# Gotham Book Prize

The Gotham Book Prize is awarded annually to a fiction or non-fiction work judged the best about or set in New York City. The award was founded by Bradley Tusk and Howard Wolfson.

## Recipients

Gotham Book Prize winners and finalists :
| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2021 | James McBride | Deacon King Kong | Winner |
| 2021 | Rumaan Alam | Leave the World Behind | Finalist |
| 2021 | Christopher Beha | The Index of Self-Destructive Acts | Finalist |
| 2021 | David Goodwillie | Kings County | Finalist |
| 2021 | Debra Jo Immergut | You Again | Finalist |
| 2021 | N. K. Jemisin | The City We Became | Finalist |
| 2021 | David Paul Kuhn | The Hard Hat Riot: Nixon, New York City, & the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution | Finalist |
| 2021 | Raven Leilani | Luster | Finalist |
| 2021 | Amy Poeppel | Musical Chairs | Finalist |
| 2021 | Jerry Seinfeld | Is This Anything? | Finalist |
| 2022 | Andrea Elliott | Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City | Winner |
| 2022 | Tom Dyja | New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess and Transformation | Finalist |
| 2022 | Kaitlyn Greenidge | Libertie | Finalist |
| 2022 | Zakiya Dalila Harris | The Other Black Girl | Finalist |
| 2022 | Jim Lewis | Ghosts of New York | Finalist |
| 2022 | Torrey Peters | Detransition, Baby | Finalist |
| 2022 | Sarah Schulman | Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 | Finalist |
| 2022 | Natalie Standiford | Astrid Sees All | Finalist |
| 2022 | Elisabet Velasquez | When We Make It | Finalist |
| 2022 | Colson Whitehead | Harlem Shuffle | Finalist |
| 2023 | Sidik Fofana | Stories from the Tenants Downstairs | Winner (tie) |
| 2023 | John Wood Sweet | The Sewing Girl’s Tale | Winner (tie) |
| 2023 | Jill Bialosky | The Deceptions | Finalist |
| 2023 | Hernan Diaz | Trust | Finalist |
| 2023 | Xochitl Gonzalez | Olga Dies Dreaming | Finalist |
| 2023 | James Hannaham | Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta | Finalist |
| 2023 | Lisa Hsiao Chen | Activities of Daily Living | Finalist |
| 2023 | Dwyer Murphy | An Honest Living | Finalist |
| 2023 | Bushra Rehman | Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion | Finalist |
| 2023 | Mecca Jamilah Sullivan | Big Girl | Finalist |
| 2023 | Martha Anne Toll | Three Muses | Finalist |
| 2024 | Colson Whitehead | Crook Manifesto | Winner |
| 2024 | Reuven Blau | Rikers: An Oral History, Graham Rayman | Finalist |
| 2024 | Patrick Brinkley | All the Beauty in the World | Finalist |
| 2024 | Aisha Abdel Gawad | Between Two Moons | Finalist |
| 2024 | Patricia Park | Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim | Finalist |
| 2024 | Prudence Peiffer | The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever | Finalist |
| 2024 | Melissa Rivero | Flores and Miss Paula | Finalist |
| 2024 | Joshunda Sanders | Women of the Post | Finalist |
| 2024 | Maria Smilios | The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis | Finalist |
| 2024 | Alexander Stille | The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune | Finalist |
| 2024 | Tyriek White | We Are a Haunting | Finalist |
| 2025 | Xochitl Gonzalez | Anita de Monte Laughs Last | Longlist |
| 2025 | Prithi Kanakamedala | Brooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities that Shaped a Borough | Longlist |
| 2025 | Guy Trebay | Do Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of ’70s New York | Longlist |
| 2025 | Rumaan Alam | Entitlement | Longlist |
| 2025 | Joél Leon | Everything and Nothing at Once | Longlist |
| 2025 | Muriel Leung | How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster | Longlist |
| 2025 | Lisa Ko | Memory Piece | Longlist |
| 2025 | Nicole Gelinas | Movement: New York’s Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car | Longlist |
| 2025 | Ian Frazier | Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York’s Greatest Borough | Longlist |
| 2025 | Karen Valby | The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History | Longlist |
| 2025 | Tricia Romano | The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture | Longlist |
| 2025 | Yasmin Zaher | The Coin | Longlist |
| 2025 | Anna Akbari | There Is No Ethan | Longlist |
| 2025 | Andrew Boryga | Victim | Longlist |