Fiction
- Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
- Sabrina & Corina: Stories by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
- Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
- The Other Americans by Laila Lalami
- Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
Nonfiction
- The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
- Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
- What You Have Heard is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance by Carolyn Forché
- The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
- Solitary by Albert Woodfox with Leslie George
Poetry
- The Tradition by Jericho Brown
- “I”: New and Selected Poems by Toi Derricotte
- Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
- Be Recorder by Carmen Giménez Smith
- Sight Lines by Arthur Sze
Translated Literature
- Death Is Hard Work by Khaled Khalifa
Translated from the Arabic by Leri Price - Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming by László Krasznahorkai
Translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet - The Barefoot Woman by Scholastique Mukasonga
Translated from the French by Jordan Stump - The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
Translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder - Crossing by Pajtim Statovci
Translated from the Finnish by David Hackston
Young People’s Literature
- Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
- Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks by Jason Reynolds
- Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
- Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby
- 1919 The Year That Changed America by Martin W. Sandler
