Year Author Title Result Ref. 2018 Mohsin Hamid Exit West Winner [ 1] [ 3] Lesley Nneka Arimah What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky Shortlist [ 4] Zinzi Clemmons What We Lose Samrat Upadhyay Mad Country Jesmyn Ward Sing, Unburied, Sing Alain Mabanckou Black Moses Longlist [ 5] Weike Wang Chemistry Roxane Gay Difficult Women Rowan Hisayo Buchanan Harmless Like You Shanthi Sekaran Lucky Boy Vaddey Ratner Music of the Ghosts Hala Alyan Salt Houses Bandi The Accusation Jean Hanff Korelitz The Devil and Webster Megan Hunter The End We Start From Curtis Dawkins The Graybar Hotel Lisa Ko The Leavers Jonathan Dee The Locals Viet Thanh Nguyen The Refugees Achy Obejas The Tower of the Antilles 2019 Tayari Jones An American Marriage Winner [ 1] [ 6] Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Friday Black Shortlist [ 7] David Chariandy Brother Jennifer Clement Gun Love Tommy Orange There There Elaine Castillo America Is Not the Heart Longlist [ 8] Will Mackin Bring Out the Dog Akwaeke Emezi Freshwater Nafissa Thompson-Spires Heads of the Colored People Neel Patel If You See Me, Don't Say Hi [ 9] Jamel Brinkley Lucky Man [ 8] Ling Ma Severance Gaël Faye Small Country Sharon Bala The Boat People R. O. Kwon The Incendiaries Brandon Hobson Where the Dead Sit Talking 2020 Christy Lefteri The Beekeeper of Aleppo Winner [ 1] [ 10] Nicole Dennis-Benn Patsy Shortlist [ 11] Brian Allen Carr Opioid, Indiana Valeria Luiselli Lost Children Archive Bryan Washington Lot Steph Cha Your House Will Pay Longlist [ 12] [ 13] Angie Cruz Dominicana [ 12] Kali Fajardo-Anstine Sabrina & Corina [ 12] [ 13] Laila Lalami The Other Americans Beth Piatote The Beadworkers Melissa Rivero The Affairs of the Falcóns [ 12] Maurice Carlos Ruffin We Cast a Shadow Rion Amilcar Scott The World Doesn't Require You [ 12] [ 13] Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Colson Whitehead The Nickel Boys Jacqueline Woodson Red at the Bone 2021 Louise Erdrich The Night Watchman Winner [ 14] [ 15] Susan Abulhawa Against the Loveless World Shortlist [ 16] [ 17] Rumaan Alam Leave the World Behind Danielle Evans The Office of Historical Corrections Randall Kenan If I Had Two Wings: Stories Brit Bennett The Vanishing Half Longlist [ 18] [ 19] Diane Cook The New Wilderness [ 18] Juliana Delgado Lopera Fiebre Tropical [ 18] [ 19] Akwaeke Emezi The Death of Vivek Oji [ 18] Yaa Gyasi Transcendent Kingdom [ 18] [ 19] Lydia Millet A Children's Bible: A Novel Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi A Girl Is a Body of Water [ 18] Tola Rotimi Abraham Black Sunday [ 18] [ 19] Brandon Taylor Real Life [ 18] Bryan Washington Memorial [ 18] [ 19] 2022 Dawnie Walton The Final Revival of Opal & Nev Winner [ 20] Hala Alyan The Arsonists' City Shortlist [ 1] [ 21] Myriam J. A. Chancy What Storm, What Thunder Omar El Akkad What Strange Paradise Kirstin Valdez Quade The Five Wounds Nawaaz Ahmed Radiant Fugitives Longlist [ 22] [ 23] Tahmima Alam The Startup Wife Peter Ho Davies A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself Linda Rui Feng Swimming Back to Trout River Kaitlyn Greenidge Libertie Jakob Guanzon Abundance Honorée Fanonne Jeffers The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois Jason Mott Hell of a Book Eric Nguyen Things We Lost to the Water Richard Powers Bewilderment Karen Tucker Bewilderness 2023 Jamil Jan Kochai The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories Winner [ 24] Angie Cruz How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water Finalist [ 25] Oscar Hokeah Calling for a Blanket Dance Sarah Thankam Mathews All This Could Be Different Manuel Muñoz The Consequences Fatimah Asghar When We Were Sisters Longlist [ 26] [ 27] NoViolet Bulawayo Glory Jonathan Escoffery If I Survive You Mohsin Hamid The Last White Man Ladee Hubbard The Last Suspicious Holdout Talia Laskshmi Kolluri What We Fed to the Manticore Chinelo Okparanta Harry Sylvester Bird Tara M. Stringfellow Memphis Alejandro Varela The People Who Report More Stress 2024 Isabella Hammad Enter Ghost Winner [ 28] Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Chain-Gang All-Stars Finalist [ 29] Aaliyah Bilal Temple Folk Jamel Brinkley Witness James McBride The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store Stephen Buoro The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa Longlist [ 30] [ 31] Sonora Jha The Laughter Claire Jiménez What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez R. F. Kuang Yellowface Rebecca Makkai I Have Some Questions for You Jennifer Maritza McCauley When Trying to Return Home: Stories Alejandro Varela The People Who Report More Stress: Stories Jesmyn Ward Let Us Descend C Pam Zhang Land of Milk and Honey 2025 Percival Everett James Finalist [ 32] Afabwaje Kurian Before the Mango Ripens Tommy Orange Wandering Stars Ruben Ryes Jr. There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven Yael van der Wouden The Safekeep Chelsea Bieker Madwoman Longlist [ 33] Cebo Campbell Sky Full of Elephants Xochitl Gonzalez Anita de Monte Laughs Last Shilpi Somaya Gowda A Great Country Fabienne Josaphat Kingdom of No Tomorrow Samuel Kọ́láwọ́lẹ́ The Road to the Salt Sea Eric Rickstad Lilith Morgan Talty Fire Exit John Vercher Devil Is Fine