1. FICTION
  3. Winner
  4. • Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown (Pantheon Books / Penguin Random House
  6. Finalists
  7. • Rumaan Alam, Leave the World Behind (Ecco / HarperCollins Publishers)
  8. • Lydia Millet, A Children’s Bible (W. W. Norton & Company)
  9. • Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies (West Virginia University Press)
  10. • Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain (Grove Press / Grove Atlantic)
  12. Longlist
  13. • Christopher Beha, The Index of Self-Destructive Acts (Tin House Books)
  14. • Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half (Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House)
  15. • Randall Kenan, If I Had Two Wings (W. W. Norton & Company)
  16. • Megha Majumdar, A Burning (Alfred A. Knopf / Penguin Random House)
  17. • Vanessa Veselka, The Great Offshore Grounds (Alfred A. Knopf / Penguin Random House)
  19. NONFICTION
  21. Winner
  22. • Les Payne and Tamara Payne, The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X (Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company)
  24. Finalists
  25. • Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans (One World / Penguin Random House)
  26. • Claudio Saunt, Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory (W. W. Norton & Company)
  27. • Jenn Shapland, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers (Tin House Books)
  28. • Jerald Walker, How to Make a Slave and Other Essays (Mad Creek Books / The Ohio State University Press)
  30. Longlist
  31. • Michelle Bowdler, Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto (Flatiron Books / Macmillan Publishers)
  32. • Jill Lepore, If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future (Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company)
  33. • Jonathan C. Slaght, Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl (Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers)
  34. • Frank B. Wilderson III, Afropessimism (Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company)
  35. • Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Random House / Penguin Random House)
  37. POETRY
  39. Winner
  40. • Don Mee Choi, DMZ Colony (Wave Books)
  42. Finalists
  43. • Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, A Treatise on Stars (New Directions)
  44. • Tommye Blount, Fantasia for the Man in Blue (Four Way Books)
  45. • Anthony Cody, Borderland Apocrypha (Omnidawn Publishing)
  46. • Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem (Graywolf Press)
  48. Longlist
  49. • Rick Barot, The Galleons (Milkweed Editions)
  50. • Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Travesty Generator (Noemi Press)
  51. • Victoria Chang, Obit (Copper Canyon Press)
  52. • Eduardo C. Corral, Guillotine (Graywolf Press)
  53. • Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Age of Phillis (Wesleyan University Press)
  55. TRANSLATED LITERATURE
  57. Winner
  58. • Yu Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station, Translated from the Japanese by Morgan Giles (Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House)
  60. Finalists
  61. • Anja Kampmann, High as the Waters Rise, Translated from the German by Anne Posten (Catapult)
  62. • Jonas Hassen Khemiri, The Family Clause, Translated from the Swedish by Alice Menzies (Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers)
  63. • Pilar Quintana, The Bitch, Translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman (World Editions)
  64. • Adania Shibli, Minor Detail, Translated from the Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette (New Directions)
  66. Longlist
  67. • Shokoofeh Azar, The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree, Translated from the Persian by Anonymous (Europa Editions)
  68. • Linda Boström Knausgård, The Helios Disaster, Translated from the Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles (World Editions)
  69. • Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season, Translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes (New Directions)
  70. • Perumal Murugan, The Story of a Goat, Translated from the Tamil by N. Kalyan Raman (Black Cat / Grove Atlantic)
  71. • Cho Nam-Joo, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, Translated from the Korean by Jamie Chang (Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company)
  73. YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE
  75. Winner
  76. • Kacen Callender, King and the Dragonflies (Scholastic Press / Scholastic Inc.)
  78. Finalists
  79. • Traci Chee, We Are Not Free (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
  80. • Candice Iloh, Every Body Looking (Dutton Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House)
  81. • Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed, When Stars Are Scattered (Dial Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House)
  82. • Gavriel Savit, The Way Back (Knopf Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House)
  84. Longlist
  85. • Evette Dionne, Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box (Viking Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House)
  86. • Eric Gansworth, Apple (Skin to the Core) (Levine Querido)
  87. • Marcella Pixley, Trowbridge Road (Candlewick Press)
  88. • John Rocco, How We Got to the Moon: The People, Technology, and Daring Feats of Science Behind Humanity’s Greatest Adventure (Crown Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House)
  89. • Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys (Swoon Reads / Macmillan Publishers)