Awards and Best Sellers
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle 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
Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award
Finalist for the PEN Award
Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature
Finalist for the 2019 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing
Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime
Winner of the Bram Stoker Award
Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award
Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Novel
Finalist for the Anthony Award
Winner of the International Latino Book Award
Winner of the Locus Award
Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir
Winner of the PEN America Literary Award
Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize
Grateful American Award
Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction
Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction
New York Times 10 Best Books of 2024
Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award
Finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award
British Columbia’s National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction
The Windham-Campbell Literature Prize
The Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
Winner of the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Poetry Prize
Longlisted for the National Book Award
Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction
Winner of the Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award
Winner of the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award for Non-Fiction
Shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize
Shortlisted for the 2023 Science Writers and Communicators of Canada Book Award
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
Shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize
Longlisted for the PEN / JKG Award in Nonfiction
NAACP Image Award
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
ALA Black Caucus Award
Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Novel
Shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize
Finalist for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction
Finalist for the Aventist Science Book Award
Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize
Winner of the National Book Award
New York Times 10 Best Books of 2006
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Winner of the George Washington Prize
Winner of the New England Book Award
Nominated for the PEN USA Literary Award
The Maritime Foundation Award for Best Book
Maine Literacy Book Award
Winner of the Massachusetts Center for the Book Award
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
LA Times Book Prize
Carnegie Medal
Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize
Finalist for the NYPL Helen Bernstein Book Award
Winner of the American Library Association's Alex Award
Pen New England Award
Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award
Winner of the Balcones Fiction Prize