Awards and Honors

Everybody Knows: A Novel by Jordan Harper

Ozark Dogs by Eli Cranor

The Mantis: A Novel by 伊坂幸太郎

Gaslight: A Novel (A Philip Taiwo Mystery, 2) by Femi Kayode

Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421 by T. J. Newman

In The Blink of An Eye by Jo Callaghan

The Tumbling Girl: 1 (Minnie & Albert, 1) by Bridget Walsh

The Maiden by Kate Foster

West Heart Kill by Dann McDorman

Locus AwardFinalist2024

Announced Thursday

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 by Neil Clarke

The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2021): Volume One by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology by Shane Hawk

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 by R. F. Kuang

Christmas and Other Horrors: An Anthology of Solstice Horror by Garth Nix

Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror by Jordan Peele

The Book of Witches: An Anthology by Jonathan Strahan

Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology by Wole Talabi

Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance and Other Stories by Tobias S. Buckell

The Wishing Pool and Other Stories by Tananarive Due

No One Will Come Back For Us by Premee Mohamed

Jackal, Jackal: Tales of the Dark and Fantastic by Tobi Ogundiran

Lost Places: and Other Stories by Sarah Pinsker

Skin Thief by Suzan Palumbo

The Best of Michael Swanwick, Volume Two by Michael Swanwick

The Best of Catherynne M. Valente, Volume One by Catherynne M. Valente

To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose

The Keeper's Six by Kate Elliott

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

Dead Country by Max Gladstone

The Water Outlaws by SL Huang

Paladin's Faith by T. Kingfisher

He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan

My Brother's Keeper by Tim Powers

City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Witch King by Martha Wells

The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera

The Strange by Nathan Ballingrud

Threads that Bind by Kika Hatzopoulou

These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs

Godkiller by Hannah Kaner

The Marigold by Andrew F. Sullivan

Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi

Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs

Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas

A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand

How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones

A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher

The Culture: The Drawings by Iain M. Banks

Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig

Home to Stay!: The Complete Ray Bradbury EC Stories by Ray Bradbury

Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures by Nat'l Mus Afr Am Hist Culture

Spectrum Fantastic Art Quarterly Volume Three by Cathy Fenner

Voyaging, Volume One: The Plague Star [A Graphic Novel] by Raya Golden

The Last Count of Monte Cristo by Ayize Jama-Everett

Thalamus: The Art of Dave McKean Slipcased Set by Dave McKean

The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta by Dan Nadel

Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s by Adam Rowe

42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams by Douglas Adams

The Fiction Writer's Guide to Alternate History: A Handbook on Craft, Art, and History by Jack Dann

Wish I Was Here by M. John Harrison

All These Worlds: Reviews and Essays by Niall Harrison

101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered by Sadie Hartmann

A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller by Maureen Kincaid Speller

Space Crone by Ursula K. Le Guin

Ex Marginalia: Essays from the Edges of Speculative Fiction by Chinelo Onwualu

Owning the Unknown: A Science Fiction Writer Explores Atheism, Agnosticism, and the Idea of God by Robert Charles Wilson

Being Michael Swanwick by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

The Crane Husband by Kelly Barnhill

The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar by Indrapramit Das

The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire

Rose/House by Arkady Martine

The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older

The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi

Mammoths at the Gates by Nghi Vo

The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport by Samit Basu

A Fire Born of Exile by Aliette de Bodard

Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow

Furious Heaven by Kate Elliott

Lords of Uncreation by Adrian Tchaikovsky

The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz

Starter Villain by John Scalzi

System Collapse by Martha Wells

The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis

Promises Stronger Than Darkness by Charlie Jane Anders

The Making of Yolanda La Bruja by Lorraine Avila

Damned If You Do by Alex Brown

A Song of Salvation by Alechia Dow

The Library of Broken Worlds by Alaya Dawn Johnson

The Sinister Booksellers of Bath by Garth Nix

Into the Light by Mark Oshiro

The Siren, the Song, and the Spy by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White

Pulitzer PrizeWinner2024

Announced Monday

Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo

Primary Trust by Eboni Booth

Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall

No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era by Jacqueline Jones

Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera-Garza

Tripas: Poems by Brandon Som

Edgar AwardWinner2024

Announced May 1

Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy by Steven Powell

Crooked: The Roaring '20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal by Nathan Masters

The Peacock and the Sparrow: A Novel by I.S. Berry

The Ghosts of Rancho Espanto by Adrianna Cuevas

Flags on the Bayou by James Lee Burke

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Girl Forgotten by April Henry

Crime Writers' Association AwardsLonglist2024

Announced April 20

Red Queen by Juan Gómez-Jurado

The Consultant: A Novel by Seong-Sun Im

The Sins of our Fathers by Åsa Larsson

Nothing is lost by Cloé Mehdi

The Prey by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

My Husband by Maud Ventura

Over My Dead Body by Maz Evans

The Secret Hours by Mick Herron

Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane

Tell Me What I Am: A Novel by Una Mannion

Black River by Nilanjana Roy

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto

The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel

No Ordinary Day by Matt Johnson

Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy by Alex Mar

Devil's Coin: My Battle to Take Down the Mafia Cryptoqueen by Jennifer McAdam

How Many More Women? by Jennifer Robinson

Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare

The Dance of the Dolls by Lucy Ashe

Harlem After Midnight by Louise Hare

A Bitter Remedy by Alis Hawkins

Viper's Dream by Jake Lamar

Scarlet Town by Leonora Nattrass

Voices of the Dead by Ambrose Parry

Everybody Knows: A Novel by Jordan Harper

Ozark Dogs by Eli Cranor

The Mantis: A Novel by 伊坂幸太郎

Gaslight: A Novel (A Philip Taiwo Mystery, 2) by Femi Kayode

Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421 by T. J. Newman

In The Blink of An Eye by Jo Callaghan

The Tumbling Girl: 1 (Minnie & Albert, 1) by Bridget Walsh

The Maiden by Kate Foster

West Heart Kill by Dann McDorman

La chica de nieve by Javier Castillo

The Girl by the Bridge by Arnaldur Indridason

Thirty Days of Darkness by Jenny Lund Madsen

The Murder of Anton Livius by Hansjörg Schneider

Not Russian by Mikhail Shevelev

The Tilt by Chris Hammer

Night Will Find You by Julia Heaberlin

The White Lie: The gripping historical thriller based on the legend of Captain Scott by J. G. Kelly

Death of a Lesser God by Vaseem Khan

Homecoming by Kate Morton

G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage

The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing by Lara Love Hardin

Chasing Shadows: A true story of drugs, war and the secret world of international crime by Miles Johnson

The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe

No Comment: What I Wish I'd Known About Becoming A Detective by Jess McDonald

Murder at Home: how our safest space is where we're most in danger by David Wilson

The Lock-Up by John Banville

Flags on the Bayou by James Lee Burke

Murder in the Bookshop by Anita Davison

The Winter List by S.G. MacLean

The Murder Wheel (Joseph Spector #2) by Tom Mead

Lady MacBethad by Isabelle Schuler

Simply Lies by David Baldacci

The Lie Maker by Linwood Barclay

The House Hunt by C. M. Ewan

77 North (The John Tyler series, 3) by D. L. Marshall

After That Night by Karin Slaughter

The Man in the Corduroy Suit (The Discipline Files, 3) by James Wolff

A Most Unusual Demise: an unmissable, humorous, cozy crime mystery by Katherine Black

Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy

Murder by Natural Causes by Helen Erichsen

The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell

Obsessed: A twisty, addictive thriller about infatuation and betrayal by Liza North

The Other Half by Charlotte Vassell

PEN/Faulkner AwardWinner2024

Announced April 4

What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jiménez

Sequoyah Book AwardWinner2024

Announced March 31

Cookies & Milk by Shawn Amos

Message Not Found by Dante Medema

Hummingbird by Natalie Lloyd

Hugo AwardNominee2024

Announced March 29

Nimona [2023 film] by Nick Bruno

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse [2023 film] by Joaquim Dos Santos

Barbie [2023 film] by Greta Gerwig

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves [2023 film] by Jonathan Goldstein

Poor Things [2023 film] by Yorgos Lanthimos

The Witches of World War II by Paul Cornell

Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons by Kelly Sue DeConnick

Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed

Saga Volume 11 by Brian K. Vaughan

Bea Wolf by Zach Weinersmith

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty

The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera

One Man's Treasure (Short Story) by Sarah Pinsker

Starter Villain by John Scalzi

Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

Witch King by Martha Wells

I Am AI: A Novelette by Ai Jiang

Ivy, Angelica, Bay: A Tor.Com Original by C. L. Polk

On the Fox Roads by Nghi Vo

The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older

Rose/House by Arkady Martine

Mammoths at the Gates by Nghi Vo

The Culture: The Drawings by Iain M. Banks

All These Worlds: Reviews and Essays by Niall Harrison

A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller by Maureen Kincaid Speller

A City on Mars: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through? by Kelly Weinersmith

How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub by P. Djèlí Clark

The Morning News Tournament of BooksWinner2024

Announced March 29

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award2024

Announced March 26

Tremor: A Novel by Teju Cole

From From: Poems by Monica Youn

Lincoln Award: Illinois Teen Readers' Choice AwardWinner2024

Announced March 22

You'd Be Home Now by Kathleen Glasgow

Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book AwardWinner2024

Announced March 22

Alone by Megan E. Freeman

Bluestem AwardWinner2024

Announced March 22

Allergic by Megan Wagner Lloyd

National Book Critics Circle AwardWinner2023

Announced March 21

Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg

Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression by Tina Post

I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore

Cold Nights of Childhood by Tezer Özlü

Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide by Tahir Hamut Izgil

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian

Phantom Pain Wings by Hyesoon Kim

Blue Hen Book AwardNominee2025

Announced March 15

Just Roll with It by Veronica Agarwal

Miss Quinces by Kat Fajardo

Allergic by Megan Wagner Lloyd

The Snowcat Prince by Dina Norlund

Anne of West Philly: A Modern Graphic Retelling of Anne of Green Gables (Classic Graphic Remix) by Ivy Noelle Weir

Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy by Faith Erin Hicks

Insomniacs After School, Vol. 1 by Makoto Ojiro

Blue Box, Vol. 1 by Kouji Miura

Amari and the Night Brothers by B. B. Alston

Odder by Katherine Applegate

Yusuf Azeem is Not a Hero by Saadia Faruqi

Maybe Maybe Marisol Rainey (Maybe Marisol, 1) by Erin Entrada Kelly

Hummingbird by Natalie Lloyd

Cinder & Glass by Melissa De la Cruz

The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson

Once There Was by Kiyash Monsef

We Were Kings by Court Stevens

The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas

I'm a Volcano! (Science Buddies) by Bridget Heos

The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander

How to Send a Hug by Hayley Rocco

Stanley's Secret by John Sullivan

Yoto Carnegie Medal for WritingShortlist2024

Announced March 13

The song walker by Zillah Bethell

Away With Words by Sophie Cameron

The Boy Lost in the Maze by Joseph Coelho

Choose Love by Nicola Davies

Crossing the Line by Tia Fisher

Safiyyah's War by Hiba Noor Khan

STEADY FOR THIS by Nathanael Lessore

PEN/Faulkner AwardFinalist2024

Announced March 5

What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jiménez

Making It So: A Memoir by Patrick Stewart

Open Throat by Henry Hoke

Absolution by Alice McDermott

Users : a novel by Colin Winnette

Audie AwardWinner2024

Announced March 4

Third Eye by Felicia Day

Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story by Bono

The Last Lifeboat by Hazel Gaynor

The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama

Anger Bang by Avery Flynn

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Dark Fall: A Military and Supernatural Warfare Thriller (The Shepherds Series, Book 3) by Brian Andrews

The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan

Goodbye Christopher Robin: A. A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh by Ann Thwaite

Leslie F*cking Jones by Leslie Jones

Someone Else's Shoes: A Novel by Jojo Moyes

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto

No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister

It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs by Mary Louise Kelly

The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren

Exodus: The Shanghai Jews by Kate McAll

Cassandra in Reverse by Holly Smale

Wild and Precious: A Celebration of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver

This Terrible True Thing by Jenny Laden

Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir by Sly Stone

LA Times Book PrizeFinalist2023

Announced February 21

The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts by Gregg Hecimovich

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian

Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century by Joya Chatterji

Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas

A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll

Sing Her Down by Ivy Pochoda

Bread and Circus by Airea D. Matthews

Is Math Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths by Eugenia Cheng

Gone Wolf by Amber McBride

Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere by Maria Bamford

Wild and Precious: A Celebration of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver

Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power by Leah Redmond Chang

Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg

Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South by elizabeth varon

The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence by David Waldstreicher

Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal by Bettina L. Love

American Gun: The Story of the AR-15, the Rifle That Divided a Nation by Cameron McWhirter

We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir by Raja Shehadeh

Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt

Wednesday's Child: Stories by Yiyun Li

The Dog of the North by Elizabeth McKenzie

The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa by Stephen Buoro

I'm a Fan by Sheena Patel

Company: Stories by Shannon Sanders

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk

Cartoonshow by Derek M. Ballard

Blood of the Virgin by Sammy Harkham

Social fiction by Chantal Montellier

CODA Deluxe Edition by Simon Spurrier

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris

Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class by Blair LM Kelley Ph. D.

Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance by Nikki M. Taylor

Dark Ride: A Thriller by Lou Berney

Everybody Knows: A Novel by Jordan Harper

Time's Undoing by Cheryl A. Head

Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco: Poems (Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry) by K. Iver

Couplets: A Love Story by Maggie Millner

The Court of No Record: Poems by Jenny Molberg

Master (The Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry) by Simon Shieh

Whalefall by Daniel Kraus

The Fragile Threads of Power by V. E. Schwab

Jewel Box: Stories by E. Lily Yu

The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell

The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos by Jaime Green

A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous by Caspar Henderson

A City on Mars: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through? by Kelly Weinersmith

Forgive Me Not by Jennifer Baker

Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story by Sarah Myer

Invisible Son by Kim Johnson

Sequoyah Book AwardNominee2025

Announced February 15

The Bees of Notre-Dame by Meghan P. Browne

Dogtown by Katherine Applegate

My Not-So-Great French Escape by Cliff Burke

The Infinite Questions of Dottie Bing by Molly B. Burnham

Squire & Knight by Scott Chantler

The International House of Dereliction by Jacqueline Davies

The Remarkable Rescue at Milkweed Meadow by Elaine Dimopoulos

The Lion of Lark-Hayes Manor by Aubrey Hartman

The Firefly Summer by Morgan Matson

Montgomery and the Case of the Golden Key by Tracy Occomy Crowder

You Are Here: Connecting Flights by Ellen Oh

Looking Up by Stephan Pastis

The Story of Gumluck the Wizard: Book One by Adam Rex

Mr. Whiskers and the Shenanigan Sisters by Wendelin Van Draanen

The Half-Life of Love by Brianna Bourne

Wolfpack by Amelia Brunskill

For Lamb by Lesa Cline-Ransome

Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy by Faith Erin Hicks

What Stalks Among Us by Sarah Hollowell

Something Close to Magic by Emma Mills

Harvest House by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Give Me a Sign by Anna Sortino

Something Like Home by Andrea Beatriz Arango

It Happened on Saturday by Sydney Dunlap

The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine by Katherine Marsh

Good Different by Meg Eden Kuyatt

The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn by Sally J. Pla

The Labors of Hercules Beal by Gary D. Schmidt

Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Germany by Steve Sheinkin

The Talent Thief by Mike Thayer

The Manifestor Prophecy by Angie Thomas

Best Fiction for Young AdultsSelection2024

Announced February 14

Going Bicoastal by Dahlia Adler

How to Succeed in Witchcraft by Aislinn Brophy

Rhythm & Muse by India Hill Brown

Reggie and Delilah's Year of Falling by Elise Bryant

Plan A by Deb Caletti

Gorgeous Gruesome Faces by Linda Cheng

Becoming a Queen by Dan Clay

For Lamb by Lesa Cline-Ransome

This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham

Rain Rising by Courtne Comrie

Forget Me Not by Alyson Derrick

The Lake House by Sarah Beth Durst

Those Pink Mountain Nights by Jen Ferguson

Where You See Yourself by Claire Forrest

Cruel Illusions by Margie Fuston

Ander and Santi Were Here by Jonny Garza Villa

Heartbreak Boys by Simon James Green

I Kick and I Fly by Ruchira Gupta

The Secrets We Keep by Cassie Gustafson

We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds

The Buried and the Bound by Rochelle Hassan

Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert

Gloria Buenrostro Is Not My Girlfriend by Brandon Hoàng

What Stalks Among Us by Sarah Hollowell

The Dos and Donuts of Love by Adiba Jaigirdar

Invisible Son by Kim Johnson

This Dark Descent by Kalyn Josephson

If Tomorrow Doesn't Come by Jen St. Jude

When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb

This Time It's Real by Ann Liang

Forever Is Now by Mariama J. Lockington

Spell Bound by F. T. Lukens

The Minus-One Club by Kekla Magoon

The Fall of Whit Rivera by Crystal Maldonado

Remind Me to Hate You Later by Lizzy Mason

Gone Wolf by Amber McBride

We Are All So Good at Smiling by Amber McBride

A Spark in the Cinders by Jenny Elder Moke

Bittersweet in the Hollow by Kate Pearsall

A Door in the Dark by Scott Reintgen

Miles Morales Suspended: A Spider-Man Novel by Jason Reynolds

Izzy at the End of the World by K.A. Reynolds

The Chalice of the Gods by Rick Riordan

The Sharp Edge of Silence by Cameron Kelly Rosenblum

Delicious Monsters by Liselle Sambury

City of Nightmares by Rebecca Schaeffer

The Queens of New York by E. L. Shen

Give Me a Sign by Anna Sortino

She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran

Always the Almost by Edward Underhill

Mascot by Charles Waters

Their Vicious Games by Joelle Wellington

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White

Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything by Justine Pucella Winans

As You Walk On By by Julian Winters

Someone Is Always Watching by Kelley Armstrong

Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult ReadersSelection2024

Announced February 14

You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron

The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen by Isaac Blum

Reggie and Delilah's Year of Falling by Elise Bryant

Breakup from Hell by Ann Dávila Cardinal

Royal Blood by Aimee Carter

Whiteout by Dhonielle Clayton

The Blackwoods by Brandy Colbert

Aces Wild: A Heist by Amanda DeWitt

The Lake House by Sarah Beth Durst

The Black Queen by Jumata Emill

The Truth About Everything by Bridget Farr

The Reunion by Kit Frick

We'll Never Tell by Wendy Heard

Five Survive by Holly Jackson

The Dos and Donuts of Love by Adiba Jaigirdar

Missing Clarissa by Ripley Jones

The Ruby Code by Jessica Khoury

Make Me a Liar by Melissa Landers

Sun Keep Rising by Kristen R. Lee

A Long Stretch of Bad Days by Mindy McGinnis

Stars and Smoke by Marie Lu

Swarm by Jennifer D. Lyle

Seven Percent of Ro Devereux by Ellen O'Clover

Funeral Girl by Emma K. Ohland

At the Speed of Lies by Cindy L. Otis

The Do-Over by Lynn Painter

The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers by Adam Sass

All the Fighting Parts by Hannah V. Sawyerr

The Fight for Midnight by Dan Solomon

A Whole Song and Dance by Sarvenaz Tash

What Happens After Midnight by K. L. Walther

Her Good Side by Rebekah Weatherspoon

The Revelry by Katherine Webber

Spells for Lost Things by Jenna Evans Welch

Borrow My Heart by Kasie West

Last Chance Dance by Lakita Wilson

The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich by Deya Muniz

Sunshine by Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Mall Goth by Kate Leth

Extra Life (Young Readers Adaptation): The Astonishing Story of How We Doubled Our Lifespan by Steven Johnson

Where to Start: A Survival Guide to Anxiety, Depression, and Other Mental Health Challenges by Mental Health America

Welcome to Consent by Yumi Stynes

Southern Book PrizeWinner2024

Announced February 14

When Sea Becomes Sky by Gillian McDunn

The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl

Audie AwardFinalist2024

Announced January 30

Third Eye by Felicia Day

Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story by Bono

Making It So: A Memoir by Patrick Stewart

The Last Lifeboat by Hazel Gaynor

The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama

Anger Bang by Avery Flynn

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Dark Fall: A Military and Supernatural Warfare Thriller (The Shepherds Series, Book 3) by Brian Andrews

The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan

Goodbye Christopher Robin: A. A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh by Ann Thwaite

Leslie F*cking Jones by Leslie Jones

Someone Else's Shoes: A Novel by Jojo Moyes

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto

No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister

It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs by Mary Louise Kelly

The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren

Exodus: The Shanghai Jews by Kate McAll

Cassandra in Reverse by Holly Smale

Wild and Precious: A Celebration of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver

This Terrible True Thing by Jenny Laden

Once Upon A Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia by Josh Azouz

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

None of This is True by Lisa Jewell

Star Wars: The Battle of Jedha by George Mann

Inside Voice: My Obsession with How We Sound by Lake Bell

Sing a Black Girl's Song: The Unpublished Work of Ntozake Shange by Ntozake Shange

Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home by Benjamin Hall

La Finca: Love, Loss, and Laundry on a Tiny Puerto Rican Island by Corky Parker

Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones by Dolly Parton

A Place for Us: A Memoir by Brandon J. Wolf

Johanna Porter Is Not Sorry: A Novel by Sara Read

The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder by David Grann

The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy by Joe Sexton

The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

Please Unsubscribe, Thanks! How to Take Back Our Time, Attention, and Purpose in a World Designed to Bury Us in Bullshit by Julio Vincent Gambuto

Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking by Mehdi Hasan

DIVA 2.0: 12 Life Lessons From Me For You! by Sheryl Lee Ralph

The Wisdom of Morrie: Living and Aging Creatively and Joyfully by Morrie Schwartz

Goal by Alexandria House

Sabbatical by Katrina Jackson

Soul Eater by Lily Mayne

Salt Kiss by Sierra Simone

La guardiana de recuerdos de Kyiv (Spanish Edition) by Erin Litteken

Six Sermons by Asa Merritt

The Year of Jubilee by Cindy Morgan

Once We Were Home by Jennifer Rosner

Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution by Rainn Wilson

Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian

The God of Endings: A Novel by Jacqueline Holland

Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse

Maame by Jessica George

Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk by Buddy Levy

One Blood: A Novel by Denene Millner

Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson

How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes by Cody Cassidy

No One Leaves the Castle by Christopher Healy

Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs by Jamie Loftus

Uncle of the Year: & Other Debatable Triumphs by Andrew Rannells

Normal Women by Philippa Gregory

The Ice Children by M. G. Leonard

Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt by Lucinda Riley

The Party: a gripping psychological thriller by Nora Valters

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

The Quest of the Silver Fleece by W. E. B. Du Bois

The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece: A novel by Tom Hanks

Harold and Maude [novel] by Colin Higgins

Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! by David Zucker

School Trip by Jerry Craft

Big Tree by Brian Selznick

Coleman Hill by Kim Coleman Foote

Sing Her Down by Ivy Pochoda

The Ghost Sequences by A.C. Wise

Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes

A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny

A Line in the Sand: A Novel by Kevin Powers

Sisters of the Lost Marsh by Lucy Strange

Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal by Bettina L. Love

A Refugee's American Dream: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to the U.S. Secret Service by Leth Oun

Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant

Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature by Elizabeth Winkler

Nirvana: The Amplifications by Michael Azerrad

The Debutante by Jon Ronson

10 Things That Never Happened by Alexis Hall

Big Witch Energy by Molly Harper

French Holiday by Sarah Ready

Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver

Dual Memory by Sue Burke

Wool by Hugh Howey

The World We Make by N. K. Jemisin

The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei

The Best American Short Stories 2023 by Min Jin Lee

A Guest at the Feast: Essays by Colm Tóibín

The Woodkin by James Alexander

I Will Find You by Harlan Coben

Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

The Stolen Heir by Holly Black

One Night in a Thousand Years by Craig Cunningham

Beholder by Ryan La Sala

This Winter by Alice Oseman

Savi and the Memory Keeper by Bijal Vachharajani

Twelve Dinging Doorbells by Tameka Fryer Brown

Carina Felina by Carmen Agra Deedy

I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know by Leslie Odom Jr.

National Book Critics Circle AwardFinalist2023

Announced January 25

Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg

Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression by Tina Post

I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore

Cold Nights of Childhood by Tezer Özlü

Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide by Tahir Hamut Izgil

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian

Phantom Pain Wings by Hyesoon Kim

I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir by Susan Kiyo Ito

Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm by David Mas Masumoto

Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in an Egyptian Prison by Ahmed Naji

Story of a Poem: A Memoir by Matthew Zapruder

The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts by Gregg Hecimovich

Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang

Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disrupter (Jewish Lives) by Rachel Shteir

The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century by Nicholas Dames

Creep: Accusations and Confessions by Myriam Gurba

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein

Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques by Grace Elisabeth Lavery

Tremor: A Novel by Teju Cole

Vengeance Is Mine by Marie NDiaye

The last pomegranate tree by Bachtyar Ali

Happy Stories, Mostly by Norman Erikson Pasaribu

Owlish by Dorothy Tse

Zakwato & Loglêdou’s Peril by Azo Vauguy

Black Pastoral: Poems by Ariana Benson

A Nimble Arc: James Van Der Zee and Photography by Emilie Boone

The Love of Singular Men by Victor Heringer

When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era by Donovan X. Ramsey

Judgment and Mercy: The Turbulent Life and Times of the Judge Who Condemned the Rosenbergs by Martin J. Siegel

Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State by Kerry Howley

Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn't Enough by Dina Nayeri

The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War by Jeff Sharlet

The Gathering of Bastards by Romeo Oriogun

All Souls: Poems by Saskia Hamilton

Information Desk: An Epic by Robyn Schiff

Trace Evidence by Charif Shanahan

Notable Children's Book2024

Announced January 24

Something Like Home by Andrea Beatriz Arango

The International House of Dereliction by Jacqueline Davies

Search for a Giant Squid: Pick Your Path (Science Explorers) by Amy Seto Forrester

Not an Easy Win by Chrystal D. Giles

The Worlds We Leave Behind by A. F. Harrold

Things in the Basement by Ben Hatke

The House of the Lost on the Cape by Sachiko Kashiwaba

Good Different by Meg Eden Kuyatt

The Fire of Stars: The Life and Brilliance of the Woman Who Discovered What Stars Are Made Of by Kirsten W Larson

The Swifts: a Dictionary of Scoundrels by Beth Lincoln

Chinese Menu: The History, Myths, and Legends Behind Your Favorite Foods by Grace Lin

The Windeby Puzzle by Lois Lowry

How Old Is a Whale?: Animal Life Spans from the Mayfly to the Immortal Jellyfish by Lily Murray

The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams by Daniel Nayeri

Lasagna Means I Love You by Kate O'shaughnessy

LOL 101: A Kid's Guide to Writing Jokes by David Roth

Calling the Moon: 16 Period Stories from BIPOC Authors by Aida Salazar

Jovita Wore Pants: The Story of a Mexican Freedom Fighter by Aida Salazar

Stars of the Night: The Courageous Children of the Czech Kindertransport by Caren Stelson

Holding Her Own: The Exceptional Life of Jackie Ormes by Traci N. Todd

Love Is Loud: How Diane Nash Led the Civil Rights Movement by Sandra Neil Wallace

How Do You Spell Unfair? MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee by Carole Boston Weatherford

Bea Wolf by Zach Weinersmith

Remember Us by Jacqueline Woodson

An American Story by Kwame Alexander

Stranded!: A Mostly True Story from Iceland by Ævar Þór Benediktsson

The Remarkable Rescue at Milkweed Meadow by Elaine Dimopoulos

My Head Has a Bellyache: And More Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups (Mischievous Nonsense, 2) by Chris Harris

Fungi Grow by Maria Gianferrari

Remembering by Xelena Gonzalez

Dear Yesteryear by Kimberly Annece Henderson

Alebrijes by Donna Barba Higuera

Eagle Drums by Nasugraq Rainey Hopson

Two New Years by Richard Ho

What's Inside a Caterpillar Cocoon?: And Other Questions About Moths & Butterflies by Rachel Ignotofsky

Butt or Face? by Kari Lavelle

Animals in Pants by Suzy Levinson

The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine by Katherine Marsh

Bridges by Majewski Marc

Hands by Torrey Maldonado

Aniana del Mar Jumps In by Jasminne Mendez

The Book of Turtles by Sy Montgomery

The Story of Gumluck the Wizard: Book One by Adam Rex

Shipwrecked!: Diving for Hidden Time Capsules on the Ocean Floor by Martin W. Sandler

Buzzing (A Graphic Novel) by Samuel Sattin

The Labors of Hercules Beal by Gary D. Schmidt

Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Germany by Steve Sheinkin

Courage to Dream by Neal Shusterman

Whale Fall: Exploring an Ocean-Floor Ecosystem by Melissa Stewart

Houses with a Story: A Dragon’s Den, a Ghostly Mansion, a Library of Lost Books, and 30 More Amazing Places to Explore by Seiji Yoshida

Mr. S by Monica Arnaldo

I'm Going to Build a Snowman by Jashar Awan

Little Rosetta and the Talking Guitar: The Musical Story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Woman Who Invented Rock and Roll by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow

What a Map Can Do by Gabrielle Balkan

In the Night Garden by Carin Berger

If I Was a Horse by Sophie Blackall

Evergreen by Matthew Cordell

Our Pool by Lucy Ruth Cummins

Okra Stew: A Gullah Geechee Family Celebration by Natalie Daise

Dim Sum Palace by X. Fang

Cicada Symphony by Sue Fliess

In Every Life by Marla Frazee

A River of Dust: The Life-Giving Link Between North Africa and the Amazon by Jilanne Hoffmann

Tumble by Adriana Hernández Bergstrom

Jumper: A Day in the Life of a Backyard Jumping Spider by Jessica Lanan

Nat the cat takes a nap by Jarrett Lerner

The Truth About Dragons by Julie Leung

Scroll by Hui Li

Benita and the Night Creatures by Mariana Llanos

Tomfoolery! Randolph Caldecott and the Rambunctious Coming-of-Age of Children's Books by Michelle Markel

They Hold the Line: Wildfires, Wildlands, and the Firefighters Who Brave Them by Dan Paley

The Only Way to Make Bread by Cristina Quintero

Hornbeam All In (The Hornbeam Books) by Cynthia Rylant

In Between by April Pulley Sayre

Peek-A-Boo Haiku: A Lift-the-Flap Book by Danna Smith

The Artivist by Nikkolas Smith

Maribel’s Year by Michelle Sterling

Fox Has a Problem (My First I Can Read) by Corey R. Tabor

The Indestructible Tom Crean: Heroic Explorer of the Antarctic by Jennifer Thermes

Papá's Magical Water-Jug Clock by Jesús Trejo

Later, When I’m Big by Bette Westera

Worm and Caterpillar Are Friends: Ready-to-Read Graphics Level 1 by Kaz Windness

When You Can Swim by Jack Wong

Nell Plants a Tree by Anne Wynter

Have You Seen My Invisible Dinosaur? by Helen Yoon

Rise: A Feminist Book Project for Ages 0-182024

Announced January 24

Flower Girl by Amy Bloom

Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior by Carole Lindstrom

Barely Floating by Lilliam Rivera

Spin by Rebecca Caprara

The Blackwoods by Brandy Colbert

I Kick and I Fly by Ruchira Gupta

The Moonlit Vine by Elizabeth Santiago

All the Fighting Parts by Hannah V. Sawyerr

The Wrestling Cholitas of Bolivia (Against All Odds) by Claudia Bellante

Me and My Dysphoria Monster: An Empowering Story to Help Children Cope With Gender Dysphoria by Laura Kate Dale

Heart Berry Bling by Jenny Kay Dupuis

Everybody Has a Body by Molli Jackson Ehlert

La Mariachi (Own Voices, Own Stories) by Isabel Estrada

A Is for Ambitious (Ambitious Girl, 2) by Meena Harris

Cinderella and a Mouse Called Fred by Deborah Hopkinson

Mother of Sharks by Melissa Cristina Márquez

Let her be by MacKenzie Porter

Girls on Wheels by Srividhya Venkat

Lion on the Inside: How One Girl Changed Basketball (CitizenKid) by Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir

Want a Hug?: Consent and Boundaries for Kids by Christine Babinec

What Your Ribbon Skirt Means to Me: Deb Haaland's Historic Inauguration by Alexis Bunten

Ketanji Brown Jackson: A Justice for All by Tami Charles

The Brilliant Calculator: How Mathematician Edith Clarke Helped Electrify America by Jan Lower

Every Body: A First Conversation About Bodies by Megan Madison

Door by Door: How Sarah McBride Became America's First Openly Transgender Senator by Meeg Pincus

Holding Her Own: The Exceptional Life of Jackie Ormes by Traci N. Todd

Love Is Loud: How Diane Nash Led the Civil Rights Movement by Sandra Neil Wallace

Stories of the Islands by Clar Angkasa

The Little Match Girl Strikes Back by Emma Carroll

Rain Rising by Courtne Comrie

Maggie Lou, Firefox by Arnolda Dufour Bowes

Hazel Hill Is Gonna Win This One by Maggie Horne

Code Red by Joy McCullough

Clouds over California by Karyn Parsons

Calling the Moon: 16 Period Stories from BIPOC Authors by Aida Salazar

Three Strike Summer by Skyler Schrempp

Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston by Esme Symes-Smith

Just Lizzie by Karen Wilfrid

Muzoon: A Syrian Refugee Speaks Out by Muzoon Almellehan

Deb Haaland: First Native American Cabinet Secretary (Gateway Biographies) by Matthew J. Martinez

Play Like a Girl: A Graphic Memoir by Misty Wilson

Nightbirds by Kate J. Armstrong

The Making of Yolanda La Bruja by Lorraine Avila

To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose

Those Pink Mountain Nights by Jen Ferguson

Huda F Cares? by Huda Fahmy

The Second Death of Edie and Violet Bond by Amanda Glaze

Throwback by Maurene Goo

Rust in the Root by Justina Ireland

Mall Goth by Kate Leth

Forever Is Now by Mariama J. Lockington

A Long Stretch of Bad Days by Mindy McGinnis

The Luis Ortega Survival Club by Sonora Reyes

The Queens of New York by E. L. Shen

Harvest House by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Didn't See That Coming by Jesse Q. Sutanto

16 & Pregnant by LaLa Thomas

Inaugural Ballers: The True Story of the First US Women's Olympic Basketball Team by Andrew Maraniss

You or Someone You Love: Reflections from an Abortion Doula by Hannah Matthews

From Here by Luma Mufleh

Our Red Book: Intimate Histories of Periods, Growing & Changing by Rachel Kauder Nalebuff

Odyssey AwardHonor2024

Announced January 22

Chinese Menu: The History, Myths, and Legends Behind Your Favorite Foods by Grace Lin

Sisters of the Lost Marsh by Lucy Strange

Once There Was by Kiyash Monsef

Odyssey AwardWinner2024

Announced January 22

El Deafo by Cece Bell

Newbery MedalHonor Book2024

Announced January 22

Eagle Drums by Nasugraq Rainey Hopson

The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams by Daniel Nayeri

Newbery MedalMedal Winner2024

Announced January 22

Caldecott MedalHonor Book2024

Announced January 22

In Every Life by Marla Frazee

The Truth About Dragons by Julie Leung

Jovita Wore Pants: The Story of a Mexican Freedom Fighter by Aida Salazar

Caldecott MedalMedal Winner2024

Announced January 22

The girl who built a spider by George Brewington

Excellence in Children’s and Young Adult Science Fiction Notable Lists2024

Announced January 22

Alebrijes by Donna Barba Higuera

Futureland: Battle for the Park by H. D. Hunter

The Ruby Code by Jessica Khoury

Jurassic Jeff: Space Invader (Jurassic Jeff Book 1) by Royden Lepp

Gnome Is Where Your Heart Is by Casey Lyall

The Rhythm of Time by Questlove

I Am the Walrus (The N.O.A.H Files, 1) by Neal Shusterman

The Bright Family: Vacation (Volume 2) by Gabriel Soria

Billie Blaster and the Robot Army from Outer Space by Laini Taylor

A Funny Thing Happened After School . . . by Davide Cali

Pluto Rocket: New in Town by Paul Gilligan

Spacemanatee! by Katie Gilstrap

Stink In Space! by Mike Henson

Up where the stars are by Ryan Jacobson

The Only Astronaut by Mahak Jain

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever The Courage to Dream by Frederick Joseph

How to Welcome an Alien by Rebecca Klempner

Hush, Little Rocket by Mo O'Hara

City Under the City by Dan Yaccarino

Stars, Hide Your Fires by Jessica Best

This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham

A Song of Salvation by Alechia Dow

A Wilderness of Stars by Shea Ernshaw

The Space between Here & Now by Sarah Suk

Airlock (Orca Soundings) by Tash McAdam

Made of Stars by Jenna Voris

The Infinity Particle by Wendy Xu

Notable Books List2024

Announced January 20

Hangman by Maya Binyam

Open Throat by Henry Hoke

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

In Memoriam by Alice Winn

Y/N: A Novel by Esther Yi

The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle

The Talk by Darrin Bell

Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming by Ava Chin

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan

Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation by Camonghne Felix

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder by David Grann

Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino” by Héctor Tobar

Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo

The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science by Kate Zernike

Side Notes from the Archivist: Poems by Anastacia-Renee

Promises of Gold by José Olivarez

Trace Evidence by Charif Shanahan

RUSA CODES Reading ListShortlist2024

Announced January 20

The Last Word by Ellery Adams

The Antiquity Affair by Lee Kelly

Blood Sisters by Vanessa Lillie

Going Zero: A Novel by Anthony McCarten

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty

The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams

Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee

Essex Dogs by Dan Jones

Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall

Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls

How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror by Jordan Peele

Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig

Grave Expectations by Alice Bell

Mother-Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon

Death Comes to Marlow by Robert Thorogood

The Tumbling Girl: 1 (Minnie & Albert, 1) by Bridget Walsh

The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer

The Museum of Ordinary People by Mike Gayle

Maame by Jessica George

The Sweet Spot: A Novel by Amy Poeppel

10 Things That Never Happened by Alexis Hall

Curves for Days by Laura Moher

We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian

Business or Pleasure by Rachel Lynn Solomon

The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown

Infinity Gate by M. R. Carey

The Meister of Decimen City by Brenna Raney

Where Peace Is Lost by Valerie Valdes

RUSA CODES Reading ListRead-alike to Winner2024

Announced January 20

Shutter by Ramona Emerson

Hades by Candice Fox

The Chestnut Man by Soren Sveistrup

Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb

RUSA CODES Reading ListWinner2024

Announced January 20

Better the Blood by Michael Bennett

Gods of the Wyrdwood by R. J. Barker

Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See

The September House by Carissa Orlando

A Disappearance in Fiji by Nilima Rao

The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise by Colleen Oakley

Role Playing by Cathy Yardley

House of Gold by C. T. Rwizi

Blue Hen Book AwardWinner2024

Announced January 19

The Secret Garden on 81st Street: A Modern Graphic Retelling of The Secret Garden (Classic Graphic Remix, 2) by Ivy Noelle Weir

ExtraOrdinary [anniversary edition] by V. E. Schwab

Your Place in the Universe by Jason Chin

Hotel Magnifique by Emily J. Taylor

Ten blocks to the Big Wok : a Chinatown counting book by Hu

CCBC Choices2024

Announced January 18

Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll!: Presenting Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock & Roll by Tonya Bolden

My Indigo World: A True Story of the Color Blue by Rosa Chang

The Green Piano: How Little Me Found Music by Roberta Flack

Desert Queen by Jyoti Rajan Gopal

Good Books for Bad Children: The Genius of Ursula Nordstrom by Beth Kephart

Make Way: The Story of Robert McCloskey, Nancy Schön, and Some Very Famous Ducklings by Angela Burke Kunkel

Tomfoolery! Randolph Caldecott and the Rambunctious Coming-of-Age of Children's Books by Michelle Markel

You Gotta Meet Mr. Pierce!: The Storied Life of Folk Artist Elijah Pierce by Chiquita MullinsLee

Just Jerry: How Drawing Shaped My Life by Jerry Pinkney

The Women Who Built Hollywood: 12 Trailblazers in Front of and Behind the Camera by Susan Goldman Rubin

A Tulip in Winter: A Story About Folk Artist Maud Lewis by Kathy Stinson

Holding Her Own: The Exceptional Life of Jackie Ormes by Traci N. Todd

To See Clearly: A Portrait of David Hockney by Evan Turk

Muzoon: A Syrian Refugee Speaks Out by Muzoon Almellehan

The Other Pandemic: An AIDS Memoir by Lynn Curlee

The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption by Shannon Gibney

Rooting for Plants: The Unstoppable Charles S. Parker, Black Botanist and Collector by Janice N. Harrington

The Fire of Stars: The Life and Brilliance of the Woman Who Discovered What Stars Are Made Of by Kirsten W Larson

Virginia Wouldn't Slow Down!: The Unstoppable Dr. Apgar and Her Life-Saving Invention by Carrie A. Pearson

The Indestructible Tom Crean: Heroic Explorer of the Antarctic by Jennifer Thermes

The In-Between by Katie Van Heidrich

Gigi and Ojiji: What’s in a Name? (I Can Read Level 3) by Melissa Iwai

Reina Ramos Meets a BIG Puppy (I Can Read Level 2) by Emma Otheguy

Fox Has a Problem (My First I Can Read) by Corey R. Tabor

Too Small Tola Gets Tough by Atinuke

Jo Jo Makoons: Snow Day (Jo Jo, 3) by Dawn Quigley

Gnome and Rat: (A Graphic Novel) by Lauren Stohler

A Beautiful House for Birds (Storytelling Math) by Grace Lin

Our Favorite Apples (Storytelling Math) by Grace Lin

Where Are the Eggs? (Storytelling Math) by Grace Lin

Who Jumps More? (Storytelling Math) by Grace Lin

365: How to Count a Year by Miranda Paul

How to Count to ONE (And Don't Even THINK About Bigger Numbers!) by Caspar Salmon

Día de Muertos: Números: A Day of the Dead Counting Book by Duncan Tonatiuh

Stand Up and Speak Out Against Racism by Yassmin Abdel-Magied

The Walk (A Stroll to the Poll) (Abrams Books for Young Readers) by Winsome Bingham

Total Garbage: A Messy Dive into Trash, Waste, and Our World by Rebecca Donnelly

Rock Your Mocs by Laurel Goodluck

Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior by Carole Lindstrom

Chinese Menu: The History, Myths, and Legends Behind Your Favorite Foods by Grace Lin

Tenacious: Fifteen Adventures Alongside Disabled Athletes by Patty Cisneros Prevo

Can I Recycle This?: A Kid's Guide to Better Recycling and How to Reduce Single-Use Plastics by Jennie Romer

The Twenty-One: The True Story of the Youth Who Sued the U.S. Government Over Climate Change by Elizabeth Rusch

Hamra and the Jungle of Memories by Hanna Alkaf

Something Like Home by Andrea Beatriz Arango

The Year My Life Went Down the Toilet by Jake Maia Arlow

Duel by Jessixa Bagley

Flying Up the Mountain: A Novel by Elizabeth-Irene Baitie

The Puppets of Spelhorst by Kate DiCamillo

A Pocketful of Stars by Aisha Bushby

Miracle by Karen S. Chow

We Still Belong by Christine Day

When Impossible Happens by Jane Desuza

Cross My Heart and Never Lie by Nora Dåsnes

Will on the Inside by Andrew Eliopulos

Julia and the Shark by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Not an Easy Win by Chrystal D. Giles

Dear Mothman by Robin Gow

The Worlds We Leave Behind by A. F. Harrold

Ginny Off the Map by Caroline Hickey

Eagle Drums by Nasugraq Rainey Hopson

The House of the Lost on the Cape by Sachiko Kashiwaba

Tethered to Other Stars by Elisa Stone Leahy

Land of Broken Promises by Jane Kuo

In the Tunnel by Julie Lee

Enlighten Me (A Graphic Novel) by Minh Lê

The Dubious Pranks of Shaindy Goodman by Mari Lowe

The Windeby Puzzle by Lois Lowry

The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine by Katherine Marsh

Code Red by Joy McCullough

The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams by Daniel Nayeri

You Are Here: Connecting Flights by Ellen Oh

The Cricket War (-) by Tho Pham

World Made of Glass by Ami Polonsky

Elliot Jelly-Legs and the bobblehead miracle : a novel by Yolanda Ridge

Wishing Season by Anica Mrose Rissi

The Museum of Lost and Found by Leila Sales

The Witch of Woodland by Laurel Snyder

The Lost Library by Rebecca Stead

The House That Whispers by Lin Thompson

To the Ice by Thomas Tidholm

Remember Us by Jacqueline Woodson

Jawbreaker by Christina Wyman

The Blood Years by Elana K. Arnold

Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline

Where You See Yourself by Claire Forrest

First-Year Orientation by Lauren Gibaldi

When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology by Shannon Gibney

Everyone Wants to Know by Kelly Loy Gilbert

Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert

Hopeless in Hope by Wanda John-Kehewin

The Isles of the Gods by Amie Kaufman

Buffalo Flats by Martine Leavitt

Her Radiant Curse by Elizabeth Lim

Forever Is Now by Mariama J. Lockington

Down Came the Rain by Jennifer Mathieu

Only This Beautiful Moment by Abdi Nazemian

Once There Was by Kiyash Monsef

Bittersweet in the Hollow by Kate Pearsall

I'd Rather Burn Than Bloom by Shannon C. F. Rogers

An Impossible Thing to Say by Arya Shahi

Fire From the Sky by Moa Backe Åstot

Always the Almost by Edward Underhill

Stars in their Eyes by Jessica Walton

My Flawless Life by Yvonne Woon

Greymist Fair by Francesca Zappia

Glitter Everywhere!: Where it Came From, Where It's Found & Where It's Going by Chris Barton

To Boldly Go: How Nichelle Nichols and Star Trek Helped Advance Civil Rights by Angela Dalton

Moving the Millers' Minnie Moore Mine Mansion: A True Story by Dave Eggers

Race Against Death: The Greatest POW Rescue of World War II (Scholastic Focus) by Deborah Hopkinson

Yukie's Island: My Family's World War II Story by Yukie Kimura

Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Germany by Steve Sheinkin

Gertie, the Darling Duck of WWII by Shari Swanson

Paul Bunyan: The Invention of an American Legend by Noah Van Sciver

How Do You Spell Unfair? MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee by Carole Boston Weatherford

More Than a Dream: The Radical March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom by Yohuru Williams

When Stars Arise by E.G. Alaraj

All the Faces of Me by Laura Alary

Mazal Bueno! by Sarah Aroeste

The Tree and the River by Aaron Becker

One, Two, Grandpa Loves You by Shelly Becker

You Go First by Ariel Bernstein

If I Was a Horse by Sophie Blackall

Ancient Night by David Bowles

The Hospital Book by Lisa Brown

Rabbit, Duck, and Big Bear by Nadine Brun-Cosme

The Yellow Áo Dài by Hanh Bui

The Fastest Tortoise in Town by Howard Calvert

This Is Not My Home by Vivienne Chang

Evergreen by Matthew Cordell

Our Pool by Lucy Ruth Cummins

Quiet Time with My Seeya by Dinalie Dabarera

Okra Stew: A Gullah Geechee Family Celebration by Natalie Daise

On the Edge of the World (Stories from Latin America) by Anna Desnitskaya

At the Drop of a Cat by Elise Fontenaille

Water Day by Margarita Engle

My Dad Is a DJ by Kathryn Erskine

Dim Sum Palace by X. Fang

What My Daddy Loves by Raissa Figueroa

Friends Beyond Measure by Lalena Fisher

Mine! by Candace Fleming

From Here to There: A First Book of Maps by Vivian French

A Walk in the Woods by Nikki Grimes

The World and Everything in It by Kevin Henkes

The Red Jacket by Bob Holt

¡Vamos! Let's Go Read (World of ¡Vamos!) by Raul Gonzalez Iii

My Mother Was a Nanny by Laura James

Tadpoles by Matt James

The Secret Pocket by Peggy Janicki

The Kitten Story: A Mostly True Tale by Emily Jenkins

Little Umar’s Search by Marium Kapadia

Summer Is for Cousins by Rajani LaRocca

Mnoomin maan'gowing / The Gift of Mnoomin by Brittany Luby

When the Stars Came Home by Brittany Luby

What Do Brothas Do All Day? by Ajuan Mance

Alma and Her Family / Alma y su familia by Juana Martinez-Neal

Alma, Head to Toe / Alma, de pies a cabeza by Juana Martinez-Neal

Frank and Bert by Chris Naylor-Ballesteros

The Babka Sisters by Lesléa Newman

Night Owl Night by Susan Edwards Richmond

Just Like Grandma by Kim Rogers

A Letter for Bob by Kim Rogers

Hornbeam All In (The Hornbeam Books) by Cynthia Rylant

The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish by Chloe Savage

My Baba's Garden by Jordan Scott

Wild Blue: Taming a Big-Kid Bike by Dashka Slater

Do You Remember? by Sydney Smith

Nothing Ever Happens on a Gray Day by Grant Snider

Very Good Hats by Emma Straub

Sorry, Snail by Tracy Subisak

Simon and the Better Bone by Corey R. Tabor

Papá's Magical Water-Jug Clock by Jesús Trejo

The Good Hair Day by Christian Trimmer

The World's Best Class Plant by Audrey Vernick

Bear Helps the Forest (Maybe You Help, Too) by Karen Lynn Williams

Hedge Lion by Robyn Wilson-Owen

What If I'm Not a Cat? by Kari-Lynn Winters

The Words We Share by Jack Wong

Nell Plants a Tree by Anne Wynter

Champion Chompers, Super Stinkers and Other Poems by Extraordinary Animals by Linda Ashman

Welcome to the Wonder House by Rebecca Kai Dotlich

A Whale of a Time: Funny Poems for Each Day of the Year by Lou Peacock

Yoshi, Sea Turtle Genius: A True Story about an Amazing Swimmer by Lynne Cox

Emperor of the Ice: How a Changing Climate Affects a Penguin Colony by Nicola Davies

Vivi Loves Science: Wind and Water (I Can Read Level 3) by Kimberly Derting

Rise to the Sky: How the World's Tallest Trees Grow Up by Rebecca E. Hirsch

Not A Monster by Claudia Guadalupe Martinez

The Book of Turtles by Sy Montgomery

Chasing the Sun by Timothy Musso

Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day by Dan Nott

Darwin's Super-Pooping Worm Spectacular by Polly Owen

Mysterious Glowing Mammals: An Unexpected Discovery Sparks a Scientific Investigation by Maria Parrott-Ryan

Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons by Laura Purdie Salas

Once, a Bird by Rina Singh

Whale Fall: Exploring an Ocean-Floor Ecosystem by Melissa Stewart

Great Carrier Reef (Books for a Better Earth) by Jessica Stremer

Mae and Gerty and the Matter with Matter by Elaine Vickers

How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney? by Mac Barnett

Afikomen by Tziporah Cohen Mfa

Red & Green by Lois Ehlert

The Christmassy Cactus by Beth Ferry

A Wild, Wild Hanukkah by Jo Gershman

Remembering by Xelena Gonzalez

Two New Years by Richard Ho

The Night Before Eid: A Muslim Family Story by Aya Khalil

Skating Wild on an Inland Sea by Jean E. Pendziwol

My Family Haggadah by Rosalind Silberman

Happy Halloweenie by Katie Vernon

The Masjid Kamal Loves by Ashley Franklin

More than Words: So Many Ways to Say What We Mean by Roz MacLean

Boyogi: How a Wounded Family Learned to Heal by David Barclay Moore

Sometimes When I’m Worried by Deborah Serani

Sometimes I Cry by Jess Townes

Edgar AwardNominee2024

Announced January 16

Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy by Steven Powell

Crooked: The Roaring '20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal by Nathan Masters

The Peacock and the Sparrow: A Novel by I.S. Berry

The Ghosts of Rancho Espanto by Adrianna Cuevas

Flags on the Bayou by James Lee Burke

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Girl Forgotten by April Henry

Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder (Film and Culture Series) by David Bordwell

Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction by Max Allan Collins

A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Mark Dawidziak

Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Robert Morgan

In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child by Kim Cross

Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux

Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders by John Glatt

I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever by Barbara Rae-Venter

The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy by Joe Sexton

Myrtle, Means, and Opportunity (Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery 5) by Elizabeth C. Bunce

Small Town Sins by Ken Jaworowski

The Last Russian Doll by Kristen Loesch

Murder by Degrees by Ritu Mukerji

Epic Ellisons: Cosmos Camp by Lamar Giles

The Jules Verne Prophecy (Jules Verne Prophecy, 1) by Larry Schwarz

The Madwomen of Paris: A Novel by Jennifer Cody Epstein

An Honest Man: A Novel by Michael Koryta

The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger

The Taken Ones: A Novel (Steinbeck and Reed) by Jess Lourey

Boomtown by A. F. Carter

Hide by Tracy Clark

The Sharp Edge of Silence by Cameron Kelly Rosenblum

My Flawless Life by Yvonne Woon

Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association AwardWinner2024

Announced January 8

The Lost Journals of Sacajewea by Debra Magpie Earling

Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry by CMarie Fuhrman

You Just Need to Lose Weight and 19 Other Myths about Fat People by Aubrey Gordon

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein

Weird Rules to Follow by Kim Spencer

Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City by Jane Wong

BCCB Blue Ribbon Book2023

Announced January 3

The Family Fortuna by Lindsay Eagar

My Good Man by Eric Gansworth

The Death and Life of Benny Brooks: Sort of a Memoir by Ethan Long

The Order of Things by Kaija Langley

Only This Beautiful Moment by Abdi Nazemian

Vivian Lantz's Second Chances by Kathryn Ormsbee

A Warning About Swans by R. M. Romero

No Boy Summer by Amy Spalding

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White

Mage and the Endless Unknown by sj Miller

If You'll Have Me by Eunnie

Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam by Thien Pham

Doña Quixote: Rise of the Knight by Rey Terciero

Brooms by Jasmine Walls

Bea Wolf by Zach Weinersmith

Dear Yesteryear by Kimberly Annece Henderson

Desert Queen by Jyoti Rajan Gopal

Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior by Carole Lindstrom

Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story by Sarah Myer

Behold the Octopus! by Suzanne Slade

Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed by Dashka Slater

Game of Freedom: Mestre Bimba and the Art of Capoeira by Duncan Tonatiuh

Kin: Rooted in Hope by Carole Boston Weatherford

Melvina Whitmoore (More or Less a Horror Story) by Faith Capalia

Harlem at Four by Michael Datcher

Remember by Joy Harjo

The Voice in the Hollow by Will Hillenbrand

Dear Stray by Kirsten Hubbard

Real to Me by Minh Lê

The Light Inside by Dan Misdea

Hello, Mister Blue by Daria Peoples

The Artivist by Nikkolas Smith

Bunny & Tree by Balint Zsako

CYBILS AwardsFinalist2023

Announced January 1

Whose Prints? by Kari Allen

Worm and Caterpillar Are Friends: Ready-to-Read Graphics Level 1 by Kaz Windness

The Grace of Wild Things by Heather Fawcett

Jumper: A Day in the Life of a Backyard Jumping Spider by Jessica Lanan

Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Germany by Steve Sheinkin

Animals in Pants by Suzy Levinson

No Matter the Distance by Cindy Baldwin

We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds

Sneak! (Slide-and-See Nature) by Beatriz Giménez de Ory

Threads that Bind by Kika Hatzopoulou

Some of These Are Snails by Carter Higgins

Some Dogs by Lydia Nichols

Mister Kitty Is Lost! by Greg Pizzoli

Copy That, Copy Cat!: Inventions Inspired by Animals by tangenkatrina

Squeak-a-boo! by Natasha Wing

Maddie and Mabel know they can by Kari Allen

Saving Snakes (Naomi Nash) by Jessica Lee Anderson

Too Small Tola Gets Tough by Atinuke

The Magic Lunch Box (Ben Lee) by Hanna Kim (Ch

The Princess in Black and the Prince in Pink by Shannon Hale

Lola's First Day of the Dead (Hola, Lola!) by Keka Novales

Doggo and Pupper Search for Cozy (Doggo and Pupper, 3) by Katherine Applegate

Vivi Loves Science by Kimberly Derting

Bear and Bird: The Picnic and Other Stories by Jarvis

Nat the cat takes a nap by Jarrett Lerner

Bug Catchers (Dirt and Bugsy) by Megan Litwin

Fergus and Zeke for President by Kate Messner

Things in the Basement by Ben Hatke

Dungeon Club: Roll Call by Molly Knox Ostertag

Lo and behold by Wendy Mass

Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega

Saving Chupie by Amparo Ortiz

The Demon Sword Asperides by Sarah Jean Horwitz

The House of the Lost on the Cape by Sachiko Kashiwaba

The Bellwoods Game by Celia Krampien

The Rhythm of Time by Questlove

Conjure Island by Eden Royce

Juniper Harvey and the Vanishing Kingdom by Nina Varela

Ice Cream Man: How Augustus Jackson Made a Sweet Treat Better by Glenda Armand

Glitter Everywhere!: Where it Came From, Where It's Found & Where It's Going by Chris Barton

The Girl Who Heard the Music: How One Pianist and 85,000 Bottles and Cans Brought New Hope to an Island by Marni Fogelson

What's Inside a Caterpillar Cocoon?: And Other Questions About Moths & Butterflies by Rachel Ignotofsky

Meet the Bears: Adventure Around the World and Meet Eight Bears by Kate Peridot

Piece by Piece: Ernestine's Gift for President Roosevelt by Lupe Ruiz-Flores

Mr. S by Monica Arnaldo

The Three Billy Goats Gruff by Mac Barnett

The Yellow Áo Dài by Hanh Bui

Papá's Magical Water-Jug Clock by Jesús Trejo

Night in the City by Julie Downing

Muzoon: A Syrian Refugee Speaks Out by Muzoon Almellehan

Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream by Joshua Davis

Nearer My Freedom: The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano by Himself by Monica Edinger

Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

No Place Like Home by James Bird

Farther Than the Moon by Lindsay Lackey

Tethered to Other Stars by Elisa Stone Leahy

Hands by Torrey Maldonado

The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn by Sally J. Pla

How It Happened! Sneakers: The Cool Stories and Facts Behind Every Pair by Stephanie Warren Drimmer

Plague-Busters!: Medicine's Battles with History's Deadliest Diseases by Lindsey Fitzharris

Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration by Elizabeth Partridge

Stars of the Night: The Courageous Children of the Czech Kindertransport by Caren Stelson

Welcome to the Wonder House by Rebecca Kai Dotlich

My Head Has a Bellyache: And More Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups (Mischievous Nonsense, 2) by Chris Harris

Where I Live: Poems About My Home, My Street, and My Town by Paul B. Janeczko

Dark Testament: Blackout Poems by Crystal Simone Smith

Call Me Adnan by Reem Faruqi

All the Fighting Parts by Hannah V. Sawyerr

Mascot by Charles Waters

Plan A by Deb Caletti

Ander and Santi Were Here by Jonny Garza Villa

Invisible Son by Kim Johnson

The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe

Give Me a Sign by Anna Sortino

Lost in Taiwan by Mark Crilley

The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich by Deya Muniz

Brooms by Jasmine Walls

Unaccompanied: Stories of Brave Teenagers Seeking Asylum by Tracy White

The Faint of Heart by Arturo Marquez

The Half-Life of Love by Brianna Bourne

Fault Lines by Nora Shalaway Carpenter

The Isles of the Gods by Amie Kaufman

Revelle by Lyssa Mia Smith

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book2023

Announced December 2023

The Blood Years by Elana K. Arnold

Let's Go/ Vamos: A Book in Two Languages/ Un Libro en Dos Lenguas by Rebecca Emberley

For Lamb by Lesa Cline-Ransome

Only Only Marisol Rainey (Maybe Marisol, 3) by Erin Entrada Kelly

Link + Hud: Heroes by a Hair by Jarrett Pumphrey

World Made of Glass by Ami Polonsky

Wishing Season by Anica Mrose Rissi

Big Tree by Brian Selznick

An Impossible Thing to Say by Arya Shahi

Courage to Dream by Neal Shusterman

The Notorious Scarlett and Browne by Jonathan Stroud

Ancient Night by David Bowles

An American Story by Kwame Alexander

Run and Hide: How Jewish Youth Escaped the Holocaust by Don Brown

Yoshi, Sea Turtle Genius: A True Story about an Amazing Swimmer by Lynne Cox

Coretta's Journey: The Life and Times of Coretta Scott King by Alice Faye Duncan

Sunshine by Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Chinese Menu: The History, Myths, and Legends Behind Your Favorite Foods by Grace Lin

Tomfoolery! Randolph Caldecott and the Rambunctious Coming-of-Age of Children's Books by Michelle Markel

They Hold the Line: Wildfires, Wildlands, and the Firefighters Who Brave Them by Dan Paley

The Last Plastic Straw: A Plastic Problem and Finding Ways to Fix It by Dee Romito

Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Germany by Steve Sheinkin

Great Carrier Reef (Books for a Better Earth) by Jessica Stremer

Game of Freedom: Mestre Bimba and the Art of Capoeira by Duncan Tonatiuh

Nesting Dolls by Vanessa Brantley-Newton

The Hospital Book by Lisa Brown

We Are Here by Tami Charles

Afikomen by Tziporah Cohen Mfa

Night in the City by Julie Downing

Friends Beyond Measure by Lalena Fisher

Mine! by Candace Fleming

Spanish Is the Language of My Family by Michael Genhart

I’m From by Gary R. Gray Jr.

A Walk in the Woods by Nikki Grimes

Bear with me by Kerascoët

When the Stars Came Home by Brittany Luby

Maybe a Whale by Kirsten Pendreigh

My Baba's Garden by Jordan Scott

Do You Remember? by Sydney Smith

When You Can Swim by Jack Wong

Remember by Joy Harjo

Globe and Mail Top 100 Book2023

Announced December 2023

Old Babes in the Wood: Stories by Margaret Atwood

The Whispers by Ashley Audrain

Yara by Tamara Faith Berger

Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein

Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Fairies by Heather Fawcett

The Adversary by Michael Crummey

The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt

Daughter by Claudia Dey

Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue

The Clarion by Nina Dunic

And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott

The Adult by Bronwyn Fischer

Breaking and Entering by Don Gillmor

The Full-Moon Whaling Chronicles by Jason Guriel

Instructions for the Drowning by Steven Heighton

Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey

The Islands: Stories by Dionne Irving

Held by Anne Michaels

Do You Remember Being Born? by Sean Michaels

Are You Willing to Die for the Cause? by Chris Oliveros

A History of Burning by Janika Oza

Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice

Roaming by Jillian Tamaki

In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas

There Is No Blue by Martha Baillie

Halal Sex: The Intimate Lives of Muslim Women in North America by Sheima Benembarek

Dominion: The Railway and the Rise of Canada by Stephen Bown

Blood on the Coal: The True Story of the Great Springhill Mine Disaster by Ken Cuthbertson

Just Once, No More: On Fathers, Sons, and Who We Are Until We Are No Longer by Charles Foran

Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt by Charlotte Gray

The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past (“A fascinating book that leaves you hungry for more.”―Kirkus STARRED Review) by Taras Grescoe

Message in a Bottle: Ocean Dispatches from a Seabird Biologist by Holly Hogan

The Duel: Diefenbaker, Pearson and the Making of Modern Canada by John Ibbitson

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein

Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir by Helen Knott

My Effin' Life by Geddy Lee

Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart: A Memoir by Jen Sookfong Lee

Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets by Kyo Maclear

Pageboy: A Memoir by Elliot Page

Kings of Their Own Ocean: A Tale of Tuna, Human Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas by Karen Pinchin

By the Ghost Light: Wars, Memory, and Families by R. H. Thomson

The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World's Oceans by Laura Trethewey

Landbridge: life in fragments by Y-Dang Troeung

Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant

Let's Eat: Recipes for Kids Who Cook by DL Acken

In Mary's Kitchen: Stress-Free Recipes for Every Home Cook by Mary Berg

The Buddhist Chef's Homestyle Cooking: Simple, Satisfying Vegan Recipes for Sharing by Jean-Philippe Cyr

A Generous Meal: Modern Recipes for Dinner by Christine Flynn

The Book of Sichuan Chili Crisp: Spicy Recipes and Stories from Fly By Jing's Kitchen [A Cookbook] by Jing Gao

Cook It Wild: Sensational Prep-Ahead Meals for Camping, Cabins, and the Great Outdoors by Chris Nuttall-Smith

Baking Wonderland: A Mix & Match Cookbook for Kids! by Jean Parker

Farmhouse Vegetables: A Vegetable-Forward Cookbook by Smith

BReD: Sourdough Loaves, Small Breads, and Other Plant-Based Baking by Ed Tatton

Salad Pizza Wine: And Many More Good Things from Elena by Janice Tiefenbach

Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville

The Postcard by Anne Berest

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck

How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney

The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut

August Blue by Deborah Levy

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

Victory City by Salman Rushdie

The Fraud by Zadie Smith

What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman

Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and THE WASHINGTON POST by Martin Baron

A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice by Paul Caruana Galizia

Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux

The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder by David Grann

Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media by Darrell Hartman

Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis

My Name is Barbra {book} by Barbra Streisand

The Sniger and the Floose by Ashley Fayth

Who Owns the Clouds? by Mario Brassard

Afterward, Everything was Different: A Tale From the Pleistocene (Aldana Libros) by Jairo Buitrago

Into the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix by Cherie Dimaline

Naaahsa is an Artist! by Hali Heavy Shield

The Origin of Day and Night by Paula Ikuutaq Rumbolt

Focus. Click. Wind. by Amanda West Lewis

Do You Remember? by Sydney Smith

When You Can Swim by Jack Wong

Murder at Haven's Rock by Kelley Armstrong

The Girl by the Bridge by Arnaldur Indridason

Red Queen by Juan Gómez-Jurado

None of This is True by Lisa Jewell

The Eden Test by Adam Sternbergh

A Death at the Party by Amy Stuart

Zero Days by Ruth Ware

Goodreads Choice AwardsWinner2023

Announced December 2023

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder by David Grann

Weyward by Emilia Hart

Holly by Stephen King

The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune

Texas Lone Star Reading List2024

Announced December 2023

Moongarden by Michelle A. Barry

The Vanquishers by Kalynn Bayron

Salt and Sugar by Rebecca Carvalho

We Still Belong by Christine Day

The Grace of Wild Things by Heather Fawcett

The Puttermans Are in the House by Jacquetta Nammar Feldman

A Duet for Home by Karina Yan Glaser

Dinged: (A Game Changer companion novel) by Tommy Greenwald

No One Leaves the Castle by Christopher Healy

Wrecker by Carl Hiaasen

The Demon Sword Asperides by Sarah Jean Horwitz

Lumara by Melissa Landers

Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos) by Diana López

Virtually Me by Chad Morris

You Are Here: Connecting Flights by Ellen Oh

Ghosts Come Rising by Adam Perry

The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn by Sally J. Pla

A Seed in the Sun by Aida Salazar

The Labors of Hercules Beal by Gary D. Schmidt

Bhai for Now by Maleeha Siddiqui

A Rover's Story by Jasmine Warga

Mascot by Charles Waters

Endlessly Ever After: Pick YOUR Path to Countless Fairy Tale Endings! by Laurel Snyder

Buckeye Children's & Teen Book AwardWinner2023

Announced December 2023

Play Like a Girl: A Graphic Memoir by Misty Wilson

Pizza and Taco: Too Cool for School by Stephen Shaskan

Heartstopper: Volume 4 by Alice Oseman

Tayshas High School Reading List2024

Announced December 2023

Exactly Where You Need to Be by Amelia Diane Coombs

The Black Queen by Jumata Emill

We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds

Beneath the Wide Silk Sky by Emily Inouye Huey

Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed by Dashka Slater

My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix by Kalynn Bayron

All You Have To Do by Autumn Allen

Forgive Me Not by Jennifer Baker

You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron

She's Gone by David Bell

A Heavy Dose of Allison Tandy by Jeff Bishop

Damned If You Do by Alex Brown

Good as Gold by Buford

Spin by Rebecca Caprara

Ab(solutely) Normal: Short Stories That Smash Mental Health Stereotypes by Nora Shalaway Carpenter

Fault Lines by Nora Shalaway Carpenter

Royal Blood by Aimee Carter

¡Viva Lola Espinoza! by Ella Cerón

House of Roots and Ruin by Erin A. Craig

Jumper by Melanie Crowder

Midnight at the Houdini by Delilah S. Dawson

Going Dark by Melissa De la Cruz

Borderless by Jennifer De Leon

The Luminaries by Susan Dennard

Aces Wild: A Heist by Amanda DeWitt

House of Marionne by J. Elle

The Getaway by Lamar Giles

Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert

Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy by Faith Erin Hicks

Queen Bee by Amalie Howard

They're Watching You by Chelsea Ichaso

Five Survive by Holly Jackson

Nine Liars by Maureen Johnson

Missing Clarissa by Ripley Jones

An Appetite for Miracles by Laekan Zea Kemp

Love Radio by Ebony LaDelle

Lumara by Melissa Landers

Retro by Sofia Lapuente

Remind Me to Hate You Later by Lizzy Mason

Stars and Smoke by Marie Lu

The Davenports by Krystal Marquis

We Are All So Good at Smiling by Amber McBride

This Might Get Awkward by Kara McDowell

A Long Stretch of Bad Days by Mindy McGinnis

The Shadow Sister by Lily Meade

The Weight of Everything by Marcia Argueta Mickelson

The Jump by Brittney Morris

Only This Beautiful Moment by Abdi Nazemian

Live, Laugh, Kidnap by Gabby Noone

Seven Percent of Ro Devereux by Ellen O'Clover

The Do-Over by Lynn Painter

Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim by Patricia Park

Briarcliff Prep by Brianna Peppins

Wrath Becomes Her by Aden Polydoros

Garden of the Cursed by Katy Rose Pool

The Island by Natasha Preston

A Door in the Dark by Scott Reintgen

The Renaissance of Gwen Hathaway by Ashley Schumacher

6 Times We Almost Kissed (And One Time We Did) by Tess Sharpe

¡Ay, Mija! (A Graphic Novel): My Bilingual Summer in Mexico by Christine Suggs

The Love Match by Priyanka Taslim

How to Survive Your Murder by Danielle Valentine

On the Subject of Unmentionable Things by Julia Walton

Spells for Lost Things by Jenna Evans Welch

The Well by Jake Wyatt

In Nightfall by Suzanne Young

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong

Booker PrizeWinner2023

Announced November 2023

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

Royal Society Trivedi Science Book PrizeWinner2023

Announced November 2023

School Library Journal Best Book of the Year2023

Announced November 2023

Stand Up and Speak Out Against Racism by Yassmin Abdel-Magied

America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History by Ariel Aberg-Riger

A Spoonful of Time: A Novel by Flora Ahn

Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli

Hamra and the Jungle of Memories by Hanna Alkaf

Cooking with Monsters (Book One): The Beginner's Guide to Culinary Combat (Cooking With Monsters, 1) by Jordan Alsaqa

Eerie Tales from the School of Screams by Graham Annable

Mr. S by Monica Arnaldo

The Blood Years by Elana K. Arnold

Champion Chompers, Super Stinkers and Other Poems by Extraordinary Animals by Linda Ashman

Grizzly Bears: Guardians of the Wilderness (Orca Wild, 10) by Frances Backhouse

The Scarlet Alchemist by Kylie Lee Baker

The Tree and the River by Aaron Becker

No Place Like Home by James Bird

Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II by Daniel James Brown

Opinions and Opossums by Ann Braden

The Very Unfortunate Wish of Melony Yoshimura by Waka T. Brown

That Flag by Tameka Fryer Brown

Plan A by Deb Caletti

Spin by Rebecca Caprara

Squire & Knight by Scott Chantler

Ketanji Brown Jackson: A Justice for All by Tami Charles

We Are Here by Tami Charles

Loud and Proud: The Life of Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm by Lesa Cline-Ransome

Two Tribes by Emily Bowen Cohen

The Girl from Earth's End by Tara Dairman

Evergreen by Matthew Cordell

School Trip by Jerry Craft

It Found Us by Lindsay Currie

Who Will Win? (I Like to Read) by Arihhonni David

Total Garbage: A Messy Dive into Trash, Waste, and Our World by Rebecca Donnelly

Welcome to the Wonder House by Rebecca Kai Dotlich

The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival by Jeremy Dronfield

My Bollywood Dream by Avani Dwivedi

Tilly in Technicolor by Mazey Eddings

Nearer My Freedom: The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano by Himself by Monica Edinger

Will on the Inside by Andrew Eliopulos

A Human for Kingsley by Gabriel Evans

Ali the Great and the Market Mishap by Saadia Faruqi

A Pie for Us! by Vicky Fang

Plague-Busters!: Medicine's Battles with History's Deadliest Diseases by Lindsey Fitzharris

Doomed: Sacco, Vanzetti, and the End of the American Dream by John Florio

Where You See Yourself by Claire Forrest

Constellations by Kate Glasheen

Remembering by Xelena Gonzalez

Something, Someday by Amanda Gorman

Dear Mothman by Robin Gow

The Rescues Finding Home (The Rescues, 1) by Tommy Greenwald

The River That Flows Beside Me (Look Closer) by Charlotte Guillain

The Princess in Black and the Prince in Pink by Shannon Hale

Remember by Joy Harjo

My Head Has a Bellyache: And More Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups (Mischievous Nonsense, 2) by Chris Harris

Indigenous Ingenuity: A Celebration of Traditional North American Knowledge by Deidre Havrelock

Things in the Basement by Ben Hatke

Threads that Bind by Kika Hatzopoulou

Race Against Death: The Greatest POW Rescue of World War II (Scholastic Focus) by Deborah Hopkinson

What the River Knows by Isabel Ibañez

What's Inside a Caterpillar Cocoon?: And Other Questions About Moths & Butterflies by Rachel Ignotofsky

Ellie Engle Saves Herself by Leah Johnson

Moon's Ramadan by Natasha Khan Kazi

Sunshine by Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Good Different by Meg Eden Kuyatt

See the Ghost: Three Stories About Things You Cannot See by David LaRochelle

The Fire of Stars: The Life and Brilliance of the Woman Who Discovered What Stars Are Made Of by Kirsten W Larson

Beholder by Ryan La Sala

Nat the Cat Takes a Bath: Ready-to-Read Pre-Level 1 by Jarrett Lerner

Lolo's Sari-sari Store by Sophia N. Lee

The Truth About Dragons by Julie Leung

Ryan and Avery by David Levithan

Breaking the Mold: Changing the Face of Climate Science by Dana Alison Levy

The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine by Katherine Marsh

Lei and the Fire Goddess by Malia Maunakea

Where Are the Aliens?: The Search for Life Beyond Earth by Stacy McAnulty

We Are All So Good at Smiling by Amber McBride

The Sum of Us (Adapted for Young Readers): How Racism Hurts Everyone by Heather McGhee

Aniana del Mar Jumps In by Jasminne Mendez

A Guide to the Dark by Meriam Metoui

To the Other Side by Erika Meza

The Big Backyard: The Solar System beyond Pluto by Ron Miller

Run for Your Life by Jane Mitchell

Baking with Mi Abuelita (Step into Reading) by Julissa Mora

From Here by Luma Mufleh

Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story by Sarah Myer

The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams by Daniel Nayeri

Saving H'Non: Chang and the Elephant by Trang Nguyen

Mina Belongs Here by Sandra Niebuhr-Siebert

Plátanos Go with Everything by Lissette Norman

How Birds Sleep by David Obuchowski

Into the Light by Mark Oshiro

Painted Devils by Margaret Owen

Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim by Patricia Park

Virginia Wouldn't Slow Down!: The Unstoppable Dr. Apgar and Her Life-Saving Invention by Carrie A. Pearson

Leeva at Last by Sara Pennypacker

Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam by Thien Pham

Just Jerry: How Drawing Shaped My Life by Jerry Pinkney

Frankie and Friends: Breaking News by Christine Platt

World Made of Glass by Ami Polonsky

My Grandfather's Song by Phung Nguyen Quang

Jo Jo Makoons: Snow Day (Jo Jo, 3) by Dawn Quigley

You Are a Story by Bob Raczka

Batcat (Volume 1) by Meggie Ramm

Graduation Day! (Step into Reading) by Candice Ransom

¡Vamos! Let's Go Read (World of ¡Vamos!) by Raúl The Third Iii

We Need to Talk About Vaginas: An IMPORTANT Book About Vulvas, Periods, Puberty, and Sex! by Dr. Allison K. Rodgers

Making More: How Life Begins by Katherine Roy

The Royal Recipe: A Purim Story (Saralee Siegel, 4) by Elana Rubinstein

Jovita Wore Pants: The Story of a Mexican Freedom Fighter by Aida Salazar

The Monkey Trial: John Scopes and the Battle over Teaching Evolution by Anita Sanchez

Shipwrecked!: Diving for Hidden Time Capsules on the Ocean Floor by Martin W. Sandler

You: The Story: A Writer's Guide to Craft Through Memory by Ruta Sepetys

My Baba's Garden by Jordan Scott

Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Germany by Steve Sheinkin

A Long Time Coming: A Lyrical Biography of Race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama by Ray Anthony Shepard

What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing, What Birds Are Doing and Why by David Allen Sibley

Shakti by S. J. Sindu

Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed by Dashka Slater

Unseen Jungle: The Microbes That Secretly Control Our World by Eleanor Spicer Rice

Nell of Gumbling: My Extremely Normal Fairy-Tale Life by Emma Steinkellner

Stars of the Night: The Courageous Children of the Czech Kindertransport by Caren Stelson

Mabuhay!: A Graphic Novel by Zachary Sterling

Tokyo Night Parade by J.P. Takahashi

Wearing My Mother's Heart by Sophia Thakur

The Manifestor Prophecy by Angie Thomas

Greenwild: The World Behind the Door by Pari Thomson

The Mystery of the Painted Fan by Linda Trinh

National Monuments of the USA (National Parks of the USA, 4) by Cameron Walker

How Do You Spell Unfair? MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee by Carole Boston Weatherford

Hanukkah Upside Down by Elissa Brent Weissman

Mission: Arctic: A Scientifc Adventure to a Changing North Pole by Katharina Weiss-Tuider

Their Vicious Games by Joelle Wellington

Team Trash: A Time Traveler's Guide to Sustainability by Kate Wheeler

Zora, the Story Keeper by Ebony Joy Wilkins

What Stays Buried by Suzanne Young

Just Do This One Thing for Me by Laura Zimmermann

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The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera

Monica by Daniel Clowes

Forbidden Notebook by Alba De Céspedes

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck

A House for Alice by Diana Evans

Not Even the Dead by Juan Gómez Bárcena

Kantika by Elizabeth Graver

Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad

This Other Eden by Paul Harding

Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson

Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal

Holly by Stephen King

The Deluge by Stephen Markley

Western Lane by Chetna Maroo

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

The Unsettled by Ayana Mathis

The Nursery: A Novel by Szilvia Molnar

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

Take What You Need by Idra Novey

A History of Burning by Janika Oza

The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

Victory City by Salman Rushdie

After Sappho: A Novel by Selby Wynn Schwartz

We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian

The Fraud by Zadie Smith

Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs

Y/N: A Novel by Esther Yi

From From: Poems by Monica Youn

What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta

Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope by Sarah Bakewell

Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J. Bass

Spoken Word: A Cultural History by Joshua Bennett

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk

A Living Remedy: A Memoir by Nicole Chung

Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages by Carmela Ciuraru

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer

The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality by William Egginton

Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance by Jeremy Eichler

Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country by Patricia Evangelista

Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder

Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben Goldfarb

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder by David Grann

Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media by Darrell Hartman

Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State by Kerry Howley

Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang

The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise by Pico Iyer

Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide by Tahir Hamut Izgil

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara

The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's Battle for Its Inner Soul by Isabel Kershner

You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America by Paul Kix

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein

Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street; One Hundred Years in the Neighborhood That Refused to Be Erased by Victor Luckerson

A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder by Mark O'Connell

Pageboy: A Memoir by Elliot Page

The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever by Prudence Peiffer

Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera-Garza

The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions by Jonathan Rosen

Schoenberg: Why He Matters by Harvey Sachs

Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears by Michael Schulman

The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War by Jeff Sharlet

Up Home: One Girl's Journey by Ruth J. Simmons

The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America by Saket Soni

Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy by James B. Stewart

My Name is Barbra {book} by Barbra Streisand

The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church by Rachel L. Swarns

Sink: A Memoir by Joseph Earl Thomas

Easily Slip into Another World: A Life in Music by Henry Threadgill

Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino” by Héctor Tobar

Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant

The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence by David Waldstreicher

Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo

Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World by Yepoka Yeebo

The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science by Kate Zernike

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We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian

Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry

Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

The Rooster House: My Ukrainian Family Story, A Memoir by Victoria Belim

The Talk by Darrin Bell

The Postcard by Anne Berest

The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City's Soul by Scott W. Berg

Temple Folk by Aaliyah Bilal

The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon

Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan

A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining by Rachel E. Cargle

Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati

The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by KJ Charles

A Living Remedy: A Memoir by Nicole Chung

The Guest by Emma Cline

Monica by Daniel Clowes

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer

Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova

The New Life by Tom Crewe

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan

The Faraway World: Stories by Patricia Engel

Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder by David Grann

The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff

Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad

This Other Eden by Paul Harding

Blood of the Virgin by Sammy Harkham

Black AF History : the un-whitewashed story of America by Michael Harriot

Happy Place by Emily Henry

Quietly Hostile: Essays by Samantha Irby

Loot by Tania James

Empty Theatre by Jac Jemc

What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jiménez

Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people by Tracy Kidder

A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher

Holly by Stephen King

Whalefall by Daniel Kraus

The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut

I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

Absolution by Alice McDermott

The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane

Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina

The Quiet Tenant: A novel by Clemence Michallon

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

Girl Juice by Benji Nate

The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez

My Father's House by Joseph O'Connor

Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell

The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue

The Dictionary People: The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary by Sarah Ogilvie

The September House by Carissa Orlando

Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? by Crystal Smith Paul

Laura [1944 film] by Otto Preminger

Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet by Alice Robb

The Fraud by Zadie Smith

Business or Pleasure by Rachel Lynn Solomon

Chlorine by Jade Song

Roaming by Jillian Tamaki

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino” by Héctor Tobar

Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs

Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea

Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo

Mister Magic by Kiersten White

In Memoriam by Alice Winn

After the Forest by Kell Woods

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

Y/N: A Novel by Esther Yi

Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming by Ava Chin

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Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden Death by Laura Cumming

The Young Man by Annie Ernaux

Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation by Camonghne Felix

The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel

August Wilson: A Life by Patti Hartigan

Amerikan Family, An: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created by Santi Elijah Holley

George: A Magpie Memoir by Frieda Hughes

Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide by Tahir Hamut Izgil

While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence by Meg Kissinger

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein

Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education by Stephanie Land

The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight by Andrew Leland

Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir by Beth Nguyen

A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial by Viet Thanh Nguyen

The People's Hospital: Stories and Lessons from a Safety Net Healthcare System by Ricardo Nuila

Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera-Garza

You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir by Maggie Smith

Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith by John Szwed

Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World by Yepoka Yeebo

The Future by Naomi Alderman

Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree

To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty

Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig

Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong

The World Wasn't Ready for You: Stories by Justin C. Key

The Water Outlaws by SL Huang

These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs

The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei

Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror by Jordan Peele

Victory City by Salman Rushdie

Starter Villain by John Scalzi

The Fragile Threads of Power by V. E. Schwab

Witch King by Martha Wells

Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo

Fat Time and Other Stories by Jeffery Renard Allen

What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama

The Last Animal by Ramona Ausubel

Rouge by Mona Awad

Dayswork by Chris Bachelder

Beyond the Door of No Return by David Diop

Death Valley by Melissa Broder

Tremor: A Novel by Teju Cole

Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens

Day by Michael Cunningham

Our Strangers by Lydia Davis

The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng

The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright

Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter

Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux

How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney

Maame by Jessica George

Promise: A Novel by Rachel Eliza Griffiths

After the Funeral by Tessa Hadley

Greek Lessons by Kang Han

The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon

The Great Reclamation by Rachel Heng

The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand

Good Women by Halle Hill

Wellness by Nathan Hill

Open Throat by Henry Hoke

Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson

So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan

Mobility: A Novel by Lydia Kiesling

When Trying to Return Home: Stories by Jennifer Maritza McCauley

Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri

Pomegranate by Helen Elaine Lee

Terrace Story by Hilary Leichter

August Blue by Deborah Levy

Wednesday's Child: Stories by Yiyun Li

The Unsettled by Ayana Mathis

Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed

Whale by Cheon Myeong-Kwan

Vengeance Is Mine by Marie NDiaye

Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel

The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen

The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin

A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power

My Work by Olga Ravn

The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone

The People Who Report More Stress: Stories by Alejandro Varela

Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

Family Meal by Bryan Washington

Holler, Child: Stories by Latoya Watkins

Straw Dogs of the Universe: A Novel by Chun Ye

Pet by Catherine Chidgey

The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Alison Goodman

The Last Remains by Elly Griffiths

Night Will Find You by Julia Heaberlin

The Secret Hours by Mick Herron

Reykjavík: A Crime Story by Ragnar Jónasson

Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor

Happiness Falls by Angie Kim

Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane

Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421 by T. J. Newman

Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent

The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman

The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose

The Only One Left by Riley Sager

Symphony of Secrets by Brendan Slocumb

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto

The White Lady by Jacqueline Winspear

What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman

Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance by Azam Ahmed

He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters by Schuyler Bailar

Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J. Bass

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk

The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I by Douglas Brunt

The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean by Susan Casey

Blood Memory: The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo by Dayton Duncan

Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country by Patricia Evangelista

Opinions by Roxane Gay

The Story of Art Without Men by Katy Hessel

The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial by David Lipsky

This is Not Miami by Fernanda Melchor

Of Time and Turtles: Mending a Stalled and Broken World, Shell by Shattered Shell by Sy Montgomery

Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration by Alejandra Oliva

The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever by Prudence Peiffer

When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era by Donovan X. Ramsey

Gator Country by Rebecca Renner

The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin

Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland by Scott Shane

Thin Skin by Jenn Shapland

To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul by Tracy K. Smith

The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church by Rachel L. Swarns

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall

Our Migrant Souls by Héctor Tobar

Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant

Practice Makes Perfect by Sarah Adams

The Fiancee Farce by Alexandria Bellefleur

The Art of Scandal by Regina Black

A Dish Best Served Hot by Natalie Caña

Hello Stranger by Katherine Center

Ana María and The Fox by Liana De la Rosa

Wildfire by Hannah Grace

Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood

An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera

Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez

The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren

Knockout by Sarah MacLean

Long Shot by Kennedy Ryan

One Summer in Savannah: A Novel by Terah Shelton Harris

Forget Me Not by Julie Soto

National Book AwardWinner2023

Announced November 2023

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk

From Unincorporated Territory [åmot] by Craig Santos Perez

The Words That Remain by Stenio Gardel

Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics by H. W. Brands

Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year2023

Announced November 2023

The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance by Rebecca Clarren

The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets by Matthew Connelly

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris

You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America by Paul Kix

American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795 by Edward J. Larson

We May Dominate the World: America's Age of Ambition, Anxiety, and Adventurism by Sean A Mirski

The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune by Alexander Stille

Maestros & Monsters: Days & Nights with Susan Sontag & George Steiner by Robert Boyers

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer

The Story of Art Without Men by Katy Hessel

The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race by Farah Karim-Cooper

Sonic Life: A Memoir by Thurston Moore

The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters by Benjamin Moser

The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism by Adam Nagourney

The Lost Americans: A Novel by Christopher Bollen

Green for Danger by Christianna Brand

Blaze Me a Sun by Christoffer Carlsson

One Last Kill by Robert Dugoni

Night Will Find You by Julia Heaberlin

Reykjavík: A Crime Story by Ragnar Jónasson

Code of the Hills (The Mick Hardin Novels Book 3) by Chris Offutt

Every Man a King by Walter Mosley

The Stolen Coast by Dwyer Murphy

A Line in the Sand: A Novel by Kevin Powers

Larry McMurtry: A Life by Tracy Daugherty

True West: Sam Shepard's Life, Work, and Times by Robert Greenfield

August Wilson: A Life by Patti Hartigan

Lou Reed: The King of New York by Will Hermes

Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson

Althea: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson by Sally H. Jacobs

Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey by Robert Mack McCormick

Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg

Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song by Judith Tick

On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain by Ronald C. White

Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry

Liquid Snakes: A Novel by Stephen Kearse

A House for Alice by Diana Evans

Breaking and Entering by Don Gillmor

Your Love is Not Good by Johanna Hedva

The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut

The Apartment by Ana Menéndez

Lucky Dogs by Helen Schulman

Amerikan Family, An: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created by Santi Elijah Holley

The Talk by Darrin Bell

The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth by Jermaine FOWLER

Black AF History : the un-whitewashed story of America by Michael Harriot

American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress by Wesley Lowery

Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery by Joseph McGill Jr.

Brothers: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Race by Nico Slate

We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care by Liran Einav

Creep: Accusations and Confessions by Myriam Gurba

The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival by Lisa M. Hamilton

Trans Children in Today's Schools by Aidan Key

Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream by Alissa Quart

Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson

The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession by Alexandra Robbins

Politics On the Edge by Rory Stewart

Our Migrant Souls by Héctor Tobar

Deadly Quiet City by Murong Xuecun

The Museum of Human History by Rebekah Bergman

Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens

The New Life by Tom Crewe

Promise: A Novel by Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Good Women by Halle Hill

These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs

The World Wasn't Ready for You: Stories by Justin C. Key

The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei

Western Lane by Chetna Maroo

Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed

Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir by Curtis Chin

On Marriage by Devorah Baum

Artificial: A Love Story by Amy Kurzweil

How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks by Adam Nicolson

Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story by Julia Wertz

Say the Right Thing: How to Talk About Identity, Diversity, and Justice by Kenji Yoshino

The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science by Kate Zernike

Beyond the Door of No Return by David Diop

Greek Lessons by Kang Han

This is Not Miami by Fernanda Melchor

Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante

My Work by Olga Ravn

The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone

Heart Sutra by Yan Lianke

The Last Animal by Ramona Ausubel

Dayswork by Chris Bachelder

Day by Michael Cunningham

The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright

Happiness Falls by Angie Kim

The Unsettled by Ayana Mathis

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

The New Earth: A Novel by Jess Row

Family Meal by Bryan Washington

The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand

Monica by Daniel Clowes

Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter

We Must Not Think of Ourselves by Lauren Grodstein

The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez

Sterling Karat Gold by Isabel Waidner

The Armor of Light by Ken Follett

The Great Reclamation by Rachel Heng

Loot by Tania James

Essex Dogs by Dan Jones

The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

Absolution by Alice McDermott

The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane

The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen

Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea

The Rooster House: My Ukrainian Family Story, A Memoir by Victoria Belim

Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

Fatherland by Burkhard Bilger

Everything/Nothing/Someone: A Memoir by Alice Carrière

The Dead are Gods by Eirinie Carson

Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming by Ava Chin

How to Stay Married by Harrison Scott Key

Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America by Julia Lee

And Finally: Matters of Life and Death by Henry Marsh

Orphan Bachelors: A Memoir by Fae Myenne Ng

A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice by Paul Caruana Galizia

Twist: An American Girl by Adele Bertei

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder by David Grann

How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind by Clancy Martin

The People's Hospital: Stories and Lessons from a Safety Net Healthcare System by Ricardo Nuila

Rikers: An Oral History by Graham Rayman

The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions by Jonathan Rosen

Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir by Rachel Louise Snyder

Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo

Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World by Yepoka Yeebo

Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn

Ana María and The Fox by Liana De la Rosa

Marry Me by Midnight by Felicia Grossman

Mortal Follies by Alexis Hall

Jana Goes Wild by Farah Heron

An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera

How to Tame a Wild Rogue by Julie Anne Long

Knockout by Sarah MacLean

Business or Pleasure by Rachel Lynn Solomon

Radical by Nature by James T. Costa

The Wise Hours: A Journey into the Wild and Secret World of Owls by Miriam Darlington

Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia by Hadley Freeman

Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society by Dr. Arline T Geronimus

Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben Goldfarb

OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center by Bruce Goldfarb

Breaking Through: My Life in Science by Katalin Karikó

Fieldwork: A Forager’s Memoir by Iliana Regan

A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars by Erin Sharkey

Blade of Dream by Daniel Abraham

Infinity Gate by M. R. Carey

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty

Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong

A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

We Are the Crisis (The Convergence Saga) (Convergence Saga, 2) by Cadwell Turnbull

Games and Rituals: Stories by Katherine Heiny

Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri