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Gotham Book Prize

The Gotham Book Prize is a $50,000 prize awarded annually to a fiction or non-fiction work judged the best about or set in New York City. The award was founded by venture capitalist Bradley Tusk and political consultant Howard Wolfson.[1][2]

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

Recipients

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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]
Reuven Blau Rikers: An Oral History, Graham Rayman Finalist [12]
Patrick Brinkley All the Beauty in the World Finalist [12]
Aisha Abdel Gawad Between Two Moons Finalist [12]
Patricia Park Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim Finalist [12]
Prudence Peiffer The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever Finalist [12]
Melissa Rivero Flores and Miss Paula Finalist [12]
Joshunda Sanders Women of the Post Finalist [12]
Maria Smilios The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis Finalist [12]
Alexander Stille The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune Finalist [12]
Tyriek White We Are a Haunting Finalist [12][13]
2025 Nicole Gelinas Movement: New York’s Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car Winner (tie) [14]
Ian Frazier Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York’s Greatest Borough
Anna Akbari There Is No Ethan Finalist [15]
Rumaan Alam Entitlement Finalist [15]
Andrew Boryga Victim Finalist [15]
Xochitl Gonzalez Anita de Monte Laughs Last Finalist [15]
Prithi Kanakamedala Brooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities that Shaped a Borough Finalist [15]
Lisa Ko Memory Piece Finalist [15]
Joél Leon Everything and Nothing at Once Finalist [15]
Muriel Leung How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster Finalist [15]
Tricia Romano The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture Finalist [15]
Guy Trebay Do Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of ’70s New York Finalist [15]
Karen Valby The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History Finalist [15]
Yasmin Zaher The Coin Finalist [15]
2026 Lisa Ko I Regret Almost Everything by Keith McNally Winner [16]
Andrew Ross Sorkin 1929 Finalist [17]
Katie Kitamura

Audition

 Finalist [17]
Bench Ansfield

Born in Flames

 Finalist [17]
Keith McNally

I Regret Almost Everything

 Finalist [17]
Ravi Gupta

Garbage Town

 Finalist [17]
Victoria Christopher Murray Harlem Rhapsody Finalist [17]
John Kenney I See You've Called in Dead Finalist [17]
Mark Ronson Night People: How to Be a DJ in '90s New York City Finalist [17]
Adam Ross Playworld Finalist [17]
Jonathan Mahler The Gods of New York Finalist [17]
Lili Taylor Turning to Birds Finalist [17]

References

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  1. ↑ Bussel, Rachel Kramer. "Gotham Book Prize To Award Winning Author $50,000 For Book About Or Set In New York City". Forbes. Archived from the original on 2021-06-11. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  2. ↑ "New writer's prize aims to keep mistique of NYC alive through literature". PIX11. 2020-07-30. Archived from the original on 2021-05-14. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  3. 1 2 3 Temple, Emily (2023-04-24). "Two New York City books will split this year's $70,000 Gotham Book Prize". Literary Hub. Archived from the original on 2023-05-01. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
  4. ↑ McBride, James (6 April 2021). "James McBride's 'Deacon King Kong' wins inaugural Gotham prize". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on 11 June 2021. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
  5. 1 2 "Inaugural Gotham Book Prize Finalists". Locus Online. 2021-01-20. Archived from the original on 2022-06-27. Retrieved 2024-04-18.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Gotham Book Prize Announces Inaugural Finalists". Publishers Weekly. 2021-01-19. Archived from the original on 2024-01-16. Retrieved 2024-04-18.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Schaub, Michael (2022-01-29). "Finalists for the 2022 Gotham Book Prize Revealed". Kirkus Reviews. Archived from the original on 2022-01-29. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Mechler, Anita (2022-01-28). "2022 Gotham Book Prize Finalists Announced | Book Pulse". Library Journal. Archived from the original on 2022-01-30. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Culgan, Rossilynne Skena (2023-02-13). "The 2023 Gotham Book Prize finalists have been announced; add these NYC books to your list". Time Out New York. Archived from the original on 2023-03-30. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Temple, Emily (2023-02-13). "Here are the finalists for the $50,000 Gotham Book Prize". Literary Hub. Archived from the original on 2023-12-07. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
  11. ↑ Schaub, Michael (2024-06-05). "Winner of the Gotham Book Prize Is Revealed". Kirkus Reviews. Archived from the original on 2024-06-11. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Schaub, Michael (2024-04-16). "Finalists for the Gotham Book Prize Are Revealed". Kirkus Reviews. Archived from the original on 2024-04-18. Retrieved 2024-04-18.
  13. ↑ "2024 Gotham Book Prize Finalists". Locus Online. 2024-04-16. Archived from the original on 2024-04-16. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
  14. ↑ "Awards: Gotham Book, Dylan Thomas Winners". Shelf Awareness . 2025-05-20. Archived from the original on 2025-11-15. Retrieved 2026-05-23.
  15. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Allen, Brittany (2025-01-31). "Here are the finalists for the 2025 Gotham Book Prize". Literary Hub. Archived from the original on 2025-02-06. Retrieved 2025-02-11.
  16. ↑ "Awards: Gotham Book Winner". Shelf Awareness . 2026-05-12. Archived from the original on 2026-05-15. Retrieved 2026-05-23.
  17. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Awards: NBCC, Gotham Book Finalists". Shelf Awareness . 2026-01-22. Archived from the original on 2026-02-21. Retrieved 2026-05-23.
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