So. Many. BOOKS! So. Many. AWARDS!
2015 Pulitzer Prize Winners
General Nonfiction
THE SIXTH EXTINCTION by Elizabeth Kolbert (Winner)
NO GOOD MEN AMONG THE LIVING by Anand Gopal (Finalist)
AGE OF AMBITION by Evan Osnos (Finalist)
History
ENCOUNTERS AT THE HEART OF THE WORLD by Elizabeth A. Fenn (Winner)
2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners
CITIZEN by Claudia Rankine (Poetry)
THE SIXTH EXTINCTION by Elizabeth Kolbert (Science & Technology)
2015 Indies Choice Award Winners
Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year
BEING MORTAL by Atul Gawande
Adult Nonfiction Honor Awards
CAN’T WE TALK ABOUT SOMETHING MORE PLEASANT by Roz Chast
THE EMPATHY EXAMS by Leslie Jamison
ON IMMUNITY by Eula Biss
Adult Debut Honor Awards
SHOTGUN LOVESONGS by Nickolas Butler
2015 PEN Literary Awards Shortlist
PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction
THE DOG by Jack Livings
PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
THE EMPATHY EXAMS by Leslie Jamison
PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
THE SIXTH EXTINCTION by Elizabeth Kolbert
PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction
THE BIG TRUCK THAT WENT BY by Jonathan M. Katz
PEN Open Book Award (For an exceptional book-length work of literature by an author of color published in 2014)
CITIZEN: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
THE QUEEN’S BED by Anna Whitelock
PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing
BLACK NOON: The Year They Stopped the Indy 500 by Art Garner
PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
I AM THE BEGGAR OF THE WORLD by Eliza Griswold
BREATHTURN INTO TIMESTEAD by Paul Celan
PEN Translation Prize
THE SYMMETRY TEACHER by Andrei Bitov
The winners will be announced on May 13, 2015.
2015 IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award Shortlist
SOMEONE by Alice McDermott
SPARTA by Roxana Robinson
BRIEF LOVES THAT LIVE FOREVER by Andrei Makine
The winner will be announced on June 17, 2015.
Audie Award Finalist for Audiobook of the Year
WHAT I KNOW FOR SURE, written and narrated by Oprah Winfrey
The winner will be announced on May 28, 2015.