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Acclaimed & Awarded Books

National Book Award

2020

Fiction

Interior Chinatown — WINNER

Leave the World Behind — Finalist

A Children's Bible — Finalist

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies — Finalist

Shuggie Bain — Finalist

Nonfiction

The Dead Are Arising — WINNER

Unworthy Republic — Finalist

My Autobiography of Carson McCullers — Finalist

The Undocumented Americans — Finalist

How to Make a Slave — Finalist

Poetry

DMZ Colony — WINNER

A Treatise on Stars — Finalist

Fantasia for the Man in Blue — Finalist

Borderland Apocrypha — Finalist

Postcolonial Love Poem — Finalist

Young People's Literature

King and the Dragonflies — WINNER

We Are Not Free — Finalist

Every Body Looking — Finalist

When Stars are Scattered — Finalist

The Way Back — Finalist

2019

Fiction

Trust Exercise — WINNER

Sabrina & Corina — Finalist

Black Leopard, Red Wolf — Finalist

The Other Americans — Finalist

Disappearing Earth — Finalist

Nonfiction

The Yellow House — WINNER

Thick: And Other Essays — Finalist

What You Have Heard is True — Finalist

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee — Finalist

Solitary — Finalist

Poetry

Sight Lines — WINNER

The Tradition — Finalist

I: New and Selected Poems — Finalist

Deaf Republic — Finalist

Be Recorder — Finalist

Young People's Literature

1919: The Year That Changed America — WINNER

Pet — Finalist

Look Both Ways — Finalist

Patron Saints of Nothing — Finalist

Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All — Finalist

Pulitzer Prize

2020

Fiction

The Nickel Boys — WINNER

The Dutch House — Finalist

The Topeka School — Finalist

General Nonfiction

The End of the Myth — WINNER

The Undying — WINNER

Elderhood — Finalist

Solitary — Finalist

Poetry

The Tradition — WINNER

Dunce — Finalist

Only as the Day is Long — Finalist

Biography

Sontag: Her Life and Work — WINNER

Our Man — Finalist

Parisian Lives — Finalist

History

Sweet Taste of Liberty — WINNER

Race for Profit — Finalist

The End of the Myth — Finalist

Caldecott & Newbery Awards

Caldecott Award - 2020

The Undefeated — The Undefeated - WINNER

Going Down Home with Daddy

Bear Came Along

Double Bass Blues

Newbery Medal - 2020

New Kid — New Kid - WINNER

The Undefeated

Other Words for Home

Scary Stories for Young Foxes

Genesis Begins Again

Celebrity Book Clubs & Lists

Reese's Book Club

Northern Spy — April 2021

Infinite Country — March 2021

The Sanatorium — February 2021

Outlawed — January 2021

The Chicken Sisters — December 2020

Group — November 2020

His Only Wife — October 2020

The Last Story of Mina Lee — September 2020

Everything Inside — August 2020

I'm Still Here — June 2020

The Guest List — June 2020

The Henna Artist — May 2020

Untamed — April 2020

The Jetsetters — March 2020

The Scent Keeper — February 2020

Such a Fun Age — January 2020

The Giver of Stars — November 2019

Little Fires Everywhere — September 2017

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine — June 2017

Oprah's Book Club

Gilead — 2021

Home — 2021

Lila — 2021

Jack — 2021

Caste — 2020

Deacon King Kong — 2020

Hidden Valley Road — 2020

American Dirt — 2020

The Water Dancer — 2019

Olive, Again — 2019

Becoming — 2018

An American Marriage — 2018

The Sun Does Shine — 2018

Behold the Dreamers — 2017

The Underground Railroad — 2016

Love Warrior — 2016

One Hundred Years of Solitude — 2004

I Know This Much is True — 1998

Obama's Book List

Caste — Caste - 2020

Deacon King Kong — Deacon King Kong - 2020

Hidden Valley Road — Hidden Valley Road - 2020

Homeland Elegies — Homeland Elegies - 2020

How Much of These Hills is Gold — How Much of These Hills is Gold - 2020

Jack — Jack - 2020

Long — Long Bright River - 2020

Luster — Luster - 2020

Memorial Drive — Memorial Drive - 2020

Missionaries — Missionaries - 2020

Sharks in the Time of Saviors — Sharks in the Time of Saviors - 2020

The Glass Hotel — The Glass Hotel - 2020

The Ministry for the Future — The Ministry for the Future - 2020

The Splendid and the Vile — The Splendid and the Vile - 2020

The Undocumented Americans — The Undocumented Americans - 2020

The Vanishing Half — The Vanishing Half - 2020

Twilight of Democracy — Twilight of Democracy - 2020

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism — The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - 2019

The Anarchy — The Anarchy - 2019

Furious Hours — Furious Hours - 2019

Girl, Woman, Other — Girl, Woman, Other - 2019

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee — The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee - 2019

How to Do Nothing — How to Do Nothing - 2019

Lost Children Archive — Lost Children Archive - 2019

Lot: Stories — Lot: Stories - 2019

Normal People — Normal People - 2019

The Orphan Master's Son — The Orphan Master's Son - 2019

The Yellow House — The Yellow House - 2019

Say Nothing — Say Nothing - 2019

Solitary — Solitary - 2019

The Topeka School — The Topeka School - 2019

Trick Mirror — Trick Mirror - 2019

Trust Exercise — Trust Exercise - 2019

We Live in Water — We Live in Water - 2019

A Different Way to Win — A Different Way to Win - 2019

The Sixth Man — The Sixth Man - 2019

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