PEN America 2022 Literary Awards Finalists

The 2022 PEN America Literary Awards recognize literary excellence across fiction, nonfiction, poetry, biography, essay, science writing, translation, and more. Find your next favorite among these outstanding Finalists!

The President and the Frog: A novel By Carolina De Robertis Cover Image

The President and the Frog: A novel (Hardcover)

By Carolina De Robertis
$25.00
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ISBN: 9780593318416
Published: Knopf - August 3rd, 2021
The Trees: A Novel By Percival Everett Cover Image

The Trees: A Novel (Paperback)

By Percival Everett
$16.00
ISBN: 9781644450642
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Published: Graywolf Press - September 21st, 2021
The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease By Daisy Hernández Cover Image

The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease (Hardcover)

By Daisy Hernández
$27.95
ISBN: 9781951142520
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Published: Tin House Books - June 1st, 2021
Milk Blood Heat By Dantiel W. Moniz Cover Image

Milk Blood Heat (Hardcover)

By Dantiel W. Moniz
$25.00
ISBN: 9780802158154
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Published: Grove Press - February 2nd, 2021
Harrow: A novel By Joy Williams Cover Image

Harrow: A novel (Hardcover)

By Joy Williams
$26.00
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ISBN: 9780525657569
Published: Knopf - September 14th, 2021
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts By Rebecca Hall, Hugo Martínez (Illustrator) Cover Image

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts (Hardcover)

By Rebecca Hall, Hugo Martínez (Illustrator)
$29.99
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ISBN: 9781982115180
Published: Simon & Schuster - June 1st, 2021
Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir By Rajiv Mohabir Cover Image

Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir (Hardcover)

By Rajiv Mohabir
$27.00
ISBN: 9781632062802
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Published: Restless Books - June 22nd, 2021
Names for Light: A Family History By Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint Cover Image

Names for Light: A Family History (Paperback)

By Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint
$16.00
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ISBN: 9781644450611
Published: Graywolf Press - August 17th, 2021
Curb By Divya Victor Cover Image

Curb (Paperback)

By Divya Victor
$17.95
ISBN: 9781643620701
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Published: Nightboat Books - April 27th, 2021
White Magic By Elissa Washuta Cover Image

White Magic (Hardcover)

By Elissa Washuta
$26.95
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ISBN: 9781951142391
Published: Tin House Books - April 27th, 2021
Skinship: Stories By Yoon Choi Cover Image

Skinship: Stories (Hardcover)

By Yoon Choi
$26.00
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ISBN: 9780593318218
Published: Knopf - August 17th, 2021
Eat the Mouth That Feeds You By Carribean Fragoza Cover Image

Eat the Mouth That Feeds You (Paperback)

By Carribean Fragoza
$16.95
ISBN: 9780872868335
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Published: City Lights Books - March 30th, 2021
Objects of Desire: Stories By Clare Sestanovich Cover Image

Objects of Desire: Stories (Hardcover)

By Clare Sestanovich
$26.00
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ISBN: 9780593318096
Published: Knopf - June 29th, 2021
Give My Love to the Savages: Stories By Chris Stuck Cover Image

Give My Love to the Savages: Stories (Hardcover)

By Chris Stuck
$25.99
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ISBN: 9780063029972
Published: Amistad - July 6th, 2021
Burnt Sugar: A Novel By Avni Doshi Cover Image

Burnt Sugar: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Avni Doshi
$26.00
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ISBN: 9781419752926
Published: The Overlook Press - January 26th, 2021
Dear Miss Metropolitan: A Novel By Carolyn Ferrell Cover Image

Dear Miss Metropolitan: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Carolyn Ferrell
$27.99
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ISBN: 9781250793614
Published: Henry Holt and Co. - July 6th, 2021
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: An Oprah's Book Club Pick By Honoree Fanonne Jeffers Cover Image

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: An Oprah's Book Club Pick (Hardcover)

By Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
$28.99
ISBN: 9780062942937
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Published: Harper - August 24th, 2021
Detransition, Baby: A Novel By Torrey Peters Cover Image

Detransition, Baby: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Torrey Peters
$27.00
ISBN: 9780593133378
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Published: One World - January 12th, 2021
The Five Wounds: A Novel By Kirstin Valdez Quade Cover Image

The Five Wounds: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Kirstin Valdez Quade
$26.95
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ISBN: 9780393242836
Published: W. W. Norton & Company - March 30th, 2021
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance By Hanif Abdurraqib Cover Image

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance (Hardcover)

By Hanif Abdurraqib
$27.00
ISBN: 9781984801197
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Published: Random House - March 30th, 2021
Homo Irrealis: Essays By André Aciman Cover Image

Homo Irrealis: Essays (Hardcover)

By André Aciman
$27.00
ISBN: 9780374171872
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - January 19th, 2021
Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time (Berlin Family Lectures) By Teju Cole Cover Image

Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time (Berlin Family Lectures) (Hardcover)

By Teju Cole
$22.50
ISBN: 9780226641355
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Published: University of Chicago Press - October 27th, 2021
These Precious Days: Essays By Ann Patchett Cover Image

These Precious Days: Essays (Hardcover)

By Ann Patchett
$26.99
ISBN: 9780063092785
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Published: Harper - November 23rd, 2021
Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South By Margaret Renkl Cover Image

Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South (Hardcover)

By Margaret Renkl
$26.00
ISBN: 9781571311849
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Published: Milkweed Editions - September 14th, 2021
Yellow Rain: Poems By Mai Der Vang Cover Image

Yellow Rain: Poems (Paperback)

By Mai Der Vang
$17.00
ISBN: 9781644450659
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Published: Graywolf Press - September 21st, 2021
Sho By Douglas Kearney Cover Image

Sho (Paperback)

By Douglas Kearney
$18.00
ISBN: 9781950268153
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Published: Wave Books - April 6th, 2021
Heard-Hoard By Atsuro Riley Cover Image

Heard-Hoard (Hardcover)

By Atsuro Riley
$20.00
ISBN: 9780226789422
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Published: University of Chicago Press - October 20th, 2021
frank: sonnets By Diane Seuss Cover Image

frank: sonnets (Paperback)

By Diane Seuss
$18.00
ISBN: 9781644450451
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Published: Graywolf Press - March 2nd, 2021
Mutiny (Penguin Poets) By Phillip B. Williams Cover Image

Mutiny (Penguin Poets) (Paperback)

By Phillip B. Williams
$20.00
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ISBN: 9780143136934
Published: Penguin Books - September 7th, 2021
Exhausted on the Cross By Najwan Darwish, Raul Zurita (Foreword by), Kareem James Abu-Zeid (Translated by) Cover Image

Exhausted on the Cross (Paperback)

By Najwan Darwish, Raul Zurita (Foreword by), Kareem James Abu-Zeid (Translated by)
$16.00
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ISBN: 9781681375526
Published: NYRB Poets - February 23rd, 2021
Everything I Don't Know By Jerzy Ficowski, Jennifer Grotz (Translator), Piotr Sommer (Translator) Cover Image

Everything I Don't Know (Paperback)

By Jerzy Ficowski, Jennifer Grotz (Translator), Piotr Sommer (Translator)
$16.00
ISBN: 9781954218994
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Published: World Poetry Books - September 14th, 2021
I Name Him Me: Selected Poems of Ma Yan By Mo Yan, Stephen Nashef (Translator) Cover Image

I Name Him Me: Selected Poems of Ma Yan (Paperback)

By Mo Yan, Stephen Nashef (Translator)
$22.00
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ISBN: 9781946433749
Published: Ugly Duckling Presse - October 1st, 2021
Outgoing Vessel By Ursula Andkjaer Olsen, Katrine Ogaard Jensen (Translator) Cover Image

Outgoing Vessel (Paperback)

By Ursula Andkjaer Olsen, Katrine Ogaard Jensen (Translator)
$20.00
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ISBN: 9780900575105
Published: Action Books - March 1st, 2021
Ova Completa By Susana Thenon, Rebekah Smith (Translator) Cover Image

Ova Completa (Paperback)

By Susana Thenon, Rebekah Smith (Translator)
$20.00
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ISBN: 9781946433541
Published: Ugly Duckling Presse - March 1st, 2021
Fem By Magda Carneci, Sean Cotter (Translator) Cover Image

Fem (Paperback)

By Magda Carneci, Sean Cotter (Translator)
$15.95
ISBN: 9781646050413
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Published: Deep Vellum Publishing - June 8th, 2021
New Year By Juli Zeh Cover Image

New Year (Paperback)

By Juli Zeh
$16.99
ISBN: 9781642860993
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Published: World Editions - November 2nd, 2021
Migratory Birds By Mariana Oliver, Julia Sanches (Translator) Cover Image

Migratory Birds (Paperback)

By Mariana Oliver, Julia Sanches (Translator)
$15.95
ISBN: 9781945492525
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Published: Transit Books - June 22nd, 2021
The Last One: A Novel By Fatima Daas, Lara Vergnaud (Translated by) Cover Image

The Last One: A Novel (Paperback)

By Fatima Daas, Lara Vergnaud (Translated by)
$15.99
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ISBN: 9781635421842
Published: Other Press - November 23rd, 2021
Kaya Days By Carl de Souza, Jeffrey Zuckerman (Translator) Cover Image

Kaya Days (Paperback)

By Carl de Souza, Jeffrey Zuckerman (Translator)
$14.95
ISBN: 9781949641196
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Published: Two Lines Press - September 14th, 2021
The Memory Thief: And the Secrets Behind How We Remember--A Medical Mystery By Lauren Aguirre Cover Image

The Memory Thief: And the Secrets Behind How We Remember--A Medical Mystery (Hardcover)

By Lauren Aguirre
$28.95
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ISBN: 9781643136523
Published: Pegasus Books - June 1st, 2021
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred By Chanda Prescod-Weinstein Cover Image

The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred (Hardcover)

By Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
$28.00
ISBN: 9781541724709
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Published: Bold Type Books - March 9th, 2021
Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship By Catherine Raven Cover Image

Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship (Hardcover)

By Catherine Raven
$28.00
ISBN: 9781954118003
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Published: Spiegel & Grau - July 6th, 2021
Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World By Lisa Wells Cover Image

Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World (Hardcover)

By Lisa Wells
$28.00
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ISBN: 9780374110253
Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - July 20th, 2021
Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive By Carl Zimmer Cover Image

Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive (Hardcover)

By Carl Zimmer
$28.00
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ISBN: 9780593182710
Published: Dutton - March 9th, 2021
The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness By Katie Booth Cover Image

The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness (Hardcover)

By Katie Booth
$30.00
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ISBN: 9781501167096
Published: Simon & Schuster - April 6th, 2021
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler By Rebecca Donner Cover Image

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler (Hardcover)

By Rebecca Donner
$32.00
ISBN: 9780316561693
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - August 3rd, 2021
Albert and the Whale: Albrecht Dürer and How Art Imagines Our World By Philip Hoare Cover Image

Albert and the Whale: Albrecht Dürer and How Art Imagines Our World (Hardcover)

By Philip Hoare
$28.95
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ISBN: 9781643137261
Published: Pegasus Books - May 4th, 2021
The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky By Andrew D. Kaufman Cover Image

The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky (Hardcover)

By Andrew D. Kaufman
$30.00
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ISBN: 9780525537144
Published: Riverhead Books - August 31st, 2021
Orwell's Roses By Rebecca Solnit Cover Image

Orwell's Roses (Hardcover)

By Rebecca Solnit
$28.00
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ISBN: 9780593083369
Published: Viking - October 19th, 2021
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Pulitzer Prize Winner) By Andrea Elliott Cover Image

Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (Hardcover)

By Andrea Elliott
$32.00
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ISBN: 9780812986945
Published: Random House - October 5th, 2021
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake By Tiya Miles Cover Image

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake (Hardcover)

By Tiya Miles
$28.00
ISBN: 9781984854995
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Published: Random House - June 8th, 2021
Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration By Reuben Jonathan Miller Cover Image

Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration (Hardcover)

By Reuben Jonathan Miller
$29.00
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ISBN: 9780316451512
Published: Little, Brown and Company - February 2nd, 2021
Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 By Sarah Schulman Cover Image

Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 (Hardcover)

By Sarah Schulman
$40.00
ISBN: 9780374185138
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - May 18th, 2021
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America By Clint Smith Cover Image

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Hardcover)

By Clint Smith
$29.00
ISBN: 9780316492935
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - June 1st, 2021