National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35

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The National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 prize, established in 2006, is an annual honor presented by the National Book Foundation to five authors under the age of 35 who released their debut novel in the previous five years. Honorees are nominated by authors who were previously honored with a National Book Award or 5 Under 35 nomination. Honorees receive a $1,250 prize. [1]

Honorees

5 Under 35 honorees [2]
YearHonoreeWorkNominatorRef.
2006 Amity Gaige O My Darling (Other Press) Christopher Sorrentino
Samantha Hunt The Seas Picador (Picador) Rene Steinke
Bret Anthony Johnston Corpus Christi: Stories (Random House) Adam Haslett
Rattawut Lapcharoensap Sightseeing (Grove Atlantic) Joan Silber
ZZ Packer Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (Riverhead Books, 2003) Edward P. Jones
2007 Kirstin Allio Garner (Coffee House Press, 2005) Dana Spiotta [3]
Dinaw Mengestu The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (Riverhead Books, 2007) Jess Walter
Asali Solomon Get Down: Stories (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006) Jennifer Egan
Anya Ulinich Petropolis (Viking Press, 2007) Ken Kalfus
Charles Yu Third Class Superhero (Harcourt, 2006)
2008 Matthew Eck The Farther Shore (Milkweed Editions) Joshua Ferris
Keith Gessen All the Sad Young Literary Men (Viking Press, 2008) Jonathan Franzen
Sana Krasikov One More Year: Stories (Spiegel & Grau) Francine Prose
Nam Le The Boat (Knopf) Mary Gaitskill
Fiona Maazel Last Last Chance (FSG) Jim Shepard
2009 Ceridwen Dovey Blood Kin (Viking) Rachel Kushner [4]
C. E. Morgan All the Living (FSG) Christine Schutt
Lydia Peelle Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing (HarperCollins) Salvatore Scibona
Karen Russell St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (Vintage) Dan Chaon
Josh WeilThe New Valley (Grove Press) Lily Tuck
2010 Sarah Braunstein The Sweet Relief of Missing Children (Norton, 2011) Sarah Shun-lien Bynum [5]
Grace Krilanovich The Orange Eats Creeps (Two Dollar Radio, 2010) Scott Spencer
Téa Obreht The Tiger’s Wife (Random House, 2011) Colum McCann
Tiphanie Yanique How to Escape from a Leper Colony (Graywolf, 2010) Jayne Anne Phillips
Paul Yoon Once the Shore (Sarabande, 2009) Kate Walbert
2011 Shani Boianjiu The People of Forever Are Not Afraid (Hogarth, 2013) Nicole Krauss [6] [7]
Danielle Evans Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self (Riverhead, 2010) Robert Stone
Mary Beth Keane The Walking People (Mariner, 2009) Julia Glass
Melinda Moustakis Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories (University of Georgia Press, 2011) Jaimy Gordon
John Corey Whaley Where Things Come Back (Atheneum Books, 2011) Oscar Hijuelos
2012 Jennifer duBois A Partial History of Lost Causes (Dial Press, 2012) Jennifer duBois [8] [9]
Stuart Nadler The Book of Life (Reagan Arthur, 2011) Edith Pearlman
Haley Tanner Vaclav & Lena (Dial Press, 2012) Téa Obreht
Justin Torres We the Animals (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011) Jessica Hagedorn
Claire Vaye Watkins Battleborn (Riverhead, 2012) Julie Otsuka
2013 Molly Antopol The UnAmericans (Norton, 2014) Jesmyn Ward [10] [11]
NoViolet Bulawayo We Need New Names (Reagan Arthur, 2013) Junot Díaz
Amanda Coplin The Orchardist (Harper, 2012) Louise Erdrich
Daisy Hildyard Hunters in the Snow (Jonathan Cape, 2013) Kevin Powers
Merritt Tierce Love Me Back (Doubleday, 2014) Ben Fountain
2014 Yelena Akhtiorskaya Panic in a Suitcase (Riverhead, 2014) Aleksandar Hemon [12]
Alex Gilvarry From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant (Viking, 2012) Amy Bloom
Phil Klay Redeployment (Penguin, 2014) Andrea Barrett
Valeria Luiselli Faces in the Crowd (Coffee House, 2014) Karen Tei Yamashita
Kirstin Valdez Quade Night at the Fiestas (Norton, 2015) Andre Dubus III
2015 Colin Barrett Young Skins (Black Cat, 2015) Paul Yoon [13]
Angela Flournoy The Turner House (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015) ZZ Packer
Megan Kruse Call Me Home (Hawthorne Books, 2015) Phil Klay
Tracy O’Neill The Hopeful (Ig Publishing, 2015) Fiona Maazel
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi Fra Keeler (Dorothy, 2012) Dinaw Mengestu
2016 Brit Bennett The Mothers (Riverhead, 2016) Jacqueline Woodson [14] [15]
Yaa Gyasi Homegoing (Knopf, 2016) Ta-Nehisi Coates
Greg Jackson Prodigals (FSG) Lauren Groff
S. Li Transoceanic Lights (Harvard Square Editions) Karen Bender
Thomas PierceHall of Small Mammals (Riverhead) Amity Gaige
2017 Lesley Nneka Arimah What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: Stories (Riverhead) Chris Bachelder [16] [17]
Halle Butler Jillian (Curbside Splendor) Lydia Millet
Zinzi Clemmons What We Lose (Viking, 2017) Angela Flournoy
Leopoldine Core When Watched: Stories (Penguin) Karan Mahajan
Weike Wang Chemistry (Knopf, 2017) Sherman Alexie
2018 Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Friday Black (Mariner, 2018) Colson Whitehead [18]
Hannah Lillith Assadi Sonora (Soho Press) Claire Vaye Watkins
Akwaeke Emezi Freshwater (Grove Atlantic, 2018) Carmen Maria Machado
Lydia Kiesling The Golden State (MCD Books) Samantha Hunt
Moriel Rothman-Zecher Sadness Is a White Bird (Atria) Bill Clegg
2019 Anelise Chen So Many Olympic Exertions (Kaya Press) Dana Spiotta [19] [20]
Isabella Hammad The Parisian (Grove Press) Viet Thanh Nguyen
Johannes Lichtman Such Good Work (S&S) Garth Greenwell
Bryan Washington Lot: Stories (Riverhead Books) Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Ashley Wurzbacher Happy Like This (University of Iowa Press) Brandon Hobson
2020 K-Ming Chang Bestiary (One World) Justin Torres [21] [22]
Naima Coster Halsey Street (Little A) Tayari Jones
Raven Leilani Luster (FSG, 2020) Susan Choi
Fatima Farheen Mirza A Place for Us (SJP for Hogarth, 2018) Tommy Orange
C Pam Zhang How Much of These Hills Is Gold (Riverhead Books, 2020) Marlon James
2021 Caleb Azumah Nelson Open Water (Black Cat, 2021) Brit Bennett [23]
Nathan Harris The Sweetness of Water (Little, Brown and Company, 2021) Charmaine Craig
Lee Lai Stone Fruit (Fantagraphics, 2021) Bryan Washington
Claire Luchette Agatha of Little Neon (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021) Elizabeth McCracken
Dantiel W. Moniz Milk Blood Heat (Grove) Rumaan Alam
2022 Alexandra Chang Days of Distraction (Ecco) Jason Mott [24]
Joseph Han Nuclear Family (Counterpoint Press) Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
Crystal Hana Kim If You Leave Me (William Morrow) Min Jin Lee
Clare Sestanovich Objects of Desire: Stories (Knopf) Anthony Doerr
Alyssa Songsiridej Little Rabbit (Bloomsbury) Julia Phillips
2023 Mateo Askaripour Black Buck (Mariner Books) Robert Jones Jr. [25] [26]
Chelsea T. Hicks A Calm & Normal Heart (Unnamed Press) Louise Erdrich
Morgan Talty Night of the Living Rez (Tin House Books) Karen Russell
Jenny Xie Holding Pattern (Riverhead Books, 2023) Kirstin Valdez Quade
Ada Zhang The Sorrows of Others (A Public Space) Jamil Jan Kochai
2024 Antonia Angress Sirens & Muses (Ballantine Books) Charles Baxter [27]
Maya Binyam Hangman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023) Alejandro Varela
Zain Khalid Brother Alive (Grove Press, 2022) Laila Lalami
Tyriek White We Are a Haunting (Astra House) Tiphanie Yanique
Jenny Tinghui Zhang Four Treasures of the Sky (Flatiron Books) Adam Johnson
2025 Stacie Shannon Denetsosie The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories (Torrey House Press) Mona Susan Power [28]
Megan Howell Softie (West Virginia University Press) Deesha Philyaw
Maggie Millner Couplets: A Love Story (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) C Pam Zhang
Alexander Sammartino Last Acts (Scribner) George Saunders
Jemimah Wei The Original Daughter (Doubleday) Morgan Talty

References

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  2. ↑ "The National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 Honorees". National Book Foundation. Retrieved April 9, 2025.
  3. ↑ "NBF Honors "5 Under 35"". Publishers Weekly . September 24, 2007. Retrieved April 9, 2025.
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  8. ↑ "5 Under 35". Shelf Awareness . September 28, 2012. Archived from the original on October 8, 2022. Retrieved April 9, 2025.
  9. ↑ "5 Under 35 Honorees for 2012 Named". Publishers Weekly . September 27, 2012. Retrieved April 9, 2025.
  10. ↑ "National Book Foundation: '5 Under 35'". Shelf Awareness . September 13, 2013. Archived from the original on October 8, 2022. Retrieved April 9, 2025.
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  12. ↑ "National Book Foundation: '5 Under 35'". Shelf Awareness . October 1, 2014. Archived from the original on March 7, 2023. Retrieved April 9, 2025.
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  14. ↑ "National Book Foundation: '5 Under 35'". Shelf Awareness . October 3, 2016. Retrieved April 9, 2025.
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  16. ↑ "National Book Foundation: '5 Under 35'". Shelf Awareness . September 26, 2017. Retrieved April 9, 2025.
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