Awards and Best Sellers
Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction
Finalist for the PEN Open Book Award
Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction, the National Book Award for Nonfiction, and the PEN/Galbraith Award for Nonfiction
New York Times 10 Best Books of 2024
Winner of the National Book Award
New York Times Bestseller
Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award
Stonewall Award Honor Book
National Bestseller
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize
LA Times Book Prize
Carnegie Medal
Finalist for the NYPL Helen Bernstein Book Award
Finalist for the National Books Critics Circle Award
Winner of the Whiting and the Robert Silvers Work-In-Progress Awards
Carnegie Medal Longlist
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Winner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award
Winner of the 2018 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice
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National Bestseller
Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime
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Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award
NAACP Image Award
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
ALA Black Caucus Award
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National Bestseller
Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature
Finalist for the 2019 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing
National Bestseller
New York Times Bestseller
Finalist for the PEN Award
Winner of the Bram Stoker Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Locus Award, and the International Latino Book Award
Finalist for the Anthony Award, and the Edgar Award for Best Novel
National Bestseller
Pen New England Award
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Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir
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Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize
Grateful American Award
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Winner of the PEN America Literary Award
Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize
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Finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
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New York Times 10 Best Books of 2006
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Winner of 3 Mike Wieringo Comic Book Industry Awards:
Best Nonfiction Comic Work
Best Presentation in Design
Best Original Graphic Novel
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New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the New England Book Award
National Besteller
Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award
Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction
New York Times Bestseller
New York Times Bestseller
Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
Winner of the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Poetry Prize
Longlisted for the National Book Award
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New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the American Library Association's Alex Award
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British Columbia’s National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction
The Windham-Campbell Literature Prize
The Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
National Bestseller
New York Times Bestseller
Shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize
Longlisted for the PEN / JKG Award in Nonfiction
New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award, and the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award for Non-Fiction
Shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize and the 2023 Science Writers and Communicators of Canada Book Award
International Bestseller
Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Novel
New York Times Bestseller
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New York Times Bestseller
Poland Mountain Book Award
US Religion News Association Award
Nominated for a Banff Mountain Book Award and the Crime Writers of Canada Award
Shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize
New York Times Bestseller
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New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the RBC Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction
Winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature
Winner of the Banff Mountain Book Award for Adventure Travel
National Bestseller
Winner of the George Washington Prize
New York Times Bestseller
Nominated for the PEN USA Literary Award
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New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize
Finalist for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction
Finalist for the Aventist Science Book Award
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New York Times Bestseller
Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award
Finalist for the Hugo Award
Nominated for the Eisner Award
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The Maritime Foundation Award for Best Book Maine Literacy Book Award
Winner of the Massachusetts Center for the Book Award
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New York Times Bestseller
Grand Prize at Banff Mountain Book Festival
Winner of the Balcones Fiction Prize