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2016 Prize Winners
Newbery Last Stop on Market Street Matt de la Peña, Christian Robinson
Coretta Scott King Gone Crazy in Alabama Rita Williams-Garcia
Caldecott Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear Lindsay Mattick, Sophie Blackall
Coretta Scott King for Illustration Trombone Shorty Troy Andrews/Bryan Collier
Man Booker International The Vegetarian Han Kang
*Pulitzer for History Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America T.J. Stiles
*Pulitzer for Fiction The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen
Bailey's Women's Prize The Glorious Heresies Lisa McInerny
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Family Life Akhil Sharma
Best Translated Book (Fiction) Signs Preceding the End of the World Yuri Herrera/trans. Lisa Dillman
Stella Prize for Fiction The Natural Way of Things Charlotte Wood
Man Booker Prize The Sellout Paul Beatty
Giller Prize Do Not Say We Have Nothing Madeleine Thein
National Book Award The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead
Booker Prize
Sacred Hunger Barry Unsworth (1992 Prize)
Flaubert's Parrot Julian Barnes (1984 shortlist)
A Whole Life Robert Seethaler (2016 Int short list)
Eileen Otessa Moshfegh (2016 short list)
Work Like Any Other Virginia Reeves (2016 long list)
Serious Sweet A.L. Kennedy (2016 long list)
The Many Wyl Menmuir (2016 long list)
His Bloody Project Graeme Macrae Burnet (2016 short list)
The Four Books Yan Lianke/tran Carlos Rojas (2016 Int short list)
Hystopia David Means (2016 long list)
The North Water Ian McGuire (2016 long list)
The Schooldays of Jesus J.M. Coetzee (2016 long list)
All That Man Is David Szalay (2016 short list)
Hot Milk Deborah Levy (2016 short list)
The Women's Prize for Fiction
My Name is Lucy Barton Elizabeth Strout (2016 long list)
The Improbability of Love Hannah Rothschild (2016 short list)
Girl at War Sara Nović (2016 long list)
Pleasantville Attica Locke (2016 long list)
Rush Oh! Shirley Barrett (2016 long list)
Ruby Cynthia Bond (2016 short list)
The Portable Veblen Elizabeth McKenzie (2016 short list)
American Authors Challenge
*Breathing Lessons Anne Tyler
*Empire Falls Richard Russo
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton Jane Smiley
*Native Guard: Poems Natasha Trethewey
Dancing at the Rascal Fair Ivan Doig
Accordion Crimes Annie Proulx
*The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
I Lock My Door Upon Myself Joyce Carol Oates
British Authors Challenge
Howards End on the Landing Susan Hill
The Murder at the Vicarage Agatha Christie
Girl Meets Boy: The Myth of Iphis Ali Smith
The Last Word Hanif Kureishi
In Pale Battalions Robert Goddard
Non-Fiction Reading Challenge
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs Sally Mann
The Grand Tour: Around the World with the Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi William Dalrymple
Walking the Nile Levison Wood
Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West Timothy Egan
The Thing With Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human Noah Strycker
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp Ben Rawlence
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Matthew Desmond
The Devil's Highway Luis Alberto Urrea
Bully Nation: How the American Establishment Creates a Bullying Society Charles Derber
*Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Jared Diamond
The God Delusion Richard Dawkins
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill Candice Millard
The Fire Next Time James Baldwin
The Fire This Time Jesmyn Ward
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts Joshua Hammer
Biographies/Memoirs
Bettyville: A Memoir George Hodgman
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 James Shapiro
Iron & Silk Mark Salzman
Charles James: Beyond Fashion Harold Koda
When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi
The House of Twenty Thousand Books Sasha Abramsky
Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life Marta McDowell
Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker Patricia Hruby Powell/ Christian Robinson
The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero Timothy Egan
Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs and Classical Music Blair Tindall
The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust Edith Hahn Beer
The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey Dawn Anahid MacKeen
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory Caitlin Doughty
Hitler's Forgotten Children: A True Story of the Lebensborn Program and One Woman's Search for Her Real Identity Ingrid Von Oelhafen & Tim Tate
Benazir Bhutto: Favored Daughter Brooke Allen
The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis J.D. Vance
History
Katrina: After the Flood Gary Rivlin
The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century Edward Dolnick
Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 Adam Hochschild
In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art Sue Roe
Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France Caroline Moorehead
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad M.T. Anderson
In a Sacred Manner I Live: Native American Wisdom ed. Neil Philip
Non-Conformers
The Bird Artist Howard Norman
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories Lucia Berlin
The Turner House Angela Flourney
The Guest Room Chris Bohjalian
*A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Robert Olen Butler
Fifth Business Robertson Davies
The Singer's Gun Emily St. John Mandel
Green Island Shawna Yang Ryan
Black Deutschland Darryl Pinkney
West of Sunset Stewart O'Nan
Anna and the Swallow Man Gavriel Savit
The High Mountains of Portugal Yann Martel
Where My Heart Used to Beat Sebastian Faulks
The War that Saved my Life Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
The Lola Quartet Emily St.John Mandel
my grandmother asked me to tell you she's sorry Fredrik Backman
Academy Street Mary Costello
Dept. of Speculation Jenny Offill
Our Lady of the Nile Scholastique Mukasonga
Diary of the Fall Michel Laub
Songs of Unreason Jim Harrison
The Relic Master Christopher Buckley
The End of Days Jenny Erpenbeck
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? Dave Eggers
The Excellent Lombards Jane Hamilton
Gaston Kelly DiPucchio
YOTSUBA&!, Vol 1 Kiyohiko Azuma
The Door Magda Szabo
A Life Apart Neel Mukherjee
The 6:41 to Paris Jean-Phillipe Blondel
Vanessa and Her Sister Priya Parmar
Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work Dave Isay
Behold the Dreamers Imbolo Mbue
Fastnet, Force 10: The Deadliest Storm in the History of Modern Sailing John Rousmaniere
Arctic Summer Damon Galgut
Britt-Marie Was Here Fredrik Backman
Everyone Brave is Forgiven Chris Cleave
LaRose Louise Erdrich
Before the Fall Noah Hawley
Pax Sara Pennypacker
Night Prayers Santiago Gamboa, trans. Howard Curtis
The Tumbling Turner Sisters Juliette Fay
War Sebastian Junger
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging Sebastian Junger
The Childhood of Jesus J.M. Coetzee
The Noise of Time Julian Barnes
Spill Simmer Falter Wither Sara Baume
Another Brooklyn Jacqueline Woodson
The Girls Emma Cline
Homegoing Yaa Gyasi
The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City Laura Tillman
What Belongs to You Garth Greenwell
The Throwback Special Chris Bachelder
News of the World Paulette Jiles
the association of small bombs Karan Mahajaran
Mischling Affinity Konar
The Gustav Sonata Rose Tremain
Miss Jane Brad Watson
Wolf Hollow Lauren Wolk
A Great Reckoning Louise Penny
The Story of a Brief Marriage Anuk Arudpragasam
Dorothy Parker's New York Kevin Fitzpatrick
Among the Living Jonathan Rabb
Dear Mr. M Herman Koch
To the Bright Edge of the World Eowyn Ivey
Lily and the Octopus Steven Rowley
The Tsar of Love and Techno Anthony Marra
*Pulitzer Prize winners
On to 2017...
Newbery Last Stop on Market Street Matt de la Peña, Christian Robinson
Coretta Scott King Gone Crazy in Alabama Rita Williams-Garcia
Caldecott Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear Lindsay Mattick, Sophie Blackall
Coretta Scott King for Illustration Trombone Shorty Troy Andrews/Bryan Collier
Man Booker International The Vegetarian Han Kang
*Pulitzer for History Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America T.J. Stiles
*Pulitzer for Fiction The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen
Bailey's Women's Prize The Glorious Heresies Lisa McInerny
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Family Life Akhil Sharma
Best Translated Book (Fiction) Signs Preceding the End of the World Yuri Herrera/trans. Lisa Dillman
Stella Prize for Fiction The Natural Way of Things Charlotte Wood
Man Booker Prize The Sellout Paul Beatty
Giller Prize Do Not Say We Have Nothing Madeleine Thein
National Book Award The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead
Booker Prize
Sacred Hunger Barry Unsworth (1992 Prize)
Flaubert's Parrot Julian Barnes (1984 shortlist)
A Whole Life Robert Seethaler (2016 Int short list)
Eileen Otessa Moshfegh (2016 short list)
Work Like Any Other Virginia Reeves (2016 long list)
Serious Sweet A.L. Kennedy (2016 long list)
The Many Wyl Menmuir (2016 long list)
His Bloody Project Graeme Macrae Burnet (2016 short list)
The Four Books Yan Lianke/tran Carlos Rojas (2016 Int short list)
Hystopia David Means (2016 long list)
The North Water Ian McGuire (2016 long list)
The Schooldays of Jesus J.M. Coetzee (2016 long list)
All That Man Is David Szalay (2016 short list)
Hot Milk Deborah Levy (2016 short list)
The Women's Prize for Fiction
My Name is Lucy Barton Elizabeth Strout (2016 long list)
The Improbability of Love Hannah Rothschild (2016 short list)
Girl at War Sara Nović (2016 long list)
Pleasantville Attica Locke (2016 long list)
Rush Oh! Shirley Barrett (2016 long list)
Ruby Cynthia Bond (2016 short list)
The Portable Veblen Elizabeth McKenzie (2016 short list)
American Authors Challenge
*Breathing Lessons Anne Tyler
*Empire Falls Richard Russo
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton Jane Smiley
*Native Guard: Poems Natasha Trethewey
Dancing at the Rascal Fair Ivan Doig
Accordion Crimes Annie Proulx
*The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
I Lock My Door Upon Myself Joyce Carol Oates
British Authors Challenge
Howards End on the Landing Susan Hill
The Murder at the Vicarage Agatha Christie
Girl Meets Boy: The Myth of Iphis Ali Smith
The Last Word Hanif Kureishi
In Pale Battalions Robert Goddard
Non-Fiction Reading Challenge
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs Sally Mann
The Grand Tour: Around the World with the Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi William Dalrymple
Walking the Nile Levison Wood
Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West Timothy Egan
The Thing With Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human Noah Strycker
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp Ben Rawlence
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Matthew Desmond
The Devil's Highway Luis Alberto Urrea
Bully Nation: How the American Establishment Creates a Bullying Society Charles Derber
*Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Jared Diamond
The God Delusion Richard Dawkins
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill Candice Millard
The Fire Next Time James Baldwin
The Fire This Time Jesmyn Ward
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts Joshua Hammer
Biographies/Memoirs
Bettyville: A Memoir George Hodgman
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 James Shapiro
Iron & Silk Mark Salzman
Charles James: Beyond Fashion Harold Koda
When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi
The House of Twenty Thousand Books Sasha Abramsky
Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life Marta McDowell
Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker Patricia Hruby Powell/ Christian Robinson
The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero Timothy Egan
Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs and Classical Music Blair Tindall
The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust Edith Hahn Beer
The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey Dawn Anahid MacKeen
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory Caitlin Doughty
Hitler's Forgotten Children: A True Story of the Lebensborn Program and One Woman's Search for Her Real Identity Ingrid Von Oelhafen & Tim Tate
Benazir Bhutto: Favored Daughter Brooke Allen
The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis J.D. Vance
History
Katrina: After the Flood Gary Rivlin
The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century Edward Dolnick
Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 Adam Hochschild
In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art Sue Roe
Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France Caroline Moorehead
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad M.T. Anderson
In a Sacred Manner I Live: Native American Wisdom ed. Neil Philip
Non-Conformers
The Bird Artist Howard Norman
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories Lucia Berlin
The Turner House Angela Flourney
The Guest Room Chris Bohjalian
*A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Robert Olen Butler
Fifth Business Robertson Davies
The Singer's Gun Emily St. John Mandel
Green Island Shawna Yang Ryan
Black Deutschland Darryl Pinkney
West of Sunset Stewart O'Nan
Anna and the Swallow Man Gavriel Savit
The High Mountains of Portugal Yann Martel
Where My Heart Used to Beat Sebastian Faulks
The War that Saved my Life Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
The Lola Quartet Emily St.John Mandel
my grandmother asked me to tell you she's sorry Fredrik Backman
Academy Street Mary Costello
Dept. of Speculation Jenny Offill
Our Lady of the Nile Scholastique Mukasonga
Diary of the Fall Michel Laub
Songs of Unreason Jim Harrison
The Relic Master Christopher Buckley
The End of Days Jenny Erpenbeck
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? Dave Eggers
The Excellent Lombards Jane Hamilton
Gaston Kelly DiPucchio
YOTSUBA&!, Vol 1 Kiyohiko Azuma
The Door Magda Szabo
A Life Apart Neel Mukherjee
The 6:41 to Paris Jean-Phillipe Blondel
Vanessa and Her Sister Priya Parmar
Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work Dave Isay
Behold the Dreamers Imbolo Mbue
Fastnet, Force 10: The Deadliest Storm in the History of Modern Sailing John Rousmaniere
Arctic Summer Damon Galgut
Britt-Marie Was Here Fredrik Backman
Everyone Brave is Forgiven Chris Cleave
LaRose Louise Erdrich
Before the Fall Noah Hawley
Pax Sara Pennypacker
Night Prayers Santiago Gamboa, trans. Howard Curtis
The Tumbling Turner Sisters Juliette Fay
War Sebastian Junger
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging Sebastian Junger
The Childhood of Jesus J.M. Coetzee
The Noise of Time Julian Barnes
Spill Simmer Falter Wither Sara Baume
Another Brooklyn Jacqueline Woodson
The Girls Emma Cline
Homegoing Yaa Gyasi
The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City Laura Tillman
What Belongs to You Garth Greenwell
The Throwback Special Chris Bachelder
News of the World Paulette Jiles
the association of small bombs Karan Mahajaran
Mischling Affinity Konar
The Gustav Sonata Rose Tremain
Miss Jane Brad Watson
Wolf Hollow Lauren Wolk
A Great Reckoning Louise Penny
The Story of a Brief Marriage Anuk Arudpragasam
Dorothy Parker's New York Kevin Fitzpatrick
Among the Living Jonathan Rabb
Dear Mr. M Herman Koch
To the Bright Edge of the World Eowyn Ivey
Lily and the Octopus Steven Rowley
The Tsar of Love and Techno Anthony Marra
*Pulitzer Prize winners
On to 2017...
3rabbitprincess
Welcome and have a great reading year!
4brenpike
>2 mamzel:, >3 rabbitprincess: Thanks for stopping by :)
