2021 Finalists Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories by Danielle Evans If I Had Two Wings by Randall Kenan
Longlist Black Sunday by Tola Rotimi Abraham The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett The New Wilderness by Diane Cook Fiebre Tropical by Juliana Delgado Lopera The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet A Girl is a Body of Water by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Real Life by Brandon Taylor Memorial by Bryan Washington
2020 Winner The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
Shortlist Opioid, Indiana by Brian Allen Carr Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli Lot (Stories) by Bryan Washington
Longlist Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha Dominicana by Angie Cruz Sabrina & Corina: Stories by Kali Fajardo-Anstine The Other Americans by Laila Lalami The Beadworkers by Beth Piatote The Affairs of the Falcons by Melissa Rivero We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin The World Doesn’t Require You by Rion Amilcar Scott On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
2019 Winner An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Shortlist Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Brother by David Chariandy Gun Love by Jennifer Clement There There by Tommy Orange
Longlist The Boat People by Sharon Bala A Lucky Man by Jamel Brinkley America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi Small Country by Gael Faye translated by Sarah Ardizzone Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson The Incendiaries by RO Kwon Severance by Ling Ma Bring Out the Dog by Will Mackin If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi by Neel Patel Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
2018 Winner Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Shortlist What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah Mad Country by Samrat Upadhyay Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Longlist Salt Houses by Hala Alyan The Accusation by Bandi Bandi Harmless Like You by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan The Graybar Hotel by Curtis Dawkins The Locals by Jonathan Dee Difficult Women by Roxane Gay The End We Start From by Megan Hunter The Devil and Webster by Jean Haruff Korelitz Black Moses by Alain Mabanckou The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen The Tower of the Antilles by Achy Obejas Music of the Ghosts by Vaddey Ratner Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran Chemistry by Weike Wang