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2025

Winner
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange

Shortlist
James by Percival Everett
Before the Mango Ripens by Afabwaje Kurian
There is a Rio Grande in Heaven by Ruben Reyes Jr
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden

Longlist
Madwoman by Chelsea Bieker
Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell
Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez
A Great Country by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Kingdom of No Tomorrow by Fabienne Josaphat
The Road to the Salt Sea by Samuel Kolawole
Lilith by Eric Rickstad
Fire Exit by Morgan Talty
Devil is Fine by John Vercher
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2024

Winner
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad

Finalists
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Temple Folk by Aaliyah Bilal
Witness by Jamel Brinkley
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

Longlist
The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa by Stephen Buoro
The Laughter by Sonora Jha
What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jimenez
Yellowface by RF Kuang
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
When Trying to Return Home: Stories by Jennifer Maritza McCauley
The People Who Report More Stress: Stories by Alejandro Varela
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang
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2023

Winner
The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories by Jamil Jan Kochai

Finalists
How Not To Drown in a Glass of Water: A Novel by Angie Cruz
Calling For a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah
The Consequences by Manuel Munoz
All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews

Longlist
When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar
Glory by Noviolet Bulawayo
If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid
The Last Suspicious Holdout by Ladee Hubbard
What We Fed to the Manticore by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri
Harry Sylvester Bird by Chinelo Okparanta
Memphis by Tara M Stringfellow
The Town of Babylon by Alejandro Varela
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2022

Winner
The Final Revival Of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton

Finalists
The Arsonists’ City by Hala Alyan
What Storm, What Thunder by Myriam JA Chancy
What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad
The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade

Longlist
Radiant Fugitives by Nawaaz Ahmed
The Startup Wife by Tahmima Alam
A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself by Peter Ho Davies
Swimming Back to Trout River by Linda Rui Feng
Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge
Abundance by Jakob Guanzon
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
Things We Lost To The Water by Eric Nguyen
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
Bewilderness by Karen Tucker
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2021

Winner
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich

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
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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
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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
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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 Hanff 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
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