The 2023 winners were

Jonathan Lethem, Brooklyn Crime Novel (Ecco)

Prudence Peiffer, The Slip: The New York City Street that Changed American Art Forever (Harper)

Jesse Rifkin,This Must Be the Place: Music, Community, and Vanished Spaces in New York City (Hanover Square Press)

Alexander Stille, The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

THE HORNBLOWER AWARD FOR A FIRST BOOK
Aisha Abdel Gawad, Between Two Moons: A Novel (Doubleday)

For the first time since the pandemic, all the winners were able to be in attendance!

Jurors and presenters James Melo and Anita Kapadia | Aisha Abdel Gawad accepts the Hornblower award for Between Two Moons | Kate Feiffer presents the award to Jonathan Lethem for Brooklyn Crime Novel

Prudence Peiffer, author of The Slip, with her award presenter, Tracy Quan | Nikhil Iyengar, Chair of the New York City Book Awards jury, with Jesse Rifkin, winner for This Must Be the Place | Alexander Stille signs a copy of his winning book The Sullivanians

The 2023-2024 New York City Book Awards are generously underwritten by Ellen M. Iseman. The 2023-2024 Hornblower Award is generously underwritten by Jenny Lawrence. Ceremony photos by Karen Smul.