2021 Book Award Winners

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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

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• Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller

  2021CostaNovel

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• The Kids by Hannah Lowe

  2021CostaPoetry

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• The Crossing by Manjeet Mann

  2021CostaChildren's

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  Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson

  2021CostaFirst Novel

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• Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell by John Preston

  2021CostaBiography

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• Floaters by Martín Espada

  2021NBAPoetry

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• 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

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• "Glass Bottle Dancer" by Celeste Rita Baker

  2021World FantasyShort Fiction
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  The Promise by Damon Galgut

  2021BookerFiction

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

  2021KirkusNonfiction

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• 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

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• Network Effect by Martha Wells

  2021LocusSF Novel

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• 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

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• The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay

  2021ClarkeScience Fiction

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• 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

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• 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

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

  2021PulitzerHistory

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  Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

  2021Women's PrizeFiction

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller

  2021NewberyChildren's

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  We Are Water Protectors by Michaela Goade

  2021CaldecottPicture Books

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

  2021Michael L. Printz AwardYoung Adult

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• Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs

  2021CarnegieNonfiction

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• Deacon King Kong by James McBride

  2021CarnegieFiction

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