There are many awards given by various organizations for nonfiction (factual) books every year. Here is a selection of the winners and finalists for those awards. (last updated 5/4)
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James Baldwin
WINNER of the 2026 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography; WINNER of the 2026 Israel Fishman (Stonewall) Nonfiction Award; WINNER of the 2026 John Leonard Prize (a National Book Critics Circle Award)
There is no place for us
Brian Goldstone.
WINNER of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction; Finalist for the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
A flower traveled in my blood
Haley Cohen Gilliland.
Finalist for the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
Things in nature merely grow
WINNER of 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Memoir/Autobiography; WINNER of the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
