Believer Book Award

Given by The Believer

75 Works 55,476 Books 2,386 Reviews ½ 4.0
Believer Magazine's Annual Book Award. Awarded for the prior year - so the 2005 winner is awarded sometime in 2006.
Stages:
All, Winner (13), Shortlist (62)
Years:
All, 2020 (4), 2019 (4), 2018 (5), 2017 (5), 2014 (5), 2013 (5), 2012 (5), 2011 (5), 2010 (5), 2009 (3), 2008 (8), 2007 (10), 2006 (1), 2005 (5), 2004 (5)

Winner 13

WorkYear
Belly Up: Stories by Rita Bullwinkel2018
The Others by Matthew Rohrer2017
McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh2014
Bobcat and Other Stories by Rebecca Lee2013
Maidenhead by Tamara Faith Berger2012
Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner2011
Next by James Hynes2010
I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett2009
Novel About My Wife by Emily Perkins2008
Remainder by Tom McCarthy2007
The Road by Cormac McCarthy2006
Atomik Aztex by Sesshu Foster2005
Home Land by Sam Lipsyte2004

Shortlist 62

WorkYear
What Happens at Night by Peter Cameron2020
The White Dress by Nathalie Léger2020
Baudelaire Fractal by Lisa Robertson2020
How to Pronounce Knife: Stories by Souvankham Thammavongsa2020
A Girl Returned by Donatella Di Pietrantonio2019
The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter2019
The Organs of Sense by Adam Ehrlich Sachs2019
The Scent of Buenos Aires: Stories by Hebe Uhart2019
Tell Them of Battles, Kings & Elephants by Mathias Énard2018
Riddance: Or: The Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children by Shelley Jackson2018
Your Black Friend and Other Strangers by Ben Passmore2018
Seventeen by Hideo Yokoyama2018
MacArthur Park by Andrew Durbin2017
I'm Fine, But You Appear to Be Sinking by Leyna Krow2017
Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan2017
Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang2017
Man V. Nature: Stories by Diane Cook2014
Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli2014
Thunderstruck and Other Stories by Elizabeth McCracken2014
Writers by Antoine Volodine2014
Long Division by Kiese Laymon2013
Woke Up Lonely by Fiona Maazel2013
Hawthorn and Child by Keith Ridgway2013
A Questionable Shape by Bennett Sims2013
I'm Trying to Reach You by Barbara Browning2012
My Struggle: Book 1 by Karl Ove Knausgård2012
Parsifal by Jim Krusoe2012
A Naked Singularity by Sergio De La Pava2012
The Curfew by Jesse Ball2011
Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt2011
Spurious by Lars Iyer2011
Widow: Stories by Michelle Latiolais2011
S P R A W L by Danielle Dutton2010
Orion You Came and You Took All My Marbles by Kira Henehan2010
The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich2010
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray2010
The Cardboard Universe: A Guide to the World of Phoebus K. Dank by Christopher Miller2009
The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? by Padgett Powell2009
Black Flies by Shannon Burke2008
The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt2008
Girl Factory by Jim Krusoe2008
Souls of Wind by John Olson2008
Tampico by Toby Olson2008
The Most of It by Mary Ruefle2008
All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well by Tod Wodicka2008
Samedi the Deafness by Jesse Ball2007
Sunless by Gerard Donovan2007
Zeroville by Steve Erickson2007
Generation Loss by Elizabeth Hand2007
African Psycho by Alain Mabanckou2007
The Revisionist by Miranda Mellis2007
The Power of Flies by Lydie Salvayre2007
The Meat and Spirit Plan by Selah Saterstrom2007
An Ordinary Spy: A Novel by Joseph Weisberg2007
Willful Creatures: Stories by Aimee Bender2005
God Lives in St. Petersburg: and Other Stories by Tom Bissell2005
Wide Eyed (Little House on the Bowery) by Trinie Dalton2005
Canaan's Tongue by John Wray2005
Dot in the Universe by Lucy Ellmann2004
The Divine Husband: A Novel by Francisco Goldman2004
The Hamilton Case by Michelle de Kretser2004
The Pink Institution by Selah Saterstrom2004

Descriptions

Believer Magazine's Annual Book Award. Awarded for the prior year - so the 2005 winner is awarded sometime in 2006. (English, Member-written)
Believer Book Award is an American literary award presented yearly by The Believer magazine to novels and story collections the magazine's editors thought were the "strongest and most under-appreciated" of the year. (English, Member-written)

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