Honoring outstanding writing and fostering a national conversation about reading, criticism, and literature since 1974.
The Love Songs of W. E. B. du Bois: a novel by 
Here Is the Sweet Hand : poems by 
Island on Fire: the revolt that ended slavery in the British Empire by 
Marking Time : art in the age of mass incarceration by 
Minor Feelings : an Asian American reckoning by 
Stranger in the Shogun's City : a Japanese woman and her world by 
The Queen: the forgotten life behind an American myth by 
Say Nothing: a true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland by 
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments : intimate histories of social upheaval by Winners
Feel Free: essays by 
Milkman by Finalists
All You Can Ever Know: a memoir by 
Educated: a memoir by 
Is It Still Good to Ya?: fifty years of rock criticism, 1967-2017 by 
Old in Art School: a memoir of starting over by 
Slave Old Man by 
Tyrant: Shakespeare on politics by 
We the Corporations: how American businesses won their civil rights by Winners
The Evangelicals: the struggle to shape America by 
Her Body and Other Parties by 
Improvement: a novel by 
Prairie Fires: the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by 
