Award overlap
Books That Won Both the American Book Awards and the PEN America Literary Awards
4 books won both the American Book Awards and the PEN America Literary Awards between 2010 and 2024, most recently California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline (2024/2024). 15 more were recognized by both without winning both.
Years are award years. American Book Awards · PEN America Literary Awards
Won both
| Book | Author | American Book Awards | PEN America Literary Awards |
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| California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline | Rosanna Xia |
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| There There | Tommy Orange |
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| Homegoing | Yaa Gyasi |
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| Flood Song | Sherwin Bitsui |
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Recognized by both
| Book | Author | American Book Awards | PEN America Literary Awards |
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| Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands | Kelly Lytle Hernández |
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| Solito: A Memoir | Javier Zamora |
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| Mutiny | Phillip B. Williams |
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| Yellow Rain | Mai Der Vang |
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| Borderland Apocrypha | Anthony Cody |
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| These Ghosts Are Family | Maisy Card |
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| Sabrina & Corina: Stories | Kali Fajardo-Anstine |
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| Teeth Never Sleep: Poems | Ángel García |
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| The Changeling | Victor LaValle |
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| Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America | Patrick Phillips |
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| Look | Solmaz Sharif |
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| Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape | Lauret Savoy |
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| This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate | Naomi Klein |
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| When My Brother Was an Aztec | Natalie Diaz |
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| The Submission | Amy Waldman |
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