Awards

The Children of the Ghetto: Star of the Sea by Elias Khoury, translated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies (Archipelago), Fiction Herscht 07769 by László Krasznahorkai, translated from the Hungarian

An Authentic Life by Jennifer Chang (Copper Canyon) Cloud Missives by Kenzie Allen (Tin House) Consider the Rooster by Oliver Baez Bendorf (Nightboat) A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq by Steve Coll (Penguin Press) Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the

Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below by Jane Kamensky (W. W. Norton) Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar by Cynthia Carr (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Family Romance:

Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls (MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux) The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History by Manjula Martin (Pantheon) Like a Sky Inside by

The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş (Bloomsbury) Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Colored Television by Danzy Senna (Riverhead) Godwin by Joseph O’Neill (Pantheon) Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham

Black Meme: A History of the Images that Make Us by Legacy Russell (Verso) The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War by Jesse McCarthy (University of Chicago)