View new release information for awarded works
3476 new books
Derrick Barnes, Gordon C. James
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut is a picture book that celebrates the moment a Black boy leaves the barbershop with renewed confidence and pride. Through rhythmic language and vivid illustration, it shows how a fresh haircut can affirm self-worth, cultural joy, and the way a child moves through the world.
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates's A Book of American Martyrs is a novel about violence shaped by religion and politics. Through two opposing families, it portrays the fracture lines of an American society in which convictions collide.
Joseph Rios
This debut poetry collection centers Josefo, a Chicano adolescent, and mixes boxing, working-class California, family voices, and literary reference. Poems, dialogue, and prose collide to portray the pain and comedy of performing the self.
Tiya Miles
This history of early Detroit examines slavery and freedom through Native, African-descended, laboring, and captive lives. It uncovers the often obscured presence of slavery in a northern city.
Carmen Maria Machado
A short story collection that moves through desire, violence, and horror, finding moments where intimacy and dread sit side by side.
Jennifer Egan
Set in Brooklyn from the Great Depression into the Second World War, this historical novel follows Anna Kerrigan as she searches for the truth behind her father's disappearance and pushes into the male world of naval-yard diving. Organized crime on the waterfront, family silence, and the pull of the sea converge in a story about loneliness and the hunger for freedom in a city at war.
James Cloyd Bowman, Laura Bannon
The book turns the tall-tale tradition of American folklore into a children's retelling of Pecos Bill. Its exuberant exaggeration and humor are what make it fun to read.
Dana Naone Hall
Life of the Land gathers Dana Naone Hall’s writings on the relationship between Native Hawaiians and the land. It approaches political action, environmental protection, and cultural continuity through both activist analysis and poetic attention.
Tongo Eisen-Martin
Heaven Is All Goodbyes compresses the carceral state, urban poverty, and Black communal resistance into fractured, musical poems. Political anger and dreamlike association meet in a voice that turns the lives exposed to institutional violence into poetry rather than speech or document.
Gianfranco Calligarich
A sweeping family novel that follows multiple generations across war, migration, and sea-borne memory.
William Maxwell, Ilonka Karasz
A fantastical children's novel in which the constellations tend a family's farm, blending rural detail with a quiet, cosmic imagination. Its gentle humor and sense of wonder make the book feel both earthy and celestial.
Louise Penny
A novel by Louise Penny that uses Glass houses to explore police and murder, with investigation in view.