The New York Society Library is proud to announce the winners of the 2023-2024 New York City Book Awards. Founded in 1995-1996, these awards honor the best books about New York City published in a given year, regardless of genre. 

The Library honors the winning authors at a reception on May 2, 2024 - full details here.

The 2023 winners are

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

A brief press release for this year's awards can be found here.

More general information and a complete list of winners from the awards’ past 27 years can be found here.

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.