• The Story of a Heart  - Rachel Clarke
• **Question 7  - Richard Flanagan
• Nuclear War: A Scenario - Annie Jacobsen
• A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial  - Viet Thanh Nguyen
• Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin - Sue Prideaux
• Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World - David Van Reybrouck

Fiction 

• Beautyland - Marie-Helene Bertino
• Godwin - Joseph O'Neill
• James - Percival Everett
• My Friends - Hisham Matar
• Us Fools - Nora Lange

Nonfiction

• The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq - Steve Coll
• Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space - Adam Higginbotham
• The Freaks Came Out To Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture - Tricia Romano
• Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood - Gretchen Sisson
• We're Alone - Edwidge Danticat

John Leonard Prize

• By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight For Justice on Native Land - Rebecca Nagle
• Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir - Tessa Hulls
•  Great Expectations - Vinson Cunningham
• Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius - Carrie Courogen
• Ward Toward - Cindy Juyoung Ok
• When The Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s - John Ganz

Best Novel

• The Tainted Cup - Robert Jackson Bennett
• Rough Trade - Katrina Carrasco
• Things Don't Break on Their Own - Sarah Easter Collins
• My Favorite Scar -  Nicolás Ferraro
• The God of the Woods - Liz Moore
• Listen for the Lie - Amy Tintera
• The In Crowd - Charlotte Vassel

 Best First Novel by an American Author

• Twice the Trouble - Ash Clifton
• Cold to the Touch - Kerri Hakoda
• The Mechanics of Memory - Audrey Lee 
• A Jewel in the Crown - David Lewis
• The President’s Lawyer - Lawrence Robbins
• Holy City - Henry Wise

Best Young Adult

• Looking for Smoke - K.A. Cobell
• The Bitter End  - Alexa Donne
• A Crane Among Wolves  - June Hur
• Death at Morning House  - Maureen Johnson
• 49 Miles Alone  - Natalie D. Richards

• Beautiful People: My Thirteen Truths About Disability - Melissa Blake
• Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined - David F. Walker
• Daughters of Shandong - Eve J. Chung
• The Dead Cat Tail Assassins - P. Djèlí Clark
• How to Solve Your Own Murder - Kristen Perrin
• I Feel Awful, Thanks - Lara Pickle
• I Was a Teenage Slasher - Stephen Graham Jones
• The Witch of Colchis - Rosie Hewlett
• The Witchstone - Henry H. Neff
• Woman, Life, Freedom - Marjane Satrapi

First Novel

• Midnight Rooms - Donyae Coles
• Hollow Girls - Jessica Drake-Thomas
• This Wretched Valley - Jenny Kiefer
• The Eyes Are the Best Part - Monika Kim
• Bless Your Heart - Lindy Ryan
  
  

Novel

• House of Bone and Ruin - Gabino Iglesias
• I Was a Teenage Slasher - Stephen Graham Jones
• The Haunting of Velkwood - Gwendolyn Kiste
• Incidents Around the House - Josh Malerman
• Horror Movie - Paul Tremblay

YA Novel

• Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo - Adam Cesare
• A Place for Vanishing - Ann Fraistat
• Come Out, Come Out - Natalie C. Parker
• The Losting Fountain - Lora Senf
• The Blonde Dies First - Joelle Wellington

Book of the Year

• Intermezzo - Sally Rooney
• Long Island - Colm Tóibín 
• Think Again - Jacqueline Wilson
• All Fours - Miranda July
• You Are Here - David Nicholls
• James - Percival Everett

Pageturner

• The Christmas Tree Farm - Laurie Gilmore
• Someone Else's Shoes - Jojo Moyes
• Daydream - Hannah Grace
• Faebound - Saara El-Arifi
• Our Fair Lily  - Rosie Goodwin
• House of Flame and Shadow - Sarah J. Maas

Debut Fiction

• Butter - Asako Yuzuki
• The List of Suspicious Things - Jennie Godfrey
• When the Moon Hatched - Sarah A. Parker
• The Ministry of Time -  Kaliane Bradley
• Green Dot - Madeleine Gray
• Glorious Exploits - Ferdia Lennon