US
Caldecott Medal
Fireworks, illustrated by Cátia Chien, written by Matthew Burgess (Clarion Children’s)
Carnegie
A Guardian and a Thief, by Megha Majumdar (Knopf) (fiction)
Things in Nature Merely Grow, by Yiyun Li (FSG) (nonfiction)
NBCC
We Do Not Part, by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris (fiction) (Hogarth)
Empire of AI, by Karen Hao (nonfiction) (Penguin Press)
A Perfect Turmoil, by Alex Green (biography) (Bellevue Literary Press)
Mother Mary Comes to Me, by Arundhati Roy (autobiography) (Scribner)
Night Watch, by Kevin Young (poetry) (Knopf)
Hayek’s Bastards, by Quinn Slobodian (criticism) (Zone Books)
Baldwin, by Nicholas Boggs (John Leonard Prize) (FSG)
Sad Tiger, by Neige Sinno, translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer (book in translation) (Seven Stories)
Newbery Medal
All the Blues in the Sky, by Renée Watson (Bloomsbury Children’s)
PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
The Correspondent, by Virginia Evans (Crown)
PEN Open Book Award
Ibis, by Justin Haines (Overlook)
PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection
Guatemalan Rhapsody, by Jared Lemus (Ecco)
PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
Surviva, by Cannupa Hanska Luger (Aora)
Printz Medal
Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories, edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Heartdrum)
Story Prize
Other Worlds, by Andre Alexis (FSG Originals)
INTERNATIONAL
Nero
My Soul, A Shining Tree, by Jamila Gavin (Farshore) (children’s fiction)
A Family Matter, by Claire Lynch (Scribner) (debut fiction)
Seascraper, by Benjamin Wood (Scribner) (fiction)
Death of an Ordinary Man, by Sarah Perry (Mariner) (nonfiction)