This Year's Kirkus Young Readers Winners

[Editor's note: Wednesday's announcement about the Kirkus Prize finalists erroneously included last year's young readers' nominees. Here are all of this year's nominees.]

Finalists have been announced in three categories for the second annual Kirkus Prize, founded by Kirkus Reviews to recognize outstanding writing by authors whose books have earned a review star in the categories of fiction, nonfiction or young readers' literature. The winners, each of whom receives $50,000, will be named October 15 in Austin, Tex. The shortlisted titles are:

Fiction
The Incarnations by Susan Barker (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster)‬
A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin (FSG)
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff (Riverhead)
The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli, translated by Christina MacSweeney (Coffee House Press)
The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard (Knopf)
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (Doubleday)

Nonfiction
Between the World and Me: Notes on the First 150 Years in America by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Spiegel & Grau)
Whirlwind: The American Revolution and the War that Won It by John Ferling (Bloomsbury)
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald (Grove)
The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931 by Adam Tooze (Viking)
Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers by Simon Winchester (Harper)
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf (Knopf)

Young Readers' Literature

Picture Books:
The New Small Person by Lauren Child (Candlewick)
Lillian's Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by Jonah Winter, illustrated by Shane W. Evans (Schwartz & Wade/Random House)

Middle Grade:
Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan (Scholastic)
Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras by Duncan Tonatiuh (Abrams)

Young Adult:
The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough (Levine/Scholastic)
Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older (Levine/Scholastic)

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