Gotham Book Prize

The Gotham Book Prize is awarded annually to a fiction or non-fiction work judged the best about or set in New York City. The award was founded by Bradley Tusk and Howard Wolfson.^[1][2]

Gotham Book Prize
Date	December
Reward	$50,000
First award	2020
Final award	Active
Website	gothambookprize.org

Recipients

Gotham Book Prize winners and finalists

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2021	James McBride	Deacon King Kong	Winner	[3][4]
	Rumaan Alam	Leave the World Behind	Finalist	[5]
	Christopher Beha	The Index of Self-Destructive Acts	Finalist	[6]
	David Goodwillie	Kings County	Finalist	[6]
	Debra Jo Immergut	You Again	Finalist	[6]
	N. K. Jemisin	The City We Became	Finalist	[5]
	David Paul Kuhn	The Hard Hat Riot: Nixon, New York City, & the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution	Finalist	[6]
	Raven Leilani	Luster	Finalist	[6]
	Amy Poeppel	Musical Chairs	Finalist	[6]
	Jerry Seinfeld	Is This Anything?	Finalist	[6]
2022	Andrea Elliott	Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City	Winner	[3]
	Tom Dyja	New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess and Transformation	Finalist	[7][8]
	Kaitlyn Greenidge	Libertie	Finalist	[7][8]
	Zakiya Dalila Harris	The Other Black Girl	Finalist	[7][8]
	Jim Lewis	Ghosts of New York	Finalist	[7][8]
	Torrey Peters	Detransition, Baby	Finalist	[7][8]
	Sarah Schulman	Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993	Finalist	[7][8]
	Natalie Standiford	Astrid Sees All	Finalist	[7][8]
	Elisabet Velasquez	When We Make It	Finalist	[7][8]
	Colson Whitehead	Harlem Shuffle	Finalist	[7][8]
2023	Sidik Fofana	Stories from the Tenants Downstairs	Winner (tie)	[3]
	John Wood Sweet	The Sewing Girl’s Tale
	Jill Bialosky	The Deceptions	Finalist	[9][10]
	Hernan Diaz	Trust	Finalist	[9][10]
	Xochitl Gonzalez	Olga Dies Dreaming	Finalist	[9][10]
	James Hannaham	Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta	Finalist	[9][10]
	Lisa Hsiao Chen	Activities of Daily Living	Finalist	[9][10]
	Dwyer Murphy	An Honest Living	Finalist	[9][10]
	Bushra Rehman	Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion	Finalist	[9][10]
	Mecca Jamilah Sullivan	Big Girl	Finalist	[9][10]
	Martha Anne Toll	Three Muses	Finalist	[9][10]
2024	Colson Whitehead	Crook Manifesto	Winner	[11][12]
	Reuven Blau	Rikers: An Oral History, Graham Rayman	Finalist	[13][14]
	Patrick Brinkley	All the Beauty in the World	Finalist	[13][14]
	Aisha Abdel Gawad	Between Two Moons	Finalist	[13][14]
	Patricia Park	Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim	Finalist	[13][14]
	Prudence Peiffer	The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever	Finalist	[13][14]
	Melissa Rivero	Flores and Miss Paula	Finalist	[13][14]
	Joshunda Sanders	Women of the Post	Finalist	[13][14]
	Maria Smilios	The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis	Finalist	[13][14]
	Alexander Stille	The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune	Finalist	[13][14]
	Tyriek White	We Are a Haunting	Finalist	[13][14][15]
2025	Xochitl Gonzalez	Anita de Monte Laughs Last	Longlist	[16]
	Prithi Kanakamedala	Brooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities that Shaped a Borough	Longlist	[16]
	Guy Trebay	Do Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of ’70s New York	Longlist	[16]
	Rumaan Alam	Entitlement	Longlist	[16]
	Joél Leon	Everything and Nothing at Once	Longlist	[16]
	Muriel Leung	How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster	Longlist	[16]
	Lisa Ko	Memory Piece	Longlist	[16]
	Nicole Gelinas	Movement: New York’s Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car	Longlist	[16]
	Ian Frazier	Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York’s Greatest Borough	Longlist	[16]
	Karen Valby	The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History	Longlist	[16]
	Tricia Romano	The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture	Longlist	[16]
	Yasmin Zaher	The Coin	Longlist	[16]
	Anna Akbari	There Is No Ethan	Longlist	[16]
	Andrew Boryga	Victim	Longlist	[16]