Librarians’ Assembly Annual Book-Sharing What we’ve been reading…2019 Edition Fiction (YA=young adult) Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame. Friday Black, 2018. Dylan Thomas Prize Nominee for Longlist (2019) PEN/Jean Stein Book Award (2019)
Barnhill, Kelly. The Girl Who Drank the Moon, 2016. (YA) Newbery Medal (2017) Locus Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Book (2017)
Braithwaite, Oyinkan. My Sister, the Serial Killer, 2018. Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2019) Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee (2019)
Brodesser-Akner, Taffy. Fleishman is in Trouble, 2019. National Book Award Nominee for Fiction (2019)
Buxton, Kira Jane. Hollow Kingdom, 2019.
Candlish, Louise. Our House, 2018. Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Nominee for Longlist (2019)
Chakraborty, S. A. The City of Brass, 2017. (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1) Locus Award Nominee for Best First Novel (2018) World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (2018) --The Kingdom of Copper, 2019. (#2) --The Empire of Gold, 2020. (#3)
Chiang, Ted. Exhalation, 2019. (short stories) Hugo Award for Best Short Story (2009) Locus Award for Best Short Story (2009) British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Short Fiction (2008) Choo, Yangsze. The Night Tiger, 2019. Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2019)
Ernst, Kathleen. The Lacemaker's Secret, 2019. (A Chloe Ellefson Mystery, #9)
Galsworthy, John. The Forsyte Saga, 1922.
Gay, Roxane. Difficult Women, 2017. Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Lesbian Fiction (2018) Aspen Words Literary Prize Nominee for Longlist (2018)
Guillory, Jasmine. The Wedding Date, 2018. Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Romance (2018)
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Gyasi, Yaa. Homegoing, 2016. American Book Award (2017) PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2017) National Book Critics Circle Award for John Leonard Prize (2016) The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2016) Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2017)
James, Marlon. Black Leopard, Red Wolf, 2019. National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2019) Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fantasy (2019) --A Brief History of Seven Killings, 2014.
James, Miranda. Six Cats a Slayin', 2019. (Cats in the Stacks, #10)
Jemisin, N. K. The Fifth Season. London, 2016 (Broken Earth Trilogy, #1) Hugo Award for Best Novel (2016) Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (2015) World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (2016) --The Obelisk Gate, 2016. (#2) --The Stone Sky, 2017. (#3)
Jenoff, Pam. The Lost Girls of Paris, 2019. Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2019)
Jones, Tayari. An American Marriage: A Novel, 2018. (audio-edition recommended) National Book Award Nominee for Fiction (2018) Women's Prize for Fiction (2019) NAACP Image Award Nominee for Fiction (2019)
King, Tom. Mister Miracle, 2019. (graphic novel) Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Writer
Makkai, Rebecca. The Great Believers, 2018. Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (2019) Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction (2019) National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2018)
Martin, George R. R. A Game of Thrones, 1996. (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1) Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (1997) Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (1997) World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (1997)
Michaelides, Alex. The Silent Patient, 2019. Goodreads Choice Award for Mystery & Thriller and Nominee for Debut Novel (2019)
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Miller, Madeline. Circe, 2018. Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2019) ALA Alex Award (2019) Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee (2019) Goodreads Choice Award for Fantasy (2018) --The Song of Achilles, 2012.
Moyes, Jojo. Me Before You, 2012. (audio-edition recommended) Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2013) --After You, 2015.(#2) --Still Me, 2018. (#3)
Newitz, Annalee. The Future of Another Timeline, 2019. Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science Fiction (2019)
Novik, Naomi. Uprooted, 2015. Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (2016) Nebula Award for Best Novel (2015) --His Majesty’s Dragon, 2006. (Temeraire #1) --League of Dragons, 2016. (Temeraire, #9) --Spinning Silver, 2018.
Nunez, Sigrid. The Friend, 2019. National Book Award for Fiction (2018)
Obreht, Tea. Inland, 2019.
Okorafor, Nnedi. Akata Witch, 2011. (YA, Akata Witch #1) Locus Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Novel (2012) --Who Fears Death, 2010. (#1)
Ondaatje, Michael. Warlight, 2018. Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2018) Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Fiction (2018) Walter Scott Prize Nominee for Longlist (2019)
Patchett, Ann. The Dutch House, 2019. Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2019)
Reeder, R. Chris. The Changeling's Daughter, 2018. (YA)
Stradal, J. Ryan. Kitchens of the Great Midwest, 2016. Indies Choice Book Award for Adult Debut (2016) SCIBA Award for Fiction (2016) Midwest Booksellers Choice Award (2016) --The Lager Queen of Minnesota, 2019.
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Strout, Elizabeth. Amy and Isabelle, 1998. Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (2000) PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (2000) --Olive Kitteridge, 2008. --Olive, Again, 2019.
Wilkinson, Carole. Dragon Keeper, 2003. (YA, Dragon Keeper, #1) Children's Book Council of Australia Award for Book of the Year: Younger Readers (2004) Aurealis Award for Young Adult Novel (2003)
Wilson, Emily, Translator. The Odyssey, 2018.
Non-Fiction
Andrews, Julie with Emma Walton Hamilton. Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years, 2019. Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Memoir & Autobiography (2019)
Asghar, Fatimah. If They Come for Us, 2018. Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Bisexual Poetry (2019) Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Poetry (2018)
Besnier, Niko and Kalissa Alexeyeff, editors. Gender on the Edge: Transgender, Gay, and Other Pacific Islanders, 2014.
Burroughs, Augusten. Toil & Trouble, 2019. Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Memoir & Autobiography (2019)
Cameron, Pamela, and Renee Graef. Sport: Ship Dog of the Great Lakes, 2019 (picture book, children)
Dusenbery, Maya. Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick, 2018.
Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, 1975.
Garbes, Angela. Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy, 2018.
Gilio-Whitaker, Dina. As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock, 2019.
Gladwell, Malcolm. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know, 2019. Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2019)
Gottlieb, Lori. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed, 2019. Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2019)
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Higgins, Maeve. Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else, 2018. Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Humor (2018) James, Bill. The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery, 2017. Edgar Award Nominee for Best Fact Crime (2018) Keefe, Patrick Radden. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, 2019. National Book Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2019) Kirkus Prize Nominee for Nonfiction (2019) The Orwell Prize for Political Writing (2019)
Lee, Matt. Hotbox: Inside Catering, the Food World's Riskiest Business, 2019.
Macdonald, Helen. H is for Hawk, 2014. Costa Book Award for Biography (2014) Orion Book Award Nominee (2016) National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Autobiography (2015) Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (2014)
McCulloch, Gretchen. Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, 2019. Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science & Technology (2019)
McNamara, Michelle. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer, 2018. Edgar Award Nominee for Best Fact Crime (2019)
Mann, Sally. Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs, 2015. Andrew Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction (2016) National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction (2015)
Rosling, Hans. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong about the World - and Why Things Are Better than You Think, 2018. Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Nominee for Longlist (2018)
TallBear, Kim. Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science, 2013. NAISA Prize for Best First Book (2013)
Thompson, Christina. Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia, 2019. NSW Premier’s General History Award Winner (2019)
Tutu, Desmond. No Future Without Forgiveness, 1999.
Westover, Tara. Educated: A Memoir, 2018. (audio-edition recommended) Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Biography (2018) ALA Alex Award (2019) Wellcome Book Prize Nominee for Longlist (2019) National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Autobiography (2018)
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