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Edgar Award for Best Novel Public

Minette Walters: The Sculptress (Hardcover, 1993, St. Martin's Press) Margaret Maron: Bootlegger's Daughter (Hardcover, 1992, Mysterious Press) Lawrence Block: A Dance at the Slaughterhouse (Hardcover, 1991, William Morrow) Julie Smith: New Orleans Mourning (Hardcover, 1990, St. Martin's Press) James Lee Burke: Black Cherry Blues (Hardcover, 1989, Little Brown)

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If Books Could Kill Public

Yuval Noah Harari: Sapiens (Paperback, 2025, Harper Perennial) Dale Carnegie: How to Win Friends and Influence People (Paperback, 1998, Pocket) Thomas Chatterton Williams: Summer of Our Discontent (Hardcover, 2025, Alfred A. Knopf) Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo: He's Just Not That Into You (Hardcover, 2004, Simon Spotlight Entertainment)
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Malcolm Gladwell: Blink (Hardcover, 2005, Little, Brown and Co.)

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National Book Award for Fiction Public

Rabih Alameddine: The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) (Hardcover, 2025, Grove Hardcover) Percival Everett: James (Hardcover, 2024, Doubleday) Justin Torres (duplicate), Justin Torres: Blackouts (2023, Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Tess Gunty: The Rabbit Hutch (Hardcover, 2022, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group) Jason Mott: Hell of a Book (Hardcover, 2021, Dutton)

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Campbell Memorial Award Public

Sam J. Miller: Blackfish City (Hardcover, 2018, Ecco) David Walton: The Genius Plague (Paperback, 2017, Pyr) Lavie Tidhar: Central Station (Paperback, 2016, Tachyon Publications) Eleanor Lerman: Radiomen (Hardcover, 2015, The Permanent Press) Catherine Webb: The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (Hardcover, 2014, Redhook)

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Books to Feed Bears Public

John F. Carrington: Talking drums of Africa (1969, Negro Universities Press) M. A. Vice: Nightfall (M. A. Vice) M. A. Vice: Impavidus (M. A. Vice)
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M. A. Vice: Birthright (2020, Independently Published)
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Trung Le Nguyen: Angelica and the Bear Prince : (a Graphic Novel) (2025, Penguin Random House LLC)
 

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Booker Prize Public

David Szalay: Flesh (Hardcover, 2025, Jonathan Cape) Samantha Harvey, Sarah Naudi (Narrator): Orbital (AudiobookFormat, 2023, Penguin Random House) Paul Lynch: Prophet Song (Hardcover, 2023, Oneworld Publications) Shehan Karunatilaka: Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Hardcover, 2022, Sort of Books) Damon Galgut: The Promise (Hardcover, 2021, Chatto & Windus)

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World Fantasy Award Best Novel Public

Robert Jackson Bennett: The Tainted Cup (2024, Del Rey) Tananarive Due (duplicate): The Reformatory (2023, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers) C. S. E. Cooney: Saint Death's Daughter (Hardcover, 2022, Solaris) Tasha Suri: The Jasmine Throne (Hardcover, 2021, Orbit) Alaya Dawn Johnson: Trouble the Saints (Hardcover, 2020, Tor Books)

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Passes the "Bechdel Test" Public

Kate Quinn: The Rose Code (AudiobookFormat, 2021, HarperAudio) Babel (EBook, 2022, Harper Voyager)
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Nnedi Okorafor (duplicate): Just Out of Jupiter's Reach (2023, Amazon Original Stories, Seattle)

 Nancy Kress, Therese Pieczynski: New Under the Sun (EBook, 2013, Phoenix Pick) Kim Stanley Robinson: Red Mars (EBook, 2003, Spectra)

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One City One Book (San Francisco) Public

Fei-Fei Li: Worlds I See (Paperback, 2025, Flatiron Books) Mir Tamim Ansary: West of Kabul, East of New York (Paperback, 2003, Picador) Lalita Tademy: Cane River (Paperback, 2005, Warner Books) Luis Alberto Urrea: The Hummingbird's Daughter (Paperback, 2006, Back Bay Books) Gus Lee: China Boy (Paperback, 1994, Plume)

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Books Devoured by Bears Public

Nelly Reifler: Elect H. Mouse State Judge (Paperback, 2013, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) Leigh Bardugo: Ninth House (2019, Orion Publishing Group, Limited) Becky Chambers: To Be Taught, If Fortunate (Paperback, 2019, Harper Voyager) Mary Norton: The Borrowers (1998) Fern V. Bedek: Lessons in Lesbianism (EBook, 2023)
 

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Philip K. Dick Award Public

Brenda Peynado: Time's Agent (Paperback, 2024, Tordotcom Publishing) Bethany Jacobs: These Burning Stars (2023, Orbit)
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Kimberly Unger: The Extractionist (Paperback, 2022, Tachyon Publications)

 Kali Wallace: Dead Space (2021, Berkley) Alison Stine: Road Out of Winter (Paperback, 2020, Mira)

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Hugo Award for Best Novel Public

N.K. Jemisin: The Fifth Season (Paperback, 2015, Orbit) Connie Willis: All Clear (Hardcover, 2010, Spectra) Lois McMaster Bujold: The Vor Game (Vorkosigan Saga, #6) (2002) Arthur C. Clarke: The Fountains of Paradise (Hardcover, 1979, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) Fritz Leiber: The Wanderer (Paperback, 1964, Ballantine Books)

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