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The John Leonard Prize for Best First Book, established in 2013, is an annual literary award presented by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) for authors' first books in any genre.[1] Unlike other NBCC awards, recipients are selected by members, not the board.[1]

Awarded forAuthor's first books in any genre
Sponsored byNational Book Critics Circle
First award2013
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John Leonard Prize
Awarded forAuthor's first books in any genre
Sponsored byNational Book Critics Circle
First award2013
Websitehttps://www.bookcritics.org/awards/leonard-prize/ Edit this on Wikidata
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The prize is named after John Leonard, a renowned literary critic and NBCC co-founder.[1]

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John Leonard Prize winners and honors
Year Author Title Result Ref.
2013 Anthony Marra A Constellation of Vital Phenomena Winner [2]
2014 Phil Klay Redeployment Winner [3][4]
2015 Kirstin Valdez Quade Night at the Fiestas Winner [5]
2016 Yaa Gyasi Homegoing Winner [6]
Brit Bennett The Mothers Finalist [7]
Emma Cline The Girls
Nicole Dennis-Benn Here Comes the Sun
Nathan Hill The Nix
Max Porter Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
2017 Carmen Maria Machado Her Body and Other Parties Winner [8][9][10]
Lesley Nneka Arimah What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky Finalist [11]
Julie Buntin Marlena
Zinzi Clemmons What We Lose
Layli Long Soldier Whereas
Gabriel Tallent My Absolute Darling
2018 Tommy Orange There There Winner [12][13][14]
2019 Sarah M. Broom The Yellow House Winner [15][16]
Taffy Brodesser-Akner Fleishman Is in Trouble Finalist [17]
Chia-Chia Lin The Unpassing
T Kira Madden Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir
Julia Phillips Disappearing Earth
Jia Tolentino Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Bryan Washington Lot: Stories
2020 Raven Leilani Luster Winner [18][19]
Megha Majumdar A Burning Finalist [20]
C Pam Zhang How Much of These Hills Is Gold
Kerri Arsenault Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains
Brandon Taylor Real Life
Douglas Stuart Shuggie Bain
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio The Undocumented Americans
2021 Anthony Veasna So Afterparties Winner [21][22]
Torrey Peters Detransition, Baby Finalist [23][24][25]
Jocelyn Nicole Johnson My Monticello
Devon Walker-Figueroa Philomath: Poems
Larissa Pham Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy
Ashley C. Ford Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir
2022 Morgan Talty Night of the Living Rez Winner [26]
Jessamine Chan The School for Good Mothers Finalist [27]
Jonathan Escoffery If I Survive You
Tess Gunty The Rabbit Hutch
Zain Khalid Brother Alive
Maud Newton Ancestor Trouble
Vauhini Vara The Immortal King Rao
2023 Tahir Hamut Izgil Waiting to Be Arrested at Night Winner [28]
Ariana Benson Black Pastoral Finalist [28]
Emilie Boone A Nimble Arc
Victor Heringer
trans. James Young		 The Love of Singular Men
2024 Tessa Hulls Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir Winner [29]
Carrie Courogen Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood's Hidden Genius Finalist [30]
Vinson Cunningham Great Expectations
John Ganz When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
Cindy Juyoung Ok Ward Toward
Rebecca Nagle By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
2025 Nicholas Boggs Baldwin: A Love Story Winner [31][32]
Evanthia Bromiley Crown Finalist [33]
Saou Ichikawa (trans. by Polly Barton) Hunchback
Liz Pelly Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
Hedgie Choi Salvage
Lucas Schaefer The Slip
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