American Book Awards 2024

by Before Columbus Foundation

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18 books

The American Book Award is an American literary award that annually recognizes a set of books and people for "outstanding literary achievement". According to the 2010 awards press release, it is "a writers' award given by other writers" and "there are no categories, no nominees, and therefore no losers.

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Independence

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, 2023

The Lost Journals of Sacajewea

Debra Magpie Earling, 2023

We Still Be

Poems and Performances

Paul S Flores, 2023

Between Two Moons

Aisha Abdel Gawad, 2024

The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts

The True Story of The Bondwoman's Narrative

Gregg Hecimovich, 2023

Toussaint Louverture

The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History

C.L.R. James, 2023

Yellowface

R.F. Kuang, 2023

Flesh and Spirit

Confessions of a Young Lord

Felipe Luciano, 2023

Orphan Bachelors

Fae Myenne Ng, 2023

Dark Days

Fugitive Essays

Roger Reeves, 2023

Changing the Commons

Stories about Placemaking

John N. Roberts, 2023

Merze Tate

The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar

Barbara D. Savage, 2023

The 272

The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church

Rachel L. Swarns, 2024

Easily Slip into Another World

A Life in Music

Henry Threadgill, Brent Hayes Edwards, 2023

A Shimmer of Red

Valerie Wilson Wesley, 2023

California Against the Sea

Visions for Our Changing Coastline

Rosanna Xia, 2023

Please Wait by the Coatroom

Reconsidering Race and Identity in American Art

From From

Monica Youn, 2023