PEN Open Book Award Winners

The PEN Open Book Award, formerly the Beyond Margins Awards, honors book-length writings by authors of color, published in the United States during th...more

Winners

	Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History by Canyon Sam 3.73 avg rating — 30 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2010)	My rating:
	Flood Song by Sherwin Bitsui 4.35 avg rating — 37 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2010)	My rating:
	Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original by Robin D.G. Kelley 4.23 avg rating — 338 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2010)	My rating:
	Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan 3.36 avg rating — 5,641 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2009)	My rating:
	Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems by Juan Felipe Herrera 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2009)	My rating:
	Changing by Lily Hoang 4.36 avg rating — 28 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2009)	My rating:
	Song for Night by Chris Abani 4.05 avg rating — 274 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2008)	My rating:
	Transparency: Stories by Frances Hwang 3.30 avg rating — 50 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2008)	My rating:
	The Perfect Man by Naeem Murr 3.75 avg rating — 314 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2008)	My rating:
	Tales of the Out and the Gone by Amiri Baraka 3.51 avg rating — 72 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2008)	My rating:
	The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn: A Lakota History by Joseph M. Marshall III 3.77 avg rating — 120 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2008)	My rating:
	Blood Beats, Vol. 1: Demos, Remixes and Extended Versions by Ernest Hardy (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2007)	My rating:
	Recyclopedia: Trimmings, SPeRMKT, and Muse & Drudge by Harryette Mullen 4.19 avg rating — 201 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2007)	My rating:
	The Theater of Night by Alberto Rios 3.61 avg rating — 18 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2007)	My rating:
	Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 4.16 avg rating — 8,705 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2007)	My rating:
	Dancing in the Dark by Caryl Phillips 3.63 avg rating — 49 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2006)	My rating:
	The Man With My Face by Jennifer Tseng 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2006)	My rating:
	Real Karaoke People by Ed Bok Lee 4.27 avg rating — 33 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2006)	My rating:
	Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora by Andrew Lam (Goodreads Author) 3.69 avg rating — 70 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2006)	My rating:
	Directions to the Beach of the Dead by Richard Blanco 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2006)	My rating:
	Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun by Faith Adiele 3.87 avg rating — 89 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2005)	My rating:
	The Temperature of This Water by Ishle Park 4.24 avg rating — 33 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2005)	My rating:
	Autopsy of an Engine: and Other Stories from the Cadillac Plant by Lolita Hernandez 3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2005)	My rating:
	Inheritance by Lan Samantha Chang 3.53 avg rating — 286 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2005)	My rating:
	And It Don't Stop: The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years by Raquel Cepeda 3.53 avg rating — 36 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2005)	My rating:
	Knee-Deep in Wonder: A Novel by April Reynolds 3.04 avg rating — 27 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2004)	My rating:
	Smoking Lovely [With CD] by Willie Perdomo 3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2004)	My rating:
	The Boy and the Dog Are Sleeping by Nasdijj 3.79 avg rating — 82 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2004)	My rating:
	The Interpreter: A Novel by Suki Kim 3.37 avg rating — 246 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2004)	My rating:
	West of the Jordan: A Novel by Laila Halaby 3.43 avg rating — 83 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2004)	My rating: