The winners are as follows:

Fiction

Nonfiction

Young Readers’ Literature

Find more news and stories of interest from the book world in Breaking in Books. This year’s fiction judges were Deesha Philyaw, Luis Correa, Wendy Smith, and Laurie Muchnick. This year’s nonfiction judges were Hanif Abdurraqib, Lillian Dabney, Sarah Norris, and Eric Liebetrau. This year’s young readers’ literature judges were Jerry Craft, Junko Yokota, Alec B. Chunn, and Laura Simeon.

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