| Category | Winner [2] | Shortlist [3] | Longlist [4] |
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| Fiction | Rabih Alameddine, The True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) | | |
| Nonfiction | Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This | - Julia Ioffe, Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
- Yiyun Li, Things in Nature Merely Grow
- Claudia Rowe, Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care
- Jordan Thomas, When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World
| - Caleb Gayle, Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State
- Fatemeh Jamalpour and Nilo Tabrizy, For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran's Women-Led Uprising
- Lana Lin, The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam
- Ben Ratliff, Run the Song: Writing About Running About Listening
- Helen Whybrow, The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd's Life
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| Poetry | Patricia Smith, The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems | | - Gbenga Adesina, Death Does Not End at the Sea
- Rickey Laurentiis, Death of the First Idea
- Esther Lin, Cold Thief Place
- Natalie Shapero, Stay Dead
- Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, Terror Counter
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| Translated Literature | Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, We Are Green and Trembling (translated by Robin Myers) | | |
| Young People's Literature | Daniel Nayeri, The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story | | - María Dolores Águila, A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez
- K. Ancrum, The Corruption of Hollis Brown
- Derrick Barnes, The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze
- Mahogany L. Browne, A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe
- Maria van Lieshout, Song of a Blackbird
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