Best Novel
The Venice Sketchbook by Rhys Bowen Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby Five Decembers by James Kestrel How Lucky by Will Leitch No One Will Miss Her by Kat Rosenfield
Best Fact Crime
The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History by Margalit Fox Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away by Ann Hagedorn Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice by Ellen McGarrahan The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade by Benjamin T. Smith When Evil Lived in Laurel: The “White Knights” and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer by Curtis Wilkie
Best Young Adult
Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley When You Look Like Us by Pamela N. Harris The Forest of Stolen Girls by June Hur The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe
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