Laura here: I was recently asked about how to find award winners among the books in our adult Fiction collection. Here is a selection of books we own that are winners of some of the more high-profile prizes. Remember, there are many more awards than listed here, and most fiction genres have one or more awards of their own. Additionally, while over time, these prizes have become more diverse by awarding women and people of color, there is still a ways to go. Continue reading for selections from among winners of: the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Nobel Prize for Literature, the National Book Award for Fiction, the Booker Prize, and the Women's Prize for Fiction. Click Read More ------>> |
Dad Is Fat, Jim Gaffigan 814 GAF *ª Vacationland, John Hodgman, 817 HOD *ª Wow, No Thank You, Samantha Irby, 814 IRB *ª Thanks a Thousand, A.J. Jacobs, 179.9 JAC Why Not Me? Mindy Kaling, 921 KALING *ª Life In a Day, DVD 920 LIF Waiting for the Punch, Marc Maron, 920.02 MAR * The Greatest Love Story Ever Told, Megan Mullally & Nick Offerman, 791.45 MUL *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
The Impostor’s Daughter, Laurie Sandell, GN SAN Big Black: Stand at Attica, Frank “Big Black” Smith, GN SMI The Fire Never Goes Out, Noelle Stevenson, GN STE They Called Us Enemy, George Takei, GN TAK * Honor Girl, Maggie Thrash, YA GN THR Such a Lovely Little War, Marcelino Truong, GN TRU Spinning, Tillie Walden, YA GN WAL Commute, Erin Williams, GN WIL Dear Scarlet, Teresa Wong, GN WON 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
The Memory Police, Yoko Ogawa, F OGA *ª The Red-Haired Woman, Orhan Pamuk, F PAM * The House I Loved, Tatiana De Rosnay F ROS ª To Die in Spring, Ralf Rothmann, F ROT Two Sisters, Asne Seierstad, 956.9104 SEI The Legacy, Yrsa Sigurdardottir, M SIG CHI-1 The Neighborhood, Mario Vargas Llosa, F VAR * Reputations, Juan Gabriel Vasquez, F VAS Vinland Saga, vol 1, Makoto Yukimura, GN YUK 1
Get a Life, Chloe Brown, Talia Hibbert, R HIB *ª The Sun Does Shine, Anthony Ray Hinton, 364.66092 HIN *ª Wow, No Thank You, Samantha Irby, 814 IRB *ª The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin, SF JEM GRE-1 *ª This Will Be My Undoing, Morgan Jerkins, 305.48 JER * How We Fight for Our Lives, Saeed Jones, 811 JON *ª The Other Madisons, Bettye Kearse, 973.5 KEA Heavy: an American Memoir, Kiese Laymon, 305.896 LAY *ª From Scratch, Tembi Locke, 791.45 LOC *ª Deacon King Kong, James McBride, F MCB *ª On the Other Side of Freedom, DeRay Mckesson, 323.09 MCK * Riot Baby, Tochi Onyebuchi, SF ONY Diamond Doris, Doris Payne, 364.162 PAY Song of Blood and Stone, L. Penelope, SF PEN EAR-1 Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid, F REI *ª The Revisioners, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, F SEX * Don’t Call Us Dead, Danez Smith, 811 SMI More than Enough, Elaine Welteroth, 070.92 WEL *ª Red at the Bone, Jacqueline Woodson, F WOO *ª Note from Laura: this is a small sampling of the new books by Black authors that we have added to our shelves in the last few years. Enjoy these romances, family stories, essays, fiction, memoirs and more, and please ask our team if you're looking for more suggestions.
Music to My Years, Cristela Alonzo, 729.7 ALO A House of My Own, Sandra Cisneros, 813 CIS The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros, F CIS *ª Homelands, Alfredo Corchado, 973.0468 COR Mexican Whiteboy, Matt de la Peña, YA F DEL A Dream Called Home, Reyna Grande, 305.868 GRA The Book of Unknown Americans, Cristina Henríquez, F HEN & LP HEN *ª Signs Preceding the End of the World, Yuri Herrera F HER Lost Children Archive, Valeria Luiselli, F LUI *ª Tell Me How it Ends, Valeria Luiselli, 305.23 LUI * Among the Lost, Emiliano Monge, F MON Gabi, a Girl in Pieces, Isabel Quintero, YA F QUI *ª Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, YA F SAE *ª Where I Come From, Aarón Sánchez, 641.5092 SAN I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, Erika L. Sánchez, YA F SAN *ª Everyone Knows You Go Home, Natalia Sylvester, F SYL Undocumented, Duncan Tonatiuh, YA GN TON The House of Broken Angels, Luis Alberto Urrea, F URR & BOCD F URR *ª La casa en Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros, SPANISH F CIS *ª La búsqueda de un sueño, Reyna Grande, SPANISH 305.868 GRA Señales precederán al fin del mundo, Yuri Herrera, SPANISH F HER Yo no soy tu perfecta hija mexicana, Erika L. Sánchez, SPANISH F SAN africaAya: Life in Yop City, Marguerite Abouet, Cote d'Ivoire, GN ABO 1-3 Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, F ACH *ª Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi, Ghana/United States, F GYA *ª The Boy who Harnessed the Wind, William Kamkwamba, Malawi, 621.312136 KAM *ª Born a Crime, Trevor Noah, South Africa, 921 NOAH * The Butterfly Mosque, G. Willow Wilson, Egypt, 297.574 WIL asia & middle eastThe Best We Could Do, Thi Bui, Vietnam/United States, GN BUI * Ants Among Elephants, Sujatha Gidla, India, 305.568 GID *ª And the Mountains Echoed, Khaled Hosseini, Afghanistan and others, F HOS *ª Without You, There Is No Us, Suki Kim, North Korea, 951.93 KIM *ª Forest Dark, Nicole Krauss, Israel, F KRA *ª Crazy Rich Asians, Kevin Kwan, Singapore, F KWA CRA-1 *ª The Home that Was Our Country, Alia Malek, Syria, 956.91 MAL americas & CaribbeanThe Line Becomes a River, Francisco Cantú, United States/Mexico, 363.285 CAN *ª Here Comes the Sun, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Jamaica, F DEN *ª The Round House, Louise Erdrich, an Ojibwe reservation, F ERD *ª Still Life, Louise Penny, Canada, M PEN GAM-1 *ª The Queen of Water, Laura Resau and María Virginia Farinango, Ecuador, YA F RES Deep Down Dark, Héctor Tobar, Chile, 363.11 TOB EuropeSpace Endurance, Scott Kelly, International Space Station/Russia/United States, 629.45 KEL *ª
Gryffindor • bravery, daring, nerveParable of the Talents, Octavia E. Butler, SF BUT PAR-2 * Ready Player One, Ernest Cline, F CLI *ª Founding Brothers, Joseph J. Ellis, 973.4092 ELL As You Wish, Cary Elwes, 791.4372 ELW *ª Goliath, Tom Gauld, GN GAU When the Men Were Gone, Marjorie Herrera Lewis, F LEW *ª A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin, F MAR SON-1 *ª Ms Marvel: No Normal, G. Willow Wilson, YA GN MSM V1 * In the Heart of the Sea, Nathaniel Philbrick, 910.9164 PHI *ª The Lost Hero, Rick Riordan, +F RIO 1 *ª An Ember in the Ashes, Sabaa Tahir, LP TAH EMB-1 *ª The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas, YA THO *ª Code Name Verity, Elizabeth Wein, YA WEI * Hufflepuff • hard work, patience, LoyaltyLimping Through Life, Jerry Apps, 921 APPS * To All the Boys I've Loved Before, Jenny Han, YA HAN *ª The Heart of Things, John Hilderbrand, 977 HIL * The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo, 648 KON *ª The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith, M MCC NO1-1 *ª Seconds, Bryan Lee O'Malley, GN OMA The Boy in the Black Suit, Jason Reynolds, YA REY *ª Alice and the Fly, James Rice, YA RIC * The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot, 616.027 SKL *ª Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too, Jonny Sun, GN SUN The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien, SF TOL *ª My Pantry, Alice Waters, 641.5944 WAT American Born Chinese, Gene Luen Yang, YA GN YAN Ravenclaw • Intelligence, Knowledge, WitHark! A Vagrant, Kate Beaton, GN BEA Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang, SF CHI * The Bone Collector, Jeffery Deaver, F DEA RHY-1 * Andrew's Brain, E.L. Doctorow, F DOC *ª Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn, F DUN * Old World Murder, Kathleen Ernst, M ERN ELL-1 *ª Moonwalking with Einstein, Joshua Foer, 153.41 FOE *ª Goodbye for Now, Laurie Frankel, F FRA *ª The Girl from Everywhere, Heidi Heilig, YA HEI *ª Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, 153.4 KAH *ª A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle +F LEN *ª I'll Give You the Sun, Jandy Nelson, YA NEL * Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson, +811.54 WOO *ª Slytherin • Ambition, Cunning, ResourcefulnessThe Diviners, Libba Bray, YA BRA *ª Once Upon a River, Bonnie Jo Campbell, F CAM A Study in Charlotte, Brittany Cavallaro, YA CAV *ª My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante, LP FER NEA-1 *ª Choose Your Own Autobiography, Neil Patrick Harris, 921 HARRIS *ª Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon, 153.35 KLE * The Dinner, Herman Koch, F KOC *ª Crazy Rich Asians, Kevin Kwan, F KWA *ª The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John Le Carré, F LEC *ª Born a Crime, Trevor Noah, 921 NOAH * Across the Universe, Beth Revis, YA REV *ª Nimona, Noelle Stevenson, YA GN STE *ª The Family Fang, Kevin Wilson, F WIL Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood, F ATW MAD-1 *ª The Water Knife, Paolo Bacigalupi, F BAC * Things that Happened Before the Earthquake, Chiara Barzini, F BAR *ª The Tin Roof Blowdown, James Lee Burke, M BUR ROB-18 Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler, SF BUT PAR-1 * The Marrow Thieves, Cherie Dimaline, YA DIM * American War, Omar El Akkad, F ELA *ª The Tilted World, Tom Franklin & Beth Ann Fennelly, F FRA *ª Flight Behavior, Barbara Kingsolver, F KIN * In Darkness, Nick Lake, YA LAK * California, Edan Lepucki, F LEP *ª Mara and Dann, Doris Lessing, F LES The Road, Cormac McCarthy, F MCC *ª Solar, Ian McEwan, F MCE * I Will Send Rain, Rae Meadows, F MEA ª Blackfish City, Sam J. Miller, SF MIL * Life As We Knew It, Susan Beth Pfeffer, YA PFE *ª Odds Against Tomorrow, Nathaniel Rich, F RIC The End of the World Running Club, Adrian J. Walker F WAL * Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward, F WAR * Gold Fame Citrus, Claire Vaye Watkins, F WAT *ª |
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