The Gotham Book Prize is a $50,000 prize awarded annually to a fiction or non-fiction work judged the best about or set in New York City. The award was founded by venture capitalist Bradley Tusk and political consultant Howard Wolfson.
Recipients
+Gotham Book Prize winners and finalists Year Author TitleResultRef. 2021 Deacon King KongWinnerLeave the World BehindFinalistFinalistKings CountyFinalistYou Again FinalistFinalistFinalistLuster FinalistMusical Chairs FinalistIs This Anything? Finalist2022Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American CityWinnerNew York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess and TransformationFinalistLibertieFinalistThe Other Black GirlFinalistGhosts of New YorkFinalistDetransition, BabyFinalistLet the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993FinalistAstrid Sees AllFinalistWhen We Make ItFinalistHarlem ShuffleFinalist2023Stories from the Tenants DownstairsWinner (tie)FinalistTrustFinalistOlga Dies DreamingFinalistDidn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to CarlottaFinalistActivities of Daily LivingFinalistFinalistRoses, in the Mouth of a LionFinalistBig Girl FinalistThree Muses Finalist2024Crook ManifestoWinnerRikers: An Oral History, Graham RaymanFinalistAll the Beauty in the WorldFinalistBetween Two MoonsFinalistImposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra KimFinalistFinalistFlores and Miss PaulaFinalistWomen of the PostFinalistFinalistFinalistWe Are a HauntingFinalist2025Movement: New York’s Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the CarWinner (tie)Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York’s Greatest BoroughThere Is No EthanFinalistEntitlementFinalistVictimFinalistAnita de Monte Laughs LastFinalistBrooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities that Shaped a BoroughFinalistMemory PieceFinalistEverything and Nothing at OnceFinalistHow to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable DisasterFinalistFinalistDo Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of ’70s New YorkFinalistFinalistFinalist2026I Regret Almost Everything by Keith McNallyWinner1929FinalistAuditionFinalistBorn in Flames FinalistI Regret Almost EverythingFinalistGarbage Town FinalistHarlem Rhapsody FinalistI See You've Called in Dead FinalistNight People: How to Be a DJ in '90s New York City FinalistPlayworld FinalistFinalistTurning to Birds Finalist
References
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