2026 New England Book Awards Ballot
Ballots are due Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 5 pm ET.
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Your Ballot
You may vote for one title per category.
Fiction
The Subtle Art of Folding Space by John Chu (Tor Books)
This is Not About Us by Allegra Goodman (The Dial Press)
The Foursome by Christine Baker Kline (Mariner Books)
The Typing Lady by Ruth Ozeki (Viking Penguin)
The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
Nonfiction
Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights by Keisha N. Blain (W. W. Norton)
Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden (The Dial Press)
Exhumed by Aaron Mahnke (Running Press)
The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (Pantheon)
Charity and Sylvia by Tillie Walden (Drawn & Quarterly)
Poetry
We (The People of the United States) by Joshua Bennett (Penguin Books)
If You Would Let Me by Maggie Dietz (Four Way Books)
Thrown Voice by Isabel Neal (Yale University Press)
Near and Distant World by Bianca Stone (Tin House)
Girl Trouble by Diana Whitney (CavanKerry Press)
Picture Book
The Deepest Blue by Shauntay Grant, illustrated by Daniel Minter (Quill Tree Books)
Cat Nap by Brian Lies (Greenwillow Books)
Rainbow Cookies by Lesléa Newman, illustrated by Z.B. Asterplume (Levine Querido)
The Brunch Shift by Adrienne Thurman, illustrated by Mags DeRoma (Random House Studio)
The Outermost Mouse by Lauren Wolk, illustrated by Kristen Adam (Dutton Books for Young Readers)
Middle Grade
A Kid Like Me by Norm Feuti (HarperAlley)
The Forest Revealed by Jada Fitch and Kateri Kosek (Storey Publishing)
Really Rubie by Maddie Frost (Aladdin)
Spindlewood by Freddie Kölsch (Balzer + Bray)
The Bionic Boy by Lynn Plourde (Nancy Paulsen Books)
Young Adult
A Prince Among Pirates by Katie Abdou (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
The Gravewood by Kelly Andrew (Scholastic Press)
I'll Find You Where the Timeline Ends by Kylie Lee Baker (Feiwel & Friends)
A Fate So Cold by Amanda Foody and C. L. Herman (Tor Teen)
Blue Beach by Karyn Parsons (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
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