Winter 2016 – Prizewinners
2015 Nobel Prize in Literature
- Svetlana Alexievich (winner)
2015 Pulitzer Prizes
- All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr (Fiction Winner)
- Let Me Be Frank With You – Richard Ford (Fiction Finalist)
- Moor's Account – Laila Lalami (Fiction Finalist)
- Lovely, Dark, Deep – Joyce Carol Oates (Fiction Finalist)
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History – Elizabeth Kolbert (General Non-Fiction Winner)
- No Good Men Among the Living – Anand Gopal (Non-Fiction Finalist)
- Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China – Evan Osnos (Non-Fiction Finalist)
- Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People – Elizabeth A. Fenn (History Winner)
- Empire of Cotton: A Global History – Sven Beckert (History Finalist)
- An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America – Nick Bunker (History Finalist)
- The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe – David I. Kertzer (Biography/Autobiography Winner)
- Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism – Thomas Brothers (Biography/Autobiography Finalist)
- Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 – Stephen Kotkin (Biography/Autobiography Finalist)
2015 National Book Award
- Fortune Smiles: Stories – Adam Johnson (Fiction Winner)
- Refund: Stories – Karen E. Bender (Fiction Finalist)
- The Turner House – Angela Flournoy (Fiction Finalist)
- Fates and Furies – Lauren Groff (Fiction Finalist)
- A Little Life – Hanya Yanagihara (Fiction Finalist)
- Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates (Non-Fiction Winner)
- Hold Still – Sally Mann (Non-Fiction Finalist)
- The Soul of an Octopus – Sy Montgomery (Non-Fiction Finalist)
- If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran – Carla Power (Non-Fiction Finalist)
- Ordinary Light – Tracy K. Smith (Non-Fiction Finalist)
2015 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
- Preparation for the Next Life – Atticus Lish (Winner)
- Song of the Shank – Jeffery Renard Allen (Finalist)
- Prayers for the Stolen – Jennifer Clement (Finalist)
- Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel (Finalist)
- Dept. of Speculation – Jenny Offill (Finalist)
2015 PEN Literary Awards
- The Dog – Jack Livings (Best Debut Fiction Winner)
- The UnAmericans – Molly Antopol (Best Debut Fiction Finalist)
- Ruby – Cynthia Bond (Best Debut Fiction Finalist)
- Redeployment – Phil Klay (Best Debut Fiction Finalist)
- Love Me Back – Merritt Tierce (Best Debut Fiction Finalist)
- The Queen's Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth's Court – Anna Whitelock (Biography Winner)
- Boy on Ice: The Life and Death of Derek Boogaard – John Branch (Sports Writing Winner)
- War of the Whales – Joshua Horwitz (Science Writing Winner)
- Proof: The Science of Booze – Adam Rogers (Science Writing Finalist)
- The Age of Radiance – Craig Nelson (Science Writing Finalist)
- The Sixth Extinction – Elizabeth Kolbert (Science Writing Finalist)
- How We Got to Now – Steven Johnson (Science Writing Finalist)
2015 Man Booker Prize
- A Brief History of Seven Killings – Marlon James (Winner)
- Satin Island – Tom McCarthy (Finalist)
- The Fishermen – Chigozie Obioma (Finalist)
- The Year of the Runaways – Sunjeev Sahota (Finalist)
- A Spool of Blue Thread – Anne Tyler (Finalist)
- A Little Life – Hanya Yanagihara (Finalist)
2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
- How to be Both – Ali Smith (Winner)
- Outline – Rachel Cusk (Finalist)
- The Bees – Laline Paull (Finalist)
- A God in Every Stone – Kamila Shamsie (Finalist)
- A Spool of Blue Thread – Anne Tyler (Finalist)
- The Paying Guests – Sarah Waters (Finalist)
2015 Edgar Awards
- Mr. Mercedes – Stephen King (Best Novel Winner)
- This Dark Road to Mercy – Wiley Cash (Finalist)
- Wolf – Mo Hayder (Finalist)
- The Final Silence – Stuart Neville (Finalist)
- Saints of the Shadow Bible – Ian Rankin (Finalist)
- Coptown – Karin Slaughter (Finalist)
2015 Kirkus Prize
- A Little Life – Hanya Yanagihara (Fiction Winner)
- The Incarnations – Susan Barker (Fiction Finalist)
- A Manual for Cleaning Women – Lucia Berlin (Fiction Finalist)
- Fates and Furies – Lauren Groff (Fiction Finalist)
- The Story of My Teeth – Valeria Luiselli (Fiction Finalist)
- The Book of Aron – Jim Shepard (Fiction Finalist)
- Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates (Non-Fiction Winner)
- Whirlwind: The American Revolution and the War That Won It – John Ferling (Non-Fiction Finalist)
- H is for Hawk – Helen Macdonald (Non-Fiction Finalist)
- The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking Of The Global Order, 1916-1931 – Adam Tooze (Non-Fiction Finalist)
- Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, And the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers – Simon Winchester (Non-Fiction Finalist)
- The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt's New World – Andrea Wulf (Non-Fiction Finalist)
2016 Reading Across Rhode Island
- The Wright Brothers – David McCullough