| All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today | Elizabeth Comen | - 2024 Nominee (Nonfiction)
| - 2025 Finalist (PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award)
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| The Blueprint | Rae Giana Rashad | - 2024 Nominee (Science Fiction)
| - 2025 Finalist (PEN Open Book Award)
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| All the Flowers Kneeling | Paul Tran | | - 2023 Finalist (PEN Open Book Award)
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| An Immense World | Ed Yong | - 2022 Nominee (Nonfiction)
| - 2023 Finalist (PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award)
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| Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands | Kelly Lytle Hernandez | - 2022 Nominee (History & Biography)
| - 2023 Finalist (PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction)
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| Happy-Go-Lucky | David Sedaris | | - 2023 Finalist (PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay)
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| Solito | Javier Zamora | - 2022 Nominee (Memoir & Autobiography)
| - 2023 Finalist (PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction)
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| South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation | Imani Perry | - 2022 Nominee (Nonfiction)
| - 2023 Finalist (PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction)
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| A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance | Hanif Abdurraqib | - 2021 Nominee (Nonfiction)
| - 2022 Finalist (PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay)
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| Detransition, Baby: A Novel | Torrey Peters | - 2021 Nominee (Debut Novel)
- 2021 Nominee (Fiction)
| - 2022 Winner (PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel)
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| How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America | Clint Smith | - 2021 Nominee (History & Biography)
| - 2022 Finalist (PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction)
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| The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred | Chanda Prescod-Weinstein | - 2021 Nominee (Nonfiction)
| - 2022 Finalist (PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award)
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| The Five Wounds: A Novel | Kirstin Valdez Quade | - 2021 Nominee (Debut Novel)
| - 2022 Finalist (PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel)
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| The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Novel | Honorée Fanonne Jeffers | - 2021 Nominee (Debut Novel)
- 2021 Nominee (Historical Fiction)
| - 2022 Finalist (PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel)
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| These Precious Days: Essays | Ann Patchett | - 2022 Nominee (Nonfiction)
| - 2022 Finalist (PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay)
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| Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts | Rebecca Hall | - 2021 Nominee (Graphic Novels & Comics)
| - 2022 Finalist (PEN Open Book Award)
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| 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz | Heather Dune Macadam | - 2020 Nominee (History & Biography)
| - 2021 Finalist (PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography)
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| Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents | Isabel Wilkerson | - 2020 Winner (History & Biography)
| - 2021 Finalist (PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction)
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| Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family | Robert Kolker | - 2020 Nominee (Nonfiction)
| - 2021 Finalist (PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction)
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| How Much of These Hills Is Gold: A Novel | C Pam Zhang | - 2020 Nominee (Debut Novel)
| - 2021 Finalist (PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel)
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| Luster: A Novel | Raven Leilani | - 2020 Nominee (Debut Novel)
- 2020 Nominee (Fiction)
| - 2021 Finalist (PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel)
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| Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl | Jonathan C. Slaght | - 2020 Nominee (Science & Technology)
| - 2021 Winner (PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award)
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| Shuggie Bain: A Novel | Douglas Stuart | - 2020 Nominee (Debut Novel)
- 2020 Nominee (Historical Fiction)
| - 2021 Finalist (PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel)
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| The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think | Jennifer Ackerman | - 2020 Nominee (Science & Technology)
| - 2021 Finalist (PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award)
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| The Death of Vivek Oji: A Novel | Akwaeke Emezi | | - 2021 Finalist (PEN/Jean Stein Book Award)
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| The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move | Sonia Shah | - 2020 Nominee (Science & Technology)
| - 2021 Finalist (PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award)
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| Deaf Republic | Ilya Kaminsky | | - 2020 Finalist (PEN/Jean Stein Book Award)
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| Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves | Frans de Waal | - 2019 Nominee (Science & Technology)
| - 2020 Winner (PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award)
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| Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion | Jia Tolentino | - 2019 Nominee (Nonfiction)
| - 2020 Finalist (PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay)
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| Educated: A Memoir | Tara Westover | - 2018 Winner (Memoir & Autobiography)
| - 2019 Finalist (PEN/Jean Stein Book Award)
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| Severance | Ling Ma | - 2018 Nominee (Science Fiction)
| - 2019 Finalist (PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel)
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| She Has Her Mother’s Laugh | Carl Zimmer | - 2018 Nominee (Science & Technology)
| - 2019 Finalist (PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award)
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| The Overstory: A Novel | Richard Powers | | - 2019 Finalist (PEN/Jean Stein Book Award)
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| There There | Tommy Orange | - 2018 Nominee (Debut Author)
- 2018 Nominee (Fiction)
| - 2019 Winner (PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel)
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| Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst | Robert Sapolsky | - 2017 Nominee (Science & Technology)
| - 2018 Finalist (PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award)
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| Grant | Ron Chernow | - 2017 Nominee (History & Biography)
| - 2018 Finalist (PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography)
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| The Changeling | Victor LaValle | | - 2018 Finalist (PEN/Jean Stein Book Award)
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| The Leavers | Lisa Ko | - 2017 Nominee (Debut Goodreads Author)
- 2017 Nominee (Fiction)
| - 2018 Finalist (PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel)
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| We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy | Ta-Nehisi Coates | - 2017 Nominee (Nonfiction)
| - 2018 Finalist (PEN/Jean Stein Book Award)
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| White Tears | Hari Kunzru | | - 2018 Finalist (PEN/Jean Stein Book Award)
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| Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right | Jane Mayer | - 2016 Nominee (Nonfiction)
| - 2017 Finalist (PEN/Jean Stein Book Award)
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| Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City | Matthew Desmond | - 2016 Nominee (Nonfiction)
| - 2017 Winner (PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction)
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| Homegoing | Yaa Gyasi | - 2016 Nominee (Historical Fiction)
| - 2017 Winner (PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel)
- 2017 Finalist (PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection)
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| Lab Girl | Hope Jahren | - 2016 Nominee (Memoir & Autobiography)
| - 2017 Finalist (PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award)
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| Look | Solmaz Sharif | | - 2017 Finalist (PEN Open Book Award)
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| Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets | Luke Dittrich | - 2016 Nominee (Science & Technology)
| - 2017 Winner (PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award)
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| Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life | Ruth Franklin | - 2016 Nominee (History & Biography)
| - 2017 Finalist (PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography)
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| The Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America | Patrick Phillips | - 2016 Nominee (History & Biography)
| - 2017 Finalist (PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction)
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| The Mothers | Brit Bennett | - 2016 Nominee (Debut Goodreads Author)
| - 2017 Finalist (PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection)
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| The Underground Railroad | Colson Whitehead | - 2016 Winner (Historical Fiction)
| - 2017 Finalist (PEN/Jean Stein Book Award)
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| What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours | Helen Oyeyemi | | - 2017 Winner (PEN Open Book Award)
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| Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates | - 2015 Nominee (Nonfiction)
| - 2016 Winner (PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay)
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| Rain: A Natural and Cultural History | Cynthia Barnett | - 2015 Nominee (Science & Technology)
| - 2016 Finalist (PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award)
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| The Fishermen | Chigozie Obioma | - 2015 Nominee (Debut Goodreads Author)
| - 2016 Honor (PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel)
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| An Untamed State | Roxane Gay | | - 2015 Finalist (PEN Open Book Award)
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| Citizen: An American Lyric | Claudia Rankine | | - 2015 Winner (PEN Open Book Award)
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| Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital | Sheri Fink | - 2013 Nominee (Nonfiction)
| - 2015 Winner (PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction)
- 2014 Finalist (PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award)
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| I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan | Eliza Griswold | | - 2015 Winner (PEN Award for Poetry in Translation)
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| Redeployment | Phil Klay | | - 2015 Finalist (PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection)
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| The Empathy Exams | Leslie Jamison | - 2014 Nominee (Nonfiction)
| - 2015 Finalist (PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay)
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| The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace | Jeff Hobbs | - 2014 Nominee (History & Biography)
| - 2015 Finalist (PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography)
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| The Sixth Extinction | Elizabeth Kolbert | - 2014 Nominee (Nonfiction)
| - 2015 Finalist (PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award)
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| This Changes Everything | Naomi Klein | - 2014 Nominee (Nonfiction)
| - 2015 Finalist (PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction)
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| A Constellation of Vital Phenomena | Anthony Marra | | - 2014 Finalist (PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection)
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| Lawrence in Arabia | Scott Anderson | - 2013 Nominee (History & Biography)
| - 2014 Finalist (PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography)
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| Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls | David Sedaris | | - 2014 Finalist (PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay)
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| Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity | Katherine Boo | - 2012 Nominee (Nonfiction)
| - 2013 Winner (PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction)
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| In the Shadow of the Banyan | Vaddey Ratner | | - 2013 Finalist (PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel)
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| The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo | Tom Reiss | - 2012 Nominee (History & Biography)
| - 2013 Winner (PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography)
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| The Violinist's Thumb | Sam Kean | - 2012 Nominee (Nonfiction)
| - 2013 Finalist (PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award)
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| A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother | Janny Scott | - 2011 Nominee (History & Biography)
| - 2012 Finalist (PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography)
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| Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman | Robert K. Massie | - 2011 Nominee (History & Biography)
| - 2012 Winner (PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography)
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| The Art of Fielding | Chad Harbach | | - 2012 Honor (PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel)
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| The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood | James Gleick | - 2011 Nominee (Nonfiction)
| - 2012 Winner (PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award)
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| The Submission | Amy Waldman | | - 2012 Finalist (PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel)
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