News - Literary Awards

News - Literary Awards

ON THE COME UP by Angie Thomas
February 18, 2020

The In the Margins Book Awards committee has named Angie Thomas's ON THE COME UP one of their 2020 Recommended Fiction titles: "Set in the same neighborhood as Thomas’s THE HATE U GIVE, readers will connect with Bri’s coming of age story that addresses poverty, systemic racism, and the way society labels black youth." Balzer + Bray published the book on February 5, 2019.

COMMUTE by Erin Williams
January 27, 2020

COMMUTE by Erin Williams has made The Believer Book Awards nonfiction longlist. Harry N. Abrams published the book on October 8, 2019.

THE STRANGER DIARIES by Elly Griffiths
January 27, 2020

THE STRANGER DIARIES by Elly Griffiths is an Edgar Award nominee for Best Novel. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt published the book on March 5, 2019.

THE UNDYING by Anne Boyer
January 22, 2020

Anne Boyer’s critically-lauded memoir THE UNDYING has been named a finalist for the 2020 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, which is awarded to the best book of the year that “has broken new ground by reshaping the boundaries of its form.” The winner will be announced at the PEN Literary Awards Ceremony on March 2. Farrar, Straus and Giroux published the book on September 17, 2019.

MORE THAN ENOUGH by Elaine Welteroth
January 13, 2020

Elaine Welteroth’s bestselling debut memoir was named a finalist for an NAACP Image Award in the category Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/Autobiography. Viking published the book on June 11, 2019.

BEASTIE BOYS BOOK by Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz
November 22, 2019

The Recording Academy just named BEASTIE BOYS BOOK a Best Spoken Word Album GRAMMY Award® nominee. The artful audio edition is a panoramic experience that tells the story of the Beastie Boys and is as unique as the band itself. Random House Audio published the audio book on October 30, 2018.

INSIDE OUT by Demi Moore
November 8, 2019

Demi Moore’s memoir is a nominee for the Goodreads Choice Awards of 2019 in the category “Best Memoir & Autobiography.” Harper published the book on September 24, 2019.

MORE THAN ENOUGH by Elaine Welteroth
November 8, 2019

Elaine Welteroth’s memoir is a nominee for the Goodreads Choice Awards of 2019 in the category “Best Memoir & Autobiography.” Viking published the book on June 11, 2019.

COME WEST AND SEE by Maxim Loskutoff
October 21, 2019

Maxim Loskutoff recently won the High Plains Book Award in the short stories category for his debut collection COME WEST AND SEE. The twelve stories expose the simmering rage and resentments of small-town America and shatter the myths of the West: a lonesome trapper falls in love with a bear; a newly married woman hatches a plot to murder a tree; and an unemployed millworker joins a militia after returning home. W.W. Norton published the book on May 8, 2018, and it was released in paperback on August 6, 2019.

RECKONINGS by Mary Fulbrook
October 21, 2019

Prof. Mary Fulbrook’s groundbreaking RECKONINGS has been named a finalist for the 2019 Cundill History Prize, alongside works by Jill Lepore and Julia Lovell. One of the jurors called the book “harrowing, absorbing, and extremely well-written.” The winner will be announced on November 14. Oxford University Press published the book on October 2, 2018.