Kirkus Prize

Given by Kirkus Reviews

Other Names: Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction, Kirkus Prize for Young People's Literature
179 Works / 180 Items 198,192 Books 10,394 Reviews 4.1
Stages:
All, Winner (30), Finalist (180)
Categories:
Years:
All, 2023 (17), 2022 (18), 2021 (18), 2020 (18), 2019 (18), 2018 (18), 2017 (18), 2016 (18), 2015 (18), 2014 (18)
Announced:
October 2023: Winner2023 Recent

Winner 30

WorkCategoryYear
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBrideFiction2023
Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino” by Héctor TobarNonfiction2023
America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History by Ariel Aberg-RigerYoung Readers' Literature2023
Trust by Hernan DiazFiction2022
In Sensorium: Notes for My People by AS TANNonfiction2022
Himawari House by Harmony BeckerYoung Readers' Literature2022
Harrow by Joy WilliamsFiction2021
Punch Me Up To The Gods: A Memoir by Brian BroomeNonfiction2021
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team by Christina SoontornvatYoung Readers' Literature2021
Luster by Raven LeilaniFiction2020
Stakes Is High: Life after the American Dream by Mychal Denzel SmithNonfiction2020
I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick BarnesYoung Readers' Literature2020
The Nickel Boys by Colson WhiteheadFiction2019
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed JonesNonfiction2019
New Kid by Jerry CraftYoung Readers' Literature2019
Severance by Ling MaFiction2018
Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) by Rebecca SolnitNonfiction2018
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick BarnesYoung Readers' Literature2018
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka ArimahFiction2017
The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea by Jack E. DavisNonfiction2017
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie DimalineYoung Readers' Literature2017
The Sport of Kings by C. E. MorganFiction2016
In the Darkroom by Susan FaludiNonfiction2016
As Brave As You by Jason ReynoldsYoung Readers' Literature2016
A Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaFiction2015
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesNonfiction2015
Echo by Pam Muñoz RyanYoung Readers' Literature2015
Euphoria by Lily KingFiction2014
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? A Memoir by Roz ChastNonfiction2014
Aviary Wonders Inc. Spring Catalog and Instruction Manual by Kate SamworthYoung Readers' Literature2014

Finalist 180

WorkCategoryYear
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBrideFiction2023
Birnam Wood by Eleanor CattonFiction2023
White Cat, Black Dog: Stories by Kelly LinkFiction2023
The Bee Sting by Paul MurrayFiction2023
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn WardFiction2023
Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino” by Héctor TobarNonfiction2023
Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution by Tania BraniganNonfiction2023
Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century by Jennifer HomansNonfiction2023
How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind by Clancy MartinNonfiction2023
How to Say Babylon: A Memoir by Safiya SinclairNonfiction2023
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon WooNonfiction2023
America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History by Ariel Aberg-RigerYoung Readers' Literature2023
Together We Swim by Valerie BollingYoung Readers' Literature2023
The Eternal Return of Clara Hart by Louise FinchYoung Readers' Literature2023
Julia and the Shark by Kiran Millwood HargraveYoung Readers' Literature2023
The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale by Jon KlassenYoung Readers' Literature2023
João by a Thread by Roger MelloYoung Readers' Literature2023
Trust by Hernan DiazFiction2022
Scary Monsters by Michelle De KretserFiction2022
God's Children Are Little Broken Things by Arinze IfeakanduFiction2022
Mecca by Susan StraightFiction2022
Scattered All Over the Earth by Yōko TawadaFiction2022
The Books of Jacob by Olga TokarczukFiction2022
In Sensorium: Notes for My People by AS TANNonfiction2022
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners by Margaret A. BurnhamNonfiction2022
The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey FitzharrisNonfiction2022
The 1619 Project {The New York Times Magazine, August 18, 2019} by Nikole Hannah-JonesNonfiction2022
These Precious Days: Essays by Ann PatchettNonfiction2022
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed YongNonfiction2022
Himawari House by Harmony BeckerYoung Readers' Literature2022
Coffee, Rabbit, Snowdrop, Lost by Betina BirkjærYoung Readers' Literature2022
How You Grow Wings by Rimma OnosetaYoung Readers' Literature2022
The Golden Hour by Niki SmithYoung Readers' Literature2022
The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy by Anne UrsuYoung Readers' Literature2022
The Year We Learned to Fly by Jacqueline WoodsonYoung Readers' Literature2022
Harrow by Joy WilliamsFiction2021
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories by Mariana EnríquezFiction2021
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne JeffersFiction2021
My Monticello: Fiction by Jocelyn Nicole JohnsonFiction2021
Bolla by Pajtim StatovciFiction2021
Harlem Shuffle by Colson WhiteheadFiction2021
Punch Me Up To The Gods: A Memoir by Brian BroomeNonfiction2021
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara HornNonfiction2021
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya MilesNonfiction2021
Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen RadtkeNonfiction2021
Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life by Katherine E. StandeferNonfiction2021
Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico by Juan VilloroNonfiction2021
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team by Christina SoontornvatYoung Readers' Literature2021
The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling by Wai ChimYoung Readers' Literature2021
The Life I'm In by Sharon G. FlakeYoung Readers' Literature2021
Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki GrimesYoung Readers' Literature2021
Your Mama by NoNieqa RamosYoung Readers' Literature2021
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston WeatherfordYoung Readers' Literature2021
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdre MaskNonfiction2020
Luster by Raven LeilaniFiction2020
Black Sunday by Tola Rotimi AbrahamFiction2020
Fiebre Tropical: A Novel by Juliana Delgado LoperaFiction2020
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena FerranteFiction2020
Deacon King Kong by James McBrideFiction2020
Shuggie Bain by Douglas StuartFiction2020
Stakes Is High: Life after the American Dream by Mychal Denzel SmithNonfiction2020
A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes by Eric Jay DolinNonfiction2020
Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca GiggsNonfiction2020
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdre MaskNonfiction2020
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee NezhukumatathilNonfiction2020
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel WilkersonNonfiction2020
I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick BarnesYoung Readers' Literature2020
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth AcevedoYoung Readers' Literature2020
The Girl and the Ghost by Hanna AlkafYoung Readers' Literature2020
Fighting Words by Kimberly Brubaker BradleyYoung Readers' Literature2020
We Are Water Protectors by Carole LindstromYoung Readers' Literature2020
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning by Jason ReynoldsYoung Readers' Literature2020
The Nickel Boys by Colson WhiteheadFiction2019
Cantoras by Carolina De RobertisFiction2019
The Other Americans: A Novel by Laila LalamiFiction2019
Lost Children Archive by Valeria LuiselliFiction2019
Territory of Light by Yūko TsushimaFiction2019
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean VuongFiction2019
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed JonesNonfiction2019
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest by Hanif AbdurraqibNonfiction2019
When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl's Book by Naja Marie AidtNonfiction2019
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden KeefeNonfiction2019
The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina NayeriNonfiction2019
No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us by Rachel Louise SnyderNonfiction2019
New Kid by Jerry CraftYoung Readers' Literature2019
The Undefeated by Kwame AlexanderYoung Readers' Literature2019
Imagine by Juan Felipe HerreraYoung Readers' Literature2019
On the Come Up by Angie ThomasYoung Readers' Literature2019
The Other Side: Stories of Central American Teen Refugees Who Dream of Crossing the Border by Juan Pablo VillalobosYoung Readers' Literature2019
Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. WilliamsYoung Readers' Literature2019
Severance by Ling MaFiction2018
Halsey Street by Naima CosterFiction2018
Florida by Lauren GroffFiction2018
Mourning by Eduardo HalfonFiction2018
Heads of the Colored People: Stories by Nafissa Thompson-SpiresFiction2018
Tell the Machine Goodnight by Katie WilliamsFiction2018
Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) by Rebecca SolnitNonfiction2018
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment by Shane BauerNonfiction2018
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese LaymonNonfiction2018
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth MacyNonfiction2018
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah SmarshNonfiction2018
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America by Timothy SnyderNonfiction2018
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick BarnesYoung Readers' Literature2018
The Poet X by Elizabeth AcevedoYoung Readers' Literature2018
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi AdeyemiYoung Readers' Literature2018
Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg MedinaYoung Readers' Literature2018
Dreamers by Yuyi MoralesYoung Readers' Literature2018
Harbor Me by Jacqueline WoodsonYoung Readers' Literature2018
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka ArimahFiction2017
Exit West by Mohsin HamidFiction2017
White Tears by Hari KunzruFiction2017
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria MachadoFiction2017
The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermottFiction2017
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn WardFiction2017
The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea by Jack E. DavisNonfiction2017
The Seeds of Life: From Aristotle to da Vinci, from Sharks' Teeth to Frogs' Pants, the Long and Strange Quest to Discover Where Babies Come From by Edward DolnickNonfiction2017
Priestdaddy: A Memoir by Patricia LockwoodNonfiction2017
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions by Valeria LuiselliNonfiction2017
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. TwittyNonfiction2017
Henry David Thoreau: A Life by Laura Dassow WallsNonfiction2017
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie DimalineYoung Readers' Literature2017
Walk with Me by Jairo BuitragoYoung Readers' Literature2017
It All Comes Down to This by Karen EnglishYoung Readers' Literature2017
Me Tall, You Small by Lilli L'ArrongeYoung Readers' Literature2017
The Hate U Give by Angie ThomasYoung Readers' Literature2017
Bronze and Sunflower by Cao WenxuanYoung Readers' Literature2017
The Sport of Kings by C. E. MorganFiction2016
Imagine Me Gone by Adam HaslettFiction2016
Carousel Court: A Novel by Joe McGinniss Jr.Fiction2016
Barkskins by Annie ProulxFiction2016
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor TowlesFiction2016
The Underground Railroad by Colson WhiteheadFiction2016
In the Darkroom by Susan FaludiNonfiction2016
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 BakewellNonfiction2016
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew DesmondNonfiction2016
The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America by Michael Eric DysonNonfiction2016
Truevine by Beth MacyNonfiction2016
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. VanceNonfiction2016
As Brave As You by Jason ReynoldsYoung Readers' Literature2016
Thunder Boy Jr. by Sherman AlexieYoung Readers' Literature2016
Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley BryanYoung Readers' Literature2016
The Reader by Traci CheeYoung Readers' Literature2016
We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler by Russell FreedmanYoung Readers' Literature2016
Burn Baby Burn by Meg MedinaYoung Readers' Literature2016
A Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaFiction2015
The Incarnations by Susan BarkerFiction2015
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia BerlinFiction2015
Fates and Furies by Lauren GroffFiction2015
The Story of My Teeth by Valeria LuiselliFiction2015
The Book of Aron by Jim ShepardFiction2015
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesNonfiction2015
Whirlwind: The American Revolution and the War That Won It by John FerlingNonfiction2015
H Is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldNonfiction2015
The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931 by Adam ToozeNonfiction2015
Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers by Simon WinchesterNonfiction2015
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea WulfNonfiction2015
Echo by Pam Muñoz RyanYoung Readers' Literature2015
The Game of Love and Death by Martha BrockenbroughYoung Readers' Literature2015
The New Small Person by Lauren ChildYoung Readers' Literature2015
Shadowshaper by Daniel José OlderYoung Readers' Literature2015
Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras by Duncan TonatiuhYoung Readers' Literature2015
Lillian's Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by Jonah WinterYoung Readers' Literature2015
Euphoria by Lily KingFiction2014
The Blazing World by Siri HustvedtFiction2014
All Our Names by Dinaw MengestuFiction2014
Florence Gordon by Brian MortonFiction2014
The Remedy for Love: A Novel by Bill RoorbachFiction2014
The Paying Guests by Sarah WatersFiction2014
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? A Memoir by Roz ChastNonfiction2014
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World by Leo DamroschNonfiction2014
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth KolbertNonfiction2014
The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science by Armand Marie LeroiNonfiction2014
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas PikettyNonfiction2014
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan StevensonNonfiction2014
Aviary Wonders Inc. Spring Catalog and Instruction Manual by Kate SamworthYoung Readers' Literature2014
El Deafo by Cece BellYoung Readers' Literature2014
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus by Jen BryantYoung Readers' Literature2014
The Key That Swallowed Joey Pigza by Jack GantosYoung Readers' Literature2014
The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim by E. K. JohnstonYoung Readers' Literature2014
The Freedom Summer Murders by Don MitchellYoung Readers' Literature2014

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