January 5-15th: Bookseller voting period.
January 30th: Winners announced at our star-studded virtual awards ceremony! RSVP HERE.
Fiction
Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel (Viking)
James by Percival Everett (Doubleday)
Poor Deer by Claire Oshetsky (Ecco)
Real Americans by Rachel Khong (Knopf)
Under a Neon Sun by Kate Gale (Three Rooms Press)
Nonfiction
Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal (Tiny Reparations Books)
Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk by Kathleen Hanna (Ecco)
The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant LA by Jesse Katz (Astra House)
Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling by Jason De León (Viking)
Twelve Trees: The Deep Roots of Our Future by Daniel Lewis (Avid Reader Press)
Mystery
Guide Me Home by Attica Locke (Mulholland Books)
The Hushed by K.R. Blair (Blackstone Publishing)
Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera (Celadon Books)
The Stars Turned Inside Out by Nova Jacobs (Atria Books)
The Whitewashed Tombs by Kwei Quartey (Soho Crime)
Poetry
Bad Mexican, Bad American: Poems by Jose Hernandez Diaz (Acre Books)
Blade by Blade by Danusha Laméris (Copper Canyon Press)
A Face Out of Clay by Brent Ameneyro (The Center for Literary Publishing)
The Palace of Forty Pillars by Armen Davoudian (Tin House Books)
woke up no light: poems by Leila Mottley (Knopf)
Octavia E. Butler Award (Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror)
Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle (Tor Nightfire)
Dearest by Jacquie Walters (Mulholland Books)
Moonbound by Robin Sloan (MCD)
The Night Ends with Fire by K. X. Song (Ace)
The Palace of Eros by Caro De Robertis (Primero Sueño Press)
Romance
How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang (Avon)
The Lovers by Rebekah Faubion (Berkley)
My Season of Scandal by Julie Ann Long (Avon)
Savor It by Tarah DeWitt (St. Martin's Griffin)
The Truth According to Ember by Danica Nava (Berkley)
Martin Cruz Smith Award: Emerging diverse voices (juried prize)
All Friends Are Necessary by Tomas Moniz (Algonquin Books)
The Night Ends with Fire by K. X. Song (Ace)
Real Americans by Rachel Khong (Knopf)
See Loss See Also Love by Yukiko Tominaga (Scribner)
Theophanies by Sarah Ghazal Ali (Alice James Books)
What Kind of Bird Can’t Fly: A Memoir of Resilience and Resurrection by Dorsey Nunn, with Lee Romney
Glenn Goldman: California lifestyle
Art Is Art: Collaborating with Neurodiverse Artists at Creativity Explored by Ann Kappes (Chronicle Books)
Bowlarama: The Architecture of Mid-Century Bowling by Chris Nichols and Adriene Biondo (Angel City Press)
Chipped: Writing from a Skateboarder's Lens by José Vadi (Soft Skull Press)
Giant Robot: Thirty Years of Defining Asian American Pop Culture by Eric Nakamura (Drawn & Quarterly)
Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities by John King (W. W. Norton & Company)
Glenn Goldman: Cooking
The California Farm Table Cookbook: 100 Recipes from the Golden State by Lori Rice (Countryman Press)
Convivir: Modern Mexican Cuisine in California's Wine Country by Rogelio Garcia and Andréa Lawson Gray (Abrams Books)
Desi Bakes: 85 Recipes Bringing the Best of Indian Flavors to Western-Style Desserts by Hetal Vasavada (Hardie Grant North America)
Make It Fancy: Cooking at Home with Sad Papi (A Cookbook) by Brandon Skier (Simon Element)
Nosh: Plant-Forward Recipes Celebrating Modern Jewish Cuisine by Micah Siva (The Collective Book Studio)
Picture Book
Joyful Song: A Naming Story by Lesléa Newman, illustrated by Susan Gal (Levine Querido)
The Man Who Didn't Like Animals by Deborah Underwood, illustrated by LeUyen Pham (Clarion Books)
A Mischief of Mice by Christie Matheson (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky)
Mochi Makers by Sharon Fujimoto-Johnson (Beach Lane Books)
Small Things Mended by Casey W. Robinson, illustrated by Nancy Whitesides (Rocky Pond Books)
Middle Grade
Anzu and the Realm of Darkness by Mai K. Nguyen (Viking Books for Young Readers)
The Color of Sound by Emily Barth Isler (Carolrhoda Books)
The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman by Gennifer Choldenko (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
The Wrong Way Home by Kate O'Shaughnessy (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Ultraviolet by Aida Salazar (Scholastic Press)
Young Adult
Bright Red Fruit by Safia Elhillo (Make Me a World)
Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay (Kokila)
Kill Her Twice by Stacey Lee (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers)
Shut Up, This Is Serious by Carolina Ixta (Quill Tree Books)
The Wild Huntress by Emily Lloyd-Jones (Little Brown Books for Young Readers)
Children's nonfiction
Growing Up Under a Red Flag: A Memoir of Surviving the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Ying Chang Compestine and Xinmei Liu (Rocky Pond Books)
A Guide to Grief by Cole Imperi and Bianca Jagoe (Kids Can Press)
My Lost Freedom: A Japanese American World War II Story by George Takei and Michelle Lee (Crown Books for Young Readers)
Road Home by Rex Ogle (Norton Young Readers)
Ruth Asawa: An Artist Takes Shape by Sam Nakahira (Getty Publications)
Mirrors & windows: excellence in children's literature (juried prize)
Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay (Kokila)
Juneteenth Is by Natasha Tripplett and Daniel J. O'Brien (Chronicle Books)
The Ofrenda That We Built by Jolene Gutiérrez, Shaian Gutiérrez and Gabby Zapata (Chronicle Books)
Road Home by Rex Ogle (Norton Young Readers)
The Spice Box by Meera Sriram and Sandhya Prabhat (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
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