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​2021
Winner
Harrow by Joy Williams
 
Finalists
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez translated by Megan McDowell
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
Bolla by Pajtim Statovci translated by David Hackston
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
2020
Winner
Luster by Raven Leilani
 
Finalists
Black Sunday by Tola Rotimi Abraham
Fiebre Tropical by Juliana Delgado Lopera
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
2019
Winner
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
 
Finalists
Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis
The Other Americans by Laila Lalami
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima translated by Geraldine Harcourt
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
2018
Winner
Severance by Ling Ma
 
Finalists
Halsey Street by Naima Coster
Florida by Lauren Groff
Mourning by Eduardo Halfon translated by Lisa Dillman & Daniel Hahn
Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Tell the Machine Goodnight (The Happiness Machine) by Katie Williams
2017
Winner
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah
 
Finalists
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
White Tears by Hari Kunzru
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado
The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
2016
Winner
The Sport of Kings by CE Morgan
 
Finalists
Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett
Carousel Court by Joe Mcginniss Jr
Barkskins by E Annie Proulx
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
2015
Winner
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
 
Finalists
The Incarnations by Susan Barker
A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli translated by Christina Macsweeney
The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard
2014
Winner
Euphoria by Lily King
 
Finalists
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu
Florence Gordon by Brian Morton
The Remedy For Love by Bill Roorbach
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters