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Award Winners in 2019

US

Anthony
November Road by Lou Berney (William Morrow) (novel)
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (Doubleday) (first novel)
Under a Dark Sky by Lori Rader-Day (William Morrow Paperbacks) (paperback original)

Arthur C. Clarke
Rosewater by Tade Thompson (Orbit)

Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers
Only Killers and Thieves by Paul Howarth (fiction)
Heavy by Kiese Laymon (nonfiction)

Boston Globe – Horn Book
The Patchwork Bike by Maxine Beneba Clarke (Candlewick) (picture book)
The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon (Wendy Lamb Books) (fiction)
This Promise of Change by Jo Ann Allen Boyce and Debbie Levy (Bloomsbury) (nonfiction)

Caldecott
Hello Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall

Carnegie
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai (fiction)
Heavy by Kiese Laymon (nonfiction)

Center For Fiction First Novel
In West Mills by De’Shawn Charles Winslow (Bloomsbury)

Dayton Literary Peace Prize
What We Owe by Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde (Mariner) (fiction)
Rising Out of Hatred by Eli Saslow (Anchor) (nonfiction)

Edgar
Bearskin by James A. McLaughlin (first novel)
Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter Mosley (novel)
If I Die Tonight, by Alison Gaylin (paperback original)
Sadie by Courtney Summers (young adult)

FT/McKinsey Business Book
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez (Abrams)

Hugo
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)

Indies Choice
Circe, by Madeline Miller (Lee Boudreaux Books) (fiction)
Educated, by Tara Westover (Random House) (nonfiction)
There There, by Tommy Orange (Knopf) (debut)
The Poet X, by Elizabeth Acevedo (HarperTeen) (young adult)
Ghost Boys, by Jewell Parker Rhodes (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) (middle reader)
We Don’t Eat Our Classmates, by Ryan T. Higgins (Disney-Hyperion) (picture book)

ITW Thriller
Jar of Hearts by Jennifer Hillier (Minotaur) (hardcover)
The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor (Crown) (first novel)
The Lost Man by Jane Harper (Pan Macmillan Australia) (paperback)

James Beard
Cocktail Codex by Alex Day, Nick Fauchald, and David Kaplan, with Devon Tarby

Kirkus
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday) (fiction)
How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones(Simon & Schuster) (nonfiction)
New Kid by Jerry Craft (HarperCollins) (children’s)

Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction
Richard Ford

Los Angeles Times
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai (fiction)
Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires  (first fiction)
The Line Becomes a River Francisco Cantú (current interest)
Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight (biography)
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (mystery/thriller)
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (young adult)

National Book Award
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi (Holt) (fiction)
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom (Grove) (nonfiction)
Sight Lines by Arthur Sze (Copper Canyon Press) (poetry)
1919 The Year That Changed America by Martin W. Sandler (Bloomsbury) (YA)

National Book Foundation 5 Under 35
So Many Olympic Exertions by Anelise Chen (Kaya Press)
The Parisian by Isabella Hammad (Grove)
Such Good Work by Johannes Lichtman (Simon & Schuster)
Lot by Bryan Washington (Riverhead)
Happy Like This by Ashley Wurzbacher (University of Iowa Press

NBCC
Milkman by Anna Burns (fiction)
Directorate S by Steve Coll (nonfiction)
Flash by Christopher Bonanos (biography)
Belonging by Nora Krug (autobiography)
Carrying by Ada Limon (poetry)
Feel Free by Zadie Smith (criticism)

Newbery
Merci Suarez Changes Gears by Meg Medina

Nobel Prize in Literature
Peter Handke (FSG)

NYPL Young Lions
Severance by Ling Ma (Picador)

PEN/Faulkner
Call Me Zebra by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

PEN/Jean Stein
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

PEN/Hemingway
There There by Tommy Orange

PEN/Robert W. Bingham
Bring Out the Dog by Will Mackin

Printz
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Pulitzer Prize
The Overstory by Richard Powers (fiction)
Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight (history)
Amity and Prosperity,by Eliza Griswold (nonfiction)
The New Negro by Jeffrey C. Stewart (biography)
Be With by Forrest Gander (poetry)

Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature
The Last Watchman of Old Cairo by Michael David Lukas

Story Prize
Florida by Lauren Groff

INTERNATIONAL

Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction
The Five by Hallie Rubenhold (HMH)

Booker
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (Nan A. Talese)
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (Grove)

Booker International
Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi

Carnegie Medal
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (Harper Collins)

Costa
The Volunteer by Jack Fairweather (Custom House)

Folio Prize
The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus

Giller
Reproduction by Ian Williams (Random House Canada)

Governor Generals
Five Wives by Joan Thomas (Harper Avenue) (fiction)
To The River by Don Gillmor (Random House Canada) (nonfiction)

Greenaway Medal
The Lost Words illustrated by Jackie Morris (Anansi International/Hamish Hamilton)

James Tait Black
Crudo by Olivia Laing (Norton) (fiction)
In Extremis by Lindsey Hilsum (Picador) (biography)

Stella Prize
 The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie

Waterstone’s
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy (Harper One)

Wellcome Trust
Murmur, by Will Eaves

Woman’s Prize
An American Marriage, by Tayari Jones (Algonquin)

Writer’s Trust
Days by Moonlight, by Andre Alexis (Coach House Press) (fiction)

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