Christchurch City Libraries lists literary prize winners and links to catalogue searches, but we may not hold copies of all titles mentioned.
The Notable Books Council of the Reference and User Services Association (a division of the American Library Association) selects Notable Books each year.
See other Notable Books category winners.
See more literary prize winners including poetry prize winners.
2024
- Promises of Gold / Promesas de Oro by José Olivarez
- Side Notes from the Archivist by Anastacia-Renee
- Trace Evidence by Charif Shanahan
2023
- Alive At The End Of The World Saeed Jones
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Bless The Daughter Raised By A Voice In Her Head Warsan Shire - The Rupture Tense Jenny Xie
- Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency Chen Chen
2022
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Playlist for the Apocalypse Rita Dove - The Renunciations Donika Kelly
- Winter Recipes from the Collective Louise Glück
2021
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Owed by Joshua Bennett - Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
- Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry by John Murillo
2020
- The Tradition Jericho Brown
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Deaf Republic: Poems Ilya Kaminsky
2019
- If They Come for Us: Poems Fatimah Asghar
- American Sonnets for My Once and Future Assassin Terrance Hayes
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The Carrying: Poems Ada Limón
2018
- I Know Your Kind William Brewer
- Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded Molly McCully Brown
2017
- Cannibal Safiya Sinclair
- Billy Collins
The Rain in Portugal: Poems2016
- Bastards of the Reagan Era Reginald Dwayne Betts
- Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems Joy Harjo
2015
- The Blue Buick: New and Selected Poems B.H.Fairchild
- Gabriel: A Poem Edward Hirsch
2014
- The Ogre’s Wife: Poems Ron Koertge
- Hum Jamaal May
2013
- Inferno Dante Alighieri Translated by Mary Jo Bang, Illustrated by Henrik Drescher
- Sharon Olds
Stag's Leap2012
- Illuminations Arthur Rimbaud Translated by John Ashbery
- Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability Jennifer Bartlett, Sheila Black, and Michael Northen
2011
- Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty: Poems by Tony Hoagland
- Wait: Poems by C.K. Williams.
2010
- Face Sherman Alexie
- What Goes On: Selected and New Poems 1995–2009 Stephen Dunn
2009
- Special Orders: Poems Edward Hirsch
- Ghost Soldiers: Poems James Tate
2008
- A New Hunger Laure-Anne Bosselaar
- In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus X.J. Kennedy
2007
- Famous Kathleen Flenniken
- Burning Wycliff Thom Satterlee
- William Henry Harrison and Other Poems David R. Slavitt
2006
- American Sublime Elizabeth Alexander
- Streets in their own ink Stuart Dybek
2005
- The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, 1968-1998 Nikki Giovanni
- Delights and Shadows Ted Kooser
2004
- Alabanza: New and Selected poems, 1982 - 2002 Martin Espada
2003
- Poems Seven: New and complete poetry Alan Dugan
- The Painted bed Donald Hall
- Bellocq's Ophelia Natasha Trethewey
2002
- Sailing alone around the room Billy Collins
- What the ice gets: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1916 Melinda Mueller
2001
- Beowulf: A New Translation Seamus Heaney
- Collected poems of Stanley Kunitz Stanley Kunitz
- Learning human: Selected poems Les Murray
2000
- Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966–1996 Seamus Heaney
- Diasporadic Patty Seyburn
1999
- Sweet machine Mark Doty
- Without Donald Hall
- Tales from Ovid Ted Hughes
- After all: Last poems William Matthews
1998
- Primate Behavior Sarah Lindsay
- What are big girls made of? Marge Piercy
- The Bounty Derek Walcott
