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

Merchants of Truth, Jill Abramson, 071.3 ABR
Fantasyland, Kurt Andersen, 973 AND *
The Smear, Sharyl Attkisson, 070.4 ATT
The Art of Logic in an Illogical World, Eugenia Cheng, 160 CHE
Storm Lake, Art Cullen, 071.77 CUL
Calling Bullsh*t, Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West, 149.73 BER
Biased, Jennifer L. Eberhardt, 303.385 EBE *ª
The First, Stanley Fish, 323.44 FIS
The Information, James Gleick, 020.9 GLE *ª
Debunk It!, John Grant, YA 121 GRA *
50 Popular Beliefs that People Think Are True, Guy P. Harrison, 149.73 HAR
The Presidents vs. the Press, Harold Holzer, 070.4 HOL

The Death of Truth, Michiko Kakutani, 306.2093 KAK *ª
Stamped from the Beginning, Ibram X. Kendi, 305.8 KEN *ª
News Literacy, Michelle Luhtala and Jacquelyn Whiting, 306.42 LUH
Fakes, Forgeries, and Frauds, Nancy Moses, 364.1635 MOS
Everyday Bias, Howard J. Roth, 303.385 ROS
Breaking News, Alan Rusbridger, 070.92 RUS
Whose Story Is This?, Rebecca Solnit, 814 SOL
The Encyclopedia of Misinformation, Rex Sorgatz, 001.96 SOR
Hoax, Ian Tattersall and Peter Névraumont, 001.9509 TAT
Bunk, Kevin Young, 001.95 YOU *

Is Rape a Crime? Michelle Bowdler, 364.1532 BOW
Soulless: The Case Against R. Kelly, Jim DeRogatis, 364.153 DER
Catch and Kill, Ronan Farrow, 362.88 FAR *ª
Invisible Girls, Patti Feuereisen, 362.76 FEU
Nobody’s Victim, Carrie Goldberg, 305.42 GOL
Abused, Rachel Haines, 796.44 HAI
Speaking Truth to Power, Anita Hill, 340.092 HIL
Reckoning, Linda R. Hirshman, 305.42 HIR

The Reckonings, Lacy M. Johnson, 814 JOH
She Said, Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey, 305.42 KAN *ª
Missoula, Jon Krakauer, 362.883 KRA *ª
At the Dark End of the Street, Danielle L. McGuire, 323.1196 MCG *
Know My Name, Chanel Miller, 364.1532 MIL *ª
A False Report, T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong, 364.1532 MIL *
Not That Bad, ed. Roxane Gay, 364.15 NOT *
The Girls, Abigail Pesta, 364.15 PES

No Visible Bruises, Rachel Louise Snyder, 362.82 SNY *
The Mother Of All Questions, Rebecca Solnit, 305.42 SOL
Goodbye Sweet Girl, Kelly Sundberg, 362.8292 SUN
Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl, Jeannie Vanasco, 362.883 VAN *
Commute, Erin Williams, GN WIL
Jane Doe January, Emily Winslow, 362.883 WIN
You Too?, ed. Janet Gurtler, YA 176 YOU

Nova: Addiction, DVD 611.81 ADD
Dignity, Chris Arnade, 362.5 ARN *
A House on Stilts, Paula Becker, 362.29 BEC
Overcoming Opioid Addiction, Adam Bisaga, 616.86 BIS *
My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies, Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips, GN BRU
If You Love Me, Maureen Cavanagh, 362.29 CAV
American Fix, Ryan Hampton, 362.29 HAM
When These Mountains Burn, David Joy, F JOY
Tightrope, Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, 306.0973 KRI *ª
The Not Good Enough Mother, Sharon Lamb, 306.874 LAM 
Dopesick, Beth Macy, 362.29 MAC *ª
American Overdose, Chris McGreal, 362.29 MCG *

Long Bright River, Liz Moore, F MOO *ª
Robert B. Parker's The Bitterest Pill, Reed Farrel Coleman, M PAR STO-18 *ª
Pharma, Gerald L. Posner, 338.4 POS
Dreamland, Sam Quinones, 362.29 QUI *
In Pain, Travis N. Rieder, 362.29 RIE *ª
Drug Warrior, Jack Riley, 363.25 RIL
The Woman Inside, E.G. Scott, F SCO *ª
The Addiction Solution, Lloyd I. Sederer, 362.29 SED
High, David and Nic Sheff, 616.86 SHE
Understanding the Opioid Epidemic, DVD 362.29 UND
Smacked, Eilene Zimmerman, 362.29 ZIM ​*ª

The Voyeurs, Gabrielle Bell, GN BEL
The Best We Could Do, Thi Bui, GN BUI *
Girl on Film, Cecil Castellucci, GN CAS
Dancing at the Pity Party, Tyler Feder, YA GN FED
A Fire Story, Brian Fies, GN FIE
I Was Their American Dream, Malaka Gharib, GN GHA
Fights, Joel Christian Gill, YA GN GIL
How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less, Sarah Glidden, GN GLI

A note from Laura: Graphic Memoirs are like graphic novels—illustrated stories—but tell a story from the author and/or illustrator's life. Comics are inherently a collaborative art, as different people may write, draw, color, and letter the story. Many graphic memoirs are written by those who do it all, but others tell someone's true story with assistance from other creative people. In our library, Graphic Memoirs are shelved with Graphic Novels. I have left off this list some of the "bigger names" or "classics" in Graphic Memoir, such as Alison Bechdel, Roz Chast, Lucy Knisley, John Lewis' ​March, Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, and David Small's ​Stitches. I hope this list helps you discover new voices!

The Linden Tree, César Aira, F AIR
Britt-Marie Was Here, Fredrik Backman, F BAC *ª
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend, Katarina Bivald, F BIV *ª
A User’s Guide to Neglectful Parenting, Guy Delisle, GN DEL 1
Sovietistan, Erika Fatland, 951.804 FAT
Eva’s Eye, Karin Fossum, M FOS SEJ-1 *ª
A Horse Walks Into a Bar, David Grossman F GRO *ª
Waking Lions, Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, F GUN
​A River in Darkness, Masaji Ishikawa 951.93 ISH