Best Adult Books

Pulitzer

Heroes of the Fourth Turning

Will Arbery

Pulitzer Prize Finalist

How to Write a Poem

Kwame Alexander

Edgar

I Know Who You Are: How An Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever

Barbara Rae-Venter

Edgar Awards Finalist

Edgar

In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child

Kim Cross

Edgar Awards Finalist

Pulitzer

Information Desk: An Epic

Robyn Schiff

Pulitzer Prize Finalist

Edgar

Like a Sister

Kellye Garrett

Edgar Awards Finalist

Edgar

Lowdown Road

Scott Von Doviak

Edgar Awards Finalist

Edgar

The Maid

Nita Prose

Edgar Awards Finalist

Hugo

Mammoths at the Gates

Nghi Vo

Hugo Awards Finalist

Hugo

The Mimicking of Known Successes

Malka Older

Hugo Awards Finalist

Edgar

More Than You'll Ever Know

Katie Gutierrez

Edgar Awards Finalist

Nebula

The Mountain in the Sea

Ray Nayler

Nebula Awards Finalist

Pulitzer

Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century

Jennifer Homans

Pulitzer Prize Finalist

Edgar

Murder in Postscript

Mary Winters

Edgar Awards Finalist

Narrow Road Between Desires

Patrick Rothfuss

Edgar

Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

Zeke Faux

Edgar Awards Finalist

Edgar

Of Manners and Murder

Anastasia Hastings

Edgar Awards Finalist

National Book Award

On a Woman’s Madness

Astrid Roemer

National Book Award Finalist

National Book Award

Ordinary Notes

Christina Sharpe

National Book Award Finalist

Edgar

Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder

David Bordwell

Edgar Awards Finalist

Pulitzer

Pessoa: A Biography

Richard Zenith

Pulitzer Prize Finalist

The Playbook

Kwame Alexander

Edgar

The River We Remember

William Kent Krueger

Edgar Awards Finalist

Hugo

Rose/House

Arkady Martine

Hugo Awards Finalist