NMLP P-005181 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead · Doubleday (US) · 2016

The US Doubleday edition (August 2016, moved up after the Oprah selection) is the true first; the UK Fleet / Little, Brown edition followed. The novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-005181 for "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-005181, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).