Winners, announced on November 18th, are in RED
Fiction
- Adam Johnson, Fortune Smiles
- Jesse Ball, A Cure for Suicide
- Bill Clegg, Did You Ever Have a Family
- Karen E. Bender, Refund
- Angela Flournoy, The Turner House
- Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies
- T. Geronimo Johnson, Welcome to Braggsville
- Edith Pearlman, Honeydew
- Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
- Nell Zink, Mislaid
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
- Cynthia Barnett, RainMartha Hodes, Mourning Lincoln
- Sally Mann, Hold Still
- Sy Montgomery, The Soul of an Octopus
- Susanna Moore, Paradise of the Pacific
- Michael Paterniti, Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays
- Carla Power, If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran
- Tracy K. Smith, Ordinary Light
- Michael White, Travels in Vermeer: A Memoir
- Robin Coste Lewis, Voyage of the Sable Venus
- Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
- Amy Gerstler, Scattered at Sea
- Marilyn Hacker, A Stranger's Mirror
- Terrance Hayes, How to Be Drawn
- Jane Hirshfield, The Beauty
- Ada Limón, Bright Dead Things
- Patrick Phillips, Elegy for a Broken Machine
- Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Heaven
- Lawrence Raab, Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts
- Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep
- Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
- M.T. Anderson, Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
- Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish
- Rae Carson, Walk on Earth a Stranger
- Gary Paulsen, This Side of Wild: Mutts, Mares, and Laughing Dinosaurs
- Laura Ruby, Bone Gap
- Ilyasah Shabazz, with Kekla Magoon, X: A Novel
- Steve Sheinkin, Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
- Noelle Stevenson, Nimona
