Gotham Book Prize

Gotham Book Prize
DateDecember
Reward(s)$50,000
First award2020
Final awardActive
Websitegothambookprize.org

The Gotham Book Prize is awarded annually to a fiction or non-fiction work judged the best about or set in New York City. The award was founded by Bradley Tusk and Howard Wolfson.[1][2]

Recipients

Gotham Book Prize winners and finalists
Year Author Title Result Ref.
2021 James McBride Deacon King Kong Winner [3][4]
Rumaan Alam Leave the World Behind Finalist [5]
Christopher Beha The Index of Self-Destructive Acts Finalist [6]
David Goodwillie Kings County Finalist [6]
Debra Jo Immergut You Again Finalist [6]
N. K. Jemisin The City We Became Finalist [5]
David Paul Kuhn The Hard Hat Riot: Nixon, New York City, & the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution Finalist [6]
Raven Leilani Luster Finalist [6]
Amy Poeppel Musical Chairs Finalist [6]
Jerry Seinfeld Is This Anything? Finalist [6]
2022 Andrea Elliott Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City Winner [3]
Tom Dyja New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess and Transformation Finalist [7][8]
Kaitlyn Greenidge Libertie Finalist [7][8]
Zakiya Dalila Harris The Other Black Girl Finalist [7][8]
Jim Lewis Ghosts of New York Finalist [7][8]
Torrey Peters Detransition, Baby Finalist [7][8]
Sarah Schulman Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 Finalist [7][8]
Natalie Standiford Astrid Sees All Finalist [7][8]
Elisabet Velasquez When We Make It Finalist [7][8]
Colson Whitehead Harlem Shuffle Finalist [7][8]
2023 Sidik Fofana Stories from the Tenants Downstairs Winner (tie) [3]
John Wood Sweet The Sewing Girl’s Tale
Jill Bialosky The Deceptions Finalist [9][10]
Hernan Diaz Trust Finalist [9][10]
Xochitl Gonzalez Olga Dies Dreaming Finalist [9][10]
James Hannaham Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta Finalist [9][10]
Lisa Hsiao Chen Activities of Daily Living Finalist [9][10]
Dwyer Murphy An Honest Living Finalist [9][10]
Bushra Rehman Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion Finalist [9][10]
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Big Girl Finalist [9][10]
Martha Anne Toll Three Muses Finalist [9][10]
2024 Colson Whitehead Crook Manifesto Winner [11][12]
Reuven Blau Rikers: An Oral History, Graham Rayman Finalist [13][14]
Patrick Brinkley All the Beauty in the World Finalist [13][14]
Aisha Abdel Gawad Between Two Moons Finalist [13][14]
Patricia Park Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim Finalist [13][14]
Prudence Peiffer The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever Finalist [13][14]
Melissa Rivero Flores and Miss Paula Finalist [13][14]
Joshunda Sanders Women of the Post Finalist [13][14]
Maria Smilios The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis Finalist [13][14]
Alexander Stille The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune Finalist [13][14]
Tyriek White We Are a Haunting Finalist [13][14][15]
2025 Xochitl Gonzalez Anita de Monte Laughs Last Longlist [16]
Prithi Kanakamedala Brooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities that Shaped a Borough Longlist [16]
Guy Trebay Do Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of ’70s New York Longlist [16]
Rumaan Alam Entitlement Longlist [16]
Joél Leon Everything and Nothing at Once Longlist [16]
Muriel Leung How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster Longlist [16]
Lisa Ko Memory Piece Longlist [16]
Nicole Gelinas Movement: New York’s Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car Longlist [16]
Ian Frazier Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York’s Greatest Borough Longlist [16]
Karen Valby The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History Longlist [16]
Tricia Romano The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture Longlist [16]
Yasmin Zaher The Coin Longlist [16]
Anna Akbari There Is No Ethan Longlist [16]
Andrew Boryga Victim Longlist [16]

References

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