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Kirkus Prize
Awarded for
DateAnnual
CountryUnited States
Presented byKirkus Reviews
Reward(s)US$50,000
First awarded2014
Websitewww.kirkusreviews.com/prize/

The Kirkus Prize is an American literary award conferred by the book review magazine Kirkus Reviews. Established in 2014, the Kirkus Prize bestows US$150,000 annually. Three authors are awarded US$50,000 each, divided into three categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, and Young Readers' Literature.[1] It has been described as one of the most lucrative prizes in literature.[2][3]

Eligibility and selection

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Books reviewed by Kirkus Reviews that have received the Kirkus Star are automatically eligible for the Kirkus Prize and are selected for nomination. The eligibility dates of publication for books is typically between November 1 of the previous year and October 31 of the current year, with few exceptions. Self-published books that have earned the Kirkus Star are eligible for the Kirkus Prize. However, self-published books are not eligible based on their date of publication but rather the date of publication of their online review by Kirkus Reviews. All books must first be reviewed by Kirkus Reviews to be considered.[4]

The Prize is divided into three categories: the Kirkus Prize for Fiction, the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction and the Kirkus Prize for Young Readers' Literature. Each category is judged by a panel of three judges: a writer, a bookseller or librarian, and a Kirkus Reviews critic. The editors and staff of Kirkus Reviews evaluate each of the nominated books, conducting a first round of eliminations. The panels of judges then decide upon six finalists in each of the three categories. In the Young Readers' Literature category, the six finalists include two picture books, two middle-grade books and two teen books. The three winners are announced at a ceremony. The prize money for books with multiple authors and illustrators is divided fairly as decided by the Prize's judges and administrators.[4]

Winners and finalists

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Fiction

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Year Winners and finalists Book Ref.
2014 Lily King Euphoria [5][6]
Siri Hustvedt The Blazing World [7]
Dinaw Mengestu All Our Names
Brian Morton Florence Gordon
Bill Roorbach The Remedy for Love
Sarah Waters The Paying Guests
2015 Hanya Yanagihara A Little Life [8][9]
Susan Barker The Incarnations [8][10]
Lucia Berlin
Stephen Emerson (ed.) 		A Manual for Cleaning Women
Lauren Groff Fates and Furies
Valeria Luiselli
Christina MacSweeney (tr.) 		The Story of My Teeth
Jim Shepard The Book of Aron
2016 C. E. Morgan The Sport of Kings [11][12]
Adam Haslett Imagine Me Gone [11]
Joe McGinniss Jr. Carousel Court
Annie Proulx Barkskins
Amor Towles A Gentleman in Moscow
Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad
2017 Lesley Nneka Arimah What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky [13][14]
Mohsin Hamid Exit West [13]
Hari Kunzru White Tears
Carmen Maria Machado Her Body and Other Parties
Alice McDermott The Ninth Hour
Jesmyn Ward Sing, Unburied, Sing
2018 Ling Ma Severance [15][16]
Naima Coster Halsey Street [15]
Lauren Groff Florida
Eduardo Halfon
Lisa Dillman (tr.)
Daniel Hahn (tr.) 		Mourning
Nafissa Thompson-Spires Heads of the Colored People
Katie Williams Tell the Machine Goodnight
2019 Colson Whitehead The Nickel Boys [17][18]
Carolina de Robertis Cantoras [17][19]
Laila Lalami The Other Americans
Valeria Luiselli Lost Children Archive
Yūko Tsushima
Geraldine Harcourt (tr.) 		Territory of Light
Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
2020 Raven Leilani Luster [20][21]
Tola Rotimi Abraham Black Sunday [20]
Juliana Delgado Lopera Fiebre Tropical
Elena Ferrante
Ann Goldstein (tr.) 		The Lying Life of Adults
James McBride Deacon King Kong
Douglas Stuart Shuggie Bain
2021 Joy Williams Harrow [22][23]
Mariana Enríquez
Megan McDowell (tr.) 		The Dangers of Smoking in Bed [24]
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Jocelyn Nicole Johnson My Monticello
Pajtim Statovci
David Hackston (tr.) 		Bolla
Colson Whitehead Harlem Shuffle
2022 Hernan Diaz Trust [25][26]
Michelle de Kretser Scary Monsters [27]
Arinze Ifeakandu God's Children Are Little Broken Things
Susan Straight Mecca
Yoko Tawada
Margaret Mitsutani (tr.) 		Scattered All Over the Earth
Olga Tokarczuk
Jennifer Croft (tr.) 		The Books of Jacob
2023 James McBride The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store [28][29]
Jamel Brinkley Witness [30][31]
Eleanor Catton Birnam Wood
Kelly Link White Cat, Black Dog
Paul Murray The Bee Sting
Jesmyn Ward Let Us Descend
2024 Percival Everett James [32][33]
Jennine Capó Crucet Say Hello to My Little Friend [34][35]
Louise Erdrich The Mighty Red
Paul Lynch Prophet Song
Richard Powers Playground
Rufi Thorpe Margo's Got Money Troubles

Nonfiction

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Year Winners and finalists Book Ref.
2014 Roz Chast Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? [5][6]
Leo Damrosch Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World [7]
Elizabeth Kolbert The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Armand Marie Leroi The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science
Thomas Piketty
Arthur Goldhammer (tr.) 		Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Bryan Stevenson Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
2015 Ta-Nehisi Coates Between the World and Me [8][9]
John Ferling Whirlwind: The American Revolution and the War That Won It [8][10]
Helen Macdonald H is for Hawk
Adam Tooze The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916–1931
Simon Winchester Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers
Andrea Wulf The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
2016 Susan Faludi In the Darkroom [11][12]
Sarah Bakewell At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails [11]
Matthew Desmond Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Michael Eric Dyson The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America
Beth Macy Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South
J. D. Vance Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
2017 Jack E. Davis The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea [13][14]
Edward Dolnick The Seeds of Life: From Aristotle to da Vinci, from Sharks' Teeth to Frogs' Pants, the Long and Strange Quest to Discover Where Babies Come [13]
Patricia Lockwood Priestdaddy: A Memoir
Valeria Luiselli
Lizzie Davis (tr.) 		Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
Michael W. Twitty The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
Laura Walls Henry David Thoreau: A Life
2018 Rebecca Solnit Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) [15][16]
Shane Bauer American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment [15]
Kiese Laymon Heavy: An American Memoir
Beth Macy Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America
Sarah Smarsh Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
Timothy Snyder The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
2019 Saeed Jones How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir [17][18]
Hanif Abdurraqib Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest [17][19]
Naja Marie Aidt
Denise Newman (tr.) 		When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl's Book
Patrick Radden Keefe Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Dina Nayeri The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You
Rachel Louise Snyder No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
2020 Mychal Denzel Smith Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream [20][21]
Eric Jay Dolin A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes [20]
Rebecca Giggs Fathoms: The World in the Whale
Deirdre Mask The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Fumi Nakamura (ill.) 		World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
Isabel Wilkerson Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
2021 Brian Broome Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir [22][23]
Dara Horn People Love Dead Jews: Reports From a Haunted Present [24]
Tiya Miles All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Kristen Radtke Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
Katherine E. Standefer Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life
Juan Villoro
Alfred MacAdam (tr.) 		Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico
2022 Tanaïs In Sensorium [25][26]
Margaret A. Burnham By Hands Now Known [27][36]
Lindsey Fitzharris The Facemaker
Nikole Hannah-Jones
Caitlin Roper (ed.)
Ilena Silverman (ed.)
Jake Silverstein (ed.) 		The 1619 Project
Ann Patchett These Precious Days
Ed Yong An Immense World
2023 Héctor Tobar Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on the Meanings and Myths of "Latino" [28][29]
Tania Branigan Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution [30][31]
Jennifer Homans Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century
Clancy Martin How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind
Safiya Sinclair How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
Ilyon Woo Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey From Slavery to Freedom
2024 Adam Higginbotham Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space [32][33]
Steve Coll The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the CIA, and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq [34][35]
Tessa Hulls Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
Olivia Laing The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
Shefali Luthra Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America
Carvell Wallace Another Word for Love: A Memoir

Young Readers' Literature

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Year Winners and finalists Book Ref.
2014 Kate Samworth Aviary Wonders Inc.: Spring Catalog and Instruction Manual [5][6]
Cece Bell El Deafo [7]
Jen Bryant
Melissa Sweet (ill.) 		The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus
Jack Gantos The Key That Swallowed Joey Pigza
E. K. Johnston The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim
Don Mitchell The Freedom Summer Murders
2015 Pam Muñoz Ryan
Dinara Mirtalipova (ill.) 		Echo [8][9]
Martha Brockenbrough The Game of Love and Death [8][10]
Lauren Child The New Small Person
Daniel José Older Shadowshaper
Duncan Tonatiuh Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras
Jonah Winter
Shane W. Evans (ill.) 		Lillian's Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
2016 Jason Reynolds As Brave as You [11][12]
Sherman Alexie
Yuyi Morales (ill.) 		Thunder Boy Jr. [11]
Ashley Bryan Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan
Traci Chee The Reader
Russell Freedman We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler
Meg Medina Burn Baby Burn
2017 Cherie Dimaline The Marrow Thieves [13][14]
Jairo Buitrago
Rafael Yockteng (ill.)
Elisa Amado (tr.) 		Walk with Me [13]
Cao Wenxuan
Helen Wang (tr.)
Meilo So (ill.) 		Bronze and Sunflower
Karen English It All Comes Down to This
Lilli L'Arronge
Madeleine Stratford (tr.) 		Me Tall, You Small
Angie Thomas The Hate U Give
2018 Derrick Barnes
Gordon C. James (ill.) 		Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut [15][16]
Elizabeth Acevedo The Poet X [15]
Tomi Adeyemi Children of Blood and Bone
Meg Medina Merci Suárez Changes Gears
Yuyi Morales Dreamers
Jacqueline Woodson Harbor Me
2019 Jerry Craft
Jim Callahan (color.) 		New Kid [17][18]
Kwame Alexander
Kadir Nelson (ill.) 		The Undefeated [17][19]
Juana Felipe Herrera
Lauren Castillo (ill.) 		Imagine
Angie Thomas On the Come Up
Juan Pablo Villalobos
Rosalind Harvey (tr.) 		The Other Side: Stories of Central American Teen Refugees Who Dream of Crossing the Border
Alicia D. Williams Genesis Begins Again
2020 Derrick Barnes
Gordon C. James (ill.) 		I Am Every Good Thing [20][21]
Elizabeth Acevedo Clap When You Land [20]
Hanna Alkaf The Girl and the Ghost
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley Fighting Words
Carole Lindstrom
Michaela Goade (ill.) 		We Are Water Protectors
Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
2021 Christina Soontornvat All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team [22][23]
Sharon G. Flake The Life I'm In [24]
Nikki Grimes Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
NoNieqa Ramos
Jacqueline Alcántara (ill.) 		Your Mama
Wai Chim The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling
Carole Boston Weatherford
Floyd Cooper (ill.) 		Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
2022 Harmony Becker Himawari House [25][26]
Betina Birkjær
Anna Margrethe Kjærgaard (ill.)
Sinéad Quirke Køngerskov (trans.) 		Coffee, Rabbit, Snowdrop, Lost [27][36]
Rimma Onoseta How You Grow Wings
Niki Smith The Golden Hour
Anne Ursu The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy
Jacqueline Woodson
Rafael López (ill.) 		The Year We Learned to Fly
2023 Ariel Aberg-Riger America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History [28][29]
Valerie Bolling
Kaylani Juanita (ill.) 		Together We Swim [30][31]
Louise Finch The Eternal Return of Clara Hart
Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Tom de Freston (ill.) 		Julia and the Shark
Jon Klassen The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale
Roger Mello
Daniel Hahn (trans.) 		João by a Thread
2024 Kenneth M. Cadow Gather [32][33]
Safia Elhillo Bright Red Fruit [34][35]
Joanna Ho
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya (ill.) 		We Who Produce Pearls
Hiba Noor Khan Safiyyah's War
Jason Reynolds
Jerome Pumphrey (ill.)
Jarrett Pumphrey (ill.) 		There Was a Party for Langston
Sherri Winston Shark Teeth

See also

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References

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