2018 Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award – Fiction

Black Moses
Alain Mabanckou
2017 Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award – Fiction

The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
2016 Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award – Fiction

Delicious Foods
James Hannaham
2015 Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award – Fiction

The Moor’s Account
Laila Lalami
2014 Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award – Fiction

We Need New Names
Noviolet Bulawayo
2013 Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award – Fiction

Half-Blood Blues
Esi Edugyan
2012 Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award – Fiction

Mr. Fox
Helen Oyeyemi
2011 Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award – Fiction

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
Danielle Evans
2010 Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award – Fiction

I Am Not Sidney Poitier
Percival Everett
2009 Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award – Fiction

Say You’re One of Them
Uwem Akpan
2008 Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award – Fiction

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz
2007 Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award – Fiction

All Aunt Hagar’s Children
Edward P. Jones
2006 Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award – Fiction

My Jim
Nancy Rawles
2005 Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award – Fiction

Who Slashed Celanire’s Throat?
Maryse Conde
2004 Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award – Fiction

Hunting in Harlem
Mat Johnson
2003 Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award – Fiction

The Heart of Redness
Zakes Mda
2002 Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award – Fiction
