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Literary Award Winners 2019-2020

Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Award 2020 ● Silvera, Adam. They Both Die at the End ​

Alex Awards 2020 The Alex Awards annually recognize ten written for adults that have ​ ​ special appeal to young adults ages 12 through 18. ● Fletcher, By C. A. A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World ​ ● Oh, Temi. Do You Dream of Terra-Two? ​ ● Cruz, Angie. Dominicana ​ ● Kobabe, Maia. Gender Queer: A Memoir ​ ● Quin, Sara and Tegan Quin. High School ​ ● Dungo, AJ. In Waves ​ ● McGuire, Seanan. Middlegame ​ ● Whitehead, Colson. The Nickel Boys ​ ● McQuiston, Casey. Red, White & Royal Blue ​ ● Lutz, Lisa. The Swallows ​

The Edgar Awards for Best Mysteries 2020 ● Griffiths, Ely. The Stranger Diaries (Best ) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Kim, Angi. Miracle Creek (Best First Novel) ​ ​ ● by Adam O’Fallon Price The Hotel Neversink (The Best Original) ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Betz-Hamilton, Axton. The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, ​ ​ Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity (Best Fact Crime) ​ ● Billheimer, John. Hitchcock and the Censors (Best Critical/Biographical) ​ ​ ​ ● Kritzer, Naomi. Catfishing on CatNet (Best Young Adult) ​ ​

Hugo Award for or Fantasy (2020 winners will be announced by Aug. 2, 2020.) ​ ● Kowal, Mary Robinette. The Calculating Stars (2019) ​ Lodestar Award for Best Yong Adult Book ● Adeyemi, Tomi. Children of Blood and Bone (2019) ​

Man Booker Prize 2019 The prize, which launched in 1969, aims to promote the finest in fiction ​ ​ by rewarding the best novel of the year written in English and published in the United Kingdom. (2020 winner will be announced Oct. 27, 2020.) ● Atwood, Margaret. The Testaments ​ ● Evaristo, Bernadine. Girl, Woman, Other ​

Man Booker Prize International 2019 2020?? ​ ● Alharthi, Jokha; translated by Marilyn Booth from Arabic. Celestial Bodies ​

National Book Award 2019 (2020 winners will be announced Nov. 18, 2020.) ​ ​ ● Choi, Susan. Trust Exercise (Fiction) ​ ​ ● Broom, Sarah M. The Yellow House (Non-Fiction) ​ ​ ● Sze, Arthur. Sight Lines () ​ ​ ● Mulzet, Ottilie and László Krasznahorkai. Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming (Translated ​ ​ ​ ​ ) ● Sandler, Martin. 1919 The Year That Changed America (Young People’s Literature) ​ ​

Nebula Award for Science Fiction or Fantasy 2019 ● Pinsker, Sarah. A Song for a New Day (Winner, Best Novel) ​ ​ ​

Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019 Given in the United Kingdom to an English language novel by a ​ ​ female of any nationality. (2020 winner announced on Sept. 9, 2020.) ● Jones, Tayari. An American Marriage ​

Michael L. Printz Award for Young Adult Literature 2020 ● King, A.S. Dig (Winner) ​ ​ ● Grimes, Nikki. Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir (Honor) ​ ​ ​ ● McCaugherhan, Geraldine. Where the World Ends (Honor) ​ ​ ● Tamaki, Mariko, ill. by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell. Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with ​ Me (Honor) ​ ​ ● Uehash, Nahoko, tr. by Cathy Hirano. The Beast Player (Honor) ​ ​ ​ ​

Pulitzer Prize 2020 ● Whitehead, Colson. Nickel Boys (Fiction Winner) ​ ​ ● Lerner, Ben. Topeka School (Fiction Finalist) ​ ​ ● Patchett, Ann. The Dutch House (Fiction Finalist) ​ ​ ● McDaniel, W.Caleb. Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution ​ (History Winner) ● Grandin, Greg. The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind ​ of America (Non-Fiction Winner) ​ ● Moser, Benjamin. Sontag: Her Life and Work (Biography Winner) ​ ​ ● Jackson, Michael R. A Strange Loop (Drama Winner) ​ ​ ● Brown, Jericho. The Tradition (Poetry Winner) ​ ​

YALSA Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults 2019 (2020 announced week after Oct 12, 2020.) ​ ​ ● Acevedo, Elizabeth. The Poet X ​ ● Adeyemi, Tomi. Children of Blood and Bone ​ ● Anderson, Laurie Halse and Emily Carroll. Speak: The Graphic Novel ​ ● Black, Holly. The Cruel Prince ​ ● Chao, Gloria. American Panda ​ ● Lu, Marie. Batman: Nightwalker ​ ● Lu, Marie. Wildcard ​ ● McNeil, Gretchen. #MurderTrending ​ ● Shusterman, Neal. Thunderhead ​ ● Wang, Jen. The Prince and the Dressmaker ​