picture book)

ITW Thriller
Final Girls by Riley Sager (hardcover)
The Freedom Broker by K.J. Howe (first novel)
Grievance by Christine Bell (paperback novel)

James Beard
The Cooking Gene by Michael Twitty

Kirkus
Severance by Ling Ma (fiction)
Call Them by Their True Names by Rebecca Solnit (nonfiction)
Crown by Derrick Barnes

Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction
Annie Proulx

Los Angeles Times
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (fiction)
Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang (first fiction)
Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean (current interest)
Henry David Thoreau by Laura Dassow Walls (biography)
A Book of American Martyrs by Joyce Carol Oates (mystery/thriller)
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (young adult)

National Book Award
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez (fiction)
The New Negro by Jeffrey C. Stewart (nonfiction)
Indecency by Justin Phillip Reed (poetry)
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (YA)

National Book Foundation 5 Under 35
Sonora by Hannah Lillith Assadi
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
The Golden State by Lydia Kiesling
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Sadness Is a White Bird by Moriel Rothman-Zecher

NBCC
Improvement by Joan Silber (fiction)
The Evangelicals by Frances FitzGerald (nonfiction)
Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser (biography)
Nine Continents by Xiaolu Guo (autobiography)
Whereas by Layli Long Soldier (poetry)
You Play The Girl by Carina Chocano (criticism)

Newbery
Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly

NYPL Young Lions
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah

PEN/Faulkner
Improvement by Joan Silber

PEN/Hemingway
Chemistry by Weike Wang

PEN/Jean Stein
Whereas by Layli Long Soldier

PEN/Robert W. Bingham
Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang

Printz
We Are Okay by Nina Lacour

Pulitzer Prize
Less by Andrew Sean Greer (fiction)
The Gulf by Jack E. Davis (history)
Locking Up Our Own by James Forman Jr. (nonfiction)
Prairie Fires by Carolyn Fraser (biography)
Half Light by Frank Bidart (poetry)

Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature
If All the Seas Were Ink by Ilana Kurshan

Story Prize
Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout

Thurber
Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood

INTERNATIONAL

Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy

Booker
Milkman by Anna Burns

Booker International
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk

Carnegie Medal
Where the World Ends by Geraldine McCaughrean

Costa
The Cut Out Girl by Bart van Es

Folio Prize
Ghosts of The Tsunami by Richard Lloyd Parry

Giller
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

Governor Generals
The Red Word by Sarah Henstra
Mamaskatch by Darrel J. McLeod

Greenaway Medal
Town Is by the Sea by Sydney Smith

James Tait Black
Attrib. and Other Stories by Eley Williams

New Academy Prize (replaces the Nobel Prize this year)
Maryse Conde

Nobel Prize in Literature
Olga Tokarczuk (awarded in 2019)

Stella Prize
Tracker by Alexis Wright

Waterstones
Normal People by Sally Rooney

Wellcome Trust
To Be A Machine by Mark O’Connell

Woman’s Prize
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie

Writer’s Trust
Dear Evelyn by Kathy Page

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