Brooklyn Public Library Book PrizeNonfiction

Given by Brooklyn Public Library

Other Names: Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize (2015-2016), Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize (2017-2021)
79 Works 0 Books
Each year Brooklyn Public Library honors outstanding works of nonfiction and fiction with a prize given in the fall. Selected by librarians and library staff, who draw on their broad knowledge of show more literature and the many populations they serve, the BPL Book Prize recognizes writing that captures the spirit of Brooklyn, one of the most socially and culturally diverse communities in the country.

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Stages:
All, Winner (18), Shortlist (58), Longlist (180)
Categories:
All, Fiction (80), Fiction & Poetry (3), Fiction and Poetry (14), Nonfiction (79), Nonfiction/Poetry (12)
Years:
All, 2023 (12), 2021 (12), 2020 (8), 2019 (4), 2018 (8), 2017 (8), 2016 (13), 2015 (14)

Winner 8

Shortlist 26

WorkYear
Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir by Lamya H.2023
Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen2023
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa2023
New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time by Craig Taylor2021
How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community by Mia Birdsong2021
Pedro's Theory: Reimagining the Promised Land by Marcos Gonsalez2021
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein2021
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin2020
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones2020
The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier by Ian Urbina2020
Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom2019
The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story by Aaron Bobrow-Strain2019
Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes2019
Losing Earth: A Recent History by Nathaniel Rich2019
A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History by Jeanne Theoharis2018
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco CantĂș2018
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay2018
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein2017
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann2017
Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics by Kim Phillips-Fein2017
Lockdown on Rikers: Shocking Stories of Abuse and Injustice at New York's Notorious Jail by Mary E. Buser2016
Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul by James McBride2016
Sunny's Nights: Lost and Found at a Bar on the Edge of the World by Tim Sultan2016
The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification in the 21st Century by DW Gibson2015
The Lost Tribe of Coney Island: Headhunters, Luna Park, and the Man Who Pulled Off the Spectacle of the Century by Claire Prentice2015
I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son by Kent Russell2015

Longlist 75

WorkYear
Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir by Lamya H.2023
Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen2023
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa2023
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton2023
A Living Remedy: A Memoir by Nicole Chung2023
Muse Found in a Colonized Body (Stahlecker Selections) by Yesenia Montilla2023
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe by Caroline Dodds Pennock2023
The New Yorkers: 31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World's Greatest City by Sam Roberts2023
Above Ground by Clint Smith2023
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong2023
Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York’s Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist by Jennifer Wright2023
From From: Poems by Monica Youn2023
New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time by Craig Taylor2021
How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community by Mia Birdsong2021
Pedro's Theory: Reimagining the Promised Land by Marcos Gonsalez2021
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein2021
We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba2021
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert2021
Vibrate Higher: A Rap Story by Talib Kweli2021
Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free: And Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System by Judge Jed S. Rakoff2021
Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice by Yusef Salaam2021
Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman2021
Intimations: Six Essays by Zadie Smith2021
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson2021
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin2020
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones2020
The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier by Ian Urbina2020
A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry2020
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall2020
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker2020
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee2020
I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom2020
A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History by Jeanne Theoharis2018
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco CantĂș2018
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay2018
Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown by Lauren Hilgers2018
The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison2018
So you want to talk about race by Ijeoma Oluo2018
Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America by Vegas Tenold2018
The Bridge: How the Roeblings Connected Brooklyn to New York by Peter J. Tomasi2018
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein2017
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann2017
Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics by Kim Phillips-Fein2017
Hostage by Guy Delisle2017
In the Darkroom by Susan Faludi2017
Age of Anger: A History of the Present by Pankaj Mishra2017
You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson2017
Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair by Sarah Schulman2017
Lockdown on Rikers: Shocking Stories of Abuse and Injustice at New York's Notorious Jail by Mary E. Buser2016
Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul by James McBride2016
Sunny's Nights: Lost and Found at a Bar on the Edge of the World by Tim Sultan2016
Gowanus: Brooklyn's Curious Canal by Joseph Alexiou2016
Drawing Blood by Molly Crabapple2016
An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York's Irish and Italians by Paul Moses2016
The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee2016
The Farm on the Roof: What Brooklyn Grange Taught Us About Entrepreneurship, Community, and Growing a Sustainable Business by Anastasia Cole Plakias2016
The Raging Skillet: The True Life Story of Chef Rossi by Rossi2016
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution by Janette Sadik-Khan2016
Stars in the ring : Jewish champions in the golden age of boxing : a photographic history by Mike Silver2016
Made in Brooklyn: An Essential Guide to the Borough's Artisanal Food & Drink Makers by Melissa Schreiber Vaughan2016
Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire by Shane White2016
The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification in the 21st Century by DW Gibson2015
The Lost Tribe of Coney Island: Headhunters, Luna Park, and the Man Who Pulled Off the Spectacle of the Century by Claire Prentice2015
I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son by Kent Russell2015
Things To Shout Out Loud At Parties by Markus Almond2015
Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own by Kate Bolick2015
Brooklyn spirits: craft distilling and cocktails from the world's hippest borough by Peter Thomas Fornatale2015
Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured by Kathryn Harrison2015
Rooted in Design: Sprout Home's Guide to Creative Indoor Planting by Tara Heibel2015
Brooklyn Spaces: 50 Hubs of Culture and Creativity by Oriana Leckert2015
Brooklyn's Historic Greenpoint by Brian Merlis2015
The Dirty Version: On Stage, in the Studio, and in the Streets with Ol' Dirty Bastard by Buddha Monk2015
All Eyes are Upon Us: Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn by Jason Sokol2015
There Is Only the Earth: Images from the Armenian Diaspora Project by Scout Tufankjian2015
Brooklyn's Promised Land: The Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York by Judith Wellman2015

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