American Book Awards 2021

by Before Columbus Foundation

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13 books

The American Book Awards were created to provide recognition for outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America’s diverse literary community. The purpose of the awards is to recognize literary excellence without limitations or restrictions. There are no categories, no nominees, and therefore no losers.

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2021

Winners

Homeland Elegies

Ayad Akhtar, 2020

These Ghosts Are Family

Maisy Card, 2020

Borderland Apocrypha

Anthony Cody, 2020

Desert Notebooks

A Road Map for the End of Time

Ben Ehrenreich, 2020

The Young Lords

A Radical History

Johanna Fernández, 2020

In the Lateness of the World

Carolyn Forché, 2021

Great Demon Kings

A Memoir of Poetry, Sex, Art, Death, and Enlightenment

John Giorno, 2020

Minor Feelings

An Asian American Reckoning

Cathy Park Hong, 2021

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Randall Horton, 2020

The Dawning of the Apocalypse

The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century

Gerald Horne, 2020

White Too Long

The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity

Robert P. Jones, 2021

Manhattan My Ass, You're in Oakland

Judy Juanita, 2020

Dunfords Travels Everywheres

William Melvin Kelley, 2020