2021 National Book Award Winners

Awards List

Fiction

Hell of a Book (Winner)
Jason Mott

Jul-2021
/ General Fiction

The Prophets (Finalist)
Robert Jones Jr.

Jan-2021
/ Literary

Zorrie (Finalist)
Laird Hunt

Feb-2021
/ Women's Fiction

Matrix (Finalist)
Lauren Groff

Sep-2021
/ Women's Fiction

Cloud Cuckoo Land (Finalist)
Anthony Doerr

Oct-2021
/ Literary

Abundance (Longlist)
Jakob Guanzon

Mar-2021
/ Literary

The Souvenir Museum (Longlist)
Elizabeth McCracken

Apr-2021
/ General Fiction

Intimacies (Longlist)
Katie Kitamura

Jul-2021
/ Thriller

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois (Longlist)
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

Aug-2021
/ Women's Fiction

Bewilderment (Longlist)
Richard Powers

Sep-2021
/ Literary

Young People's Literature

Last Night at the Telegraph Club (Winner)
Malinda Lo

Jan-2021
/ General Fiction

Too Bright to See (Finalist)
Kyle Lukoff

Apr-2021
/ General Fiction

The Legend of Auntie Po (Finalist)
Shing Yin Khor

Jun-2021
/ General Fiction

Home Is Not a Country (Longlist)
Safia Elhillo

Mar-2021
/ General Fiction

The Mirror Season (Longlist)
Anna-Marie McLemore

Mar-2021
/ Contemporary Romance

A Snake Falls to Earth (Longlist)
Darcie Little Badger

Nov-2021
/ Fantasy

Award Categories

Children's

Children's Book: Fiction (hardcover)

Children's Book: Fiction (paperback)

Picture Book (Hardcover)

Science Fiction (hardcover)

Science Fiction (paperback)

Young People's Literature

Award Years

Romance

Mystery/Thriller

Speculative

Younger Readers

2021 National Book Award (Awarded by National Book Foundation)

Awards List

Fiction

Young People's Literature

Award Categories

Award Years