Julia Ward Howe Prize Winners

1997 to 2022

Title

Author

Publisher

2022

Fiction

Libertie

Kaitlyn Greenidge

Algonquin

The Book for Form and Emptiness

Ruth Ozeki

Viking

Non-Fiction

American Made

Farah Stockman

Random House

Poetry

It Isn't a Ghost if it Lives in your Chest

Joan Houlihan

Four Way

Young Reader

Born Behind Bars

Padma Venkatraman

Nancy Paulson

2021

Fiction

Monogamy

Sue Miller

Harper Collins

Non-Fiction

Rule of Five

Richard Lazarus

Harvard University

Poetry

Owed

Joshua Bennett

Penguin Random House

Young Reader

This Book is Anti-Racist

Tiffany Jewell

Francis Lincoln

2020

Fiction

The World that We Knew

Alice Hoffman

Simon and Schuster

Non-Fiction

Floating Coast

Bathsheba Demuth

WW Norton

Poetry

Tap Out

Edgar Kunz

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Young Reader

16 Words: William Carlos Williams and "The Red Wheelbarrow"

Lisa Rogers

Schwartz & Wade/ Penguin

2019

Fiction

Winter Loon

Susan Bernhard

Little A

Non-Fiction

The Perfectionists

Simon Winchester

Harper

Young Reader

My Real Name is Hanna

Tara Lynn Masih

Mandel Vilar

2018

Fiction

The Weigh of Ink

Rachel Kadish

Mariner

Non-Fiction

Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution

Jonathan Losos

Riverhead

Poetry

Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016

Frank Bidart

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Young Reader

The Youngest Marcher

Cynthia Levenson

Atheneum

2017

General

From Nothing

Daniel Tobin

Four Way

Young Reader

When the Sea Turned to Silver

Grace Lin

Little Brown

2016

General

The Marriage of Opposites

Alice Hoffman

Simon & Schuster

Young Reader

Symphony for the City of the Dead

M.T.Anderson

Candlewick

2015

General

Miss Anne in Harlem: the White Women in Black Renaissance

Carla Kaplan

Harper Perennial

2013

General

The Art Forger

B.A.Shapiro

Algonquin

Young Reader

The Good Braider

Terry Farish

Marshall Cavendish

2012

General

Binocular Vision

Edith Pearlman

Lookout

Young Reader

Exposed

Kimberly Marcus

Random House

2011

General

Common as Air

Lewis Hyde

Farrar, Strauss Giroux

Young Reader

The Last Summer of the Death Warriors

Francisco X. Stork

Arthur A. Levine

2010

General

In Her Wake

Nancy Rappaport

Basic Books

Young Reader

Lost

Jaqueline Davies

Marshall Cavendish

2009

General

The Forever War

Dexter Filkins

Knopf

Young Reader

Climbing the Stairs

Padma Venkatraman

G.P. Putnam

2008

General

When the Ground Turns in Its Sleep

Sylvia Sellers-Garcia

Riverhead

Young Reader

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Brian Selznick

Scholastic

2007

General

House of War: The Pentagon & the Disastrous Rise of American Power

James Carroll

Houghton Mifflin

Young Reader

Octavian Nothing: Volume I, The Pox Party

M.T.Anderson

Candlewick

2006

General

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

Charles C. Mann

Alfred A. Knopf

Young Reader

Where the Great Hawk Flies

Liza Ketchum

Clarion Books

2005

General

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin

Gordon S. Wood

Penguin

Young Reader

How I Live Now

Meg Rosoff

Random House

2004

General

Hawthorne: A Life

Brenda Wineapple

Alfred A. Knopf

Young Reader

The Fattening Hut

Pat Lowery Collins

Houghton Mifflin

2003

General

Beacon Hill

Moying Li-Marcus

Northeastern U. Press

Young Reader

The Pond

Gordon Morrison

Houghton Mifflin

2002

General

From Psalm to Symphony

Nicholas Tawa

Northeastern University

Young Reader

Razzle

Ellen Wittlinger

Simon & Schuster

2001

General

Boston A to Z

Thomas H. O'Connor

Harvard University

Young Reader

Nature's Fury

Carole G. Vogel

Scholastic

2000

General

All Souls

Michael Patrick MacDonald

Beacon

Young Reader

Summer Hawk

Deborah Savage

Houghton Mifflin

1999

General

Badge of Courage

Linda H. Davis

Houghton Mifflin

1998

General

The Red Tent

Anita Diamant

Houghton Mifflin

1997

General

Czechoslovakia between Stalin and Hitler

Igor Lukas

Oxford University