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Award Winners in 2016

US

Anthony
The Killing Kind by Chris Holm (novel)
Past Crimes by Glen Erik Hamilton (first novel)
The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney (original paperback novel)

Arthur C. Clarke
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers
In the Country by Mia Alvar (fiction)
Ghettoside by Jill Leovy (nonfiction)

Boston Globe-Horn Book
 Jazz Day by Roxane Orgill, illustrated by Francis Vallejo (picture book)
The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge (fiction)
Most Dangerous by Steve Sheinkin (nonfiction)

Caldecott
Finding Winnie  illustrated by Sophie Blackall and written by Lindsay Mattick

Carnegie
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (fiction)
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs by Sally Mann (nonfiction)

Center For Fiction First Novel
The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter by Kia Corthron

Dayton Literary Peace Prize
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (fiction)
Nagasaki by Susan Southard (nonfiction)

Edgar
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (first novel)
Let Me Die in His Footsteps by Lori Roy
The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney (paperback original)
A Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis (young adult)

FT/McKinsey Business Book
The Man Who Knew by Sebastian Mallaby

Hugo
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

IACP
The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science by J. Kenji Lòpez-Alt

Indies Choice
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff (fiction)
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (nonfiction)
Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal (debut)
Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriel Savit (young adult)
The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin (middle reader)
Mother Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins (picture book)

ITW Thriller
 The Fifth Gospel by Ian Caldwell (hardcover)
Bull Mountain by Brian Panowich (first novel)
Pretending to be Erica by Michelle Painchaud (YA)

James Beard
Zahav: A World of Israeli Cooking by Michael Solomonov and Steven Cook

Kirkus
The Sport of Kings by C.E. Morgan (fiction)
In the Darkroom by Susan Faludi (nonfiction)
As Brave As You by Jason Reynolds (children’s)

Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction
Marilynne Robinson

Los Angeles Times
The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli (fiction)
The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma (first fiction)
Thieves of State by Sarah Chayes (current interest)
Listening to Stone by Hayden Herrera (biography)
The Cartel by Don Winslow (mystery/thriller)
My Seneca Village by Marilyn Nelson (young adult)

National Book Award
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (fiction)
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi (nonfiction)
March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin & Nate Powell (young people’s literature)
The Performance of Becoming Human by Daniel Borzutzky (poetry)

NBCC
The Sellout, by Paul Beatty (fiction)
Dreamland, by Sam Quinones (nonfiction)
Romantic Outlaws, by Charlotte Gordon (biography)
Negroland, by Margo Jefferson (autobiography)
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, by Ross Gay (poetry)
The Argonauts, by Maggie Nelson (criticism)

National Book Foundation 5 Under 35
The Mothers by Brit Bennett
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Prodigals by Greg Jackson
Transoceanic Flights by S. Li
Hall of Small Mammals by Thomas Pierce

Newbery
Last Stop On Market Street by Matt de la Pena

NYPL Young Lions
Gutshot by Amelia Gray

PEN/ Robert W. Bingham (debut fiction)
In the Country by Mia Alvar

PEN/Faulkner
Delicious Foods by James Hannaham

PEN/Hemingway
Eileen by Otessa Moshfegh

Printz
Bone Gap by Laura Ruby

Pulitzer Prize
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (fiction)
Custer’s Trials by TJ Stiles (history)
Black Flags: The Rise of Isis by Joby Warrick (nonfiction)
Barbarian Days  by William Finnegan (biography)
Ozone Journal by Peter Balakian (poetry)

Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature
The Archive Thief by Lisa Moses Leff

Story Prize
Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson

Thurber
World’s Largest Man by Harrison Scott Key

INTERNATIONAL

Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction
East West Street by Philippe Sands

Booker
The Sellout by Paul Beatty

Booker International
The Vegetarian by Han Kang

Carnegie Medal
One by Sarah Crossan

Giller
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien

Governor Generals
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien (fiction)
A World We Have Lost by Bill Walser (nonfiction)

Greenaway Medal
The Sleeper and the Spindle by Chris Riddle

Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize
Crongton Knights by Alex Wheatle

IMPAC
Family Life by Akhil Sharma

James Tait Black
1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear by James Shapiro (nonfiction)
You Don’t Have to Live Like This by Benjamin Markovits

Nobel Prize in Literature
Bob Dylan (US)

Stella Prize
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood

Waterstones
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry

Wellcome Trust
It’s All in Your Head by Suzanne O’Sullivan

Woman’s Prize
The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney

Writer’s Trust
Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains by Yasuko Thanh

 

 

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