Best Adult Books

National Book Award

Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution

Mary Gabriel

National Book Award Finalist

Making the Trees Shiver An Anthology of the First Six Years of the Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival

Chris Abani

Edgar

The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter

Mark Seal

Edgar Awards Finalist

National Book Award

The Mansion

William Faulkner

National Book Award Finalist

National Book Award

The Martyred

Richard Kim

National Book Award Finalist

Nebula

Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti

Genevieve Valentine

Nebula Awards Finalist

A Middle English Reader and Vocabulary

J.R.R. Tolkien

Edgar

Money Shot

Christa Faust

Edgar Awards Finalist

Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon

Michael O’Brien

Edgar

Murder Most Persuasive

Tracy Kiely

Edgar Awards Finalist

Edgar

The News Where You Are

Catherine O'Flynn

Edgar Awards Finalist

Edgar

The Odds

Kathleen George

Edgar Awards Finalist

One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing

Diane Ackerman

National Book Award

Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

National Book Award Finalist

Edgar

The Poacher's Son

Paul Doiron

Edgar Awards Finalist

The Privileges

Jonathan Dee

The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century

Alan Brinkley

Edgar

Red on Red

Edward Conlon

Edgar Awards Finalist

Edgar

Robbie's Wife

Russell Hill

Edgar Awards Finalist

Rotters

Daniel Kraus

Edgar

The Savage City: Race, Murder and a Generation on the Edge

T.J. English

Edgar Awards Finalist

Edgar

Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, The Birds and Marnie

Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick

Edgar Awards Finalist

Nebula

Shades of Milk and Honey

Mary Robinette Kowal

Nebula Awards Finalist

Hugo

Silently and Very Fast

Catherynne M. Valente

Hugo Awards Finalist