Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize

Given by Brooklyn Public Library

Other Names: Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize (2015-2016), Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize (2017-2021)
185 Works / 188 Items 128,892 Books 5,868 Reviews ½ 4.0
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:
Years:
All, 2023 (24), 2022 (24), 2021 (24), 2020 (16), 2019 (8), 2018 (18), 2017 (19), 2016 (26), 2015 (29)

Winner 18

Shortlist 58

WorkCategoryYear
Biography of X by Catherine LaceyFiction2023
Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar HokeahFiction2023
Yellowface by R. F. KuangFiction2023
Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir by Lamya H.Nonfiction2023
Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen ChenNonfiction2023
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda VillarosaNonfiction2023
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl GonzalezFiction2022
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky ChambersFiction2022
What Storm, What Thunder by Myriam J. A. ChancyFiction2022
Hola Papi: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons by John Paul BrammerNonfiction/Poetry2022
The Trayvon Generation: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow by Elizabeth AlexanderNonfiction/Poetry2022
Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World by Daniel SherrellNonfiction/Poetry2022
Libertie by Kaitlyn GreenidgeFiction2021
The Wild Fox of Yemen: Poems by Threa AlmontaserFiction and Poetry2021
Luster by Raven LeilaniFiction and Poetry2021
Detransition, Baby by Torrey PetersFiction and Poetry2021
New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time by Craig TaylorNonfiction2021
How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community by Mia BirdsongNonfiction2021
Pedro's Theory: Reimagining the Promised Land by Marcos GonsalezNonfiction2021
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-WeinsteinNonfiction2021
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean VuongFiction2020
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-MohtarFiction2020
The Deep by Rivers SolomonFiction2020
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha BenjaminNonfiction2020
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed JonesNonfiction2020
The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier by Ian UrbinaNonfiction2020
Women Talking by Miriam ToewsFiction and Poetry2019
If They Come for Us: Poems by Fatimah AsgharFiction and Poetry2019
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance HayesFiction and Poetry2019
How Long 'Til Black Future Month? by N. K. JemisinFiction and Poetry2019
Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan CottomNonfiction2019
The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story by Aaron Bobrow-StrainNonfiction2019
Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick EstesNonfiction2019
Losing Earth: A Recent History by Nathaniel RichNonfiction2019
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria MachadoFiction2018
Don't Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez SmithFiction2018
Sour Heart by Jenny ZhangFiction2018
A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History by Jeanne TheoharisNonfiction2018
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco CantúNonfiction2018
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane GayNonfiction2018
IRL by Tommy PicoFiction & Poetry2017
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka ArimahFiction & Poetry2017
Exit West by Mohsin HamidFiction & Poetry2017
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard RothsteinNonfiction2017
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David GrannNonfiction2017
Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics by Kim Phillips-FeinNonfiction2017
Ways to Disappear by Idra NoveyFiction2016
Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo by Boris FishmanFiction2016
Bright Lines: A Novel by Tanwi Nandini IslamFiction2016
Lockdown on Rikers: Shocking Stories of Abuse and Injustice at New York's Notorious Jail by Mary E. BuserNonfiction2016
Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul by James McBrideNonfiction2016
Sunny's Nights: Lost and Found at a Bar on the Edge of the World by Tim SultanNonfiction2016
Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus LishFiction2015
Delicious Foods by James HannahamFiction2015
Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel: A Graphic Novel by Anya UlinichFiction2015
The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification in the 21st Century by DW GibsonNonfiction2015
The Lost Tribe of Coney Island: Headhunters, Luna Park, and the Man Who Pulled Off the Spectacle of the Century by Claire PrenticeNonfiction2015
I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son by Kent RussellNonfiction2015

Longlist 180

WorkCategoryYear
Biography of X by Catherine LaceyFiction2023
Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar HokeahFiction2023
Yellowface by R. F. KuangFiction2023
Boulder by Eva BaltasarFiction2023
Big Swiss by Jen BeaginFiction2023
All the Blood We Share by Camilla BruceFiction2023
The Book Eaters by Sunyi DeanFiction2023
If I Survive You by Jonathan EscofferyFiction2023
When We Were Bright and Beautiful by Jillian MedoffFiction2023
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray NaylerFiction2023
Symphony of Secrets by Brendan SlocumbFiction2023
We Are a Haunting by Tyriek WhiteFiction2023
Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir by Lamya H.Nonfiction2023
Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen ChenNonfiction2023
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda VillarosaNonfiction2023
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate BeatonNonfiction2023
A Living Remedy: A Memoir by Nicole ChungNonfiction2023
Muse Found in a Colonized Body (Stahlecker Selections) by Yesenia MontillaNonfiction2023
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe by Caroline Dodds PennockNonfiction2023
The New Yorkers: 31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World's Greatest City by Sam RobertsNonfiction2023
Above Ground by Clint SmithNonfiction2023
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice WongNonfiction2023
Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York’s Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist by Jennifer WrightNonfiction2023
From From: Poems by Monica YounNonfiction2023
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl GonzalezFiction2022
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky ChambersFiction2022
What Storm, What Thunder by Myriam J. A. ChancyFiction2022
When Women Were Dragons by Kelly BarnhillFiction2022
My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham JonesFiction2022
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John MandelFiction2022
Panpocalypse by Carley MooreFiction2022
Las Biuty Queens by Iván Monalisa OjedaFiction2022
Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi PatelFiction2022
My Volcano by John Elizabeth StintziFiction2022
The Lincoln Highway by Amor TowlesFiction2022
Siren Queen by Nghi VoFiction2022
Hola Papi: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons by John Paul BrammerNonfiction/Poetry2022
The Trayvon Generation: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow by Elizabeth AlexanderNonfiction/Poetry2022
Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World by Daniel SherrellNonfiction/Poetry2022
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City by Andrea ElliottNonfiction/Poetry2022
Punks: New & Selected Poems by John KeeneNonfiction/Poetry2022
The Hurting Kind: Poems by Ada LimónNonfiction/Poetry2022
Cost of Living: Essays by Emily MaloneyNonfiction/Poetry2022
Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir by Rajiv MohabirNonfiction/Poetry2022
Fearlessly Different: An Autistic Actor's Journey to Broadway's Biggest Stage by Mickey RoweNonfiction/Poetry2022
Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America by Mayukh SenNonfiction/Poetry2022
Customs: Poems by Solmaz SharifNonfiction/Poetry2022
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery across America by Clint SmithNonfiction/Poetry2022
Libertie by Kaitlyn GreenidgeFiction2021
When No One Is Watching by Alyssa ColeFiction2021
The Wild Fox of Yemen: Poems by Threa AlmontaserFiction and Poetry2021
Luster by Raven LeilaniFiction and Poetry2021
Detransition, Baby by Torrey PetersFiction and Poetry2021
Black Buck by Mateo AskaripourFiction and Poetry2021
Love and Other Poems by Alex DimitrovFiction and Poetry2021
Un-American (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Hafizah GeterFiction and Poetry2021
We Are Watching Eliza Bright by A.E. OsworthFiction and Poetry2021
100 Boyfriends by Brontez PurnellFiction and Poetry2021
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. SchwabFiction and Poetry2021
The Final Revival of Opal and Nev by Dawnie WaltonFiction and Poetry2021
New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time by Craig TaylorNonfiction2021
How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community by Mia BirdsongNonfiction2021
Pedro's Theory: Reimagining the Promised Land by Marcos GonsalezNonfiction2021
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-WeinsteinNonfiction2021
We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame KabaNonfiction2021
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth KolbertNonfiction2021
Vibrate Higher: A Rap Story by Talib KweliNonfiction2021
Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free: And Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System by Judge Jed S. RakoffNonfiction2021
Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice by Yusef SalaamNonfiction2021
Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah SchulmanNonfiction2021
Intimations: Six Essays by Zadie SmithNonfiction2021
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel WilkersonNonfiction2021
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean VuongFiction2020
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-MohtarFiction2020
The Deep by Rivers SolomonFiction2020
Patsy by Nicole Dennis-BennFiction2020
Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie DiazFiction2020
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-GarciaFiction2020
The Starless Sea by Erin MorgensternFiction2020
Weather by Jenny OffillFiction2020
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha BenjaminNonfiction2020
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed JonesNonfiction2020
The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier by Ian UrbinaNonfiction2020
A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey BerryNonfiction2020
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki KendallNonfiction2020
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert KolkerNonfiction2020
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika LeeNonfiction2020
I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng ThomNonfiction2020
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria MachadoFiction2018
Don't Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez SmithFiction2018
Sour Heart by Jenny ZhangFiction2018
The King Is Always Above the People: Stories by Daniel AlarcónFiction2018
What We Lose by Zinzi ClemmonsFiction2018
Freshwater by Akwaeke EmeziFiction2018
Electric Arches by Eve L. EwingFiction2018
The Answers by Catherine LaceyFiction2018
The Sarah Book by Scott McClanahanFiction2018
The Parking Lot Attendant by Nafkote TamiratFiction2018
A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History by Jeanne TheoharisNonfiction2018
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco CantúNonfiction2018
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane GayNonfiction2018
Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown by Lauren HilgersNonfiction2018
The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath by Leslie JamisonNonfiction2018
So you want to talk about race by Ijeoma OluoNonfiction2018
Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America by Vegas TenoldNonfiction2018
The Bridge: How the Roeblings Connected Brooklyn to New York by Peter J. TomasiNonfiction2018
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka ArimahFiction2017
Exit West by Mohsin HamidFiction2017
The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBrideFiction2017
IRL by Tommy PicoFiction2017
Black Wave by Michelle TeaFiction2017
Reputations by Juan Gabriel VásquezFiction2017
The Impossible Fairy Tale by Han YujooFiction2017
The Book of Joan by Lidia YuknavitchFiction2017
IRL by Tommy PicoFiction & Poetry2017
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka ArimahFiction & Poetry2017
Exit West by Mohsin HamidFiction & Poetry2017
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard RothsteinNonfiction2017
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David GrannNonfiction2017
Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics by Kim Phillips-FeinNonfiction2017
Hostage by Guy DelisleNonfiction2017
In the Darkroom by Susan FaludiNonfiction2017
Age of Anger: A History of the Present by Pankaj MishraNonfiction2017
You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe RobinsonNonfiction2017
Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair by Sarah SchulmanNonfiction2017
Ways to Disappear by Idra NoveyFiction2016
Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo by Boris FishmanFiction2016
Bright Lines: A Novel by Tanwi Nandini IslamFiction2016
Saint Mazie by Jami AttenbergFiction2016
We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn GreenidgeFiction2016
Mr Splitfoot by Samantha HuntFiction2016
The Star Side of Bird Hill by Naomi JacksonFiction2016
Why We Came to the City: A Novel by Kristopher JansmaFiction2016
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValleFiction2016
Hotels of North America by Rick MoodyFiction2016
Sleeping Giants by Sylvain NeuvelFiction2016
The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen PhillipsFiction2016
Modern Lovers by Emma StraubFiction2016
Lockdown on Rikers: Shocking Stories of Abuse and Injustice at New York's Notorious Jail by Mary E. BuserNonfiction2016
Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul by James McBrideNonfiction2016
Sunny's Nights: Lost and Found at a Bar on the Edge of the World by Tim SultanNonfiction2016
Gowanus: Brooklyn's Curious Canal by Joseph AlexiouNonfiction2016
Drawing Blood by Molly CrabappleNonfiction2016
An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York's Irish and Italians by Paul MosesNonfiction2016
The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha MukherjeeNonfiction2016
The Farm on the Roof: What Brooklyn Grange Taught Us About Entrepreneurship, Community, and Growing a Sustainable Business by Anastasia Cole PlakiasNonfiction2016
The Raging Skillet: The True Life Story of Chef Rossi by RossiNonfiction2016
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution by Janette Sadik-KhanNonfiction2016
Stars in the ring : Jewish champions in the golden age of boxing : a photographic history by Mike SilverNonfiction2016
Made in Brooklyn: An Essential Guide to the Borough's Artisanal Food & Drink Makers by Melissa Schreiber VaughanNonfiction2016
Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire by Shane WhiteNonfiction2016
Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus LishFiction2015
Delicious Foods by James HannahamFiction2015
Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel: A Graphic Novel by Anya UlinichFiction2015
Panic in a Suitcase: A Novel by Yelena AkhtiorskayaFiction2015
The Boatmaker by John BendittFiction2015
2 A.M. at The Cat's Pajamas by Marie-Helene BertinoFiction2015
The lost treasures of R&B by Nelson GeorgeFiction2015
Friendship by Emily GouldFiction2015
The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing by Mira JacobFiction2015
Small Mercies: A Novel by Eddie JoyceFiction2015
10:04: A Novel by Ben LernerFiction2015
Adam by Ariel SchragFiction2015
The Sunshine Crust Baking Factory by Stacy WakefieldFiction2015
A Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaFiction2015
Land of love and drowning : a novel by Tiphanie YaniqueFiction2015
The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification in the 21st Century by DW GibsonNonfiction2015
The Lost Tribe of Coney Island: Headhunters, Luna Park, and the Man Who Pulled Off the Spectacle of the Century by Claire PrenticeNonfiction2015
I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son by Kent RussellNonfiction2015
Things To Shout Out Loud At Parties by Markus AlmondNonfiction2015
Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own by Kate BolickNonfiction2015
Brooklyn spirits: craft distilling and cocktails from the world's hippest borough by Peter Thomas FornataleNonfiction2015
Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured by Kathryn HarrisonNonfiction2015
Rooted in Design: Sprout Home's Guide to Creative Indoor Planting by Tara HeibelNonfiction2015
Brooklyn Spaces: 50 Hubs of Culture and Creativity by Oriana LeckertNonfiction2015
Brooklyn's Historic Greenpoint by Brian MerlisNonfiction2015
The Dirty Version: On Stage, in the Studio, and in the Streets with Ol' Dirty Bastard by Buddha MonkNonfiction2015
All Eyes are Upon Us: Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn by Jason SokolNonfiction2015
There Is Only the Earth: Images from the Armenian Diaspora Project by Scout TufankjianNonfiction2015
Brooklyn's Promised Land: The Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York by Judith WellmanNonfiction2015

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