A list of some of the most famous English-language literary awards and their most recent winners and nominees.
Fiction
- *The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
- The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
- The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
History
- *Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America by W. Caleb McDaniel
- Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin
Biography
- *Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser
- Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer
- Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, And Me by the late Deirdre Bair
Poetry
- *The Tradition by Jericho Brown
- Dunce, by Mary Ruefle
- Only as the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems, by Dorianne Laux
Fiction
- *Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
- Sabrina & Corina: Stories by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
- Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
- The Other Americans by Laila Lalam
- Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
Nonfiction
- *The Yellow House by Sarah H. Broom
- Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
- What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance by Carolyn Forche