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Believer Book Award is an American literary award presented yearly by The Believer magazine to novels and story collections, nonfiction books or essay collections, poetry collections, and, beginning in 2021 (awarding to books published in 2020), works of graphic narrative the magazine's editors thought were the "strongest and most under-appreciated" of the year. [1] A shortlist and longlist are announced for each genre, along with reader's favorites, then a final winner is selected by the magazine's editors. The inaugural award was in 2005 for books published in 2004.

Contents

Winners and shortlist

2004–2018

The year below denotes when the books were published; the award is announced the following year. Thus below, the inaugural 2004 books were announced in early to mid-2005. From 2004 to 2018, a single award was presented. Beginning in 2019, awards were presented in categories.

Award winners and shortlists, 2004-2018
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
2004 Sam Lipsyte Home LandWinner [2]
Lucy Ellmann Dot in the UniverseShortlist [3]
Francisco Goldman The Divine Husband
Michelle de Kretser The Hamilton Case
Selah Saterstrom The Pink Institution
2005 Sesshu Foster Atomik Aztex Winner [4]
John Wray Canaan's TongueShortlist [5]
Tom Bissell God Lives in St. Petersburg
Trinie Dalton Wide Eyed
Aimee Bender Willful Creatures
2006 Cormac McCarthy The Road Winner [6]
2007 Tom McCarthy Remainder Winner [7]
Alain Mabanckou African PsychoShortlist [8]
Joe Weisberg An Ordinary Spy
Elizabeth Hand Generation Loss
Jesse Ball Samedi the Deafness
Gerard Donovan Sunless
Selah Saterstrom The Meat and Spirit Plan
Lydie Salvayre The Power of Flies
Miranda Mellis The Revisionist
Steve Erickson Zeroville
2008 Emily Perkins Novel About My WifeWinner [9] [10]
Tod Wodicka All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; and All Manner of Things Shall Be WellShortlist [11]
Shannon Burke Black Flies
Jim Krusoe Girl Factory
John Olson Souls of Wind
Toby Olson Tampico
Samantha Hunt The Invention of Everything Else
Mary Ruefle The Most of It
2009 Percival Everett I Am Not Sidney Poitier Winner [12]
Mary Robison One D.O.A., One on the WayShortlist [13]
Blake Butler Scorch Atlas
Christopher MillerThe Cardboard Universe: A Guide to the World of Phoebus K. Dank
Padgett Powell The Interrogative Mood
2010 James Hynes Next Winner [14]
Kira Henehan Orion You Came and You Took All My Marbles Shortlist [15]
Paul Murray Skippy Dies
Danielle Dutton Sprawl
Grace Krilanovich The Orange Eats Creeps
2011 Ben Lerner Leaving the Atocha Station Winner [16] [17]
Helen DeWitt Lightning RodsShortlist [18] [19] [20]
Lars Iyer Spurious
Jesse Ball The Curfew
Michelle Latiolais Widow
2012 Tamara Faith Berger MaidenheadWinner [21]
Sergio De La Pava A Naked SingularityShortlist [22]
Barbara Browning I'm Trying to Reach You
Karl Ove Knausgård My Struggle
Jim Krusoe Parsifal
2013 Rebecca Lee Bobcat and Other StoriesWinner [23]
Bennett Sims A Questionable ShapeShortlist [24]
Keith Ridgway Hawthorn and Child
Kiese Laymon Long Division
Fiona Maazel Woke Up Lonely
2014 Ottessa Moshfegh McGlueWinner [25]
Valeria Luiselli Faces in the CrowdShortlist [26]
Diane Cook Man V. Nature
Elizabeth McCracken Thunderstruck and Other Stories
Antoine Volodine Writers
2017 Matthew Rohrer The OthersWinner
Leyna Krow I’m Fine, But You Appear to Be SinkingShortlist [27]
Andrew Durbin MacArthur Park
Jenny Zhang Sour Heart
Deepak Unnikrishnan Temporary People
2018 Rita Bullwinkel Belly UpWinner [28]
Shelley Jackson Riddance; Or: The Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth ChildrenShortlist [28]
Hideo Yokoyama , trans. by Louise Heal Kawai Seventeen
Mathias Énard Tell Them of Battles, Kings,
Ben Passmore Your Black Friend and Other Strangers

2019–present

The year below denotes when the books were published; the award is announced the following year. Thus below, the inaugural 2004 books were announced in early to mid-2005. From 2004 to 2018, a single award was presented. Beginning in 2019, awards were presented in categories.

Award winners and shortlists, 2019-present
YearCategoryAuthorTitleResultRef.
2019 Fiction Ebony Flowers Hot CombWinner [29] [30]
Donatella Di Pietrantonio trans. by Ann Goldstein A Girl ReturnedShortlist [29] [30]
Sarah Rose Etter The Book of X
Adam Ehrlich Sachs The Organs of Sense
Hebe Uhart , trans. by Maureen Shaughnessy The Scent of Buenos Aires
Nonfiction Trisha Low Socialist RealismWinner [29] [30]
Emmanuel Carrère , trans. by John Lambert97,196 WordsShortlist [29] [30]
Andrea Long Chu Females
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim , trans. by Janet Hong Grass
Heather Christle The Crying Book
Poetry Deborah Landau Soft TargetsWinner [29] [30]
Cameron Awkward-Rich DispatchShortlist [29] [30]
Steve HealeySafe Houses I Have Known
Franny Choi Soft Science
Christopher Kondrich Valuing
2020 Fiction Vigdis Hjorth , trans. by Charlotte Barslund Long Live the Post Horn! Winner [31] [32]
Souvankham Thammavongsa How to Pronounce Knife Shortlist [31] [32]
Lisa Robertson The Baudelaire Fractal
Nathalie Léger The White Dress
Peter Cameron What Happens at Night
Graphic NarrativeJonathan HillOdessaWinner [31] [32]
Vivian Chong and Georgia Webber Dancing after TENShortlist [31] [32]
Lawrence Lindell From Truth with Truth
Gipi, trans. by Jaime RichardsOne Story
Danny NobleShame Pudding: A Graphic Memoir
Nonfiction Ashon T. Crawley The Lonely LettersWinner [31] [32]
Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn A Fish Growing LungsShortlist [31] [32]
Emerson Whitney Heaven
Namwali Serpell Stranger Faces
Emily J. Lordi The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s
Poetry Yona Harvey You Don’t Have to Go to Mars For LoveWinner [31] [32]
Candice Wuehle Death Industrial ComplexShortlist [31] [32]
Noah Falck Exclusions
John Murillo Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry
Tess Taylor Rift Zone

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