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Edition 31 (2010)

BiographyCurrent interestFictionArt Seidenbaum Award for First FictionHistoryMystery/ThrillerPoetryScience and TechnologyYoung Adult NovelGraphic Novel/ComicsRay Bradbury Prize (SF/Fantasy/Speculative Fiction)Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical ProseInnovator's AwardRobert Kirsch AwardAchievement in Audiobook Production (established 2023, presented by Audible)

Winners

12 people
368 pages
496 pages
Michael Lewis Winner
266 pages
Jennifer Egan Winner
288 pages
Adam Hines Winner
392 pages
Thomas Powers Winner

A nonfiction account that reconstructs Crazy Horse's final days and the mystery surrounding his death from historical sources. It follows testimony from both military and Native American perspectives and opens out into the political tensions surrounding the event.

A history of Crazy Horse's death told through the wider context of the war.

608 pages
Crazy HorseGreat Sioux WarLakota historyAmerican West history
Tom Franklin Winner

A Southern suspense novel in which a boyhood secret and present-day violence collide in a small Mississippi town.

A quiet town is slowly overtaken by wounds buried in the past.

Southern fictionsecretsviolencefriendship
Maxine Kumin Winner

A representative selected volume gathering Maxine Kumin's poems from 1990 to 2010.

A collected volume that gathers a voice meant to be read across decades.

235 pages
poetryselected poemsmemorynature
Oren Harman Winner

A nonfiction portrait of George Price that explores the scientific search for the origins of altruism.

It moves between a brilliant life and the stubborn riddle of altruism.

421 pages
biographyhistory of scienceevolutionaltruism

After Sophos is kidnapped, Eugenides and the Queen of Eddis search for him while rival powers maneuver over the throne of Sounis.

A vanished heir, shifting loyalties, and a kingdom where every promise has a price.

336 pages
court intriguesuccessionloyaltyfantasy
Powell's Books Special Award