Gotham Book Prize 2024 FINALISTS

For the 2024 prize, the jury has selected as finalists:

  • All the Beauty in the World, Patrick Brinkley 

  • Between Two Moons, Aisha Abdel Gawad 

  • Crook Manifesto, Colson Whitehead 

  • Flores and Miss Paula, Melissa Rivero 

  • Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim, Patricia Park 

  • Rikers: An Oral History, Graham Rayman, Reuven Blau 

  • The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis, Maria Smilios 

  • The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever, Prudence Peiffer 

  • The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune,  Alexander Stille 

  • We Are a Haunting, Tyriek White 

  • Women of the Post, Joshunda Sanders

For the first time, the winner will be named at Queens Public Library’s annual gala on June 5, 2024