A Note from Laura: Here's a follow-up to the award-winning fiction list, this time focusing on GENRE FICTION! 

While these are some of the better known awards, this is only a small number of the many genre awards out there. Many are awarded by writers' groups, and others by writers' conventions, panels, publishers, and private organizations. Most of these awards have multiple categories, often based on length or subgenre, and thus award multiple prizes per year. I encourage you to seek out awards lists on your own, to find one that gels with your reading style OR to explore new books beyond your usual fare!

Here, you'll see what's on our shelves from the last 10 to 15 years of the Spur Awards, Christy Award, Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Agatha Award, Anthony Award, and Edgar Award.

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A note from Laura: I love poetry, and I was delighted to hear that Louise Glück has received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. Glück’s work touched me as a young woman and inspired me as a writer. From our shelves, you can read her 2006 work, Averno. You can place holds for her other works in LINKcat.

Over the last few years, I’ve worked to expand the contemporary poetry collection at Monroe Public Library, with an eye toward the diversity of voices currently writing. Here are some poets for you to consider. Take a look next time you’re at the library!

A Fortune for Your Disaster, Hanif Abdurraqib, 811 ABD
How to Love a Country, Richard Blanco, 811 BLA
The Tradition, Jericho Brown, 811 BRO
How to Be an Indian in the 21st Century, Louis V. Clark III, 811 CLA *
Pagan Virtues, Stephen Dunn, 811 DUN
Electric Arches, Eve L. Ewing, 811 EWI
Averno, Louise Glück, 811 GLU
An American Sunrise, Joy Harjo, 811 HAR
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, Terrance Hayes, 811 HAY
Hold, Bob Hicok, 811 HIC
Ledger, Jane Hirshfield, 811 HIR

Deaf Republic, Ilya Kaminsky, 811 KAM *
No Matter the Wreckage, Sarah Kay, 811 KAY
The Death of Sitting Bear, M. Scott Momaday, 811 MOM
The Tiny Journalist, Naomi Shihab Nye, 811 NYE
Dog Songs, Mary Oliver, 811 OLI *ª
Pale Colors in a Tall Field, Carl Phillips, 811 PHI
Citizen, Claudia Rankine, 811 RAN *
Tsunami vs. the Fukushima 50, Lee Ann Roripaugh, 811 ROR
The Best of It, Kay Ryan, 811 RYA
Come Closer and Listen, Charles Simic, 811 SIM
Don’t Call Us Dead, Danez Smith, 811 SMI
Life on Mars, Tracy K. Smith, 811 SMI
Monument, Natasha Trethewey, 811 TRE