AWARD Winning Titles

Many books by TBG authors have been nominated, shortlisted, and winners of some of the most prestigious awards in fiction and literature. View them here and then scroll to the bottom to see photos from the press releases.


The Pulitzer Prize 

 

National Book Award 

 

New England Society’s Book Award For Fiction 

  • WRITERS AND LOVERS, by Lily King 

 

National Book Critics Circle Award

Orange Prize for Fiction 

  • SONG OF ACHILLES, by Madeline Miller 

 

GLADD Award 

  • GAYSIANS, by Mike Curato 

 

Edgar Award 

  • LISTEN FOR THE LIE (FINALIST)

  • SADIE by Courtney Summers (WINNER)

 

Newbery Medal 

  • EAGLE DRUMS (HONOR)

  • WHEN YOU REACH ME (WINNER)

  • GENESIS BEGINS AGAIN (HONOR)

  • OTHER WORDS FOR HOME (HONOR)

Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award

  • GENESIS BEGINS AGAIN

Lambda Literary Award 

  • Queerly Beloved by Susie Dumond (finalist, not winner)

  • Mother Ocean Father Nation by Nishant Batsha (finalist, not winner)

  • Bed & Breakup by Susie Dumond (finalist, not winner)

  • GAYSIANS (finalist)

  • FLAMER (winner)

Stonewall Award

  • GAYSIANS

Sydney Taylor Book Award

  • NICKY & VERA

  • THE PEOPLE’S PAINTER

New York Times Best Illustrated Book 

  • MARY’S IDEA

  • WE ARE STARLINGS

  • RED KNIT CAP GIRL

  • THE LOST COUSINS

PEN/Faulkner Award  

Kirkus Prize

  • ISOLA (finalist)

American Library In Paris Book Award

  • ISOLA (longlisted)

PEN/Bogard Weld Award

  • TROUBLEMAKER by Carla Kaplan (FINALIST) 

Goodreads Choice Award

  • FIREKEEPER’S DAUGHTER (WINNER)

  • BEFORE WE WERE YOURS by Lisa Wingate (WINNER)

Michael L. Printz Award

  • FIREKEEPER’S DAUGHTER (WINNER)

  • SISTERS IN THE WIND (HONOR)

William C. Morris Award

  • FIREKEEPER’S DAUGHTER (WINNER)

  • GRACELING (FINALIST)

  • GENESIS BEGINS AGAIN (FINALIST)

Sibert Award

  • THE MONA LISA VANISHES (winner)

  • A WORLD WITHOUT SUMMER (honor)

ALA Young Adult Non-fiction Award

  • A WORLD WITHOUT SUMMER

Edgar Award

  • FIREKEEPER’S DAUGHTER (FINALIST)

  • BARRIERS TO ENTRY by Ariel Lawhon (FINALIST)

Boston Globe Horn Book Award

  • WARRIOR GIRL UNEARTHED (WINNER)

  • WHEN YOU REACH ME (WINNER)

  • THE MONA LISA VANISHES (WINNER)

The Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s First Novelist Award

  • All We Were Promised by Ashton Lattimore (winner)

International Latino Book Award

  • DON’T ASK ME WHERE I’M FROM (FINALIST)

  • THE LAST SUMMER OF THE DEATH WARRIORS by Francisco X. Stork (FINALIST)

  • DISAPPEARED by Francisco X. Stork (FINALIST)

  • ILLEGAL by Francisco X. Stork (WINNER)


Guardian Fiction Prize

  • WHEN YOU REACH ME (WINNER)