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| Gotham Book Prize | |
|---|---|
| Date | December |
| Reward(s) | $50,000 |
| First awarded | 2020 |
| Last awarded | Active |
| Website | gothambookprize |
The Gotham Book Prize is awarded annually to a fiction or non-fiction work judged the best about or set in New York City. The award was founded by Bradley Tusk and Howard Wolfson. [1] [2]
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | James McBride | Deacon King Kong | Winner | [3] [4] |
| Rumaan Alam | Leave the World Behind | Finalist | [5] | |
| Christopher Beha | The Index of Self-Destructive Acts | Finalist | [6] | |
| David Goodwillie | Kings County | Finalist | [6] | |
| Debra Jo Immergut | You Again | Finalist | [6] | |
| N. K. Jemisin | The City We Became | Finalist | [5] | |
| David Paul Kuhn | The Hard Hat Riot: Nixon, New York City, & the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution | Finalist | [6] | |
| Raven Leilani | Luster | Finalist | [6] | |
| Amy Poeppel | Musical Chairs | Finalist | [6] | |
| Jerry Seinfeld | Is This Anything? | Finalist | [6] | |
| 2022 | Andrea Elliott | Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City | Winner | [3] |
| Tom Dyja | New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess and Transformation | Finalist | [7] [8] | |
| Kaitlyn Greenidge | Libertie | Finalist | [7] [8] | |
| Zakiya Dalila Harris | The Other Black Girl | Finalist | [7] [8] | |
| Jim Lewis | Ghosts of New York | Finalist | [7] [8] | |
| Torrey Peters | Detransition, Baby | Finalist | [7] [8] | |
| Sarah Schulman | Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 | Finalist | [7] [8] | |
| Natalie Standiford | Astrid Sees All | Finalist | [7] [8] | |
| Elisabet Velasquez | When We Make It | Finalist | [7] [8] | |
| Colson Whitehead | Harlem Shuffle | Finalist | [7] [8] | |
| 2023 | Sidik Fofana | Stories from the Tenants Downstairs | Winner (tie) | [3] |
| John Wood Sweet | The Sewing Girl’s Tale | |||
| Jill Bialosky | The Deceptions | Finalist | [9] [10] | |
| Hernan Diaz | Trust | Finalist | [9] [10] | |
| Xochitl Gonzalez | Olga Dies Dreaming | Finalist | [9] [10] | |
| James Hannaham | Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta | Finalist | [9] [10] | |
| Lisa Hsiao Chen | Activities of Daily Living | Finalist | [9] [10] | |
| Dwyer Murphy | An Honest Living | Finalist | [9] [10] | |
| Bushra Rehman | Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion | Finalist | [9] [10] | |
| Mecca Jamilah Sullivan | Big Girl | Finalist | [9] [10] | |
| Martha Anne Toll | Three Muses | Finalist | [9] [10] | |
| 2024 | Reuven Blau | Rikers: An Oral History, Graham Rayman | Finalist | [11] [12] |
| Patrick Brinkley | All the Beauty in the World | Finalist | [11] [12] | |
| Aisha Abdel Gawad | Between Two Moons | Finalist | [11] [12] | |
| Patricia Park | Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim | Finalist | [11] [12] | |
| Prudence Peiffer | The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever | Finalist | [11] [12] | |
| Melissa Rivero | Flores and Miss Paula | Finalist | [11] [12] | |
| Joshunda Sanders | Women of the Post | Finalist | [11] [12] | |
| Maria Smilios | The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis | Finalist | [11] [12] | |
| Alexander Stille | The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune | Finalist | [11] [12] | |
| Tyriek White | We Are a Haunting | Finalist | [11] [12] [13] | |
| Colson Whitehead | Crook Manifesto | Finalist | [11] [12] [13] |
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