The 22nd Annual
Julia Ward Howe Award

The 2019 award ceremony of the 22nd Julia Ward Howe Award (for books published in 2018) was held on Tuesday, September 17, 2019 from 6PM to 8PM at the Orientation Room (Dartmouth Street Entrance) of the Boston Public Library.

2018
Fiction — Winner

Non-Fiction — Winner

Non-Fiction — Finalists

Alexander Bevilacqua, The Republic of Arabic Letters

Julie Dobrow, After Emily

Eric Jay Dolin, Black Flags, Blue Waters

Young Readers— Winner

Young Readers — Finalists

M.T. Anderson, The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge

Jason Reynolds, Sunny

Martin Sandler, Apollo 8: The Mission that Changed Everything