Welcome to Literary Hub’s third annual Academy Awards for Books. Of course, the Real Book Oscars are given out at the National Book Awards ceremony; so consider these the Fake Book Oscars—they’re extra fun because you don’t even have to dress up [Ed. note: dressing up IS fun]. In putting this list together, we figured out what each of the Academy Awards categories would look like if applied to the literary world—so Best Picture = Best Novel, etc.—and then we nominated a bunch of books and people for each. Congratulations, all.

The only question is: what should the statues look like? Little golden Maya Angelous? Globular Hemingways? Teetering book towers? Our nominations for the imaginary 2018 Academy Awards for Books are below—and since, just like the real Academy Awards, all these categories are based on taste and leave off a lot of fine contenders, feel free to nominate any and all of your missing favorites in the comments.

Best Novel (Best Picture)

Lisa Halliday, Asymmetry

Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

Madeline Miller, Circe

Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Sigrid Nunez, The Friend

Tommy Orange, There There

Olga Tokarczuk; tr. Jennifer Croft, Flights

*

Literary Citizen (Actor in a Leading Role)

A. N. Devers, founder of The Second Shelf

Benjamin Dreyer, Random House Copy Chief and Our Grammar Captain

Moira Donegan, writer and creator of the Shitty Men in Media list

Ronan Farrow, author of The War on Peace (who also took down Les Moonves and Eric Schneiderman)

Penina Roth, curator of the Franklin Park Reading Series

Clint Smith, poet and activist whose work focuses on mass incarceration, education and inequality

Esmé Weijun Wang, writer, mental health advocate, and kind person on Twitter

Chuck Wendig, writer and voice of Twitter reason

adrienne maree brown, women’s rights and pleasure activist, author of Emergent Strategy and Pleasure Activism

*

Best Debut (Actor in a Supporting Role)

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black

Oyinkan Braithwaite, My Sister, the Serial Killer

Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

Lisa Halliday, Asymmetry

Daisy Johnson, Everything Under

R.O. Kwon, The Incendiaries

Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

Andrew Martin, Early Work

James A. McLaughlin, Bearskin

Tommy Orange, There There

Dan Sheehan, Restless Souls

Nico Walker, Cherry

*

Best YA Novel (Animated Feature Film)

Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

Jay Coles, Tyler Johnson Was Here

Justina Ireland, Dread Nation

Ashley Woodfolk, The Beauty That Remains

*

Best Setting (Cinematography)

Tara Isabella Burton, Social Creature (New York City, but not the New York City you live in)

Laura van den Berg, The Third Hotel (Surrealist Havana)

Samantha Harvey, The Western Wind (medieval Oakham, England)

Ahmed Saadawi, tr. Jonathan Wright, Frankenstein in Baghdad (wartime Iraq)

Chandler Klang Smith, The Sky is Yours (Empire Island . . . which is pretty much a destroyed, speculative NYC with dragons)

*

Best Book Jacket Design (Costume Design)

Rodrigo Corral, for Severance

John Gall, for The Hole

Darren Haggar, for My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Janet Hansen, for Cherry

Na Kim, for Evening in Paradise

Peter Mendelsund, for Calypso

Rachel Willey, for The Pisces

*

Best Work of Nonfiction (Documentary—Feature)

Sohaila Abdulali, What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape

Carol Anderson, One Person, No Vote

David Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

Lisa Brennan-Jobs, Small Fry

John Carreyrou, Bad Blood

Nicole Chung, All You Can Ever Know

Kiese Laymon, Heavy

Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

Michelle McNamara, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark

Susan Orlean, The Library Book

Rebecca Traister, Good and Mad

Tara Westover, Educated

*

Best Essay Collection (Documentary—Short Subject)

Alice Bolin, Dead Girls

Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

Lorrie Moore, See What Can Be Done

David Sedaris, Calypso

Zadie Smith, Feel Free

*

Best Work of Experimental Literature (Film Editing)

Emma Glass, Peach

Olivia Laing, Crudo

Harry Mathews, The Solitary Twin

Anna Moschovakis, Eleanor, Or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love

*

Best Book in Translation (Foreign Language Film)

Sayaka Murata, tr. Ginny Tapley Takemori, Convenience Store Woman

Hanne Ørstavik, tr. Martin Aitken, Love

Domenico Starnone, tr. Jhumpa Lahiri, Trick

Yoko Tawada, tr. Margaret Mitsutani, The Emissary

Olga Tokarczuk; tr. Jennifer Croft, Flights

Gabriela Wiener; tr. Jennifer Adcock and Lucy Greaves, Sexographies

*

Coolest Publicity Squad (Production Design)

Shreve Williams

University of Texas Press

Norton

Knopf

Counterpoint

Harper

*

Best Picture Book (Short Film—Animated)

Sophie Blackall, Hello Lighthouse

Grace Byers, ill. Keturah A. Bobo, I Am Enough

Marianna Coppo, Petra

Taro Gomi, The Crocodile and the Dentist

Grace Lin, A Big Mooncake for Little Star

Jessica Love, Julián is a Mermaid

Sergio Ruzzier, Fox & Chick: The Party and Other Stories

Jacqueline Woodson, ill. Rafael López, The Day You Begin

*

Best Short Story Collection (Short Film—Live Action)

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black

Ramona Ausubel, Awayland

Lucia Berlin, Evening in Paradise

Jamel Brinkley, A Lucky Man

Helen DeWitt, Some Trick

Deborah Eisenberg, Your Duck Is My Duck

Lauren Groff, Florida

Denis Johnson, The Largesse of the Sea Maiden

N.K. Jemisin, How Long ‘Til Black Future Month?

*

Best Graphic Novel or Work of Graphic Nonfiction (Visual Effects)

Yvan Alagbe; tr. Donald Nicholson-Smith, Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures

Ed Brubaker, ill. Sean Phillips, My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies

Nick Drnaso, Sabrina

Nora Krug, Belonging

Jason Lutes, Berlin

Pamela Ribon, My Boyfriend Is A Bear

Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam

*

Best Work of SF/Fantasy/Speculative Fiction (Makeup and Hairstyling)

Robert Jackson Bennett, Foundryside

Sue Burke, Semiosis

R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

Ling Ma, Severance

Bethany C. Morrow, MEM

Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver

Jordy Rosenberg, Confessions of the Fox

Peng Shepherd, The Book of M

Chandler Klang Smith, The Sky is Yours

Tade Thompson, Rosewater

Ahmed Saadawi, tr. Jonathan Wright, Frankenstein in Baghdad

*

Best Book of Poetry (Sound Editing and Sound Mixing)

Fatimah Asghar, If They Come For Us

Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets For My Past and Future Assassin

Ada Limón, The Carrying

Diana Khoi Nguyen, Ghost Of

José Olivarez, Citizen Illegal

Justin Phillip Reed, Indecency

Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water

Jenny Xie, Eye Level