Believer Book Award Winners

This award has been created by the editors of the Believer in order to honor what they consider the bravest, most ambitious book of the year. ...more

Winners

	Man V. Nature by Diane Cook (Goodreads Author) 3.98 avg rating — 1,641 ratings Believer 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
	Bobcat and Other Stories by Rebecca Lee 3.88 avg rating — 4,661 ratings Believer 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
	Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner 3.79 avg rating — 15,243 ratings Believer 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
	Maidenhead by Tamara Faith Berger 3.06 avg rating — 610 ratings Believer 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
	Next by James Hynes 3.24 avg rating — 1,360 ratings Believer 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
	I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett 3.96 avg rating — 2,423 ratings Believer 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
	Novel About My Wife by Emily Perkins 3.33 avg rating — 944 ratings Believer 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
	Remainder by Tom McCarthy 3.66 avg rating — 7,518 ratings Believer 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 Road by Cormac McCarthy 3.98 avg rating — 845,581 ratings Believer 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
	Atomik Aztex by Sesshu Foster 3.33 avg rating — 288 ratings Believer Book Award (2005)	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
	Home Land by Sam Lipsyte (Goodreads Author) 3.61 avg rating — 2,810 ratings Believer Book Award (2004)	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

nominees

	Orion You Came and You Took All My Marbles by Kira Henehan (Goodreads Author) 3.44 avg rating — 195 ratings Believer Book Award Nominee (0)	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
	SPRAWL by Danielle Dutton 4.04 avg rating — 225 ratings Believer Book Award Nominee (0)	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 Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich (Goodreads Author) 3.01 avg rating — 1,691 ratings Believer Book Award Nominee (0)	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

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Bram Stoker Award
Hugo Award
Royal Society Science Book Prize
Booker Prize
Pulitzer Prize
Newbery Medal
Nebula Award
Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
National Book Award
J. Gordon Coogler Award
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