The winners of the 2015 Great Lakes, Great Reads Awards, sponsored by the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association, are:
Adult Fiction: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf)
Adult Nonfiction: The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War by A.J. Baime (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Children's Picture Book: Otis and the Scarecrow by Loren Long (Philomel)
Children's/YA Fiction: Mosquitoland by David Arnold (Viking Books for Young Readers)
The awards will presented at the awards dinner on October 9 during the Heartland Fall Forum in Lombard, Ill.
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The shortlist for the $25,000 Alice Award is:
Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008 (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art)
Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit (Detroit Institute of Arts)
One Hundred Books Famous in Children's Literature (Grolier Club)
The Open Road (Aperture)
A Portrait of Britain (National Portrait Gallery)
The Alice Award was founded in 2013 by Joan K. Davidson in honor of her mother, Alice M. Kaplan, as a part of Furthermore, the grants in publishing program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, to "buttress the kind of slow reading movement that recognizes and cherishes the lasting values of the well-made illustrated book." The Alice Award will be presented at the Frick Collection on October 27.