Bloody Crossroads 2020: Art, Entertainment, and Resistance to Trump, Danny Goldberg, Akashic Books

Borealis, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Coffee House Press

The Child is the Teacher: A Life of Maria Montessori, Christine De Stefano, Other Press

Green Chili and Other Impostors, Nina Mukerjee Furstenau, University of Iowa Press

Heir to the Crescent Moon, Sufiya Abdur-Rahman, University of Iowa Press

Indigo, Padgett Powell, Catapult

The Kindness of Strangers, Tom Lutz, University of Iowa Press

Trace and Aura: The Recurring Livs of St. Ambrose of Milan, Patrick Boucheron, Other Press

We Heard It When We Were Young: Tales of Growing Up Mexican American in Small-Town Iowa, Chuy Renteria, University of Iowa Press