Award Winners

Take a look below for updates on some of the literary world's highest accolades!

The 2019 NBCC Awards

The finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced on January 11th, 2020. Look for the announcement of the winners on March 12th!

Supporting Book Criticism and Literary Culture since 1974, the National Book Critics Circle honors outstanding writing and fosters a national conversation about reading, criticism, and literature. To see the full list of finalists and other announcements, click here.

Autobiography
Biography
Criticism
Fiction
Nonfiction
Poetry

The 2019 National Book Awards

The winners of the National Book Awards were announced on November 20th, 2019!

The National Book Foundation was founded in 1989 to administer the National Book Awards, which has been one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the country since 1950. The Foundation also produces numerous educational and public programs that help connect readers to books in new and meaningful ways. Congratulations to all the winners!

Fiction	Nonfiction	Poetry	Translated Literature	Young People's Literature
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi	The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom	Sight Lines by Arthur Sze	Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming by László Krasznahorkai	1919: The Year That Changed America by Martin W. Sandler

The Man Booker Prize 2019
Congratulations to Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo!

"The leading literary award in the English speaking world, which has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over 50 years. Awarded annually to the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK or Ireland."

Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo are the joint winners of the 2019 Booker Prize with The Testaments and Girl, Woman, Other!

The Testaments is available now, and look for Girl, Woman, Other on Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019!

The Nobel Prize in Literature

Congratulations to Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature!

The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 112 times to 116 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2019. The 2018 prize was awarded to Olga Tokarczuk "for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life." Olga Tokarczuk is the author of Flights, a 2018 National Book Award Finalist for Translated Literature and Winner of the Man Booker International Prize, and most recently Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.

The 2019 prize was awarded to Peter Handke. Please read Aleksandar Hemon's very important op-ed in the New York Times, click here!

The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal,
winner of the Nebula and Hugo Awards!

Congratulations to Mary Robinette Kowal and The Calculating Stars: A Lady Astronaut Novel, winner of the 2019 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novel!

The 2019 Nebula Award Winners were announced on May 19, 2019. They are voted on, and presented by, active members of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. Since 1965, the Nebula Awards have been given each year for the best novel, novella, novelette, and short story eligible for that year’s award.

The Hugo Awards were announced on August 18th, 2019, and are Science Fiction's most prestigious award, voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Convention.

2019 Women's Prize for Fiction
The 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction was announced on June 5, 2019.

The Women’s Prize for Fiction is the UK’s most prestigious annual book award celebrating & honouring women’s fiction. Founded in 1996, the Prize was set up to celebrate originality, accessibility & excellence in writing by women and to connect world-class writers with readers everywhere.

This year's winner is An American Marriage by Tayari Jones!

2019 Lambda Literary Awards
The 31st annual Lambda Literay Award winners were announced on June 3rd, 2019.

For over 30 years, "the Lammys" have identified and honored the best lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender books. The Lammys bring together nominees, celebrities, sponsors, and publishing executives to celebrate excellence in LGBTQ publishing. Here are the latest winners:

Lesbian Fiction The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai	Gay Fiction Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead	Bisexual Fiction Disoriental by Négar Djavadi	Transgender Fiction Little Fish by Casey Plett	Bisexual Nonfiction The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai
Transgender Nonfiction Histories of the Transgender Child by Julian Gill-Peterson	LGBTQ Nonfiction Looking for Lorraine by Imani Perry	Lesbian Poetry Each Tree Could Hold a Noose or a House by Nina Puro	Gay Poetry Indecency by Justin Phillip Reed	Bisexual Poetry We Play a Game by Duy Doan
Transgender Poetry Lo Terciario by Raquel Salas Rivera	Lesbian Mystery A Study in Honor by Claire O'Dell	Gay Mystery Late Fees: A Pinx Video Mystery by Marshall Thornton	Lesbian Biography/Memoir Chronology by Zahra Patterson	Gay Biography/Memoir No Ashes in the Fire by Darnell L. Moore
Lesbian Romance Beowulf for Cretins by Ann McMan	Gay Romance Crashing Upwards by S.C. Wynne	LGBTQ Children's/ Young Adult Hurricane Child by Kheryn Callender	LGBTQ Graphic Novel The Lie and How We Told It by Tommi Parrish	LGBTQ SciFi/Fantasy/Horror The Breath of the Sun by Isaac R. Fellman

2019 Tony Awards
The Tony Awards were announced on June 9, 2019.

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre.

This year's winner for Best Play is The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth!

2019 Pulitzer Prizes
The Pulitzer Prizes were announced on April 15, 2019.

The Pulitzer Prize administration awards prizes across 21 categories in journalism, and the arts each year.

Congratulations to Richard Powers and The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction! The paperback is out now, and we have plenty of copies available in the store. Here are the other 2019 winners in Letters & Drama!

Drama	History	Biography	Poetry	General Nonfiction

Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury	Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight	The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart	Be With by Forrest Gander	Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold

Los Angeles Times Book Prizes
The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced on April 12, 2019.

The 39th annual ceremony recognized 11 outstanding literary works published in 2018. The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes are committed to litereary excellence, championing new voices and celebrating the highest quality of writing from authors at all stages of their careers.

We're very excited for Rebecca Makkai and The Great Believers, winner of the 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction! Congratulations to all the winners, check them out below!

Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction	Biography	Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose	Current Interest	Graphic Novel/Comics

Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires	Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight	Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon	The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú	On A Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

History	Mystery /Thriller	Poetry	Science & Technology	Young Adult Literature

Travelers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism 1919-1945 by Julia Boyd	My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite	Wild is the Wind by Carl Phillips	Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy	The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

2019 National Book Critics Circle
The National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced on March 14, 2019.
The National Book Critics Circle honors outstanding writing and fosters a national conversation about reading, criticism, and literature. Congratulations to the recipients of the book awards for the 2018 publishing year!

Autobiography	Biography	Criticism

Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home by Nora Krug	Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous by Christopher Bonanos	Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith

Fiction	Nonfiction	Poetry	The John Leonard Prize

Milkman by Anna Burns	Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret War in Afghanistan by Steve Coll	The Carrying by Ada Limón	There There by Tommy Orange

The Story Prize 2018
The Story Prize was announced on March 6, 2019.

Lauren Groff's Florida is the latest winner of The Story Prize for short fiction collections!

The startling collection of menacing and evocative tales is set in the Sunshine State, and was also a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award. Judges praised the book as an “immersive experience” into the “beauty and awfulness” of Florida, and they aren't the only fans - former President Barack Obama listed it as a favorite of 2018! Finalists for the prize included A Lucky Man by Jamal Brinkley and Your Duck Is My Duck by Deborah Eisenberg. Congratulations to Lauren Groff!

2019 Edgar Awards Winners
The 2019 Edgar Awards were announced on April 25, 2019.

Each spring Mystery Writers of America present the Edgar Awards, widely acknowledged to be the most prestigious awards in mystery fiction, non-fiction, and television. Here are the latest winners for books published in 2018 - Congratulations to Walter Mosley, Robert Fieseler, and all the winners!

Best Mystery Novel of the Year!	Best Fact Crime

*Down the River Unto the Sea* by Walter Mosley	Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation by Robert Fieseler