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2021
Winner
We Germans by Alexander Starritt

Runner-Up
The Mountains Sing by Nguyen Phan Que Mai

Finalists
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore
2020
Winner
The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman

Runner-Up
The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
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Finalists
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
2019
Winner
What We Owe by Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde

Runner-Up
The Overstory by Richard Powers

Finalists
Insurrecto by Gina Apostol
White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht
There There by Tommy Orange
Sadness Is a White Bird by Moriel Rothman-Zecher
2018
Winner
Salt Houses by Hala Alyan

Runner-Up
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Finalists
Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
2017
Winner
The Veins of the Ocean by Patricia Engel

Runner-Up
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Finalists
Perfume River by Robert Olen Butler
The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies
Barkskins by E Annie Proulx
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
2016
Winner
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Runner-Up
Delicious Foods by James Hannaham

Finalists
Green on Blue by Elliot Ackerman
Youngblood by Matt Gallagher
Orhan’s Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
2015
Winner
The Great Glass Sea by Josh Weil

Runner-Up
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Finalists
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez
The Care and Management of Lies by Jacqueline Winspear
Land of Love and Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique
2014
Winner
The Woman Who Lost Her Soul by Bob Shacochis

Runner-Up
Wash by Margaret Wrinkle

Finalists
The Cartographer of No Man's Land by PS Duffy
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
Someone by Alice McDermott
In the Night of Time by Antonio Munoz Molina
2013
Winner
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson

Runner-Up
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain

Finalists
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
The Life of Objects by Susanna Moore
The Coldest Night by Robert Olmstead
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
2012
Winner
The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak

Runner-Up
Nanjing Requiem by Ha Jin

Finalists
The Grief of Others by Leah Hager Cohen
The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje
Shards by Ismet Prcic
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
2011
Winner
The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee

Runner-Up
Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste

Finalists
Crossing Madelbaum Gate by Kai Bird
How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu
The Gendarme by Mark T Mustian
Kapitoil by Teddy Wayne
2010
Winner
The Book of Night Women by Marlon James

Runner-Up
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Finalists
A Postcard from the Volcano by Lucy Beckett
A Good Fall by Ha Jin
The Calligrapher’s Daughter by Eugenia Kim
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
2009
Winner
Peace by Richard Bausch

Runner-Up
Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan

Finalists
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
Beijing Coma by Ma Jian
Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner
Song Yet Sung by James McBride
2008
Winner
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Runner-Up
Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcon

Finalists
Song for Night by Chris Abani
Coal Black Horse by Robert Olmstead
The Ocean in the Closet by Yuko Taniguchi
2007
Winner
Birds in Fall by Brad Kessler

Runner-Up
Skinner’s Drift by Lisa Fugard

Finalists
At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 by Taylor Branch
The Syringa Tree by Pamela Gien
The Last Town On Earth by Thomas Mullen
Wizard of the Crow by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
2006
Winner
A Changed Man by Francine Prose

Runner-Up
The Discontinuity of Small Things by Kevin Haworth

​Finalists
War by Candlelight by Daniel Alarcon
Zahir: A Novel of Obsession by Paulo Coelho
The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich
In Perfect Light by Benjamin Alire Saenz