Gotham Book Prize


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

YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
2021Deacon King KongWinner
2021Leave the World BehindFinalist
2021Finalist
2021Kings CountyFinalist
2021You AgainFinalist
2021Finalist
2021Finalist
2021LusterFinalist
2021Musical ChairsFinalist
2021Is This Anything?Finalist
2022Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American CityWinner
2022New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess and TransformationFinalist
2022LibertieFinalist
2022The Other Black GirlFinalist
2022Ghosts of New YorkFinalist
2022Detransition, BabyFinalist
2022Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993Finalist
2022Astrid Sees AllFinalist
2022When We Make ItFinalist
2022Harlem ShuffleFinalist
2023Stories from the Tenants DownstairsWinner
2023Winner
2023Finalist
2023TrustFinalist
2023Olga Dies DreamingFinalist
2023Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to CarlottaFinalist
2023Activities of Daily LivingFinalist
2023Finalist
2023Roses, in the Mouth of a LionFinalist
2023Big GirlFinalist
2023Three MusesFinalist
2024Crook ManifestoWinner
2024Rikers: An Oral History, Graham RaymanFinalist
2024All the Beauty in the WorldFinalist
2024Between Two MoonsFinalist
2024Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra KimFinalist
2024Finalist
2024Flores and Miss PaulaFinalist
2024Women of the PostFinalist
2024Finalist
2024Finalist
2024We Are a HauntingFinalist
2025Anita de Monte Laughs LastLonglist
2025Brooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities that Shaped a BoroughLonglist
2025Do Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of ’70s New YorkLonglist
2025EntitlementLonglist
2025Everything and Nothing at OnceLonglist
2025How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable DisasterLonglist
2025Memory PieceLonglist
2025Movement: New York’s Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the CarWinner
2025Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York’s Greatest BoroughWinner
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2025There Is No EthanLonglist
2025VictimLonglist