Best Adult Books

National Book Award

The Last Hurrah

Edwin O'Connor

National Book Award Finalist

The Light of the World

Elizabeth Alexander

National Book Award

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara

National Book Award Finalist

National Book Award

Look

Solmaz Sharif

National Book Award Finalist

Edgar

The Lost Girls

Heather Young

Edgar Awards Finalist

Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War

Brian Matthew Jordan

Pulitzer

Marjorie Prime

Jordan Harrison

Pulitzer Prize Finalist

Nebula

Mars Crossing

Geoffrey A. Landis

Nebula Awards Finalist

Edgar

The Masque of a Murderer

Susanna Calkins

Edgar Awards Finalist

Maud’s Line

Margaret Verble

National Book Award

Mumbo Jumbo

Ishmael Reed

National Book Award Finalist

Edgar

Murder in the Closet: Essays on Queer Clues in Crime Fiction Before Stonewall

Curtis Evans

Edgar Awards Finalist

My Otaku Life

James Agee

Natural Wonders

Stacey Levine

Edgar

The Neon Haystack

James M. Ullman

Edgar Awards Finalist

New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America

Wendy Warren

New-Generation African Poets

Chris Abani

National Book Award

News of the World

Paulette Jiles

National Book Award Finalist

Hugo

Ninefox Gambit

Yoon Ha Lee

Hugo Awards Finalist

National Book Award

Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War

Viet Thanh Nguyen

National Book Award Finalist

Edgar

Open Season

C.J. Box

Edgar Awards Finalist

National Book Award

The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

Andrés Reséndez

National Book Award Finalist

Edgar

Past Crimes

Glen Erik Hamilton

Edgar Awards Finalist

Hugo

Penric’s Demon

Lois McMaster Bujold

Hugo Awards Finalist