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2015 National Book Awards Longlist

The National Book Foundation announced the longlist of nominees for the 2015 National Book Awards, which celebrate the best of American literature. The National Book Award finalists will be announced on October 14 and the winners will be announced on November 18.

FICTION

A Cure for Suicide by Jesse Ball

Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg

Refund by Karen E. Bender

The Turner House by Angela Flournoy (eBook)

Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff (CD book)

Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson

Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson

Honeydew by Edith Pearlman

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (eBook)

Mislaid by Nell Zink

NONFICTION

Rain: A Natural and Cultural History by Cynthia Barnett

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (eBook)

Mourning Lincoln by Martha Hodes

Hold Still by Sally Mann

The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery

Paradise of the Pacific by Susanna Moore

Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays by Michael Paterniti

If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran by Carla Power

Ordinary Light by Tracy K. Smith (eBook)

Travels in Vermeer: A Memoir by Michael White

Man Booker Prize 2015 – Longlist

The Man Booker Prize aims to promote the finest in fiction by rewarding the best novel of the year originally written in English and published in the UK. The books longlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize are:

Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg

The Green Road by Anne Enright (CD book)

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James (eBook)

The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami

Satin Island by Tom McCarthy

The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma

The Illuminations by Andrew O’Hagan

Lila by Marilynne Robinson (CD book, downloadable audiobook, eBook)

Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy

The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota

The Chimes by Anna Smaill

A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler (CD book, downloadable audiobook, eBook, large print book)

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (eBook)

The shortlist will be announced on September 15, and the winner will be announced on October 13.

Folio Prize 2015 Shortlist

The Folio Prize recognizes the best English-language fiction from around the world, regardless of form, genre or the author’s country of origin. The winner will be announced on March 23. The titles on the 2015 shortlist are:

10:04 by Ben Lerner (eBook)

All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews

Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill (audio download, eBook)

Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Family Life by Akhil Sharma

How to Be Both by Ali Smith (eBook)

Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín (audio download, CD book, eBook)

Outline by Rachel Cusk

National Book Award Finalists

The National Book Foundation announced finalists for the 2014 National Book Awards, which celebrate the best of American literature. Winners will be announced on November 19.

FICTION

Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman

Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See (CD book)

Phil Klay, Redeployment (eBook)

Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven (audio download, eBook)

Marilynne Robinson, Lila

NONFICTION

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

Anand Gopal, No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes

John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh

Evan Osnos, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

Edward O. Wilson, The Meaning of Human Existence

Financial Times Business Book of the Year Longlist

Financial Times has released its 2014 longlist for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, which goes to “the book that is judged to have provided the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues.”

Titles include:

The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World, by Russell Gold

Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Piketty

Creativity, Inc: Overcoming the Unseen Forces that Stand in the Way of True Inspiration, by Ed Catmull

Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance, by Julia Angwin

Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt, by Michael Lewis

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers, by Ben Horowitz

House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It From Happening Again, by Atif Mian and Amir Sufi

The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies, by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee

Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America’s Most Powerful and Private Dynasty, by Daniel Schulman

Man Booker Prize Longlist

The The Man Booker Prize aims to promote the finest in fiction by rewarding the best novel of the year originally written in English and published in the UK. The books longlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize are:

To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris

The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler (downloadable audiobook)

The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt

J by Howard Jacobson

The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth

The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee

Us by David Nicholls

The Dog by Joseph O’Neill

Orfeo by Richard Powers

How to be Both by Ali Smith

History of the Rain by Niall Williams

The shortlist will be announced on September 9, and the winner will be announced on October 14.

2014 Edgar Allan Poe Award Winners

On May 1, 2014, the Mystery Writers of America announced the winners of the 2014 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction and nonfiction published in 2013.

On May 1, 2014, the Mystery Writers of America announced the winners of the 2014 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best works in mystery fiction and nonfiction which were published in 2013.

Winners include:

Best Novel

Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger

Nominees
Sandrine’s Case by Thomas H. Cook
The Humans by Matt Haig
How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny (CD book)
Standing in Another Man’s Grave by Ian Rankin
Until She Comes Home by Lori Roy

Best First Novel by an American Author

Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews (large print book)

Nominees
The Resurrectionist by Matthew Guinn
Ghostman by Roger Hobbs
Rage Against the Dying by Becky Masterman
Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreigh (eBook)

Best Paperback Original

The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood

Nominees
The Guilty One by Lisa Ballantyne (eBook)
Almost Criminal by E. R. Brown
Joe Victim by Paul Cleave
Joyland by Stephen King (CD book)
Brilliance by Marcus Sakey

Best Fact Crime

The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War by Daniel Stashower (audio download)

Nominees
Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America’s First Sensational Murder Mystery by Paul Collins
Mortal Sins: Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal by Michael D’Antonio
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness and Murder by Charles Graeber
The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and the Medics Behind Nazi Lines by Cate Lineberry

National Book Critics Circle 2013 Finalists

The National Book Critics Circle has announced its finalists for the best books of 2013.

The National Book Critics Circle has announced its finalists for the best books of 2013. The awards will be presented on March 13.

The finalists are:

FICTION
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (eBook)
Someone by Alice McDermott (CD book)
The Infatuations by Javier Marías
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (CD book)

NONFICTION
Whitey Bulger: America’s Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice by Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink (CD book)
Thank You for Your Service by David Finkel
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer (audio download)
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright (eBook)

AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala (eBook)
The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter From Haiti by Amy Wilentz

BIOGRAPHY
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World by Leo Damrosch
Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven by John Eliot Gardiner
Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore by Linda Leavell
Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kis by Mark Thompson

POETRY
Metaphysical Dog by Frank Bidart
Stay, Illusion by Lucie Brock-Broido
Blowout by Denise Duhamel
Elegy Owed by Bob Hicok
Milk and Filth by Carmen Gimenez Smith

CRITICISM
White Girls by Hilton Als
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations by Mary Beard
The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus translated and annotated by Jonathan Franzen with Paul Reitter and Daniel Kehlmann
Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers by Janet Malcolm
Distant Reading by Franco Moretti

And the winners are…

Monday, January 27 was the 2014 ALA Youth Media Awards. Each year, the American Library Association honors the best in children’s and teens books and media. For our purposes, the best in teens will be highlighted.

Coretta Scott King (Author) Book Award – recognizing an African-American author of outstanding books for young adults.

Honor Books:

Michael L. Printz Award – for excellence in literature written for young adults

WINNER

Honor Books:

Schneider Family Book Award – for books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience

Teen (ages 13-18) Award Winner:

Margaret A. Edwards Award – for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults

Markus Zusak, author of The Book Thief and I am the Messenger

Mildred L. Batchelder Award – for an outstanding children’s book originally published in a language other than English in a country other than the United States, and subsequently translated into English for publication in the United States

Honor Book:

Odyssey Award – for best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults, available in English in the U.S.

Honor Recording:

Pura Belpré (Author) Award – honoring a Latino writer whose children’s books best portray, affirm and celebrate the Latino cultural experience

WINNER

Honor Book:

Stonewall Book Award – Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award, given annually to English-language works of exceptional merit for children or teens relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience

WINNERS

Honors:

William C. Morris Award – for a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens

Winner

Honors:

YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults

WINNER

Finalists:

Alex Awards – for the 10 best adult books that appeal to teen audiences

National Book Award Finalists 2013

The mission of the National Book Foundation and the National Book Awards is to celebrate the best of American literature, to expand its audience, and to enhance the cultural value of good writing in America. The 2013 Finalists are:

FICTION

The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner

The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri (CD book)

The Good Lord Bird by James McBride

Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon

Tenth of December by George Saunders (audio download, CD book, eBook)