Believer Book Award is an American literary award presented yearly by The Believer magazine to novels and story collections the magazine's editors thought were the "strongest and most under-appreciated" of the year. A shortlist and longlist are announced, along with reader's favorites, then a final winner is selected by the magazine's editors. The inaugural award was in 2005 for books published in 2004.
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Winners and shortlist
The year below denotes when the books were published; the award is announced the following year. Thus below, the inaugural 2004 books were announced in early to mid-2005.
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger ()
2004
The shortlist was announced in February 2005. The winner was announced in March 2005.
- Sam Lipsyte, Home Land
- Michelle de Kretser, The Hamilton Case
- Lucy Ellmann, Dot in the Universe
- Selah Saterstrom, The Pink Institution
- Francisco Goldman, The Divine Husband
2005
The shortlist was announced in February 2006. The winner was announced in March 2006.
- Sesshu Foster, Atomik Aztex
- Trinie Dalton, Wide Eyed
- Aimee Bender, Willful Creatures
- John Wray, Canaan's Tongue
- Tom Bissell, God Lives in St. Petersburg
2006
The winner, and reader survey of best books, was announced in May 2007.
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
- Reader and writer survey of best books.
2007
The shortlist was announced in May 2008. The winner was announced in June 2008.
- Tom McCarthy, Remainder
- Jesse Ball, Samedi the Deafness
- Gerard Donovan, Sunless
- Steve Erickson, Zeroville
- Elizabeth Hand, Generation Loss
- Alain Mabanckou, African Psycho
- Miranda Mellis, The Revisionist
- Lydie Salvayre, The Power of Flies
- Selah Saterstrom, The Meat and Spirit Plan
- Joe Weisberg, An Ordinary Spy
2008
The shortlist was announced in February 2009. The winner was announced in March 2009.
- Emily Perkins, Novel About My Wife
- Samantha Hunt, The Invention of Everything Else
- Mary Ruefle, The Most of It
- John Olson, Souls of Wind
- Jim Krusoe, Girl Factory
- Tod Wodicka, All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; and All Manner of Things Shall Be Well
- Toby Olson, Tampico
- Shannon Burke, Black Flies
2009
The shortlist was announced in March 2010. The winner was announced in May 2010.
- Percival Everett, I Am Not Sidney Poitier
- Christopher Miller, The Cardboard Universe: A Guide to the World of Phoebus K. Dank
- Mary Robison, One D.O.A., One on the Way
- Blake Butler, Scorch Atlas
- Padgett Powell, The Interrogative Mood
2010
The shortlist was announced in March 2011. The winner was announced in May 2011.
- James Hynes, Next
- Danielle Dutton, Sprawl
- Kira Henehan, Orion You Came and You Took All My Marbles
- Grace Krilanovich, The Orange Eats Creeps
- Paul Murray, Skippy Dies
2011
The shortlist was announced in March 2012. The winner was announced in May 2012.
- Ben Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station
- Jesse Ball, The Curfew
- Helen DeWitt, Lightning Rods
- Lars Iyer, Spurious
- Michelle Latiolais, Widow
2012
The shortlist was announced in March 2013. The winner was announced in April 2013.
- Tamara Faith Berger, Maidenhead
- Barbara Browning, I'm Trying to Reach You
- Karl Ove Knausgaard, My Struggle (Book One)
- Jim Krusoe, Parsifal
- Sergio De La Pava, A Naked Singularity
2013
The shortlist was announced in March 2014. The winner was announced in April 2014.
- Rebecca Lee, Bobcat and Other Stories
- Kiese Laymon, Long Division
- Fiona Maazel, Woke Up Lonely
- Keith Ridgway, Hawthorn and Child
- Bennett Sims, A Questionable Shape
2014
The shortlist was announced in March 2015. The winner was announced in the Fall 2015 issue.
- Ottessa Moshfegh, McGlue
- Diane Cook, Man V. Nature
- Valeria Luiselli, Faces in the Crowd
- Elizabeth McCracken, Thunderstruck and Other Stories
- Antoine Volodine, Writers
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See also
- Believer Poetry Award
References
External links
- Believer Book Award at LibraryThing
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