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Edition 32 (2011)

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
Ismet Prcic Winner

A fragmented autobiographical novel that traces memory, war, and the afterlife of displacement in Bosnia.

A life reassembled from the broken pieces left behind by war.

400 pages
Bosniawarmemorydisplacement

A biography of Clarence Darrow that examines the tensions between law, politics, and reform in modern America.

Darrow’s life emerges as a portrait of an era as much as of a lawyer.

576 pages
biographylawAmerican historyreform

A major study of how intuitive and deliberate thinking shape judgment, choice, and error.

Why we err, and how the mind’s two systems help explain it.

512 pages
psychologybehavioral economicsjudgmentcognition
Alex Shakar Winner

A novel that moves between virtual worlds, spiritual longing, and family fracture to examine modern consciousness.

Where technology and spirituality meet, reality starts to blur.

448 pages
technologyspiritualityfamilythe present day

A graphic novel that follows Rachel as she navigates clan tradition, family responsibility, and a struggle for security.

A young person searches for a place inside a story of inheritance and survival.

216 pages
graphic novelfamilyinheritancecommunity
Richard White Winner

A sweeping history that reinterprets the transcontinental railroads as a foundation of modern American power and corruption.

Were the railroads symbols of progress, or engines of power?

720 pages
American historyrailroadscapitalismpolitics
Stephen King Winner

A time-travel novel in which the Kennedy assassination becomes the point of departure for a meditation on history and consequence.

If the past can be changed, can the future be saved?

864 pages
time travelalternate historysuspenseAmerican history
Carl Phillips Winner

A poetry collection that traces a mind suspended between restraint and impulse in lucid, spare language.

Hesitation and resolve reverberate within the same voice.

634 pages
poetryconsciousnessconflictrestraint
Sylvia Nasar Winner

A sweeping history of economic thought told through the lives and struggles of the people who shaped it.

How economics became a force that reshaped human destiny.

864 pages
economic historybiographyintellectual historysociety
Pete Hautman Winner

A young-adult novel that explores the gap between romantic expectation and reality with light, sharp dialogue.

The story begins not with a perfect meet-cute, but with awkward, honest feeling.

288 pages
coming of ageromancehumorgrowth
Figment Special Award
Rudolfo Anaya Winner