2024 Awards

for books published in 2023

Fiction Winner

Kantika by Elizabeth Graver

Notable Books

Such Kindness by Andre Dubus III

I Could Liver Here Forever by Hannah Halperin

The Archivists by Daphne Kalotay

Non-Fiction Winner

The Lincoln Miracle by Edward Achorn

Notable Books

In the Shadow of Quetzacoatl by Merilee Grindle

Books that Live by W. Drake McFeely

Poetry

The Diaspora Sonnets by Oliver de la Paz

Nocturne in Joy by Tatiana Johnson-Boria

Notable Books

To 2040 by Jorie Graham

Purgatory Road by Charles Coe

Ghost Seeds by Sebastian Merrill

Love in a Time of Lament by Rennie McQuilkin

I am the Most Dangerous Thing by Candace Williams

Children’s/YA Winner: Younger Readers

Masala Chai, Fast and Slow by Rajani LaRocca

Notable Books

Beautiful Noise by Lisa Rogers

Children’s/YA Winner: Older Readers

A Long Time Coming by Ray Anthony Shepard

Notable Books

A Sky Full of Song by Susan Lynn Meyer

Lifetime Award


Tracy Kidder

A photo of Tracy Kidder from the shoulders up. He is wearing a grey quarter zip over an orange collared shirt.

With a big thank you to Whitelam Books in Reading, MA