Winners of the 2017 New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Books of the Year Awards, who will be honored during the NAIBA Conference Awards Banquet on Saturday, October 7, in Cherry Hill, N.J., are:
Fiction: Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)
Nonfiction: March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell (Top Shelf Productions)
YA Literature: Still Life with Tornado by A.S. King (Dutton Books for Young Readers)
Middle Grade: Ghost by Jason Reynolds (Atheneum Books)
Picture Book: They All Saw a Cat by Brendan Wenzel (Chronicle Books)
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Finalists have been announced for the 2017 Ngaio Marsh Awards, which "celebrate the best New Zealand crime, mystery and thriller writing; fiction and nonfiction," Booksellers NZ reported. Winners will be unveiled October 28 at a special WORD Christchurch event. You can view the complete list of Ngaio Marsh finalists here.