Gotham Book Prize

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

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]

Recipients

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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