Great House, by Nicole Krauss (W.W. Norton) How to Read the Air, by Dinaw Mengestu (Riverhead) Room, by Emma Donoghue (Little, Brown) The Surrendered, by Chang-rae Lee (Riverhead) The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, by David Mitchell (Random House) A Visit From the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan (Knopf)
BOOK OF THE YEAR – YOUNG ADULT
Bamboo People, by Mitali Perkins (Charlesbridge) Before I Fall, by Lauren Oliver (HarperCollins) Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares, by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan (Knopf Books for Young Readers) Out of My Mind, by Sharon M. Draper (Atheneum) Revolution, by Jennifer Donnelly (Delacorte Books for Young Readers) Will Grayson, Will Grayson, by John Green and David Levithan (Dutton Juvenile)
BOOK OF THE YEAR – ADULT DEBUT
Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, by Maaza Mengiste (W.W. Norton) The Emperor of All Maladies, by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Scribner) Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, by Helen Simonson (Random House) Matterhorn, by Karl Marlantes (Atlantic Monthly Press and El León Literary Arts) The Quickening, by Michelle Hoover (Other Press) The Wake of Forgiveness, by Bruce Machart (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Africa Best Book: The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna (Sierra Leone) Men of the South by Sukiswa Wanner (South Africa) The Unseen Leopard by Bridget Pitt (South Africa) Oil on Water by Helon Habila (Nigeria) Blood at Bay by Sue Rabie (South Africa) Banquet at Brabazan by Patricia Schonstein (South Africa)
Africa Best First Book: Happiness is a Four Letter Word by Cynthia Jele (South Africa) Bitter Leaf by Chioma Okereke (Nigeria) The Fossil Artist by Graeme Friedman (South Africa) Colour Blind by Uzoma Uponi (Nigeria) Voice of America by E. C. Osondu (Nigeria) Wall of Days by Alastair Bruce (South Africa)
Canada and Caribbean Best Book: The Sky is Falling by Caroline Adderson (Canada) Room by Emma Donahue (Canada) The Master of Happy Endings by Jack Hodgins (Canada) In The Fabled East by Adam Lewis Schroeder (Canada) The Death of Donna Whalen by Michael Winter (Canada) Mr. Shakespeare’s Bastard by Richard B. Wright (Canada)
Canada and Caribbean Best First Book: Bird Eat Bird by Katrina Best (Canada) Doing Dangerously Well by Carole Enahoro (Canada) Mennonites Don’t Dance by Darcie Friesen Hossack (Canada) Light Lifting by Alexander MacLeod (Canada) The Cake is for the Party by Sarah Selecky (Canada) Illustrado by Miguel Syjuco (Canada)
South Asia and Europe Best Book: Lyrics Alley by Leila Abouleila (UK) The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore (UK) The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell (UK) The Long Song by Andrea Levy (UK) Sex and Stravinsky by Barbara Trapido (UK) Union Atlantic by Adam Haslett (UK)
South Asia and Europe Best First Book: Serious Men by Manu Joseph (India) Saraswati Park by Anjali Joseph (India) The House with the Blue Shutters by Lisa Hilton (UK) Children of the Sun by Max Schaefer (UK) Grace Williams says it Loud by Emma Henderson (UK) Sabra Zoo by Mischa Hiller (UK)
South East Asia and Pacific Best Book: Reading Madame Bovary by Amanda Lohrey (Australia) That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott (Australia) Time’s Long Ruin by Stephen Orr (Australia) Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones (New Zealand) Notorious by Roberta Lowing (Australia) Gifted by Patrick Evans (New Zealand)
South East Asia and Pacific Best First Book: 21 Immortals by Rozlan Mohd Noor (Malaysia) A Man Melting by Craig Cliff (New Zealand) The Graphologist’s Apprentice by Whiti Hereaka (New Zealand) The Body in the Clouds by Ashley Hay (Australia) Traitor by Stephen Daisley (Australia/New Zealand) A Few Right Thinking Men by Sulari Gentill (Australia)
Sign-ups for Book Awards V are at the Book Awards Challenge site. This time all that’s required is reading 5 books from 5 different awards. My list of possibles is here:
Home by Marilynne Robinson (Orange Prize)
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi (Printz)
Moon over Manifest by Claire Vanderpool (Newbery)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon (Pulitzer)
The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon (Nebula)
I will probably change this list as whim takes me.
The Edgar Nominations are out. To see the full list of categories, click here.
Best Novel:
Caught by Harlan Coben (Penguin Group USA – Dutton) Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin (HarperCollins – William Morrow) Faithful Place by Tana French (Penguin Group USA – Viking) The Queen of Patpong by Timothy Hallinan (HarperCollins – William Morrow) The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton (Minotaur/Thomas Dunne Books) I’d Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
Best First Novel:
Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva (Tom Doherty Associates – Forge Books) The Poacher’s Son by Paul Doiron (Minotaur Books) The Serialist: A Novel by David Gordon (Simon & Schuster) Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto (Simon & Schuster – Scribner) Snow Angels by James Thompson (Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
Best Paperback Original:
Long Time Coming by Robert Goddard (Random House – Bantam) The News Where You Are by Catherine O’Flynn (Henry Holt) Expiration Date by Duane Swierczynski (Minotaur Books) Vienna Secrets by Frank Tallis (Random House Trade Paperbacks) Ten Little Herrings by L.C. Tyler (Felony & Mayhem Press)
Best Juvenile:
Zora and Me by Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon (Candlewick Press) The Buddy Files: The Case of the Lost Boy by Dori Hillestad Butler (Albert Whitman & Co.) The Haunting of Charles Dickens by Lewis Buzbee (Feiwel & Friends) Griff Carver: Hallway Patrol by Jiim Krieg (Penguin Young Readers Group – Razorbill) The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman by Ben H. Winters (HarperCollins Children’s Books)
Best Young Adult:
The River by Mary Jane Beaufrand (Little Brown Books for Young Readers) Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King (Random House Children’s Books – Alfred A. Knopf) 7 Souls by Barnabas Miller and Jordan Orlando (Random House Children’s Books – Delacorte Press) The Interrogation of Gabriel James by Charlie Price (Farrar, Straus, Giroux Books for Young Readers) Dust City by Robert Paul Weston (Penguin Young Readers Group – Razorbill)
I hadn’t read these or any of the shortlisted titles in any category, though I did have Lips Touch: Three Times by Laini Taylor checked out from the library. It was on the ya shortlist.
Ready to sign up for the third Book Awards Challenge? This one is going to be a little shorter, only 5 months, from July 1 through December 1, 2009. That is because Book Awards 4 will be from February 1 through December 1, 2010. Book Awards 3 will be reading 5 books from 5 different awards. Book Awards 4 will be reading 10 books from 10 different awards, which will be a little more challenging to complete!
I hope you will consider participating in one or both!!
A Fatal Grace (aka Dead Cold) by Louise Penny (Agatha)
Bonus reads:
A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Pulitzer) The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (Pulitzer) The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Pulitzer) The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny (Agatha)
But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life. (Jude 1:20-21, ESV)
And the winners are:
by Meg Rosoff (Printz)
by Eudora Welty (Pulitzer)
by Valerie Martin (Orange)
