YALSA Award for Excellence in NonfictionNominee2023

Given by Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)

Other Names: Award for Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction, YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award
28 Works 13,890 Books 611 Reviews 4.1
YALSA's Award for Excellence in Nonfiction honors the best nonfiction book published for young adults (ages 12-18) during a Nov. 1 – Oct. 31 publishing year. The winner is announced annually at show more the ALA Youth Media Awards, with a shortlist of up to five titles named the first week of December. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (15), Finalist (60), Nominee (308)
Years:
All, 2023 (28), 2022 (16), 2021 (21), 2020 (22), 2019 (39), 2018 (15), 2017 (14), 2016 (14), 2015 (18), 2014 (17), 2013 (14), 2012 (28), 2011 (20), 2010 (42)
Announced:
January 22: Winner2024 Recent

Nominee 28

WorkYear
Victory. Stand! Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith2023
Unequal: A Story of America by Michael Eric Dyson2023
A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon Syndrome by Ariel Henley2023
American Murderer: The Parasite that Haunted the South (Medical Fiascoes) by Gail Jarrow2023
Abuela, Don't Forget Me by Rex Ogle2023
The Race of the Century: The Battle to Break the Four-Minute Mile by Neal Bascomb2023
Glowing Bunnies!?: Why We're Making Hybrids, Chimeras, and Clones by Jeff Campbell2023
How to Money: Your Ultimate Visual Guide to the Basics of Finance by Jean Chatzky2023
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo2023
Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime by Candace Fleming2023
Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American by Laura Gao2023
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann2023
The Greatest Stories Ever Played: Video Games and the Evolution of Storytelling (Game On, 2) by Dustin Hansen2023
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton2023
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People by Kekla Magoon2023
The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner by Marissa Moss2023
Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting by Kindra Neely2023
Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration by Elizabeth Partridge2023
Saving Earth: Climate Change and the Fight for Our Future by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich2023
Queer Ducks and Other Animals: The Natural World of Animal Sexuality by Eliot Schrefer2023
Chasing the Truth: A Young Journalist's Guide to Investigative Reporting: Young Readers Edition by Ruby Shamir2023
Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America by Candacy Taylor2023
In Harm's Way (Young Readers Edition): The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Story of Its Survivors (True Rescue Series) by Michael J. Tougias2023
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer2023
How to Build a Human: In Seven Evolutionary Steps by Pamela S. Turner2023
Underground Fire: Hope, Sacrifice, and Courage in the Cherry Mine Disaster by Sally M. Walker2023
Sky Wolf's Call: The Gift of Indigenous Knowledge by Eldon Yellowhorn2023
Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Ibi Zoboi2023

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