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Edition 34 (2013)

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

A debut novel that follows a Zimbabwean girl's migration, loss, and coming of age.

Away from home, a new life begins for children who have already lost too much.

304 pages
Zimbabwemigrationcoming of agedisplacement
Marie Arana Winner

A biography of Simón Bolívar that also maps the history of Latin American independence.

To follow the liberator's life is to follow a continent's history.

624 pages
Latin Americabiographyindependencepolitical history
Sheri Fink Winner

An investigative nonfiction work examining medical decisions and deaths at a hospital after Hurricane Katrina.

In a disaster zone, how far can life-and-death judgment be pushed?

576 pages
Hurricane Katrinainvestigationethicshospital
Ruth Ozeki Winner

A novel in which a Tokyo girl's diary and the life of an island novelist intersect through memory and time.

Letters and diaries connect two lives separated by the Pacific.

432 pages
Japantimememorymetafiction
Ulli Lust Winner

An autobiographical graphic memoir tracing a young woman's experiences across Europe.

Fragments of travel and memory shape one woman's passage into adulthood.

462 pages
graphic memoiradolescencetravelself-discovery

A history book that re-reads Europe in 1914 through the chain of decisions that led to World War I.

War emerges not from accident, but from accumulated choices.

736 pages
World War IEuropediplomatic historypolitics
J. K. Rowling Winner

A London-set detective novel published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

The detective pursues not just a case, but a knot of tangled relationships.

464 pages
mysteryinvestigationLondondetective
Ron Padgett Winner

A wide-ranging collected volume of Ron Padgett's poetry.

Lightness and humor gather into a single career-spanning volume.

840 pages
poetrycollected poemsNew York Schoolcareer retrospective

A report-style nonfiction book that examines the future of population and the environment around the world.

It looks at the planet's limits while still searching for choices ahead.

528 pages
environmentpopulationsciencesustainability

A two-part graphic novel diptych about the Boxer Rebellion, collecting Boxers and Saints.

The same history is reframed through two stories from opposite sides.

512 pages
Boxer Rebelliongraphic novelhistoryfaith
John Green Special Award