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Chooch Helped (2025)
Big (2024)
Hot Dog (2023)
Watercress (2022)
We are Water Protectors (2021)
The Undefeated (2020)
Hello Lighthouse (2019)
Wolf in the Snow (2018)
Radiant Child (2017)
Finding Winnie (2016)
The Adventures of Beekle (2015)
Locomotive (2014)
I Want My Hat Back (2013)
A Ball for Daisy (2012)
A Sick Day for Amos McGee (2011)
The Lion & the Mouse (2010)
The House in the Night (2009)
The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2008)
Flotsam (2007)
The Hello, Goodbye Window (2006)
Kitten’s First Full Moon (2005)
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers (2004)
My Friend Rabbit (2003)
Will’s Race for Home (2026 Author)
The Library in the Woods (2026 Illustrator)
Under the Neon Lights (2026 New Author)
Twenty-four Seconds from Now (2025 Author)
My Daddy is a Cowboy (2025 Illustrator)
Kwame Crashes the Underworld (2025 New Author)
Jimmy’s Rhythm & Blues (2025 New Illustrator)
Nigeria Jones (2024 Author)
An American Story (2024 Illustrator)
There Goes the Neighborhood (2024 New Author)
We Could Fly (2024 New Illustrator)
Freewater (2023 Author)
Standing in the Need of Prayer (2023 Illustrator)
We Deserve Monuments (2023 New Author)
Choosing Brave (2023 New Illustrator)
Unspeakable (2022 Author & Illustrator)
Me Moth (2022 New Author)
The Me I Choose to Be (2022 New Illustrator)
Be the Ever After (2021 Author)
Respect (2021 Illustrator)
Legendborn (2021 New Author)
New Kid (2020 Author)
The Undefeated (2020 Illustrator)
Genesis Begins Again (2020 New Author)
What is Given from the Heart (2020 New Illustrator)
All the Blues in the Sky (2026)
The First State of Being (2025)
The Eyes & the Impossible (2024)
Freewater (2023)
The Last Cuentista (2022)
When You Trap a Tiger (2021)
New Kid (2020)
Merci Suárez Changes Gears (2019)
Hello Universe (2018)
The Girl Who Drank the Moon (2017)
Last Stop on Market Street (2016)
Crossover (2015)
Flora & Ulysses (2014)
The One and Only Ivan (2013)
Dead End in Norvelt (2012)
Moon Over Manifest (2011)
When You Reach Me (2010)
The Graveyard Book (2009)
Flesh (2025)
Orbital (2024)
Prophet Song (2023)
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (2022)
The Promise (2021)
Shuggie Bain (2020)
The Testament (2019)
Girl, Woman, Other (2019)
Milkman (2018)
Lincoln in the Bardo (2017)
The Sellout (2016)
A Brief History of Seven Killings (2015)
The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2014)
The Luminaries (2013)
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (2025 Novel)
Ride or Die (2025 Middle Grade)
Why I Love Horror (2025 Nonfiction)
The October Film Haunt (2025 First Novel)
Silk & Sinew (2025 Anthology)
The Haunting of Velkwood (2024 Novel)
The Substance (2024 Screenplay)
The Church of Frendo (2024 Young Adult)
The Creeping of Dogwood House (2024 Middle Grade)
Horror for Weenies (2024 Nonfiction)
Coup de Grace (2024 Long Fiction)
HP Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu (2024 Graphic Novel)
The Eyes are the Best Part (2024 First Novel)
The Reformatory (2023 Novel)
101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered (2023 Nonfiction)
Out There Screaming (2023 Anthology)
She is a Haunting (2023 Young Adult)
The Lighthouse Keeper (2023 Middle Grade)
The Daughters of Block Island (2023 First Novel)
The Devil Takes You Home (2022 Novel)
Screams from the Dark (2022 Anthology)
Breakable Things (2022 Fiction)
They Stole Our Hearts (2022 Middle Grade)
My Heart is a Chainsaw (2021 Novel)
The Only Good Indians (2020 Novel)
The Tainted Cup (2025 Best Novel)
The Tusks of Extinction (2025 Best Novella)
Mirrored Heavens (2025 Best Series)
Black Nerd Problems (2025 Best Fanzine)
Some Desperate Glory (2024 Best Novel)
Thornhedge (2024 Best Novella)
A City on Mars (2024 Best Related Work)
Nettle & Bone (2023 Best Novel)
Where the Drowned Girls Go (2023 Best Novella)
Children of Time (2023 Best Series)
A Desolation Called Peace (2022 Best Novel)
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (2022 Best Novella)
Wayward Children (2022 Best Series)
Network Effect (2021 Best Novel)
The Empress of Salt and Fortune (2021 Best Novella)
The Murderbot Diaries (2021 Best Series)
A Memory Called Empire (2020 Best Novel)
This is How You Lose the Time War (2020 Best Novella)
The Expanse (2020 Best Series)
The True True Story (2025 Fiction)
The Teacher of Nomad Land (2025 Young People)
Things in Nature Merely Grow (2025 Nonfiction)
We are Green and Trembling (2025 Translated)
The Intentions of Thunder (2025 Poetry)
One Day (2025 Nonfiction)
James (2024 Fiction)
Kareem Between (2024 Young People)
Soldiers and Kings (2024 Nonfiction)
Taiwan Travelogue (2024 Translated)
Something About Living (2024 Poetry)
Blackouts (2023 Fiction)
A First Time for Everything (2023 Young People)
The Rediscovery of America (2023 Nonfiction)
The Rabbit Hutch (2022 Fiction)
South to America (2022 Nonfiction)
Seven Empty Houses (2022 Translated)
Hell of a Book (2021 Fiction)
Last Night at the Telegraph Club (2021 Young People)
All That She Carried (2021 Nonfiction)
Winter in Sokcho (2021 Translated)
Tokyo Ueno Station (2020 Fiction)
There is No Place for Us (2026 Nonfiction)
Things in Nature Merely Grow (2026 Memoir)
Pride and Pleasure (2026 Biography)
We the People (2026 History)
Angel Down (2026 Fiction)
New and Selected Poems (2025 Poetry)
Feeding Ghosts (2025 Memoir)
Every Living Thing (2025 Biography)
Native Nations (2025 History)
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause (2025 Nonfiction)
James (2025 Fiction)
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama (2024 Nonfiction)
Tripas (2024 Poetry)
Liliana’s Invincible Summer (2024 Memoir)
King: a Life (2024 Biography)
Master Slave Husband Wife (2024 Biography)
No Right to an Honest Living (2024 History)
Night Watch (2024 Fiction)
Then the War (2023 Poetry)
Stay True (2023 Memoir)
G-Man (2023 Biography)
Demon Copperhead (2023 Fiction)
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