Dana Best Book Award Winner List
2025 Award Winners
Performing Arts – Music, Dance, Film & Theater
GOLD
Mood Machine The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
by Liz Pelly
(Atria)
Silver
Only God Can Judge Me The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur
by Jeff Pearlman
(DK Children)
Bronze
Lorne The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live
by Susan Morrison
(Random House)
Photography
GOLD
The feather and the rose
by Tiffany St.Claire
Silver
Feline Photographs
by Tim Flach with Jonathan Losos
(Abrams)
Bronze
Anna Atkins Photographer
by Corey Keller
(Getty Publications )
Architecture & Design
GOLD
Circular Materials
by Joe Gibbs
(Gestalten)
Silver
Not Here, Not Now
by Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby
(The MIT Press )
Bronze
The Invention of Design A Twentieth-Century History
by Maggie Gram
(Basic Books )
Coffee Table & Illustrated Book
GOLD
Superfine Tailoring Black Style
by Monica L. Miller
(The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Silver
Feline Photographs
by Tim Flach with Jonathan Losos
(Abrams)
Bronze
The Nineties
by Anna Sui with contributors
(Rizzoli)
Literary Fiction
GOLD
Flesh
by David Szalay
(Scribner)
Silver
Audition
by Katie Kitamura
(Riverhead Books)
Bronze
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
by Kiran Desai
(Hogarth)
General & Contemporary Fiction
GOLD
My Friends
by Fredrik Backman
(Atria Books)
Silver
The Correspondent
by Virginia Evans
(Crown)
Bronze
The Rest of Our Lives
by Ben Markovits
(Simon & Schuster)
Short Story Collection
GOLD
Atavists Stories
by Lydia Millet
(W. W. Norton & Company)
Silver
Are You Happy?
by Lori Ostlund
(Astra House)
Bronze
Make Your Way Home
by Carrie R. Moore
(Tin House)
Novella
GOLD
5 Dates by Alexandria House
(Pink Cashmere Publishing)
Silver
Bite Me
by Neve Wilder
Bronze
Cinder House
by Freya Marske
(Tor Publishing Group)
Poetry
GOLD
The Intentions of Thunder New and Selected Poems
by Patricia Smith
(Scribner)
Silver
The New Economy
by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
(Copper Canyon Press)
Bronze
Regaining Unconsciousness
by Harryette Mullen
(Graywolf Press)
Fine Art & Visual Culture
GOLD
Kerry James Marshall The Histories
by Kerry James Marshall
(Royal Academy of Arts)
Silver
Celia Paul
by Celia Paul
(MACK)
Bronze
Artists of the Middle East
by Saeb Eigner
(Thames & Hudso)
Performing Arts – Music, Dance, Film & Theater
GOLD
Mood Machine The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
by Liz Pelly
(Atria/One Signal Publishers)
Silver
Only God Can Judge Me The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur
by Jeff Pearlman
(Mariner Books)
Bronze
Lorne The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live
by Susan Morrison
(Random House)
Anthology
GOLD
The Best American Short Stories 2025 edited by Celeste Ng & Nicole A. Lamy
(Mariner Books)
Silver
The Best American Poetry 2025
edited by David Lehman & Terence Winch
(Scribner)
Bronze
The Best American Essays 2025
edited by Jia Tolentino & Kim Dana Kupperman
(HarperCollins)
Historical Fiction
GOLD
Atmosphere
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
(Ballantine Books)
Silver
Isola
by Allegra Goodman
(The Dial Press)
Bronze
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
by Stephen Graham Jones
(Saga Press)
Fantasy
GOLD
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
by V. E. Schwab
(Tor Publishing Group)
Silver
Katabasis
by R. F. Kuang
(Harper Voyager)
Bronze
The Raven Scholar
by Antonia Hodgson
(Orbit)
Science Fiction
GOLD
The Compound
by Aisling Rawle
(The Borough Press)
Silver
Death of the Author
by Nnedi Okorafor
(William Morrow)
Bronze
Shroud
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
(Orbit)
Horror
GOLD
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
by Grady Hendrix
(Berkley)
Silver
Sour Cherry
by Natalia Theodoridou
(Zando)
Bronze
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
by Stephen Graham Jones
(Saga Press)
Mystery & Crime Fiction
GOLD
Not Quite Dead Yet
by Holly Jackson
(Ballantine Books)
Silver
Marguerite by the Lake
by Mary Dixie Carter
(Minotaur Books)
Bronze
The Impossible Fortune
by Richard Osman
(Viking)
Thriller & Suspense
GOLD
The Intruder
by Freida McFadden
(Sourcebooks)
Silver
King of Ashes
by S. A. Cosby
(Flatiron Books: Pine & Cedar)
Bronze
Wild Dark Shore
by Charlotte McConaghy
(Flatiron Books)
Romance
GOLD
Great Big Beautiful Life
by Emily Henry
(Berkley)
Silver
Say You’ll Remember Me
by Abby Jimenez
(Forever)
Bronze
One Golden Summer
by Carley Fortune
(Berkley)
Erotic Fiction
GOLD
Deep End
by Ali Hazelwood
(Berkley)
Silver
Tourist Season
by Brynne Weaver
(Zando)
Bronze
The Princess and the P.I.
by Nikki Payne
(Berkley)
Inspirational & Spiritual Fiction
GOLD
The Filling Station
by Vanessa Miller
(Thomas Nelson)
Silver
As Sure as the Sea
by Jamie Ogle
(Tyndale House Publishers)
Bronze
Embergold
by Rachelle Nelson
(Enclave Publishing)
Speculative & Visionary Fiction
GOLD
The Dream Hotel
by Laila Lalami
(Pantheon Books)
Silver
Death of the Author
by Nnedi Okorafor
(William Morrow )
Bronze
The Compound
by Aisling Rawle
(Random House)
Humor & Satire
GOLD
Universality
by Natasha Brown
(Random House)
Silver
Fundamentally
by Nussaibah Younis
(Tiny Reparations Books)
Bronze
Spent A Comic Novel
by Alison Bechdel
(Mariner Books)
Military & Wartime Fiction
GOLD
North Sun Or, The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther
by Ethan Rutherford
(Deep Vellum Publishing)
Silver
The Sunflower Boys
by Sam Wachman
(Harper)
Bronze
The Remembered Soldier
by Anjet Daanje
(Scribe Publications)
Multicultural & Global Fiction
GOLD
Dream Count
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
(Alfred A. Knopf)
Silver
Pick a Colour
by Souvankham Thammavongsa
(Knopf Canada)
Bronze
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
by Kiran Desai
(Hogarth)
LGBTQ+ Fiction
GOLD
Gaysians
by Mike Curato
(Algonquin Books)
Silver
Woodworking
by Emily St. James
(Crooked Media Reads)
Bronze
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
by V. E. Schwab
(Tor Books)
Graphic Novels & Comics
GOLD
Spent A Comic Novel
by Alison Bechdel
(Mariner Books)
Silver
Black Arms to Hold You Up A History of Black Resistance
by Ben Passmore
(Pantheon)
Bronze
Angelica and the Bear Prince
by Trung Le Nguyen
(Random House Graphic)
Children’s Picture Book – Ages 0–7
GOLD
Broken
by X. Fang
(Tundra Books)
Silver
Wind Watchers
by Micha Archer
(Nancy Paulsen Books)
Bronze
Dragon Flower
by Chen Jiang Hong
(NYRB Kids)
Children’s Picture Book – All Ages
GOLD
Once I Was a Giant
by Zeno Sworder
(Thames & Hudson Australia)
Silver
So Many Years A Juneteenth Story
by Anne Wynter
(Clarion Books )
Bronze
The Paper Bridge
by Joëlle Veyrenc
(Floris Books )
Children’s Interactive & Activity Book
GOLD
A Is for Apple Wipe-Clean
by Tiger Tales
(Tiger Tales)
Silver
What’s That Noise? Meow!
Illustrator by Pui Lee
(Nosy Crow)
Bronze
First Words
by Patricia Hegarty
(Tiger Tales)
Early Reader & First Chapter Book
GOLD
Stop That Mop!
by Jonathan Fenske
(Simon Spotlight )
Silver
Orris and Timble Lost and Found
by Kate DiCamillo
(Candlewick Press)
Bronze
Brianna Banana, Helper of the Day
by Lana Button
(Orca Book Publishers)
Middle Grade Fiction
GOLD
The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze
by Derrick Barnes
(Viking Books for Young Readers )
Silver
El Niño
by Pam Muñoz Ryan
(Scholastic Press)
Bronze
Pocket Bear
by Katherine Applegate
(Feiwel & Friends)
Young Adult Fiction – General
GOLD
Fake Skating
by Lynn Painter
(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Silver
This Thing of Ours
by Frederick Joseph
(Candlewick Press)
Bronze
A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe
by Mahogany L. Browne
(Crown Books for Young Readers)
Young Adult – Fantasy & Science Fiction
GOLD
Sunrise on the Reaping
by Suzanne Collins
(Scholastic Press)
Silver
Oathbound
by Tracy Deonn
(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Bronze
Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe
by C. B. Lee
(Feiwel & Friends)
Young Adult – Mystery, Thriller & Adventure
GOLD
Sisters in the Wind
by Angeline Boulley
(Henry Holt and Co. (BYR))
Silver
The Thrashers
by Julie Soto
(Wednesday Books)
Bronze
The Assassin’s Guide to Babysitting
by Natalie C. Parker
(Candlewick)
Children’s & Young Adult Nonfiction
GOLD
Death in the Jungle
by Candace Fleming
(Anne Schwartz Books)
Silver
White Lies
by Ann Bausum
(Roaring Brook Press)
Bronze
A World Without Summer
by Nicholas Day
(Random House Studio)
Biography
GOLD
Baldwin A Love Story
by Nicholas Boggs
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Silver
Mark Twain
by Ron Chernow
(Penguin Press)
Bronze
Water Mirror Echo Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America
by Jeff Chang
(Mariner Books)
Memoir & Autobiography
GOLD
The House of My Mother A Daughter’s Quest for Freedom
by Shari Franke
(Gallery Books)
Silver
Book of Lives A Memoir of Sorts
by Margaret Atwood
(Doubleday)
Bronze
Aflame Learning from Silence
by Pico Iyer
(Riverhead Books)
Essays
GOLD
Authority Essays
by Andrea Long Chu
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Silver
Sucker Punch Essays
by Scaachi Koul
(St. Martin’s Press)
Bronze
Black in Blues How a Color Tells the Story of My People
by Imani Perry
(Ecco)
Creative Nonfiction
GOLD
A Marriage at Sea
by Sophie Elmhirst
(Riverhead Books)
Silver
We Survived the Night
by Julian Brave NoiseCat
(Alfred A. Knopf )
Bronze
A Truce That Is Not Peace
by Miriam Toews
(Bloomsbury Publishing)
True Crime
GOLD
Murderland
by Caroline Fraser
( Penguin Press)
Silver
38 Londres Street
by Philippe Sands
(Alfred A. Knopf )
Bronze
The Erin Patterson Murders
by Sutton Landau
(Text Publishing)
History – United States & Americas
GOLD
We the People
by Jill Lepore
(Liveright Publishing Corporation)
Silver
The Fate of the Day
by Rick Atkinson
(Crown)
Bronze
Black Moses
by Caleb Gayle
( Riverhead Books)
World History
GOLD
King of Kings
by Scott Anderson
(Doubleday)
Silver
The Age of Choice
by Sophia Rosenfeld
( Princeton University Press)
Bronze
The Eurasian Century
by Hal Brands
(W. W. Norton & Company)
Politics, Economics & Global Affairs
GOLD
Chokepoints
by Edward Fishman
( Portfolio)
Silver
Breakneck
by Dan Wang
( W. W. Norton & Company )
Bronze
Abundance
by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
(Avid Reader Press)
Social Issues & Humanitarian Studies
GOLD
There Is No Place for Us
by Brian Goldstone
(Crown )
Silver
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
by Omar El Akkad
(Knopf)
Bronze
Without Fear
by Keisha N. Blain
(W. W. Norton & Company)
Business, Leadership & Careers
GOLD
The Thinking Machine
by Stephen Witt
(Viking)
Silver
House of Huawei
by Eva Dou
( Portfolio)
Bronze
How Progress Ends
by Carl Benedikt Frey
( Princeton University Press)
Finance, Investing & Economics
GOLD
Capitalism
by Sven Beckert
(Penguin Press)
Silver
Chokepoints
by Edward Fishman
(Portfolio)
Bronze
Abundance
by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
(Avid Reader Press)
Education & Learning
GOLD
Mastery
by Tony Wagner and Ulrik Juul Christensen, M.D.
(Basic Books)
Silver
More Than Words
by John Warner
(Basic Books)
Bronze
The Disengaged Teen
by Jenny Anderson and Rebecca Winthrop
(Crown )
Science & Technology
GOLD
Empire of AI
by Karen Hao
(Penguin Press)
Silver
Replaceable You
by Mary Roach
(W. W. Norton & Company)
Bronze
The Thinking Machine
by Stephen Witt
(Viking )
Nature, Environment & Sustainability
GOLD
Is a River Alive?
by Robert Macfarlane
(W. W. Norton & Company)
Silver
Raising Hare
by Chloe Dalton
(Knopf)
Bronze
When It All Burns
by Jordan Thomas
(Riverhead Books)
Health & Medicine
GOLD
Everything Is Tuberculosis
by John Green
(Crash Course Books)
Silver
On Healing
by Amitha Kalaichandran, M.D.
(Heliotrope Books LLC)
Bronze
The Mind Electric
by Pria Anand
(Washington Square Press)
Psychology & Mental Health
GOLD
Beyond Anxiety
by Martha Beck
(The Open Field )
Silver
How to Be Enough
by Ellen Hendriksen
(St. Martin’s Essentials)
Bronze
Open When…
by Dr. Julie Smith
(Penguin Michael Joseph)
Self-Help & Personal Development
GOLD
Shift
by Ethan Kross
(Crown)
Silver
Beyond Anxiety
by Martha Beck
(The Open Field)
Bronze
How to Be Enough
by Ellen Hendriksen
(St. Martin’s Essentials)
Inspirational & Spirituality
GOLD
Aflame Learning from Silence
by Pico Iyer
(Riverhead Books )
Silver
The Book of Alchemy
by Suleika Jaouad
(Random House)
Bronze
We Can Do Hard Things
by Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach and Amanda Doyle
(The Dial Press)
Religion & Theology
GOLD
Aflame Learning from Silence
by Pico Iyer
(Riverhead Books )
Silver
As a Jew
by Sarah Hurwitz
(HarperOne)
Bronze
Shamanism
by Manvir Singh
(Knopf)
Mind, Body & Spirit
GOLD
Aflame Learning from Silence
by Pico Iyer
(Riverhead Books )
Silver
The Biology of Trauma
by Aimie Apigian, M.D., M.S., M.P.H.
(BenBella Books)
Bronze
Music as Medicine
by Daniel J. Levitin
(Cornerstone Press)
Family, Parenting & Relationships
GOLD
Talk
by Alison Wood Brooks
(Crown)
Silver
Second Life
by Amanda Hess
(Doubleday)
Bronze
The Disengaged Teen
by Jenny Anderson and Rebecca Winthrop
(Crown)
Aging, Grief & End-of-Life
GOLD
Things in Nature Merely Grow
by Yiyun Li
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Silver
Memorial Days
by Geraldine Brooks
(Viking)
Bronze
The AARP Caregiver Answer Book
by Barry J. Jacobs and Julia L. Mayer
(Guilford Press)
LGBTQ+ Nonfiction
GOLD
Baldwin: A Love Story
by Nicholas Boggs
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Silver
The Secret Public
by Jon Savage
(W. W. Norton & Company)
Bronze
Cleavage
by Jennifer Finney Boylan
(Celadon Books)
Culture, Society & Identity
GOLD
Black in Blues
by Imani Perry
(HarperCollins)
Silver
Make It Ours
by Robin Givhan
(Crown)
Bronze
The Sirens’ Call
by Chris Hayes
(Penguin Press)
Cookbooks, Food & Culinary Arts
GOLD
Good Things
by Samin Nosrat
(Random House)
Silver
Third Culture Cooking
by Zaynab Issa
(Abrams)
Bronze
Salt Sugar MSG
by Calvin Eng
(Ten Speed)
Home, Garden & Crafts
GOLD
The Greenhouse Book
by Tom Brown
(DK)
Silver
The Kindest Garden
by Marian Boswall
(Frances Lincoln)
Bronze
Grow Food Anywhere
by Lucy Chamberlain
(DK)
Sports, Fitness & Recreation
GOLD
The Escape
by Pippa York & David Walsh
(Mudlark Press)
Silver
Finding the Edge
by James Anderson with Felix White
(Bonnier Books)
Bronze
Ultra Women The Trailblazers Defying Sexism in Sport
by Lily Canter & Emma Wilkinson
(Canbury Press)
Travel – Narrative & Memoir
GOLD
On the Hippie Trail Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer
by Rick Steves
(Avalon Publishing / Rick Steves)
Silver
Things Become Other Things A Memoir of Walking Japan
by Craig Mod
(Random House)
Bronze
The Place of Tides
by James Rebanks
(Mariner Books)
Travel – Guidebook
GOLD
Lonely Planet England
by Lonely Planet
(Lonely Planet)
Silver
Lonely Planet Great Britain
by Lonely Planet
(Lonely Planet)
Bronze
Lonely Planet China
by Lonely Planet
(Lonely Planet)
Animals & Pets
GOLD
Raising Hare
by Chloe Dalton
(Knopf)
Silver
Ubac and Me
by Cédric Sapin-Defour
(Simon & Schuster)
Bronze
Feline Photographs
by Tim Flach, with Jonathan Losos
(Abrams)
Popular Culture & Media
GOLD
Lorne The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live
by Susan Morrison
(Random House)
Silver
Empire of the Elite
by Michael M. Grynbaum
(Simon & Schuster)
Bronze
On Air
by Steve Oney
(Avid Reader Pressr)
Reference & Professional Resources
GOLD
AI Engineering Building Applications with Foundation Models
by Chip Huyen
(O’Reilly Media)
Silver
The AARP Caregiver Answer Book
by Barry J. Jacobs & Julia L. Mayer
(Guilford Press)
Bronze
The Greenhouse Book
by Tom Brown
(DK)
Writing & Publishing
GOLD
A Long Game
by Elizabeth McCracken
(Ecco)
Silver
Dear Writer
by Maggie Smith
(Washington Square Press)
Bronze
More Than Words
by John Warner
(Basic Books)
Best Cover Design
GOLD
Superfine Tailoring Black Style
by Monica L. Miller, with Andrew Bolton, William DeGregorio & Amanda Garfinkel
(The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Silver
The Nineties
by Anna Sui with contributors
(Rizzoli)
Bronze
O Sinners!
by Nicole Cuffy
(One World)
Best Debut Book
GOLD
Alchemised
by SenLinYu
(Del Rey)
Silver
The Slip
by Lucas Schaefer
(Simon & Schuster)
Bronze
Fundamentally
by Nussaibah Younis
(Penguin – U.S. edition)
Best Book Series
GOLD
Onyx Storm
by Rebecca Yarros
(Entangled Publishing)
Silver
Sunrise on the Reaping
by Suzanne Collins
(Scholastic Press)
Bronze
The Impossible Fortune
by Richard Osman
(Viking)
Audiobook Excellence
GOLD
Onyx Storm
by Rebecca Yarros
(Red Tower Books)
Silver
My Friends
by Fredrik Backman
(Atria Books)
Bronze
Atmosphere
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
(Ballantine Books)
U.S. Northeast – Fiction
GOLD
The Emperor of Gladness
by Ocean Vuong
(Penguin Press)
Silver
Heartwood
by Amity Gaige
(Simon & Schuster)
Bronze
The Intruder
by Freida McFadden
(Poisoned Pen Press)
U.S. Northeast – Nonfiction
GOLD
101 Classic Hikes of the Northeast
by Eli Burakian
(Falcon Guides)
Silver
The Broken King
by Michael Thomas
(Grove Press)
Bronze
What We Know, What We Wish
by Liam Riordan & Richard W. Judd
(University of Massachusetts Press)
U.S. Mid-Atlantic – Fiction
GOLD
Audition
by Katie Kitamura
(Riverhead Books)
Silver
A Gorgeous Excitement
by Cynthia Weiner
(Crown)
Bronze
Park Avenue
by Renée Ahdieh
(Flatiron Books)
U.S. Mid-Atlantic – Nonfiction
GOLD
The Killing Fields of East New York
by Stacy Horn
(Zando)
Silver
Lorne The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live
by Susan Morrison
(Random House)
Bronze
Empire of the Elite
by Michael M. Grynbaum
(Simon & Schuster)
U.S. Southeast – Fiction
GOLD
King of Ashes
by S. A. Cosby
(Flatiron Books)
Silver
Great Big Beautiful Life
by Emily Henry
(Berkley Books)
Bronze
Make Your Way Home
by Carrie R. Moore
(Tin House)
U.S. Southeast – Nonfiction
GOLD
Welcome to Florida
by Craig Pittman
(University Press of Florida)
Silver
Al Burt’s Florida
by Al Burt
(University Press of Florida
Bronze
Vignettes of Colonial Virginia
by Brent Tarter
(Rivanna)
U.S. South – Fiction
GOLD
Junie
by Erin Crosby Eckstine
(Ballantine Books)
Silver
Run for the Hills
by Kevin Wilson
(Ecco)
Bronze
The Slip
by Lucas Schaefer
(Simon & Schuster)
U.S. South – Nonfiction
GOLD
Blessings and Disasters
by Alexis Okeowo
(Henry Holt and Company)
Silver
Mother Emanuel
by Kevin Sack
(Crown)
Bronze
Melting Point
by Rachel Cockerell
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
U.S. Great Lakes – Fiction
GOLD
Ruth
by Kate Riley
(Riverhead Books)
Silver
Shadow Ticket
by Thomas Pynchon
(Penguin Press)
Bronze
Buckeye
by Patrick Ryan
(Random House)
U.S. Great Lakes – Nonfiction
GOLD
Paper Girl
by Beth Macy
(Penguin Press)
Silver
Clout City
by Dominic A. Pacyga
(University of Chicago Press)
Bronze
American Birkebeiner
by Jerome P. Poling
(Wisconsin Historical Society Press)
U.S. Plains – Fiction
GOLD
The Antidote
by Karen Russell
(Penguin Random House)
Silver
Before Dorothy
by Hazel Gaynor
(Berkley)
Bronze
A Town with Half the Lights On
by Page Getz
(Sourcebooks Landmark)
U.S. Plains – Nonfiction
GOLD
The Guide to Kansas Birds and Birding Hotspots
by Pete Janzen and Bob Gress
(University Press of Kansas)
Silver
Kansas Matters
edited by Thomas Fox Averill and Leslie VonHolten
(University Press of Kansas)
Bronze
John Frémont’s 100 Days Clashes and Convictions in Civil War Missouri
by Gregory Wolk
(Missouri Historical Society Press )
U.S. Mountain West – Fiction
GOLD
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
by Stephen Graham Jones
(Saga Press)
Silver
Battle Mountain
by C. J. Box
(G. P. Putnam’s Sons)
Bronze
The Book of Autumn
by Molly O’Sullivan
(Kensington Books)
U.S. Mountain West – Nonfiction
GOLD
Saving the Big Sky
by Bruce A. Bugbee, Robert J. Kiesling, and John B. Wright
(Oregon State University Press)
Silver
The Jemez Mountains
by Thomas W. Swetnam
(University of New Mexico Press)
Bronze
The Undiscovered Country
by Paul Andrew Hutton
(Dutton)
U.S. Pacific West – Fiction
GOLD
The Wilderness
by Angela Flournoy
(Mariner Books)
Silver
Gaysians
by Mike Curato
(Algonquin Books)
Bronze
O Sinners!
by Nicole Cuffy
(One World)
U.S. Pacific West – Nonfiction
GOLD
When It All Burns
by Jordan Thomas
(Riverhead Books)
Silver
Aflame Learning from Silence
by Pico Iyer
(Riverhead Books)
Bronze
The Golden Hour
by Matthew Specktor
(Ecco)
Canada – Fiction
GOLD
Pick a Colour
by Souvankham Thammavongsa
(Knopf Canada)
Silver
The Tiger and the Cosmonaut
by Eddy Boudel Tan
(Penguin Canada)
Bronze
Small Ceremonies
by Kyle Edwards
(Pantheon)
Canada – Nonfiction
GOLD
Theory of Water
by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
(Knopf Canada)
Silver
A Truce That Is Not Peace
by Miriam Toews
(Bloomsbury Publishing)
Bronze
The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse
by Vinh Nguyen
(Counterpoint)
Latin America & Caribbean – Fiction
GOLD
Fonseca
by Jessica Francis Kane
(Penguin Press)
Silver
We Are Green and Trembling
by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
translated by Robin Myers
(New Directions)
Bronze
The God of the Wood A Novel
by Liz Moore
(University of Queensland Press)
Latin America & Caribbean – Nonfiction
GOLD
America, América A New History of the New World
by Greg Grandin
(Penguin Press)
Silver
38 Londres Street
by Philippe Sands
(Alfred A. Knopf)
Bronze
A Flower Traveled in My Blood
by Haley Cohen Gilliland
(Simon & Schuster)
United Kingdom & Ireland – Fiction
GOLD
Flesh
by David Szalay
(Scribner)
Silver
The Benefactors
by Wendy Erskine
(Hodder & Stoughton)
Bronze
Nesting
by Roisín O’Donnell
(Scribner UK)
United Kingdom & Ireland – Nonfiction
GOLD
Electric Spark The Enigma of Muriel Spark
by Frances Wilson
(Bloomsbury Publishing)
Silver
The Boundless Deep
by Richard Holmes
(William Collins)
Bronze
The Secret Public
by Jon Savage
(Faber & Faber)
Europe – Fiction
GOLD
The Director
by Daniel Kehlmann
translated by Ross Benjamin
(Summit Books)
Silver
The Lack of Light
by Nino Haratischwili
(HarperVia)
Bronze
The Wax Child
by Olga Ravn
(New Directions)
Europe – Nonfiction
GOLD
Lone Wolf
by Adam Weymouth
(Crown)
Silver
Motherland
by Julia Ioffe
(Ecco)
Bronze
The First Russian Revolution
by Susanna Rabow-Edling
(Reaktion Books)
Africa – Fiction
GOLD
Dream Count
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
(Alfred A. Knopf)
Silver
Theft
by Abdulrazak Gurnah
(Riverhead Books)
Bronze
Necessary Fiction
by Eloghosa Osunde
(Riverhead Books)
Africa – Nonfiction
GOLD
The Second Emancipation
by Howard W. French
(Liveright Publishing Corporation)
Silver
The Ethiopians A History
by Steven Kaplan
(Reaktion Books)
Bronze
Morafe Person, Family, and Nation in Colonial
by Minna Salami
(Khumisho Moguerane)
Middle East – Fiction
GOLD
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
by Rabih Alameddine
(Grove Press)
Silver
Too Soon
by Betty Shamieh
(Simon & Schuster)
Bronze
The Persians
by Sanam Mahloudji
(Scribner)
Middle East – Nonfiction
GOLD
King of Kings The Iranian Revolution
by Scott Anderson
(Doubleday)
Silver
The Eyes of Gaza A Diary of Resilience
by Plestia Alaqad
(Little, Brown and Company)
Bronze
America’s Middle East The Ruination of a Region
by Marc Lynch
(Hurst Publishers)
Asia – Fiction
GOLD
We Do Not Part
by Han Kang
translated by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris
(Hogarth)
Silver
Hunchback
by Saou Ichikawa
translated by Polly Barton
(Hogarth)
Bronze
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
by Kiran Desai
(Hogarth)
Asia – Nonfiction
GOLD
Apple in China The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company
by Patrick McGee
(Scribner)
Silver
House of Huawei The Secret History of China’s Most Powerful Company
by Eva Dou
(Portfolio)
Bronze
Breakneck China’s Quest to Engineer the Future
by Dan Wang
(W. W. Norton & Company)
Australia, New Zealand & Pacific – Fiction
GOLD
Wild Dark Shore
by Charlotte McConaghy
(Flatiron Books)
Silver
I Want Everything
by Dominic Amerena
(Simon & Schuster Australia)
Bronze
Mad Mabel
by Sally Hepworth
(Pan Macmillan Australia)
Australia, New Zealand & Pacific – Nonfiction
GOLD
A Different Kind of Power A Memoir
by Jacinda Ardern
(Crown)
Silver
The Erin Patterson Murders
by Sutton Landau
(Text Publishing)
Bronze
Memorial Days
by Geraldine Brooks
(Viking)