2021

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  The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

  2021NBCCFiction
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  How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith

  2021NBCCNonfiction
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  Girlhood by Melissa Febos

  2021NBCCCriticism
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  Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton Lin

  2021NBCCAutobiography
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  Frank: Sonnets by Diane Seuss

  2021NBCCPoetry
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  All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner

  2021NBCCBiography
• Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller

  2021CostaNovel
• The Kids by Hannah Lowe

  2021CostaPoetry
• The Crossing by Manjeet Mann

  2021CostaChildren's
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  Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson

  2021CostaFirst Novel
• Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell by John Preston

  2021CostaBiography
• Floaters by Martín Espada

  2021NBAPoetry
• What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad

  2021GillerFiction
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  Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson

  2021World FantasyNovel
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  Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi

  2021World FantasyNovella
• "Glass Bottle Dancer" by Celeste Rita Baker

  2021World FantasyShort Fiction
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  The Promise by Damon Galgut

  2021BookerFiction
• Works of Abdulrazak Gurnah by Abdulrazak Gurnah

  2021NobelLiterature
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  Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir by Brian Broome

  2021KirkusNonfiction
• Harrow by Joy Williams

  2021KirkusFiction
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  All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team by Christina Soontornvat

  2021KirkusYoung Readers
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  Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia Butler

  2021HugoGraphic Story
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  The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin

  2021LocusFantasy
• Network Effect by Martha Wells

  2021LocusSF Novel
• Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger

  2021LocusFirst Novel
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  A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher

  2021LocusYoung Adult
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  At Night All Blood Is BlackFrère d'âme by David Diop

  2021Int'l BookerTranslated Fiction
• The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay*

  2021ClarkeScience Fiction
• Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino

  2021PulitzerNonfiction
• The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich

  2021PulitzerFiction
• The Hot Wing King by Katori Hall

  2021PulitzerDrama
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  The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by the late Les Payne and Tamara Payne

  2021PulitzerBiography
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  Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz

  2021PulitzerPoetry
• Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain

  2021PulitzerHistory
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  Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

  2021Women's PrizeFiction
• Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather by Sarah Pinsker

  2021NebulaShort Story
• O2 Arena by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki

  2021NebulaNovelette
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  And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed

  2021NebulaNovella
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  A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger

  2021NebulaYoung Adult
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  A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark

  2021NebulaNovel
• You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat

  2021LambdaBisexual Literature
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  Wow, No Thank You.: Essays by Samantha Irby

  2021LambdaBisexual Literature
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  The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar

  2021LambdaTransgender Fiction
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  The Black Trans Prayer Book by J Mase IIIandLady Dane Figueroa Edidi

  2021LambdaTransgender Fiction
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  Salt Body Shimmer by Aricka Foreman

  2021LambdaBisexual Literature
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  Neotenica by Joon Oluchi Lee

  2021LambdaGay Fiction
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  My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland

  2021LambdaLesbian Memoir
• I Love You and I'm Not Dead by Sade LaNay

  2021LambdaTransgender Fiction
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  Fiebre Tropical by Julián Delgado Lopera

  2021LambdaLesbian Fiction
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  Apsara Engine

  2021LambdaLGBTQ+ Comics
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  A Dutiful Boy by Mohsin Zaidi

  2021LambdaGay Memoir
• Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn

  2021PEN/HemingwayDebut Novel
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  The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw

  2021PEN/FaulknerFiction
• When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller

  2021NewberyChildren's
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  We Are Water Protectors by Michaela Goade

  2021CaldecottPicture Books
• Everything Sad Is Untrue(a true story) by Daniel Nayeri

  2021Michael L. Printz AwardYoung Adult
• Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs

  2021CarnegieNonfiction
• Deacon King Kong by James McBride

  2021CarnegieFiction

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