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The Veins of the Ocean: A Novel

Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction 2017

by Patricia Engel

“Engel has an eye for detail. She knows how to drown the reader in a sense of enchantment... She writes exquisite moments.”—Roxane Gay, The Nation

Reina Castillo is the alluring young woman whose beloved...

What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars

Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction 2017

by David Wood

From Pulitzer Prize-­winning journalist David Wood, a battlefield view of moral injury, the signature wound of America's 21st century wars.

Most Americans are now familiar with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder...

Behold the Dreamers: A Novel

PEN/Faulkner Award 2017

by Imbolo Mbue

A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream—the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just...

The Obelisk Gate

The Broken Earth #2

Hugo Award for Best Novel 2017

by N. K. Jemisin

Winner of the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel

"Magnificent" - NPR

The acclaimed sequel to the bestselling The Fifth Season, winner of the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novel, and a New York Times Notable Book of 2015....

A General Theory of Oblivion

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2017

by Jose Eduardo Agualusa & Daniel Hahn

As the country goes through various political upheavals from colony to socialist republic to civil war to peace and capitalism, the world outside seeps into Ludo's life through snippets on the radio, voices...

A Horse Walks into a Bar: A novel

Man Booker International Prize 2017

by David Grossman & Jessica Cohen

**WINNER OF THE 2017 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE**

The award-winning and internationally acclaimed author of the To the End of the Land now gives us a searing short novel about the life of a stand-up comic,...

The Association of Small Bombs: A Novel

NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award 2017

by Karan Mahajan

National Book Award Finalist

Winner of the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award

Winner of the American Academy of Arts & Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation Award

Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Award...

The High Places

Dylan Thomas Prize 2017

by Fiona McFarlane

What a terrible thing at a time like this: to own a house, and the trees around it. Janet sat rigid in her seat. The plane lifted from the city and her house fell away, consumed by the other houses. Janet worried...

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

Pulitzer Prize for History 2017

by Heather Ann Thompson

WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY 

WINNER OF THE 2017 BANCROFT PRIZE

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST * NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK FOR 2016 * NAMED A BEST...

The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography 2017

by Hisham Matar

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • The acclaimed memoir about fathers and sons, a legacy of loss, and, ultimately, healing—one of The New York Times Book Review’s ten best books of the year, winner of the...

A Rage for Order

Lionel Gelber Prize 2017

by Robert F. Worth

The definitive work of literary journalism on the Arab Spring and its troubled aftermath

In 2011, a wave of revolution spread through the Middle East as protesters demanded an end to tyranny, corruption, and...

Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War

Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction 2016

by Susan Southard

“[A] reminder of just how horrible nuclear weapons are.”—The Wall Street Journal

“A devastating read that highlights man’s capacity to wreak destruction, but in which one also catches a glimpse of all...

The Leavers: A Novel

Bellwether Prize 2016

by Lisa Ko

“There was a time I would have called Lisa Ko’s novel beautifully written, ambitious, and moving, and all of that is true, but it’s more than that now: if you want to understand a forgotten and essential...

The Lesser Bohemians: A Novel

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction 2016

by Eimear McBRide

Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction

Shortlisted for the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize

Shortlisted for the 2016 Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards Eason Novel of the Year

The breathtaking new novel from Eimear...

The Fifth Season

The Broken Earth #1

Hugo Award for Best Novel 2016

by N. K. Jemisin

"Intricate and extraordinary." - New York Times on The Fifth Season (A New York Times Notable Book of 2015)

WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL 2016

This is the way the world ends...for the last time.

A season...

Gutshot

NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award 2016

by Amelia Gray

A searing new collection from the inimitable Amelia Gray.

A woman creeps through the ductwork of a quiet home. A medical procedure reveals an object of worship. A carnivorous reptile divides and cauterizes a...

How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS

Green Carnation Prize 2016

by David France

A definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic, here is the incredible story of the grassroots activists whose work turned HIV from a mostly fatal infection to a manageable disease....

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography 2016

by Ruth Franklin

A New York Times Notable Book of 2016

A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Pick of 2016

An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of 2016

A Time Magazine Top Nonfiction of 2016

A Seattle Times Best Book of 2016

A Kirkus...

House of Lords and Commons

National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry 2016

by Ishion Hutchinson

A stunning collection that traverses the borders of culture and time, from the 2011 winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award

In House of Lords and Commons, the revelatory and vital new collection of poems from...

Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

Dylan Thomas Prize 2016

by Max Porter

Here he is, husband and father, scruffy romantic, a shambolic scholar--a man adrift in the wake of his wife's sudden, accidental death. And there are his two sons who like him struggle in their London apartment...