Year
Category
Author
Title
Result
2024[ 7] [ 8] [ 9]
Fiction
James McBride The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store Won
Ann Patchett Tom Lake Honor
Eleanor Catton Birnam Wood Finalist
Jesmyn Ward Let Us Descend
Zadie Smith The Fraud
Nonfiction
David Grann The Wager Won
Jonathan Rosen The Best Minds Finalist
Ilyon Woo Master Slave Husband Wife
Claire Dederer Monsters
Donovan X. Ramsey When Crack Was King
Young Adult Fiction
Rebecca Ross Divine Rivals Won
Isabel Ibañez What the River Knows Honor
Brandy Colbert The Blackwoods Finalist
Krystal Marquis The Davenports
Angeline Boulley Warrior Girl Unearthed
Audiobook
Rebecca Makkai I Have Some Questions for You Won
S. A. Cosby All the Sinners Bleed Finalist
Jonathan Eig King: A Life
Matthew Desmond Poverty, By America
Mick Herron The Secret Hours
Debut Author
Ana Reyes The House in the Pines Won
Selby Wynn Schwartz After Sappho Finalist
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Chain-Gang All Stars
Mac Crane I Keep Exoskeletons to Myself
Alice Winn In Memoriam
Diverse Author
Michelle Min Sterling Camp Zero Won
Stephen Kearse Liquid Snakes Finalist
Victor LaValle Lone Women
Annalee Newitz The Terraformers
Chana Porter The Thick and the Lean
Comic/Graphic Novel
Darrin Bell The Talk Won
E. M. Carroll A Guest in the House Finalist
Tom King One Bad Day: The Riddler (Batman)
Jillian Tamaki Mariko Tamaki Roaming
Deena Mohamed Shubeik Lubeik
Memoir & Autobiography
Elliot Page Pageboy Won
Naomi Klein Doppelganger Finalist
Safiya Sinclair How to Say Babylon
Barbra Streisand My Name is Barbra
Maggie Smith You Could Make This Place Beautiful
Cookbook
Sohla El-Waylly Start Here Won
Dan Pelosi Let's Eat Honor
Leah Koenig Portico Finalist
Erika Council Still We Rise
Hetty Lui McKinnon Tenderheart
Mystery
Jesse Q. Sutanto Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers Won
Deepti Kapoor Age of Vice Finalist
Angie Kim Happiness Falls
Brendan Slocumb Symphony of Secrets
Richard Osman The Last Devil to Die
Thriller
Jessica Knoll Bright Young Women Won
S. A. Cosby All the Sinners Bleed Finalist
Catherine Chidgey Pet
Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi The Centre
Mick Herron The Secret Hours
Romance
Kate Clayborn Georgie, All Along Won
Cat Sebastian We Could Be So Good Honor
Liana De la Rosa Ana María and the Fox Finalist
Rachel Lynn Solomon Business or Pleasure
KJ Charles A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel
Fantasy
Rebecca Yarros Fourth Wing Won
Samantha Shannon A Day of Fallen Night Finalist
Leigh Bardugo Hell Bent
Moniquill Blackgoose To Shape a Dragon's Breath
Martha Wells Witch King
Romantasy
Rebecca Yarros Iron Flame Won
Heather Fawcett Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries Finalist
Chloe Gong Immortal Longings
Alexis Hall Mortal Follies
Thea Guanzon The Hurricane Wars
Science Fiction
Martha Wells System Collapse Won
M. R. Carey Infinity Gate Finalist
Emily Tesh Some Desperate Glory
Yume Kitasei The Deep Sky
Ann Leckie Translation State
Historical Fiction
Jesmyn Ward Let Us Descend Won
David Diop Beyond the Door of No Return Finalist
Tania James Loot
Daniel Mason North Woods
Rachel Heng The Great Reclamation
Book Club Pick
R. F. Kuang Yellowface Won
Ann Napolitano Hello Beautiful Finalist
Jessica George George Maame
Ann Patchett Tom Lake
Nathan Hill Wellness
2025[ 10] [ 11]
Fiction
Kristin Hannah The Women Won
Percival Everett James Honor
Liz Moore The God of the Woods Finalist
Taffy Brodesser-Akner Long Island Compromise
Richard Powers Playground
Nonfiction
Erik Larson The Demon of Unrest Won
Rebecca Nagle By the Fire We Carry Honor
Adam Higginbotham Challenger Finalist
Malcolm Gladwell Revenge of the Tipping Point
Hanif Abdurraqib There's Always This Year
Young Adult Fiction
Sabaa Tahir Heir Won
Jason Reynolds Twenty-Four Seconds from Now Honor
Olivia A. Cole Ariel Crashes a Train Finalist
C. G. Drews Don't Let the Forest In
K. A. Cabell Looking for Smoke
Audiobook
Erik Larson Will Patton and Erik LarsonThe Demon of Unrest Won
Kaveh Akbar Arian Moayed Martyr! Honor
Sylvie Cathrall A Letter to the Luminous Deep Finalist
Simon Van Booy Sipsworth
Alina Grabowski Women and Children First
Debut Author
Kaliane Bradley The Ministry of Time Won
Natalie Sue I Hope This Finds You Well Honor
Rita Bullwinkel Headshot Finalist
Kaveh Akbar Martyr!
Essie Chambers Swift River
Book Club Pick
Rufi Thorpe Margo's Got Money Troubles Won
Rachel Khong Real Americans Honor
Danzy Senna Colored Television Finalist
Louise Erdrich The Mighty Red
Betsy Lerner Shred Sisters
Business Book
Denise Young When We Are Seen Won
Mary C. Murphy Cultures of Growth Honor
Peg Fitzpatrick The Art of Small Business Social Media Finalist
Salman Khan Brave New Words
Steven G. Rogelberg Glad We Met
Comic/Graphic Novel
Tessa Hulls Feeding Ghosts Won
Maurice Vellekoop I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together Honor
Takeru Hokazono Kagurabachi , Volume 1Finalist
Daniel Warren Johnson Transformers
Richard Adams Watership Down
Cookbook
Dan Pashman Anything's Pastable Won
Janusz Domagala Baking with Pride Honor
Khushbu Shah Amrikan Finalist
Steve Sando The Bean Book
Christine De Witte Noodles, Rice, and Everything Spice
Fantasy
Sarah Beth Durst The Spellshop Won
Leigh Bardugo The Familiar Honor
Lev Grossman The Bright Sword Finalist
Danielle L. Jensen A Fate Inked in Blood
Tigest Girma Immortal Dark
Historical Fiction
Percival Everett James Won
Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Seventh Veil of Salome Honor
Carys Davies Clear Finalist
Kevin Barry The Heart in Winter
Claire Messud This Strange Eventful History
Horror
Chuck Tingle Bury Your Gays Won
Stephen Graham Jones I Was a Teenage Slasher Honor
Paul Tremblay Horror Movie Finalist
Kailee Pedersen Sacrificial Animals
Mariana Enriquez A Sunny Place for Shady People
Memoir & Autobiography
Salman Rushdie Knife Won
Sloane Crosley Grief Is for People Honor
Carvell Wallace Another Word for Love Finalist
Lydia Millet We Loved It All
Deborah Jackson Taffa Whiskey Tender
Middle Grade Book
Katherine Rundell Impossible Creatures Won
Tony Weaver, Jr. Weirdo Honor
Kate DiCamillo Ferris Finalist
John Schu Louder Than Hunger
Allie Millington Olivetti
Mystery
Richard Osman We Solve Murders Won
Tana French The Hunter Honor
Ruby Todd Bright Objects Finalist
Francis Spufford Cahokia Jazz
Jahmal Mayfield Smoke Kings
Picture Book
Akiko Miyakoshi Little Shrew Won
X. Fang We Are Definitely Human Honor
Oliver Jeffers The Dictionary Story Finalist
Lesa Cline-Ransome James E. Ransome Fighting with Love
Breanna J. McDaniel Go Forth and Tell
Romance
Emily Henry Funny Story Won
Danica Nava The Truth According to Ember Honor
Adib Khorram I'll Have What He's Having Finalist
KT Hoffman The Prospects
Kennedy Ryan This Could Be Us
Romantasy
Sarah J. Maas House of Flame and Shadow Won
Saara El-Arifi Faebound Honor
Mai Corland Five Broken Blades Finalist
Hannah Whitten The Hemlock Queen
Alexandria Warwick The North Wind
Science Fiction
Kaliane Bradley The Ministry of Time Won
Yume Kitasei The Stardust Grail Honor
Marie-Helene Bertino Beautyland Finalist
Helen Phillips Hum
James S. A. Corey The Mercy of Gods
Thriller
Nicola Yoon One of Our Kind Won
Abbott Kahler Where You End Honor
Matthew Blake Anna O Finalist
Thomas Perry Hero
Jesse Q. Sutanto You Will Never Be Me
2026[ 5] [ 12] [ 13]
Adult Fiction
Taylor Jenkins Reid Atmosphere Won
Patrick Ryan Buckeye Honor
Megha Majumdar A Guardian and a Thief Finalist
Kiran Desai The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Angela Flournoy The Wilderness
Adult Nonfiction
Sophie Elmhirst A Marriage at Sea Won
Haley Cohen Gilliland A Flower Traveled in My Blood Honor
Imani Perry Black in Blues Finalist
Robert Macfarlane Is a River Alive?
Siddharth Kara The Zorg
Young Adult Fiction
Suzanne Collins Sunrise on the Reaping Won
Angeline Boulley Sisters in the Wind Honor
Mahogany L. Browne A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe Finalist
Jihyun Yun And The River Drags Her Down
Tiffany D. Jackson The Scammer
Audiobook
Fredrik Backman My Friends Won
R. F. Kuang Katabasis Honor
Virginia Evans The Correspondent Finalist
Garrett M. Graff The Devil Reached Toward the Sky
Laila Lalami The Dream Hotel
Debut Author
SenLinYu Alchemised Won
Virginia Evans The Correspondent Honor
Patrick Ryan Buckeye Finalist
Florence Knapp The Names
Eliana Ramage To the Moon and Back
Book Club Pick
Catherine Newman Wreck Won
Anna North Bog Queen Honor
Bruce Holsinger Culpability Finalist
Lily King Heart the Lover
Laila Lalami The Dream Hotel
Comic/Graphic Novel
Alison Bechdel Spent Won
Kelly Thompson Absolute Wonder Woman : Volume 1Honor
Ben Passmore Black Arms to Hold You Up Finalist
Lee Lai Cannon
Joe Sacco The Once and Future Riot
Cookbook
B. Dylan Hollis Baking Across America Won
Sean Sherman Turtle Island Honor
Rick Martinez Salsa Daddy Finalist
Joshua McFadden Six Seasons of Pasta
Alison Roman Something from Nothing
Fantasy
V. E. Schwab Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil Won
SenLinYu Alchemised Honor
R. F. Kuang Katabasis Finalist
James Islington The Strength of the Few
Sotto Yambao Water Moon
Historical Fiction
Allegra Goodman Isola Won
Karen Russell The Antidote Honor
Nathan Harris Amity Finalist
Xenobe Purvis The Hounding
Andrew Miller The Land in Winter
Horror
Stephen Graham Jones The Buffalo Hunter Hunter Won
Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Bewitching Honor
Kylie Lee Baker Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng Finalist
Nat Cassidy When the Wolf Comes Home
Andrew Joseph White You Weren’t Meant to Be Human
Memoir & Autobiography
Omar El Akkad One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Won
Chloe Dalton Raising Hare Honor
Geraldine Brooks Memorial Day Finalist
Arundhati Roy Mother Mary Comes to Me
Yiyun Li Things in Nature Merely Grow
Middle Grade Book
ND Stevenson Scarlet Morning Won
Renée Watson All the Blues in the Sky Honor
Daniel Miyares How to Say Goodbye In Cuban Finalist
Karina Yan Glaser The Nine Moons of Han Yu and Luli
James Robinson Whale Eyes
Mystery
Sherry Thomas The Librarians Won
Laura Lippman Murder Takes a Vacation Honor
Uzma Jalaluddin Detective Aunty Finalist
Susie Dent Guilty by Definition
Vanessa Lillie The Bone Thief
Personal Improvement
Glennon Doyle We Can Do Hard Things Won
Ethan Kross Shift: Managing Your Emotions—So They Don’t Manage You Honor
Rose Han Add a Zero: A Step-by-Step Guide to Financial Freedom and Getting to Your First Million Finalist
Maggie Smith Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life
Will Packer Who Better Than You?: The Art of Healthy Arrogance & Dreaming Big
Picture Book
Neil Sharpson Dan Santat Don't Trust Fish Won
Corey R. Tabor Cranky, Crabby Crow (Saves the World) Honor
James Ransome A Place for Us Finalist
Jashar Awan Every Monday Mabel
Shawn Harris Let’s Be Bees
Romance
Sarah MacLean These Summer Storms Won
Adib Khorram It Had to Be Him Honor
Regina Black August Lane Finalist
TJ Alexander A Gentleman’s Gentleman
Iman Hariri-Kia Female Fantasy
Romantasy
Rebecca Yarros Onyx Storm Won
Rachel Gillig The Knight and the Moth Honor
Devney Perry Shield of Sparrows Finalist
Akwaeke Emezi Son of the Morning
Tasha Suri The Isle in the Silver Sea
Science Fiction
Nnedi Okorafor Death of the Author Won
Ian McEwan What We Can Know Honor
Ken Liu All That We See or Seem Finalist
Yume Kitasei Saltcrop
Claire North Slow Gods
Thriller
Liann Zhang Julie Chan Is Dead Won
Julie Clark The Ghostwriter Honor
Jennifer Givhan Salt Bones Finalist
Chris Pavone The Doorman
Alafair Burke The Note
Readers’ Choice Award
Emily Henry Great Big Beautiful Life Won
Rebecca Yarros Onyx Storm Honor
Callie Hart Brimstone Finalist
Freida McFadden The Crash
Jeneva Rose The Perfect Divorce
