The winners in the book categories were:

Fiction

Night Watch (Jayne Anne Phillips, Fleet)

Nonfiction

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama (Nathan Thrall, Allen Lane)

Biography (joint winners)

King: The life of Martin Luther King (Jonathan Eig, S&S)

Master Slave Husband Wife: An epic journey from slavery to freedom (Ilyon Woo, 37 Ink)

Memoir/autobiography

Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A sister’s search for justice (Cristina Rivera Garza, Hogarth)

History

No Right to an Honest Living: The struggles of Boston’s Black workers in the civil war era (Jacqueline Jones, Basic Books)

Poetry

Tripas: Poems (Brandon Som, Georgia Review Books).