US
Aspen Words Literary Prize
Enter Ghost, by Isabella Hammad (Grove)
Caldecott
Big, written and illustrated by Vashti Harrison (Little, Brown Children’s)
Carol Shields Prize
Brotherless Night, by V. V. Ganeshananthan (Random House)
Edgar
The Peacock and the Sparrow, by I. S. Berry (first novel) (Atria)
Flags on the Bayou, by James Lee Burke (novel) (Atlantic Monthly Press)
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, by Jesse Q. Sutanto (paperback original) (Berkley)
Girl Forgotten by April Henry (young adult) (Christy Ottaviano Books)
James Beard
Start Here, by Sohla El-Waylly (Knopf)
Libby
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride (fiction) (Riverhead)
The Wager, by David Grann (nonfiction) (Doubleday)
Divine Rivals, by Rebecca Ross (young adult) (Wednesday Books)
I Have Some Questions for You, by Rebecca Makkai (audiobook) (Viking)
The House in the Pines, by Ana Reyes (debut author) (Dutton)
Camp Zero, by Michelle Min Sterling (diverse author) (Atria)
The Talk, by Darrin Bell (comic graphic novel) (Holt)
Pageboy, by Elliot Page (memoir & autobiography) (Flatiron)
Start Here, by Sohla El-Waylly (cookbook) (Knopf)
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, by Jesse Q. Sutanto (mystery) (Berkley)
Bright Young Women, by Jessica Knoll (thriller) (Marysue Rucci Books)
Georgie, All Along, by Kate Clayborn (romance) (Kensington)
Fourth Wing, by Rebecca Yarros (fantasy) (Red Tower Books)
Iron Flame, by Rebecca Yarros (romantasy) (Red Tower Books)
System Collapse, by Martha Wells (science fiction) (Tor.com)
Let Us Descend, by Jesmyn Ward (historical fiction) (Scribner)
Yellowface, by R. F. Kuang (book club pick) (William Morrow)
Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction
James McBride
Los Angeles Times
Same Bed Different Dreams, by Ed Park (fiction) (Random House)
Company: Stories, by Shannon Sanders (first fiction) (Graywolf)
We Were Once A Family, by Roxanna Asgarian (current interest) (FSG)
The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts, by Gregg Hecimovich (biography) (Ecco)
Sing Her Down, by Ivy Pochoda (mystery/thriller) (MCD)
Gone Wolf, by Amber McBride (young adult) (Feiwel & Friends)
Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma, by Claire Dederer, (autobiographical prose) (Knopf)
A Guest in the House, by Emily Carroll (graphic novel/comics) (First Second)
Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century, by Joya Chatterji (history) (Yale University Press)
Bread and Circus: Poems, by Airea D. Matthews (poetry) (Scribner)
Is Math Real? How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths, by Eugenia Cheng (science and technology) (Basic Books)
NBCC
I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home, by Lorrie Moore (fiction) (Knopf)
We Were Once a Family, by Roxanna Asgarian (nonfiction) (FSG)
Winnie and Nelson, by Jonny Steinberg (biography) (Knopf)
How to Say Babylon, by Safiya Sinclair (autobiography) (Simon & Schuster)
Phantom Pain Wings, by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi (poetry) (New Directions)
Deadpan, by Tina Post (criticism) (NYU Press)
Waiting to Be Arrested at Night, by Tahir Hamut Izgil, translated by Joshua L. Freeman (first book) (Penguin Press)
Cold Nights of Childhood, by Tezer Özlü, translated by Maureen Freely (book in translation) (Transit Books)
Newbery
The Eyes and the Impossible, by Dave Eggers (Knopf Children’s and McSweeney’s)
NYPL Young Lions
The Liberators, by E.J. Koh (Tin House)
PEN/Faulkner
What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jimenez (Grand Central)
Printz
The Collectors, edited by A.S. King (Dutton Children’s)
Pulitzer Prize
Night Watch, by Jayne Anne Phillips (fiction) (Knopf)
Liliana’s Invincible Summer, by Cristina Rivera Garza (memoir) (Hogarth)
No Right to an Honest Living, by Jacqueline Jones (history) (Basic)
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama, by Nathan Thrall (nonfiction) (Metropolitan)
King, by Jonathan Eig (biography) (FSG)
Tripas, by Brandon Som (poetry) (Georgia Review Books)
Story Prize
The Hive and the Honey, by Paul Yoon (Marysue Rucci Books)
INTERNATIONAL
Arthur C. Clarke Award
In Ascension, by Martin MacInnes (Grove)
Booker International
Kairos, by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated from German by Michael Hofmann (New Directions)
Nero
The Swifts, by Beth Lincoln, illustrated by Claire Powell (Puffin) (children’s fiction)
Close to Home, by Michael Magee (Hamish Hamilton) (debut fiction)
The Bee Sting, by Paul Murray (Hamish Hamilton) (fiction and overall book of the year)
Strong Female Character, by Fern Brady (Brazen) (nonfiction)
Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration
The Tree and the River, by Aaron Becker (Candlewick)
Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing
The Boy Lost in the Maze, by Joseph Coelho, illustrated by Kate Milner (Candlewick)