FICTION: Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones (Bloomsbury USA)
NONFICTION: Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (W. W. Norton & Company)
POETRY: Nikky Finney, Head Off & Split (TriQuarterly, an imprint of Northwestern University Press)
YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE: Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Again (Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)
