American Library in Paris Book Award

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The American Library in Paris Book Award (est. 2010) is a book award established by the American Library in Paris. It is awarded each November with a remunerative prize of $5,000 for the "most show more distinguished book of the year about France or the encounters between France and the United States." The first award was given in 2013. The library "was founded and originally run by American expatriates in Paris in 1920, with books that had been sent by American libraries to soldiers fighting in World War I." show less
Stages:
All, Winners (10), Shortlist (50), Longlist (5)
Years:
All, 2023 (10), 2022 (5), 2021 (5), 2020 (6), 2019 (6), 2018 (5), 2017 (6), 2016 (6), 2015 (5), 2014 (6), 2013 (5)

Winners 10

WorkYear
France: An Adventure History by Graham Robb2022
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh2021
The Plateau by Maggie Paxson2020
Hate: the rising tide of anti-semitism in France (and what It means for us) by Marc Weitzmann2019
De Gaulle by Julian Jackson2018
The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables by David Bellos2017
The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France by Ethan B. Katz2016
The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered by Laura Auricchio2015
An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris2014
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall2013

Shortlist 50

WorkYear
Joan: A Novel of Joan of Arc by Katherine J. Chen2023
Americans in Paris : artists working in postwar France, 1946-1962 by Lynn Gumpert2023
France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain by Julian Jackson2023
#You Know You're Black in France When: The Fact of Everyday Antiblackness by Trica Keaton2023
The Curse of the Marquis de Sade: A Notorious Scoundrel, a Mythical Manuscript, and the Biggest Scandal in Literary History by Joel Warner2023
The Caretakers by Amanda Bestor-Siegal2022
City of Incurable Women by Maud Casey2022
In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism by J. P. Daughton2022
The French Mind: 400 Years of Romance, Revolution and Renewal by Peter Watson2022
Leonora in the Morning Light by Michaela Carter2021
Letters to Camondo by Edmund De Waal2021
An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries by Emma Rothschild2021
Perestroika in Paris by Jane Smiley2021
Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking by Bill Buford2020
The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum by James Gardner2020
The Vexations by Caitlin Horrocks2020
Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from Nineteenth-Century France by Rachel Mesch2020
The Betrayal of the Duchess: The Scandal That Unmade the Bourbon Monarchy and Made France Modern by Maurice Samuels2020
Little by Edward Carey2019
Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely by Andrew S. Curran2019
Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc by David Elliott2019
A Bite-Sized History of France: Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment by Stéphane Hénaut2019
The Flight Portfolio by Julie Orringer2019
The Great Nadar: The Man Behind the Camera by Adam Begley2018
Caesar's Footprints: A Cultural Excursion to Ancient France: Journeys Through Roman Gaul by Bijan Omrani2018
Never Anyone But You by Rupert Thomson2018
Proust's Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siècle Paris by Caroline Weber2018
The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog by Adam Gidwitz2017
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies by Ross King2017
Duck Season by David McAninch2017
I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This: A Memoir by Nadja Spiegelman2017
The Némirovsky Question: The Life, Death, and Legacy of a Jewish Writer in Twentieth-Century France by Susan Rubin Suleiman2017
A Country Road, A Tree by Jo Baker2016
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others by Sarah Bakewell2016
The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed by Julie Barlow2016
Paris at War: 1939-1944 by David Drake2016
The Other Paris by Lucy Sante2016
The Other Americans in Paris: Businessmen, Countesses, Wayward Youth, 1880-1941 by Nancy L. Green2015
Fatal Isolation: The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003 by Richard C. Keller2015
In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art by Sue Roe2015
When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944 by Ronald C. Rosbottom2015
How to Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette and the Diamond Necklace Affair by Jonathan Beckman2014
The Embrace of Unreason: France, 1914-1940 by Frederick Brown2014
Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize by Sean B. Carroll2014
Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power by Philip Dwyer2014
Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932: A Novel by Francine Prose2014
Cezanne: A Life by Alex Danchev2013
The Black Count: Napoleon's Rival and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas by Tom Reiss2013
The Illusion of Separateness by Simon Van Booy2013
How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance by Marilyn Yalom2013

Longlist 5

WorkYear
Paris and Her Cathedrals by R. Howard Bloch2023
Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris by Mark Braude2023
Barnave: The Revolutionary who Lost his Head for Marie Antoinette by John Hardman2023
The French Resistance and its Legacy by Rod Kedward2023
Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outlaws of Nineteenth-Century France by Anne E. Linton2023

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