2021 | The 21st Thurber Prize

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2021 WINNER:

James McBride, Deacon King Kong

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2021 FINALISTS:

Mike Birbiglia, The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad

Alexandra Petri: Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why

2020 | The 20th Thurber Prize

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2020 WINNER:

Damon Young, What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker

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2020 FINALISTS:

Dave Barry, Lessons from Lucy

Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom

2019 | The 19th Thurber Prize

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2019 WINNER:

Simon Rich, Hits & Misses

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2019 FINALISTS:

Sloane Crosley, Look Alive Out There

John Kenney, Love Poems for Married People

2018 | The 18th Thurber Prize

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2018 WINNER:

Patricia Lockwood, Priestdaddy

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2018 FINALISTS:

Jenny Allen, Would Everybody Please Stop?: Reflections on Life and Other Bad Ideas

John Hodgman, Vactionland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

2017 | The 17th Thurber Prize

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2017 WINNER:

Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

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2017 FINALISTS:

Ken Pisani, Amp'd

Aaron Thier, Mr. Eternity

2016 | The 16th Thurber Prize

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2016 WINNER:

Harrison Scott Key, The World's Largest Man

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2016 FINALISTS:

Jason Gay, Little Victories

Mary Norris, Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

2015 | The 15th Thurber Prize

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2015 WINNER:

Julie Schumacher, Dear Committee Members

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2015 FINALISTS:

Roz Chast, Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?

Annabelle Gurwitch, I See You Made an Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50

2014 | The 14th Thurber Prize

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2014 WINNER:

John Kenney, Truth in Advertising

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2014 FINALISTS:

Liza Donnelly, Women on Men

Bruce McCall and David Letterman, This Land Was Made for You and Me (But Mostly Me)

2013 | The 13th Thurber Prize

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2013 WINNER:

Dan Zevin, Dan Gets a Minivan: Life at the Intersection of Dude and Dad

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2013 FINALISTS:

Shalom Auslander, Hope, A Tragedy

Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel, Lunatics: A Novel

2012 | The 12th Thurber Prize

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2012 WINNER:

Calvin Trillin, Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff

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2012 FINALISTS:

Nate DiMeo and the creative team of Parks and Recreation, Pawnee: The Greatest Town in America

Patricia Marx, Starting From Happy

2011 | The 11th Thurber Prize

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2011 WINNER:

David Rakoff, Half Empty

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2011 FINALISTS:

Rick Reilly, Sports from Hell

Mike Birbiglia, Sleepwalk with Me

2010 | The 10th Thurber Prize

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2010 WINNER:

Steve Hely, How I Became a Famous Novelist

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2010 FINALISTS:

Jancee Dunn, Why Is My Mother Getting a Tattoo

Rhoda Janzen, Mennonite in a Little Black Dress

2009 | The 9th Thurber Prize

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2009 WINNER:

Ian Frazier, Lamentations of the Father

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2009 FINALISTS:

Sloane Crosley, I Was Told There'd Be Cake

Don Lee, Wrack and Ruin

Laurie Notaro, The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death

2008 | The 8th Thurber Prize

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2008 WINNER:

Larry Doyle, I Love You, Beth Cooper

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2008 FINALISTS:

Patricia Marx, Him Her Him Again The End of Him

Simon Rich, Ant Farm and Other Desperate Situations

2007 | The 7th Thurber Prize

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2007 WINNER:

Joe Keenan, My Lucky Star

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2007 FINALISTS:

Merrill Markoe, Walking in Circles Before Lying Down

Bob Newhart, I Shouldn’t Even Be Doing This and Other Things That Strike Me Funny

2006 | The 6th Thurber Prize

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2006 WINNER:

Alan Zweibel, The Other Shulman

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2006 FINALISTS:

Bill Scheft, Time Won’t Let Me

Kinky Friedman, Texas Hold ‘Em

2005 | The 5th Thurber Prize

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2005 WINNER:

Jon Stewart and the writers of The Daily Show, America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction

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2005 FINALISTS:

Andy Borowitz, The Borowitz Report: The Big Book of Shockers

Firoozeh Dumas, Funny in Farsi

2004| The 4th Thurber Prize

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2004 WINNER:

Christopher Buckley, No Way to Treat a First Lady

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2004 FINALISTS:

Robert Kaplow, Me and Orson Welles

Dan Zevin, The Day I Turned Uncool

2001 | The 3rd Thurber Prize

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2001 WINNER:

David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

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2001 SPECIAL HONOR BOOK:  

Henry Alford, Big Kiss

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2001 FINALISTS:

Andy Borowitz, The Trillionaire Next Door

Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country

Brett Leveridge, Men My Mother Dated

Jim Mullen, It Takes a Village Idiot

1999 | The 2nd Thurber Prize

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1999 WINNER:

The editors of The Onion, Our Dumb Century: 100 Years of Headlines from America’s Finest News Source  

1997 | The 1st Thurber Prize

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1997 WINNER:

Ian Frazier, Coyote v. Acme

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1997 HONOR BOOKS:

David Sedaris, Naked

Al Franken, Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations