Fiction
- Elliot Ackerman: Dark at the Crossing
- Lisa Ko: The Leavers
- Min Jin Lee: Pachinko
- Carmen Maria Machado: Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
- Jesmyn Ward: Sing, Unburied, Sing
Nonfiction
- Erica Armstrong Dunbar: Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
- Frances FitzGerald: The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America
- Masha Gessen: The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
- David Grann: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
- Nancy MacLean: Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
Poetry
- Frank Bidart: Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016
- Leslie Harrison: The Book of Endings
- Layli Long Soldier: WHEREAS
- Shane McCrae: In the Language of My Captor
- Danez Smith: Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
Young People's Literature
- Elana K. Arnold: What Girls Are Made Of
- Robin Benway: Far from the Tree
- Erika L. Sánchez: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
- Rita Williams-Garcia: Clayton Byrd Goes Underground
- Ibi Zoboi: American Street
