Nominees have been announced for the 30th annual Reading the West Book Awards, sponsored by the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association. Booksellers in 12 states are reviewing the books now, and the category shortlists will be announced on April 15, with the winners named May 20. Check out the complete list of Reading the West Book Award nominees here.
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Aspen Words, a program of the Aspen Institute, has chosen the shortlist for the $35,000 Aspen Words Literary Prize, which honors a work of fiction that illuminates vital contemporary issues:
Opioid, Indiana by Brian Allen Carr (Soho Press)
Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn (Liveright)
The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri (Ballantine Books)
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli (Knopf)
Lot by Bryan Washington (Riverhead Books)
The winner will be announced in New York City April 16.
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The New York Public Library has named five finalists for the $15,000 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, which honors nonfiction books written by working journalists that bring public attention and clarity to vital current events or societal issues of global or national significance. This year’s finalists are:
No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us by Rachel Louise Snyder (Bloomsbury Publishing)
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey (Random House)
Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration by Emily Bazelon (Random House)
A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century by Jason DeParle (Viking)
The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier by Ian Urbina (Knopf)
The winner will be announced April 28 in New York City.
