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

	Curb by Divya Victor 4.38 avg rating — 127 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inheritors by Asako Serizawa 3.78 avg rating — 914 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Grave on the Wall by Brandon Shimoda 4.21 avg rating — 122 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires 4.12 avg rating — 7,306 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa by Alexis Okeowo (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 1,217 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi (Goodreads Author) 3.65 avg rating — 13,326 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chord: Poems by Rick Barot 4.19 avg rating — 143 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine 4.28 avg rating — 44,739 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cowboys and East Indians by Nina McConigley (Goodreads Author) 4.23 avg rating — 413 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	domina Un/blued by Ruth Ellen Kocher (Goodreads Author) 4.35 avg rating — 26 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness by Kevin Young 4.11 avg rating — 176 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gun Dealers' Daughter by Gina Apostol (Goodreads Author) 3.85 avg rating — 522 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India by Siddhartha Deb 3.63 avg rating — 617 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Serious Men by Manu Joseph (Goodreads Author) 3.76 avg rating — 3,944 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History by Canyon Sam 4.02 avg rating — 121 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original by Robin D.G. Kelley 4.29 avg rating — 2,265 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flood Song by Sherwin Bitsui 4.20 avg rating — 177 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan 3.54 avg rating — 15,625 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Imagine by Juan Felipe Herrera 4.26 avg rating — 896 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Changing by Lily Hoang 4.05 avg rating — 82 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn: A Lakota History by Joseph M. Marshall III 3.92 avg rating — 636 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales of the Out and the Gone by Amiri Baraka 3.57 avg rating — 199 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Perfect Man by Naeem Murr 3.72 avg rating — 558 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Transparency: Stories by Frances Hwang 3.38 avg rating — 78 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Song for Night by Chris Abani really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,119 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood Beats: Vol. 1 / Demos, Remixes & Extended Versions by Ernest Hardy (Goodreads Author) 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Recyclopedia: Trimmings / SPeRMKT / Muse and Drudge by Harryette Mullen 4.19 avg rating — 637 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Theater of Night by Alberto Alvaro Ríos 3.84 avg rating — 51 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 4.33 avg rating — 146,919 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Directions to the Beach of the Dead (Camino del Sol) by Richard Blanco (Goodreads Author) 4.24 avg rating — 127 ratings PEN Open Book Award (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars