PEN/Jean Stein Book Award — Complete Winners List

7 years of winners · PEN America · Since 2016 · ← Back to award page

Year	Title	Author	Publisher
2023	Dr. No	Percival Everett	Graywolf Press
2022	The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglected Disease	Daisy Hernández	Algonquin Books
2021	Be Holding: A Poem	Ross Gay	University of Pittsburgh Press
2020	Where Reasons End: A Novel	Yiyun Li	Random House
2019	Friday Black: Stories	Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2018	Whereas	Layli Long Soldier	Graywolf Press
2017	The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between	Hisham Matar	Viking