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And the Finalists Are…..[Indie Booksellers Choice Award]

 

 

And the Finalists Are…..

The Black History of the White House by Clarence Lusane (City Lights)

Contingency Plan by David K Wheeler (TS Poetry)

The Instructions by Adam Levin (McSweeney’s)

The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall (W.W. Norton)

Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes (Grove/Atlantic)

Nox by Anne Carson (New Directions)

The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich (Two Dollar Radio)

Orion You Came and Took All My Marbles by Kira Henehan (Milkweed Editions)

The Report by Jessica Francis Kane (Graywolf)

The Singer’s Gun by Emily St. John Mandel (Unbridled)

Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns (Dorothy)

The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade Books)

Wingshooters by Nina Revoyr (Akashic)

via And the Finalists Are…...

Biography dominates Samuel Johson prize longlist (Guardian.co.uk)

 

 

The shortlist will be revealed on 14 June, with the winner announced on 6 July.

The longlist in full:

Tolstoy by Rosamund Bartlett

Afghantsy by Rodric Braithwaite

Through the Language Glass by Guy Deutscher

The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund De Waal

Mao’s Great Famine by Frank Dikötter

Caravaggio by Andrew Graham Dixon

Liberty’s Exiles by Maya Jasanoff

Capitalism 4.0 by Anatole Kaletsky

Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation by Stuart Kelly

People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry

The Bridge by David Remnick

The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley

Bismarck: A Life by Jonathan Steinberg

Reprobates by John Stubbs

Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl by Donald Sturrock

Bomber County by Daniel Swift

Sex Before the Sexual Revolution by Simon Szreter and Kate Fisher

Amexica: War Along The Borderline by Ed Vulliamy

via Biography dominates Samuel Johson prize longlist | Books | guardian.co.uk.

NYPL Young Lions Announcement | HTMLGIANT

 

 

 

Every year, the New York Public Library award $25k to a writer under 35 based on a book she published the previous year. Here’s the full press release.

Here is this year’s list:

Citrus County by John Brandon (McSweeney’s)

Vida by Patricia Engel (Grove Press)

The Instructions by Adam Levin (McSweeney’s)

Death Is Not an Option by Suzanne Rivecca (W.W. Norton & Company)

Kapitoil by Teddy Wayne (Harper Perennial)

via NYPL Young Lions Announcement | HTMLGIANT.