A large-scale American novel that moves across decades to explore estrangement and possible reconciliation between a mother and son.

Family memory, politics, and pop culture overlap to reveal the shape of contemporary America.

The first volume of a biography of Hitler, tracing his rise from youth through the political and social forces that brought him to 1939.

It portrays the making of a dictator through both personal history and the atmosphere of his era.

Wesley Lowery's They Can't Kill Us All is reported nonfiction centered on Ferguson and Baltimore, tracing the deaths that fueled protest and the movement that followed. Built from field reporting and interviews, it examines police violence and racial inequality in the United States.

A field-reported account of Ferguson, Baltimore, and the ongoing struggle over racial justice.

Svetlana Alexievich's Secondhand Time is an oral history built from the voices of people who lived through the collapse of the Soviet Union. Loss, nostalgia, and social change emerge through a dense collage of testimony.

A long-form oral history of life after the Soviet collapse.

Adam Haslett's Imagine Me Gone is a novel about the intergenerational impact of depression and anxiety within one family. It follows the same household from multiple perspectives as love and breakdown unfold at once.

A family novel that traces love and breakdown alongside the effects of depression.

Nick Drnaso's Beverly is a graphic novel that quietly follows awkward conversations and unease among young people in the suburbs. As fragments of everyday life drift out of alignment, suppressed emotion and the threat of violence slowly surface.

A graphic novel about the anxiety and isolation hidden inside suburban life.

Benjamin Madley's An American Genocide is a historical study of the violence and mass killing inflicted on California Indians between 1846 and 1873. It examines state and federal involvement, Indigenous resistance, and the violent foundations of modern California.

A historical study that brings the violence against California Indians into clear view.

Bill Beverly's Dodgers is a crime novel that follows young people from Los Angeles as they are drawn into a world of violence. Through a journey shaped by flight and threat, it explores friendship, loyalty, and the weight of choice.

A crime novel about a dangerous journey taken by young men from Los Angeles.

Rosmarie Waldrop's Gap Gardening: Selected Poems is a selected volume that gathers four decades of poetic work. It brings together highly experimental poems that trace the spaces between language, absence, perception, and memory.

A selected volume spanning forty years of poetry and the spaces between words.

Luke Dittrich's Patient H.M. is reported nonfiction that follows the case of the amnesiac patient H.M. and the history of neuroscience built around him. It blends the author's family history with questions of medical progress, ethics, and the fragility of memory.

A work of nonfiction about neuroscience, memory loss, and a family secret.

A historical fantasy in which a teenage girl discovers the secret of a tree that reveals truths when fed lies.

In a world where science and belief collide, a single lie can summon a devastating truth.

Rueben Martinez's 2016 Innovator's Award honored his work in expanding Latino and Chicano reading culture through his bookstore and community activism in Santa Ana. The recognition was for his broader cultural contribution, centered on Librería Martinez, not on a single new book.

A special award recognizing a career of community bookselling and cultural advocacy.

Thomas McGuane's Robert Kirsch Award is a lifetime achievement honor recognizing his long literary career shaped by the American West. It celebrates the full body of his work rather than a single new title.

A lifetime achievement honor for a writer closely associated with the American West.