US
Aspen Words Literary Prize
Wandering Stars, by Tommy Orange (Grove)
Boston Globe-Horn Book
I Know How to Draw an Owl, by Hilary Horder Hippely, illustrated by Matt James (picture book) (Neal Porter Books)
Everything We Never Had, by Randy Ribay (fiction) (Kokila)
Death in the Jungle, by Candace Fleming (nonfiction) (Ann Schwartz Books)
Caldecott
Chooch Helped, by Andrea L. Rogers, illustrated by Rebecca Lee Kunz (Levine Querido)
Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Martyr!, by Kaveh Akbar (fiction) (Vintage)
The Burning Earth, by Sunil Amrith (nonfiction) (Norton)
James Beard
Pass the Plate, by Carolina Gelen (Clarkson Potter)
Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction
Geraldine Brooks
Los Angeles Times
Say Hello to My Little Friend, by Jennine Capo Crucet (fiction) (Simon & Schuster)
Cinema Love, by Jiaming Tang (first fiction) (Dutton)
The Rent Collectors, by Jesse Katz (current interest) (Astra House)
Orwell’s Ghosts, by Laura Beers (biography) (Norton)
The Puzzle Box, by Danielle Trussoni (mystery/thriller) (Random House)
The Color of a Lie, by Kim Johnson (young adult) (Random House Children’s)
Tokyo These Days, Vol. 1, by Taiyo Matsumoto (graphic novel/comics) (VIZ Media)
Ruin Their Crops on the Ground, by Andrea Freeman (history) (Metropolitan)
Room Swept Home, by Remica Bingham-Risher (poetry) (Wesleyan University Press)
The Book of Love, by Kelly Link (science fiction, fantasy, & speculative fiction) (Random House)
Our Moon, by Rebecca Boyle (science and technology) (Random House)
National Book Award
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) (Grove) (fiction)
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Knopf) (nonfiction)
The Intentions of Thunder, by Patricia Smith (Scribner) (poetry)
The Teacher of Nomad Land, by Daniel Nayeri (Levine Querido) (young people’s literature)
We Are Green and Trembling, by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (New Directions) (translated literature)
NBCC
My Friends by Hisham Matar (fiction) (Random House)
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham (nonfiction) (Avid Reader)
Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar by Cynthia Carr (biography) (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Patriot: A Memoir by Alexei Navalny, translated from the Russian by Arch Tait with Stephen Dalziel (autobiography) (Knopf)
Wrong Norma by Anne Carson (poetry) (New Directions)
There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib (criticism) (Random House)
Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls (first book) (MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
A Last Supper of Queer Apostles by Pedro Lemebel, translated from the Spanish by Gwendolyn Harper (book in translation) (Penguin Classics)
Newbery
The First State of Being, by Erin Entrada Kelly (Greenwillow)
PEN/Faulkner
Small Rain, by Garth Greenwell (FSG)
PEN Open Book Award
Vengeance Feminism, Kali Nicole Gross (Seal Press)
PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection
Sad Grownups, Amy Stuber (Stillhouse Press)
PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
Early Sobrieties, Michael Deagler (Astra House)
Printz
Brownstone, by Samuel Teer, illustrated by Mar Julia (Versify)
Pulitzer Prize
James, by Percival Everett (fiction) (Doubleday)
Feeding Ghosts, by Tessa Hulls (memoir) (MCD)
Combee, by Edda L. Fields-Black (history) (Oxford University Press)
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, by Benjamin Nathans (nonfiction) (Princeton University Press)
Every Living Thing, by Jason Roberts (biography) (Random House)
New and Selected Poems, by Marie Howe (poetry) (Norton)
Story Prize
Highway Thirteen, by Fiona McFarlane (Picador)
INTERNATIONAL
Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction
How to End a Story, by Helen Garner (Pantheon)
Booker
Flesh, by David Szalay (Scribner)
Booker International
Heart Lamp, by Banu Mushtaq, translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi (And Other Stories)
Giller
Pick a Colour, Souvankham Thammavongsa (Knopf Canada)
Nero
The Twelve, by Liz Hyder, illustrated by Tom de Freston (Pushkin) (children’s fiction)
Wild Houses, by Colin Barrett (Grove) (debut fiction)
Lost in the Garden, by Adam S. Leslie (Cinder House) (fiction)
Maurice And Maralyn, by Sophie Elmhirst (Vintage) (nonfiction) (gold prize winner)