Award overlap
Books Recognized by Both the Aspen Words Literary Prize and the National Book Awards
No book has won both the Aspen Words Literary Prize and the National Book Awards. 28 were shortlisted or recognized by both.
Years are award years. Aspen Words Literary Prize · National Book Awards
Recognized by both
| Book | Author | Aspen Words Literary Prize | National Book Awards |
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| James | Percival Everett |
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| Chain-Gang All Stars | Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah |
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| Temple Folk | Aaliyah Bilal |
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| All This Could Be Different | Sarah Thankam Mathews |
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| If I Survive You | Jonathan Escoffery |
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| The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories | Jamil Jan Kochai |
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| The Town of Babylon | Alejandro Varela |
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| When We Were Sisters | Fatimah Asghar |
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| Abundance | Jakob Guanzon |
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| Bewilderment | Richard Powers |
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| Hell of a Book | Jason Mott |
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| The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois | Honorée Fanonne Jeffers |
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| A Children's Bible | Lydia Millet |
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| If I Had Two Wings | Randall Kenan |
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| Leave the World Behind | Rumaan Alam |
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| The Vanishing Half | Brit Bennett |
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| On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous | Ocean Vuong |
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| Sabrina & Corina | Kali Fajardo-Anstine |
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| The Nickel Boys | Colson Whitehead |
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| The Other Americans | Laila Lalami |
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| An American Marriage | Tayari Jones |
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| Gun Love | Jennifer Clement |
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| Heads of the Colored People | Nafissa Thompson-Spires |
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| Lucky Man | Jamel Brinkley |
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| There There | Tommy Orange |
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| Where the Dead Sit Talking | Brandon Hobson |
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| Sing, Unburied, Sing | Jesmyn Ward |
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| The Leavers | Lisa Ko |
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